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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-11

A mariner named LaTock was picked up from
raft at sea recently, and brought to New Or
leans by a ship. He tells fearful story of the
loss of the French ship LaMarine, which oc-
CURED during hurricane. The Inflated craft
had on board fifty soldiers beside her crew.
All but the narrator were either drowned, killed
on the wreck, or died of starvation.
The steamer Balize, bound from New Orleans
for Copenhagen, foundered at sea recently.
The crew was saved.
The ship Sumatra from San Francisco with
coal, struck rock on the 3Oth inst, and was
towed in to Esquimault Harbor, when she sunk
in the mud and will prove total loss.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-11

The American Meteorological society propos-
es to divide the sixty degrees of space between
Newfoundland and Oregon in four equal parts,
and establish separate standard time for each.
As the sixty degrees equal four hours, the Diff
ference in time between each division aud the
adjoining one would be exactly an hour. The
continent would be laid out in four parallel
strips, running north and south, each fifteen de-
grees wide, in each of which the standard
time would be based on it's own meridian. The
idea is to obviate the present inconvenience of
having about seventy standard times used by
railroads scattered through the country. Rail-
road experts, however, say that such system
would prove great inconvenience on trunk
liues, since trains could not be run as now, con-
tinuously by time taken at one end or the other
of the line.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-11
BRnkruptcY.

Bsuse & Stolte, of Amsterdam, Holland, have
failed. The firm is one of the Oldest in Europe
and did an immense coffee trade, and the fail
ure has caused considerable surprise. The
liabilities are very large. The value of the
assets has not been ascertained,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-11
Burned to Death.

While David Reese and his son we're endeav-
oring to rescue household effects from their
burning home at New Providence, Pa, on the
I'd inst, the building suddenly collapsed and
both were burned to death. Mrs. Reese was
also severely burned.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-11
Accident i'm n, Mine,

coal shaft caught fire at Carbondale, Pa,
on the 9Th while twenty miners were at work.
None could escape until the fire was under con-
troll, when rescuing parties brought out four
teen alive and three dead. Three were missing
and thought to be dead.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-11
A Terrible Catastronhe.

The British war sloop Dotercl was blown up
on the 26th Of April, at Sardy point, Straits
of Magellan. The cause of the explosion is not
known, and an examination will be prosecuted
by divers. Outo a list of 1856 souls only II es-
capped. The steamer measured 1,137 tons and
was provided with 90O-horse-p power engines.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-11

The Chinese have ia capital illustration
of the power of perseverance. One of
their countrymen who had been making
strenuous efforts to acquire literary in
formation, discouraged by difficulties, at
last gave. UP his books in despair. As
he returned to manual employment he
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-11
Minor CaSualtiea.

A vehicle containing three persons was de-
molished by railway train at Bordentown.
n. j., railway crossing, on the 4th inst. Ali
three We're killed.
James Delaney. veteran Of the Soldiers,
Home, at Milwaukee, Wis.,, was run over and
killed by the cars near the Home, on the night
of the 7th inst
Charles Cobb, a brakeman, slipped and fell
under the cars at Plummersville, o., on the 9Th
inst, receiving fatal injuries.
Five cases of giant powder containing 500
pounds, exploded on the sidewalk in front of q
building on East Fifty-ninth street, New York,
on the 5th inst. Half the houses in the block
we're shaken, but no damage was done and no
person hurt.
A New York city belle, Miss Fannie J. Blan-
chet, died from the use of cosmetics on the 4th
inst.
Capt. Charles &. Anderson of the steamer
Riverside, was fatally crushed between his YES
sci and dock near Detroit, Mich, on the 4th
inst.
A building connected with the Maplewood
hotel property at Littleton, N. H., fell upon a
gang of workmen on the 4th inst, killing Nor
ris Cheney and Daniel Abbott and severely in.
juring seven others.
Mrs. Valentine Grim was killed at railroad
crossing, Camden, N. j., on the I'd inst.
Lizzie Devine, a circus performer, while exc
cutting tho catapult act at Wilkesbarre, Pa, on
the Sd inst, fell upon the netting and struck in
such manner as to cause conclusion of the
spine. Her recovery is doubtful
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-11
Try Them on Spring Poetry.

The Spanish minister at London announces
that the distinguished jurors, who include
United States Minister Lowell, are unable to
award the prize on the poem on CaIderon, as
although the compositions sent in are meritori-
ton to the subject.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-11
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Vicious Cur,
RpuRrDa,P1npla.

