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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-07-25
PRESENTS FROM POPE.
Gov. Taft and His Party Are Ten.
dercd Pretty Gifts by the
Vatican,

Washington, July 23.-Gov. Taft has
acquainted Secretary Root with the
fact reported in the news dispatches
from Rome that the pope had ten
dered several pretty and. appropriate
gifts to himself and the members of
his party, and he has asked wheth-
er these can lawfully be accepted. It
was at once recognized that the ques-
ton thus presented involved some
very delicate and interesting points,
principal among them being pos
sible decision, expressly to be avoid
ed at this stage in the opinion of the
officials, as to the temporal powers
of the pope. If these We're decora-
lions or gifts of large value, then un-
der the constitutional inhibition, they
might not be received without au-
thority OF congress if the pope is re-
garded as having temporal powers
rs being prince. Secretary Root he's,
however, avoided an unpleasant dsct-
sion of this question by Informing
Gov. Taft that If these gifts are not
Of considerable intrinsic value, and
are personal in character, they may
be accepted as mere souvenirs, in
which case the personality of the giver
need not be matter of official in
quiry. On the other hand, if the gifts
are of exceptional value, which is not
believed to be the case from the news
paper reports, then they may be de-
posted in the Smithsonian institute
in this city.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-07-25
ESCAPE THROUGH GORDON.
Ladrone Chiefs Succeed in Getting
Away from the Pursuing
Constabulary.

Manila, July 23.-Monta1lon and Fell
sardo, the ladrone chiefs, have broken
through the constabulary Gordon in
Cayite province and have escaped to
the mountains. number of ladrones
were killed in earlier attempts to force
the Gordon.
The Gordon encompassed the leaders
and many of their followers. The lat
ter when trapped made a series of
breaks to escape. The constabulary
withstood the first attacks, killing II
and capturing IL men. The ladrones
finally massed under cover of the dark
ness and forced their way through n
weak spot in the Gordon, near Das
Armas, killing one and wounding one
Of the constabulary. The latter cap
tnYed the papers and effects Of the
leaders and destroyed quantities of
supplies.
AA extensive drive. with the object
Of capturing the ladrone chiefs Mon
talon and feliArdo end SO OF their
followers, was organized in Cavite
province. Twelve hundred constabui-
airy, commanded by Capt. Baker,
moved last Thursday at daylight, form
ing completegangle-shaped Gordon
covering 60 square miles. Patrol
launches guard the river, and it was ex-
pected to close the Gordon last Sat-
urday. The entire male populations OF
the towns and farms were to be In
cluded in the concentration movement.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-07-25

Princeton, n. j., July 23.-James
johnson, for so years college vender,
died here Tuesday morning He was
born in Easton, Md, October 2, 1915,
and became the slave of Teakle Wallis
at the age of Is, but ran away and
came to Princeton, where he was dis
covered and the sheriff came after
him. After trial Johnson was turned
over to the sheriff, but Miss Provost,
a lineal descendant of President
'Witherspoon, bought his freedom for
$3.50. He afterward worked in the
university and reimbursed Miss Pro-
sost. johnson was a prominent char
acter in the university for so years and
carried the receipt from his bene.
factress up to the time of his death.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-07-25

judge to succeed Judge Spurrier, and
at the expiration of his term was
elected for the full term, which he re-
signed last spring, going back into gen.
eral practice again. Itisfrom this that
he goes to the supreme court. Judge
Blshopwas connected with Gen. Baker
IN the Pullman tax cases, and with him
and Attorney General Stone in the lit
1gation growing out of the railroad
commissioner law and the law for the
regulation of railroad charges. He
also defended Gov. Larrabee in the
criminal libel suit instituted by Mrs.
Turney Judge Bishop was marriedin
November, 1874, to Della M. Dow, and
to them were born three children, two
daughters and one son. Mrs. Bishop
died in January, 1900. He was married
last Wednesday to Miss Alice Lyman,
of Des Moines.
Increases I'm Acreage.
There has been an increase of more
than 100000 acres in the acreage of the
corn crop in Iowa this year as COM
pared with last. This is due to the
fact that the price of corn has greatly
increased in the last year. The fol-
lowing table shows the acreage this
year, the increase in acreage as COM
pared with last year, If any, and the
present condition of the different crops
in this state according to the report
made by Director Sage of the state
crOp cerv;ca.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-07-25
GIVEN SMITHS PLACE.
Col. Thomas Ward Appointed Brig,
adler General I'm the Regular
Army to Fill Vacancy,

