Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-03-24
CURRENT EVENTS.
The Port Arthur canal In Texas he's bee
oompletAd.

completed.
The woodmsn Of the world, in oonysn.
ton at Memphis, Tenn, selected ColumbuA,
o.. as the next meeting place.
Three men were killed and several In
1ursd, some fatally, by the explosion OF the
| boiler of a sawmill at Matte, Md.
A dispatch to the London Evening News
| from Brussels revives the rumbr that Car
| dinal Gibbons may be the next pope.
Mckinley and Roosevelt is said to be the
republican national ticket favored for 1905
by Senators Flat, Thurston. Chandler and
Foraker.
Senator Penrose. 1t is reported, will re-
sign his seat as soon as the Pennsylvania
legislature adjourns and Coy. Stone will
appoint M. S. Quay to the vacancy
There being sufficient water in the rivers,
Pittsburgh coal men took advantage of the
rise and Is lows have been started south
ward with % boats, 81 barges and IA flats.
Bridgemen are alarmed over the scarcity
of building material. They say it is we'll
nigh impossible to secure plates, as all the
| rolling mills are overstooked with orders.
The trial of DR.. Nancy A. Guilford on q
charge of murder in the second degree, in
causing the death Of Emma Gill by crimi-
nal practice, was begun Tuesday at Bridge
port, Conn.
Nina Raymond has been arrested and
placed in Jail at Wichita, Kan. charged
with the murder of Edwin G. Jones She
admits that she struck him over the head
with a bed Stat.
Ex-Congressman Jerry Simpson, of Kan
sas, expressed the opinion that the demo-
cratic compaign of 1900 will be anti-expan-
sion and antitrust, with the money ques-
ton a subordinate third.
Joseph Chamberlain declared in the Brit
ish house of commons that the relations be-
tween Great Britain and the South African
government constitute real danger ana
that President Kruger had broken every
pledge.
United States Senator Albert.J. Bev-
eridge, of Indiana, accompanied by his
wife, started for the Philippine islands
Tuesday. He expects to be gone three
months. The trip is announced by the sem
ator to be merely for pleasure and recrea-
ton.
Ths John P. Norris Foundry company, of
Cincinnati, has notified its employees that,
beginning March q, wages of bench mold
ers will be increased from $3.50 to $lb per
week and of floor molders from SIS to SIG. so,
and there will be ten per cent advance on
piece work.
The Midway (dass.) savings bank vault
was blown open by burglars. From the
fact that second fuse, applied for the pur-
pose Of forcing open the strong box. had
not been lighted. it is thought the men were
frightened away by the noise of the ex-
plosion. The bank Office was completely
wrecked.
Funeral services over the remains of the
late Baron Herschell, who died at Wash
ington on March 1, took place in London
Tuesday at Westminster Abbey. The re-
mains were afterwards removed to the
Waterloo railroad station, to be conveyed
to Cliffe, Dorsetshire, where they will be
inferred.
has been recalled by his government, has
left Picking. Count Orfini, italian minister
at Toxic, has been appointed to succeed
Signor MARITIME, whose recall is due to the
dispieasure of his government at the man
ner in which he handled the San Nun Bay
affair.