Eleven persons were bitten by a mad dog at
Halifax, N. s., on the 7th inst, and it is feared
most of them will die.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-11

Sir Walter Nugent, an Irish baronet, is on
trial in Dublin for forging a note for FL 800.
Lady Nugent has fed and the defense set up is
that she committed the deed.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-11
THE SILENT No. 8.
THE EASY RUNNING No. 8.
THE No. 8 for FAMILY SEWING.

Or all modern improvements and
inventions in Sewing Machines, the
New Wheeler & Wilson, "The Silent
Number s." is the greatest success.
Wherever it has come in competition
before competent judges with other
machines, it has universally come of
triumphant.
eve declare 1t the best in the
world" ."-Ja4dges american Institute,
". Y.
AWARDED the only grand prize for
Sewing Machines, at the Paris Expo.
sltlon, 1878, over so competitors.
~ AGENTS WANTED.
WHEELER & WILSON MFG CO.,
155 State Street, : CHICAGO
WI. BROWN, Agent, Austin, MINI.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-11
a Hi~h!,rO,,od Enruo-

On the night of the 9TH inst. the safe in Frank
Mays brewery, town of Cascade, Iowa, was
open and So, 600 extracted therefrom.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-11

The vaccination "row" on board the Vic
toria in New York harbor, is likely to lead to
reopening of the controversy on the question
all along tho line. In England the discussion
RACES in the public prints with vehement ener-
gy, pro and con, and Mr.. Peter Taylor, NJ. p,
in letter to the London Times, says: "In
the last century, when vaccination was unknown,
the best authorities place the mortality by
smallpox at about 18 per cent. On what ground
is it possible to imagine that now, under far
moro sanitary conditions and far more scientific
treatment say nothing of having had the
advantage of eight years of vaccination the
mortality of the unvaccinated has risen to ii
per cent, he, as some put it (under an extra
ordinary mode of manufacturing statistics) to
70 or 80 per cent?"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-11
MOftuArV.

Co: y: Il: Philip. Of Clayerack. N. Y, died
on tho 9TH inst. He was aide on Gen. Frank
Inns staff in the peninsular campaign, and at
Antietam.
Hon. Charles Hitchcock, one of the most
prominent lawyers and citizens of Chicago, died
on the 9th inst, aged 81 years.
Major William A. Wheeler, who has resided
in Madison, Wis, since 1884, and was men,
Der of the territorial legislature, has passed
away.
Hon. Ansel Briggs, who died in Omaha on
the 9th inst, was the first governor of Iowa.
superintenned the Chicago Home of the Friend
less, has finished her earthly labors.
G. A. Buttles, proprietor of the Avenue house,
Milwaukee, formerly hardware merchant, died
on the 9Th inst.
E: c; Ridgeyay, an old and prominent Canada
The celebrated ventri]oquist, Prof. John Har-
rington, died at Boston, Mass, on the night of
the 4th
John P. Young, a pioneer citizen of Louis
vile, KY, died on the 9Th inst, aged 81.
S. H. Woodward, a prominent iron manufac-
tllrer of Wheeling, W. Va, and president of
the La Belle rail works, died on the 5th inst,
aged So.
Col. D. G: Abbey, welEknown citizen Of
Milwaukee, Wis.,, died at the Plankinton house.
in that city, on the 9Th.
Randolph Strickland, ex-member of congress
from the Sixth Michigan district, died on the
9th inst, at Detroit.
DR.. John Ruth, the celebrated rifle shot, died
at Oakland, CAL, on the Sd inst.
Hon. Volney French, Wisconsin pioneer,
holding the position Of Kenosha county Judge,
died at his home in that city on the Sd inst.
j. N. Ashley, who was during the war con-
nected With the Washington bureau of the New
York Herald. and afterwards night agent in
New York of the England Associated Press, and
for several years past editor of the Journal of
the Telegraph, died at New York city on the I'd
inst, after short illness, of paralysis Of the
brain,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-11
VARIOUS TOPICS.

BILL has been favorably reported in the
Massachusetts legislature prescribing impris-
onment for life as punishment for murder,
whenever the convicting jury SO recommends
unanimously.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-11
Work OF the Flames.

