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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-06-05
Milwaukee.

MILWAUKEE, June 300 P. M.-Flour
Very quiet but steady; choice spring at
4.0O@460; common to fair at So 50@3.S74.
Wheat Tame and lower No. hard at
ze1S@S0c; No. 4 at 72@73Xc; rejected at
sic; No. 2 seller June at So c@$1:0O seller
July at 98A@99xc. Corn-Actiye but
easier at $500 for No. cash. Oats-Active
at 1890. Barley-Quiet at 62c; No. 3 at
43c. Rye--Active and higher at 81 no. Pork
STEADY at 1910 cash; seller July at 50 80.
Lard-Quiet at $6.124. Hogs-Dull at s. Is
$50. Cattle-Quiet; good to choice at
$3.5o@450. shcep-Firm at $4.00@5.0O for
choice 3',*
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-06-05
Chicago.

CHICAGO, June also P. M.-Flour-
Quiet but steady. Wheat-Firm and irreg g.
ular at $1.O1H for cash and seller June;
and lower at 35c for cash, $500 bid for sell
Ter June; 36Zc bid for seller July. Oats
Weak and easy at 29c for cash; 301sc for
seller July. Rye-At SIC. Barley-At6 $50
&c. Pork-Weak and lower at $9.6z4 tor
cash $9.62A bid for seller June; 1915 bid
for seller July. Lard Easier; $6.05 bid for
cash; $6.15 bid for seller July, Whisky
At $l.03. Hogs-Receipts Is, 600 head; fair
ly active and firm: Sc higher; light at $3.50
@S.60; heavy packing at $3.4o@3.60; ship
ping at So 50@3.7O.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-06-05
After Many Days.

P. N. Coleman, citizen of Tennessee, was
tried for murder by a court martial during
the war and sentenced to be executed. He
was subsequently taken out of the hands
of the military and tined by state courts and
again sentenced to be executed, but on an
appeal to the United States Supreme Court
the action of the state courts was set aside.
The attorney general holds that the sen.
tence of the court martial was not affected
by the decision of the Supreme Court, and
the sentence can be carried into execution,
but, in view of the circumstances and
time when the crime was committed, and
the lapse of time which has occurred since
its commission, he recommends that the
president commute the sentence to impris.
Qpment for Life
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-06-05

Robert Fenton, cotton spinners, Rochdale;
liabilities 100000. Mathew Dickie, mill
owner, Stockport; liabilities 945,000.
Shrinkage of values of property has
caused the Scituate savings bank, of Boston,
Mass, to be enjoined from doing further
business.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-06-05

Another fishing vessel, the schooner Will
liam Thompson, of Gloucester, Mass, has
been lost with a crew of fourteen men.
They leave seven widows and twelve
orphans.
A Calcutta dispatch of the Goth, says:
The British India Steam Navigation Com.
pany's steamer Ava, was sunk in collision
with another vessel and sixty.six of the
crew and four passengers were drowned.
The Ava was IN iron screw steamer of 1900
tons, built in 1873.
A letter from Puntas Arenas, Costa RIGA,
mentions the loss of q vessel, on board of
which were the English vice.consul, Mr..
Dunsmore, two other foreigners, Gillian
trader and five of the crew.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-06-05

VIZ don't feel certain as to which
letter of the alphabet is the fastest, hut
We have seen a Standardization Post.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-06-05

MISS. CoNsTRUCT1oN-Paint, powder,
whalebone, and 10 forth.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-06-05
Wholesale POISONING.

At Newark, VT, on the 2sth, a party of
nine children drank water from brook,
the waters of which had been polluted by
the carcasses of horse and several sheep,
and were poisoned, from the effects Of
which seven died soon after, their bodies
becoming putrid aud demanding immediate
burial. The others cannot survive. A Mrs.
Morse lost two, Mrs. Carpenter lost three,
and two more are the ones referred to as
dying-taking her entire family; Mrs.
Aldrich lost two. There is great excite.
ment in the community about the matter.
Later-There have been nine deaths SO
far of children who drank from the poison.
ed brook. Edward Morse lost two, John
Aldrich three, Fred Simpson one, L. Wilson
one, Mr.. Park one, and John Cole one.
Potato tops, poisoned by Paris green,
thrown in the brook, are regarded as the
cause of the poisoning rather than the car.
cases of dead animals. Terrible distress
prevails, and work is suspended. Twenty.
seven children were poisoned by drinking
the water.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-06-05
A Frightful Hotel Fire.

