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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-27
A Burxlar Perforated.

Matthew Creed, proprietor Of dry goods
store in jamestown, Ky, having his suspi.
cions aroused by noise in the store, on the
night of the Goth inst, arose from bed, pro.
ceedel to the store, found a burglar behind
the counter and shot him dead, fifteen buck.
shotpenetrating the body. 1t is not known
where the burglar was from.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-27
The Fatal Frog.

At Homecoming, Md, on the 10th inst,
young lady named Mary Heating, attempted
to cross the track in front of train when
she caught her foot in a frog and fell in the
middle of the track. The train passed over
her, cutting of both legs. She died inme-
diatelY.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-27
The Roault.

One hundred and twenty thousand per.
sons are rendered homeless by the recent
floods in Hungary. Eighty.two hundred
out OF ten thousand houses in Szegedin,
have fallen, and one thousand four hun
dred persons lost their lives.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-27

DR.. I. I. HAXEs has introduced in
the New York legislature bill to estab-
lish at the lower end of Manhattan
Island grand underground railroad
depot and to tunnel the Hudson river so
that the great trunk lines could enter
New York
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-27
Fatal Explosions.

An explosion of boiler in the De Forest,
Mass, steam saw mill on the 2sth inst,
probably fatally injured James Taylor and
Horace Egdon and severely injured two
others.
A boiler in johnson & Co.'s distillery,
Cleybourn, Texas, blew up on the 2lst inst,
killing two men.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-27

The suit of Emma Casper against Phillip
Mendel for $4,000 damages for an alleged
rape, which plaintiff committed upon her
person, at Louisville, KY, was brought to
close Oh the 18th, the jury in the case re-
turning verdict of $12, 800 damages for the
plaintiff.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-27

A HARTFORD dog has died of broken
heart. It was fine setter, and loved its
master. One day; last; November, WINE
they we're hunting for muskrats, the
Young man fell into North MEADOW
Greek and was drowned. . The dog went
home. acted strangely, ran back and
forth. and finally induced nelghbor to
20 to the creek where the body lay
From that time the dogs health de-
clined. It ate little, if anything; it
dropped; il pinned; and finally it died.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-27
Sitting Bull.

The war department has ordered the
Eighteenth infantry from Atlanta to Bis
marck, to protect the border threatened
by Sitting Bull. Col. Walsh, commanding
the Canada mounted police, writes that
Sitting Bull and his two thousand warriors,
well armed and equipped, are showing
very ugly and insubordinate disposition.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-27

The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that
the Ohio and Mississippi railroad is now
carrying daily from 800 to 400 New York
aud New England emigrants, and that
they are for the most part on their way
to Kansas, and are very Intelligent and
thrifty-looking people,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-27
Prairie Fires.

A St. Louis Globe. Democrat special of the
2lst says: Another terrible fire occurred in
Lincoln county, Kansas, burning the house
and all the property of Mr.. Montgomer ~,
living on Bitter creek, and doing much
other damage. A little son of Mr. Mont
gomery, II years old, persisted in the flames,
and Mr.. Montgomery and Isaac Plat, a
neighbor, who attempted to save Montgom.
cry, were SO badly burned that they died in
few hours.
Terrible prairie fires recently occurred in
Republican and Cloud counties, Kansas.
They extended over an area of ten miles
long and three miles wide, and swept every
thing before them. It is said about one
hundred homes were consumed, also large
quantities of grain, farming implements,
hay and other property. The winds were so
high and the fires so fierce and hot that the
inhabitants were obliged to take refuge in
cellars or " dug-outs," or underground hab.
itations. But one life was reported lost, that
of Mrs. Borverse1, who was burned to death
while attempting to release some horses
from burning stable. Several other per.
sons were severely injured. Loss estimated
at $4,000.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-27

an executive beard of seven bishops ana
sevsAslaymen, with full powers to act for
tho ;seonvsntion and perfect 8 practicable
plan. The following were appointed q
members of the executive board: Laymen,
Gen. Lawler, of Prairie du Chen; Anthony
Kelly, of Minneapolis; H. L. Foy, of st.
Louis; John Boyle O'Reilly, of Boston; w.
]. Onatan, Of Chicago; j. A. Creighton, of
Omaha; ". Hickey, of New York, and
Bishops Ireland and Conner, with power to
select five other bishops.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-27
c.H.DAvlDs0N, Proprietor.
VARIOUS TOPICS.

