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The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-11-20

CHILD BEArFRs.-W are told there are
u couple of individuals in this town, who
live on the lower end of Main street, who
are at times guilty of cruel and incXcuSablc
beating of their small children. The thing
is becoming so notorious in their ncisul or
hood that u repetition of the oflcnsc will re-
ceivc attention, and vigorous prosecution to
the full extent of the law. This item will
call their attention to the fact that they are
known, and will he dealt with accordingly.
The matter will doubtless he placed before
the grand jury, unless the parties sooner
leave the town.
FALSE REPORT. We have learned there
is report abroad in some of the country
districts OF Clarke county that Vancouver is
very unhealthy for children, an that one
person claimed that children md died here
of cholera infantHn. Tie report is false in
all particulars, as we have not had Il single
death here the past season from this cause.
We strive to correct this report as ii might
injurc the fair reputation which our city has
always maintained rs a healthy town, and
tend, ii uncontradi ted To- ii event ia lic
with children from coming here to reside.
The hcalthfulnc $ Of our tohn Will CON, t.e
favorably with any district on the coast.
HArPY WEautNc. IN A,on ay last, at
10 o'clock a. NJ, Mr. James \. Sutton and
Miss Rosa Brant were married at the resi-
dence OF The brides mother i'll this city, by
Rev. Father Schram There were no in
vited guests. The bride looked the Glove
lest OF ten thousand,' in white satin, and
the groom was evidently proud OF her In
the afternoon the newly married pair left
on the steamer $. c. Reid for Portland,
where a reception was given them ~ the
residence OF Capt. Ainsworth on Monday
evening. They We're the recipients OF II
! . number OF elog ut presents. Tuesday
morning they left Portland for Cello, which
is to be their future home, Mr.. Sutton being
stationed there az telegraph operator III the
employ of the o. 5. n. Company. Both
| Mr.. and Mrs. Sutton are well known in
| Portland and Vancouver, where they re-
sided respectively from childhood, and
where they have many friends, who join
us in wishing them long and happy life
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-11-20

MorNrAIN VIEW ScHooi. Miss Martha
Clarke is no longer teaching in district b.
as the school fund Of the district is exhausted.
and the school closed after ten weeks term
with a small but good exhibition, including
declarations, songs etc. not emitting Mr.
Reds clariouct which added much to tie
enjoyment The school room was nicely
decorated with everercens and flowers. and
everything passed of agreeably to all pres.
emit Miss Clarke has proved herself an oN.
cellent te.. her and amy district that obtains
her services viii do well. r. r.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-11-20

lTEMs FROM HAYES. Sad news the
lelth OF Mrs Andrew Willard. who Wa. a.
cidentalIy ho,auddied.nstantly, last Thurs
day. Wverly Colvin has been removed to
Portland, to the asylum \. +. Adams las
removed to Portland, Henry IIoughton re
turning 90 his farm. Mr.. Lyman Bennett
has returned from east Of the mountains. be.
ing fully convinced that Col.aN is not the
place for him. Detroit is the namo Of the
new trading point at Brattons Landing ON
Lewis river NJ. B. Jones is doing lively
business there. Moves.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-11-20

Prof. Feastcr reports that May Turmhull
made the greatest Improvement during the
two terms al writin- school. and Eddie
Brown made the Fl attest improvement
daring the second term
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-11-20

PlNMoRa. The Portlanl company has
gone to the upper country, and upon the
return in about ten days or two weeks will
give 'iuafore one n 5At in }ancouver. The
following ladies and gentlemen comprise the
crew Of the "tnalore' Mis- Lillian
Andrews, Mrs. Henrietta Osborne, Mrs.
Parish. Mis- Lon Edgar, Miss Magic Rivey,
Mrs. Nerlel!an. Little Dot, Messrs. Ninros.,
L5s,er, Loonsdalc, DoWd, Allen, Walters,
Eei-s, Watkins Lord, Eoalo Bronche,.r,
4 ost, Elves Bray lcadcr Of orches ira an
Minimum.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-11-20

The Stock NUHANcE. The Legislature
did pass n bill to correct the section of the
city charter giving authority t, en1ct orii-
nanccf for regulating the running at large of
live stock within the city limits. The certi-
iol copy Of the new amendment has been
received by the Mayor and now awaits the
action Of the city council, which is at liberty
to frame and pass a new ordinance, which
shoull be done without delay.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-11-20

