Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-02-29
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ohce as hfo1mers shares for the year ending
with November last, was $6l 600.
NEW. elevator, with capacity Of 1,250, 600
bnshels, is to bo erected in Chicago, near tho
point where the st. Louis RsilIoad crosses the
south branch Of tho river. 80 =.
THERE IL considerable excitement at Cars
vile, Ky. over tho discovery Of rich deposits
Of lead and other ores by the Memphis CON-
panyi which recently purchased mining land
At that place.
StrH JOHNSON, formerly clerk in the Tres-
sury Department. has boon sentenced to nav
tine OF $40, 0OO and bo imprisoned QUE year for
the spIesxlemcnt of government runds, He
pleaded guilty.
y PRIVATE letter from Fort Benton, Mon
tana, states that during the latter part Of Do:
c'lnoer the thermometer, marked 50 degrees
helow zero; that buffalo. antelope. cattle. and
horscs'werc frozen to desth in largo numbers.
Awo HUNDRED hargcs wero torn loose and
ca RED away by the movement of ice at Gin
c:'nati. They were principally owned il,
i;tsnurg. Twenty five thousand bushels of
,;ke and coal went down. Tho estimates OF
losses vary from $685. to :l2O,00o
\ EALr1soRx paper publishes an article
charging the Rev: 4. v. Huston, a distin
shed minist ter of that city. with tho seduc-
ton Of several young ladies' connected with
tie Sunday school Of his church, st. Paul's
s'!ho'list Episcopal.
PRESIDENT GRANT sent the following nomi
n'lons to. the Senate on Monday:, Assistant
ASscssor-J. II. Warren, Sixth District of
l'"' APPRAISER "A. 4. Anthony, Seco,d
oWH District. Surveyor OF - Distilleries-W.
=. Stake. First Iowa District.
\ DE- AjuNENT of U. S. troops from Fort
A'e'crombie on Saturday proceeded to Fargo.
l"cotah Territory, and arrested twenty liquor
u'ac's The charge against them is setting
.!tot { the Indian Reservation that extends
! ON n River, Oh the north, to Traverse
Lake on 40 south.
Col. FoRNEY arrived in Washington on Sun
day. ard dncd with the President in the eyen-
i''E. Eeprb'icaus who have called on him
sl'.c that no Is gcing to sustain Grant and
that he will be allowed to name bis successor
$ Collector OF Philadelphia. Senator Cam
er"t' 'tends are very much displeased at the
he" tuan Affairs have taken.
a YOUNG man named Good, while engaged
Ill adjusting the belt on a ny-wlleel of saw
null at Welton Station, ten niles east Of Torre
''"uts. on the Indianapolis and St. Louis Rail-
lo'"' ,l''rsday mo:r!'S, was caught by the
'Iin ard ,evolv. about he wheel at rapid
- 1 wv ne was ''te-: y torn to pieces, suf-
lem, instant dea h.
DFf1cENs of the Northern Pacific Railroad
give the following as the condition of IT,.
work: Three hundred miles finished. REACH
ing to the Mississippi river. thence to Red
river, grading down thence nine hundred
ln.!es a under contract reaching into tho valley
. J,n
lzed oy Congress of lands and the road to se-
cure bonds. have been executed,
A EARN belonging to William Freeman iv-
ing about two miles from Darlington stst,on
ILL.,, was burned on Saturday evening. tocetber
with nineteen head of cattle, six horses, and a
.arso Sfcck OF farming utensils. The fire was
!!aht;fh. The estimated loss is s5. 600: insnref1
III q nome company.
A WILMINGTON On. c. special saws the
Lowry gang raided upon the town of Lumber
ton, and carried off the safe from the store q;
o. ara, y: n: Nc .eod, with 900, deposited by
various pa !. es for safe keeping, there being
no hank IN ,e town. Valuable papers were
taken ilorn tho sheriff's safe A posse of
ponce attempted the capture of tho thieves.
Tut was too weak.
GRAND poultry exhibition will be held in
st: Louis at the Mercantile Library Hall, next
thursday. Besides some hundred GOODS from
that city ard state. there will be on exhibition
ten coops Ion New York, twelve GOODS from
ConnectcUt. fifteen from Delaware. forty
from Ohio, .forty.tive from PENNSYLVANIA, fifty
from illinois and twenty from Iowa. The
southern Sts tes will also be we'll rEpresented.
