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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-15
Fatal ExDlOeiOnR.

Two men were fatally injured by an ex-
plosion in the glycerine building of the
Latin &iRand Powder company, at White
hall, N. Y, on the Sth inst.
A still in Lombard & Ayers oil works,
New York city, exploded on the 9Th inst,
setting fire to the building and fatally burn.
ing James Reilley. James Edgan was seri.
ously burned.
The steamer Fisher, mail boat between
Pensacola, Fla, and Freeport, exploded her
boiler on the 5th inst, killing Captain
Watson and another man, and mortally
scalding the engineer.
A boiler exploded in the rolling mill of
Coats Bros, at Locust Point, Nd, on the
5th, by which the mill was considerably
wrecked. and number of employees scr
ously injured.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-15
: 'DefRnltRn-

Bsnj. G. Bogart, tor many years treasurer
ofthe New York produce exchange, suicided
on the 9th by taking dose of laudanum.
He had been speculating in grain and to
save himself appropriated some $sl, 900 of
the exchange funds.
There is deficiency of over SIC, 900 in the
accounts of Daniel Emmons, missing town
treasurer of Everett, Mass.
Stephen Longfellow, newhew of the
poet, has been held for trial for forging the
name Of the latter to check for $1,000.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-15
A Michigan Flood.

A food is doing great damage in the re.
gion of Grand Rapids, Mich. A million and
half feet of lumber belonging to. c. G.
Comstock and FIVE bridges on the Grand
Rapids and the Nswago road were swep,
away. Damage to other bridges in the
vicinity will reach $4,000, and number OF
cattle have been drowned. Ten dams in
one stream have been washed out,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-15
Burned 10 Death.

A dwelling house occupied BY Daniel
Haskins, wife and Eve children, at San
Francisco, Cal, took fire on the morning Of
the 9Th inst Mrs. Haskins, her daughter
Annie, aged 10, Eddie, aged 4, and baby,
were burned to death. %&#
Early on the morning of the 9th inst. 4
fre broke out in the basement Of the
Turner Hall on East Fourth street, New
York city, and spread with such rapidity
that the slesping occupants were unable to
escape. Several were burned to death OF
sufocated in their apartments, while many
we're killed and horrible mangted BY jump,
Ing from the burning stsucture. The follow.
ins is Z list Of the dead Louis Schmidt,
Hsnry Gehrweilsr, William Geib, Tsre q
EKhasdt aad;s ls5vlat eisl nalee4 1nsA tn
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-15
Snow In the Moantaina.

A heavy snow storm prevailed along the
line of Central Railroad on the 9th and 10Th.
Snow fell to the depth of ten feet aud the
wind drifted the cuts full. Slides demolished d
five hundred feet of shedding between En-.
igrant Gap and Cisco, in some places the
snow piling twenty five feet deep on top OF
the wrecked sheds. Trains were DELAYED
considerable by the mishap.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-15
A Rare Caao.

A trial deed executed by the late Leonard
Case, of Cleveland, O., was made public on
the 9th inst, by which he has conveyed to
his attorney to be held in trust, property
estimated to be worth one and quartz,
million dollars, the income from which
after his (Case's) death, is to be applied to
the establishment of a school to be called
the Case school of applied science"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-15
Chicago

CHICAGO, January 1O-1 80 P. M.-Wheat
-Sready but lower at $1.2SH tor cash
tl.29h bid for seller February; $l30h for
seller March. Coru-Weak and lower at
4n1sc for cash; 40Ac for seller February
45Hc for seller May. Oats-Steady at 35c
for cash; 39Mc for seller May. Rye-At
78c. Barley-At 84c. Pork--Weak and
lower $l3.40 for cash; $13 52H for seller
February; $3.50 for seller March. Lard
Weak and lower at 81 60 for cash; 81 TN
or seller February; 81 82h for seller March.
6r%; mi1ed packing at ss55@4 70; heavy
shipping at $465@4.80. Cattle-Receipts
1,5O0 head; shipping excited; l0c higher at
81 Oo@5 Is; butchers active and strong at
So SOFAS 40; feeders and stockers firm al
- fOk03 6D
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-15
Irelaud'A Tr0uhleR.

