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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-05-24
The Irish AS6RSSinS.

It is now believed that at least twelve men
were associated in the murder of Lord Caven-
dish and Mr.. Burke, and in addition to the four
who did the deed eight others were near by in
readiness to rush to the rescue if their assis-
that all the persons concerned in the butchery
are still in Dublin, being afraid to separate lest
one of their number should be tempted by the
heavy rewards and promises of immunity to be-
tray his associates.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-05-24
Liheral Ran1lesfa.

The will of Ex. Gov. c. c. Washburn, of Wis
consin, was opened on tho 10th inst, by Judge
Cameron in the presence of the deceased's rela-
tives. Among the bequests were 100000 to
Ex-senator Nevins, of La Crosse; $4,000 to
Andrew g. Nevins, of North La Crosse; $780,
600 for the establishment of public library at
La Crosse, and $375, 900 to found an hospital
at Minneapolis, MINI. The estate is estimated
at S2 500. .OOO
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-05-24
Minor mishaD6.

Benjamin Cowden, for the past ten years
surveyor of Harrisburg, Pa, was accidentally
shot by q member of gun club practicing on
the island.
In colliery three miles from Shamokin, Pa,
some sulphur exploded from contact with q
safety-lamp, killing fourahiners.
At Edwardsville, H., on the 18th inst, as a
tight-rope performer was giving an exhibition
in the open air, chimney to which the cable
was attached gave way, the debris falling on
the heads of the people below. Six were in
jured, two boys fatally. Though badly hurt, the
professor left the place Immediately.
gasoline stove exploded at Chicago on the
18th inst, burning Frederick Martinique, aged
"a, his mother, and his sister josie, aged 20, in
horrible manner. The two former we're not
expected to survive their juries.
At 0rland, CAL, Miss Rice was burned to
death in the house of Briggs Flack, and Mrs.
Rice and child received fatal injuries.
While bunting on the marshes near Kalama-
ZOO, on the 18th inst, a lad named Cross killed
another named Edward Smith, in manner de-
void of blame.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-05-24
NEWS IN BRIEF.
RlAwm tn Af0nns.

The town of Roebourne, West Australia, a
pearl fishing point, and Port Cossock, eight
miles distant, were swept away by a hurricane.
Several deaths occurred. .
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-05-24
Indian alufra1es.

Indians attacked train on the Conception
Road, near Chihuahua, Mexico, on the 10Th.
killing five men and two women. They next
raided the hacienda of San Lorenzo, where
they killed two herdsmen.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-05-24
A Polar WaVes

The country north and west of St. Paul,
Minn., was visited by copious snow fall on
the goth inst. heavy drifts being reported on
the Hastings and Dakota Division Of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad. The
mercury ranged between 35 and 81 degrees.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-05-24
killed bv the Cars.

As construction train was approaching
Spirit Wood, D. T., on the 18th inst, an axle to
the caboose broke, throwing the train from the
| . man named Morris, of Racine, Wis.,, and q
Swede named Larrenson, we're instantly killed.
The wreck piled into ditch filled with water.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-05-24
4 Westar,, Zenuhvr.

News has just been received of the ravages
of tornado in Mountain Township, Pike
County, Ark, on the 10th inst. Sixteen dwell
ings were wrecked and crops ruined. William
Shields, prominent planter, and two children
were killed, and his wife fatally wounded.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-05-24

Thomas E. Cochran, ex-attorney general Of
Pennsylvania, passed away at York, in that
state, on the 10Th.
DR.. H. Hubbard, who acted as surgeon-gen-
eral of the confederate army during the civil
war, died at San Francisco, CAL. on the 18th
;nok
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-05-24
Thieves and SVindlers.

A youth of II swindled the First National
bank, OF Independence, Ia., out of $4,000.
Ames & Co.'S, store at Westphaiia. Clinton
County, Mich, was robbed of $500 worth of
goods on the night of the 18th. The crooks
also stole two horses from nejgbboring
farmer.
Curtis L. North. of Plainfeld, N. j., is under
arrest, charged with swindling parties out OF
$4,000.
Embezzlements in the tax collectors Office at
Philadelphia are constantly being developed by
the new officers. In one case q roll of $417 was
existed Of The navment Of NJ @ bv ct;1an
except that the check was returned by his
banker months afterward, bearing the collectors
signature.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-05-24
Work Of the Flames.

