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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-06-02
The Treasury Deficit.

On April 80, 1907, the national treas
ury had surplus of of $50, AIS, ISL; on
the same date in 1908 there was de-
felt of about $5l, 644, GA, difference
of about $1O5, 900, which is expected to
to reach nearly $3.50, 100000 by June
80, and will if the present relation Of
expenditure to revenue keeps up. The
situation is making not a few repub-
lican papers decidedly -panicy. One,
the New York Globe, says: eve have
set up the most extravagant govern.
ment the world has ever known, and
year by year we are making it more
extravagant." Another: '"The admins
tration of President Roosevelt is the
most extravagant the country has evel
known during a time Of peace.
mo president in our history has shown
smaller development of econom,
sense" These are few of many com
ments by the press of the same party
which reveal deal of uneasiness re
garding the effect of the situation o.
the fortunes of the party during tn
next few months.-Farm, Stock ant
Home.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-06-02
A Terrible Picture.

The president paints a terrible pic
ture of demoralizing influence of ill-got-
ten wealth. He pictures the multi
millionaire who has grown rich by inn
moral means as "the least admirable
of all our citizens, man of whom it
has been well said, that his face has
grown hard and cruel, while his body
has grown soft; whose son is a fool
and whose daughter foreign princess;
whose normal pleasures are at best
those of a tasteless:s and extravagant
luxury, and whose real life work is the
accumulation and use of power in its
most sordid and least elevating form. "
And who is this man whom the presi-
dent pictures? He is the beneficiary
of privilege, the child of favoritism IN
government. And how does he secure
privilege and favoritism? By contrib
uting campaign funds to the party
which will sell him the right to exploit
the country. Which party has been
doing this? The republican party,
whose leaders are now conspiring to
prevent any remedial legislation. These
same influences are seeking to domi-
nate the democratic party, but they
find the democratic masses incorrupt'
ible and their their effort is frustrated.
THE Commoner.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-06-02
INVENTOR STOPS CAT CONCERTS
EIectrifies Fence and Neishborhood ID
Peaceful Again.

Jersey City, N. Eugene R. Blake
of this city has the one original de-
stroyer of the rioting Thomas cat. Nc
more whistle inharmonious cater
waul disturb his slumbers, and no
more does the sinuous yowler decorate
his garden fence in the small hours Of
the morning, destroying with hideous
cat clamor the slumber of the neigh
borhood.
Many a time has Blake been
awakened hours before his time, and
tossed about in his bed, vainly trying
to get to sleep, and one morning while
he lay cursing the cats he worked out
an electrical invention that would do
away with them forever
On the following day, after a crowd
of workmen had been diligently string
ing wires about his back fences, he
was ready for the CATS That night a
big Thomas fellow, who had voice
like a Texas bull and head like q
ella monster, SCARED in many bat
tie, hoped lightly on the fence. He
shot straight up in the air six feet
higher the instant he touched the
wires, and fell dead beside q rose
bush.
A lady cat who had been prowlins
around waiting for her hero found him
at the rose bush, and smiling con-
temptuously, she jumped to the fence
to hunt for -other Toms to conquer
She, too, went straight on up beyond
the fence and fell back dead. The
electrocution machine Is working just
as Mr.. Blake expected.
And now grateful city father
wishes to introduce resolution OF
thanks to the young inventor and Of
fers to help the good work along by
imposing prohibitive tax on all cats
kept for decorative purposes which dc
not earn their own living by destroy
| ing rats.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-06-02
HAT MONEY FOR CHURCH.
Women Foreeo Easter Bonnsts fol
Raising Of Debt.