Washington, July 23-Col. Thomas
Ward, chief of staff to Gen. Miles
Tuesday was appointed brigadier
general in the army vice Jacob Smith,
retired.
Gen. Ward himself will retire in the
course OF a dayIor two, when Col. Jo-
seph p. Sanger, inspector generals de-
partment, now in the Philippines,
will become brigadier general. Gen.
Frederick ID. Grant, at present in the
Philippines, has been rendered the
command of the department of the
Texas and it is thought here he will
accept it. This is the department to
which Gen. Smith originally was as
signed. -
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-07-25
LEON BROWN.
HOTEL FOR WOMEN ONLY.
San Franeisco Has One Recently
Erected by the Girls' Union
Of That City.


Under the auspices of the San Fran
cisco Girls union hotel exclusively
for women has been erected and the
members of the organization are con.
graduating themselves upon their
new possession. The union has been
in existence since 1884 and was
formed for the purpose of aiding
self-dependcnt, self-respecting girls
to live in nice surroundings at a cost
in accordance with their means. The
society has had house for some
time, but it is not to be compared
with the new hotel. The home is self
supporting and an average of 40
wage-earning women call it home.
In the hotel so rooms are to be rent
ed, the price per month ranging from
four dollars to six dollars. The board
is $12 per month. The rooms are we'll
furnished and commodious and each
has a stationary washstand. The
house is exceedingly well planned and
provision has been made for class
rooms, as the union proposes to con.
duct classes in literature, music, sew.
tng, tSpewriting md other subjects.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-07-25
INJURY TO THE CROPS.
Much Damage Results from Con-
tinued Wet Weather.
THE BUREAUS WEEKLY SUMMARY.
Farm Work Greatly Intcrfered with
by Rain-In Some Southern states,
However, Drought Still Pre-
walls to Some Extent.

Washington, July 23.-The weather
bureaus weekly summary of crop con-
ditions is as follows:
The lower Missouri and upper Missis-
sippi valleys and lake region have con-
tinued to suffer from excessive rains,
which have also interrupted farm work
in the Ohio valley and in portions OF the
middle Atlantic states and New England.
Much injury to crops and other prop.
erty has resulted from overflows In lows
and portions of Illinois, Missouri and
Michigan. Drought has been largely re-
lievsd in the southern states. but ex-
tensive areas in that section are still
much in need Of rain, especially the
northern portions extending from Okla
homa eastward to the Carolinas. The
temperature conditions as a whole have
been favorable, although rather low In
the northern Rocky mountain districts.
The north Pacific coast states sustained
considerable damage from high winds,
and the Dakotas and Minnesota from
hailstorms in scattered localities.
The corn crop has made splendid prog
ress In the states of the central valleys,
except in Iowa and limited portions Of
Missouri and Illinois, the condition of
the crop in Iowa being fairly good on
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-07-25
Passing Of the west.

To those whose days have been spent
in the enjoyment of the freedom Of
the old west, even as it appeared in
the SOS, there comes regret in the
contemplation of the new order of
things. For assuredly the old has
given way to the new, says the TACOMA
Ledger. The old west as the early set.
tiers knew it for 20 years or more
has gone as went the Indian and the
buffalo, and with it has gone that larg-
er freedom which were its characters
tics and it's charm. There is no longer
any west. The methods and condi-
tions of the west are the methods and
conditions of the east, plus western
energy Indeed, to be entirely lust,
it may be questioned whether western
push is not an Importation, for GER
tainly it did not flourish in the ante.
railroad days.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-07-25
Lightning on the wing.

