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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-11-24
SpIf.MllPhRP.

Something novel in the way of cause for
suicide was developed in North Carolina, on the
18th where a young lady hanged herself through
modification at the defeat of her father for the
legislature.
+, @. Close closed his life and his worldly
troubles at Leadville, on the night of the 18th,
by cutting his throat.
Herman Schmidt, 3G years of age, Mil
waukee taloon keeper, committed suicide in his
room at Gruener's hotel, Buffalo, on the 18th
inst, by blowing his brains out with a revolver.
His alleged wife, German actress, recently de-
serted him and married Prof. Wahle, q musi-
clan residing in Buffalo; hence Schmidt's de-
spair. Mrs. Wahle denies ever having been
married to the deceased.
James B. Ferguson, we'll farmer liv
ing about four miles west of Bedford, Ind,
hung himself on the 18th inst, in an out-build-
ing attached to his farm. The cause of the
suicide is supposed to be the seduction of his
handsome and accomplished daughter, by a
her on the 10th. and, after the ceremony, left
for parts unknown.
An inmate of the insane asylum in Essex
county, New Jersey, hanged herself with rope
made from her stockings and garters.
john Dre~,sa private scIderof the 26 artillery,
under arrest at Fort McHenry, Baltimore, for
sleeping at his post, blew out his brains with q
rifle which had been csrelessly left at the door
of his cell.
William H. Baars, bank bookkeeper at
Grand Rapids, Mich, shot himself through the
heart IN the family lot at the cemetery, on the
18th inst.
Thomas Pryor, prominent citizen of New
ark, o., shot himself fatally on the 18th, while
laboring under a fit of mental arrangement.
Christian Calk, tired of life, hanged himself al
Corning, O., on the 18th.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-11-24
False Imprisonment. t.

Two years ago John Shufeldt was tried at
North Adams, Mass, for the murder of his
wife, and the jury happened not to send him to
the scaffcld. On the 18th the Sheriff at North
Adams made the discovery that Shufeldt's wife,
for whose murder he had been tried, was alive
md,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-11-24
Rather Decisive.

At the lato election in Nevada the voters
were expected to express their views by ballot
on the question of Chinese immigration. Storey
county returns IS in favor to s, ,114 against the
presence of Celestials.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-11-24
NEWS IN BRIEF.
GOOd-BYe JOhny

The Chinese are going. The British steamer
Oceanic took $50 Of them from San Francisco
on the 18th, and will set them down, some al
Yokohama, and some at Hong Kong.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-11-24
Iragical

Jerry and Charles Williams, colored, quar-
re,xa2 ss.- Glie ~ louisville, Ky., when the
former stabbed the latter to the heart, killing
him instantly.
William Engelskincher fatally shot John
Meahan during an affray in saloon at New
NJ. r. Rhehocek, Bohemian. attempted to
murder Anna Greaser, q st. Louis nymEh, on the
Goth, and then killed himself. The woman will
recover.
Phillip Boil, steamboat engineer, was found
at the foot of flight of stairs belonging to a
20th, in an insensible condition, and died short
ly after. Tho fatal wound was inflicted with a
heavy instrument. Five parties are under
arrest, charged with the crime.
Daniel Connors, who had mother and other
relatives in Chicago, was shot dead on the 10th
inst, at Lincoln, ILL.,, by John Clare, evidently
OH suspicion Of criminal intimacy with his wife.
Tom Pepper and Sam Muse qllarreled over a
game of cards at MENDOZA, Va, on the 18th
inst, and Pepper shot Muse dead.
Two prisoners charged with demonstrating
were taken from the jail of Sabine Parish, La,
by regulators on the 18th inst, and shot.
| Dick Morgan loved Mrs. Berry Bunch, OF
| wisely but too we'll. Mrs. Bunch's husband
stood in the way, and Morgan removed him on
the night of the 46th, by blowing out his brains
with shot gun. Morgan is now in JAIL and
Mrs. Bunch mourns the fate of husband and
| lover.
DR.. Caldwell was waylaid and assassinated
near Tcxarcana, Ark, on the 18th inst.
Eddy Powers ha confessed to having shot
and killed Chinaman, named Ye Mon, at Chi
cage, claiming that he acted in self-defense.
An nofensive old man named William Mat
tOcks was murdered near Donald's depot,
Charleston, S. G., on the night of the 18th,
Two men demanded lodgings and on being de-
MED killed the old gentleman and appropriated
his money-S700.
In row at Moreland station, Ky., on the
Cincinnati Southern railway on the 10th inst,
| Cave Rowsey and A. Glen we're wounded, the
| latter mOrtally.
Geo. Bates (colored) was stabbed to death ~
| Mary Burns. a former mistress of Lis at ST.
Louis, No., on the 18th inst.
James Meadows, marshal of Salida, COL, a
| town near the Denver and Rio G>ande railway
was fatally shot few inches below the heart,
| on the 18th inst, by a desperate named Bax-
ter, who was creating a disturbance at a dance
house in the place.
The wife of Samuel David, son of a. J.
David, prominent lawyer Of New York, was
found murdered on the 18th inst, on the porch
| of his house.
| Tobias Laughln, an engineer on the Wabash
| railroad, was shot dead by man named Flan-
| nigan, in a saloon fight at st. Louis, No., on
| the 18th inst. Daniel Laughhn, brother of
| the deceased, received a wound through the
lungs in the same fight.
Daniel Troutman, an aged farmer, residing
near Uniontown, Dauphin county, Pa, was
awakened, by burglars on the night of the 18th
inst. Troutman fired on the thieves when they
returned the compliment, killing the brave old
man Troutman, before he expired, stated
that he recognized his murderer as a man
named Henry Romberger. The latter is unde,
arrest.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-11-24
Fatal Roller ExDlosio,,.

