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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-04-08
A Romantic Spot.
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Looking from the windows of the
Yates House across the falls, up these
turreted rocks, you can scarcely realize
the fact that it is more than 8 mile to
the summit. Just below the falls is an
overhanging rock of immense size jut-
ting out about one hundred feet over the
seething whirlpool, and about the same
height above. This was once the scene
of remarkable adventure: The In
dams were in hot persuit Of .one Van
Bibber, settler and a man of distinc-
tion in those early times. He was hard
pressed, and, all accesses to the river
below and above being cut of, heswas
driven to this jutting rock, which proved
to be the jumping-of place for him. He
stood on the rock, in full view of the
enemy above and below, who yelled like
demons at the idea and certainty of his
speedy capture. He stood up boldly,
and when his rifle kept them at bay.
AS he stood there he looked across the
river over these wild waters and saw
his friends-saw his wife with her babe
in her arms, all powerless to render assis-
tanoe, They stood as if ~petrifed with
terror and amazement. She cried at
the top Of her voice: Leap into the
river and meet mel" Laying her babe
on the grass, she seized the oars, and
sprang into skiff, and alone, with
only God to help her and love to nerve
her, her boat. so light and fragile,
danced on the waters, boiling like a sea.
As she neared the middle of the river
her husband saw the Indians coming in
full force and yelling like. demons.
Wife, wife" he screamed "I'm COM
ing; drop down a little lower" With
this he sprang like chamois from his
crag descended like an arrow into the
water, feet foremost. The wife rested
on-her oars moment to see him rise to
the surface, the little canoe floating like
q cork, bobbing about on the boiling
flood. It was an awful moment; it SEEM
ed an age to her; would he ever rise?
Her earnest gaze seemed to penetrate
the depths of the water, and she darted
her boat farther down the stream. He
rose near her; in a moment the canoe
was alongside of him, and she helped
him to scramble into it amid a shower of
arrows and shot that the baff1ed Indians
poured into them. The daring wife did
not speak word; her husband was more
dead than alive ty concussion of the
lungs and viscera, and all depended on
her strength being maintained till they
could reach the bank. This they did,
just where she had started, right where
the babe was lying, growing and laugh
ing. The men pulled the skif high up
on the sand, and the wife slowly arose
and helped to Lift Van Bibber. to his feet.
He could not walk, but she laid him
down by his babe, and then, seating her
self, she wept wildly just like any other
woman would have done under the cir.
cumstances. That babe is now grand
father; the faithful wife and her hus-
band are both gone above the shivering
I" "starnies, " and that rock is called T" Van
Bibber's Rock to this day.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-04-08

The Death Roll at st. GOth0fds
The number OF men killed in the st. Gothard
tunnel from the commencement Of the UNDER
taking to the end, February 8, amounted to 120;
wounded, 400.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-04-08

James Madison Wyatt Stone, mulatto about
Washington, D. c., on the End inst, for the
murder Of bis wife on the night of November
9Th, 1873. The gallows was twenty feet high.
with platform ten feet square and drop OF
about five feet. At 1:1O P. NJ. the moose was
placed around Stones mech, the knot under the
left ear. The signal was given, the drop fell,
and the 9s body !y fell @ to % the ground; i was sup
but in an instant that member, which had been
entirely severed from the trunk, fell from the
moose about four feet from the body. Blood
spurted from the body and spattered the beams
OF the gallows. But in two minutes al mus
oular action had ceased. The head was picked
up by aphysician: The face appeared placid,
and the Lips moved, as II to say something.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-04-08
Indian Depredatto,ns.

On the 2sd ult., small raiding party Of
A|s; Apashes Is captured and killed soldier Of % the
Fort Craig to Captain Hooker's battalion on the
San Mateo mountains. They then attacked
San Jose, small village about seventeen miles
from the Rio Grande, but two soldiers of the
Ninth cavalry and several Mexicans drove them
the fight.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-04-08

PRorEssoR-Which is the more deli
cate Of the senses? Sophomore-The
touch. Professor-Prove it. Sopho-
When you sit on . tack You
can't hear it; you can't see it; you can't
taste 1t; you can't smell it; but it's
there,-Br00kkNn Eagle.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-04-08