STREET LANES. Or. David Wall every
evening puts Il good street lamp out to it,
lu ai4.. the ~s3a, ng at aia conner. Sohns
& Schuelt a'e also doin the same cred. =
bic act and also hang a lantern over a bad
place in the planl, walk near this Office. f
other merchants would do likewise until the
city Ii shts mp at public expense, eve .u- p,
dcstrians especially the ladies of Vancouver,
viii 5uc many thanks.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29

The great envelope works of the
Plimpton Manufacturing company at
Hartford are making about ten million
of envelopes per week. The beautiful
machinery is in great part the invention
of Mr.. L. B. Plimpton, who with his
brother, Mr.. Fred Plimpton, are large
owners of the stock of the company.
Mr.. sperry, of the Hartford Post, is the
government supervisor, and sometimes
does escort duty for curious strangers
who would see the great masses of white
and colored papers rapidly turned into
the neat and useful enclosures for our
secrets that arc to be intrusted to the
mails The orders for government are
daily filed and shipped by cars allotted
for the purpose, the utmost system and
promptitude being manifest in every de.
partment of the mammoth factory, !
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29

MORE than eight years ago the city
authorities of London offered a prize
for any invention which could enable
them to get rid of snow in the streets.
Seventeen schemes were submitted.
The successful apparatus was at once
erected, and has been in successful oper-
alton ever year since. 1t consist simply
of an inclined plate of iron fixed below
manhole leading to the main sewer.
Under this plate are ranged gas burners.
The snow carted from the adjoining
thoroughfares is shoveled down the man.
hole grating, falls on the heated plate, ia
reduced to water, and passes away down
the sewer.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29

IT is recorded that Jerome Bonaparte
was first presented to the beautiful Betsy
Patterson at the races at Baltimore, and
that the lady wore on that occasion a
very scant buff:colored silk gown, a lace
fichu, and a huge leghorn bonnet
trimmed with pink gauze ribbon and
long ostrich feathers. Betsy Patterson's
mother was most lovely, gentle, accom-.
plished woman. 1t is said that Madame
Bonaparte few hours before her death
was heard to say in pleading tone; II
want to 60 to my mother, my angel
mother"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29

tol, and while doing 50 it was discharged, J:
the ball entering Hoel's heart, killing him
instantly. Hough is seriously injured.
In difficulty at Culpepper, Va, on the
Esd inst, between 2. N. Beam, editor Of the
culpepper Times, Phillip M. Jones and G.
W. Jameson, Ream was shot in the aldo.
men, and it is thought fatally wounded.
Jones received q ball in the shoulder.
L. Langbehm, a German, living on q vege.
table rancho, about fifty miles from Antioch,
Contracasta county, CAL, took his little boy
and girl, aged respectively six and four
years, beat them to death with q club, cut
their Threats and then went to the house
and blew his own brains out with q shot
gun. The family had always lived happily
together, and the act is attributed to tenn.
porary insanity.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29
A Dead IS Scalnor -

The dead body of James Wells was found
in his room in Moriarty block, North Clark
street, Chicago, on the 21st. He was deal
er on change, and had formerly been a
wealthy man. He was last seen alive on
the evening of the 10Th. His family reside
at Alton.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29
Award of Medals.

The secretary of the treasury has awarded
life saving medal of the first class to Capt.
Kendrick, commander of the government
tug at Ludington, Mich, for the rescue of
seven persons from the wreck of the barge
J. H. Rutter, November l, 1873. Medals of
the second class have been awarded to
Capt. VIM. Burke, OF the schooner Andrew
Jackson, for saving six persons from the
wreck of the schooner Joe Villas on Octo.
Der 9th, 1876, on Lake Michigan, and to
Captain Patrick Langan of the schooner C.
J. Wells, of Buffalo, New York, and Frank
McGuirk and William Geezerman, on the
same vessel, for the rescue of the mate, who
had been swept overheard the night of the
9Th of October, 1876, on Lake Erie.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29

The Ohlo house has passed a bill max
ing the penalty for vagrancy 800 or'im-
prisonment at hard labor at $3.50 day
until that fine is worked. The bill gives
township trustees power to arrest any
one complained of for begging on the
highway, and the convicted tramp may
be hired out to word on the roads or 9th
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29

In London, a policeman who struck
man and wife with his club because
they did not move on as rapidly as he
desired, has been sent to prison for a
month. The magistrate said that off,
GERS had no right to touch anybody in
the street except for the purpose of
taking them into custody. A similar
opinion was lately expressed by a St.
Louis judge in the case Of suit against
a policeman for rough usage. His hon.
OF said that policeman had no more
right than any other person to retaliate
for an insult with blow, and directed
the jury not to consider the fact that
the defendant was policeman.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29
How to Kill Flies.

