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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29
A TnOrOuSh.Bred Friend.

At Taborville, No., on the night of. the
22d, man named Mcmahon, who was
working for Mr.. Ellis, well known farmer,
raped his employers daughter and fed.
Ellis, as soon as he discovered the foul
work, seized his gun and started in pursuit
of the brute. Failing to find him, he was
returning for help, but when near his
house, Mcmahon sprang from ambush,
wrested the gun from Ellis hands and shot
him dead. A posse is in pursuit of the vii.
lain.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29
Greek and fork.

Some Greek brigands recently ambuscad-
ed forty six Turkish soldiers in the forest
districts of Trickala, killed fourteen, cut
their bodies in pieces and hung the pieces
on trees,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29
Drowned.

Mr.. and Mrs. Wren and Mrs. Howell were
in small boat on the Susquehanna, near
Kopp's Siding, Pa, on the 10th inst, when
the boat capsized, and the two women were
drowned
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29
In MemOFl0m.

Ex.Mayor VIM. Chaplin, of Cleveland,
Ohio, died, on the night of the cath.
William Lloyd Garrison, died at New
York city on the night of the 9th.
James NJ. Gillett, a prominent Fond du
Lac citizen and a resident of Wisconsin for
thirty.four years, died on the oath.
Pierre Jules Meme, the French sculptor,
is dead.
DR.. G. W. Mears, leading indianapolis
physician, died on the Goth inst.
Ex.Gov. Asahel Peck died at Waterbury,
VT, on the 10th inst, aged rs years.
Elmore P. Ross, prominent citizen of
Auburn, n. Y, died ON the 10th.
Chief Engineer J. B. Kimball, of the Pen
sacola (Fla.) navy yard, died on the 18th
inst. He was native OF Illinois.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29
Body Found.

The remains of Col. Groesbeck, we'll
known citizen of New York city, who so
mysteriously disappeared recently, were
found floating in North river on the Goth.
A case of suicide, no doubt.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29

The porte has informed its representatives
abroad that Greek brigands ambuscaded
forty.six Turkish soldiers in the forest of
Dists Frikala killed fourteen. cut their
bodies in pieces and hung the pieces on the
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29
Fatal Runaway.

Benjamin Jenkins was killed and Miss
Elliott and VIM. jenkins, sister.in.law and
nephew, probably fatally injured while
driving, at London, Ont, on the 21st, the
horses having run away.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29
The American Tract Society.

The American Tract society held its an.
nual meeting at New York city on the 9TH
inst. The available resources during 1878
were $4,000; expenditures during the same
time $40 700
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29
Capsizell by n Wh1rlWind.

During thunder storm on the 18th INST,
whirlwind struck the small mail propeller
Ramos plying on the Ca!sasin river, La,
capsizing it and causing the boat to sink in
thirty feet of water. The captain and en-.
gineer swan ashore, but six passengers
named Lucien Denaine, J. @. Bird, Cora
Partition, Medora Partition and Josephine
Hanlans and child, aged two years, were
drowned.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29
A Handsome Gift.

The widow of Daniel P. Stone has given
$25, 600 to the Boston Young Mems Chris.
tian association towards the erection of a
new building. Several other persons prom
Use liberal contributions.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29

AN ambitious young writer having
asked "What magazine will give me
the highest position QUICKEST" was
told: "A powder magazine, if you con-
tribute = fiery article"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29

The Brooklyn Club, ich, solid in
stitution, has issued circular protest.
ing against treating" The anti
treating movement is spreading very
rapidly, and is the very best help to
temperance that has yet been presented.
The time will come when proposition
to pay for another mans whisky will be
received as unpleasantly as would be an
offer to pay for his bread and butter.
And then the habitual hummer will
either perish or reform.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29
Work of the Flames.