Early on the morning of the Goth ult, a
fire was discovered in the Washington
house, at Hagerstown, Nd, and before an
alarm could be given the flames had gained
such Roadway that escape for the guests was
entirely cut off: Every room in the hotel
was occupied at the time of the disaster,
there being sixty names on the register, be-.
sides the regular boarders. Nearly all Of
the inmates of the building escaped by
climbing down the porch pillars, fifteen of
them receiving serious injury by falling and
about twenty slightly bruises. One
man, L. Troxell, of Cumberland, was burn
ed to death. Loss on hotel and furniture
$4,000; insured for $26,O;0. Loss on per.
sonal property of boarders $4,000.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-06-05
A Dishonest Cashier.

Mr.. Dierberger, assignee of the Broadway
Savings bank, st. Louis, No., has discovered
in the private drawer of ]. P. Krieger, jr.,
cashier of that institution, papers in the
form of checks, drafts, ETC., which conclu.
sively show that Krieger and Meyer A.
Goldsou is indebted to the bank about
100000, the recovery of which is very
doubtful. Similar papers were found in
Krieger's room at his fathers residence,
where he lived. To what particular use
Krieger and Goldsoll put the money oh.
tanned from the bank, or whether Krieger
derived any benefit from it, does not appear,
but that Krieger was in collision with
Goldsoll and furnished him money without
proper security, there can be no question.
These transactions have extended over
period of nearly three years, and most of
them have been studiously kept from the
of the directors. Krieger is
under arrest. =; @st -.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-06-05
Serious Deadlock.


A misunderstanding has obtained between
the masters and iron workers at Pittsburg,
Ia, which threatens to lead to grave re.
suits. 1t seems the workers held meeting
and fixed the price of pudding at SIS per
ton-the same as last year. The manufac'
turers say they cannot afford to pay the rate,
and effected combination to secure their
ends. As the employers will not pay the
price asked, and the men will not reduce it,
the fires in the vast system of iron manu-
factories in Pittsburg and the vicinity will
be allowed te die out, and millions Upon
millions of capital aud thousands of work.
inxmen will remain idle and useless for per.
haps several months.
A California Lynch1ng.
At Bakersville, CAL, on the 2Sth, band
of seventy.five men captured the Jail and
lynched Thomas and William Yocum in
their cells. William Yocum was chained to
the floor, and as the chain could not be loos-
ened, he was hung with the shackles on his
feet, and was shot several times after being
hung. The Yokums were in Jail for the
killing of Johnson and Tucker at Long
Tom, more than year ago. VIM. Yokum
had his trial and was convicted of murder
in the first degree and the supreme court
ruled last week that he should have change
of venue and his case was moved to Fresno
county. The mob were all masked except
FIVE.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-06-05
A Murderous Record.

q
Policeman Charles Prints was murdered
a. st. Louis. NO., on the let inst, by noto'
rious character named Charles Saunders,
whom he was attempting to arrest.
Willie Black, of the firm of Willie Black
L Co., wholesale tobacco dealers of Cincin.
natl, was shot and fatally injured, on the
s0th ult., by discharged negro, through
revenge.
VIM. NJ. Morrill, and w. Fl. Albright quar-.
relied in an open car on the Brooklyn city
railroad, on the 3Oth ult. Morrill, was
knocked off the car and falling on the rails
was mangled fatally by the wheels.
Louise Bonevat,s aged 81 years, was MUIR
dered by her husband, at New York, on the
29th.
While John II. Lewis and son, farmers,
living near Winchester, Ind, were opening
ditch on the 9th, they were ordered to
stop by their adjoining neighbor, John
Lumpkins and two sons. A quarrel ensued
in which Lumpkins' eldest son was shot and
instantly killed, the youngest son and
father receiving very severe injuries
Young Lewis was fatally injured by being
struck on the head with brick. The eide,
Lewis has surrendered to the authorities.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-06-05
The Death Roll.

Eben L. IngersoD, ex-representative in
congress from Illinois, and brother of Robt.
G. 1ngersolI, died in Washington, early on
the morning of the slst, of apoplexy.
Judge Charles Mason, clerk of the United
States circuit court, at Utica, N. y, died on
the 3lst ult, aged 50.
An official statement from Port au
Prince, Hayti, says: NJ. Rooho Mouart,
French minister, died Of yellow fever two
hours after he was attacked. His private
secretary and first secretary Of the legation
are dead of the disease, and the second Sec
rotary Of the legation is sick with it.
Harry Mishels, editor of the Carson
New Appeal, and formerly lieutenant.gov:
ernor of Nevada, died on the 2Sth.
Joseph Armorer, an old and respected citi-
zen of Fl. Smith, Arkansas, died on the
25th, aged 90.
Deliquorg, the Greek statesman and min.
lister of finance, is dead.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-06-05
Railroad Accident.