1t must be within the observation
even of the most stupid, that in the
warm days of this month heavy and un.
happy old flies crawl out from their hid
ing places, and may be seen daily walk
ing on window panes, For reasons best
known to themselves, you have given
these old husks shelter through the
winter when kinder nature would have
frozen them to death in November. If
we adopt the calculations of Prof. Uhl-
born, each of these mouldy old brutes is
now about to lay 1000 eggs. If each of
these eggs produces fly who lays 1000
eggs before the first of June, and from
each of these 1000 are matched and
ready to lay before the LIST of July, to
furnish brood of 1900 before the LIST
of August, the number of flies produced
from this single ancestor, ready to dis
durb your repose on the 1st of Septem-
Der, will be 10000, 600, 600, 900; cay in
round numbers, sixteen million million
flies capable of attack on that day. If,
however, we take the Lesser figures of
Prof. Howlisch, who computes the aver
age brood to be only 500, the number of
flies then capable of attack will be only
1896, 005, 900; say in round numbers,
one thousand two hundred and ninety
million. Even this smaller number is q
very considerable attacking force on q
hot summer afternoon. You have
in your power, then, very consider
ably to diminish the number of your
ASSISTANTS by gently taking this one old
heashen off the window and dropping
him into the fire. He will never know
what hurt him, and you will relieve
society of several hundred million of
putative and possible nuisances.
I you see on window from twenty to
q hundred little flies, just Matched and
very wretched, by kindly putting them
out of their misery by the gentle pres
sure of wet napkin you are relieving
yourself and your fellow.men from no
end of distress three months hence.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29
Sherman Declines.

Secretary Sherman has written letter to
General Robinson, chairman of the Ohio
Republican central committee, declining to
accept the nomination for governor, if t=n.
dered by the convention. In his letter he
says: II am engaged in public duty,
which demands my constant attention, and
which can clearly be better completed by
me than any one coming freshly into the
office. To now accept the nomination for
governor, though it is an honor 1 would
otherwise highly prize and feel deeply
grati6ed for, it would be Justly regarded as
an abandonment of trust important to the
whole country, to promote my personal ad.
YsnceMent."
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29
THE MARKETS.
Reported by CHANDLER Brown Co., Commits
sion Merchants, Milwaukee and Chicago.
New York.

New YORK, May 24.-S:00 P. M.-Cotton
Steady at 13c for middling uplands
F lou 1h} receipts zee. 10000 bbls sales
Ohio. Wheat-Dull and 4 to 10 lower
receipts 2SS,000 bus; sales none; white
seller May at $1.12H bid; $l.14::asked. Rye
Quiet. Corn-M@Xc lower; receipts
SOC, 600 bus sales $4,000 bus at 43@44Lc
for western mixed. Barley-Dull. Oats
Firm; receipts 81, 600 bus; sales $4,000 bus
at 34@354c for mixed western; 36X@39c
for white. Pork-Dull at $10.12X. Lard
Heavy at $6 IS. Butter-At 5@l9c.
Cheese-At 2@8c. Whisky-At $1O4k@
LOS. Sugar-At 636@6%c. Eggs-At 100
1870. Petroleum-Crude at 6X@7Ac;
refined at $40. Coal-Firm. Leather
At 19@211c Wool-Fair request; very
strong at 26@38c.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29
ScOuFgell by Fever.

The scarlet fever epidemic in Evansville,
Ind, has reached grave proportions. Thirty.
six new cases have been reported within
the past week. 1t is being carried into the
surrounding towns by children flying from
it. About half the children have been with.
drawn from the public schools, and hun
dreds have been sent away to escape its
ravages. There have already been six or
seven hundred cases.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29

In heaving an anchor on the transports of
the steamer China, in Simon's bay, coast of
Great Britain, two men were killed and
nineteen wounded.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29
A Fools Jumn.