The Nassau oil works, at Brooklyn, N.
Y, were burned on the Esd instant. LOSS
$3.50, 900; insured. Several manufacturing
firms adjoining suffered losses from 81, 600
to $4,000.
An explosion in Wheeler's wooden mill,
At Salem, N. H., on the 23d instant, set the
structure on fire and completely destroyed
it. Loss 100000 insurance $4,000.
The Flaven printing company's Office, at
st. Louis, was destroyed on the 22d inst.
Total loss $4,000.
A Portland, Oregon, dispatch of the ed
inst, says the town of Dalles was nearly de.
stroyed by fire.
A dispatch from St. Petersburg, dated the
10th, reports that great contlagration is
raging in Petropawloosk, Siberia. Several
quarters of the town are in flames.
A fire at Dublin, Ont, on the 10Th inst,
which originated in the stables in the rear
of the Dominion hotel, destroyed property
to the amount of $4,000. Twenty families
are rendered homeless.
An explosion and fire in the Berry Bros.
varnish works at Detroit, Mich, on the
10th, was subducd without much damage to
property, the building being fire proof.
VIM. F. Finlayson, superintendent of the
works, was badly burned, and Martin Nc
Mahon terribly SO.
Later-Finlayson and Mcmahon, died on
the goth instant.
The Oriental Powder company's magazine
near Brighton, ILL.,, containing fifty thou
sand kegs of the explosive, was struck by
lightning on the 25th, and entirely con
sumed.
Four loaded freight cars, together with
contents, were burned at Erie, Pa, on thu
Goth. Loss heavy.
The total loss hy the f-. at na11oe. O-A
gon. is estimated at 100000.
An extensive conaagration was expert
enced at Brooklyn, N. Y, on the night O.
the oath. The fowler, Champion & Co.
linseed oil mills on Furnham street, wer,
destroyed, The owners estimate their los
at from $250,000 to 100000. Storehous,
I'D" of Watson's stores, the lessees bein,
Bartlett & Green, was also consumed. I
was filed from the ground floor to the roo
with sugar. jute, hemp, cotton and othel
materials. B. & G. place the loss on thei
goods at 100000.
The st. Charles Hotel and II. D. Non'
livery stable, at Denver, Col, vanished il
smoke on the25th. Twelve horses persisted
Loss Sic, 900.
The Barnum House, large three story
wooden building at Ishpeming, Mich wa.
burned on the night of the 23d. Loss $50,
600; insured for $50, 200.
One hundred and eighty.six houses in
village in the government of Ufa, Russia
have been burned by incendiary Nihilists.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29

WHILE other fields of labor are show
ing increased activity all over the coun-
try, coal mining is very much depressed.
The mining companies do not feel en-
couraged to press work with immense
stocks on hand and prices below actual
cost. Consequently many of them are
reducing their forces and curtailing
wages. In some places mobs are form
ing to maintain the interes of strikers.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29
Financially Embarrassed.

The assignee of Archbishop Purcell has
filed schedule of assets and liabilities of
the archbishop and brother Edward Purcell.
The total amount of claims is S., 1881, 651 40,
of which amount $41S,5 362S is classed as
doubtful or worthless.
Horace Waters & Sons, dealers in pianos
and organs, New York, made an assign.
ment on the ed. Liabilities estimated at
$4,000, and total preferences in promissory
notes $46,6l7.
The Five Cent Savings bank at Lowell,
Mass, has been temporarily enjoined by
the bank commissioner. Withdrawals of
deposits and shrinkage on mortgages are
the cause.
Williams, Bernie & Co., New York, cotton
brokers, have failed. The firm was short
$4,000 bales. Williams is said to be worth
$4,000 and promises to pay all creditors
in full.
Business collapses in Great Britain: R.
G. Threlfall, cotton manufacturer, Preston;
liabilities $4,000. c. N. E. Smith, iron.
monger, Middlesborough; Liabilities $780,
600. Loly Solby, merchant in the Spanish
trade, East Cheap, f. G., have ALEC failed.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29
The Doomed Civ.

A violent hurricane atSzegedin, Hungary,
on the S0th u't, destroyed the works pre-
pared for restoring the railway and filling
the breaches in the dam. Barges filed with
building material and earth were mostly
sunk. The storm caused extensive fresh
breaches in the railway embankment, and
the laborers are in great danger. Relief has
been sent them.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29

CALAIS is to become again an impor-
tant place of arms and a fortress of the
hrst-class. The ramparts now surround.
ing the town, which are of an antique
type, are to be leveled, and new en-
ciente, with girdle of detached forts in
advance Of it, is to be constructed, rest
ing on the citadel, and enclosing the
towns of Calais and st. Pierre. By q
law signed by the president of the re-
public the construction Of the new en-
ciente and detached forts around Calais
is declared to be a work of public ur-
gency, and sum Of 100000 is set
aside to defray the expenses incurred
during the next four years in building
the new Notifications.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29
Menogerie Cremalell.