At Cork, on the 9th inst, a number of uu.
employed laborers plundered meat mar.
ket and bread shop. Process serving is
violently resisted in Killarney, county
Galway, parish priest leading in the re-
sistancs and causing the chapel bell to be
rung to give warning of the approach of the
servers,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-15

his home. The children were lightly
clad and soaking wet, and soon began to
cry as if there hearts would break. The
boy bore up bravely and the man strug-
gled desperately to find his way. The
rain turned to sleet and snow, and their
clothes were frozen stiff,> when they
sought shelter in a deep ravine. In the
morning a house was disco> cred, and the
little girl was carried indoors, but it was
too late to save her life. Her eyes
frightened when she first saw the fire,
and she began to hum little song, but
in few minutes she was dead.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-15
Suicidal,

Daniel De Castro, boy IA years of age,
suicided by hanging at Springfield, ILL.,, on
the 7th inst.
John NJ. Carr, of Rushville, Ind, walked
into the mill race, the depth of which is
three feet, and then shot himself with a
revolver, on the 9Th inst.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-15
A Fleeing President.

The steamer Poyta just arrived at Panama,
on the 9th inst, having on board as pas.
senger Gen. Mariana Ignacio Prado, presi.
dent of Peru, who, accompanied by several
Peruvian naval officers, goes to Europe via.
New York. Gen. Prado embarked on the
steamer at Callao in clandestine manner
and under an assumed name. There was
no special excitement in Lima, no disor.
ders or revolutions in progress, or in imme.
date contemplation that could justify his
hssty and secret departure. His explana.
ton of the affair is that his mission was
decided upon at the last moment, and on
account of the excitable character of the
Lima populace the cabinet judged it better
for him to depart quietly.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-15
Rustnesa FaaUmroa

The store of James Stewart & Co., exten.
sive dealers in Iumbermen's supplies, salt
aud shingles, at East Saginaw, Mich, doing
business of $eoo.ooo annually, was closed
by the sheriff on the 9TH under an attach.
ment by Detroit creditors. The total amount
involved is estimatad at $500, 900. Cause of
trouble unlucky option speculations in Chi.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-15
Marine Disasters

The North German Lloyd steamer Hansa,
which went ashore on the island of Terschil
ling, and was abandoned by her crew, is
breaking up.
The steamship Pico is total wreck near
Maricaibo. The passengers and crew are
saved.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-15
NEWS IN|!BRIEF,
FlFemou Killed.
Drowned.

At fire in Memphis. Tenn, on the 6tb
inst, Peter Meath and Edward Leonard, Of
the fire department, were killed.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-15
a Dmal.

A Pesth dispatch reports that duel has
been fought between Baron Maytheni and
Herr Verhovay, member of parliament and
editor of Hungarian political paper, in
which the latter was mortally wounded by a
pistol bail.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-15
Cou1d Not s,and pro.n.~,,v

Major VIM. E Sweet, chief of the internal
revenue division in the cffice of the first
controller of the treasury department., at
Washington, D. c., has been dismissed for
e1travagant expenditures made while trav.
cling on government account.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-15

John and Malcolm McCloud and james
Pubinco were drowned in gale recently
while fishing on the Grand Banks, N.F.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-15

Postof6ce station F., on Third svenue
New York, was entered on the night of tn,
9Th inst. and robbed of $4,000.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-15
Elected to COn9ress

E1eCteu 10 C0n8fe80.
The balloting in the Seventh Missouri
congressional district on the 10th instant,
to choose congressman to fill the vacancy
occasioned by the recent death of A. NJ.
Lsy, resulted in the election of Col. Jno. F.
Phillips, Democrat.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-15

Trouble ON the mexican Border.
Gen. Trevino telegraphs under date OF
December %, that the Apache Indians had
defeated two hundred American troops n ear
the Mexican line, and that an expedition
had marched from the city of Chihuahua
against the American Indian, who had in,
vaded the state of chihuahua.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-15
Maine Leg1slaturo Middle,

The Maine legislature is at stand.still
owing to the refusal of Republican members
to act with the Fusionists, thus leaving the
house without quorum. The Fasionists
will exhaust every possible means to elect
governor, but how such an election con be
held, and how it would be regarded by the
acting governor, is not known. President
Lamson. of the senate, has, according to the
constitution, assumed the duties of COVER
nor. Wallace R. White, who stands charged
with attempting to bribe Thomas B. Swan,
of Ainots to absent himself from the legis.
lature, for the sum of 81 600, publishes an
unqualified denial, to the charges and de-
msnds investigation. ~ W.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-15
Bold Hixhway Robbery.