On the 18th inst. the boiler in Capt. O'Neal's
saw and grist mill near Stevenson, Ala, ex-
ploded, killing four men, fatally wounding two
and inflicting serious injuries on two more. The
collapse was the result of careless engineering.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-11-24
Texas OutlaWrY.

On the 10th inst. Dallas, 1exas, was thrown
into great excitement by the arrival of forty
armed farmers bringing the body of dead
man and recounting the boldest robbery evel
bv two masked men, knocked down and robbed
Being oyortaken by a party in pursuit, he Joined
them. Five other farmers were met who had
been robbed, and they joined in the pursuit
The outlaws were overtaken within three miles
of the city, where fight occurred, and one
robber, recognized as Odum Curlcy, of Nash
vile, Tenn, killed. The other escaped, carry
ing eighteen buckshot in his body. Eleve1
farmers are known to have been robbed. Boil
men are thought to be implicated in herobbely
of Adams & Leonard's bank, recently.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-11-24

nNNmbusiness now before the public. You
n3liAlYS lean make money faster at work for us
RklE' than at anything else. apital not re-
n1|Iiv quired. Wewl start you. $12 day
Dvuky and upwards made at home by the in
~ dustrious. Men, women, boys and girls
wanted everywhere to work for us Now is the tirne
You devote your whole time to the work, or only
your spare moments. No other b1sness will pay Won
nearly as well. No one willing to work can fail to
make enormous pay by engaging at once. Costly
Outfit and terms free. great opportunity for max
ing money easily and honoraby. Address TRUE g.
Co., Augusta, Maine. 19.m
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-11-24
Chicago
milwaukee,

MILWAUKEE,, November 20-3:00 P. M.-Flour
Movement light but prices strong; choice
spring extras at s5.25@5.75; standard extras at
$4.25@4.35; common extras at $3.95@4.15;
choice patent spring at $7.25@7.75; common to
and higher for futures; No. 2 seller December
at S1.O8; seller January at $1.09A: No. hard
at S1.1411S; No. at S1.09; No. hard at Sill;
No. regular at $1.071s; No. at 94c; No. at
S3c. Corn-Tame at 42%c. Oats-Quiet at
32c. Bsrley-hregular; opened at SOC fo cash,
seller December and January and sold down to
86c, closing at SIC for futures and 86c for cash.
Pork-Steady at $14.00 for cash new Lard
At S8 36 for cash.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-11-24
FOPei1ns

LONDON, November 20-12:30P. P. M.-Liverpool
wheat market opens with good demand; average
California at 9s 1d@10s lid; floating cargoes
red winter wheat off coast at 49s; good cargoes
mixed American corn off coast at 28s; good car
goes No. 2 spring wheat off coast at 48s Cd.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-11-24

Hill Great chance to make money. We want
n0Jll1 LIONS 10Y the largest, cheapest and best
world. Anyone can become q successful agent Six
elegant works Of art given free to subscribers The
price Is so low that almost everybody subecribes One
agent reports making over $500 clear profit in 10 days
All who engage make money fast. You can devote
Al your time to the business only your spare time
can do it IS we'll others. Full directions and terms
hse. Elegant and expensive Outfit Free If you want
profitable work send your address once It costs
nothing to try the business. No one who engages
fails to make great pay. Address GEO. eIINsoN l.
Co, Portland, Maine. 10-om
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-11-24
ASphYXiateds