The. menagerie establishment owned by
J. NJ French, FIVE miles north of Detroit,
Mich, was destroyed by FIRE on the morning
of the 22d inst. The elephant Sultan, five
lione, zebra, leopard, stag and many other
valuable animals persisted in the flames.
While endeavoring to rescue the famous
trick elephant "sultan," Mr.. French was
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29
Fore ign.

LONDON, May 24-12:30 P. M.-Liverpool
wheat market opens slow; California club
at 9s 6d@10s; spring at 70 6d@8s Cd; float
ing cargoes quiet; on passage slow; good
cargoes mixed American corn, off coast, at
21s 3D.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29
Bloody Deeds.

On the 22d, one Buzzell, of Lynn, WAS
arrested for numbering An infant, found
dead in the woods near Maiden, and next
day Carrie Roberts, of the same place, was
taken into custody. She confessed to being
the mother of the child and that Buzze]l
committed the deed.
At Kingston, Ga, on the 23d inst, two
brothers named Thompson and Joseph Nor
ris, attempted to bulldoze town marshal
named Burroughs, who had just mulcted
him dollar each for violating an ordinance.
The usual pistol practice then ensued, re.
sulting fatally to the brothers.
Capt. w. r. Hoel, of the United States
beacon light steamer Lily, living near the
village of Waynesville, Ohio, short dis
lance from Cincinnati; for some time past
suspected his wife with holding improper
relations with DR.. J. B. Hough, his family
physician. On the night Of the 22d Capt.
Hoel left home ostensibly for Cincinnati,
but returned and concealed himself in his
house, and in tho morning surprised his
wife and DR.. Hougb, who were together in
the parlor. Drawing large revolver he
fred at Hough, but without effect. He
hon began clubbing the doctor with pts
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29

Knocked senseless by the frightened animal
and barely escaped with his life. The loss
on animals, circus paraphernalia and build
ings is shout $4,000; insured for about
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29
NEWS in BRIEF.
Accident IN Shin BOartl.

& The fishing schooner Ida E. Baker, Of
Gloucester, Mass, is lost with q crew Of
twelve men.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29
THE F1sHERMAN's WIDOW.

Tho tears are standing upon her checks,
And her eyes are weary and dim
She has sat at the window tor weeks a'no ~eoASa
For a sight of his boat and him.
She takes the youngest child on her knee,
And turns its face to her breast
w God she says, that my babe and NE
Were laid in our grave to resl!"
The boats come sailing in over the bay,
And the women run down 10 the shore;
But though she sit there till the judgment day,
His boat will come home no more
-Temp!e Bar.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29

WHEN an aged Chicago millionaire
came to die, recently, he called his rela-
tives and heirs around him, and also a
notary, whom he Instructed to take the
ahdavits of all present that he was per-
fectly sane and competent to devise his
property as he desired. He died, and
when the heirs searched his papers they
found a will in which everything was
given to an idiot asylum. Then they
instituted proceedings to set aside the
will. They admitted that he was sane
when he died, but the will was made
in 1875, and they swore that at that
time he was raving lunatic. There.
upon the executor produced another
will exactly similar to the first, with the
exception that it had been signed and
witnessed few minutes before the oaths
as to the testator's sanity had been taken.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29
Terrible Experience.

VIM. Allen, alias Storey, of st. Louis, who
eloped with Jennie Alchley, wife of
farmer of Batavia, Ohio, a few days since,
was captured in Cincinnati, and placed in
Jail at Batavia. At an early hour on the
2lst, mob entered the Jail and seized
Storey, placed rope around his neck and
hung him on one of the timbers of the
bridge over the Little Mama river. After
hanging few moments the rope broke and
Storey dropped in the river, succeeding in
gaining the shore, when he was taken to a
hotel, where he now lies in bed in bruised
condition.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29
Rampant Streams,

