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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-10-09

WHEN q bee brings pollen into the
hive, he advances to the cell into which
it is to be deposited and kicks it of;
another bee, one of the indoor hands,
comes along and rams it down with his
head and packs it down into the cell as q
dairymaid packs butter into 3 firkin.-
John Bsrro4qhs. We would prefer not
so have any dairymaid pack our butter
that way.-1Tavelers' Record. If our
butter must be packed in that way, let
it be done by q baldheaded dairymaid. =
Rome Sentinel. We will add that in
either case it would be da,,d-yuf an the
butter.-Bee Keeper' Erchange.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-10-09
and their present postofice address. 1t is
almost certain that $25, ,ooo, 900 appropriated
will be sufficient to cover the arrears which
was due upon pensions allowed previous to
January Is, 1870.
An Expensive Boh Ing.

A party in Illinois applies to the secretary
OF the treasury for the redemption of five
U. s. bond coupons representing several
thousand dollars. The applicant alleged
that for safe keeping he had placed the
coupons in tin box and deposited them in
store. That subsequently fire was built
and the coupons destroyed. The ashes,
however, were retained in the box and pre-
sented with the application. The decision
In the case is that the statute authorizing
the redemption of called bonds where clear
and unequivocal evidence has been furnish.
ed they have been destroyed, does not ap.
ply to coupons which at the time of de.
struction were detached from the bonds.
The coupons in question, having been de.
tached from bonds, cannot be redeemed.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-10-09
Disastrous Blaxes.

A ire at Wilmington, N. c., on the Isl
inst, destroyed 1900 bales Of cotton and
damaged new hydraulic press. Total los.
$4,000. The property was owned by the
the Wilmington Compress company.
A fire out at Ottawa, Ont, on the Sd inst.
in the attic of the House of Commons, i'm.
mediately above the members chamber.
Damage estimated at $4,000.
The bank block, Carmensville, Pa. burn.
ed on the I'd inst. Loss $50, insured
for $4,000.
A tin toy factory at New York city was
damaged to the extent of $4,000 by fire on
the I'd inst.
A fire at Keokuk, Ia, on the 10th, de.
stroyed the st. Louis, Keokuk and North.
western railroad roundhouse. Four loco.
motives badly damaged. Total loss $50, ,O0O:
uninsured. Believed to have been incen.
diary.
Just before reaching the landing at Canal
street, New Orleans, on the Goth ult., the
cotton on the New Natchez took fire. The
passengers were landed and 800 bales of the
burning cotton were thrown overheard.
The boat was slightly damaged. Cargo
damaged $4,000.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-10-09
Romantic and Bloody.

Little Bird, daughter of a Sioux chief,
was pretty enough to have white lovers.
John Provost, one of these suitors, stole
a horse to give to her father, the Indian
custom being to begin courtshiP with a
present. 1t happened that the horse be-
ionped to Clement Bernard, who also
desired to marry Little Bird. He
tracked the thief to the dusky maiden's
wigwam, and telling what his rival had
done won her preference. Provost i'm
mediately proved the sincerity of his
love BY committing suicide. Not long
afterwards Bernard was found dead,
with 4 bullet-hole in his head, and it is
believed that he was shot by Provost's
brother.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-10-09
or scatter this band, as they have orders to
remain two months longer in the field, if
necessary.
A Michiean Cyclone.

A cyclone, accompanied by heavy rain,
passed over the county fair grounds at Wat.
rousville, Tuscola county, Michigan, on the
Sd instant, doing great damage. Cloth tents
were torn to shire n, fences blown down.
One tent whore the tables were set for =
hundred persons was blown down, over.
turning stove and large reservoir Of
boiling water severely soalding six ladies,
one of whom with an infant a few months
old, probably fatally. In the main hall the
exhibits are considerably injured by rain.
One firm exhibiting quite large stock Of
silks report heavy loss.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-10-09
Self Murder.

