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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-05-09
Eggs for Setting Purposes

from three breeds, Light Brahmas,
Dark Brahmasand White WYandottes.
The chickens are just as well bred as
any | can buy, and I will furnish eggs
at less than half the price you would
pay to send away and get from no
better stock.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-05-09
Take Notice

GO to R. Wentworth, opposite Tow
mill to get wagon boxes, secondhand
buggies and stoves, wagon and buggy
repairing and all kinds of blacksmith
ing done. dct1
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-05-09
For Sale.

Seed potatoes, the "Jewn variety,
at 40 cents per bushel. inquire OF
a. E. Reutlinger, N. I. Phone, East
Bonair, 10. 67w2
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-05-09
Pay In,

Owing to the change In the firm all
persons knowing themselves Indebted
to Nemetz = Terry, viii please cali at
once and settle their accounts.
N1atnT1 4 TAAht.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-05-09

A little life may be sacrificed to a
sudden attack Of Group, 1t you don't
have Dr.. Thomas Eclsctric OH on
hand fer The emergency.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-05-09
Pose ONCE Raided.

Sioux Falls. 8. D., May 6.-The post
ONCE ut yiborg was raided Wednes-
dAy night by cracksmen who secursd
ABOUT ys,But n stAnyss caSa md nuttt11
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-05-09

$ Ne elected colds make fat grave
yards. !" DR.. Wood Norway ri e syr.
up helps men and women % . Asppy,
vigorous Old sts.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-05-09
Teachers Meeting Program.
CONTINUED from first pagel

SATURDAY AFTERNOON, 1:30 p. NJ.
The value and practicability of Manual
Training in the schools.
Paper: Kate Baker, Instructor in
Manual Training, DEBORAH.
Discussion: Led by Rhodella Kirkland,
Cresco.
Question Box.
Method and Extent OF Moral Training
in the High School.
Paper: Supt. L. E. A. Ling, Cresco.
Discussion: Supt. j. E. Moore, Fayette
The Need and Value of Physical
| Culture in the Sc hools. Miss Julia
| Breckenridge, DEBORAH.
RAILROAD. RATES:
The Western Passenger Association
makes a rate OF one and one third fare
from all points within one hundred
miles of Cresco. A certificate must
be secured from the agent when you
purchase the ticket to Cresco. This
certificate is to designed by the joint
agent at Cresco, and when it is pre-
sented to the agent where you buy
your return ticket, he will sell you
the ticket for one third fare.
Trains leave Cresco as follows: Going
South via Calmar, 1920 a. M, 1852 p.
M, and $3.50 p. M; Going North, 1895
a. M, and l2:4s m.
OFFICERS:
President-Miss Josephine Harrison,
McGregor.
Secretary-Prof. Arthur Wilson, Post
Vile.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
Miss Josephine Harrison, McGregor,
Prof. Arthur Wilson, Postville,
Supt. Ellis j, Hook, DEBORAH.
ENTERTAINMENT COMMITTEE:
Misses Cleora Doyle, Eta Grice, Mar
garet Condran, Dora Cornelysen,
Mary Staut and Katharine Pollard.
COMMITTEE:
Misses M. Aida Tate, Rhodella Kirt-
land and Naomi Waller.
RECEPTION COMMITTEE:
Supt. and Mrs. L. q. A. Ling, Mayor
Robert Thomson. DR.. and Mrs. j.
A. Barrett, MI. and Mrs. 81. @.
Burgess, Mr.. and Mrs. q. q. Upton,
Mr.. and Mrs. D. A Lyons, d. L.
| Grannis and Carl Reed.
A committee Of teachers has been
selected to visit the different homes
and solicit entertainment for the
visiting teachers, for the one day
during the meeting. They have very
little time to attend to this after
school SO may not b, able to call at
all the homes where teachers can be
entertained. II there are any whom
the committee have not seen who can
take one or more teachers please leave
word with any of the teachers or
County superintendent. There will
be about one hundred and twenty five
visitors to be entertained and it ia
hoped that the Cresco people will be
| VERY liberal in opening their homes
and showing the visitors good time
during their stay in the city.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-05-09
q a = 70 - r.E.s