The works of the Alta mining company at
Wickes, forty miles from Butte, Montana, were
consumed by fire on the 9Th inst. The loss is
placed between $3.50, 900 and $500, About
$50 men are thrown out of employment.
The glass works at Rock Island, ILL.,, burned
on the night of the 7th. Loss $4,000.
The wholesale drug and book house of J. L.
Taylor & Co., and the First National bank
building at Ottumua, Ia, we're burned on the
9Th inst. Adjoining structures also suffered
somewhat from the flames. The total loss foots
up nearly $175,000, upon which there is an in
surance of about three fourths.
The Hafner soap and candle factory at
Buffalo, N. Y, was licked up by flames on the
9Th inst. Loss $45, 900; insurance $4,000.
Hugh McCrumms cabinet factory at Williams
burg, N. Y, burned on the 9th, entailing loss
of $55, 900.
The largest tannery, in Canada, situated four
miles from Montreal was destroyed by Ere early
on the morning of the 9Th. Loss 100000.
The Albro oil cloth factory at Elizabeth, N.
j., was fred by an incendiary on the 5th inst,
and destroyed. Loss $25,OO0.
The principal block in the town of Hazletcn,
Ind, was destroyed by an incendiary fire on the
4th inst.
A fire at Spadra, Ark, on the 5th inst, wiped
out the store of j. B. Waddle. Loss over $685.
900. The fire was the work of an incendiary,
One hundred cases of tobacco belonging to
Esberg, Bachman & Co., San Francisco, CAL,
were damaged to the extent of $50, 600 by fro
in shirk's warehouse, Lancaster, Pa, On the
18th inst.
Damage to the extent of $50, 900 was inflicted
upon firms occupying E. J. Kings brick build
ing, Boston, Mass, by fire on the 4th inst.
A fire at London, Ont, on the 4th inst, de-
stroyed Leonards boiler and engine works
Seventy-dve men are thrown out Of employ
ment. Loss SEQ, 900; insurance $15, 900.
+ Two hundred and twenty-seven bales of COT
ton. in transit from st. Louis on the steamer
Asdrubal, took fire and were consumed on the
Sd inst. Only ~ bales were saved. Loss $8, 900.
The Douglas machine works, at Warren, O.,
were destroyed by fire on the Sd inst, entaiing
loss of $S0, 900.
The Canada Southern freight shed, at st.
Thomas, Ont, burned on the I'd inst. The
building, $50 feet long, contained large guam
titX of goods. Loss between ss5, 900 and $780,
Rock Mill cotton factory, West Point, Ga.,
burned on the I'd inst. Loss $40, 600; no insur-
ance.
Eddy's lumber yard, a coal yard, and several
stores burned at Stap]eton, Staten island, on
the I'd inst. Loss $50, ,OOO.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-11
The Nations Finances.

The public debt statement issued on the I'd
inst: shows decrease in the public debt during
April of $9.69O, 300.
The total debt now is $4,000, 24s, ,64s; interest
$17 241; cash in the treasury S233, 731 1875:
debt less cash in treasury 81, ,864, 572, ,693. The
decrease since June 80, 1880, is $79, ,099, SOL,
The coinage during the month of April of
double eagles, and half eagles. aggregated the
value of $8 900; of silver dollars 1890, 900
were coined.
ceived up to date for continuance at 81 per
cent, is 52,575, 400.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-11

AN old farmer says that where hawk
kills one quail crow will kill twenty.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-11

The unequsled inducements offered by this Line
to Travellers and Tourists, follows: The cee-
brated Pullman Q6-wheeJ) Palace Sleeping Cars,
run only on this line, c., B. l. Q. Palace Drawing.
Room Oars wit Horizons Reclining Chairs. No
extra charge for seats in reclining chairs. The IA
Smoking Cars fitted with elegant high -bacl ed Rat.
tan Revolving Chairs for the exclusive use Of first
class passengers.
Steel track and superior equipment, combined
with their great throug gh car arrangement, makes
this, above all others, the favorite. route to the
East, South, Southwest and the far West.
Try it, and you will find travelling luxury in
stead of discomfort.
through tickets via. this celebrated line for sale
at all Offices in the Uslted States and Canada.
All Information about rates of fare, sleeping car
accOmmodations time tables, etc., will be cheerful.
ly given by applying to JAS. r. WOOD,
General Passenger Agt., Chicago.
T. J. POTTER, General Manager, Chicago.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-11
Marine Disasters.

gine and tender crashed through it on the list
inst. Engineer Skully and Fireman John Wasker
were killed.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-11