The Philadelphia Society of Friends
is taking active steps towards the for
nation of settlements in the west, to
bring together isolated members who
were gradually losing interest in the
principles and customs Of their sect.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-27
Rallpna1a A~nfs1aut

Two freight trains on the Northern Gen.
trail railroad came in collision on the 18th
inst, near Cumberland, Pa. Both engines
were wrecked and thirty cars thrown into
the SusQuehanna river. Charles Delyan.
ey, fireman. had leg torn of, and one con-
ductor was slightly injured.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-27
African EXPLORATIONS.

Pinto. the Portuguese explorer, who has
crossed Africa, telegraphs: II struggled
with hunger, thirst, natives, floods and
drought. have saved all my papers, seven.
ty geographical charts; many topographic
al maps, three volumes of notes, metereo.
logical studies, drawings and diary of COM
plete explorations of the Upper Zambezi
with its y cataracts."
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-27

MANY hundred years ago the Aztecs
acquired wonderfuSskill in weaving the
feathers of tropical birds into pictures.
The art has been preserved, for the GUS
tom-house officers at New Orleans have
seized a lot Of the curiosities, fresh from
coast town. Some of the pictures row
in the hands of the officers are upon
small cards, representing tiny birds. The
background, the stem or twig upon
which the bird rests and the bill and
claws of the bird are painted in colors,
but the rest Of the picture is made of
beautiful feathers, prettily woven.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-27


county, Texas, Tia / sis difficulty Viii one
Howell, in a stable at Sherman, on the 22d,
and struck him. e Shortly afterward he call.
ed at HowelPs. office and shot HIM dead.
A stabbing ARRAY occurred at Grand
Rapids, Mich, on the 21st inst, between
two boys-Ma.. Sunderland and Nelson
Berry, both 12years of age. Berry received
. fatal wound ID the back. .-.--.. r..
q dispute arose between John Norton and
Gather. two, appointment farmers ID Madison
county, N. G., OF. the 2lst, about the length
Of j pc, tail fheY we're stamining ina sty.
Norton gave Gather the lie, which 80 en-.
ragged him that He told hir opponent that he
was going Is kill him, aud that be must pre-.
pare himselt, Both men we're armed With
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-27

A PROJECT is on foot to have the
national guards of Pennsylvania assem-
bic on the Getty sburg battlefield some
time during the coming summer, and go
into camp for week. 1t is intended to
make it the largest encampment ever
held in the state
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-27

For upward of $l,000,000 have the
insurance offices been chit" by the pre-
mature and entirely unexpected death
of the Duke of Newcastle. EARLY in
discretions and much too facile dispo
aition to accommodates with his name
and his check book the host of (" friends
who acted the part of sponges, threw him
into the hands of money usure1s and
bill discounters. For some. time his
available income did not exceed 81, 500 a
wear.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-27
Jail nAllvorv.

Fifty.two moonshiners delivered three
revenue prisoners out of Huntsville, Tenn,
Jail on the 10th inst, and took away q
wagon and train which had been seized by
the revenue officers.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-27
A SOls11ersa VIII.

General Thomas w. Sherman's will gives
IS, 900 to the negress in the family since his
marriage. George c. Mason is appointed
guardian of his son, who at 81 obtains sbso.
lutte control of the property, estimated at
$lOO,OOO
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-27
Work Of Tra,u.wreckers-

A hano'car on the Toledo, Delphos and
Indianapolis railroad, carrying N. J. Hunt,
president, and J. T. Clark, superintendent,
ran against tie that had been placed on the
track, near Delphos, Ohio, on the goth inst,
wrecking the car, breaking Clark's leg,
cutting frightful cash in Hunts head,
and fatally injuring Pat Kane, a laborer.
The tie had been placed there with the evil
dent purpose Of wreck1ng passenger train.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-27
NEWS. in BRIEF.
Avalanehep,

+ Many avslsnohes have recently occurred
in Austrian Tyrol. At Bleiburg ten houses.
were crushed and forty persons killed,
eighteen seriously injured and fifteen miss.
in
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-27
Another Mine Explosion.

BY an explosion in tho Pottsville, Pa,
snaft colliery on the 10th inst, Louis MUIR
ray and James Mulherran were instantly
killed and a man named Boas slightly in.
iured.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-27
Milwaukee,.