During Gen. Grants reception at Houston on
the night of the 29th nit, the gas was turned
off from the street, and lamps and candles had
to be used. Sunday night the guns Of the
Grants arrival were spiked, but the spikes were
removed i'll time for use. Five hundred dollars
reward is offered for the miscreant who spiked
the guns.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-04-08
The Venezuelan Award.

president on the subject of the Venezuelan
award, expresses himself as opposed to granting
the request of that country for another adjudi-
cation of the claims of American citizens. He
calls attention to the fact that no payments
have been made of late, and suggests that con-
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-04-08

TEE following dialogue actually oc-
CURED anent the recent open winter:
Pat Moike, did iver ye see winter
loike this wan p Mike Indade
did" Pat Whin? :" Mike - Last
summer, shure, and begone to YEP
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-04-08
A Neglected Tomb.

The vault of the Wesleyan Methodist Episco-
pal church in New York city has caved in, ex-
posing to view m immense number Of bodies,
the rotted coffins being broken by the falling
bricks. Twenty or twenty-five years ago, when
the age of sanitary reform began, the health
authorities caused these vaults to be closed and
their use abandoned. They were then full, it
being estimated that fully 5000 bodies had
been deposited in both. As shelf after shelf
rotted awa$sand fell u nder its ghastly burden,
the coffins were more closely packed, and the
space at the top grew larger, and room was
made for more shelves. The topmost had
reach the roof of the arch, when the entrances
were sealed and earth was filed in on top.
Again and again in after years the rain made
trance the arch csved in, but the holes were
stopped and no more was thought Of it. A big
she'd was built over the vaults in place of the
smaller one that once stood behind it, and Is
or 20 tons of coal we're dumped in it. This
great weight weakened the arches and they fell
with q crash.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-04-08
Robert J. Vail were probably fatally burned.
The others escaped serious injury.
Sprimu Zeuhvrs.

A severe rain, hail and wind storm visited
Wheeling, W. Va, on the afternoon of the 4th
inst. resulting in the destruction of considera-
BILE property. The Riverside nail works were
unroofed, the steeplo of the Third Presbyterian
Church blown down, and three story frame
addition 70 Beltz's carriage factory totally de-
molished. No lives were lost.
On the I'D inst, at Ottawa, Kansas, q cyclone
unroofed the K. c., l.. Il 8. railroad depot. At
North Ottawa twelve or fifteen residences were
wrecked and one passenger and two freight
cars of railway train upset.
At P. \. on the night Of the 2d inst, q storm
arose seven miles southwest of Gmard, Kansas,
which sool developed features of cyclone. It
followed up the valley of Thunderbolt creek to
within mile of Girard, and then went directly
east as far as the Missouri line. Seventeen
houses were destroyed and several people killed.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-04-08
The Duty ON Paper.

The House committee on ways and means,
eight to three, have decided to place upon the
free list I" all manufactured paper, wood, pulp,
jute butts, manufactured flax, straw, and ali
other fibre and fbrous plants ft for use for the
manufacture of paper" The committee also
decided, seven to FIVE, to fix the duty at 40 per
cent. upon fannels, blankets, hats of wool, knit
goods, balmorals and woolens of every descrip-
tion, composed wholly or in part Of worsted,
hair Of alpaca goat or other like animals, ex-
cept such as are composed in part Of wool not
otherwise provided for.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-04-08
Eatal Roller Exnl0si0ns.

A boiler in Childs' steam forge at Buffalo, N.
Y, exploded on the I'd inst, killing Superin-
tendent Kammerer and severely injuling three
others. The greater portion Of the building
was demolished.
The boiler in the saw mill Of John H. Lamb,
situated ten miles from Rushville, ILL.,, exploded
stantly killing Wesley NJ. Parker, fatally wound
ing John Randall and Thomas Jones, and seri-
ously injuring two other persons.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-04-08

The question of whether oleomargerine is
butter, and whether by law anybody can be pro-
Mblted from selling it as butter, is about to be
tested in the New York courts. Under law of
that state the seller Of oleomargerine is required
to stamp it with that name, and for failure to
do so is liable to prosecution. One of the large
companies engaged in the manufacture of the
article has assumed the defense Of dealer
arrested for selling it as butter, for the purpose
of testing the constitutionalty of the law. The
claim set up is that oleomargerine is in fact but
ter, only being of better quality than that OBJ
tanned from cream by churning, and that the
manufacturer cannot be required by statute to
put mark on it that wi. injure the sale.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-04-08
Bandit i'm Pennsylvania.

