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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-04
Work of Flames

NJ. Frost & Co.'s woodenware works, with
large amount of lumber and material, and
Croule Bros tannery were consumed by fire at
Detroit, Mich, on the night of the 3oth. Loss
about $500
The greater part of Krasnoriarsk, the second
important town in Siberia, was destroyed by fire
recently.
Property to the amount of $4,000 was con-
sumed by fire at Prescott, Ont, on the 29th.
Insured for $4,000.
ThetoWn of Mount Morris, Mich, was almost
wiped out by fire on the 29th inst.
The Girard Point elevator, at Philadelphia,
Pa, burned on the 28th with $4,000 bushels
of grain. The loss on the grain amounts to
$4,000, and on the buildings 100000. The
insurance on buildings foots up $387,000. The
elevator had twelve elevating machines and
total capacity of 650,000.
The steam tannery of Gum l. Co., at Kings
ton, Ont, was destroyed by fire, causing loss
of $5O,O00.
Eddy's match factory at Hull, Ont, tho larg-
est in Canada, was damaged $4,000 by fire on
the 25th.
An incend;ary fire caused the destruction of
the suffers store at Fort Lyon, Co.., as also the
postoffice:
Smiths box factory, New York city, burned
on the 26th inst. The employees became panic
stricken and number were injured in the
stampede from the burning structure. During
the progress of the fire q sawdust warehouse ex-
plOuous GlnOWuIS Guo willis OVoI tuo CIOWu VI
spectators. George Bloomfield, aged %, was
caught beneath the mass and burned to death,
q number of others received burns, some fatal
The Trondo mill and lumber yard, Fife Lake,
Mich, burned on the Oath inst. Loss $40, 900.
No insurance.
Decatur, No., suffered loss by the burning
of Duncombe 4 Co. large Touring mill. Loss
$25,000.
The town of Buenaventura, Isthmus of
Panama, was swept away by fire on the 18th.
Three persons we're burned to death, and
fifteen hundred rendered homeless. The
pecuniary loss amounts to $1,OOO,O00 or over.
A steamer which called on the 18th inst, left
all the provisions they could spare.
nepent blaze sSe IN nth the Orr Oriental m Rr9y
worth of damage.
At Buffalo, N. Y, on the 25th inst, ten cars of
coal, four box cars and two tank cars with oil,
burned.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-04

RESPECTABLE togues find no quarter in Cuba.
batch of eighteen of them who had been
condemned on the charge of having defrauded
the naval department of the island have been
sentenced to penal servitude, which very just
proceeding caused great sensation at Havana;
but public sentiment approved of what was
done. much larger batch was ordered for
trial, last week. 1t is the intention of the gov-
ernment to show no mercy. The highe: the
criminals the severer will be the punishment in
ficted. Law now means something solid under
Spanish rule, though once under that rule the
saying held good, "show me the man and
will show you the law" Bitter complaints of
the law and it's delays, its favoritism and its in
justice, fill no small place in the literature of
Old Spain.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-04
Winn in order to lynch him, Winn, when or
dered from his ell. refused to obey and made

Winn in order to lynch him, Winn, when Or
dered from his I'll, re fused to obey and made
preparations for defense, wbereupon several
shots we're fired at him, with fatal effect.
A fight ensued at Covington, Ga, on the
night Of the 9th, between Dick Allen, Henry
Hunton and three men named Allen, Young and
Campbell. It seems that Hunton acted on the
defensive, the others having attacked him.
Allen and Young were badly cut in the back and
Campbell's throat was cut from ear to ear.
Hunton surrendered, but WAS released after
preliminary trial.
D: Mccartney, Jr., a druggist was fatally
stabbed in front of his store at Pittsburg. Pa,
on the night of tho 9th, by Charles Dalgleish.
The murderer was one of a party of loungers,
whom Mccartney had ordered away from his
place.
T. NJ Pearce, timer, got into difficulty at
Midway, KY, on the Goth inst, and was shot
dead by Jacob Williams, farm hand. Pearce
leaves a wife and four children.
J. W. Robb, prosecuting attorney at Astoria,
Oregon, was shot dead by G. Robson, a former
client.
The sheriff Of Trinity county, Cal., killed
stage robber on the 9th.
Three robbers went into the house of John
Baker, near Warrington, West Va, on the
night Of the 26th, and after failing to shoot him
through a window, entered and assaulted the
old man with an axe. He was felled like an OK,
whereupod the Villains secured $500 and made
their escape. Mr.. Bakers son-in law was up
stairs at the time, but was too cowardly to go
down.
A well-known character in Cincinnati, named
George w. Stevens, stabbed his father-in-law,
Harvey Newell, four times, indicting fatal
wounds.
Bridgeton, Mo-, point twenty miles from
St. Louis, was the scene of q fearful affray on
the 25th. A fight ensued inifront of saloon
between Valentine Walker and James Williams,
when Walker, who is half breed, beat Will
iams' brains out with stone. A farmer named
Michael Revoir attempted to stay the terrible
proceedings, when the enraged Walker felled
him with fence rail, inflicting probably fatal
injuries.
A farmer named Legden, who was working a
farm near Clifden, Ireland, from which tenants
had been evicted, was shot dead by nine men
who surrounded his his house on the night of
the Oath. His son was severely wounded.
Two darkies at Culterville, Ill.,, quarreled
about a woman while returning from church on
the 24th inst, one of them was stabbed and
killed.
A bootblack named Jesse Terrell was fatally
shot in billiard hall in Paris, ILL.,, by William
Bowen.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-04