In recent communication to the
British Institution of Electrical En-
gineers, Mr.. Leonard Joseph reported
the following unusual occurrence:
During a thunder storm wild goose
was seen to fall to the ground, APP
parently directly out Of the storm
clouds. After the storm was over an
examination revealed the body of an
other goose at some distance from
the first. The only wounds found
upon the birds were narrow cut on
the neck of one and small puncture
at the point where the neck joins the
body On the other. At these point.
the feathers were slightly singed.
Both birds proved prefectly fit for
the table.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-07-25
Charges Withdrawn

Washington, July 23.-Lieut. Gov.
Tillman. of South Carolina, has tele-
graphed Fourth Assistant Postmaster
General Bristow that he withdraws the
charge that his mail had been tam
pered with in the post office at Pick
ems, S. c. The charge alleged that
valuable political papers, addressed to
Mr.. Tillman, had been obtained from
the Pickens post office by an unknown
party. The case now is in the hands
OF post office inspectors for investiga-
ton, but no report has been received
from them.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-07-25
KING Walks A BIT.
Continues to 1mproye-To Hold Cab
met Meeting on the
Yacht,

London July 23.-The weather was
less disagreeable at Cowes, Isle of
Wight, Tuesday morning. and the re-
ports from the royal yacht Victoria
and Albert continue to chronicle King
Edwards Improvement. tits said that
he walked few steps Monday.
The king will hold his first council
since A. j. Balfour became premier on
board the yacht shortly. 1t is ex-
pected that the name of the new lord
lieutenant of Ireland to succeed Earl
Cadogan, whose resignation was made
pubic July II, will then be announced.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-07-25
Ruined by ri. A,rxh,n

Count Won Zeppelin, who has the
distinction of having built the larp-
est of all airships, has been financial
ly ruined by his aeronautical expert
ments. Unable to obtain means for
carrying out his new projects he is
now breaking up the old framework
of his airships in order to sell the
aluminium of which they are com.
posed. Zeppelin is 81 years of age.
He was military attache of the Ger
man embassy in the United States
during the civil war and made sew
eral balloon ascensions from battle
fields of the south in 1868. He was
the leader of the famous cavalry raid
in France in 1870 which marked the
commencement of hostilities of tho
great Franco russian war.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-07-25
Will Test the Inv

Columbus, o., July 23.-At meet
ing of butterine manufacturers held
On this city Tuesday morning plan
lof action was decided upon to test the
constitutionality of the recently en-
acted oleomargarine law. A New York
iirm OF constitutional lawyers has
oeen interested with the case. The
contention will be that the act is class
legislation.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-07-25
Killed Himself.

Rome, Ca, July "a John b. Nc
Gehee, charged with the murder of f.
L. Miller, a confederate veteran, and
who had been on trial in the county
court for the past few days, committed
suieide in his cell Tuesday morning by
cutting his throat with a sharp shoe
string.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-07-25
Foul Play susnectea

! Detroit, Mich, July 23.-suspicion of
foul play has been raised in connection
with the death of Private Joseph Des-
mond, OF the Fourteenth United States
whose remains were found
terribly mangled on the Pere Mar
auette tracks at Brighton, near the
rifle practice encampment. Desmond's
home is at Leavenworth, Kan.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-07-25
Heavy Coal shipment.

Pittsburg, Pa, July 23.-About o0o,-
900 bushels of coal, requiring so
boats and 266 barges to transport,
passed through Davis Island dam Tues
day en- route to the south. This is the
heaviest single days shipment this
year. Additional shipments will be
made if the empties can be returned
before the boating stage fails.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-07-25

well titled uplands. but great damage has
resulted from floods on the river bottoms
of the southern and eastern portions of
that state and in northern Illinois. High
ly favorable reports are received from
Nebraska, Kansas, and the greater part
OF Missouri and Illinois, and decided
Improvement in the condition OF the
crop in the Ohio valley is Indicated.
Rains have interfered with the harvest
ing of winter wheat where unfinished in
the extreme northern districts, and have
also been unfavorahle for threshing in
the central valleys. while considerable
wheat in shock in the lower Missouri
valley has been damaged. Harvesting
continues in California and has begun in
Oregon. where 1t is filling nicely. The
crop in both Oregon and Washington
has, however, sustained considerable
damage from recent high winds.
Spring wheat has advanced favorably
in the principal spring wheat states, but
has sustained injury in scattered local
tiles from hailstorms.
Dat harvest is finished in the southern
states and is in progress in the central
valleys, and while lodging Is extensively
reported from the Ohio, upper MissisdIe
pt and Missouri valleys and lake region,
the general condition of the crop con-
tinues satisfactory.
In Tennessee, Kentucky and Maryland
the condition of tobacco is somewhat less
1dNoAd tHdli Al Tic previous week, DuG
the crop has done we'll in Indiana, Ohio
and Virginia. Cutting and curing are
progressing favorably in the Carolinas
Apple prospects are somewhat i'm
proved in Missouri, and promise we'll in
portions of Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebras-
ka and Michigan. The outlook in New
York is legs promising. but continues
favorable In New England. Generally
throughout the Ohio valley and middle
Atlantic states the indications are for
very poor crop.
Haying has been interrupted and much
hay spoiled by rains in the lower Mis-
souri, and upper Mississippi valleys and
portions of the lake region.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-07-25
Dropped Dead.