Miss Lille George, young lady, of Bona
parte, Iowa, attending Cincinnati boarding
school, suicided on the 5th inst, by shoot.
ing herself. Her affianced had died few
days previous, Of congestive chllls.
Thos. Dwinny, middle aged man, threw
himself over the bluff ninety feet high at
st. Paul, Minn., on the Sd inst, above the
river bank, and was crushed to death by the
fall.
Frank NJ. Fletcher, of Erren & Fletcher,
marble dealers, committed suicide by
shooting himself at his home in st. Paul,
MINI on the 1st inst. He was twenty-five
years old and only married little more
than year. spondency, induced by
business troubles, is supposed to be the
cause.
Barnham, the lawyer who shot himself at
bullet penetrated his brain and could not
be extracted. He was rational much of the
time until about q week before his death.
Chas. F. Tiffany, convicted of bigamy at
Lawrenceburg, Ind, and awaiting transport
tation to the penitentiary at Jeffersonville,
where he was to be incarcerated for three
years, hung himself with a linen towel on
the list.
Henry A. Hall, well.known rubber
manufacturer, committed suicide at Bridge.
water, Mans, on the soth ult., by cutting his
throat whils in bath tub.
Anton Lainath, a grocer, corner Center
avenue and Larrabee streets, Chicago, hung
himself on the 29th ult. Domestic trouble.
James T. Hankinson, formerly saloon
keeper, but recently out of work, took
morphine with suicidal intent, and died in
his bed at Chicago, on the night Of the Goth.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-10-09

: THE following grave remark is credit
cd Tn a Cane Cod sexton. It was an ex-
ceptionally fine day in September, when
the fashioner of final resting places said
with sigh of regret: This would be
lovely day fur berrien-et there Wur
anybody to be berried."
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-10-09
Death in q Mine.

At six O'Clock on the 4th instant, as shift
of men was being lowered in Tioga mine,
Bodie, CAL, the engine escaped control of
the engineers and the cage was precipitased
with great speed to the Eve hundred foot
level. The unfortunstes were: John
Cassidy, both legs broken. Pat Barron,
dying, mashed to pieces. Sam Marston,
both legs broken; French, both legs broken;
Manuel Alvers, injured internally; Harry
Richards, billed; Joe Roderick, injured Sc
riously; Pete Pluff, one leg broken. It is
the opinion of the physician in charge that
all the injured will die.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-10-09
Fatal Runaway Accident.

a dual runaway and collision of vehicles
at Milwaukee, Wis, on the Let inst, resulted
IN the fatal injury of VIM. Bruse, a jeweler,
and the injury of VIM. Washburn and
August Salomon, the latter seriously. One
OF the animals fell dead after the escapade
The screech of tugboat occasioned the
mishap.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-10-09
Labor Troubles.

A Cincinnati dispatch of the Goth ult,
rays: "Within the past 4S hours the
various trades unions of this city, control
lug the action of the cabinet makers.
coopers, shoemakers and some railroad EN-.
ployes, have succeeded in getting about
500 men in q strike. OF this number
probably 1000 are cabinet makers and ma.
chine men. The uniform demand of the
strikers is for Is per cent advance"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-10-09
Drowned.

The steamship Cybele, from Glasgow, has
arrived ut Quebec, and reports the loss of
Capt. Stevens, swept overheard during
heavy gale.
Two carpenters, John KraDz aged sc, and
VIM. Clark aged 81, were drowned near the
Four Mile bridge at Cleveland, O., on the
Sd inst while attempting to cross the river
on RAFT. Both were married men and
leave large families.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-10-09

The iron ship Philosopher, which sailed
from Calcutta on September LIST, for Boston
with general cargo, estimated value of
winch was 100000, is reported to have
foundered when five days out. She was in.
sured largely in Boston and New York
Offices.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-10-09


Intelligence has been received from Beur.
ma that during the reconnoisance near Geek
Tepe on the 2Sth of August, the Russians
encountered large masses of Tekke Turco.
mans, strongly entrenched, who made des.
perate resistance. The Russians for six
hours cannonaded q position occupied by
$4,000 Tekke Turcomaus. In the evening
the Russians obtained possession of the
outer entrcnchments, and at night the enc
my fled losing several thousands. The Rus.
SLAMS lost officers and 17S soldiers killed
and: Is officers and 234 soldiers wounded.
This is the same battle which was reported
in dispatch from Simla on the 23d. That
dispatch stated the Russians were defeated
with loss of 700 killed and were falling
back on Mermean.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-10-09
RfItRln IAv 1Dnn Hv0

The mangled body of James Hefferman.
conductor ON the Indianapolis and St. Louis
railroad, was found early on the Sd inst, at
Marwitt station, west of Terre Haute, on the
L. 4 st. L. railroad. 1t is supposed he fell
through between the cars of his train. He
died while being brought to Mattoon.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-10-09
A Great SfOrsn.