A BERLIN engineer has constructed an appar-
atus for train conductors, which, hung around
the neck, completely manufactures passenger
tickets. They are made before the eyes of the
wondering public, and though the apparatus is
said to be of somewhat complicated construc-
ton, its manipulation is as simple and easy as
its working is correct, for, should the operator
not proceed in the way required by the mechan-
ism, it will not print oil the figures and words
wanted, but the word falsh" (wrong) in the
place where the fault was committed. At the
same time this portable printer checks the num-
Der Of tickets issued, to enable the controlling
officer at any given moment to compare the
money in the hands of the guide with the value
of the tickets printed and taken.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-04
"A Fishing RnrfV L0Sf.

George H. Shook, DR.. W. Decker, Morris
Axtell and Charles Wood, prominent citizens of
Mt. Clemens, Mich, started out on lake St.
Clair, on fishing excursion on the 29th ult.,
since Which time nothing has been heard from
them. The boat was last seen late in tho after
neon from one of the islands, just previous to
severe squall. After the storm cleared up the
boat had disappeared, and two tugs sent out in
search Of it returned without tidings.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-04
Nominations and AppOintments.
President Garfield has annQinted the follow.

1Ieb1ueHC UHTIe1U uHS HppO14Ceu C16 1OLOW-
ing government directors of the Union Pacific
railroad company, for the ensuing year: s. T.
Eye Eyerett % C3eye1a1d & o.; ; r. Il: Baker, H9; Raene
w. First, Omaha, and A. Kountze, New York.
Roswell G.. Wheeler has been nominated agent
for the Pima and Marieopia Indians by the
president.
VIM. McMichael, of Philadelphia, and John
X. Boios, Of Hudson, Mich, have been appoint
ed members of the board of Indian commits
sioners. s.
John L. French, chief clerk in tho contract
Office of the postofice department, Washington,
has been removed and Henry D. Lyman, of
Ohio, appointed in his place.
Col. S. d. Sturges and Lieut.. Col. J. s. Mason
have been detailed respectively governor and
lieutenant governor OF soldiers homes.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-04
Mysterious,

A young man named Stephen Smith, under
sentence in the Indiana penitentiary, died re-
Gently, and post mortem examination made at
the instance of his father developed the fact
that the deceaseds neck had been broken.
The matter will be Investigated.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-04
A Rnv4,1 Convict.

It having been proven clearly that the Russian
Grand Duke Nicholas was connected with the
Nihihsts in their successive murderous designs
on the late czar, he has been sentenced by
decree of the emperor to Imprisonment for life.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-04

The introduction Of steam into the English
navy has to a great extent diminished that
prestige which the superiority Of her seamen
gained for her at time when navies consisted
exclusively Of sailing vessels. The introduc-
ton of ironclads has diminished the numbers
of ships of war, aud produced distinction be-
tween n,en-of-war and merchant vessels, which
was undreampt Of at the beginning of this
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-04
Unveiled.

A statue of Admiral Farragut the naval hero,
Washington, D. c., on the 25th inst, President
Garfield accepting the monument in behalf of
the government in brief speech.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-04
A nafn,uu1f.oP.