The first step toward practical application of
the telephone in Austria has at last been made.
The Vienna Local Telegraph company has ap-
piled for and been granted concession to es-
tabljsh telephone communication in the city.
In granting the privilege, the Austrian govern
ment has made two conditions; firstly, that the
subscription should be as low..as possible; and,
second, that telephone communication should
in certain cases come under control as is done
with telcgraphic communication. The first
condition has been fulfilled already by the COM
pany's intending to limit the amount of SUBJ
scripton to from 100 to 14o forms a year.
Telephones are now in operation in London,
Manchester, Liverpool, Glasgow, Stockholm,
Christiana, Brussels. Antwerp, Verviers, Liege,
Zurich and between the government Offices in
Rome. Telephones are about to be introduced
in Munich, Stuttgart, Augsburg, Rome, Naples,
Milan, Genoa, Turin, Petersburg, O dessa, etc.
It will be a high satisfaction to the Americans
to see the last of their great inventions thus
rapidly spreading over Europe.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-11

This is something which ought to afford
stimulus to inventors desirous both of celebrity
and some shekels. Excluding the productions
of the national or International members of
the Royal Academy of Turin, that body will
award $4,000 Italian Tyre to the author or inven-
tor who may, in its judgment, have made the
most important and useful discovery in, Or pub
lshed the most valuable work on, physical and
experimental science, natural history, mathe-
matics, chemistry. physiology and pathology,
geology, history, geography, and statistics. The
claims and their basis must be submitted before
the end of December, 1882, and must relate to
work accomplished during 1879 and 1882.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-11

The French assembly has passed bill re-
ducing the hours of labor for women and chill
dren. Louis Blanc tried to secure reduction
also form men. Under present regulations days
work in France means twelve hours labor, and
this is continued through six days Of each week
falling alike on men, women and children. NJ.
Blanc pointed out that the labor performed by
mechanic in Franco in a weeks service of sew
enty-two hours was not SO great as that done
by an English mechanic in a weeks service of
ffty-eight hours; the toll in the former case was
10 excessive that, after the rest Sunday, by
Tuesday or Wednesday, the energy for the work
was exhausted, and the work itself dragged
on the artisans hands. From his long resi-
dence in England. NJ. Blanc has had an abun-
dant opportunity for making comparisons be-
tween the methods of labor, and thinks that
much more is lost than gained by these long
working hours in France.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-11
Railway NTishaps.

Some miscreant fred. q bridge on the Green
Bay and Minnesota railroad, between Elm lake
and Dexterville;; Wis. freight. train coming
along shortly afterwords, crashed through the
weakened structure. The entire train went
down and all the cars' were" consumed by fire.,
Loss heavy. The engineer was dangerously
A passenger and freight train collided near
Ga1liPolis, Ohio, on the 9Th inst. Both engines
were wrecked, the engineers and two ffremen
had limbs broken and nine freight cars were
piled upEin indescnbable confusion. No hui
man lives were lost, but about IS head of cattle
we're killed outright and many others wounded.
Loss about $25, 900. -, !. - .-1~,
A freight. train ran OFF an open switch at
Greenfield, Mass, on, the Sd inst, and was
telescoped by collision with another train.
Two engines and twelve cars were demolished.
Loss estimated at $1b, 600. -. I; - !. ~ =
Several passenger cars were thrown down an
embankment by smash-up near Eagle Bridge,
New York, on the 3d., r, g, -,
Two accidents occurred on the Texas Pacific
road on the Sd inst. a locomotive of freight
train went through a bridge at Sweetwater,7 80
miles west of Dallas, killing the engineer, fire.
man and brakeman and severely iniuring the
conductor. The other disaster occurred at q
bridge washout nearsK Kituta, 243 miles west of
Dallas. The engineer. and brakeman are miss
ing. %gi. G::seaa a:tesEss3aes z&:>2!
:. Workmen repsiring arailway trestle. near
Ringwood, N. j., weakened the structure by re-
moving timbers; Is srch an extent that al en-
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-11

Reuben Bray, prominent citizen of CALI
Pols blew his brains out with a shot gun on
the 9Th inst.
A well-known Hebrew citizen of Louisville,
Ky, named Abe Frost, fatally shot himself on
the 9Th inst. Cause, family trouble.
An extremely sad case of suicide occurred at
Shenandoah, Pa, on the 4th inst. A Mrs.
Delaney became SO crazed at the death of her
two sons that she saturated her clothing with
coal oil and then applied match. Her body
was burned to crisp.
Michael Kelly, aged IS, drowned himself in
the canal at Louisville, Ky., on the I'd inst. He
leaves family.
John H. Fink, retired flour merchant, who
made considerable money in the western states
some years ago, committed suicide by hanging
himself to the brake of freight car on the
Hudson River road, on the I'd inst. -
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-11