On the 21st inst. H. P. Peer, native of
Teterville, Ont, performed the astonishing
and unprecedented feat of jumping from
the new suspension bridge at Niagara river,
and coming out safe and sound. The dis.
lance jumped was 1872 feet, aud eclipses, in
every way the great leap of Sam Patch, at
Niagara Falls, in 1929, who jumped 142 feet
and came out all right, but a short time
afterward lost his life in jumping the Gene.
see Falls, at Rochester. His dress consisted
of merino hose and q full suit of tights.
An inflated life-preserver, funnel shape, of
his own design and construction, covered
his hips and extended up to his arm.pits.
Cotton cloth was lightly banded about the
life.preserver and about the hips and loine,
aud large soft sponge protected his mouth
and nostrils. His ears were stuffed with
sponges slightly moistened with spirits, and
his thighs and feet were firmly held by
elastic straps. Over his shoulder was q
strong leather brace, to the center of which
was attached an iron ring of good size and
strength. Firmly riveted to the ring was
10 feet of six-strand brass wire cable, the
whole being wound up on a cylinder ar
ranged to unwind as the hero of the hour
descended to the water. It also served to
keep him in an upright position, but not to
retard his speed. Peer will repeat the
b]ood.curdling feat on the Fourth of July.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29
A Valuable Leg,

A jury in the superior court, at Boston,
on the 18th inst awarded Charles H. Wor.
then $26,500 for the loss of a leg on the
Grand Trunk railroad, in July, 1875. Wor.
then was a salesman in the dry goods house
of field, Letter & c., of Chicago, at the
time the accident happened. with pros.
pect OF being admitted as partner in the
following year, and was on his way to
Chicago at the time.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29
French Ghost Story.

A young man who had lost his be-
trothed on the eve of marriage believed
he saw her spirit every night in her
bridal dress. His friends, to prove to
him the folly Of his belief, dressed q
twin sister of the deceased in dress
precisely similar and placed her at the
head of the widowed bridegroom's bed
exactly at the hour the spirit came. He
looked up, and crying out, "Ah, Gel! en-
voila dcur" (Heavens! there are twol
fell back dead on his pillow.-Parh
Puper. -. >.t- =
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29

GIVE INDIANS" said the chief of the
Little Ottawas, with tears in his eyes,
speaking to the Rev. DR.. Young, owe
Indians use great deal of whisky, but"
very impressively, I'VE do not make any
of It," True, noble savage; you do not.
You couldn't. You'd drink it all up
before it was half done.-Buvlington
Rasukeye.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29
Magnificent REQUESTS.

The will of Judge Parker was read on the
22d. 1t bequeaths for permanent endowment
Lehigh university Of Bethlehem, Pa, ST.
100000; for the library of the university
100000; to St. Luke's hospital, Bethlehem,
100000; St. Marks Episcopal church,
Mauch Chunk, $4,000.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29
Down in a Coal Mine.

The fire in the Keystone mine at Potts.
vile, Pa, is still burning, and is in such
position that it cannot be reached by water
through hose. 1t is believed the colliery
will have to be flooded, which will throw q
large number of men and boys out of en-
ployment for several months. No reason
can be given for the igniting of the veins.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29
CHICAGO.

CHICAGO, May 24-12:0O M.-Flour-
In good export demand. Wheat-Quite
nervous; $101% bid for cash No. 2 and
1910 bid for No. 8; No. seller June at
$1.02H; seller July $1.00h asked. Corn
Quiet; now steady; 35Ac bid for cash. Oats
-Steadier at 29Ac for cash. Rye-Quiet
at 61hc. Barley-Not opened. Pork
Very quiet; SO 50 bid seller July; Sc. 70.bid.
Lard-Quiet; $6.10 asked; seller July $6.l5
bid. Hogs-Active; &c lower; chiefly at
$3.30@3.50. ights-Nominal at 2Hc on
corn; corn taken for Kingston at 4hc.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29

The National Academy of Sciences
have appropriated $1,000 for the con-
struction of the necessary apparatus to
determine the distance of the sun by
measuring the velocity Of light.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29
A Shin Rurnell.

The Italian bark Amalf, which cleared
ON New York on the 18th, for Barcelona,
with cargo of 1900 barrels of refined Pc
troleum, burned to the water's edge on the
goth and sank at the anchorage off Staten
Island. Loss $50, 900; insured abroad. Tie
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29
To be Barred.