A Rome correspondent telesrsphs that
SICILY and southern Italy were visited by a
great storm on the 28th ult., which carried
away q railway bridge between Giro and
croceh, hurling passenger train into tor.
rent The engineer was killed and all the
passengers more or less iniured.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-10-09

John w. Keene, inventor of the Remiug.
ton'keene magszine gun, died at lion, N.
Y, on the 4th inst aged So years. of Brights
disease.
Guillaume Alphonse De Vergie, an emf.
nent French physician and medical writer,
is dead.
Hon. Frances Gillette, ex.United States
senator from Connecticut, and father Of
Congressman Gillette, of Iowa, died at
Hartford, Conn.,, ON the 3Oth. He served in
the senate in 1854 55 for the unexpired term
of Truman Smith.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-10-09
The Pnhlic neIhf.

The public debt statement shows a de-.
crease in September of $2,563, ISL; cash in
the treasury, $234,77S,679; gold and silver
certi6cat 8, $19,l32, $50; legal tenders out.
standing, $346, ,6Sl ,0l6; fractional currency,
$l5, 5,747 ,5o3; refunting certificates, $685..
900.
Neatly $S,o0o,0o0 were paid out of the
treasury during September, on account of
pension arrears; but for this the decrease in
the public debt during the month would
have been about $40, 100000.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-10-09
I'm Luck.

>: ID. Stevens, of Lawrenceburg, Ind, one
OF the holders of the lucky ticket 22,555,
which drew the $4,000 in the Common.
wealth Distribution company on the aoth
ult., received it on the 4th inst and returned
home. There were twelve in the club.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-10-09

Henry Dumhof, carpenter, WORKING in
tne sixth story of building in process of
erection in Cincinnati, on the Sd inst,
missed ~ his footing and was precipitated to
the pavement. Death was instantaneous.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-10-09
Another Six Dav Io~.

Inlrty'hve men started in the six.day
walk at New York on the 5th inst. The
contest is for the following prizes: First,
the OLeary belt aud S., 900; second, 81 900: :
third, 81 GOO: fourth, $500.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-10-09
Forest Fires.

Forest fires are raging fearfully in the
neighborhood of Norfolk, N. Y, destroying
farm houses, barns and farm property.
Some Of the roads are unpassable on &C..
count of fires. The loss cannot be estimat.
ed at present.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-10-09
D10anaAAAHeh.

"m' spaulding, time keeper at the new
Cnacaeo =. custom house, has disappeared,
$4'ooo short In his accounts. He had that
amount OF money from recent sales for GOV.
ernment junk and old iron.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-10-09
From AfeZ.ana.ta~

Independent hostile tribes attacked tho
brltlsh camp ut Shutsrgarlen on the Sd
INST ihe natives were repulsed with q
1os' OF .wency killed, while the British loss
"ae Fix wounded,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-10-09
Too Much Water

"A dispatch from Geneva, Switzerland,
days the district of La Roche in the canton
OF Friebure, was visited by a water spout
on the 26th ult Twelve bridges were de.
stroyed and houses, fields and vineyards
flooded.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-10-09
EAmfnA

Eastern Siberia IL menaced with famine.
o1a'n IL dearer than ever before and the
poor are suffering severely.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-10-09
A DNfAulf0r.

frank F. Boynton, receiving teller of the
North Bank, Boston, Mass, is a defaulter to
.ne amount OF $4,000. caused by specula-
ton in California mining stocks.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-10-09
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Fatal Boiler Ex,,,o.,o--

A boiler explosion at the Cotton Gin of
L. B. White, Middleburgh. Va, on the 4th
inst, killed three peRroes.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-10-09

!" How old is the worldf is not .
question of half the vital human inter-
est to most men as to know the age of
whisky they drink.-The Graphic.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-10-09
Crushed to Death.

A shocking calamity occurred at the
county fair grounds at Adrian, Mich, on
the I'd inst, by which six persons were hur.
ried into eternity and small army of un.
fortunate mortals more or less injured.
The accident occurred in the afternoon
jnst before the races, when about 1900 peo.
pie were assembled in a newly.erected
grand stand. The centre of the structure
gave way, with a. crash; the front part fell
outward, and the back fell into tho river,
precipitating mess Of people among the
ruins. The number of dead at last accounts
was sixteen. The architect who construct.
ed tho stand IL blamed for the calamity.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-10-09
THE MARKETS.
Reported by CHANDLER, BROWN Co., Commission
Merchants, Milwaukee and Chicago.
New York.