Lester G. Turner, merchant of Sioux
Lalls, was set upon by two men when emerg.
ing from hotel clubhouse at Worthington,
inn, and robbed of $15:500. The Williams
were traced short distance by railroad
and then l0sH
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-15
Milwaukee,.

MILWAUKEE, January 1888 M
IS O0@675; medium spring at $5.4O@5 rs;
common at $5.0O@5 Is. Wheat-Unsettled
and lower; No. cash sold at $'.27@1 27H;
No. 4 al $1.c4A@1.o5; $112 bid for No. )
and 81 % for No. 1 No 2seller February at
81 27M@1 28N; seller March at 81 29@
1S"A. Corn-Dull at 4nAc; new firm at
37Hc. Oats-Tame at 1870 Rye-Dull at
TIC. Barley-Steady at 73c cash; No. al
SOC and extra at $50 Pork-Steady at
s13 so cash. Lard-At $7.75 cash. Hogs
Firm at $A.40@475.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-15
retGp.

LONDON, January 10-12:30 P. ;M.-Liv.
erpool wheat market opens quiet: floating
cargoes rather easier; on passage rather
easier. Good cargoes red winter wheat off
coast at 56s 81; good cargoes No, spring
wheat off coast at SIS 6d@52s Cd good car
off coast ut 26 :D26s Sd.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-15
A BAD Fall.

The fifth floor of one section of the
Greenway brewery, at Syracuse, N. Y, gave
way on the 9Th instant. Two men were in.
iured slightly. A large stock OF corn,
wheat, hops and malt were precipitated into
Onondaga creek and washed away. Loss
$4,000.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-15
RaiJrOad Accfdenfs.

T. B. Richards, father of Professor Rich.
ards, OF Yale college, was killed at the depot
at Stamford, Conn, by the Harlem railroad
train. The coachman was seriously cut and
the carriage demolished, but young lady
in the coach was unipjured.
Two trains collided on the New York
elevated road On the 7th inst. The engines
and one car were smashed, but nobody was
hurt. The guards prevented the cars from
tumbliDg to the street.
At Athol, Mass, on the 9TH inst, twenty.
two cars of freight train broke loose and
ran down a grade, crashing into an extra
freight engine and six cars, which were
badly wrecked. Two men were injured.
Two stock trains on the Chicago, Bur.
iugton aud Quincy roud, collided at Gales
Hollow on the night of the 9th inst, caus.
ing general wreck. Two stockmen are
known to be killed.
east of Union City, O., gave way on the 9Th
instant, precipitating an engine and eleven
freight cars into the stream. John Martin,
engineer, n. w. Davis, brakeman, and Jos.
Archer, fireman, were killed.
A locomotive aud four freight cars of a
train on the Long Branch road, fell through
fifty feet draw at Woodbridge on the 9th
instant. The wreck took FIRE and several
| cars were burned. The draw of the bridge
had been left open.
James Boyer, messenger for q Chicago
grain firm, was run over and killed by the
Illinois Central cars on the 9Th instant.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-15
MOrtuary.

John Humphreys Parry, an eminent Eng
lish sergeant.at.lsw, and one of the leaders
of the home circuit, is dead, aged IS. Dis.
ease, congestion of the lungs. The death of
Mrs. Parry, from grief at the loss of her
husband, is also announced.
Frank Leslie, publisher, died at his resi-.
dence in New York, on the 10th inst, from
6brous tumor of the throat.
Lieutenant General Skobelof9, inspector
general of cavalry, father of Gen. Skobe-
loft, who distinguished himself in the Turk.
ish war, is dead.
DR.. William Budd, an eminent physician
and author of many medical treatises, is
dead.
Jean Joseph Pouljoulat, French historian
and critic, is dead, aged ~.
Edward William Cooke, the painter and
Royal Academiciau and Fellow of the Royal
Society, is dead, aged 81.
cold Aunt aasar," colored, aged 115,
died at North Adams, Mass on the 9th inst
DR.. Erastus B. Wolcott, surgeon general
of the state of Wisconsin, one of the most
widelv-known physicians in the west, died
at Milwaukee on the 5th inst, of pneumonia
He was rs years of age.
Count Bachos de Montalivel, life senator,
formerly minister of the interior under
Louis Philippe, is dead, aged 78.
Charles Henry de Bieville, French
dramatist, is dead.
Ferdinand Henaux, the Belgian historian,
is dead.
George E. Locke, better known as cyan.
kee Locke" the comedian, died at his home
in Dracut, Mass, on the 9th inst, of typhoid
fever, aged 81.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-15

injured are: VIM. Winkle, Josephine
Winkle, Anna Bauer, Lonis Meyer and
Margaret Geib.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-15