A Cumberland, Ind, dispatch of the 28tb,
says: AT 1 O'Clock to-day an outward
bound express train on the Pittsburg di.
vision of the Baltimore and Ohio railway,
when three miles west of the confluence
near Pittsburg, ran on to rock that had
fallen on the track. Engineer Benz. Pritch.
ard, residing at Connellsville, and an un.
known tramp we're instantly killed. The
fireman, Flaherty, and also another tramp
were seriously injured. Pritchard died
with his hand on the air.brakes.''
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-06-05
Southern Vendetta.

A Louisville Courier.Journal special of the
Goth, from Reverton, KY, says the Under
wood war" has again broken out. On the
upper Tygart creek, in Carter county, Elva
Underwood, while peacefully at work in a
corn field near his home, was shot from
ambush on the 22d and killed. George
Underwood, Elva's father, was also
killed in similar manner, and now
Jesse has entered the field as the aveng
er of his family's wrongs. It is feared that
there will be a fearful amount of bloodshed,
and farmersin the neighborhood are fearful
of becoming victims of the assassin's ball,
ona fn-sok ;-. +h~:- c~la- I-f--4.--
was received from Breathitt county that
Andrew Carpenter, while peacefully at work
in his own yard, was shot by an unknown
party in ambush.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-06-05
Cattle PlnRne.

Reports from all parts of Georgia an.
nounce the appearance of a strange and
fatal disease among cattle. In several
counties the death rate among cattle and
oxen is alarming. Nobody seems to under
derstand the treatment of the malady, and
it is spreading to the central and northern
parts OF the state. The symptoms seem to
be new and the effects of the disease strange.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-06-05
Disastrous Cyclone

A terrible storm OF WIND ana ram passed
over northern Kansas and southern Nebras.
ka on the evening of the 30th ult., extend.
ing through nearly the whole of the north
ern tier of counties in Kansas. The storm
moved in direction little north of east
and passed into Nebraska through Richard
son county.
The town of Irving, ninety miles west Of
Atchison, was nearly destroyed, about forty
buildings being leveled, twelve persons
killed and fifty wounded some dangerously.
The storm was exceedingly violent in the
vicinity of Delphos, Ottawa county. Fiji.
teen bodies were brought in from two
square miles of territe1y. One man from
Belojt was taken up in his wagon, thrown
to the ground again and instantly killed.
A woman and child were thrown against
wire fence and killed. Five persons were
killed in one house near Delphos.
At Fran kfort four were killed and many
badly injured.
The cyclone struck tn e earth four miles
from Lees Summit, and tore furrow
through the country about hundred yards
wide and ten miles long, leveling every
eAlAS AA AeS VI 6GA) uuu A1AA1AS CSAu VOuuVlAS
several people. The house of Mr.. Warren
was totally destroyed, two members of the
family killed aud others severely wounded.
Further on the house of Alex. Scroggs was
unroofed aud his wife's skull fractured.
The houses of Dr.. Cunningham and Mr..
Underwood were destroyed: but their
families escaped unframed. The residence
of Mr.. Rutcbins was torn to pieces, and the
family badly hurt. The house of Mr.. Har-
ris, near Blue Spring, was demolished, Mr..
Harris, bis wife and little girl, and other
children being MORALLY wounded. i
On the Big Blue river, at the mouth Of
Mill creek, the storm uprooted trees. de.
stroyed grain cribs, fences and crops. A two
story storehouse of NJ. C. Androy was I'M,
rooted and crushed, fifteen persons being in
it at the time; Mr.. Androy was somewhat
injured, and his sister-in-law, Mrs. Tuttleck,
and child, killed. $3.50
On Fancy Creek, IL miles north of An.
droy's the Methodist church was entirely
demolished, buildings torn down, cattle
and horses killed, and other property
destroyed, but no lives lost. ~; *
The heaviest rain ever experienced in
that section of the country accompanied the
gale, actually deluging the lands and in.
dicting untold damage to growing crops. !:
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-06-05
HQllsSnAfG EEuRalaaaRn.

