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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-01-23

Moscow Is going to witness unique
exhibition. Seine enterprising parties
have united together to construct an Ice
house On the pattern of the famous
building devised by the Empress Anna
aoannovna $50 years ago. The house IL
to be completely furnished In ice-chairs,
beds, stoves and everything else being of
the same uninviting material. 1t Is to
be hoped that winter will be long enough
and the attraction sufficient great to
insure the success of the exhibition.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-01-23

MARBLE WORKING mas Deeh feuuceu 10
an exact science by machinery. At
RUTLAND, VT, a new machine Is in
operation which chips the stone at the
rate of $4,000 strokes minute. By
setting the wheels at different angles to
the line of the spindle, according to the
work required to be done, the machine
will channel, turn and flute column,
counter sink, mould, panel, letter and
do filagree work. Each spindle has about
SO chisels or teeth, and revolves from
1900 to 5000 times a minute.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-01-23

WEDNESDAY, january I4.-The Dill
for fall importation Of classical antiquities was
passed also the bill for the free inpor ,ation Of
articles intended for exhibition at the Mlers In
ternational exhibition 10 be- held at Cir cnnati in
lSs0.A bill sppropratng 5000 600 for the erection
OF suitable posts for the protection Of the Rio
the vhoie.A Slii requiring reserves Of national
banks 10 be kept IN gold coin was post poned until
I. -morrow. session In committee OF the
whole on the report Of tie committee on rules the
house adjourned,
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the bondholders.

READING employees over 800 persons
in hat making, who turn out 100 dozen
hats daily. To produce these hats over
100000 pounds of secured wool are re-.
quired, most of which Is grown in Texas
and California. All the manufactures
are running on full time.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-06-24

ably 100000 feet in the big eddy
Dells dam, but it is expected every mo-
ment that they will break loose 1t is inn
possible to give any accurate stimate of
the loss, but it win reach al present not
far from $4,000 in the Chippewa valley"
A later report says that the loss in logs,
during Saturday and Sunday, would reach
250.000,000 feet, and that the damage to
that time, at that place, could not be less
than 81 100000 At FIVE o'clock Sunday
evening, the water in the Chippewa river,
at Eau Claire, was % feet above the low
water mark-the highest water ever known
there Hundreds of families were com
PEELED to fly from their homes, many of
whom stood guard over such of their house
hold effects as they were able TO rescue
from the flood The Eau Claire Lumber
Co. kept sixty of their teams employed all
day sunday, 10 help remove the, goods Of
flooded families 1t is reported that the
Badger State mills and wilkins Island
mills have been carried away by the food.
AT Oconto, also, there has been an unpre-
cedented rise of water. At that point the
river overlooking its banks, large portion
of the town was flooded. A great many
families were compelled to seek the upper
stories of their houses for safety, the lower
floors being deluged with water Great
uneasiness prevails among mill owners and
lumber men at La Crosse and Dubuque,
though att hese points, the river lacks
few feet of the highest mark known. But
the rains of yesterday, no doubt have
swollen the Mississippi to higher point
than was ever reached before
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sTRAsBOURG's CLOCK OUTDONE.
The Piece of Mechanism Which Re
quired a Lifetime to Perfect.

A wonderful clock, said to be super
ior in mechanism and the variety OF its
performances to the famed Strashourg
astronomical and apostolic clock, will
he placed on exhibition in Tammany
Hall to-day, and for considerable time
will remain there for the Inspection of
the public This clock was constructed
at Detroit by Professor Felix Meters,
gentleman who has devoted his entire
life to the study of astronomy and me-
chanics. 1t is called the American ma
tional astronomical clock, and it is prob
ably the most complex and ingenious
theological work that the hand of man
has ever produced. The clock is eigh-
teen feet high, s feet wide and feet
deep, and weighs 1000 pounds. 1t is
wound once in twelve days, and is run
by weights of 700 pounds 1t shows the
local time in hours, minutes and sec
onds. and the time of thirteen other
cities of the world among which are
Washington, San Francisco, Melbourne.
Pekin, Cairo, Constatinople, st. Peters
burg, London, Berlin and Paris. 1t also
denotes the movements of the planets,
and measures their movements by sea-
sons, years and cycles for 200 years, in
Guiding leap years. Concealed III Its in
terror is music-box, which plays when
death strikes each hour. At the same
moment the figure of Washington,
seated In chair beneath canopy, rises
to his feet. holding the Declaration of
independence in his right hand. A
liveried servant sitting at the right hand
also rises and opens n door, through
which come all the presidents of United
States, who march in review before the
effigy of Washington, saluting him as
they pass. The procession disappears
through door on the opposite side Of
the platform, which is opened and
closed by servant in gorgeous livery.
The hkenesses of these figures, includ-
ing that of president Hayes, who is in
the rear are said to be excellent. As
soon as the door is closed the figure of
Washington resumes its chair of state,
and all is quiet until the hammer of
death agains sounds the hour on the
gong, when the extraordinary scene Is
repeated. The quarter hours are struck
by an infant, the half hours by youth. |
and the three-quarters by man. The /
South church, Bosom, has offered S45,- |
600 for the clock, the price Of which is
$50 600
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ACCIDENTS.