NOW
NEW YORK, October 6-3 90 P. M.-Cotton
Firm at 10Mc. Flour-Quiet; receipts
p, 900 bbla; sales $4,000 bbls; rye -four firm.
Wheat-Fairly active; receipts SOS, 900 bus;
sales 296, 900 bus; No. 2 spring cash at $1.23.
Rye-Quiet and unchanged. Corn-Quiet; !;
receipts 538, 600 bus: sales 900 bus at 81
@54Ac. Barley-Nominal. Oats-Fjrm ;
@371c for mixed western; 36k@41c for
white. Pork-Firmer at $3.50 Beef-Firm.
Lard shade stronger at Sc IS. Butter
At 9@27c. Cheese, Whisky and Sugar
Unchanged. Eggs-At17@21c. Petroleum
Crude unchanged; refined at 7Hc. Tallow
AT 6hc. Coal-Quite firm. Leather
Very strong at 22H@25c. Wool-Quite
active at 34(O45c,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-10-09

Arrears of pensions claims to the amount
Of $20, 0,734,507 have been settled up to Octo-
Der !. The average amount of arrears in
each case settled 10 $545. The whole mum.
Der Of cases settled in September, 13,287. It
is estimated there are still about 6,0O0 or
1900 pensioners entitled to arrears, whose
cases have not been settled. Settlement
hereafter cannot be made as rapidly AZ here.
tofore, because Of the great number Of cases
In which there is no title to arrears, which
must be examined in search for those in
which there is title. It il stated for tho in.
formation of all pensioners who believe
themselves entitled to arrears, and who do
not receive notice of settlement of their
claims either by allowance or rejection by
November l. that they can hasten . settle.
ment by writing a letter to the office giving
again the number Of their pension certificate
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-10-09
DenperaAoeu Kflle6l.

Information was brought to Muskogee,
Indian Territory, on the LIST inst, from the
Sac and Fox agency, that . fight had taken
place on the 9th ult, between a party of
twelve Of the desperadoes who infect the
region of the agency, and . party of soldiers
from Fort Sill, resulting in the killing of
nine of the bandit. The killing of Jim.
Barder and the capture Of Triplet by .
Cherokee sheriff; Jesse Cochran, deprives
them of = bold, bad leader and desperate
man. 1tN expected that the troops viii kill
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-10-09
CHICAGO. .

CHICAGO, October 6-1:30 P. M
Wheat-Strong and higher; No. red at
$l.12H; spring at $l.07H for cash: $1,000
1.09N for seller November; $1.102l for
seller December. CONFIRM and higher
at 37Ac for cash; 37Hc bid for seller No.
vember; 38N bid for seller May. Oats
Firm and higher at 272zc for cash: 271sc for
seller October; 2SH for seller November.
Rye-At 60X@6lc. Barley-At 75c. Pork
Strong and higher at $l0O5 for cash and
seller October; $8 so Did for seller Novem.
Der; $8.92X@S.95 for seller January. Lard
Strong and higher at $6 Is for cash; $3.50
for seller October; $5.67H bid for seller
WhisFVMit sl9s "S HoqsReeeipts % sear i4oo
head; quiet and steadier; light at So $50
3.S5; heavy shipping at So 50@3.75; packing
at So 25@3 65. Cattle-Receipts 800 head
no good natives here; butchers quiet west
ern and stockers dull and unchanged.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-10-09
AurdefOus Deeds,

Mrs. Martha Baldwin, of New Haven,
Conn.,, poisoned her widowed and imbecile
sister, Mrs. Dickinson, and then herself, on
the 18th inst. Both will probably die.
Geo. Long, a Baptist preacher, and Frank
Goddy, both driving heavily laden teams,
met on road about four miles from Spriug.
field, No., on the 9th inst. Neither would
give way and let the other pass, when both
leaped from their wagons and engaged in q
fierce fight. The Rev. Long, with huge
knife, succeeded in disemboweling his an.
tagonist, who died from his horrible wounds.
Thos. o. Woodruff, of West Orange, N.
j., was shot, probably fatally, on the night
of the LIST inst, by his son.in.lsw, Andrew
Krunich, who then killed himself. Wood.
ruff had refused to give Krunich fifty dol.
lara. -" -. >.'''
Salvador, an Indian, who murdered Paul
Rieger, Marin county, last spring, was hang
Cd at San Rafael, CAL, on the I'd inst. He
confessed to five other murders. He met
Jno. Fred Will, . German, killed his di.
.yorced wife at Indianapolis, Ind, on the
1st instant, stabbing her fifteen OF twenty
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-10-09
Milwaukee.