The people Of Honey Brook township, Chester
county, Pa, are in q terrible state Of alarm
mountain thieves who are burning their barns
and driving off stock. The marauders robbed
the county school-house OF large bible, nailed
it to tree and posted notice with skull and
cross-bones attached, stating that If the Horse
Insurance company followed them up to make
arrests fearful desolation would follow. The
members of the detective company have had
their horses and cattle poisoned.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-04-08
A Long fall.

Ten men engaged in the erection of the inn
bridge over the Hudson river at Lansingburg,
N. Y, were precipitated into the river by the
breaking of a scaffold. They fell distance of
Al feet. Three were badly injured and one lost
an eve:
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-04-08
Obituary,

Copeland Townsend, proprietor Of the
Townsend house, Oconomowoc, WIS.,, died on
the 4th inst. of hemorrhage Of the lungs.
Dela,caye County Record, died at his home in
Media, Pa, on the night of the I'd inst.
George Punchard, author Of the " History of
Congregationalism, in his early years minister,
and for ten years one of the editors and publish
ers of the Boston Traueler, died at Boston, on
the I'd inst, in the 18th year Of his age.
James P. Dascomb, connected with Oberlin,
(Ohio) college since its founding in 1884, as
professor of chemistry, died in Oberlin on the
list inst, aged 73.
Miss Lavna Goodell, well known lawyer of
Janesville, Wis, died on the LIST inst, at the age
Of 40. r.
Richard Van Rensselaer,, aged 83, the last
member of the old family and president of the
Merchants National bank at Albany, N. Y,
died on the 29th ult.
Col. John R. J. Emory, U. S. A., died at Pop
lar Grove, Queen Anne's county, Nd, on the
3Oth nit
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-04-08
The Public Debt.

The monthly statement of the public debt of the
United States, shows reduction Of about $14,-
O0O, 900 for March. The receipts from internal
revenue sources aggregate SO, 100000, and from
customs $19 9OOO, 900.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-04-08
A Sad Trim.

At Toronto, Canada, ON the evening Of the
29th ult., Samuel Price and Edward Ramer,
aged Il and Is, were playing IN boat when it
drifted out into the lake. The boat containing
their dead bodies was found at Niagara next
day. They died of exposure.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-04-08
SlliCi6a1.

Bad health and inability to pay his debts
caused Henry Lowell, wel-known contractor,
to shoot himself at Galveston on the I'd.
Geo. Warren English, treasurer of Borden
town, N. J., hanged himself on the LIST inst.
Isaac Frank suicided at Cleveland, O., on the
He was prominent in police circles ten years ago
"a q detective
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-04-08
Murder Will Out.

The discovery of skeleton in a field on the
farm of Samuel Hardy, near the Shaker village
in. Warren county, Ohio, has created great ex-
element in that usually quiet neighborh orhood. A
man who was plowing uncovered what was first
supposed to be o root, but which on close in
spection proved to be a rubber boot and that,
too, on the foot of dead body. With the body
was found a double barreled shot gun, and in
the clothing, which was not entirely decomposed,
were found some pencils, keys, etc., but no
money. Mrs. VIM. Grif1iths, who resides near
the Hardy farm, examined the grim relics, and
recognized them as belonging to VIM. ]. Lam
ming, an orphan sent out years ago with others
from Boston, and who found home with the
Grifiths. On the 5th of April, 1875, he started
with John Hardy, son of Samuel Hardy, to go
to Monroe station, eight miles away. He had
with him gun, silver watch and four hundred
dollars in money. She had never heard from him
afterward directly, but Hardy had told her that
he vent to California and aft.rxarda Ia Ts1".:
Hardy has been arrested, bnt denies strongly all
p1ilt
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-04-08
Milwaukee,

MILWAUKEE, April $500 P. x.-Flour-
Dull; Milwaukee standard extras at 81. .90@5. 10:
Nav sold At s1.SaxWl:iS55, closing at $1.12A;
April sold at s1.6714@ 4@1.0$k: seller June at
$11115@1. seller July at $1.09; No. fresh
in store at $1.1O119@1.105s; No. 8 at 981lc; No.
at CSC. Corn-Dull; No. 2 at 94115c. Oats
Tame at 29c. Barley Quiet at 5819c for seller
Stronger % T At $ $3.50 for cash. Lsrd~At s7oo
for cash.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-04-08