When Daniel Burr, watchman in rail mill at
Cleveland, O., left home for work on the night
of the 10Th inst, his wife and three children
were we'll and his three-vear-old daughter fol-
lowed him to the gate to kiss him. When he
returned next morning the house was locked and
there was no sign of life. Climbing through u
window he was Mortified to find the whole fam
lily dying and senseless, powerful odor Of gas
from base-burner stove pervading the air.
The little daughter who last kissed him was
dead and the mother, an eleven-year-o old
and woman friend of the family was sitting
at the foot of the bed in senn-comatose con-
dition. The last-nanled may recover. The
others will probably die.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-11-24
An Insane Asvlu,n Destroved.


On the night of the 18th inst, a fire broke out
in the basement of the north wing of the state
insane asylum at St. Peter, Mimi, and in u
short space of time that portion of the immense
building was a mass Of ruins. The superin-
tendent ordered the release of al patients al
soon as the danger became imminent, and the
poor, demented creatures were rushed out in
the cold, many of them barefooted and half
clothed. Their sufferings were irightful and
many of them must succumb to the exposure of
that terrible night. Reports of fatalities are
indefinite and conflicting, though the latest ad-
vices place the loss of life at from ten to twelve
There were over six hundred patients in the in
stitution at the time of the disaster. The pc
cuniary loss to the state is estimated at $500,
600. upon which there is 10 insurance.
On the 18th inst. the deaths from the catas-
trophe at st. Peter, Mlnn., numbered 80, and
the officers are of the opinion that this is the
full list. Some of the patients that are now
missing and counted as dead may turn up vet,
but it is not very probable.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-11-24
THE MARKETS.
New York.

NEW YORK, November 20-3:00 P. M.-Flour-
Strong; moderate export and light jobbing trade
demand; receipts 25,4 483 bbls; round hoop Ohio
at $5.10@5.50; choice do at $5.6O@6.25; super
western at S3.8O@4.4Q: common to good extra
do at $4.SO@5.10; choice do at S5.75@6.5 50;
cboicc white wheat do at $4.75@4. 80. Wheat
15@s4c better; fairly active; sales 10000 bus
No. white seller December at s1.21]3@1.21M;
24,0O0 bus dc seller January at $1.25; 10000
bus No. 2 red seller November at S1.23&@
1.24; 16O. 900 bus do seller December at $1.z45a
@125; 232, 900 bus do seller January at S1.26&
@1.27I; $4,000 bus do seller February at
at $1.2956. Coma shade frmer and quiet;
at 5715@G2c. Oats-Without decided change;
western at 42@50c. Beef-Unchanged trade
light; plain mess at $3.50; lew extra do at
$3.50. Pork-Firm; mess at $14.50@1475.
Lard-Stronger; steam rendered at $8.8236.
Butter-Fmm and rather quiet; Ohio at 14@26c.
Cheese Firm at 7@1S4c for poor to choice:
sugar-steady and quiet. MolassesmQuiet land and
and fairly active. Coffee-Quiet and steady.
Freights-Unchanged Spirits of Turpentine
Firm at 47c. Resin Strong at S1.8O@1.s5: Tai.
Firm at 2s@26]5c for fair to choice.
Chicago.
CHICAGO, November 2O-1:30 P. M.-Wheat-
Strong and higher at $1.09119 for cash; $1.09&
for seller January; s1.10N for seller February
Corn-Strong and higher at 1870 for cash ane
seller December; 1890 for seller January; 48s4'
bid for seller May. Oats-Frm and higher al
| 1890 for cash; 32c for seller December; 33c fo
for seller January; S7ssc for seller May. Rye
Higher at S61&c. Barley-Lower at SIC. Whisk.
AT Sill. Pork-Firm and higher at $13.25@
49, IS for cash; $12.5O asked for seller December
$3.50 for seller January. Lard-Firm ant
higher at $8.3 asked for cash; 1885 for selle
| January; $S.45 for seller February. Hogs
Receipts 81, 900 head; for the week 800, 900 head
! largest on record; moderately active, light q
S4.6o@4.75; mixed packing at $4.50@475
heavy shipping at s4.7O@4.95. Cattle-Receipt
| 5000 head; for the week $4,000 head: larges
on record: exports at $5.S0@6.55; good t
choice shipping at $4.60@5.00: common to me
dunn at $3.60@4.4 40; butchers at $2.S5; stocker
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-11-24

