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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-23
Chase After q Observation-Disclosures

Chase After Observation-Disclosures.
A correspondent writing from Chand-
bally to an East Indian paper gives some
particulars of q man-eating alligator:
"The rivers of Orissa are infested with
alligators, and every now and then one
of these creatures acquires reputation
as q man-eater, and is then hunted down.
Early last week information was brought
to Mr.. Chapman, inspector of police of
Chandbally. that man had been carried
of. 1t appears the poor fellow was ly-
ing in his boat, with his feet hanging
over the side, when the alligator made
snap at his feet, pulling him into the
water and made off. On receiving this
report, Mr.. Chapman manned his boat
and set off to the Damrah river, some
miles from Chandbally, in pursuit.
After several hours search the mugger
was seen crossing the river, and was
allowed to gain the opposite bank.
After crawling up the bank it proceed
ed to make a meal of Its victim, and
while so engaged was, by lucky shot,
killed on the spot. The inspector had it
cnt omen. and there found in its stomach
twentv-six pairs of brass anklets and
bangles. Weighing no less than fourteen
seers. There were also two sets of gold
earrings and number of toe-rings. 1t
is supposed this alligator must have de.
voured four women, five children and
an unknown number of persons who
wore no iewelry.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-23

the improvement of that river, and the pro-
lection of its alluvial lands. An appropria-
ton of $250,000 is made for payment of
gslaries, and the committee which reported
the bill has an amendment added appro.
priating 1851 900 for strengthening
Mississippi levees. Robertson proposed
that debate shall be continued
next Wednesday evening, the pre-
vious question be then seconded and q
vote taken Thursday. The committee rose
and the order asked by Robertson was made
authorize the local taxation of legal tender
n6tes.. :. Senate amendments to the house
bill for the division of the western judicial
district of Missouri were taken up and con.
Cured "A recess was then taken until
7:45, when memorial services In honor OF
the late Prof. Joseph Henry were held In
the presence of vast audience. The pres
ident and his cabinet, chief justice and
associate judges of the Supreme Court, the
United States senate, the alumni of Prince
ton college, and members of various socie'
ties were present.
FRIDAY, January 1.-THE house
went into committee of the whole on the
private calendar. After laying aside sew
eral bills to report to the house, the bill
was reached for the payment of the 5000, OO(
to the trustees of the Protestant Episcopal
seminary and high school in Virginia, fol-
rent of buildings during the war. Quite .
lengthy discussion eDsued, opponents o.
the bill asserting that it was war claim
and friends of the measure stating that il
was just bill for rent Of property, and the
government was as much bound to pay rem
for this building as for any other building
occupied by it. Without reaching a volt
the committee rose and the house ad
)ourned.
SATURDAY, January l8.-The Geneyt
award bill was taken up as the regula
order of business. A substitute revivini
and continuing the court OF commissioner
of Alabama claims, fixing the number o
judges at threeI requiring the court to con
vene and organize as soon as practicable il
Washington, and limiting its existence t.
Is months, was adopted. 1t also describe
the classes of claims to be considered. Tn
bill as amended by substitute wss thel
passed.-Yeas 113, nays &C.," Ad journed.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-23

~, No. 4, was so badly damaged that she
Apnk A "a feet Of water.
q At riverside the tow boat Ed. Hobbs,
and barge loaded with nails, wers sunk. -.
A Somerset, KY, special reports tint the
river rose IS feet altogether. Seventeen
coal barges and one ferry boat sur above
Smiths shoals and two large ferrY6oats at
Point Elizabeth. All bottom lands are
under watsr and the destruction Of pxoperty
is heavy.
Eightloaded ooal barges were sweptavay
from Willow Run distillery Harbor, West
Covington. One was sunk at the Southern
nilrse lbridgo. The others passed on down.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-23
ReprieVed Too Into.