1ngress or.
OF
the south
1n to cred.
And
D order of
ih the vari.
l|ge sum of
4ecation of
D credit of
fhich sum
q the loyal
;bnfscated,
,fe the war
,bt0r and
DE treasury
it
u en- in the
ne, 1862, to
dIcreditors; ;
74er of any
t4tes in the
under such
MT may pre-
'd6udication {:
ut te
the pro
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!hhu pay hil
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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-15

From his new Grocery Store at RAMSEY, sup
plies the surrounding community with every
thing needed in his line OF trade. Goods first
class. Prices low. Give me a call.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-12-24
Railroad Robbers.

Saturday night last as a freight
train on the Wisconsin Central
road, was running between Elkhart
and Plymouth at the rate of IL
miles an hour, the pilot Of the 10.
comotive struck the end of o rail
the other end of which had been
placed against the frozen bank o.
the cut. The forward trucks of the
locomotive left the track and an axle
was broken. Otherwise no serious
damage was done to the company'a
property, and no one was injured
A brakeman was sent back from
the wreck to give tho signal OF dan
ger to an on-coming express.
While he was on his way to red
lantern tho express he was stopped
by n stranger, who held a cooked
revolver under the railroadcr's nose
while he demanded his money.
The brakeman gave the robber his
pile, Gal, so, and his haste in doing
SO was not retarded by two dusky
forms ncar by, that emerged from
the bushes when tie parlcy com
menccd.
As soon as the lighwaymcn Do
campcd and the brakeman contin-
ued his post and warned the
express train. The officers o. Tie
road believe that Tie intcnt was TO
wreck the express by the rail which
The lrcigh ran into, and That thcro
wero moro than three men engaged
in The job. The rail was 80 placed
TINT train running atn high speed
would have been completely wreck
cd.
The proper authorities ire after
the would-bc ps5ae5in8 and robbers,
but as yet no trace Of them has
been discovered. Evening Wiscon-
sin.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-12-24

rDr,c - hu-incss now bnlogs the public
f1 kSt1 \ Youean mlFe mnn&T la3tef III word
lor NJ thau II anything cine, Glpusl not Sc
CURED. We viii tar, van, sl2 day made ii,
home hy Ia" industrious. Mem women, bOYS
and girls wanted oygyyWhgga to work for u.
Now II the time. You Gun devote your whole
time t. II or only Your sparo moments, No
other hHainess VII my yol pcary as we'll. No
one within. 10 work can ietl 10 make enormous
ppy lv cnEtIl" 80 ohcr Goetly Outht aud
TERMS frrn A araat Opportunity FOR making
money easily and honestly Adarots TRIE
co, Augusta, Maine, W. 50
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-12-24

tation ofshipbuilding materials had
made it almost impossible for an
American traveller to see the ensign
of his beloved country on the ocean,
and had made it possible for Nor
way, with 1.-THE Of our population
and minute portion Of our area,
to own more ships than we. The
industries which are worth having
in q country are those which are
natural to il, and, if government
would keep its hand of, country
or q section of a country would
settle down into the natural diyis-
ion of labor, and each would have
tho best which all can make. What
we can as q nation do better than
any other nation, that we should
do; what some other nation can do
better than we can we should not
attempt to do. The idea that Ger
tain manufacturers should be pre-
tected until they acquire strength
was combated vigorously by the
lecturer, who characterized the
print-works Of Fall River, Man
chester, and Iolyol<o, the iron in
dustry Of Pennsylvania, and the
shoe manufacturers as venerable m
flnts and hoarY-headed sucl;lings.
Out Of seventy two writer's OF this
question whose works he saw IN
the British Library, seventy were
III favor Of free trade.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-12-24
A Splendid Stock Farm for Sale.