MosEs SETTER, of Akron, Ohio aged 10,
a horse buyer, was pitched from his buggy
and his neck broken.
A LITTLE daughter Of August Pepper, of
Maple Grove, Wis. was killed by a stroke
Of lightning last week.
SIDNEY CREIGHTON, aged 10, got beyond
his depth and was drowned at Akron Ohio,
on the 10Th inst
LEWIS CHArTERToN was killed and five
iiremen wounded by the fall Of a wall at Il
fire At Auburn New York.
4 CHILD, aged is months, of John
Blazee, near Hazelton, Indiana, was chok-
ed to death by grain of corn last week
A LITTLE 5-year-old son of o. ). Reed of
Alton, ILL.,, fell into cistern at the family
residence while endeavoring to draw
bucket of water, and was drowned,
WHILE bathing in the river Henry My
ers. Of Pierson. Mich, lad aged l3 years,
fell from some logs. Being unableto swim
he was drowned. His body was recovered.
A STEAM frame Touring mill al Jalapa,
H., was entirely destroyed by fire. Loss
5000. No insurance. 1t was undoubted-
ly the work of an incendiary.
FIRE. DESTROYED Cadle, milford & Co. 5
plaNLng-I0iil ana SASH ana uODI ldCAOINs VI
Muscatine, Iowa, last week, and an adioin-
ing building. The loss is estimated at $50
600; insurance, $4,000.
Ex-Gov Brown, of Mississippi, was
thrown from his horse last week, into a
pond, and drowned before assistance could
be rendered him. He had served two
terms in the United States senate.
TIE police of Cincinnati, found an old
negro living senseless on the street. Sup
posing him to be drunk they numbered him
into an express wagon and sent him TO the
station-house When they got there they
found him dead. The old man was sun
struck. His name was James Monroe, "A
years old.
A TRAMP in attempting to jump from a
freight train on the Chicago and North
western road, at Elgin H., collided with
the cattle-guard, and was thrown under
the train His right arm and right leg
were horribly mutilated, requiring ampu-
tatian The poor fellow died three hours
aftee the operation His name is James
Laughlin, aged about 20, and his home
Evansville, O. Papers on his person
showed that he had recently been employ
ed in drugstore at Des Moines, Iowa
His remains will be buried at GAINESVILLE.
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Chicago Market.