MILWAUKEE, March 24-3:O0 P. NJ
Flour-Movement light, but prices hold
steady; choice spring at $425@4.75; CON-
mon to good at $3.5O@3.S7%. Wheat-Quiet
aud unsettled on futures: No. 2 seller April
at sSA@S9Ac; No. 2 seller May at $500
7ec; No. 4 at 74c. Corn~Duli at Sac;
new at $50. Oats Quiet at 24c. Barley
Unsettled; No. cash at 6S12c; No. at 42c:
Pork-Quiet and steady; $l0.10 cash. Lard
AT $3.50 for cash. Hogs-At $3.50@4.00,
as to quality.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-27
A Mystery.

Harry Baldwin, son of Ammi Baldwin,
cashier of the Third National bank, at Gin.
cinnati, o, was shot and instantly killed at
an 'rly hour on the 18th inst. William
Schaller, son of the well.known brewer, of
the firm of Schaller & Gerke, was arrested
for the crime. He admits firing a shot in
the locality at the time, but says he fred in
The air for fun. He was locked up, but was
released on $4,000 bail. The pistol he used
was 81 calibre, while the ball extracted from
Baldwin's head was ~ calibre,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-27

IT is said that careless legislation in
the internal revenue bill makes it legal
for the owners Of large stocks of manu-
featured tobacco to export it to some for
eign country receive drawback at the
rate Of twenty -four cents per pound and
reimport it, paying to the governments
tax of sixteen cents, thus making net
profit Of eight cents per pound less the
expense of the operation. Secretary
Sherman thinks that unless the law is
changed the cost to the government will
be between $2,000,O0O and $3,O00,O0O.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-27

!. BAsalp'tUI young I man ! q / 16uld dseI
the momentous question no longer, SO
he stammered: !" Martha lido you
you must have are you aware that the
good Book says-er, says that it is not
g-e.good that m-man should BE aldhei"
Then hadn't you better run home to.
your mothsr'H Martha ooolly suggested,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-27

EsPARTo grass is largely used by paper-
makers in France and England. That
which reaches England from Morocco is
used by the paper mills that supply the
Times. The great value of this paper
lies in the tenacity Of its fibre and the
comparatively minute quantity of silica
in its composition; it is rather coarse,
stiff. perennial grass, growing to height
Of three feet. It is found in the moor
lands of Scotland and in the Doggy
pastures of Ireland, and has hiths rto been
considered OF little value.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-27

The legislature of Indiana also seems
to have gone into the school-b book ped
ding business. A bill has been intro
duced in that bod authorizing the state
board of education to prepare lists Of
school-books for county boards to select
from. The ostensible object is to
cheaper the cost Of schoel-bccks, the
real object is to throw the sale Of school
books into the hands of ring. The in
ference will be inevitable that the leeis-
lators who vote for such bill are paid
by the ring for doing so.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-27
THE MARKETS.
Reported by Chandler, Brown l. Co., Commission
Merchants, Milwaukee, Wis.
New York

New York
NEW YORK, March 1880 P. Moot
ton-Dull and unchanged. Flour-Qaiet;
receipts 5000 bbls: sales II 900 bbls; prices
unchanged; super-state and western, So ESQ
70; comm on to choice extra, $37O@3 90;
good to choice, $50 GA 80; white wheat,
$4.55@525; extra Ohio, So 75@500; St..
Louis, $3.Sc@5.75; Minnesota:patentp process,
$6.0O@S.O0. Wheat-Spring nominal; win.
ter shade lower and quiet; receipts 49,
600 bus; No. 2 red seller April at $1.14H.
Rye-Dull and weak western at 5SM60c !;
state at $4,000. Can da at 6l14c. Corn
Dali: receipts $1,000 bus; sales $4,000 bus;
prices unchanged. Oats-Duil and about
steady; receipts 1000 bus; sales $4,000 bus
at 3o@32 Tc for mixed western; 33QI36c for
white do. Pork-At $1,000. Lard-In buy
ers' favor at So 63E. Butter and Cheese
Unchanged. Whisky-At $l06. Sugar
Unchanged. Egss-At 15@l9c. Petroleum.
Crude ut 7as@SAc; refined at Sc. Coal
Unchanged. Leather-Steady. Wool
Firm for choice
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-27
Umfntshful ServAnta.