Elkton, Ky., was visited by confederation
on the 21st INST, which destroyed $4,000
worth of property.
Seventeen houses we're burned at Middleton,
County Cork, Ireland. on the 21st inst. Seventy
people were rendered homeless by the con-
fagratiOn.
A confagration at Boyadab, Asia Minor, de-
stroyed four hundred houses.
A fire supposed to have been started by an
incendiary destroyed block Of buildings on
the east side of Chestnut Street, Leadvile, on
the 10th inst. Among the places destroyed
were the Windsor Hotel, Academy Of Music
and Palace Of Fashion, large dry goods house.
Loss $500, 900. One dead body was found, and
it is supposed that other lives were lost.
A destructive fire occurred at Lyons, France,
on the 18th, number of workshops and other
buildings were sweptaway. Loss $800,o00. In
cendiary.
The lake steamer Manitou]in. of the Great
Northern Transit Company 9 line, was destroyed
by fire in the North Georgian Bay. Her crew
and passengers got of IN boats, one Of which
upset, and two persons were drowned.
Warner Bros drug house at Petonsville, O.,
was consumed by fire on the 18th inst. Loss
Loss $50, 1000.
A number of business houses at Olympis, w.
T., were swept away by fire on the 18th inst.
Total loss $7b, 600.
lings in the town of Chamois, on the Missouri
Pacific Railroad, one hundred miles west of st.
Louis, Mo-, were reduced to ashes on the 18th
inst. Loss about $4,000.
The ocean steamer Progress which was sent
to relieve the disabled steamer Peruvian, burned
at sea on the 18th inst. Three lives were lost.
Pecuniary loss $3.50, 900. -.
Gleason's Knitting Mill at Seneca Falls, N.
Y, fell prey to flames on the 18th inst. Loss
100000.
The courthouse at Franklin, Ky., was de.
stroyed by an incendiary fire, with nearly all the
records of Simpson County.
Swarthmore, Pa, suffered the loss of Holtz'
wooden mill by fire on the 18th. Loss S40, ,O0U.
The village of Marcilly, France, burned on
the 18th inst. Eighty-four houses were de-
stroyed and $50 people rendered homeless.
The Star Shoe Peg Mandatory Company q
factory at Quebec, was destroyed by fire ON the
18th. Loss estimated ct e100, 900.
The Northwestern Fertilizing establishment,
East st. Louis. caught fire on the 18th and was
totally destroyed. Loss $60, 900. 81
" A fire near MontmOrency Falls, Quebec,
burned the mills Of Hill Il Tate and the Geggy
mansion, formerly occupied by Col. Dc
Salabery. IS.
Stevartvils, town Of about four hundred
population, situated twenty miles east Of st
Joseph. Mo-. fell prey to flames on the 18th
inst. . &. s.. .3 .. 5s. IS.
4 fire in Minneapolis, Mimi, on the 18th
destroyed . block Of seven frame stores, occu
pied BY dry-goods and liquor houses, the los!
being e2O, 900.
Pampin, Va, lost ten stores and DWELLING
By fire on the 18th inst,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-05-24
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MILWAUKEE.
ST. LOUIS

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CoRN-No. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-05-24
LATEST MARKET REPORTS.

NEW YORK.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-05-24
F0RTY-sEvENTH CONGRESS.
Sen ates

MONDAY, May 15.-Hanis' bill to refund
taxes on incomes collected from the citizens Of
Tennessee without authority was passed..
The house bill for the removal of Gen. Kilpat-
ricks body to the United States was passed.
-. Bills were introduced to aid to the endow-
ment of q school of forestry at st. Paul, Minn.,
and for public building at La Crosse, Wis.
AFTER an executive session the senate ad-
journed.
TUESDAY, May 16.-The senate bill to author
iZe the Rock Island and Southwestern Railway
company to construct bridge over the Mis-
sissippi River at New Boston, ILL.,, was passed.
-: :Conger eby request) introduced bill pro.
viding that any officer now in the regular army
who served with the volunteer forces or in the
regular army at any time during the war Of the
rebellion as regimental or staff officer, or aide
de-camp to any general officer and actu ually per.
formed the duty Of such position, shall be con-
sidered as in service for the entire time he act
ed in such a capacity. He is to rank from the
commencement of the service and thereafter
promoted, in accordance with the date of his
appointment to his commission. After an ex-
ecutive session the senate adjourned.
WEDNESDAY, May 16.-Cameron reported ad-
versely the joint resolution rendering the
thanks of congress to Chief Engineer Melville,
o. s. N, and it was indefinitely postponed. :. {.
Sherman presented petition Of Mrs. Betty B
Dasbotl3 "a VISlUAh, ScGtluS 1OICu ludI SIG Is
the owner Of the Bible of George Washington,
and offering to sell it to the government. .
The bill for the extension of the steam grain
shovel patent was reported favorably with the
substitution of seven years instead Of ten as
the term of extension occupied, the time re-
served for the calendar. >. Adjourned.
THURSDAY, May 18.-The senate resumed
discussion of the extension of the Spendelow
steam grain shovel patent. The bill was in
definitely postponed-yeas Is, nays 49,. . The
house bill authorizing the receipt of United
States gold coin in exchange for gold bars
passed. The bill passed to refund 1922, ,551
to Hiram Johnson and forty-six others. being
the surplus of military assessment paid by them
and accounted for to the United States in ex-
cess of the amount required for indemnity for
which it was levied and collected. :. Cameron
wis., reported favorably from the committee
the bill approprlating 800 600 for a public
building at Lacrosse. :. After an executive
session, adjourned.
FRIDAY, May 19.-House bills for public
buildings at the points named with the amount
of appropriations stated passed: Louisville,
$500, 900; Hannibal, $4,000; Detroit, 5000, 600
Council Bluffs, $780, The senate bill appro
priating 100000 for a building at La Crosse
also passed. The per cent. land bill was
then passed. It provides that lands entered by
military scrip or bounty land warrants in the
states of Ohio, Indlapa, Illinois, Missouri
Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Ne
braska, Kansas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-17
CRIME.

