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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-01

! Stratford, n. Y, July 30 This town
has had strange upheaval of the
ground. Tons of sod, gravel and stone
were tossed in the air and landed on
a knoll ~ feet higher than their orig
inal resting place. The debris covers
"a space 100 feet square and is more
thanssix feet deep. 1t is believed light
ming ignited vein of natural gas and
caused an underground explosion.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-01
Requiem Mass.

London, July 3o.-Many American
and English friends of the family were
present at a requiem mass said in ST.
Mary's Roman Catholic church, .Cado-
gan square. for the repose of the soul
of John W. Mackay. Mr.. Mackay's
body was taken to Noting Hill con-
vent, Where it will remain until taken
to America in September or October,
when Mrs. Mackay will accompany it.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-01
Great Trust Formed.

London, July 3O.-In its issue Of this
morning the Daily Mail declares there
IS no longer any doubt that the three
monster oil interests of Rockefeller.
Rothschild and Nobel have entered in
to working agreement. "Thus," says
the paper, without any publicity, the
greatest trust the world has ever seen
has sDrung into being"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-01
chicago Faces Beer Famine.

Chicago, July ao.-President Light
hall, of the Chicago Federation of La
Dor, announced Tuesday morning that
Chicago may soon be in the throes of
beer famine. He said the 43 Chicago
5reweries would be shut down if the
demands of their engineers for an
eight-hour day We're not conceded.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-01
whipped by white Caps.

Excelsior Springs, Mo-, July 30
About one o'clock Tuesday morning
white caps took Riley Thompson and
wife and Charley Walker (all colored)
from the Jail, marched them outside
of town short distance, tied them to
tree and administered a severe whip
ping. The Thompsons were ordered to
leave town and did so.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-01
Lived n Hermit,s Life.

Port Jervis, N. y, July 30.-CoL John
F. Lord, the "Recluse of Rio Noun
tain" who lived in solitude for the last
IS years, is dead. The old hermit at
one time was power in Pennsylvania
politics and in American business life.
He was sc years old.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-01
Valuable Timber burned.

Tacoma, WASH, July 3O-Vast areas
of timber along thousands of miles
of the heavily wooded Yukon slopes
have been ravaged by fires and de-
yastatcd of their splendid growth of
spruce and birch timber within the last
few weeks
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-01
chief Rabbi Josephs Dead.

New York, July 3o.-Chief Rabbi
Jacob Josephs, aged co, head OF the
orthodox Jews in America, is dead.
He was stricken with paralysis sever
al years ago and the complication of
embolism of the brain caused death
at 11:45 o'clock Monday night.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-01
canyaxsing by Proxy.

a company has just been formed
IN France to relieve parliamentary
candidates of all the worries of a
general election. Posters, agents.
orators, audiences-all are found.
voters, however, are not supplied,
but if the candidate is not elected the
company guarantees to return third
OF whatever he may have paid to Sc
cure his return.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-01
Canadian Troops Return.

Halifax, N. s., July so.-The steamer
Cestrian, from Port Natal, South
Africa, July 2, with the Third, Fourth,
Fifth and Sixth regiments of the
Fourth contingent Canadian mounted
rifles, arrived Tuesday afternoon. The
steamer had good passage, and the
1,649 officers and men are all well.
None of them saw active service.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-01
Goes to New York

o. E. Patterson, of Adair county,
formerly employed in the office of
Gov. Shaw and more recently in, the
office of Gov. Cummins as requisition
clerk, has been appointed to posi-
ton in the United States subtreasury
at New York city, on recommends
ton of Secretary Shaw Miss Anna
Cummins, sister of Gov. Cummins,
has been appointed TO the position
left vacant in the executive office.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-01
Attacked by strikers.

Shenandoah, Pa, July 3o.-.Thomas
Tosh, of this city, lieutenant of
the coal and iron police. in charge
of camp of special mine guards,
was attacked by strikers and COM
PEELED to seek the shelter of his
home. The strikers say Tosh has
ben active in attempting to induce
mine workers to return to the col
lieries
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-01
Many Dead Tables.

Minneapolis, Mimi, July 3o.-Health
department officials are aroused over
report that bodies of 80 newborn in
fants have been taken from the Mis-
sissippi river in the past year and a
half. Some of the officials believe some
one is making a business of thus dis
posing of unwelcome babes.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-01
KING GROWS BETTER.
Permitted by His Physicians to Use
His Feet.
IS ABLE TO DO A LITTLE WALKING.
Indications That the Expressed
Fears of Another Postponement
of Coronation Were
GrOundless.