The execution at Mauch Chunk, Pa, on
the 14th inst, of Sharpe and Mcdonnell,
convicted of the murder of George K.
Smith, coal operator, at Auden,e cid on
the night Of November 9Th, 1863, proved q
most exciting and dramatic affair. A re-
prieve from Governor Hartranft arrived
just one-haf minute after the drop fell,
just thirty seconds too late to save the lives
of the men adjudged guilty Of the muir.
der. The telegraph messenger reached
tho Jail door before the drop
fell, but no heed was taken Of
his knocking and ringing, theywIe of one
OF the culpri:s having previously been ex-
tremely violent outside. When the drop
fell the knocking and ringing continued,
and the sheriff sent out q man to arrest the
parties, whom he imagined to be creating
disturbance. 1t was then found to be q
telegraph messenger with reprieve.
Amidst this excitement the reproaches of
the maddened brothers of Mcdonnell and
the wailings of the beresvod families ont.
side tho culprits seem. to havs been fornaa,
ten, and they remained hanging for thirty
minutes after the drop fell. There is no
reasonable doubt, however, that they were
both dead when the reprieve came.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-23

"A LITTLE fellow in one of our Sun
day chools was asked who made him,
and gave the answer "God;" but when
his turn came again the question, "Who
made this beautiful world and all the
lovely flowers and birds?" was pro-
pounded to him, whereupon he electri-
fed the whole class and struck his horri-
fed teacher speechless by replying care
lessly: THE same old chap."-PortIo'd
advertiser. ="
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-23
A Beautiful JeWess.

Miss Rosa Solomon, a beautiful Jewess Of
Hopkinsville, KY, was on a visit to friends
in Nashville, Tenn; she was engaged to q
man of high standing 1T Cincinnati, and the
nuptials were to be performed on her return
to Hopkinsville. On the 18th inst. she re.
ceived a letter from her betrothed saying he
had changed his mind. She Immediately
took poison and died.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-23

A "RABB1r suppression bill !" ha. been
passed by the legislative assembly of
Victoria. The bill which is intended to
deal with the evil caused in the colony
by superauity of rabbits, was intro
dnced by the minister of lands, who in
moving the second reading drew a vivid
picture of the desolation caused BY them
in certain districts. On the occasion of
recent visit paid by him to district
where they abounded he passed over
tracts which were now CRASHES, the rab-
bits having devoured the heritage, roots
and all. Power is given by the bill to
60 upon private property and destroy
rabbits at the expense of the owner, and
anybody turning rabbits loose in dis
trict is liable to penalty of $50 for
each offence.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-23
BuSinesO Troubles.

Henry Z.lter, brewer, New York city,
has failed; liabilities $4,000.
The Middleboro, Rosedale and Terry Hill
Iron company, England, has failed. Miabil.
tiles &780,O00; assets 4350,000.
n. Mills 4 Co., Wall street brokers, said
to have been brokers for Jay Gould & Co.,
suspended on the 18th, owing to . rapid
rise in Northwestern stock.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-23
Decided Adversely.

The case of Benjamin Soul and others
against the United States, in which the
claim was set up under Spanish grant to
1900 square miles, embracing "a counties
in Missouri and Arkansas, was on the 18th
instant decided by tie United States Su.
preme Court adversely to the claimants.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-23
Whnakv MD II.

A brutal murder was committed during
the night OF the 18th inst, at Browns roll.
ing mills, South Chicago. Frank Donshue,
sged 26, arose in the night from the bed in
which he was sleeping With his friend and
fellow.workman Martin Houston, and taking
a pocket knife stabbed him some twenty
times about the head. When found ii the
morning Houston was dead. Donahue,
who was under the influence Of liquor, ad-
mits the murder and says there wss NO
cause for it except his own condition, he
having been slmost delirious with drink for
some weeks past.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-23

The alarm felt in some quarters lest
the lawyers should devour the land its
inhabitants is not very keenly exper-
fenced as to the Delaware legislature,
which has a doctor for speaker of the
house, but meier a lawyer in either cham
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-23
Street of the Withored Tree.