NORWAY Is afraid of our potato bug, and her
government issues an order prohibiting the i'm
portation of American potatoes into that
country until 1886.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-04-08

THE latest number of the Scientific American
Supplement gives an illustration Of telescope
rudder, to be used when there is danger of
collision. Two iron plates bolted together,
with distance pieces between them, constitute
the rudder. Between these two plates is a
third, which can be drawn out at pleasure, il
creasing tho rudder power of the vessel from
thirty to fifty per cent. This sort of rudder is
intended principally for vessels having steam
steering apparatus
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-04-08
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Inundated,

Tho towns of Alcira and Orihuela, Spain, are
flooded by q rise in the rivers Jucar and Segura
and their tributaries.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-04-08

TIE United States at present produce about
one-fourth the wheat grown in the world, the
yield for 1879 being about st, 6,00O, 900 quarters.
According to the official statistics, the wheat
area is upward of $4,000, 600 acres, or ten times
that of the British Islands. The area of the crop
of 1873 was Is per cent. greater than that of
1877, while during 1879 further increase was
made Of fully 3per cent.-and an increase of 2S
per cent. under two years. This rapid augmen-
tation testified how readily and quickly the
supplies IN America responded to the demand.
Even with this large accession, tho wheat area
Of the States was only equivalent to the dimen-'
sions Of the single state Of Alabama, or only
l. Nth of the total area of the United States,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-04-08
VARIOUS TOPICS.

UNDER the new law of Iowa, no insurance
company can rebuild damaged structure, but
must pay all losses in cash.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-04-08
E'OfCfGIls

LONDON, April 3-12:30 P. A.-Lverpool
wheat market opens dull and easier: Average
California at lis Sd; spring wheat at ss 6d@
los 10d. Floating cargoes very heavy; on pas
sage neglected; no business doing; good cargoes
No. spring wheat off coast, is lower.
L1vERpoo1, April 3-2:36 P. M.-sWheat all
declined two pence; cargoes winter declined
nine pence; cargoes spring declined one shil-
ling; cargoes to arrive duh and heavy:
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-04-08
Chicago.

CHICAGO, April $500 P. M.-Wheat-st Steady
at sl.111a for cash; s1.10N for seller April;
$1.11% for seller May. Corn-Weaker; fresh
at 34szc for cash; $3.50 bid for seller May;
361sc for seller June. Oats-Weak at 26c for
cash; 30Bc for seller May. Rye and Barley
Dull. Whisky-Higher at $1.07. Provisions
Active and frmer. Pork-At $10.50 for cash;
$1O.65 for seller May. Lard-Firm and high
or at $500 for cash; S7.07114 for seller May.
Hogs-Receipts;1 II, 900 head; active and firm; Sc
higher; light at $4.35@455; shipping at $3.50
OATS. Cattle-Receipts 1000 head, quiet and
steady; shipping at $4.0O@5.20; butchers at
$2.0O@3.9 so; mostly at $2.20@3.40.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-04-08
FOreixn War Notes.

A dispatch from Cabul says Mohamed Jan
attacked $50 Hazars Lear Ghunzee. The Ha-
Ears killed Mohamed Jan and two other chiefs.
Hard fighting followed, ending in the total de-
feat of the Afghans.
An Asterabad, Persia, dispatch says the Rus
SLAMS have taken five thousand camels from
Persian Turkomans. A large number of Rus
sian troops have arrived at Tchikistar..
St. Petersburg advices state that reports of
the invasion of Russian territory by the Chinese
is confirmed.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-04-08
RQrks

The Cincinnati Price Current, published on
the list inst. complete report of the pork
packing IN the west, from which it appears that
the total number of hogs of the winter packing
is Goo a an increase r. Of $50 GOO; Average
net. Aggregate decrease in lard 12S, 900 tierces.
There is an increase of 103, 900 bbls of pork.
Summer and winter packing combined shows
an increase for the year of 143, 900, the largest
years business on record.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-04-08