London, July 3O.-The latest and
most reliable information indicates
that King Edwards doctors were not
mistaken in fixing August 8 as the
date upon which his majesty could be
crowned. The sinister rumors which
have peryaded all classes for the last
few days now appear to have lost that
se1nblanee Of probability which made
even the members Of the cabinet nerv-
bus lest another postponement OF the
coTnoation might be necessitated.
+. Can Use His Feet.
The apprehension that King Edward
would be unable to stand the strain of
the coronation ceremony has been
greatly lessened by the announcement
that his majesty is now permitted to
use his feet, and, with the aid of a
stick, has done little walking. An
other late telegram from Cowes, Isle
of Wight. saying that nearly all the re-
strictions upon the kings diet have
been withdrawn, has been welcomed
as evidence that the recent ON
inous deductions were drawn with
out due allowance for the doc
tors extreme cautiousness. While
the king was testing his ability
no walk two stalwart jackies stood at
his side. After this experiment, which
BODIED well for his fulfilling the neces-
kary coronation functions at Westmin-
ster abbey, King Edward sat smoking
on the deck of the royal yacht and
watched the races of the small yachts
pff Cowes.
Those who drew differences from the
ifact that the invitations to Westmin-
.ster abbey were not dated, have had
their fears dissipated by the proclama-
zion published in the Gazette Tues
day night fixing August 0 as the date
for the coronation, which postdates,
and is altogether more important than
anything which might or might not
have appeared upon the cards of in
ritation.
Coronation Plans,
! According TO present arrangements,
King Edward and Queen Alexandra
will leave Cowes either August 6 OF
August s, for Buckingham palace, and
will return to the royal yacht August
as, when the entire fleet will pass be-
fore King Edward and salute him, thus
making a second naval review. After
mis- return to the yacht the king is ex-
pected to take IN extended cruise to
the northward and subsequently
ITO spend some weeks at Balmoral
where preparations for the arrival of
their majesties have already been COM
menced.
Sir Joseph c. Di1nedale, the lord
mayor of London, expects King Ed
ward to visit the city of London the
week ending October II. when great
luncheon will be held in the Guile
aaaA, which IS to be followed by roya
procession through the south of Lon
don. All theee plans may not be car
ried out to the Letter but their ar
rangement. combined with the EN-.
phatic optimism of the kings physi.
clans, is generally taken as insuring,
so far as human foresight can be re-
lied upon, the kings coronation for
IAup,iSt q
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-01
ouarreIed About n womor

Middlesboro, KY, July 30.-At Min
go Mines, here, Warren Smith killed
Calvin senter by shooting him
through the heart. Before senter
was shot he mortally wounded Smith
A dispute over woman was the cause
of the shooting.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-01

Mobile, Ala, July ao.-A young man
believed to be- Jack r. Westfeld, of
Wilmette, H., committed suicide in
Monroe park here by taking an over
dose of morphine. He left note
signed Jack r. Westfeld, Wilmette,
Ill.," requesting that the finder notify
Mr.. Westfield at Wilmette.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-01
WHERE THE CREAM GOES.

Another large vessel in the bay was
also damaged by the cyclone. Be-
tween Guaymas and Mazatlan a great
deal of wreckage drifted ashore. and
it is supposed that many small YES
sells We're wrecked and large num-
Der of lives lost.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-01
EataI.ExnIasIon

Centralia, H., July 3o.-A boiler in a
fourmill at Salem exploded Tuesday,
killing Engineer p. L. Letter and
wrecking the mill. A Baltimore &
Ohio passenger train had just pulled
into the station and was badly dam
aged, and the passengers panic
stricken
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-01
Heroic Preacher Drowned.

Bellefontaine, o., July 3O.-Rev. W.
Fl. Keatherman, pastor of the Meth
odist Episcopal church at De Graft,
o., while camping with a party of
boys near there was drowned while
endcavoring to save Earl Needham,
aged IL, who also persisted.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-01
Cincinnati club sold.

Cincinnati, o., July 3o.-The Times
Star says that the negotiations have
been closed for the sale of the Cincin-
natl baseball club to August Herr
mann, Mayor Fleischmann and other
local men for $150000
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-01
The Floods I'm Texas.

Dallas, Tex, July 30.In the north
west sections of Texas the flood stu
alton is improved, but in the central
and southern portions there have
been further heavy rains, which
have crippled railway traffic and
caused much damage to other prop
ertY.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-01
Died Err From Hama

Sioux City, Ia, July 3o.-Word has
been received in this city of the death
of Henry J. Taylor, leading member
of the Iowa bar, at Auckland, New zea-
land. He was on health-seeking
tour.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-01
saued for south .frico

Hamilton, Bermuda, July 3o.-The
steamship Roslyn Castle sailed for
South Africa Tuesday with the first
party of returning Beers, numbering
$50 perEons, on board.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-01
Illinois in Dry Dock.