It has transpired that G. E. Tockhart. exc
cutor of the estate of G. I. Ray, St. Johns,
N. B., is defauiter to the amount of $50, 900
to the Methodist conference Of New Bruns-
wick and Prince Edwards island, to which body
500, 900 was left by the estate.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-04
Pillaged.

Eizabethgrad, Russia, was the scene of riot
and carnage recently, when one hundred Jewish
habitations were pilaged and destroyed, the
walls and roofs only being left standing. A
number of Jews were killed.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-04
The French runisiau War.

On the 25th inst. the French iron-clad Sur
veillante bombarded and destroyed the Tunis-
ian forts on the is(anl Of Tabarca. Gen. Lo-
gerols column has invested city of KeH.
l! order to rcPress any attempt by Algerian
Arabs to take advantage of the Tunisian diff
Guilty and revolt, France has decided to send
considerable reinforcements there. It is stated
that 900 troops will be dispatched.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-04
Suicidal.

John W. Minturn, of the old house of Grim
nell, Minturn L. Co., New York, committed sui
eide on the 30th. He was in the 43d year of his
age, and was suffering from over-work and
pr0stration.
Selma II. Ditzell, 14-year-old servant girl,
committed suicide at Chicago on the 29th ult.,
because she was accused of stealing small
sum of money.
VIM. Kidwell, of Clarkesville, Tenn, suicided
on the 28th by shooting himself through the
throat.
Job E. Owens, a prominent citizen of Ham,
ilton, O.. committed suicide on tho 9th inst,
by shooting himself in the head with revol-
yer: Cause, '1 business s troubles Mr. Owens ems
children. His estate is valued at $4,000.
Gilbert Pereton, a sawdust peddler, took
fatal dose of poison at Detroit, Mich, on the
oath inst, while laboring under fit of de-
spondency.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-04

report from Tunis that the principal Arab
theological institute had resolved to unfurl the
standard of the prophet and proclaim a holy
war against inidels is contirmed.s
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-04
Stage Coach Robbed

The east and west bound stages were robbed
on the night of the 3Oth ult, near Sabinal,
Texas. Mail bags were ripped open and the
registered letters extracted therefrom. Major
Fell, the only passenger, lost 80, being success
full in concealng $4,000.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-04
Business Failures.

The firm of Lee, Mcbride 4 Co., cotton brol-
ers of Galveston, Texas, has failed, with ]iabli-
ties of $50, 1000.
'1ho fancy dry goods house OF Joseph and
Isaac Bloom, New York city, has failed. Liza
biiities 100000. The junior member of the
firm was found dead in the hotel on the night of
the failure
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-04
Self NntiIafiRpp.

A Boston barber named Thomas Harragan,
who was sentenced to state prison for twenty
years for outraging woman, deliberately cut
off his right hand with a circular saw to escape
labor,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-04

A WOMAN of so at Spotswood, N. j.,
has married boy of Is, and the village
is in "a state Of mind" about it.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-04
A Holy War.

Contracts have been made to carry 60, 1000
enhgrants from Norway and Sweden to AM
erica.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-04

ANOTHER effort to attract German emigration
is being made by some Mexicans, who offer land
in the vicinity of Acapulco at forty cents an
acre, with ten years time to pay for it. This is
one of the attempts to draw desirable European
settlers to the Spanish-American countries.
Although it is reported that small colony of
German families have started from San Fran
cisco, to the place designated it is not probable
that 1t will succeed much better than most of
the Ofhnra
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-04
THE SILENT No. 8.
THE EASY RUNNING No. 8.
THE No, s for FAMILY SEWING,

Or all modern improvements and
inventions in Sewing Machines, the
New Wheeler & Wilson, "The Silent
Number 81 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."- ."-]udges american Institute,
". Y.
AWARDED the only grand prize fo1
Sewing Machines, at the Paris Expo.
sition, 1878, over 80 competitors.
AGENTS WANTED.
WHEELER & WILSON MFG CO.,
l55 State Street, CHICAGO
W. I. BROWN. Agent, Austin, MINI.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-04
Burned to Death.

The little daughter of Simon Devour, of Ar
cola, ILL.,, fell into bonfire and was burned to
DEATH e., -.. -.t
In Stone county, KY, on the 25th inst, the
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-04
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Evacuated,
Welcome

The retirement of British troops from southern
Aghanistan was completed on the 2Sth inst.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-04
Official Business Clogned.