CHICAGO, June I9.-Flour-Dull and nominal.
Wheat-A etive, but lower; No. . Red Winter, LOS
No. . Chicago spring, IS for cash; 9414@9454
for June; 92a4 for seller July; $50 for seller
August; No. 3, Chicago spring, S5Gs6 Corn
Strong and higher 36QS61s for cash; 36'4 a 36zs
for seller July; 36h G36ss for seller August;
rejected, 34h. Oats-Steady and in fair demand;
2S8 a2SA for seller cash; IS for seller June;
% 4 for seller July; % u for seller August. Rye
Steady and unchanged at 10. Barley-Easier at
7314 d74 Pork-Excted and higher; ll.00G
Il.05 for seller cash and June; 1I.05d ll.07 4 for
July; 11I5a ll.171s for August; ll.25 for seller
September. Lard-Strong and higher; GO for
cash. 6.5O672I]s seller July; 6.7J bid for Aug.
The Drover' Journal" reports: Hogs-Receipts
20 600; shipments, 5000; Active and frrner; not
higher light, 4.4044.2j; choice, heavy, 4.o0d
AS; Cattle Receipts, $500; shipments, 1900;
slow and weak, S, 900 or 9OO0 left over and on
sale; cows 27OQ 500; fair to good shipping, 42og
$50; butchers. 2.3Og 800; grass and Texans
2.50a3.lo. Sheep-Reccipts, 500; duh and un-
changed
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connected with the horrible calamity
is the case of Mrs. A. p. Dix, Of Brooklyn,
wife of a broker of the firm of Dix &
fhyie: Mrs Dix was ON the Narragan-
sett with her children and nurse; all are
lost but Mrs. Dix herself. They were all
helped into the life boat. The men
tried to lower the boat but water Toured
and capsized it. When the boat right
ed again some of the women were car
ried away and the men abandoned the
boat. Mrs. Dix her nurse, baby, and
little boy and girl chung to the boat but
the boat was turned over the same way
three times and Mrs. Dix saw her baby.
her nurse, and little boy and girl wash
ed away. Two young men, thinking
any death preferable to being burned
alive and not knowing how to swim,
went back to their cabins and shot each
other One gentleman is reported to
to have tried % life preseryers before ne
could find one that would hold. The
scenes on board and on the pier %ere
OF the most heartrending character.
Women who had lost their childreH or
husbands were weeping bitterly and
some of them who had been in the wa
ter for hours had scarcely enough
strength left to sit up. Litrle girls and
boys were crying and looking for par
ents. Scarcely a survivor was clad in Il
complete suit of clothes. Men
and women, young and old were
wrapped in blankets or had
single articles of apparel, which the
fellow passengers in the city of New
York loaned them. Many passengers
left the boat soon after It's arrival, and
went clad in blankets with no shoes and
no hats to buy some clothing
The steamer Narragansett cost $500,
600 IN 1868. She was repaired last aU-
tum at an expense of 10000 and was
in excellent condition. New boilers
were put in about year ago. Her
value to the company at the time OF
loss was not less than 100000 She
was insured against fire for 100000
and there was marine insurance upon
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-06-24

through the head on the white rock east of
town.
ROLAND RUCKER of Palestine, Texas,
has received sentence of death for the
murder of X. p. Grayson and wife He
viii be hanged August q.
ACTING GOVERNOR HAND, of Dakota.
has committed to imprisonment for life the
death sentence of NJ. l.. Conk, of Dead
wood, convicted of the murder of Miss
Callison.
E. B. MORRIS, county Judge of Baylor
county, Texas, was shot and instantly
killed in the court house at Seymour by w.
A. Taylor, a saloon-keeper. Taylor es-
capped.
A CRAZY woman living near Hindsboro,
ILL.,, buried an axe in her sleeping hus-
bands skull and started out to kill neigh
Dor, but fell into a ditch and, being cap
tured soon after, was conveyed to an asyl
um.
THE body of Miss Mary SENT, of Indi-
ana, aged 20 years, was found in Sugar
Creek, near Philadelphia, @, with her
throat cut, sewn up in bed quilt. The
authorities are hunting for the perpetra-
tors.
W. w. BAILEY, a respected farmer, re-
siding near Como, Miss, was shot and
killed by man named Shivey. Shivey
rented land from Bailey, out of which
grew the difficulty. Report says the kill
ing was unprovoked. Shivey escaped.
A CORRESPONDENT at Pera states that the
Porte has forwarded its reply to the identi
cal note to each Ambassador. The Porte
refuses TO recognize the right of the powers
to arbitrarily dispose of any portion of
Turkey in favor of Greece without consult
ing the Porte.
A BOY named kutsehe, aged Y, of
Grand Rapids Mich, was arrested in the
act of setting fire to Cox 8 file works After
his arrest he confessed setting fire to Hart
mans foundry and machine shops on the
night of June 8, when property valued at
$4,000 was destroyed.
Al Rittenberg, desperate character,
when drunk, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was
fatally shot, in a lower town saloon, by
Michael Colman, whom Rittenberg assault
ed with chair. The ball passed through
the throat near the jugular vein. The as
sault, il is said, was entirely unprovOked.
Colman surrendered and is now in Jail.
ALEC CoTRELL, another member of the
gang of thieves bagged few days since,
have been arrested and placed behind the
bars He and his companions in theft,
Bill Piles, Ell Taylor, and the kid,
Robert Sanders, waived preliminary ex-
animation Yesterday and went TO Jail.
ABOUT the 18th of last month Chicago
and Eastern Illinois car was burglarized
at the junction. near Danville, Ill. Some
boys who started to steal ride to Chicago
the next day, via freight trains were sus-
picioned, and Detective r. Haley of the
Chicago and Eastern Illinois, arrested
them, three in number, and lodged them
in the station-house. Their names are
Charles Murphy, John Lenney, and Albert
Gerig.
JAMES WEAVER was shot and instantly
killed by a man named Nolk about twenty
miles southeast of Plum Greek, Nebraska.
Weaver went to Nolk's place to collect
some money, about which the two men
quarreled, when Volk, becoming furious
~ enraged, grabbed up gun and fired.
He ran away and hid in the bluffs few
miles from the scene of the murder, and
his pursuers could not find him, but he was
soon captured by Deputy-Sheriff Read.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-06-24