A correspondent who has just traversed
the Danube from Giurgevo to Buda.P esth,
telegraphs that the Danube is very high a
short distance above Baseias where the
Austrian shore becomes low and fiat. The
flood extends great distance inland. Be.
tween this point and Belgrade the river is
from Eve to fifteen miles wide. At Bel
grade it is fully twenty miles wide. Nearly
all the Austrian villages between Pesth and
Baseias have water in the streets. River
side inhabitants informed him that the
water is already within two feet Of the high
est point recorded and is still rising. The
floods, continuing SO late in the season,
must cause great damage to the crops.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29
Stern Justice,

VIM. G. Stone, ex.city treasurer, of New.
port, KY, has been convicted of omltting to
make correct returns, and sentenced to one
year in the penitentiary.
VIM. Nelson, colored, OF Terre Haute,
Ind, was sentenced on the goth to the peni.
Tertiary for one year and fined of $1,000 for
marrying white woman. I'll 9 prosecution
originated in spite, but he was convicted
under an old law of 1856, which Judge Long
held to be valid through decision of the
Supreme Court.
John Flynn, associated with "Davy the
Kid" in the robbery of diamond earring
from lady walking on Fifth avenue, New
York, has been sentenced to is years in the
state prison.
NJ. s. Gardiner, alias D. G. Davis,
who falsely represented himself as an
agent of Appleton & Co., New York, was
convicted in the Criminal Court at Mem.
phis, Tenn, on the Goth inst, and sentenced
to nine years imprisonment.
At Norwich, Conn, on the Goth inst,
Wesley w. Bishop, charged with the muir.
der of his wife, and with completely in the
murder of Chas. Cobb, pleaded guilty of
murder in the second degree and was sen.
fenced to states prison for life.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29

How much is General schenck's hand
worth. This interesting problem has
been frequently solved with various re-
suits, both at Washington and at Lon
don when lie represented the national
game at the Court of st. James. The
latest solution was reached few DAYS
ago by the accountants of the pension
bureau. Gen. Schenck was so unfor.
tunate, or fortunate, as to receive
slight wound in the hand at Vienna, in
Virginia, early in the civil war. For
this wound he has been receiving pen.
sion of $50 per month. Under the arrears
of pensions bill he has just drawn from
the United States treasury the sum of
$4,625, the largest payment yet made to
any individual under that act.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-29

THURSDAY, may zz.-1ne mouse re"
sumed, as the business of the morning hour,
consideration of the bill to repeal and
amend the laws relating to the transfer of
cases from state to federal courts. The Re.
publicans refused to vote on the demand
for the previous question, thereby blocking
business. Various propositions v ere there
upon suggested on both sides, but were not
acceded to. Debate and a cali Of the house
consumed the morning hour, and the bill
went over without action until Saturday
next....: Consideration was then resumed
of the Warner silver bill, and the house
agreed to the committees amendment to
the bill which provides that certificates of
deposit shall be in denominations OF not
less than five dollars instead of ten dollars
as originally provided in the bill. The
question then REQUIRED upon the next com.
mittee amendment, providing that certifi.
Gates of deposit may be computed as part
of the lawful money reserve of national
banks, and it was rejected without division.
Warner offered an amendment providing
that gold or silver bullion which shall be.
come the property of the government by
the return of certificates to the treasury in
payment of dues, shall be coined and paid
The next amendment was one offered by
Clafin to strike out that portion of the bill
providing that certificates shall be Issued in
payment of interest on public debt. Re-
jected. The mex: amendment was one of.
Tered some time ago by Lounsbury, striking
out the whole section. This was rejected.
Yeas so, nays 49,. ...Adjourned.
j / FRIDAY, May 2S.-Atkins from the
committee on appropriations, reported back
the senate amendments to the legislative
appropriation bill. The amendments were
concurred in.."..At the expiration of the
morning hour the house resumed considera-
ton of the Warner silver bill. The eighth
action was Immediately reconsiaered, also
The New York herald., 1879-12-25
BLACKMAILING LETTERS.