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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-05-09

$50. A, Capt. William White, of
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-02-26
GIVES DETAILS OF
D0CGER BANK EVENT
How the Russians Were Mis-
led Into Firing on the
Fishermen
Special Foreign Service

Special Foreign Service
PARIS, Feb. 25.-An English diplo.
mat who has had an opportunity of
ascertaining at first hand number of
the facts connected with the tragic
event off the Dogger bank. gives the
following particulars confirming the
few fragmentary details that became
Der of new ones.
The Russians were misled by the
green rockets, which they thought were
japanese signals. AS a matter of fact
the green rocket signal is unknown
except to those who are in the habit
of crossing the Dogger bank 1t is
signal to the trawlers and is only fired
from the "admirars" ship of the trawl-
ing f1otilla. On seeing the green sig
nails the Kamchatka altered her course
and went blundering into the West
squadron, where she met the Aurora
They signaled to each other, but as
they were working from two different
signal code books they did not under
stand one another, and the Kamchatka
opened fire on the Aurora. The first
shot struck the latter on the starboard
bow, killing priest and three others.
The Aurora returned the fire, but only
with light deck guns, chiefly one
Founders. 1t was the shot from these
guns that killed the captain of the
Crane, as also the man Smith, and
finally sunk the boat itself The firing
continued for about twenty minutes. at
a distance we'll under half a mile, the
Kamchatka using her bow guns and
pegging away at the Aurora. The
fighting tops of both ships were got
into action very quickly, and from
these the trawlers were cannonaded
Wherever the searchlight showed
trawler they fired at il. The Aurora
was the target at which the Kam-
chatka fired, and received nineteen
shells i'm her middle section. Alto
gether, before the firing was over
eleven men were killed and nineteen
wounded on board the Aurora The
dead, with the exception of the priest
were buried at sea, some off the Good
win Sands, others at Vigo. Three who
died later of their wounds were buried
at Tangier
The weak point of the case before
the commission of inquiry was that
there were no officers of the Aurora
present, as it would be interesting TO
know what they could say and what
they did say at Vigo. There are two
OF the Aurora's men in st. Petersburg
at present, though one of them is
wounded The fact is that the two
ships got night alarm and fired into
each other. This was the real origin
of the whole incident. This kind of
mistake has occurred not 'infreuuentIy
but even those Russian officers who
realize what actually happened at the
Dogger bank are for obvious reasons
loath to admit it
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-02-26
COUNT Won BUELOW
is PROUD OF TREATY
Success Was an Accident but
1t Means Much to the
Empire
Special Foreign Service