Albert Falk, general manager and conf
dental agent for VIM. Ryle, silk importer,
New York, is in Ludlow street Jail, charged
with appropriatlng to his own use silks
valued at $6S000. Falk has returned $24,.
of the plumber.
w. H. Ladd, passenger agent for four
roads at Columbus, Ohio, has gone to Can.
ada under cloud. His accounts are $500
short. He admits the crookedness and
asks time for settlement.
Geo. H. Heaford, general passenger
agent Of the Missouri Pacific railroad, prior
to last April, is under arrest, charged with
embezzling large sum of money. Charles
l.. White, formerly auditor of the road, is
also under Indictment. The amount of
Heatiord and Whites shortage is estimated
at from $4,000 to $4,000.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-27
Chica go.

CHICAGO, March al 80 P. M Flour
Quiet, but held firmly: good to choice
western spring extras at So 1901 s.; low 10
fair western spring extras at $3.O0@3.50:
choice to fancy Minnesota spring extras at
81 00@4,75; common to good Minnesota
Minnesota spring extras (patent) at SIS 500
500; choice spring super6nes ct 2.75i43OO.
Wheat-SteAdy and ,sier at $3.50 for cash
and seller April; 93Ac bid for seller May.
Corn-Easy at 1880 for cash; 3534c for eel
Ter May. Oats-Easy at 2l2sc for cash !;
25H@a252Sc for seller June. Rye and Bar.
ley-Unchanged. Pork Firm at $:0.12%
for cash $io.15 bid for seller April; $40 27E
cash and seller April; s6.52H for seller
May. Whisky-At $l.04. Hogs-Re ceipts
5000 head; fairly active and firm; light at
50 S5@4.00; heavy mixed packing at $3.50
40; heavy shipping at $4.10@4.55.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-27
Knitted RnRkhnen.

The supreme lodge of the United Work
men, in session at Nashville, Tenn, elected
the following officers on the ed inst. John
Frizzell, Nashville, supreme master work.
man; Roderick Rose, Iowa, supreme FORE
man N. W. Fish, California, supreme over.
seer; N. W. Sackett, Penn, supreme re-.
corder; s. E. Davis, Ohio, supreme receiver;
II. c. Heath, Wisconsin, supreme guide;
Z. W. Boynton, illinois, supreme Waterman;
Leroy Andrews, New York, supreme trus.
tee. They were installed by p. =. NJ. w.
McNair, of Pennsylvania, and entered on
their duties.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-27

THERE are many strange anomalies in
French laws and French customs. A
goung girl who recently shot her seducer
because he refused to keep his promise
of marriage, has just been acquitted at
Bordeaux; and yet French law takes
into no account breach of promise; nor
has girl who has been seduced any
claim on her lover even for the support
of child. The murdered man, there
fore, committed no illegal act, and the
girl who took the law into her own hands
is acquitted, to the great delight of "a
crowded court
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-27
ForeiRu.
New York Hon Market.

LONDON, March 24-12: 80 P. M.-Liver
pool wheat market opens quiet.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-27
A Shower of SULPHUR.

A Reading, Pa, dispatch of the 18th inst,
says: ut commenced raining here last night
and continued until about noou to-day.
All over the city can be noticed strange
yellowish deposit resembling sulphur, sup.
posed to have come de With the rain"
At Allentown, Pa, on the 18th inst, there
was found beneath the snow which tell the
night previous substance in some places
half an inch deep strongly resembling sui
phur. 1t had the color and nell and a
quantity of it scraped together and set on
fire burned as readily and emitted the same
fumes as sulphur.
A scientific examination of tn e sulphur
which fell in the shower on. the 18th inst,
over the Lehigh Valley, proves it to be the
pollen from species of pine caught up by
the wind and carried from Jersey forests.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-27