A NEW idea has been introduced in the Eng
lsh postal system which might well be adapted
in this country. It is new system of postal
orders or check. These are OF four sorts-two
shillings, six pence, five shillings, ten shilings
and fifteen shillings, for which one pence and
two pence are charged. Any one can secure a
supply of these on payment Of the money and
use them by filing in himself the names and
addresses to which he desires the money to be
sent, and by indorsing them they may be made
available at banks, thus saving the bother Of
obiging persons to 60 to the postoffice every
time they wish to send or receive money by mail.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-04-08

MUNICIPAL debts in eastern towns or cities or
In the west are two different things in comparing
the wealth Of the two sections. In the eastern
states state or municipal debt is debt due its
citizens, but in the west such debt is usually
due some capitalists living in the eastern states.
It is 20 with the western railroads. Over one
half Of al the capital Of the railroads running
through the west belong to men living in the
eastern states, while they own the:.major part Of
their own roads. OF the eso0, ,o00, 900 deposited
in the savings banks in 1879 the eastern states
owned all but e50, ,00o, 600. and the western
states less than @15, ,ooo 900: Nearly all of this
vast accumulation has been within the past If
teen years. OF the national bank capital the
western states own $50, ,0O0, 600, and the eastern
statese es16, ,000, 600. The great national debt is
distributed in about the same proportion. OF
western mortgages on private real estate, the
amount held BY eastern men is enormous.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-04-08
THE MARKETS
Reported by CHANDLER, BROWN l. Co., Commission
Merchants, Milwaukee and Chicago.
New York;


NEW YORK, April $500 P. M.-Flour-Dull;
buyers favor; receipts IA, 1897 bbls; round hoop
Ohio at $5. 50@5.90; choice do at 1900 as:
super western st e4:4oW4.80; common to good
extra do at $4.9005.30; choice do at $3.50
7.50; choice white wheat do at $5.50@6.0O.
Wheat-Spring u ole and winter about 10 lower
and dull; sales q, 900 bus No. Northwest seller
May at $1.2515@1.26; $1,000 bus No. white
seller May at $1.31aS@1. .311%; 72,0 600 bus No. q
red seller May at $1.S5@1. .351; do seller April
$1.96H bid and $1.S719 asked. Corn-Dull
and nominally unchanged; mixed western spot
at 53@54c; do future ut 49@521c. Oats
Firmer; state at 41@46c; western at 39115@45c.
Beef-Dull and unchanged; new plain mess at
$8.50@9.5O; new extra do at $10.00@11.00.
Pork-Steady; new mess at $11.50. Lard
Quiet and firm; steam rendered at $7.60. But
ter-Dull and declining; Ohio at 13@28c.
Cheese-Quiet at 11@14155c for poor to choice.
Whisky-Dull; western at $1.09 Sugar-Dull
and nominally unchanged. Molasses-Un-
changed. and quiet. Petrolenm-Dul Rice
Quiet and firm; good demand. Coffee-Firm
and rather quiet. Freights-About steady.
Spirits OF Turpentine-Heavy at 4S@46c. Resin
Nominal at $1.50@1.55. Tallow-Steady at
SIC for western. Eggs-Quiet at 9@11c for
poor to choice.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-04-08

A BILL which has passed both houses of the
California legislature providing that, if person
deposits money in savings bank and the bank
lends the money to borrower. both the depos-
itor and the bank must pap q tux upon it. It is
said that not only double but triple tax is
proposed. Thus, if A has on the first Monday
in March deposited money in bank and drawn
a check to meet a debt due to B, and if the check
was not presented until after IL o'clock at noon
on that day, A viii be taxed as having credit
at the bank, the bank will be listed for the
money in its vaults, and will be taxed for it as
= solvent debt due from A. The governor is
strongly urged to veto the bill.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-04-08

The Boston 7rauele, is of the opinion that
'what the farmers Of Massachusetts with the
other New England states, with the Middle and
Southern Atlantic states need more than any
thing else now, is experiment stations such as
the state Of Connecticut has and has had for
several years. For this purpose our neighbor-
ing state appropriated in 1877, $4,000 to be ex-
pended annually under the management of
board of control, that shall appoint director
who shall have the general oversight of expert
ments and Investigations for the promotion and
advancement of agricultural knowledge among
the farmers of the state. Massachusetts needs
such an organization to promote its agriculture"