LONDON, Feb. Recommending on
the new German Russian treaty, the
Times says:
The conclusion of the new CONNER
cial treaties between Germany on the
one hand and Russia, Austria Hun
gary, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland Rou-
mania and Servia on the other, is a
diplomatic achievement of which Count
Won Buelow. has just reason to be
proud. 1t is true that his success is
largely attributable to the accident
that the negotiations coincided in time
with the war between Japan and Rus
sia. Had it not been for this advan-
tage, the German chancellor would
scarcely have managed to obtain from
the Eastern neighbor" the valuable
concessions, so detrimental to the
economic welfare of Russia, which
alone had enabled him to put the
screws so severely on Germany's polit-
lcal allies in Vienna. But Count Won
Buelow has known how to trade upon
the political embarrassments of Russia
very adroitly, and, in return for the
exclusive benevolence of German neu-
trality, and, it may be, of certain pros
pectlVe arrangements with her which
are as yet undisclosed, he secured from
her the engine by which he has CO.
creed the reluctant statesmen of Aus
a-Hungary into submission. In Ger
OF bitter complaints from the CONNER
cial classes, and even the agrarians are
not quite satisfied that they have
achieved so complete triumph as the
Prussian minister of agriculture would
have them believe. That, we need
hardly say, is inevitable in the transit
ton. stage through which that country
is passing. The treaties, in their pres
ent shape, are the outcome of a fresh
effort by the German emperor and his
advisers to run with the hare and hunt
with the hounds. BY inclination, and
by the traditions of the Hohenzollerns
his majesty's sympathies with the land
ed interests are strong. The country
gentlemen of the provinces beyond the
Elbe. who live upon the profits of their
estates, are the bulwark of that mon
archy by divine right and of the po-
ltlcal doctrines flowing from that prin-
ciple, which he loses no opportunity of
trying to inculcate upon his people, and
particularly upon those who are serv-
ants for the time being in his army
and fleet. They and the peasants upon
their land, or In their neighborhood,
nave formed for generations the back
bone of the Prussian army and it is in
their loyalty that he doubtless places
his chief reliance, in the event of such
untoward domestic conflicts as he did
not shrink from contemplating in his
famous speech to the Alexander regi-
ment four years ago. On the other
hand, he is too sagacious not to appre-
ciate the vast Importance, to his posi-
ton as the ruler of Germany, of the
commercial and industrial development
he has done so much to promote. He
knows how great part the national
riches and national credit, if judicious-
ly employed, must play in modern war.
They are necessary to all great powers
in
tional degree to power which aspires
to a future upon the waters"
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-02-26

Special Foreign Service
CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 25.-The
Austro-Russian scheme for the reform
of the finances of the three vilayets
has not been we'll received either by
the Turks or by diplomats outside the
two embassies, and the more it is
studied the less it is liked. The eX-
tensive powers demanded for the OF
toman bank are regarded as a serious
curtailment of the sultan's sovereign
rights, and it is not believed that a
private money making institution is a
proper body to exercise political ad-
ministrative functions, which cannot
but interfere with it's ordinary busi-
ness and involve it in difficulties with
the porte and the palace. No one
doubts that financial control is nee
essary condition of the success of any
reforms, whether in Macedonia or i'm
other parts of the Turkish empire, but it
is thought that a public international
organization, like the public debt ad-
miniStration, is better fitted than the
Ottoman bank to exercise such control.
In the scheme ii is provided that the
interested powers" should play Il
large part in carrying out and super
vising the work of financial reform.
From the context it is clear that by
the interested powers" Austria and
Russia alone are meant, to the exclu-
sion of the other governments. This is
regarded as very Objectionable. and it
is argued that the scheme. if carried
into effect as 1t stands, would amount
to a change of the status quo to the
benefit OF these two powers. Here the
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-02-26
POLITICAL PULL HELPS THOSE
WHO SEEK LANDS IN IRELAND
Startling Disclosure of Methods of Commissioner Un
der Land Purchase Act Is Made at Dublin

at Gtbbonstown, three miles distant.
ard who already holds twelve acres. on
Lord kllmaine'S estate, has been alIot-
ted about sixteen acres
The Irish Times gives the names OF
thirteen persons, in addition to these.
to whom allotments have been made.
All of them, it says. are prominent
members of the United Irish league or
the Labor league. OF the three tenants
on the estate, William Savane, who
holds eight acres, gets 10 additional
land, but, on the contrary, is deprived
of his turbary; while the two other
tenants, Thomas and John Corrigan,
get about sixteen or eighteen acres in
addition to their present holdings.
The disappointed villagers have
shown their indignation at the action
of the inspector by pulling down the
ferces which were made to mark off
the new farms. A deputation of them
waited on the estates commissioners,
who said that their arrangements could
not be altered. AS a last recourse the
villagers have now petitioned the lord
lieutenant for an inquiry, and they are
anXiously awaiting his eXcellepcy's re-
ply.
One of the heads of the estates COM
mission, who was interviewed this
week, does not challenge the accuracy
of the details given by the Irish Times
with reference to the names of the
new tenants. He entirely repudiates,
however, the suggestion that the United
Irish league was favored or that poll
tics had anything to do with the action
of the inspector. 1t appears that this
gentleman submitted the parish priests
lists and the leagues list of desirable
tenants to a representative public
meeting of the villagers, that he dis
cussed with them the various claims of
these persons, and that nobody at the
meeting raised any serious objections
to the persons selected. AS a matter
of fact, said the official, of the nineteen
persons to whom allotments were
made. thirteen were on the list ap-
proved by Mrs. Maher ard the parish
priest, while only three were on the list
submitted by the United Irish league.
The remaining three We're on neither
list, and were chosen only because they
have small uneconomic holdings in the
district. The official added that his
board is disposed to object to the selec-
tiOn of Thomas Nolan, not because he
is an official of the United Irish league,
matter of which the commissioners
have no -cognizance, but because his
residence is so far away from his allot-
ment.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-02-26