CONSIDERABLE hilarity has recently
been excited in Austro-Hungarian mill
tary circles 10y an incident quantity
illustrating the rigid strictnesS with
which Magyar non-commissioned Off
Gers are wont to carry out the instruc-
lions contained in tho Imperial Military
Code A private soldier died recently
in the barrack infrmary at kaschan,
and lis body. in due course, was con
signed to the grave with the customary
military honor Ii was observed, how
ever 10y a superior officer present mt
the ceremony of interment, that the
firing party following the coffin. marched
into the cemetery with fixed bayonets,
contrary TO the established military
usage in similar cases. As soon as the
burial had been concluded, he sent for
the sergeant commanding the party,
and asked him with some asperity
whether he did not know that it was
contrary to regulations for a funeral es-
cort to march with fixed bayonets p
Standing stifiiy at the salute. the con
scientious sergeant replied: Yes, sir;
| am quite aware Of that But | beg
respectfully to report that the deceased,
during his illness and at the time Of his
death, was under arrest. 1t WAS there
fore the duty of his escort to fix bay
onets." Very well; You may &C" was
the rejoinder; and the model disciplin-
arian retired with the proud conscious
ness that he had triumphantly proved
his case.
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CINCIXxATT has an excellent fire de-
purtment. The discipline Is rigid. and
the best apparatus Is used. a central
tower Is supplied with elahorat eelectric
devices for receiving and sending out
alarms. An operator Is on duty there
all the while. In order to keep him
constantly awake and yigilant, and TO
learn promptly Of any breaks i'll the
alarm telegraph wires, he is compelled
to test the circuits every twenty min
ltcs. and to cali every engine house
through the telephone every hour. An
ingenious automatic register records,
on a card out of the operators reach,
each test of Il circuit Hope d. Lock
wood has for six years been the night
operator. and during most Of that time
a box. marked Tools has stood lock
ed under his desk The superintendent
broke il open the other day and found
that il was filled with clockwork.
Searching further. he found that 1t
could be connected by concealed wires
with the registry dial Its use was to
make the dial register tests that We're
not really made. 1t would also ring a
bell every hour. BY its means Lock
mood was awakened 10 make the hour
IL calls. but could skip the twenty-min-
ltc tests
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t,ARIIEG WIS.

TIE chambers of deputies. by a vote OF
3l5 to lbs. has decided TO allow the prose
cuti0n of Due De Padoue, Bonapartist
member of the chamber for Corsica, for
voting in two places.
THE mansion-house committee now have
El6.000 on hand.
TIE Egyptian obeIisk has sailed for the
United States
A TELEGRAM from Buenos Ayres says
hostilities have begun.
Tie ex-Empress Eugene has arrived at
Greytown on her return to Europe.
TIE Times Calcutta advices are that the
rebellion in upper Burmah seems to have
entirely ceased.
TIE Rev. Alexander McCanochie con-
templates twO-months' visit to Amer
lea.
WILLIAM THOMAS THORNTON, author Of
"Over-Population and lts Remedy, and
other works. is dead.
LATEST reports from Shanghai say the
public feeling at Pekin is quieter on the
Russian-C hinese question.
4 VIENNA dispatch says the rains in
Nor; hern Austria have done great damage.
Many lives have been lost by floods.
PAUL De CAsSAGNAc has resigned the
office of deputy, because of divisions in the
Bonapartist party.
d NICroR, the eldest son of the Prince of
Wales, will enter the royal military acad-
envy, and, when qualified, receive an active
commission.
Tar government of England is consider
ing the question of a joint representation
of all the powers in favor of religious lib
erty in Morocco.
TuE West Point board of examiners
have found cadet Whitaker deficient in
philosophy, and this will probably prevent
his graduation.
A MADRID dispatch says: In congress
to-day the minister Of foreign affairs stated
that England was ready to nego late a
treaty Of commerce with Spain.
TIE council Of ministers have submitted
to the sultan the result Of their delibera-
tiops upon the ambassadors note in refer
encc to the Berlin conference
HoRsIRY, PALMER, STERLING Il Co, of
London. East India merchants, have
failed. sith liabilities at 10000. owing 10
excessive speculation in iron.
HuNsERr, the pardoned communist, be-
fore the parliamentary committee, con-
trmed, with most important details, dates
and names, the fact which successive min
listers OF the marine Indignantly denied.
that the most horrible fortunes had been
long and habitually inflicted on the com
victs in New Caledonia.
TIE Liverpool Courier states there are
grave dissensions in the Englith cabinet
The Rt Hon. Jos Chamberlain, pres't of
the board of trade, wishes to retire, his prin-
cipaI grievance being the failure of the
government 10 recall Sir Bartle Frere from
The governorship of the Cape of Good
Hope.
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THE NEWS BUDGET.
A Summary of Events During the
Past Week.
FROM THE CAPITAL.