SHERIFF HEALEY, OF Montana, was
speedily released hy the half-breed bellig-
erents. and has returned to Fort Benton.
GORDON LORD, Of Lisbon, ILL.,, il sup
losed to have murdered his wife and hid
den her corpse. He killed IN adopted
child with an AK and then made way with
himself.
THE attorney general Of Nebraska Sc
cured from Judge Savage an order for 4
special grand jury. - lake action on the
cases OF the strikers arrested for melting
riot.
JACK GALLIGAS, Chief engineer OF the
Omaha FIRE department. sold his time for
four months in advance To three different
persons. and was indicted for obtaining
mogey under false pretenses.
GENERAL CURTIS, who was indicted in
New York for levying political assess
ments. claims that he has been made a
scapegoat for republican leaders who or
dered the work done.
CHARLlsG &. CUNNlNGuAM, once head
waiter Al the Parker house in Boston, has
been arrested for attempting 10 extort
from Harvey ID. Parker the sum Of $24 600,
by threatening his life. Detectives have
been ~ wors on the case for three months.
FRANCIS Il. WEBSTER, of Cambridge,
Mass, has heen held in $1,000 to answer
charges cf fraud connected with Mexi-
can mining scheme in which he is di-
rector. He courts an investigation OF his
erations.
r. II. CORNWALL. the veteran call.losn
clerk Of the Fourth National bank Of New
York. emhezzled $4,000, and spent it in
81, culation on Wall street, within the
past three months. He is an infrm old
man, with eight children and number
of grandchildren. and resides at Plain
field, n j.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-17
sOREIGN N.

NoN ScHLoszSR, the German amhassa-
dor 10 Rome, hsd cordial meeting with
the pope.
AN American company II Constantine
ple. backed by Minister Wallase, is en-
deavoring to secure concession for arail-
road in the province II BaSdad.
4 nil for the purchase OF six more
railways for Prussia has passed TO second
reading in the landtag.
THIRTY Jews, with an aggregate capital
of - 600 ruhles, have left Russia 10 be-
come farmers in Palestine.
Louis FIcoN, of Antwerp, hiss sus-
pended psymeut. with liabilities between
G, ,oOa, 900 and eS.000,000 sterling.
i caBLrGRsM from Panama reports the
destl iction Of four towns in Costa R;ca by
earthquake, several thousand lives having
been lost.
MALsIKux. = prominent member Of the
Paris commune, was impelled 10 suicide
BY destitution. A leading journalist Of
Rome also made way with himself.
MINISTER IowsLL responded TO a toast
to the Representatives of Foreign Pow
ers al the annual banquet Of the asso-
ciated cha mbers of commerce in London.
TRE legislature Of the Orange Free
State would rot PERMIT President Brand
TO accept the grand cross Of s.. Michael
rendered bv Great Britain for his services
in the settlement al The Tran>vaal diff
Guilty.
8 IN the British house Of commons, the
motion os Lord Churchill that writ be
| issued for Northampton was rejected. 4
motion or Lyons, Of Dublin. that Brad
| laugh was guilty of profanstion, and
therefore incapacitaied from sitting as :
member. vas withdrawn During the de
/ bate Bradlangh pssSed the bar and took 3
seat. ~hereupon Northcote moved his *.
pulsion for contempt OF the house, the
vote standing s9l 10 IS. BradlauGh ther
left. and new writ was is4ued.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-17
GENERAL NOTES