Carbonate, Ill, July 23.-Col. A. j.
Mimic, who commanded the Tenth
Illinois volunteer infantry during the
civil war, dropped dead at his home
IN Jonesboro, aged 50 years.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-07-25

Farmers picnics are becoming
more common throughout the west,
but instead of the ancient foot races.
games and the like, these events are
growing in Importance in that farm
ers spend the time in relating their
experiences in spring work on the
farm and listening to addresses by
well-known men in the farming
world.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-07-25
German Police n.eu,ot,on.

For using the. word "archduke" on
the stage in Vienna, and thereby in.
fringing police regulation, Fraulein
Frisch, German actress, has Just
been fned ten dollars.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-07-25
Renominated.

! Council Bluffs, Ia, July a3.-Con-
gresham Walter I. Smith was unani-
mously renominated Tuesday by the
republican congressional convention of
the Ninth district.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-07-25
Named for Conrrcs..

Charlotte, n. c., July as.-The demo-
Gratis of the Ninth North Carolina
district nominated Il. Y. Webb, of
Shelby, for congress.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-07-25
burned to neatI

Fresno, Cal, July 23.-Charles schill
aged ~, acting station agent, was
burned to death in the destruction Of
the Southern Pacific depot at Lillis.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-07-25
VIII Meet in Milwanl.e.

Waukesha, Wis. July 23.-The demo.
cratic state central committee decided
to hold the state convention in Nil.
waukee on septemberS, $780,.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-07-25
To Meet "American Inya.ion.,

Vienna, July 23.-The Journal Die
Information predicts fusion Of the
dual and triple alliance to meet "the
American INVASION" .-.....-..-...
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-07-25

The New York World says that
with Mark Twain the degree of LII.
D. means doctor Of liberal laughter.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-07-25

The pastures show decrease of
$4,000 in acreage, and the meadows
176,550; the potato acreage is 2.1s4
acres less, and flax $3.50.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-07-25
Dr. HIM Resigna

DR.. Gershom II. Hill, superintendent
of the state hospital for the insane
at Independence, has retired from that
position after continued service of
almost 20 years to take up the prac-
tice of medicine in Des Moines. He
has been succeeded by DR.. Crumbacker,
lately Of Ohio.
i rNHy--@->v
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-01-03

Mir Oxnard, the head of the Ameri- can beet sugar interests, called at the white house recently and presented q novel scheme by which he believes that the presidents object ill adyocat- ing reciprocal concessions on Cuban sugar can be obtained and at the same time nothing derogatory to the inter ests he represents be effected. His proposition is that the duty collected on Cuban sugar be set aside and re turned to the growers in the form of a bounty. This, he believes, would prevent the lowering of the price of raw sugar in this country and would at the same time make up to the Cuban growers any decrease in price they may be obliged to accept from the ship pers because of the American tariff.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-01-03
sHUN THE MOUTH.