The undersigned offers for
sale his splendid stock farm
located within one-half mile of
Calamine, nine miles from
Mineral Point and six miles
from Darlington. 1t is one Of
the best farms in the State for
stock raising purposes. The
farm contains
231 Acres Of Land,
about 80 acres is under cultiva-
ton, 100 acres of meadow, and
the remainder timber and
pasture. 1t is well watered by
two living springs.
A good stone dwelling house,
two stories high, well laid out,
and q good cistern.
Two good barns, granaries,
corn cribs, wagon houses, &c,
on the place. Also a good
well. TIE FARM WILL BE SOLD
CHEAP and ON EASY TERMS.
TIE place is divided off by
fences int5 light different divi-
sions. JoIN LoGUE.
Willow prings, October 28,
1880. l2tf
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-12-24
ITEMS from I'eck's SIM.

Vermont hn passed q law dc-
claring place whore liquor IS sold
u nuisance. When the republic
ans got possession Of state they
are going to keep it If there is u
shadow ola chano.
Vennor, the Montreal weather
prophet, predicts fall Of clovcn
feet of snow on tho 22nd of Dec.
Tho competition that exists in this
weather business il frightful.
A woman felt dead Ut Blooming
ton, ILL.,, when told that her daugh-
ter had elopod,-N. Y. Sun. The
thought That she would not be able
to got in any tantaliaing remarks
on hor son-in-law was doubtless to
much for her delicate organism.
Congressman McCord has Intro.
duocd measure in congress TO dis
franchise every voter who cannot
read and right. Whether Mr.
McCord is u republican and is
limiting ON some democrats who
were brought UP under English
rule, or whcather no IL n democrat
and is limiting ON the negroes of
the south, we do not know. II
may be, however, that he is only
after Fred Grant.
A Syracuse newspaper reporter
interviewed II number of citizens
there The Other day to ascertain
how many out of possible hun
drod had read tao presidents mos-
sage. Only IS cut Of I'll had read
il, and one man, whom the repor-
tor asked him ii No had read IL,
raised u club and tried TO hit the
reporter on the head
There is not rs much gushatiyo-
ness among democrats in congress
i'll regard TO The proposed creation
of an Office for Gen. Grant, out OF
sympathy for his forlorn condition
us there would have been II he had
not gone on to the republican
stump. A prominent democrat ~
Washington thinks that Grant
ought to DO pensionod out Of thc
republican campaign fluid.
Subscriptions TO tho Grant fund
are being pushed with renewed
yigor, and it is thought the entire
amount originally suggested can b
raised for him. II is too bad (
see an old soldier like Grant going
around with u hand organ, and
card on his breast Il am blind,
appealing to tho cold charities y
the world. But such is life.
Lord Beaconsfeld, in his new
novel Endymion, speaking Q
America, says, "a country tina
borrows its language, its laws ans
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-12-24

its religion, cannot have its inven-
tive powers much developed" That
is fact, ard besides. what it does
invent is Of no account; therefore
we expect to see England pack up
and send back at an early day all
its sewing machines, mowers and
reapers, telegraphs, railroads and
steamboats,. They are only a nui-
sance.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-12-24

The latest railroad surmiaoa ii
the extension Of the Mineral Point
division from Warren to Shirlanl.
on the Western Union, aad from
there via Rockford TO Davis Juac-
tion, on the Chicago q Pacific.
Both tho NJ. z. and G. & ?. roal8
are owned by tho S. Paul Compa-
ny. They have already arranged
for tho building OF road from
Shirland 10 Davis junction. I'rom
Davis Junction they have Il
projected road to tho vicinity of
Braidwood, where it ii stated the
compay have purchased several
hundred acres Of coal lands. With
these "surmiged" roads completed,
the st. Paul would not only hayo Il
direct line to Chicago for all thcir
northern roads, but they would
have . direct route from the lum-
Der regions and lead and zinc mines
TO the coal regions. These would
give them a traffic all the year
round in hauling lumber and ores
to q region now supplied in u
roundabout way, and carrying
back coal in return. They would
also hayo communication between
Chicago and their coal mines. The
completion Of Three links willmale
almost an mir line ftom st. Paul
and tho lumber regions TO Chicago
and the coal mines, all owned and
controlled by the Chicago, Milwau-
kco and st. Paul Go. Warren
Sentinel.