had sprung leak and was sinking fast.
The crew was working With might and main at
the pumps, but to no purpose. There were
eleven mon on board at the time. and, as moth
ing has been heard of the Jane Glasgow, all
must have perished.
The British ship Galatea, bound for Bombay,
India, has foundered of the southwestern coast
of Ireland and twenty persons have been
drowned. A two-masted schooner, the Mary
Fisher, has gone to pieces at Oregon Inlet on
the North Carolina coast: The crew were all
saved.
The schooner Abraham Lincoln has been lost
off the coast of Liberia, thirty persons finding
graves in the sea. Among them was James B.
McGill; grandson of q well-known colored resi-
dent of Baltimore.
A steamer WAS lost off st. Governs Head,
Wales, on the 10th. Six bodies we're washed
ashore.
The schooner E. NJ. Darlington, lumber laden,
filed with water and rolled over when twenty
five miles from Milwaukee, Wis.,, on the 18th
inst. Her crew Of five men were all lost.
The large Morning Star, Capt. J. W. Thomp-
son, has been lost OH Lake Erie, with all hands,
seven in number. She was valued at $40, 900,
and had cargo of 4O, 600 bushels Of wheat.
Railway Mishaps.
Wabash trackmen took up the rails near Lo'
gansp0rt, Ind, on the 10Th inst, and freight
train rushed upon the broken track. Engineer
BaDcOch WIS Kllled, FIREMAN ttOrydan injured,
and eight cars smashed.
By the collapse of a bridge over Hickory
Creek on the Dallas and Wichita railroad, on
the 18th inst, passenger train was wrecked.
Three men were Killed instantly, two were NOR
tally and eight seriously wounded.
A pay car on the Hooking valley railroad was
ditched by collision near Lancaster, O., on the
18th inst, fatally injuring Bent. Pearce, engi
| neer. No one else was hurt.
special train carrying four companies OF
the sixteenth infantry, struck broken rail toln
miles above Galveston, Texas, on the 10th inst
-Four coaches were ditched. Twenty-Five 1ne1
| we're wounded, several seriously.
| A train on the Lehigh valley road wal
wrecked at Mill Creek, Pa, on the 18th inst, by
| broken rail. The locomotive and two passenger
! cars were destroyed by fire. Firemen Dween!
was instantly killed and engineer Murphy badly
burned. None of the passengers were injured
At l P. NJ, on the 18th inst, as the nortl
bound passenger train on the Alabama Grea
Southern was passing Elyton, Ala, the engine
! struck mule standing on the road, throwing
| the engine down the embankment twenty fee
| high, wrecking it. Jas. B. McFerron, son o.
the Rev. DR.. J. II. McFerron, agent of tn
| Southern Methodist publishing house at Nash
vile, who was in the baggage car, thinking t.
escape, and expecting the baggage car to follow
| the course of the engine jumped in the opposite
direction. The baggage car fell on him. Som'
| of the passengers were slightly bruised.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-11-24

brotherliving in Chicago and another in Saginaw,
Mich. A List of registered bonds, footing up
considerably over $1O0, 1000, and other valuables,
were found.
George j. Bolton, widely known as hotel
leaving his family $50, 900 insurance policy.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-11-24

IL BARRIERS nn0 HAIR DKESSERS
Rooms under Mower County Bank, Main
street, Austin MINI. Satisfaction guaranteed
or no pay. All branches of the business con-
Quoted in the most approved style. Baths
plunge or shower, hot or cold-attached.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-11-24