The volcano of Mount IEtna is in full
eruption. Three new cratsrs appeared
near the town of Randazzo, at the northwest
foot OF the mountain. Streams of lava are
flowing down the western slope. Several
villages are threatened With destruction,
and there is great alarm among the inhab
itsnts.
Fresh c.aters have opened on Mount 1Etna,
endangering Blanca valley, Randazzo and
Castigliome. Clouds of ashes overhang
Redmont, which is in almost total darkness.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-06-05
Fire, Water and Smoke.

On the morning of the 31st ult. fire broke
out in the village of Silver Reef, Utah, con.
Stunning all the business houses on the west
side of Main street, and some twenty resi-
dences. Loss estimated at half million.
Eaton and Wilson's mill at Midway,
Mass, was burned on the night of the 31st
ult. The fireman, named Edward Hart, was
killed by the explosion of boiler.
The Russian towns of Walnicke and
Gboyes and four large villages in various
districts have been burned, and thousands
of peasants reduced to beggary.
A fire at Chase, Mich, on the Goth dc.
stroyed the saw and shingle mill owned by
c. w. Joiner, together with over million
feLt of lumber and large amount of
shingles and logs; one store, two dwellings
and the postotfice also burned. Loss $780,
900; insured 81, 500.
The Schwartz & Bro. hardware and Junk
establishment, corner of Magazine and Julia
streets, New Orleans, burned on the 9th.
Loss estimated st 100000.
A blaze in the business portion of Par
S2l 900 worth of property.
At Carleton Place, Ont, on the 9th, a
spark from locomotive ignited a stock OF
lumber. Twelve million feet were destroy.
ed. Loss $3.50, 1000
The town Of Paris, Michigan, was nearly
destroyed by fire on the 26th. Loss ST., 600;
insurance $1,000.
A fire in Richards store house, corner of
Bridge and State streets, New York, &C.
Cured on the 26th. Loss about 100000.
The burr mill stone warehouse OF John
7. Moye & Sons, the boot and shoe factory
of M. E. Toulmins, and the betting manu-
factory of G. D. Barr, at Buffalo, N. Y, were
consumed on the Goth. Loss about $780,
600; literally insured.
At Washington, b. c., on the Goth, Miller
& Gross candy mandatory was burned.
Loss $4,000.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-06-05
Drowned,


Eva Williams and Emma Davies, aged
respectively - and IA years, were drowned
in the river at Columbus, Ohio, on the 3Oth
ult.
Joseph Stevenson, Isaac Fielding, George
Desshaw and Seraphim Martin were
drowned in the lake at Valleyfeld, Quebec.
on the 25th.
Robert Jackson, aged 20, and two sisters
Is and 12, were drowned in Third Lake,
township of Stanhope, Ont, by the upset.
ting of canoe.
Charles Clark and Charles Wells, boys of
II and IA, were drowned in pond near
Menomonee, Wis, on the 9th.
While John King and Walter Swan were
crossing Niagara river on the Goth, at Lew.
iston, N. Y, the boat was upset by an eddy
and both were drowned.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-06-05
Enlbezzlement.

Edwin Harris, former ook.keeper of the
wholesale boot and shoe firm of Voc
Brothers, Chicago, later known as McAuley,
Dyke & Co., was indicted for abstracting
funds of the firm, arraigned and plead
guilty on the 3lst ult., and was sentenced to
seven years in the penitentiary. Harris ad
mits that the total amount stolen is between
$4,000 and $4,000. Harris told Mr.. Yoe
that he used to take about $500 a year,
which he kept in private box in their
vault.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-06-05
Naval Warfare.

An engagement has taken place of
1quique, Peru, between the Chilian wooden
vessels Esnleralda and Cavadonga and Peru.
Wan armor-plated frigate Independence.
All three vessels sank. The Esmeralda was
originally Spanish gunboat. The Indepen.
dencia was the most important vessel in the
Peruvian navy, her armament consisting
entirely Of Armstrong guns namely, twelve
seventy Founders and and two pivot guns.
The latter were one.hundred.pounders.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-06-05
/ Cyclone.