London, July 3o.-The United States
battleship Illinois, which struck an OBJ
struction in the harbor of, Christiana,
Norway, on July II, has been safely
placed in dry dock at Chatham.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-01
Yet to he Learnea

There are. three things about the
north pole that have never been discov-
ered-exactly where 1t is, what is Il,
and why it is.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-01
Elccfr0cutcuI.

Dannemora, n. T., July 3a.-George
d. Middleton was electrocuted at Clin-
ton prison for the murder of his wife
in 1901.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-01
Grated Exelid.

a Philadelphia physician recently
successfully grated set of eyelids
for patient who had lost his own in
q fire.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-01
Renon,innted.

Washington, N. j., July 3o.-The
democrats of the Fifth New Jersey
congressional district renominated De-
witt C, Flanagan, of Morris county.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-01
Don't Take any Chances

Russ Bleaching Blue does the best
work. All good grocers. 10c. Avoid
cheap limitations.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-01

The United States furnish about 10
per cent. of the population of the Klon-
dixie region.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-01

bam T. Shannon 8 Sons, $4,000; Graf
A Co., adjoining Stewart Bros, 81, 500;
STANDARD Manufacturing company, 3d.
800; A. G. Ellis & Co.. $1,000; Speer &
Hollar, $1,000; J. J. Porter, $1,000; to-
tai, S3l6,5OO.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-01
VIII Experiment.


Attorney General C. w. Mullan has
transmitted legal opinion to Auditor
of State Merriam, holding that the me-
gotiable instruments law passed by
the last legislature abolished day. of
grace in this state. A measure to
eliminate days Of grace from the laws
was defeated by the assembly of the
past winter and of two years ago.
Subsequently, last winter, measure
was introduced to codify the laws re-
lating to negotiable instruments al
ready on the statute books. The queS-
ton was raised as to whether or not
Its effect would not be to eliminate
the days of grace. 1t was stated by
the lawyers in the legislature that it
would not. Attorney General Mullan
differs.
The Flood of 1881.
The quarterly issue of the Iowa An
mails just gotten out by the state his
toricAl Department contains IN ex.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-03-25
STOCK SCHEME:
Senate Bill No. 1877 a Most
Remarkable Piece Of
Corporation Leg
islation.
ONE OF CHARLEY REEDS PETS
introduced to Allow the Steel
Trust to Deluge It's
securities With
Water"
Especial to ..The Jersey city News, Il

TRENTON, March %, 1902.It has been
discovered that Senate bill No. l3T, now
before the House Committee on Corpora
tions, is one of the most remarkable
pieces of corporation legislation ever at
tempted in New Jersey. 1t is innocent
enough on it's face and passed the Senate
without attracting any particular atten-
ton last week. Developments this morn
ing have disclosed the fact that the OBJ.
ject of the bill is to allow the United
States Steel Corporation, or Steel Trust,
to carry out a gigantic stock watering
scheme by retiring its entire issue of z
per cent. preferred stock and substituting
common stock for it.
The bill was introduced March by Sem
ator Charles A. Reed, and even he was
unwilling TO accept fuI responsibility for
it and had it marked by request.
Such a label is generally considered an
easy way of killing a bill but in this
cass Mr.. Reed deeply interested himself
in the bill and put it through the Senate
without its true intent being discovered.
Assefnblyman Williams, chairman of the
House Committee on Corporations, refuses
to release the BILL although Senators
Reed and McCarter have done everything
in their power TO inducehim to do so.
They are being backe by a strong lobby
of influential corporation lawyers. When
the trust was organized the capital was
fixed at $50 600, but later 1t was Increased
to 81, 100 OOO000, issue of stock one-half
common and one-half preferred guaran-
teed to pay seven per cent. dividends.
The preferred stock was quoted this
morning at 9414 and the common at
142 S-S. The purport Of Senate Bill No.
1877 is to allow the retirement of the entire
issue of per cent. bonds and to eventu-
ally allow preferred stockholders to ac-
cept common stock without any guarantee
as to earnings for the seven per cent.
sharese now held by Them
The profits of the incorporators, if the
bill becomes a law, it is charged, will be
the difference between the price at which
the preferred stock has been sold and the
value of the common stock, and in addi-
tion the dividends paid by the common
stock less than the seven per cent. now
paid on the preferred holdings.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-03-25