MILWAUKEE, October $500 P. NJ
Flour-Held quite stronger; choice spring
at $525@5.50; fair to good at $450@5.0O !;
common at 81 00@42 25 Wheat-Active and
higher; No. l hard at $1.C9; No. at 81 O8;
No. 2 at $1.07@1. .07N No. 2 herd at $l.07H:
No. 8 at $1.OOH@1. OF; No. 4 at 94c; No. 2
seller November at $1.08H@1.09H; seller
December at $1.10A@1.1126. Confirm
at 37]1c. Oats-Firm at 27]1c. Barley
Steady at &c for No. 2; and 47c for No. 8.
Rye-Firm at 62c. Pork-Stronger; $1,000
for cash. Lard-Firmer at $6.35. Hogs
Not wanted nominal at $3.25@3.45.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-10-09
The Red Devils,

A general Indian war is feared in Colo.
RADIO, as the savsges are in highly excited
condition, owing to depredations of miners
the whites to protect themselves, as he is
powerless, and Gov. Pitkin has sent arms
and ammunition to the affected districts.
Geo. Gordon, a frei. hter. and one of his
teamsters are the latest victims of the scalp.
ing knife.
Major Thornbu'g's command of U. s.
troops, while en- route to the White River
agency to protect the whites Oh the Ute
reservation, was attacked by hostile Utes,
at Bad Canon, one mile south Of Milk river,
Colorado, on the 29th ult. The troops,
finding themselves surrounded, Thornburg
ordered charge, which he gal|enty led in
person. They succeeded in reaching the
wagons and forming bsrricade, but Major
Thornburg was killed in the charge. Capt.
Payne took command, and the battle was
carried on until o'clock Pm. The troops
using the wagons end animals as breast.
works. The casualties we're about as follows:
Major Taornburg, Grafton Lowry "a scout),
thirteen enlisted meu, Wagon Master Nc.
Kinstry and one teamster killed, Captain
Payne. Captain Lawson, Surgeon Grimes,
Lieutenants Paddock and Wolf and thirty
five men wounded. Captain Payne had
fortified bis position and thought he could
possibly hold it until the arrival of rein.
force ments in case they were sent promptly.
About $50 head OF mules and horses were
killed by the Indians.
1t is now reported that Agent Mecker and
family and all employees Of the Ute agency
have been murdered and the buildings de.
stroyed, but this report lacks confirmation.
Gen. Sheridan has ordered six companies
from Fort Smelling, near St. Paul, Minn to
he sent to Rawlings station, on the Union
Pacific road, which is 200 miles from the
scene of the massacre. Colonel Merritt is
marching to the relief of Payne with $50
men.
The cause of the outbreak was probably
the failure of the government to pay the
$79, 600 due under the Brunot treaty of 1873,
by which the San Juan mining region was
ceded by the Utes to Colorado. Congress
and the Colorado people have never asked
the transfer of the Utes to the Indian terri.
tory.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-10-09
TOHN KENT.

From his new Grocery Store at RAMSEY, sup
plies the surrounding community with every
thing needed in his line of trade. Goods first
class. Prices low. Give me q call.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-10-09
Disastrous Gun.Powdor ExDlosio,


A lighter loaded with gunpowder from
the works at Hsrburg, in Hanover, which
had just started down the river Elbe, and
while still near Harburg, suddenly blew up,
with terrific explosion, ON the 1st instant.
The crew were all killed and the lighter
was completely demolished. The shock
aused but slight damage to the town. Har.
burg is situated on the south branch of the
Elbe, and is about five miles from Ham.
burg. 1t is walled town, and has an active
trade in gun-powder, sugar and woolen man.
ufactures.
Kings powder mill, near South Lebanon,
Ohio, exploded on the afternoon OF the Sd
inst. Henry Simmonds, Charles Meyers
and Joseph Pastors were instantly killed.
The calamity was the result of the careless
ness OF an employe.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-10-09
Foref6n.

LONDON. October Cd P. M.-Liverpool
wheat market stronger; cargoes on passage,
wheat, Is per qua rter dearer; fair average
quality No: Chicago spring wheat for
shipment, &C., 49s@49s Cd; fair average
California wheat just shipped, 54s Cd; do,
nearly due. 63s Sd.