The shipment of American apples to Europe
is destined to be immense. But, insists the
Rural Ne,o Yorker, if our growers and shippers
desire to secure the best results for themselves
and the consumers they will at once determine
upon thorough system of selecting and pack
ing. This applies with equal force to our home
markets. Winter pears sent to New York about
the holidays, well selected and nicely packed in
half-bushel boxes, sold readily at SO and $4 the
box. With less care and taste in selecting and
packing, such pears might not have been scld
for more than So or 81 per barrel.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-11

DR.. LEM has made decisive report that the
project of transforming the desert of Sahara
into an inland sea WAS utterly impracticable.
DR.. Lenz's lecture before the Paris Geograph-
ical society upon his return from Timbuctoo
gives many interesting facts about the great
desert, and corects many generally accepted
notions. The fresh water fossils, which are
met with in many parts, show, according to
DR.. Lenz, that the Sahara is not the bottom of
dried-up sea. The temperature is not nearly
so bot as might be expected; wild beasts are
rare, and the most formidable enemies to be
met with are the Touraee tribes, who, accord
ing to the report, have recently massacred the
French Trans-Saharan expedition. On the
whole, the impression is conveyed that the
Sahara is not half as black as it has been
painted, and that is entitled TO an apology from
the entire civilized world.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-11

ST. LOUIS.

WHEAr-No. 2, White Wabash. a. 1872
CORN-Mixed. ed.................-......... a. 49
OATS. Observation-Disclosures. a. sc
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-11
LATEST MARKET REPORTS.
CHICAGO,

CHICAGO.
FLoUR-Good to Choice Spring $ S 90 a.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-12-06
OAKLAND POULTRY Yaa1s,
corner l"isl and fas;I" s.reets, Caalan
Constantly OF and and for sale, choice specimens
the follow in; Varieties Of fowls

Dark and LiIlrt Braanas, Buff, White
Partridge Coclins, White and Brown lie
horns. Dorkines, Polish, Hamburgs, 4,
month Rocks, Game and Sebrieht Bantam
Bronze Turk ess, Pekin, Ayiesbury
houtn Ducks. s. Safe arrival OF ers
guaranteed 81 Sal isfaa.iop guaranteed
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-12-06
2Ist Day OF December Al rss,
ASoIGaeE's NOTICE OF SALE


ond judicial District in and for Ormsby Countr ST.,
| OF Nevada-IHON 5 BEER VS. HIS CRFDi,fogS
b3 virtue OF an order of sale issued out of the his
tlIct court o the second Judicial District in ana
t tpI tiie county OF ormsby, State of Nevada i'm
tiie matter OF the estate of Thomas Beer an in .
HolFeHl uebtOf VS. His Creditors, and to mo ri
Tccted ana Delivered and dated the DIST day NJ
III l per, "A, u IsS, in which l directed To
ST. tite estate OF SAID nSOlvent del or consistin
OF certain property hereinafter described I bavo
taken possession of the following pronartv "a
WI piece of timber land on Wolf troet' in
Alpine county, California. consisting of T6D arres
more or less. one acre Of land y mile : w -;
Etih'lhrte ,ity slaughter house. Lots = s. Band 10
hICcK n amber D. Dwelling house ana lot Nurn
pci ., BLOCK y lumber 81. Dwelling house sifuotr
on hifo street. Dwelling house and lot Numher
U, n,och ~ uthber@l all IN Empire City, Ormsh,
county, stare OF Nevada One light sprjnr waTo,,
~ SooG repair. Notes against the following mar
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iI st per cent per MONTH date. January Gin
20, lneoQore J." johnson. =. -. '
cent per month; date, June I'd, ST. T. Nh
amount, Si6y 81; interest, per cent Der mont6!
9ate, october 9Th, 1888; A. Rosen berg aInonnt.
80 ~ interest, per cent. per month: date No
HeIioer ., 1880. G. A. Flanders. amount SI0o.
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r,'"' N. o. GRADY, amount, S293 ca interest !
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". VI, - brapy' amount, $3.50; interest l per cent
per inohtn; date, April z4th, Is g. Also / blottor
journal, cash book and ledgers ali of tbcs,,
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iEth day OF December, 4. ID. 1884, and confainin,,
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Notice is hereby riyan