that industry the decline of the Ameri-
can shoe. At one time the American
boot and shoe trade in this country as
sumed alarming proportions. Today it
is not more than 100000 pounds, while
the annual value of England's boot and
shoe trade amounts to nearly 10000
600 pounds.
The General and Furnishing asso-
citation reported that trade shows more
buoyancy now than has been apparent
for the last three years, and the
Building, Timber and allied Trades as
sociation are looking. forward to an ex-
ceptionally busy spring.
The end of the rate war has had a
beneficial effect on passenger freights.
while cargo freights are steadier than
they have been for some time, and
early this month there was an excep-
donal rush of vessels. providing work
for many of the long unemployed cas-
ual dock hands.
The Improvement in wholesale quar-
ters is reflected in the retail shops of
the city and West end. Several large
establishments in Oxford street and
Regent street admitted that money
was being spent more freely, and the
smaller shopkeepers of the suburbs find
trade improving.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-02-26
BEAUTIFUL WOMEN WORE RICH
JEWELS AND GOWNS IN DUBLIN
Vice Regal Drawing Room Was Scene of SpIendor Beau
titled by Presence of Lovely Noble Danes

"reminiscences and comments for an
address which he delivered at the Lon
don institution this week to members
of the Stock Exchange Art society on
the decorations of ST. PauTs."
LAS a little boy, sitting in the chair
with my mother" he said, Il can re-
rated dome of the cathedral and think
ing, perhaps some day it will be my
lot to make that vast vault glitter with
gold and blue, silver and white.'
Later years showed that this was
my destiny. When l started on the
work 1 thought, ff 1 fail there is al
ways Waterloo bridge and the
Thames"
He told them how st. Paurs was
once nothing more than a great mass
of stone-very dirty stone too. He
could recall when the stones exuded
oil, the residuum of the oil paint which
covered them in the time of Wren.
''If it were not for art" Sir William
observed, 'the world would be one
great wilderness. And if there be one
place in London which ought to be de-
lightful in color and full of the noble
sentiments of religion it is st. Paurs
cathedral"
Sir william gave hint as to view
ing the beautiful decorations. 1.-TWO
O'Clock on a fine day is the best time"
he said, for the hight is best then. and
l advise visitors to take opera glasses
with them.
He added that he will leave all the
drawings he made in the course of the
decorations to the nation-"to be used
or burned as you may please"
M. Marconi, who is to be married on
p-fal1 To lan ID ~ OsI
will take his bride to America for six
weeks and afterwards to his beautiful
place in Italy. While in America he ex-
poets to visit Pittsburg, Washington,
Philadelphia, Indianapolis, st. Louis,
Chicago and other cities.
M. Marconi is a persona grata at the
Italian court, and goes shooting and
motoring with the king of Italy. His
flat in London is fitted up with every
conceivable form of electrical contriv-
ance which tends to make life easier
Mr.. Henry Chaplin, NJ. P, speaking
at Shirebrook this week, said he be-
lieved there would be a remission in
taxation on tobacco, although he did
not know whether this had been. set
tied yet. In any case" he added, "it
will not affect me, for do not smoke,
but it will affect Joseph Chamberlain,
Who is great smoker. During the
whole course of my experience l do not
know man who smokes more big,
long, black, nasty looking cigars than
Mr.. Chamberlain does"
Prince and Princess Christine gave a
large dinner party at Cumberland
Lodge this week in honor of the Prin-
cess of Wales.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-02-26
FINANCIAL REFORMS IN VILLAYETS ARE
NOT YET DECIDED UPON BY THE TURKS