A cablegram from the Henly stewards
announces that the Showaecaemettes, of
Monroe, Michigan, on account of their hav.
ing been mechanics or artizans, will be
barred from entering the forthcoming Hen.
~, ENG. )regatta.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29

A Specimen French Murder Case.
A murder surrounded with circum-
stances of particular atrocity and i'm
morality, has just come before the assizes
of La Vende. The victim was middle
aged man, named Cougnaud, who got
his living by rloy;-s Tho -;nl;n Of 41>o
village feasts. He had wife and boy
of nine years. Cougnaud, although a
fiddler, was hard working, sober man,
of quiet, mild disposition. His wife, on
the contrary, was lazy, depraved and
violent. She had several admirers, be-
ing, it is said, of remarkable beauty.
Among them were two men, named re.
spectively Papaveine and Retail, with
whom during the absence, and even in
the presence of her husband, she in.
dulged in riot and debauchery. The
poor fiddler, however, at last got tired
of the ill-treatment he received, and
threatened to leave his wife. Enraged
at the prospect of losing the resources on
which they reveled, (for Cougnaud ap-
pears to have earned great deal of mo-
ney,) the woman and her lovers resolved
to kill him. On returning home from q
village ball where he had played, the
fiddler was set upon by the two men,
who knocking him about the head with
q bludgeon till he was insensible, carried
him into the forest and hanged him up
to a tree, the woman assisting in the
deed and rewarding her accomplices with
q hundred francs each. The body was
found the next morning, and public
opinion at once accused the wife. She
protested her innocence, and tried to
prove an alibi. Her accomplices adopt
ed the same defense, but an unexpected
witness turned up in the person of a
beggar, who was sleeping in the forest at
the time, and who was awakened by the
noise of the three murderers hanging
their victim. The jury, as usual, gave
the prisoners the benefit of extenuating
circumstances, and the woman and Pa
pavoine were each sentenced to 20 years
and Retail to 10 years hard labor
Paris Letter.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29
A Rand of Thieves.

Frank Bailey and Nick Slaughter (white)
and John Hall, Henry McNavry, Ed Lyle,
Burrell Smith and Rust Holbert (colored)
comprising party of thieves, were arrested
at Mulfreesboro, Tenn, on the 25th. Two
wagon loads Of plumber were recovered.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29
Suicide.

At Freeport, ILL.,, on the 18th, Dominic
Winke], aged about 40 years, crawled ont
on the limb of tree, adjusted a moose and
launched himself into eternity. A letter on
his person intimated that he was tired of
life.
Lieut. G. NJ. Carrow, of the Seventh
United States cavalry, blew his brains out
at his room in the Planters hotel, St. Louis,
on the 10th inst. The cause of the act is
unknown. He is the son of Pittsville,
Pa, divine,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29

IT is now claimed for Washington
that in the month Of May it is the most
beautiful city in the country. The
thirteen thousand young trees, planteda
few years ago, add greatly to the
attractions of the city at this season.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29
milwaukee,.

MILWAUKEE,, May 24-3.00 ?. M-Flour-
shipping extras and $4.25@45O for choice.
Wheat-Dull bnt strong; No. cash at
81 90; No. 8 at 80Hc; No. 4 at 73]z@74]<c;
rejected at 63Hc; No. 2 seller June at
$1O0H@1 OH; No. 2 eeller July at $1.O0
@1.O1A. Corn-Active at 35Hc. Oats-Ac.
tive at 29Ac. Barley-Quiet but strong at
Gle; No. 3 at 43c. Pork-Steady at 1910.
Lard-At $6.15@6.20. Hogs-Dull At 1925
@3.5O.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29
Fatal Boiler Explosion.

"A boiler exploded in the Risdon grist
mills at Fostorio, O., on the ed inst, in
stant1y killing young man named Carl
Headly, an employee at the mill, aud severe
ly injuring J. H. Arnold, carpenter, Frank
Reynolds, citizen, Young, the fireman
and Overmeyer, farmer. The shock of
the explosion was very severe, demolishing
the machinery and walls of the mill. Loss
heavy, but not yet estimated. Cause of ex.
plOsion not known.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29
HEAVY Robbery.

The residence of Justice Conklin, in
Neenah, Wis, was robbed on the evening of
the 18th. The thieves got away with a
pocketbook containing $1,000 in notes and
81 in cash.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29
c.H.pAvIDsoN, Proripetor.
VARIOUS TOPICS.

The Yellowstone valley is one of the
most fertile tracts on this continent, and
since the extension of the Northern
Pacific road across the Missouri, is rap
idly filling up with settlers.