They had been talking about fight ing, and about the danger of striking the enemy in the mouth with ones fist. "This hand which you see band aged has taught me lesson" said one of the group. s'Never hit a man in the mouth. The best you can do is to knock out few teeth. The chances are that you will not enjoy the distinc- ton of knocking the adversary down. Nine men out of ten who are struck in the mouth suffer no serious conse- Quences. But the fellow who does the striking is likely to have a world of trouble. Here is my case, for instance. whipped three men. 1 hit the last man in the mouth He hasn't. a front tooth left. That was several months ago. Look ats this hand. The doctor said once he thought he would have to cut 1t off. He is still treating if. have not been able to use it since inc fight It was fearfully scared during the fight, and the next day it was as big asa ham and I could neither oDen noraclose it. And it was all because l hit the man in the mouth. There seems to be somewhat of poison in hu- man teeth There is, you know, a va AOtss's otpCl dIuOnQ negroes about black man with blue gums
 They believe to be bitten by a negro with blue gums means certain death. They would rather face the most ven omous moccasin to be found in the marshes than to have a negro with blue gums bury his teeth in their flesh. It is an old superstition, and. after all
 there seems to be something in this strange belief of the black man. But the physical fact at the bottom of this belief is probably broader than the negro's view of the case would war rant. It is dangerous to be bitten by any kind of man, and the color of his gums doesn't seem to cut much fig
 ure. There seems to be peculiar kind of poison in the teeth of a human being; and for my part will take my chances with dog bite and hydro phobia, and I would even rather risk the fangs of the most poisonous of
 snakes than to be bitten and scared 1 by a member of my own kind ."-New | Orleans Times-D Democrat.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-01-03
LIST OF PATENTS

D. H. Barry, Newport, R. l., bicycle support or rest; NJ. l.. Bristol, Hart ford, Conn, belt shifter for embossing presses; J. $. Copeland, Hartford, Conn bicycle driving mechanism; J. s. Dike- man, Torrington, Conn, bicycle frame; L. J. Dirand, Torrington, Conn. device for exhibiting miniatures; c. H. Fish, Dover, N. H., drying apparatus; W. A. Lorenz, Hartford, Conn, manufactur- ing square bottomed paper bags; T. J. Moriarty, Newport, k. l., depth and rolling recorder for torpedoes; A. J. Otto, Pawtucket, R. l., compound for stopping punctures; c. +, Schmelz, Hartford, Conn, manufacturing square bottomed paper bags; H. E. Sharp, Hartford. Conn, partition or wall; O.. Smith, Bridgeport, Conn, machine for vending cigars from original boxes; F. A. Smith, Richford, Vt, indicator.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-01-03
CAIRO STREET CRIES.

Take a chair outside a busy cafe near the market place and tram center and watch street life. There are no hungry men, no starving, pinched child faces, no finger-worn mothers, for this is a land of plenty, and the peo- ple's wants are few and simple. Thus sunshine and laughter spray a well come fragrance over the novelty and romance of the gay city's streets.
 Here is a street melodist twanging a monstrous one-stringed something and accompanied by a nose-ringed girl who taps deft1y on species of tam bourine, while bystanders ejaculate HAllah! Allah!'-the Arabic word for applause. If not quite in accord with your prejudices concerning music, well, maalaish (never minO, it Is not nearly so distracting as a street corner at home, and they will go away if you tell them to. The baboon, the donkey and boy are in evidence, with score of performing tricks that are very original and certainly funny, and you console yourself with the hope of q minimum of cruelty in the training.
 A fruit seller, basket on head, with luscious grapes and figs, saunters by singing in a quaint minor: 70 grapes. o sweet grapes, that are larger than doves eggs and sweeter than new cream! o angels food, delicious figs, bursting with honey, restorers of
 There is a drink seller bent under the weight of an odd shaped jar s1ung over his shoulder, a lump of ice pro jecting from his mouth, conjuring GUS tom in a similar strain as he struts up and down, making the air resound with the rhythmical clap-trap of two
 brazen saucers: 70 refreshment of the weary! o quencher of parched lips o blessing of heaven P
 Another street cry which may be heard in the main street of Abbas- sieh Ca suburb), contains the following enticing announcement: "To-morrow 70 people, I am going to kill a camel. The doctor says it is young and healthy. o, its flesh will be tender as the quail and juicy as the lamb. It's price Is but 1 1-2 piastres (seven cents) the pound. Do you love the sweet flesh of the camel, then come early and be satisfied"
 Not the least picturesque figures in the streets are the city police, in their neat white drill and red tarbouches in the summer and blue serge in win ter.-London Traveller.