The Halifax Chronicle, in reply to an edi-
total IN the Toronto Globe, ridiculing the
story OF the secret treaty, asserts its autheu-
ITCHY, and says it is credibly informed that
II was signed alter the conclusion of the WASH
1neton Negotiations by Lord DeGray, for the
bitish government, aud Sir John A Mcdonald
Governor General
"N. r. HoLcoMD was shot and INSTANTLY
kied at Columbia, Tenn, by his nephew,
henrE Hoicomb, ON Thursday evening. Frank
Ayedeiett, policeman, subsequently, " shot and
hll,ea EDWARD huhn, whom he attempted to
arrest, and who was shooting at a crowd near
his door: Kuhn was q partner of William
H0icomb, whose body had been placed in his
saloon: Both of the mell-slayers are REGARDED
as justitiable.
FRANK HEssLER, convicted OF arson. at
tempted to commit suicide in the jail at Osh-
kosh Sunday night, in his cell, by severing the
VEINS OF bis arms with jack knife, The iail-
or dlscoye ed BIN in time to safe his life A.
li'"h';h lie lost abort two quarts Of blood. He
d:o's:eS lie " u not go to State Prison and
W." rig way hi himself yet. Two Other
for a sou lobbe1y. '
MOB OF several hundred crispins-some
accounts estimate the number at 5,OO0-at-
tackled six shoemakers employed bv firm m
"arFe: street. New York. who. of 80 men,
refused 10 obey the orders Of the leaders to
s,flke, and serious riot was prevent ed hv
the lie ermiped attitude Of squad O; nolica
,ictn'ed for their protection, the attack having
been expected. The non- strikers have armed
thcm elves, and ful ther trouble il anpre-
hended :" sPPAo0
IRE annual meeting Of the American Tract
Society was held in Washington Sunday even-
lag. he statement Of the society shows that
tho benevolent receipts were 5190.e11 !:
expenditures Sl13, Q69.s The expense for ad-
mlf1stratfon and collection is met from otLor
sources: Abort Isl, 900, 900 tracts and 0(1 :
o'o periodicals were issued during the wear
chelty the south and west; 2s7 missionarv
Cnrot. e9'po, .''fs Eve were employed, making 2s7 900
NEw' po1sk has . gold sensation. An arr;
ferrous vein has been found in Broome county.
The discovery was made by COMPANY pros-
nectlh3 Tor coal. First sinking we'll to tho
de,,th OF sixty feet, they struck a rich vein of
le".: lhen, to ascertain its width, they sunk
az ai1tnci wen few rods distant. On the LIST
oi 'An"ary they began sinking q shaft. and
atter "orklnS some days the workmen strncE
rock aud then suddenly dug up bright Iumns
ol Sohi. The vein is SAID to be of Dure on{d
fourth OF an inch 'hiok. } o'
IT appears that the clerk in the Boston Post
onice detected in stealing money and othe,
va'11alles from letters, has saved nearly avo-,,
Inns ana has 81 600 on hand, and large
i''"'i:s OF rings. the result of three vears
npe!a'!ons He has delivered the whole col
icc'iou TO tue authorities, and the officers ore
no" ar'ahglf !, a plan to try and find the r;oht
IVA o"hcrS, 50 al as can be done. and rc.for.
the properly Oh proper proof.
"A PARTY OF young men and boys who wer,
coasllng in Bnghampton on Saturday eyain,
last, upon rwo-horse ''bob sled," came il
coil5lon with team and sleigh, while poin,
lt 'eaitui speed. near the foot of the hill
nai1es 'i;n -; Williams, ago 49, was instantl,
A1i'cd; John Wesser, aged l3. was fatall;
H'Jnicu ana four others received serious emf,
ahd nftiseS. Ono of the horses was killed
Ill" DOM sle'Shs were completely wrecked.
Abroad.
ihIScE FREDERICK CHARLES has rone m
visit to Egypt.
HE French police have information wi,ic,
leads them to believe that 10000 rifles an,
'l'ifty cannon, with large stores of ammnni
tion are concealed in Paris An active scare,
Is being made in all parts of the citv.
lAE revolt Of the native troops in the Phil
"p'ne Islands has been suppressed. Th
surviving mutlneers were tried by a cour,