MOFtuary.
VIII. Buckingham, secretary and auditor
Of the Vandalia railroad line, died at Terre
Haute, Ind, on the 23d inst. Is
Ex.judge Giles died at Bal.imere, Nd, on
the 22d, aged 70.
L. R. Bradley, ex-governor of Nevada,
died at Elko, New, on the 21stin
Major Phillip R. Fendall, U. 8. marine
corps, died suddenly At Portsmouth, N. H.,
on the 21st inst. ., - .sf.;f.,.r r.. =
Professor Anderson, tho celebrated chess
player, died At Breslau. III ~
Adolph Strodtmann, biographer of Heine,
IN ffpa1 Isl st'l'& 81: 3t.t.fE n t1f.& ~, ii8!,
Rev: Jane. DeKov.n, - b. + b. id d. q. Of
Racine, Wis.,, college, died suddenly of
oh the 10th inst u fl
The Belgian explorer Wauthier died of
dysentry in Central Africa :, "a : ,. 80
Ex-senator George Goldtfwaite died at
Montgomery, Ala, on the 17tlf init
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-27

NEW YORK city has about $50 daily
weekly, monthly and quarterly publics.
lions; but Paris, with population very
little larger, including Brooklyn, Jersey
City, Hoboken, and other surrounding
towns and villages which are there be.
cause the metropolis is here, has nearly
three times as many publications of the
kind, the exact number being 1,191. OF
these, II are occupied with theorogy.
14 with jurisprudence and administers
tion, 163 with commerce and finance, %
with geography and history, 139 with
recreation, 81 with instruction, 80 with
literature and pathology, 8 with archii-,
lecture, 4 with photography, Is with
music, II with the drama, 10 with fash.
ions, 1874 with industry, 80 with medi-
cine, 4S with science, % with the army
and navy, SO with agriculture, and %
with sport. We have some95 dailies, of
al kinds; Paris has 4yy, ana u political
reviews, while we have notsoae, properly
speaking, our daily and weekly press
covering the whole political field. These
figures viii, btless, cause surprise d to,
manysAmericans who are disposed tobes
ieve5that their land is above ,,e ali ot Il,
the land 4 q 4 y. /! extensive journalism and
printing.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-27

THERE is at present rage in England
for the first editions Of noted authors
works, and the prices are rapidly going
up. A bookseller in London has COM
p!ete set of the first editions of Dickens
novels, and he asks $500 for it. The
works in partare considered more valua-
BILE than when bound. A set of Pick
wick, in parts, costs $2l. Ruskin's first
editions are going high, and are eagerly
sought for. Mr.. Jennings, the New
York World correspondent, writes that
"Modern Painters was recently sold
for 1926. The first edition Of Charlie.
Levers books are going at $25 a volume.
Thaekeray's works are also in great
demand. This sudden rage for first
editions is caused by American BUYERS.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-27
Lost At Sea,

The French floating battery Arrogante
foundered off Hyeres, on the 10th inst.
Forty.seven men were drowned out of the
crew OF l22. A storm arose during firing
practice, and the Arrogante sprung leak.
The ship Souverain, near by, was unable to
render any assistance. An effort was made
to beach the Arrogaute, but she sunk about
one kilometer from the Isles of Heyeres.
The Anogante's armor was five inches
thick at the water line. She carried nine
eix'ton guns aud was of 1888 tons burthen.
Her engines were FIVE hundred horse power.
The British ship Bolivia, Capt. Doherty,
p]ying between Liverpool and St. Thomas,
came in collision with the Haytian steamer
Michael. TIE latter sunk and sixty persons
were drowned.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1879-02-06

limits of the Territory of Montana. shall
have the corporate power to construct,
maintain. end operate branches from its
main trunk OF line into and through such
portions of said Territory as it may deem
expedient and advisable, with like rights.
privileges, immunities. and powers, and
upon like conditions and limitations as to
it's trunk or main line; prorided, that be-
fore such company shall have power to
condemn properly to its use. a map OF the
general line or Nnes of such branch or
branches shall be filed in the Office OF the
Secretary Of said territory prorided fur
ther, that said company. both in respect
to it's main lire and branches, shall have
and enjoy all the rights and powers con-
ferred by section three 81 of An Act OF
the Congress of The United States. enti-
tied. IAN Act to amend an act entitled an
act to aid in the construction Of railroad
and telegraph Hne from the Missouri river
to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the
Government the use of the same for pos
tai, military, and other purposes. approx
I'd July l. 1865, approved July 2. 1864. and
all provisions CT said act 40 far as the
same may be applicable. shall apply to any
company organized and existing as afore-
said.
SEC. 4. All acts and parts Of acts in
consistent with this act are hereby re-
pealed.
Sec. 5. This act shall take effect and be
in force from and after its passage.