The Vidette says Mrs. Harrison r.
Conklin, widow of William H. Copklin,
Of Spring Valley, has received $2,050
back pension, and certificate emitting
her to Samonth during her widowhood.
A SHORT time since eighteen sacks of
grain were found near Rock Dell, Olm-
sted county. Mr.. Ellies, of Byron,
Waseca county, had that number stolen,
and they are supposed to belong to him.
E. BAKER, son of s. 81. Baker, Of Mar
ion, Olmsted county, is in Jail in Roches-
ter for selling cattle belonging to his
father and brother and skipping with the
proceeds. He was arrested in st. Paul.
NOTHING has yet been heard from B.
J. Smith, and it is feared that he mis-
took the road leading to the old steam
boat landing for the one to the bridge,
and in the darkness fell into the river
and was drowned. Hewas IS years old.
-Taytor's Falls Journal, Nov. 19.
The old question of the division of
Polk county is coming up before the
legislature this winter, The Ada Alert
thus outlines the wishes of the southern
part of the county in the matter: It is
proposed to divide the county on the
north line of township 147. This would
give us five tiers of townships and the
upper part seven, the lions share still.
The southern county, divided as above,
would have an assessed valuation of
$500, 900, two-ffths of the whole county
valuation, and population Of over 4 ,0Oc.
This is q greater valuation and larger
population than that possessed by both
Marshall and Kittson counties. This
part of the county is being settled up
and developed by one-third faster than
the northern part. Two or three years
more will see US equal, at least, with the
upper part, in point of population. We
are now able and willing to start coun-
ty government, and will by one means OF
another seek to accomplish division.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-13
THE MOREY LETTER.

A Mysterious Witness-No New Develop
ments Nor Any Fresh Arrests or Indict-
ments.
NEW YORK, Nov. 13.-In connection with
the Morey letter case, several Witnesses from
Cumberland were In the district attorneys
office to- day. strange witness was with
them who, 1t is said, has important revela-
tions to make. He was taken into Assistant
District Attorney Bells private Office and q
long consultation took place, after which he
was taken to the Office of United States Com
missioner Davenport, and Col. Bliss, of the
counsel for the prosecution In the Philip
cese, was sent for. O'Brien, alias Lindsay,
was brought to the district attorneys Office
from the Tombs at noon. At that hour the
grand jury adjourned until Monday. They
presented an indictment to the court.
Assistant District Attorney Bell this even
ing, while leaving his Office, said there were
no new developments in the Chinese letter
case; that no more arrests were cont -mplat-
ed or would be made tonight. Tho grand
jury will not meet again until Monday, and
it is said no indictments will be presented
before that day. Other reports are that in
al prominent Democrats and also against
some newspaper men. Justice Morgan, who
took the confession of both O'Brien, alias
Lindsay, and s. s. Morey, stated to day that ne
newspaper as yet published the full oonfes-
sions, which implicate several persons whose
names are for the present withheld. Judge
Davis decision in the case of Philip will be
given tomorrow.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-13
A Small Blaze.

Last night, at precisely e:s7 o'clock an
alarm was turned in at box "a, and steamers
l, 2 and 4 hastened to the scene Of confia-
grafton, which was in small shanty, used
as tool house by the car repairers of the
West Wisconsin railway. 1t was situated
near the rear of the st. Paul and Manitoba
freight house, and far removed from any
hydrant, it taking 1900 feet of hose for en-
gine No. 2 to get water on the fire. Besides
being repository for tools the building had
also been used to store oil in, and this burn
ed fiercely. Very little in value of the con-
tents of the shanty we're saved. Engine No.
8 started out, but finding that the fire was
nearly out and the building destroyed re-
turned to its quarters.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-13
A Bad Balk.

A balky team, consisting of bold, bad
horse hitched up with depraved mule, q
rickety wagon loaded with wood, Niger
loaded with benzine, and black snake whip,
attracted considerable attention not far from
the foot of East Seventh street yesterday
forenoon. There was the usual crowd, as a
matter of course, and equally as matter of
course each man in the asssmblage knew of
an infallible way to start that team, and it
was down for dead certainty that none of
those ways would work on that team. The
son Of Ham would swing his whip and
yell, and the horse would Jump
into the collar Just once with
spasmodis energy, while the mule would sit
down in the breeching and go to sleep, the
fiery, and untamed, etc.. plunging about the
while like very cruiser. Then he got dis
couraged and sulked. It was now the time
for the mule to wake up. He winked at q
woman on the crosswalkj lifted out the front
end board of the wagon piece at time, as
if to estimate the size of the load, and made
frantic efort-not to start. After this he
quieted down and stopped to think Of some
thing he couldn't remember, while the horse,
the Niger and the whip jumped
and kicked and cracked and
swore at q tremendous rate.
The mule varied the exercises by singing
melliauous song, reached out one of his
rear fippers and nudged bystander in the
ribs as hint to join in the chorus, which he
did with will, just as the mule was drop
ping into revery again, leaving the fellow to
sing it out alone. The horse spattered mud
about, the niger howled and screamed with
rage, the mule wept silently, and the whole
outft was still stuck fast when the reporter
left.