Baron Hausmann and his successors
have left undisturbed, thus far, in the
heart of Paris, q street which has an air
about it of very old antiquity. The
time was, remarks the London Globe,
when Paris was the most difficult and
awkward city to drive through in the
whole of Western Europe. But the
wonderful changes in late years make it
very curious that in quarter the most
frequented of the city, and where i'm
provements have been the most general,
there should remain street dating from
the seventh century, and famous for its
association with Queen Brunhild, the
'contemporarysof> the not less famous
Fredegonde. 1t is called the "Street of
the Withered Tree" and it was there at
the place where the street is crossed
by the modern Rue de Rivoli that the
execution of Brunhild took place in the
year el3. She had fallen into the hands
of Clothaire, the son of Fredegonde, who
accused her of having caused the death
of ten kings, or sons of kings and ar
raigned her before the officers of the
army, by whom she was con-
demned at the age of eighty, or, as
some assert, ninety, to punishment
considered worthy of her crimes. For
three days she was exposed in mean and
ragged garments ON thesback of camel,
and on the fourth was attached by her
hair and one of her legs to the tail of an
unbroken horse, who as soon as he was
let loose, instantly dashed her to pieces
against the tstones~of Withered Tree
Street." Throughout the middle ages
the street was the resort of seditious
Parisians, and the scene of constant dis
ordera. There was in it. three noted
cofee-houses, which in the later half of
the eighteenth century were frequented
chiefly by the encyclopaedia fraternity.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-23

VERMONT has enacted laws looking to
uniformity and fewer changes of text
books. These laws will 60 into force in
March next, when the annual meetings
will choose two persons in each town and
city, who, together with the town super
intendent, will constitute a text book
committee, to make selections of text
books and to decide what changes of
books shall be made. These member.
hold Office for five years.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-23
Powder Mil Explosiou.

The Giant powder works of Baudmsnn,
Nelson & Co., situated near San Francisco,
Cal, exploded on the 18th inst. Oscar
Carlson, Edward Morez, samel Thayer, and
Chinanan, were killed. Several China.
men and whites were more or less hurt
The works were completely demolished.
LOSS about $4,000.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-23
ALARMING Mortallly.

1t is reported by the friends of Represen.
tative J. A. Hubbell, Of Michigan, that it
has been necessary to send him to his home
in Michigan in charge Of an attendant on
account Of quite serious threatened illness
Representative Thornbursh; Of Tennessee,
according to latest advices, is still danger
ously i'll of pneumonia. Representative
Finley, Of Ohio, had . very danger
Gus hemor1hage Of the lungs which may
possibly prove fatal, and on the 18th the
funeral Of Representative lschleicher, the
fourth member who has died within thirty
days, was held in the House Of Representa-
tiyes. + f .,.,., Il
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-23
Blown Up.

\ blasting fuse in the factory of Rockford
4 Co., Simsbury, c., was blown up on the
10th, and Lizzie Wallace, aged 20, Ann
Wall, II, and Nellie McNuity, II, were
killed. Mrs. Alexander Kerr and Peter
Dolan were slightly injured. The accident
was caused by friction of machinery.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-23

By new law in Georgia murder is to
be punished by death, unless tho jury
shall recommend imprisonment for life,
or the judge shall, in his discretion, ex-
tend that clemency where the conviction
has been found solely in circumstantial
ov;1opco
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-23
XIII the TFampS.

A dispatch from Atchison, Kansas, dated
the 18th, says: "a fire, the work of tramps,
destroyed the round house and machine
shops of the Atchison and Nebraska rail.
road, in this city, this morning. Four en-
gines and all the repair machinery of the
company are destroyed. Loss about $780,.
OOO
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-23

CALIFORNIA is experiencing the cold
est weather known in that state since
1850. The temperature during the win
ter has most frequently ranged between
4O' and 650 Fahrenheit. This winter it
has fallen to l5', and in some places
even lower.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-23

GEN. G. K. WARREN maintains that
the Minnesota valley and the Mississippi
valley have been formed since the de-
position of the glacial drift, that the loess
deposits extending up to Savannah are
later than the glacial drift, and that
channels at the Des Moines rapids and
river terraces in that vicinity are more
recent than the loess. This is based to a
great extent on the hypothesis of south
ern elevation and northern depression of
the land.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-23
Drowned.

A dispatch from Philippopolis states 9
railway train fell into river on the
18th, and that Russian general, several
9th officers and two hundred men were
drowned. The accident was caused by
breaking down Of the bridge.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-23

James Il. Prentice, owner OF two large
hat factories in Brooklyn, failed, and made
an assignment. Liabilities $500, 600; 700
employees 1hro IN out of work. {
The City Savings Bank of Oswego, N. Y,
closed its doors on the 18th inst.
jenkins, Lane 4 Sons, boot and shoe
dealers, Boston, have failed. Liabilities
about $225, 1000. The failure is owing to
heavy losses in the south by bad debts during
the past few years. -'
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-23
A Murderous Neteor.