ILLINOIS has | 400 convicts in the Joliet
penitentiary, and 384 at Chester.
party of gamblers from Fond du Lac.
backed by magnificent luck, have broken
four faro banks at Milwaukee.
THE president has nominated Walter
A. Smith, to be United States marshal for
Colorado.
LORD GEORGE MONTAGUE, of the Brit
ish legation at Washington, fourth sou Of
the duke of Manchester, is dead.
IT is authoritstively stated that Ami
Louise Cary will be married in the sum
mer and retire from the stage.
Born houses Of the Iowa legislature
have agreed to the amendment to strike
from the constitution the word male"
A MISSING ail-pouch, cut SO raggedly
as to suggest that train had run over il,
WAS found in the yard of the ST. Paul and
Duluth road in the former city.
EUGENE STEVENSON, a young man con-
nected with the Roberts Park church, in
indianapolis, shot himself through the
heart because Miss Presley did not recip-
rocate his affections.
AFTER three operations upon his tongue
for cancer, Senator Ben Hill finds the af-
tilction extending to his throat, snd his
recovery is deemed impossible by his
physicians.
THR supreme court of Ohio finds that
the railroads in that state purchased by
Vanderbilt and consolidated under the
name of the Ohio railway are competing
lines, and the grouping is declared illegal
A BRONZE cast of the face and left hand
Of President Garfield has been made in
| New York for his family, and the mold
broken to prevent duplication. 1t repre-.
sents his features after death, and plainly
dipicts his sutferings.
THE trade and labor assembly Of Chi
cago, at a meeting passed resolutions con.
demning the governor of Nebraska fol
using troops in civil difference between
employers and their workmen, and mem
oriliHing congressman TO call on the presi
dent and urge him to withdraw the federal
soldiers.
SIDNEY DILLON, in an interview an
nounced that the Union and Northern
Pacific roads had agreed 10 apportion III,
business originating in Washington terri
tory and Oregon, and that work on tn.
Oregon Short Line will be pushed 10 tn,
utmost speed. The Union Pacific recent,
sold $1,000 acres Of land on its Centra
branch in western Kansas ut $500 pc
4 acre
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-17
NO. 80.

to 81 500, both inclusive: 5000. No
16. .S0l to 1880. both inclusive: SO.
900, No. S4,95l to $500. both in.
elusive; total, S5,o00,00o. Persons for.
wariing bonds for redemption mus;
observe the rules laid down in the preyi-
Gus calls. The secretary issued two
other calls, $5,Oo0,00o each, payable
May 10th and 18th, respectively.
The bonds called payable May llth,
of acts above are as follows: Fifty dol
lars, Nos. 2201 to $3.50, both inclusive
500, Nos. 1901 to II, 800, both inclu.
sive; $500, Nos. 10,9o1 to 1900, both
inclusive; 81 900. Nos. 2,301 to 5S05a,
both inclusive, 5000, Nos. 1881 to
1850. both inclusive; SI0.0S0. Nos,
S5,50l to So 100, both inclusive. Total
S5,000,000.
The bonds called payable the 18th
of May includes registered bonds OF
acts above as follows: Fifty dollars,
Nos. 22S1 to 2250, both inclusive; 500
Nos. 1851 to 1890, both inclusive
$500, Nos. 11,oo1 to 1900, both inclu.
sive; 81 900, Nos. 90, ,S0l to IS. 500, both
inclusive; 5000, Nos. 1861 to II 100
both inclusive; $4,000, S6,101 to
$3.50, both inclusive. Total S., ,o00, 900
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-17

postponed To define the liabilities of railroad
companies, in relation to their empIoyes. A bill
relating to the violation of the insurance laws o.
the state of Wisconsin.
TUESDAY,, MAEcH II.
iSeRate-The following bills were passed: To
appropriate to the Southwestern industrial asso-
ciation the sum Of $500 in relation to civil ac-
tions in courts of record. The following bills
Were coneurred in To change the boundaries Of
0csnto and Marinette counties and to create the
county of Florence TO amend section S32 re-
yised statutes, relating TO the duties of town
clerks: Relating 10 exemptions from subpoena,
and amendatory Of section 6sS, revised statutes
for the protection of the valleys Of Neenah creek
and Fox river from overflow.
Assembly-In the assembly remonstranees were
presented by Messrs. Davis, Barber, Peterson,
Huntiey and LANCER, against the passage of DIR.
Eidemillers medical bill.
Bills passed: Regulating the practice of phar-
macy. the licensing of persons to carry on such
practice, and the sale of poisons in this state;
regulating commitments to and discharges from
industrial schools; allowing the governor to pay
70 any militia company its inspection fees, when
ever. such company shall have failed for some
valid reason to fulfill the militia regulations in
the premises authorizing sursties IL criminal
cases to surrender the principal; relating to
justices Of the peace, and their continuing in
office
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-17
Bonds Called.