atty was then taken up. The officials all
thought Jersey City was at least entitled
to something 1t had been put to much
expense and might incur more through
the :soa-pe-foImance of the contract Had
the warl1s Il Boonton been finished the
city would be in a position to sell water
1t was clear that Jersey City should get
something in return for the default of Mr..
Fly7- = but what An additional
eesersoir in the Longwood Valley
was the thing and Mr.. Flynn's represen-
tatives promptly said they would deed to
the city that valuable tract OF 5OO acres
1t is an ideal place for a reservoir and
when Jersey City is ready for lOO0O0'Cco
gallon daily supply dam can, at very
small cost, comparatively, be built and
water IN abundance is at hand The
wooded slopes rise steep and rocky on
each side of it for 500 feet and the bottom
is cleared but somewhat rough. Once
its dark slopes echoed back to each other
the clink, clink of the forge hammer and
through its forest vistas came the un-
canny wheeze fthe bellows and groan
and splash Of the laboring water wheel" !"
This, then, will now become a storage
reservoir owned by the city.
So far so good. The city had gained
a new gathering grounds for her supply
worth in the neighborhood of $4,000 to
$4,000. an unlimited temporary supply at
no increase of cost and a guarantee that
even if the works would not be ready by
December 25, 1903, at least the city would
not be any loser either in money or in
quantity of water for daily supply.
On the other hand Mr.. Flynn gains MS
extension and because of the city's prom
ise to give it to him the East Jersey Wa
ter Company will advance him sS,5O0,00O in
round figures wnerewith to finish the
works. Then penalty clause is not to be
considered ana all he has to do now is to
go ahead and complete his contract.
All these things having been practically
agreed upon at the afternoon melting it
only remained for a conference in the
evening between the officials only to rati-
fly the propositions. Corporation Counsel
George l.. Record was instructed to draw
up the necessary agreements but in the
meantime suitable resolutions will p7
presented in the Board of Stret and Water
Commissioners to be concurred in by the
Board of Finance and finally signed b.
the Mayor. The agreements will be be-
tween Mr.. Flynn the city and East Jer-
sey Water Company.
For once in a great while every city
official looked pleased today when the
water question was broached, but they
weren't very communicative. They be-
lieved that the matter was now settled.
Counselor w. H. Corbin for the East
Jersey Water Company said he was glad
that the question was settled. He praised
the Mayor and city officials for their corr
duct in making generous concessions and
meeting the difficulties in a spirit void OF
narrow mindedness. He thought tnat the
compromise was the best thing to be
done.
Mr.. w. D. Edwards. for Mr.. Flynn, was
also pleased that at last there was way
out of the water tangle. Jersey CITY, he
said, had lost nothing by the agreement,
but, on the other hand, was by long odds
gamer
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-03-25
SHERIFF ''WAsON'
Precautions Taken to Pre-
vent Gentlemanly Burg
lars Escaping.

Rumors that the gentlemen burglars"
would make an attempt to escape While
on their way from the Jail to the Court
House caused Sheriff Ruempler to take
unusual precautions in transferring the
three prisoners from their place of con-
finement this morning. The Court House
corridors was cleared of all strangers, and
six constables had the three men in
eharage on the short walk from the jail
to the Court room.
An unusually large crowd of spectators
was present when the three men were
ushered to seals in the prisoners pen. A
few seats to the rear of them sat the
young woman who Thomas f. Croughan
had married in New York few days be-
fore his arrest. Near her sat the aged.
respectable looking father of the two
Croughan boys.
Cady and Louis Croughan were at once
placed on trial for robbing the house of
George Wright at No. 164 Palisade ave
nue.. Thomas F. Croughan had already
confessed to this crime and it was thought
that his testimony would go long way
towards the conviction of his brother and
Cady
To the surprise of everybody when he
was called as a witness by the State,
the self-confessed burglar attempted to
shield his accompliees by denying that
they were with him when he robbed Mr..
Wright's house.
Mr. Wright, the first witness called.
testified that he was awakened about 2.So
o'clock in the morning of February 6 by
the cries of his wife. A man, who he
now recognized as Louis Croughan, was
pointing a revolver al his head while his
brother. Thomas f. Croughan. had his
revolver pointed at Mrs. Wright's head.
Ms Wright continued to scream and
one of the burglars said: Keep quiet.
We won't harm you; all we want is your
money" told them to help themselves
to anything they could find. the witness
continued. Mrs. wright's brother who
was in another bedroom at the time, cor
roborated this.
The rumor that plan Of the gentle
men Burglars to escape had been dis
covered caused considerable excitement
about the Court House. 1t is said that it
had for it's basis some remarks made by
one of the Croughans yesterday to an
other prisoner confined in the same ward.
It is said that the burglar viewing the
low windows Of the court room from
position on the balcony Of the corridor
in which the trio are confined, remarked
that their only hope II they were con-
yicted was to make break for liberty.
This remark was conveyed to Warden
Sullivan, who IN turn told Sheriff Ruem-
pier