Chillicothe, Mo.-Several dozen
women, members of the First Method.
list Episcopal church in this city. have
shown their devotion to their church
In q unique manner. They agreed to
forego that article Of dress so dear
to the feminine heart, the Easter hat,
in order that a church debt Of 500
may be paid.
A year ago the Ladies Working 80.
ciety Of this church took upon itself
a debt of 500 for the church. The
debt is still In existence, and the lead
ers of the society have been at their
wits end as to the best means for
raising it. Recently one of the society
members hit upon the plan of asking
the members to put the money that
they expected to spend for Easter bon.
nets into a fund to pay of this debt.
Drawing up list pledging its sign.
ers to such promise, she flrst
signed it and then took 1t to other
members of the society. The PROPOSE.
ton was severe test on the loyalty
Of the women to the church, but they
were equal to the sacrifice. Many Of
them signed the list and thus agreed
to give up the cash that would have
been spent for Merry Widow" fol
the purpose OF paying of that long
standing debt.
The result is somewhat hard on tn,
millinery stores, but 1t is gratifying
to the church officers. The womel
who have thus pledged themseivel
went to church bareheaded an,
showed to the other members of tn
congregation who those are who hav
made the sacrifice.
Whether the brethren will arise I
the occasion by giving up sprin
derby" for the same purpose remain
to be seen.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-06-02
Tariff Schedules and Revenue.

Our tariff system would be more toll
cradle if it's advocates were more con-
sistent. 1t is insisted by the most ar
dent of them that tariff reduction is
out Of the question now because our
revenues are already long way below
our expenditures, therefore, we must
have more revenue, higher tariff rates
instead of lower. At the close of the
first Cleveland administration there was
such large surplus in the national
treasury that reduction of the sur
plus" was one of the campaign issues
in 1883. Gen. Harrison was elected
president, and soon after the republican
party, in full control of the government
proceeded to "reduce the surplus, !" and
the most important move in that direc-
ton was the enactment of what was
known as the Mckinley tariff, the
highest tariff of our history up to that
time. The title of that act was ian
act to reduce the revenue, equalize du-
ties, "etc. 1t served the purpose adj
mirably; so admirably that upon Mr..
Cleveland's return to the presidency in
'93 he found an empty treasury. And
now, under a tariff still higher than
the Mckinley outfit it is expected that
the end of this fiscal year will exhibit
a deficit of $3.50, 600, 600. Yet it is pro
posed to keep the tariff rates up be
cause we must have more revenue
Craftsmanship of this kind ought to bt
put into astraight jacket in madhouse
it is dangerous to let it run at large!-
Farm, Stock and Home.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-06-02
d. 5. 5. MICHIGAN
IN HER maiden DIP
NEW AMERICAN BATTLEsHlP is
THE DREADNAuGHT OF
OUR NAVY.
DAUGHTER
ACTS AS THE SPONSOR
launching Of the Man-of-War at Cam.
den, N. J., is Wholly Successful
Many Prominent Persons Attend
ceremony-Toast to the Vessel.

Camden, N. j., May 27.-lnto the
restless waters of the Delaware river
on whose shores so many of the ships
of the new navy" have been built,
there was launched Tuesday the great
steel hull of what will be the lot
midable battle-ship Michigan. Built
by the New York Shipbuilding Com
pany at South Camden, the Michigan,
q sister ship to the South Carolina I'M
der construction at the Cramps ship
yard on the Philadelphia side OF the
Delaware, is more than so per cent.
completed and will be turned over to
the government in about year. The
launch of the Michigan was entirely
successful and was witnessed by
number of invited guests, including
Assistant Secretary of the Navy New
berry, Secretary of the Interior Gar
field, Gov. Warner of Michigan, the
United States senators from Michigan
and other prominent persons of Wash
ington and the Wolverine state.
Miss Newberry Is Sponsor.
The sponsor was Miss Carol Barnes
Newberry of Detroit, daughter of AS
sistant Secretary Newberry.
Fair weather favored the event and
q great crowd was on hand in and
about the yard to see the big shil
take the water.
Following the launch the invited
guests were entertained at luncheon
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-06-02
FINEST TWINS, PART OF 10.
Barely Survive AZ Reminders Of Z
Ten-Year Record.