feeling in many quarters is that it is
now time for the Western powers TO
insist on having an effective voice in
the affairs of the near East, and that
Austria and Russia have failed too
completely in their self-imposed task
for the other European countries to
continue to efface themselves.
This feeling is strengthened by the
recent events in st. Petersburg The
Turks have always been suspicious OF
the objects of Russian diplomacy and
have refused to believe in the sincerity
of the devotion professed by Russia
for financial purity and humane meth
DDS in the government OF Turkey The
massacre of workingmen, who had
given very much less provoca ton than
the Turkish government had received
from the Armenians, has helped to
confirm these suspicious. The powers
which really desire reform In Turkey
should come forward themselves and
not depute the task to a government
which is itself almost as corrupt and
has almost as little respect for cCnsid-
erations of humanity as the country
from which it demands reforms.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-02-26
Special Foreign Service


DUBLIN, Feb. 25.-The Irish Times
publishes a startling account of the
dealings of the estates commissioners
with the tenants on a small estate near
Mullingar The property contains 440
acres, mostly grass land, and it is sit
uated in poor district where the pop
ulatlon supports itself on conacre hold
ings of not more than ten acres. The
estate commissioners entered into ne
gotiations for the purchase of this
property from the owner, Mrs. Maher,
with the object of dividing it among
the peasant farmers of the district, and
thus increasing their present un-
economic holdings.
The story told by the Irish Times is
briefly this. The commissioners sent
an inspector to ROchfort Bridge to con-
duct the subdivision of the Maher
grass lands. He was presented with
list of desirable claimants which had
been prepared by the Roman Catholic
priest. the Protestant rector, and other
responsible persons. He was also pre-
sented with list of claimants by the
officials of the local branch of the
United Irish league. This second list
contained the names of the president
treasurer, and other officials and mem
bers of the local branch of the league
and the president and members of the
hlHuTeu DOuy cdlleu the LABOR league.
Six of these persons are artisans and
seven are laborers. Many of them
have little money and no stock. but
thanks to the estates commissioners
they now find themselves in the pos
session of good farms ranging up to
twenty or thirty acres, while the great
majority of the villagers. not being
connected with the political Organiza-
tions named. find themselves no better
off than they were, and obliged to con-
tinue paying for their small potato
plots despite Mrs. Mahers kindly in
tentiOn. The Irish Times adds particu-
lars of the allotments made to the in
spector of the estates commissioners.
The president of the local branch of the
United Irish league, Thomas Nolan, a
working mason who already holds six
teen acres as subtenant to another
landlord. gets about eighteen acres of
Mrs. Maher's late property. He lives at
Knockerville, six miles from Rochfort
Bridge. Luke Boyan, treasurer of the
league, a tailor, living in the village
with his father. who holds a house and
garden, gets over twenty acres James
Lister, a prominent member of the
Southwest Meath executive, who lives
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-02-26
WILL PUT CHECK ON
RUSS EMIGRATION

Special Foreign Service
BERLIN. Feb. 25.-A further check
is to be put on Russian emigrants to
America by English and American
lines. The German companies have
control stations on the Russo-German
frontier. where emigrants who have
not booked by the German lines are
turned back.
1t has been found out that many en-
igrants evaded the watchfulness of the
companies by travelling through Aus
tria via Munich or Dresden TO Ant
werp, where they got into touch with
the Anglo-Continental emigrant Office.
The German companies have, in con-
sequence, entered into a combination
with the Austro- American company to
extend the control stations all along
the Austro-German frontier. In a
statement issued recently they naively
admit that hitherto their plans have
been to some extent frustrated.