Appelia. alias Alexander Deycr. thirty years old.
was arraigned In the Tombs Court yesterday to an.
swer charge of attempting to blackmal Keeper
Carey, of Auburn Prison. Detective Dunn. in whose
custody tho prisoner was. said that in 1871 Boyer
was sentenced to seven years imprisonment In
Auburn Prison for robbing the house OF District
Attorney Phelps. Only few days ago he returned
10 this city after serving his Between the 11th
and Goth inst. Keeper Carey. received number
OF letters signed .'Irving Byron" demanding
payment Of $25. II not paid, the letters said.
the writer would send postal card to the keepers of
every prison In the State, detailing alleged dis
honest act of the keeper. and would have the story
printed in all the Auburn papers. Underkeeper
Meade TO this city yesterday and put decoy
letter in the Post Office directed to Irving Byron
New York city. With two Central Office detectives no
watched. and seeing Boyer come in, receive aud
open the letter, ho arrested him. In court he ex-
pancd his receiving By rons letter by saying that
man employed him to get 10. There evidence
to hold him on the charge of blackmailing, but ho
was held for having immoral pictures In has pos
session.
The New York herald., 1879-12-25
NARROW ESCAPE OF CHILDREN.

James Craney. mechanic resides with his wife
and three children tho rst floor in the Vt the
tenement No. 4e Forsyth street. At half-psst one
p. M. yesterday Mrs. Craney went to neghboring
store to buy provisions. leaving her children alone In
the rooms. Mary is Ave years James three years and
Isabella nine months old. The eldest girl locked
the door from within. An overloaded stove ignited
tho fire board. In their terror at tho flames they
were unable to unlock the door. The baby asleep
in a cradle, and the two other children concealed
themselves behind lounge on the opposite side OF
tho ROOM Mrs. Wilder, who lives In the rear house,
saw the flames and notified Roundsman Bell and
Patrolman McConley, OF the Tenth precinct The
officers burst In the door and rescued the children.
The lire put out without the assistance Of the
Fire Department When Mrs. Craney returned
from her shopping she learned for the hrst time OF
the narrow escape her children had had from hor.
riblo death.
The New York herald., 1879-12-25
THE LAST ARREST.

John alias Soldier Kenny died on Tuesday In
Bellevue Hospital from delirium tremens. At an
carly ago he the associate Of Patrick Conroy.
Denis Brady. Laurence Griffin and other well known
burglars now serving terms in State Prison Ho had
often been In custody. tho last occasion being on
the 20tn inst. when he WAS charged with stealing
two packages Of cashmere valued ut $43 from an
Adams Express Company wagon In Broadway.
The theft boldly and cleverly executed.
Policeman Hogan arrested him. and Justice Otter.
bourg held him for trial In default OF 81 100 hail.
When he signing his formal statement attached
TO the aflidavt against him his hand shook like q
leaf. His lawyer said. John. you were on q spree
last nightr' "Yes," he answered. "I've been drink
hard for the past week." On Monday night while In
his cell awaiting trial. no attacked with delirium
trcmcns and put In . strsitjackct. Hc be-
came more violent, and the Tombs physician or
dered hts removal TO the hospital He has relatives
who will attend his funeral to-day.
The New York herald., 1879-12-25
TEACHER AND PUPIL.

The little village of. Atlanticville. L. L. 10 much
exercised over difficulty in the public school be-
tween the principal and pupil. Gilbert Downs is
principal Of the school, and Monday the Dupdl.
William Davis. having left the school yard during
recess to attend baseball match. special
ger was sent to bring him back. but he refused to
return, and remained away tho balance of the day.
Anticipating logging on Tuesday he prepared
himself to receive II with rs little pain possible
by putting three pairs OF pantaloons and padding
the inside pair with cotton waddng. The teacher
called him from his seat to show why he
should not be punished for his disobediencet
and he did not give reasonable excuse
the teacher laid on with his rattan but never once
made Davis vince. and the giggling Of some Of the
older scholars, who were in the secret. convinced
him that something was wrong. When he discovered
the trick he ordered Davis to take OF lis coat to
ceve the fogging on his back. Davis refusing Q
scuie ensued. and Davis claims that he was struck
in the by the teachers clenched hst. The
teacher does not deny it, but offers the excuse that
the blows uninteptional. Davis face bears
marks Of them. The scufe resulted In victory for
the teacher, who Invested Davis of both coat and
vest and laid the rattan his back until ~ IL
stated, he had made black and blue ridges on his
fesh. At recess Davis quilted the school, and going
home showed his injuries to his uncle. who forth.
with obtained from Justice Foster warrant, and
Constable Squires took the pedagogue into custody
and before the court, where he pleaded not guilty
and obtained Adjournment Of the trial until
Saturday.