Altoona, Pa.-Two mites OF human.
ity, seven-week-old twins. emaciated
through lack of nourishment until
they weighed but eight and one-quar'
ter pounds together, were brought to
the Blair county home, to be reared
by the county. Their mother, Mrs.
John Thomas Of Etna, died a month
ago. and their father, burdened with
three, other small children, was I'M
able to give them the proper atten.
ton.
The story of the welded life OF the
Thomases alternates with sunshine
and darkness-sunshine when the
babies came; darkness when most OF
them went. The pair were married
ten years, and all told 13 children
were born to them, there being three
sets of twins and one Of triplets. Only
five of the little ones are living. The
others preceded their mother to the
grave.
When Thomas appeared at the aims
house the other day he had the twins
side by side in the lid Of an old tele.
scope satchel There was smile on
their faces as their father turned
them over to Miss Fannie Robinson.
who will have direct charge of them.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-06-02
TRADE A TOWN WITH ROAD.
Evarts, s. D., Former Largest Primary
Cattle Market, to Be Abandoned.

Evarts, s. DIN few days the res
idents of this town, at special cleo
ton, will decide whether they shall
abandon their homes and accept y
proposition from the railroad which
has caused the present condition Of
affairs.
When the Milwaukee railroad de-
cided to build the Pacific coast extern
sion it became necessary to secure q
site for bridge across the Missouri
river in South Dakota. The engineers
finally decided upon Mobridge, where
the bridge was built and the main line
was extended from Glenham to that
town, cutting off Evarts completely.
Under the law railroad can not
abandon a track unless the residents
of the town affected, by two-thirds
vote, authorize such action.
The road has offered to give every
property owner lot for lot as they are
now situated in any other town on the
extension. Evants was once the
largest primary cattle market In the
world.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-06-02

by the officials of the company.
There was no Formally about the
luncheon, but, following custom, toasts
were drunk to the president Of the
United States, the secretary and assis-
tant secretary of the navy, the fair
sponsor and last, but not least,
"good-luck" toast to the great battle
ship itself.
Ship Much Like Dreadnaught.
The Michigan comes closer to the
Dreadnaught class OF warships in the
English navy than any other big fight
ing vessel in the American navy. The
new vessel is known as an "all big
gun" battle-ship, as it will carry eight
12-inch breech-loading rifles. The gen.
eral dimensions Of the Michigan are
as follows: Length on load water
line, $50 feet; extreme breadth, so
feet; draft, "a feet inches; total
coal bunker capacity, 1900 tons. The
hull is of steel throughout. Although
a very heavy vessel, the contract calls
for sustained speed of 1871 knots an
hour for four consecutive hours.
Has Eight Big Guns.
Besides the eight 12-inch guns, the
main battery will include two sub
merged torpedo tubes, and the Sec
ondary battery will consist of % three
inch (14-pounder), rapid-fire guns; two
three FOUNDER semi-automatic guns,
eight one-inch semi-automatic guns,
two three-inch field pieces, four ma
chine guns Of 0.30 caliber. The 12-
inch guns will be mounted in pairs in
four turrets on the center line, two
forward and two aft. The hull will
be protected on the water line by a
complete belt of armor eight feet wide,
having thickness of IL inches
throughout the machinery spaces and
IL inches at the magazine spaces. For
height of eight feet above the main
belt there will be the casemate armor,
eight inches thick at the top to ten
inches thick at the bottom.
Long Protective Deck.
There will be complete protective
deck from stem to stern. The maya
zines and shellrooms will be SO ar.
ranged that about one-half of the total
supply of ammunition will be carried
at each end of the ship. The propel
ling engines will be Of the vertical
twin-screw, fourcylinder, triple-expan
sion type, OF a combined indicated
horse power of 16,500. Each engine
will he located in separate water
tight compartment. Each of the two
tunnels of the vessel will be 100 feet
high above the base line The crew
of the Michigan will number 81 officers
| and 1853 men.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-06-02
JUDGES INTERIOR ToPsY TuRvy,
Doctors Find Organs Of st. Louis Jur-
list in Strange Confusion.