WASHINGTON, March 1.-THE follow
ing call for bonds was issued to-day:
Notice is hereby given that the
principal and accrued interest bonds be-
low designated, win be paid at the treas
ury of the United States on the Sd day
of May, and the interest cease on that
day, viz: Registered bonds, under the
acts of July 18th and August 5th, 1861,
continued during the pleasure of the
government under terms of circular
No. A, dated April IL, 1881. to bear
interest at the rate of 81 per centum
per annum, from July LIST, 1881. as fol-
lows: Fifty dollars. No. l50 to 225, both
inclusive; 500, No. 147O1 TO 1890,
both inclusive; 500, No. 10,701 to TO-
800, both inclusive; 81 600, No. 81 ;601
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-17

ly stopped with age, his face clean
shayen, except a snow-white NOUS
tache, his eye clear and brilliant as it
was century ago, and his mouth
brisr-wood-pipe. He hasn't
taken up with the modern isshion
OF smoking cigars. Dozens of strangers
ask who he is, and are attracted to him
by his gentle manners. The answer to
this question discloses the fact that he
Is Judge Harvey W. Watterson, for
nlerly of Kentucky, and now q lswer in
tins city. Then comes the information
that he IS the father of Henry Water
son, OF the CosuisT-Jous7aal Proud dis
tlnchon. ehs But long before theway-
ward Henry was born the Judge was
known here and hereabouts as q men,
Der of the house, the successor of
James h. Polk in 1889, the contempor-
ary OF Mr.. Clay, and a young leader in
| the days Of the maturity of Webster
ana Calhoun. In fact he was serving
his constituents in the house when his
son and heir. the Kentucky editor, was
born here in Washington. OF course
the old gentleman is reminiscent; but
IN these bastling days of offioe-seeking
and plotting and counter-plotting for
spolls his tales of the stalesmenhke
Struggles of the past find few hearers.
Not that he ever iutrudes, but that it is
only with the chosen few that he selects
70 reveal the history of his remarkable
experiences. Among those few IA
yorcd one, perhaps, is another fire.
quenter of the Ehbitt-
IupGE JERRR BLACK,
the old Pennsylvania Locofoco. No
one can once see the latter without car
rymg Tor aye mental photograph of
ms marked physique. Unlike Judge
WatterSon, he is tall, angular, and ro-
bust, with rugged features and bristly.
overhanging eyebrows. Seeing the two
seated together, as they often are, one
can only find a single resemblance be
tween them in the frosts of age which
have crowned them both with the
dignity of hoary locks. But, however
extreme their political views may have
been or are yet, these two relics of by
gone days, when tho ole. time Bourbon
or Locofoco democracy locked horns
with the Wings and made Washington,
II not Rome, howl with the anguish of
partisan strife, are as genial and COM
pamonable in their intercourse with
the generation they have lived into as
one could wish. Grandfathers they are.
l,beheve, and for that reason they may
be sald, with their mental and physi-
cal faculties unimpaired, to have out
lived their own and lived into the third
generation Of their lives.
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81. ,t.
the ONO n ana MisAslsslpp1 road road, was acel- e.
uen.aly kaita S a. -. moatn aelnon, dnu.' y
putting his heau ~. % car mihuoA.
The residence OF William Stewart, near
| Greensburg. Ind, was burned to the
gIounu On 6dloay hisnl, anu sifs; MAI
sieEirov, ioo years OF age, perished IN the
hames
THE farm house of John Taylor. near
Meadowlea, Manitoba, took hre and was
destroyed during a blizzard, and his wife
and three daughters were frozen TO death
on the bleak prairie.
BRAVE BEAR. who was to have been ex-
ecuted. at Yankton, for murder, availed
himself of the methods of the white race,
and got respite by motion for new
trial.
LEROY GoRpos. who was superintendipg
the construction Of the Red river bridge
at Winnipeg. fell from bracket to the
ice. thirty feet below. and was instantly
killed.
THv n,oroco ,.nnerv of whitney q