State Geologist Cox, Of Indiana, has dis
patched Maj. j. J. Palmer to Fountain coun-
ty to procure for the state museum TIE
meteoric stone reported to have fallen near
Newton, Ind, on the night Of the 18th inst,
killing Leondias Glover, farmer, while
ssleep in his bed, coming through the roof
Of his house and going through bic body,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-23
An Expensive Blase.

The FIRE on Worth and Church streets,
New York, on the night of the 18th inst,
will cause, it is said, the suspension Of six
or eight small insurance companies. The
The block in which the FIRE occurred was re-
gsrded as valuable, in the goods stored
there, as any single block in the city. The
following are the insurances: On build.
ings, $6e, 900 in twelve companies; Schnabel
Bros, $4,000 in twenty-eight companies;
Male & Co., $4,000 in twenty.one compa.
MES; Forstman 4 Co., $4,000 in twenty.
four companies; Walkenshaw 4 Voight,
$443, 900 in sixty companies; Thompson,
Langdou & Co., $1,000; Van Williamsburg.
Lesvitt K Co., $4,000 in l03 companies.
The losses are still estimated at 100000.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-23
sunk with Al On nosr.,.

The Spanish steamer Yruracbat, from Bal.
timore, via Liverpool, arrived at Corunna,
Spain, iu damaged condition. She reports
having come in collision with the British
sailing vessel Lancashire, which she sunk
with all on board.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-23
Southern Mail Claims.

Representative Singleton has introduced
in the house bill to provide for the pay.
ment Of southern mail contractors. It au-
thorizes the payment Of fifty per cent. of all
such claims as have been audited. and
whatever balance remains out of the
amount appropriated ($375,000) after such
payment shall be held for one year to meet
claims which shall hereafter be audited, the
balance then remaining to be divided among
the claimants.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-23

Mr.. SPuRaEoN is credited with this
design on hubby's happiness: "When
l am marrying young couples lgenerally
tell the young lady to let her husband
be the head, for that is according to
Scripture and nature; but always ad-
wise her to be the neck, and twist him
round which way she likes"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-23

THERE are healthy, grown-up men 60
anxious to appear in print that they will
sign patent medicine certificate swear
ing that they have had worms baffled by
vermifuge, or anything else.-Ne.o Or
leans P;ocyune.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-23

THERE will be All annular eclipse of
the sun on January p, 1879, commenc-
ing in Uruguay, whence the central
line, sweeping over the south Atlantic,
passes over Tristan d Acunha, and crosses
the continent of Africa toward Pemba
island, north of Zanzibar. The middle
OF the eclipse will be at i :06 p. NJ, local
mean time
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-23

TEMPERANCE societies have lately been
formed in Hanover and Gottingen, with
\ view, not of preventing the use of beer,
but of reducing its consumption to mod
crate proportions.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-23
Ohioauo.

CHICAGO, January 1871 20 P. M.-Wheat
and firm at $3.50 for cash; 831e
bid for seller February; S4Lc for seller
March. CONFIRM and steady; 1890 bid
for cash; 90@30Nc for seller February; 30Ac
for seller March. Oats ::and Rye-Dull and
unchanged. Barley-Weaker at Ole for
seller February. Pork-Excited, active and
higher at $S.65 for cash ; $3.50 for seller
February; $S.S2h for seller March. Lard
At s5.S7H for cash; 1896 asked for seller
February; 1906 for seller March. Whi.ky
At $l.N. Hogs-Receipts $4,000 head !;
moderately active and firm and 5@lOc
higher on heavy; better Oh light; light at
$2.76@2 80; heavy packing at $2.75@3.1O;
shipping at $2.9O@3.15.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-23

The delicate question Of whether a
livery stable on a fashionable street is q
nuisance or not was decided in the mega
tive by Judge Dillon, of the United
States court, in St. Louis, Last week.
That is to say, the court removed the
injunction served against the parties
who had begun to erect such stable,
but intimated, that though a stable was
not necessarily nuisance, it might be-
come one, in which case it could be
easily suppressed.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-23
Gu DAVIDSON, Proprietor.
VARIOUS TOPICS.