Baltimore, Md.-Surgeons in Johns
Hopkins hospital, during an autopsy
on the body of Judge John e. Nc
Keighon of ST. Louis, were astonished
to discover that instead Of the internal
organs being arranged in the usual
way, they were scattered about in al
most unbelievable ways.
The judges heart was turned in q
position the reverse of normal, his
kidneys were united by a ligament In
the shape of horseshoe, and the liver
was upside down, with the gall bladder
on top. Many of the smaller organs
were chaos of entangling cords and
fatty substances.
How Judge McKeighon lived with
such strange transposition Of the
organs puzzles surgeons The judge
lived to be Sc years old, and was con:
sidered one Of the ablest lawyers Of
st. Louis.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-06-02
NEEDS WIFE TO HOLD HIS JOB.
bachelor Girl Preferred" IIIinoIsan's
Advertisement Reads.

Salem, Ill.-Leap year SO far has
treated Dave Houchen Of Salem very
unkindly. He is in the matrimonial
market, but has not found taker.
His advertisement in one Of his home
papers reads as follows:
"To All Young Women and Widows
Owing to the slack Of business and
the financial stringency, the railroad,
by which l am employed. is reducing
the force and is giving the married
men the preference, and / have bet
ter chance of holding my job by get
ting married. / am herewith adver-
Using for a wife. / am 20 years old !;
do not smoke, chew or drink, and be.
long to the church. My salary is $50
month. Any young lady who desires
to get married should address Dave
Houchen, Salem, Ill. A bachelor girl
preferred
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-06-02
upnoLDs OMAHA DECISION.
United States Circuit Court Rutds
Against Railroad.

St. Paul, Mimi, May 2s.-The Uni.
ted States circuit court of appeals
Monday affirmed the United States
circuit court conviction and the fines
imposed on the Omaha railroad and
its general freight agent, H. H. Pearce.
in the grain rebate cases levied last
year in Minneapolis. The appeal OF
the company is dismissed, the govern
ments contentious in the lower court
being sustained in every particular.
The fine on the railroad was 100000
and on Mr.. Pearce, $4,000.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-06-02
500 REWARD, 500

The readers of this paper will be pleased to
earn that there is at least one dreaded disease
that science has been able to cure in all its
stages, and that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh
Cure Is the only positive cure now known to
the medical fraternity. Catarrh being con
stitutional disease, requires constitutional
treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken in
ternally, acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroy
ing the foundation Of the disease, and giving
the patient strength by building up the consti-
tuition and assisting nature in doing its work
The proprletors have 80 much faith in Its cura.
tive powers that they offer One Hundred
Dollars for any case that 1t falls to cure. Send
for list of testimonials.
Address F. j. CHENEY 8 CO., Toledo. o.
Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-06-02
AGED Man a suicide.

Evidently feeling that his eighty
six years were bringing too great
burden for him to bear, Frank Skiff,
q highly respected resident of Oxford
Junction, shot himself and must have
died instantly. The tragedy occurred
at his residence. He had secured a
22.caliber rife and arranged the gun
so that the ball entered his mouth and
passed upward into the brain. He was
dead when found.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-06-02
Notice Of Time Given.
70 Whom 1t May Concern

Notice is hereby given that l have
this day given my minor son, Claude v.
Farnsworth, age 10, his time and on
and after this date will be responsible
for no debts or obligations he may con-
tract, neither will claim any of his
earnings. F. o. FARNswoRTH,
Orleans Twp. Winnesheik county, Ia,
May Is, 1908.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-06-02
Family Horse Kills a Girl.