TIE senate has confirmed General Long
streets appointment as minister TO Turkey.
TIE senate rejected the presidents nom
nation Of Charles Pelham, of Alabama, as
associate justice of the supreme court of
New Mexico.
THE senate confirmed Virgil D.. Stock
bridge, assistant commissioner of patents,
and Robert G.. Dyhrenfurth, of Illinois,
examiner-in-chiefj in the patent office.
TIE nomination of General Longstreet
to he Minister of Turkey has not been
acted upon vet. He will probably be con-
firmed, although a well-informed Senator
said that it was doubtful.
THERE is some excitement among con-
gresmen at the report that the president
contemplates refusing to sign the river and
harbor bill but the panic is probably un-
founded
GEN. f. D. TOWNSEND, Adjutant Gener-
al OF the army. has been placed on the re-
tired list. He is succeeded by General
Richard c. Drum, at present Adjutant
General.
TIE secretary of war Is now considering
the I.roprietv of ordering Cadet Whitaker
before court-martial, where he may have
an opportunity to vindicate himself, which
his friends claim has not been afforded
him.
AL the regular annual appropriation
bills. except the deficiency bill, have
passed both houses The sundry civil IL in
the bands of the conference committee, the
deficiency bill with the senate. The total
amount appropriated is slS4,69l ,062.
UxITED STATES treasurer Gilfllan in
Sructed the assistant treasurer at New
XCrL n ipx,aef IN tho host ADVANTAGE on
account of the sinking fund of the Union
Pacific raiIrond 1927 $50, and on the Cen
trail Pacific $212,670.
THE senate has confirmed Eugene Sehuy-
Ter, of New York (nOw consul general at
Romel, to be consul general and diplomatic
agent of the United States at Bucharest
NJ. II. Jackson, now consul at Halifax, to
be United States consul general at that
place; W. q. Rich, secretary of the Terri
tory of New Mevico; Nj. V. Davis OF
Louisiana, superintendent of the mint at
New Orleans.
* an interview Gen. Nelson J. Miles,
com mandant at 1T. keOgh, NJ. T., said:
Things are very quiet in the vicinity of
NV command. We have had no fighting
for twelvemonth or more. | look upon
Ind an affairs there as being in 4 satlsfac-
tory condition. There have been no depre-
datinns of late amounting to anything.
Now and again stealing parties are out,
but no serious losses are reported. Sitting
Bull is now under British rule and very
rarely, if ever, ventures even for the short
est periods of time into the territory of
the United States, AT present ] have a
thousand troops at Fort keOgh do not
apprehcnd any trouble with the Indians
this summer.
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POnlpeii.

Pompeii, that beautiful and ill-faIcd
city, buried underneath the shower OF
ashes, pumice, and stone cast forth
from Nesuvious, B. G. 70, and first re-
discovered in 1649, and now a ruin OF
worldwide interest. is said to have Do
ned its name from the word pompe,
with reference to the pomp with Her
cules, It's founder, celebrated his vic
tories The frescoes, which have out
lived 759 years concealment, are bril-
liant vet in the forum and the temples.
The art of fresco painting is still with us
in practice, but the record Of a medium
Of preservation so durable rs to with
stand the fire and damp of centuries is
lost with the people, cunning and rich,
whose hand wrought the beauties of
Pompeii In the houses Of this excavated
city the dining-hall Is always found
most beautifully decorated. In these
noble rooms the Romans reclined at
tests. at which small fortunes were ex-
pended.
II is said of Lucullus that once, wish
ing to deceive Pompey or Cicero when
they insisted upon dining with him en-
fan1iIle, he simply sent word home that
he would dine in the room called ''the
Apallo." where it was said he never
gave a supper for less than sum
amounting to s, 900 Of our money. In
the house Of Scaurus the most marvel
ously rich frescoes adorned its walls.