A St. Joseph, No., dispatch of the Goth
nit, says: At 10 o'clock this morning a
cyclone swept part Of Holt and Nodaway
way counties, near Barnard and Bolckow,
about % miles north of St. Joseph. It
moved at velocity of so miles an hour,
demolishing houses, uprooting and twisting
off trees, destroying property OF all descrip.
tons. 1t took northeasterly direc-
ton, and when several miles east of
Barnard, suddenly disappeared. A track of
territory half mile wide is devastated.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-06-05


United States regulating congressional cleo
tious is without warrant in the constitu.
ton. It is evident, however, that
the trainers Of the constitution regarded the
election of members of congress in every
state and in every district as in a very i'm
portant sense justly matter of political
interest and cones RI TO the whole country.
The original proposition of the constitution
on this subject is as follows:
"Section 4, Article /: The times, places
and manner Of holding elections for sena.
tors and representatives shall be prescribed
in each state by the legislature thereof, but
congress may at any time, by law, make or
alter such regulations, except as to places
of choosing senator's" a.
= A further provision has been since added.
which is embraced in the fifteenth amend
ment- TITS as4oilows: s@
Z. Section 1. The right of citizens Of the
United States to vote shall not be denied or
abridged by the United States or by any
condition of seryitude. !~@e
Section Q. Congress shall have power to
enforce this article by appropriate legisla-
tion."
Under the general provision of the con.
st1tutien (Seetion Article y congress in
1866 passed Comprehensive law which
full and detailed regulation for
the election of senators by the
of the several states.
This law has been in force almost
Is years. In pursuance of it all of the
members of the present senate of the
United States hold their seats. Its consti-
nationality is not called in question. 1t is
confidently believed that no sound argu.
ment can be made in support of the consti.
tutionality of national regulation of senate.
rial elections which will not show that the
election of mem bers of the house of repre-.
may also be constftutionally reg
ulated by national authority.
The bill before me itself recognizes the
principle that the congressional are not
state elections. 1t leaves in full force the
existing statute under which supervisors
are still to be appointed by national
authority, to "observe and witness" con.
gressional elections whenever due apilpca-
ton is made by citizens who desire state |
elections to be "gaarded and scrutinized."
If power to supervise in any |
respect whatever the congressional cleo.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-06-05

w GktAC SEAS Va 1VSSAAs
BURTON A. LIVINGSTON, a highly
esteemed citizen of Alexandria, Douglas
county, took his own life by pistol
shot. The announcement of the deed
threw the village into a state of excite.
ment never before known. In letter
written before he killed himself, he
spoke in the most loving and endeariDg
terms of his wife and three little boys,
whom he leaves to sorrow and desolation.
A YOUNG son of Peter Beck, brewer
near Lake City, was killed last week
while leading a horse to water. he had
watered the horse and was returning to
the stable, when it is supposed the ami
NAL reared and came down with its en-.
tire weight upon the boys head, the
terrible pressure breaking his neck near
the base of the skull. He was picked up
and conveyed to the house near by,
where he expired.
On Thursday last VIM. McCauley, OF
Little Falls, while working for John
Branchand, about one mile south of Fort
Ripley, noticed the edge of silver hall
dollar which he accidentally turned up
with the point of his cantdog. On plcklDg
it up he saw that there were other coins
under it, and he found four half dollar
pieces ard one ten dollar gold piece. The
gold piece was coined in 1S47, and the
silver pieces in 1858 and 1S54.-Little
Falls transcript.
DURING one of the recent storms Mr..
Robert and family, of McCenterville,
Wilkin county, were sitting in one room
while their little baby was lying asleep
in the cradle in an adjoining room, and
near an open window; when Mrs. Rob-
erts went to look at the baby she found
it insensible and black in the face.
Lightning bad entered through the win.
dow and struck the child. It remained
insensible several hours, and several days
passed before it recovered from the
shock, and it's natural color has net yet
returned.-Red Wing FIRE. Pr IS.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-17
NEW POSTAL REGULATIONS.

Washington, July IA circular was
issued to postmasters today, BY the acting
postmaster general, relative to the
entry of second class matter. Section 1879
of the postal laws, and the regulations, pro.
vidse that "after a publication has been de-
termined to be of the second class the pub.
Usher thereof may, if he so desires, formal.
ly enter the same at the postofice where
mailed, and print upon each copy thereof
the words Entered at the postofice at
as second class matter" After quoting this
the circular continues:
"The publication 80 entered and having
printed upon each copy the words Of entry
may be exchanged at second class rates With
other second class publications. and may be
regularly sent at second class rates as com.
plimentary 10 customers or business agents
of the publication, and to other persont
solely in the interests of the publication
itself or its publishers or employees as SUCH
The unauthorized printing by a publishe,
Of the words herein prescribed, or theil
equivalent, will render him liable to a pen.
atty of not less than 500 nor more thar
$500. The circular in conclusion, sets fortt
that the department very much desires tina
the entry of second class matter may b.
made universal at all postofices, and direct
postmasters to call the attention of publish
ers to the facts in regard thereto as contain
ed in the circular.