The deadlock now existing between the op-
posing parties in the United States senate, has
caused quite On accumulation of executive
business in the shape of nominations made by
the president, which require action in executive
session. The total number is 217, and include
81 postmasters, 20 army and navy officers, II
collectors of customs, 8 surveyors of customs,
II consuls, judicial, 6 diplomatic collectors
of internal revenue, United States marshals,
United States district attorneys, Is receivers
Of land officers, 5 registers of land officers,
Indian agents, governor of territory, 2 as
sstant appraisers, associate treasurer of the
United States, naval officer of customs, sur
veyors general, miscellaneous. These NOM
nations include VIM. w. Phelps, as minister to
Austria, William H. Robertson, collector of GUS
toms at New York, MIR. Elmer as second assis-
tant postmaster general, W. A. NJ. Green as
third assistant postmaster-general, Mr.. Hill as
secretary of state, and Mr.. Price as commits
sioner Of Indian affairs.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-04

The unequaled inducements offered by this Line
to Travellers and Tourists, as follows: The ce.-
brated Pullman Q6-whee) Palace Sleeping Oars,
run on on this line. c., 3. Q. Palace Drawing
Room Cars wit Horizons Re lininx Chairs. No
extra charge for seats in reclining chairs. The "a
nous c., B. h @. Palace Dining Cars. Go geous
Smoking Cars fitted with elegant high -bacted Rat
tan Revolving Ch.irs for the exclusive Of first
class passengers.
Steel track and sup 'rior equipment, combined
with their great through car arrangement, makes
this, above all others, the favorite, route to the
East, eouth, Southwest and the far West.
T'y it, and you will find travelling luxury in
stead of di comfort.
through tickets via. this celebrated line for eae
at all Offices in the Ualted States and Canada.
All Information about rates Of fare, sleeping car
accommodating time tables, ETC., wi be cheerful
ly given bS applying to JAS. r. WOOD,
Gcueral Passenger Agt, Chicago.
7. J. POTTER, General Manag n, Chicago.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-04

THE prospects of moor and forest in Scotland
are, on the whole, very favorable. Notwith-
standing the extremely severe winter-un-
equaled in entensity for many years-grouse
and other kinds of game are quite plentiful.
Deer have required considerable attention. For
some time past large quantities of hay, turnips
and beans have been regularly placed in many
of the forests by the gamekeepers, and this
system Of feeding will have to be maintained
until there is fair crop of grass, which, this
spring. will be very late. Notwithstanding the
attention thus bestowed upon them, the loss
among the deer during the winter has been con-
siderable, being heaviest among the young
stock, last seasons calves.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-04
A Terrible Calamity.

A frightful calamity occurred at Elgin, ILL.,,
on the 9th, by the swamping Of ferry boat
used in crossing the river at Chicago street,
from which point the bridge was carried away
recently. The boat was crossing the river from
the west side, and when nearly two-thirds over
began to fill with water, whereupon the alright
ed passengers at once flocked to the dry
part Of the boat, clnging to the railing which,
giving way, precipitated them into the river.
surface, leaving thirty human souls battling for for
life in the angry waters. The river at this
point is full fifteen feet deep, and the current at
least six miles per hour. A number Of small
boats Immediately put to the rescue and sue
ceeded in saving twelve of the unfortunates.
multitude, powerless to aid, were compelled to
watch the victims drown before their eyes. The
lost are mostly school children, who we're on
their way to the west side school.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-04
The African colonial possessions of Great

The African colonial possessions of Great
Britain seem to be in a more secure position
than the American. They comprise Gambia,
Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast, Lagos, Cape
Colony, Natal, Transvaal, Ascension Island, st.
Helena, Tristan da Cunha, Mauritius and its
dependencies, st. Paul and New Amsterdam.
These colonies seem in safer position, because
in those parts of tho Dark Continent in which
England has q firm foothold she has at the mo-
ment no European rival to fear.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-04

A PROMINENT Russian engineer, who has made
the subject of petroleum special study, and
who is now on visit to this country, expresses
surprise that we are not using this substance as
fuel for locomotives, steamers, etc. He states
that for the past twelve years petroleum, as a
fuel, has been used exclusively in the distant
east countries; aud he advises American engi-
neers to utilize the already existing appliances
for burning petroleum which have been found
to answer the purpose elsewhere, instead of
spending time and money in the endeavor to de-
wise something Of their own.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-04
ShiDwreCk.

