Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-01-11
News and Miscellaneous Parnrranh

News and Miscellaneous Parnrranhs.
A FRENCH woman, calling herself
Madame Brigham Young, has been ar
rested in Paris for Inducing in what
she called the "Utah Cancan:" q ner-
Torrance compared to which the Paris
article is but humdrum affair.
TAXATION is a thing OF SO much con.
Germ In Florida that mans conscience.
the other day, would not allow him to
sell sausages until he found out the
amount OF revenue stamps to go on
each link.
HE legacy which Tammany. now
happily defunct, leaves to New York,
according to the official statement of
Comptroller Green is debt of 1914, $780,
MARY MCKARRo11., while crossing the
Lake Shore Railroad at Ruffalo, with q
chlld IN her arms, was Instantly killed
by passing train. The child was
thrown between the rails and escaped
unhurt.
DR. EBENEzER BoYDEN, a wealthy
retired physician of Billerie, Mass.
aged seventy, committed suicide on
Sunday, by hanging. He had ATTEMPT
ed it once before, and had often ex
pressed fear of coming to want.
Cart: JOHN MICHAEL, of the Welsh
brigantine Nina, loading for Liverpool
ct Halifax, n. s., quarreled with Dan
lei Duggan, his boatswain, on Monday
night, and shot him twice in the head,
MORALLY wounding him.
A BALTIMORE firm, having success.
fully taken RATS of pine logs from the
coasts of Florida and Georgia by ocean.
have purchased several thousand acres
of pine lands on LAX Superior with q
view of rafting them down to Cleve-
land, there to be converted into lum-
Der.
The Paris Gaulois, abiding to the
Chicago catastrophe, and desiring tn
impress it's readers with the grandeur
OF It's great lakes, says that "tle artifi-
clal pieces of water in the Bots de
Boulogne can only give them faint
Idea OF the Lakes Huron and Super.
iOr."
HE Montana hunters are getting too
smart for this earth. First we heard
that they captured the ibex with the
lasso. Now we hear it that another
hunter, emulous of the Achievements
armed himself with an axe, and striking
out for the haunts of the mountain
sheep, crept stealthily up on the hills
above a band, and chopped tree down
on them.
Two young men of Readsboro'. VT.
walked to North Adams, Mass, the
other day, and on their return separ-
ated when within few miles of home.
one of them taking an obscure road.
upon which his ifeless body was found
the next day. There were no marks of
violence upon bus person, and his death
could not be accounted for.
A wELL-KNowN citizen of Nashville
discovered a negro burglar in his house.
one night this week, and shot at him
deliberately three times with a pistol,
the negro remaining a stationary tar.
get. The shots all missed, and the
negro then stopped the schutzenfest by
rushing in, beating the well-meaning
but nervous citizen over the head with
the butt Of his own pistol, after it had
refused to go of. The African escaped.
THE historical four-and.twentv
blackbirds who were baked in a pie
have been quite thrown into the shade
by 100 chickens who furnished the in
terror of q gigantic pastry baked last
week in Bridgeport, Conn, for the fair
of st. Johns Church. It took four
strong men to carry this monster into
the hall ; and it will take great many
more strong men and women and chill
dren to eat and digest it.