DAKOTA is growing in wealth and
rapidly filling UP. The assessed valua-
ton has increased sixty per cent. in
twelve months.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-23
THE MARKETS.
Nov York.

NEW YORK, January 1873 go p. M.-Cot-
ton-Quiet at 9 7.l6c for middling uplands.
Flour-Quiet; receipts 1900 bb]s sales
10000 bbls. Wheat-Quiet; receipts 43, 900
bus; No. 2 red call seller January at $l.lO
bid. cRYe-Dull. Corn-Quiet; receipts
7, 900 bus; sales 10000 bus at 44}1947 10
for western mixed. Barley-Unchanged
Oats-Quiet; receipts $4,000 bus; sales 49,
ego bus at 30h@32hc for mixed western !;
33@S6c for white. Pork-Firm at $40.
Lard-Firmer ut $685.. Butter and Cheese
Whisky-At $l.1O. Eggs
Unchanged. Petroleum-Crude unchanged;
refined 9hc. Coal-Firm. Leather-Dull
at l9@22c. Wool-At 27@43.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-23
milwaukee

MILWAUKEE, January $500 P. NJ
Flour-Steady; choice spring at $4.35@450;
common to fair at $3.25@3.75. Wheat
Tame; No. l hard at 94c; No. at SIC: No.
2 ct 8S}5c; No. 3 at 69c; No. 4 at 6OLc; No. 2
seller February at Sac, and sell
Ter March at S5c. Corn - Very
dull ut 29c. for No 2, and 25xc for new.
Oats-Dull at 1870. Barley-Weak and
lower at SOC; No. 3 at 4214c. Pork-Held
higher; mess pork at $3.50. Lard-At 5000
@6.6O. Hogs-Higher at $260@S. 90:
dressed at $3.S7X03.45.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-23
Elected senator

A dispatch dated Candahar, January 8
says: Gen. Stewart received intelligence
that Yakoob Khan has fled from Cabul.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-23
Fled from Cobul.

The sheep farmers in Scotland, by the re.
cent storms, lost over l0o, 900 head of sheep.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-23
Form t. Pieces,

A Clear Lake, Mimi, dispatch says Ger.
olan named Miske fell upon circular Jaw
and was absolutely torn to pieces.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-23
Frlshtful Railroad Accident.

AtSt. Petersburg letter dated January IL.
says: A collision occurred ON tho Warsaw
railway, thirty miles FROM st. Petersburg,
on the 10th inst, by which twenty persons
were killed and thirty-two injured, twenty.
one dangerously.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-23

LARGE type-founderies and extensive
job.printers have declared "boy print
ers" and amateurs nuisance" They
pay no rent, taxes nor insurance, and
obtain their stock at little or no cost,
turn out Indifferent work, which lowers
the standard of public taste in such
matters, and which completes in price
with experienced workmen and high
grade printing, to the great disadvantage
of the latter,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-23
Another l,nlls>,~ un..>.

=. oO1@401JL1RO11V1s
A dispatch from Cardiff, Wales, dated the
l4th inst. says: An explosion occurred in
the Divas colliery, Rhondds valley, last
night. About sixty persons are believed to
have been killed. The greatest excitement
prevails in Ponty Pridd and neighborhood,
densely populated district. It il said
there are ffty.eight men in pit. The OK.
plosion was very violent and it is feared
none of the men escaped. The bottom of
the shaft is temporarily impossible. No
attempt at rescue can be made yet.
Eighty yards of the roof of the Dinas
mine at the shaft have fallen since tho OK.
plosion, stopping ventilation. Explorers
cannot enter the mines. There is no hope
OF rescue for the SIXTY men entombed.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-23
NEWS. IN BRIEF.
Comnsun,ses Peraoued.
Lost Sheen.

A decree pardoning 2,2$6 communists was
gazetted At Paris, on the 18th inst. ! ~.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-23
EQraiRu.

LONDON, January 1912 80 p. M.-Liv.
erpool wheat market opens unaltered; float
ing cargoes steady. Weather in England,
showing.