The British steamer Taraura was wrecked on
the reefs off Otago, New Zealand, recently, and
eighty persons drowned.
The schooner Palladium, sunk off Point
Judith, on the night of the 30th ult. Fred. w.
Chase, Jr.. the captain's son, and Samuel Walk
er, the mate, were lost.
The bark Mary A. Nelson, picked up boat
containing the master and steward of the
schooner L. B. Wing, of Mobile, which vessel
was bound from Matanzas for New York, but
became waterlogged and rolled over on her
beam ends during gale. The balance of the
crew of the wrecked vessel were lost, The sur
vivors had tossed about for 1O8 hours before
being picked up.
The steamship Chesapeake, is ashore on
Fisher island, off New London, Conn.,, and like
ly to go to pieces. No lives were lost. She is
the vessel which did such good service during
the rebellion, and was captured and taken to
the provinces, where part of her cargo was
coniscated.
The steamer City of Austin, loaded with su-
gar, cotton, sponges and fruit, ran on Pelican
shoals, a mile inside of Fernandina bar, Florida,
on the 26th, owing to a mistake of the pilot. No
lives were lost, but the steamer is breaking up.
Her cargo is insured for $4,000.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-04
Obituary..

Obituary..
Capt. Louis Brant of the steamship Herder
died of heart disease, at Jersey City on the LIST
inst, aged SO.
Julius Won Barries, Louisville, KY, banker,
died on the LIST inst.
Thomas j. Abbott, Of the old-established
carpet house of Abbott & Ketcham, Detroit
Mich, dropped dead on the 29th ult., as he was
leaving his home for his place of business.
Albany, Ind, died at the age of 83.
Emile De Girardin, the eminent French writer,
is dead.
Gen. Louis Won Benedeck died at Gratz, on
the 9th.
John G. Palfrey, at one time editor of the
North american, ReU1eev, died at Boston, Mass,
on the 25th.
Hon. A. Brewer Brown, one of the best known
criminal lawyers in central Illinois, died at De-
catur on the 25th.
Pierre Alfred Ravel, the actor, died in Paris
on the 26th.
The German general Baron Won Der Tam, is
dead.
The Earl of Fingal, whose estates lie in county
Meath, Ireland, died i'll London. His heir is
Lord Killeen, % years of age.
Mrs. Louisa G. Allan, the foster-mother of
Edgar Allan Poe, died in Richmond, at the age
of SO. She was a cousin of General Winfield
Scott.
The death is announced of Congressman
O'Connor, of Charleston, S, G..
James T. Fields, the well-known writer and
publisher, died suddenly of heart diseased at
Boston, Mass, on the 25th. He was sitting at
home reading when he was attacked, land expired
instantly. Mr.. F. was in his Gath year.
General McAuliffe, of Washington, died sud-
denly at Newark Ohio.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-04

WHEAr-No. l, White Wabash.......
CORN-Mixed.. Observation-Disclosures.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-08-11

The saloonkeepers Of Bloomington, ILL.,,
have just adopted most sensible snd com.
mendable resolution, to the effect that here
after under no circumstances will they sell
liquor to minors, to habitual drunkards, nor
to men who heat their wive.. They have is
sued circular asking photographs Of the
two latter class Of persons. to enable them to
carry out their resolution.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-08-11

At the Central Committee meeting held
at Ellsworth, on Saturday Isst. it Was decid-
ed to hold Republican convention to nom-
mate candidate for Stale Senator, for the
Thirty District, at Russell, October
5tb. Each organized county is entitled to
send two delegates. and each unorganized
county one delegate.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-08-11

Twenty years ago the settlers in the East.
ern half Of the State regarded such counties
as Sedgwlck, McPnerson, Cowley, Summer,
Saline, Cloud and Republican as arid and
uninhabitable wastes. They now rank among
the most productive in Kansas, and the sea-
sons and rainfall within their borders are ss
timely as in the count es along the Missouri
river. The day is coming when Kansas will
be settled to the Colorado line. and the rain
tall in every county will be equal to all the
demands OF successful agriculture .-Atchi.
son Champion.