Miss Ollie May. the eighteen-year-
old daughter of Thomas May, a Long
Grove farmer. met with a terrible
death. The girl was kicked to death
by the family horse. Returning from
q drive, the young woman put her
horse In the barn. The animal had
always been considered gentle, but
for some unexplained reason it turned
upon her and kicked her sayagely,
knocking her down and trampling her
to death beneath its hoofs.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-06-02
HAPPENINGS IN IOWA
ATTEMPTS SUICIDE.
broad Of Surgical Operation Deranses
coalvilie Mans Mind.


coalvilie Mans Mind.
Edward Berke. resident of Coal.
vile, attempted suicide while suffering
. temporary arrangement of the mind
as result of brooding over the fact
that he would soon be compelled to
submit to another surgical operation.
The young man underwent an opera
ton about two years ago, and for the
past three or four weeks has been con-
fined to the house, being informed by
the attending physicians that he must
again pass under the knife. The young
man arose some time in the night,
and after wandering about in the
woods severely gashed his throat with
q razor. He was found by searchers
about a quarter of mile from the
house. Although he suffered severely
from the loss OF blood, 1t is not expect
ed the young man will suffer any Sc
rious results.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-06-02
Iowa Man a Suicide.

Jud B. Vance of Des Moines. aged
forty.hve years, shot and instantly
killed himself in his room at the Sa
voy hotel in Kansas City. His body
was found lying across the bed, a bull
let hole behind the right ear and a
revolver lying where it had fallen
from his right hand. He had been
drinking.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-06-02
Miner,s Execution a lesson.

pottsville, Pa, May 26.-In order to
teach the foreign population of the
coal regions a lesson, Sheriff Clay
Evans has decided to make the execu,
ton of Felix Radius public, so far as
the leading Representatives of the
Poles. Hungarians, Slavs, Lithuanians,
Russians and Italians are concerned.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-06-02
VIII Provides for a Party,

London.-John Charles Campton,
j. p, of Broomhill. Chigwell. Essex.
who died on February 9 last, aged
81 years, by his will left $4,000 and a
silver bowl and silver cake basket
upon trust to provide for friendly
family party, for the peace and good
will of his family, once year SO long
as any of his children shall live. The
estate is valued at $229,230.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-06-02
Bucklen's Arnica salye Wins.

Tom Moore, of Rural Route /, Coch-
ran, Ga, writes: Il had a bad sore
nd no on the inst sep e of foot and n s9pd
applied Bucklen's Arnica salve. Less
for fr me a BY affecting IT s Dp perfect cure
Sold under guarantee at P. A. Glenn
mer's drug store. T
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-06-02
Couple Disappear.

The country around Lamoille is
greatly stirred up over the sudden
disappearance of Mrs. Herbert Bishop,
aged nineteen, wife of young farmer,
and Norman Rygmyr, aged twenty-one,
of Forest City, who has been employed
as farmland in the neighborhood.
Both left I4amoille on the same train
and neither has been seen since
Mrs. Bishop leaves two small chill
dren behind.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-06-02
Foul Play Suspected.

The search has been discontinued
for ]. 8. McIntire, the Melvin grain
buyer, who disappeared April 8. He
announced that he was going to visit
his parents in Indiana, but failed to
do 80. His accounts with the grain
company were correct, and his abb
solute disappearance has aroused a
suspicion Of foul play.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-06-02
Hold Troops in Cuba.

Washington, May 27.-As result of
several conferences between President
Roosevelt, Secretary Taft and Gen
Bell. chief of staff of the army, 1t has
been decided not to withdraw any Of
the United States troops from Cuba
ut the present time.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-06-02
Sick Miner Seeks Death.

Ed burke, miner, thirty years old,
of Coalville, Respondent over ill
health, wandered into the woods and
slashed his throat twice with razor.
He was found unconscious. but will
recover. His family was among the
old settlers.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-06-02
Guilty Of Malfea.ance In Office.

H. v. Battey, clerk of the district
court of Pottawatomie county, was
found guilty of malfeasance and cor
ruption in ONCE by verdict in the
district court. The Judgment will have
the effect of removing the. defendant
from office. Battey was charged with
falling to account for fees and with
alteration Of the records of his Office
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-06-02
Bonds Sell at a Premium.

The highest bidder for Mason City
funding bond sale was George M.
Bechtel & Co. of Davenport, who Sc
cured $4,000 city bonds at premium
of $4O5. The money will be used in
taking up warrants outstanding Incl
dent to the rebuilding of the water
works and the extension of the city
mains