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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-05-10
Can't Keep One.

When hehad finished with the climate,
soil and productions Of Idaho and had
stopped to blow his nose, one of the
group asked:
How about education facilities 2"
"That's the only thing we lack" re-
piled the old man with mournful sigh.
"We've got schools enough, but we
can't keep no teachers
"What's the trouble?"
"M ell, take my school, for instance
only two miles from the nearest house,
eminently situated on top of hill, and
paying the highest salary: We can't
keep teacher over two weeks"
"Do they die?
"Some do; though it's no place for
dying. We had a young fellow from
Ohio, and he met a grizzly and whistled
for him. The grizzly cum. We had
another and widder run him down and
married him inside of month. The
third one was lame, and the Injuns over
took him. Then we tried women folks.
The first one got married the night she
lit down there; I took the second about
the middle of the third week, and the
next one was abducted by stage rob-
ber."
"Why don't you get the ugliest, home
liest woman you can find-some perfect
old terror, like that lantern-jawed, razor
faced female over by the ticket-window %
"Why don't We? Stranger, you east
ern folks will never understand us pio-
neers in the world-never. That's my
wife-the identical school teacher mar
ried, and she was the handsomest one in
the drOve?'
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-05-10
THE INSANITY DODGE.

Law-abiding people are naturally
shocked at the success of the insanity
plea now SO common in the annals of
criminal practice. The subject was
brought into such prominence in the
case of President Garfeld's assassin that
the people at large have become more or
less conversant with the Arguments set
up by lawyers with desperate cases of So
called murderers on their hands. The
plea is more successful in America than
in Europe because of q lower popular
estimate of the value of life on account
of the borderisms incident to newly-set-
tied country. In the old world criminals
have less chance Of escaping the moose
through transparent plea as was re-
Gently proven in the case of DR.: Lamson.
Another case is worthy Of notice. A
young butcher, subject to epieptic fits,
escaped from Bicetre, and soon after
ward stabbed policeman in a street
brawl. DIR. Legrand du Saulle hesitated
to say whether the prisoner, who was
perfectly composed at his trial, was quite
responsible; but DR.. Blanche, another
expert, emphatically declared that he
was so. eff he had committed COM
mon assault with his hands, I should
have held him Irresponsible, said DIR.
Blanche, because he is man of violent
temper, who, when his fits are coming
on, takes offence at the smallest provo
cation; but in his hottest paroxysms he
knows quite well that he must not use
deadly weapons. He never did so in the
asylum, and his only excuse in this par
ticular instance is that he had been
drinking; but he is no more guiltless on
that account than an ordinary drunk
ard" This opinion procured the pris-
oner's conviction and it was held to be
an important opinion, as establishing
the fact that the responsibility of al
legged lunatics cannot pe settled by any
rules of general application, but must be
decided in each individual case according
to the circumstances. In short, the doc
trine accepted by French medical jurists
is that before lunatic can be declared
irresponsible for crime it must be as
certained whether his malady predis-
posed him to the perpetration of that
particular crime.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-05-10
HUNGARIAN IMKIGRANTs.

Among the colonization schemes which
have recently come into notice in various
parts of Europe one of unusual promise
is that devised in Hungary to promote
emigration to this country. The pro-
jectors have in mind certain available
lands in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and
Virginia, on which they propose to es-
tablsh villages of fifty or one hundred
farms, the soil to be sold at cost on in
stallments, and other lots in the COM
munity to be held for a rise, to reimburse
the movers in the enterprise. Some 500
families are said to be making prepara-
tions to come over in body. They are,
in Hungary, well-settled farmers, used
to toll, and in no danger of becoming
poverty-stricken or vagrants. They are
said to be honest, iberal-minded, devout
and highly moral. Whether success will
follow the new departure depends on a
variety of circumstances, chiefly the
ability and integrity of those who have
the project in charge. But whether all
contingencies are provided for or not,
there seems to be considerable furore
for the movement in some parts of Hun
gary.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-05-10
Railway Mishaps.

A collision between Evansville and Illinois
Central freight trains occurred near Decatur,
on the 9Th. Engineer W. R. Dawson received
fatal injuries, and both locomotives were de-
molished.
By collision between Lake Shore passen-
and Grand Trunk freight at Forty-second
Street, Chicago, on the 5th inst, James Corri-
gan was instantly killed and Branford Hancock
and J. J. Jay crippled for life. The latter is
assistant solicitor for the Grand Trunk Rail
road. The switch house, the freight engine
tender aud passenger car were demolished.
A gate-keeper is to blame for the smash-up.
An open switch caused the ditching of a train
at Danville, Ill.,, on the 4th inst. A brakeman
was scalded to death and fireman was 60 bad
ly hurt that he will die:
In an accident to passenger train on the
Manitoba Road, at Stephan, on the LIST inst,
Engineer Stein was killed and Fireman Markey
fatally injured. Both stuck to their cab and
thereby saved many lives.
An engine was ditched at st.. Cloud, Mimi.
on the 1st inst, Isaac Estine, engineer, was in
stantly killed. sg<s AZ .. 4 .....s1-..
A train was thrown from the track near Rob-
inson, Kansas, on the the LIST inst. by collision
with horse. Edward Ferris, engineer, was
crushed to death. =s Is, a. s.sS. =. s. sss
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-05-10
EXPLOSIONS IN FLOUR MILLS.

The inquiry started by the destruction
of the large Touring mills at Mime
apolis, recently, have been partially an
swered by an English parliamentary
paper containing report by Thomas J.
Richards of the Consultative Branch
Board of Trade, to the home secretary,
respecting an explosion which took place
on September 14th, at the corn mill of
Messrs. Fitton & Son, at .Maccles field.
The effects were of very dangerous
character, large part of the mill at the
north end being leveled with the ground,
and the roof over much larger area
destroyed, and the engine-man being
killed by the fall of a part of the build
ing. The damage to the mill was esti-
mated at between s5,0 900 and $4,000. 1t
appears that some millstones had been
running empty at the time of the explo-
sion, that fame was produced between
the mill-stones, which was sufficient to
ignite the four-dust difused in the mill
stone cases, and which being Transmitted
along the passages to the stive-room by
the continued ignition of dust, would
cause an explosion of the aour-dust in
stive-room.
Mr.. Richards has been making general
inquiries into the question of fire and ex-
plosions in corn mills. He says that the
elements of danger exist in all corn mills
more or less, and Notwithstanding the
comparative rareness with which dis
asters of magnitude occur, they are very
liable to take place. Ignitons of -four
dust are apt to cause slight explosions,
which, jarring greater bodies of dust iuto
a cloud, are liable to ignite and cause a
serious explosion or general firing of the
mill. Whether the effects of the ignition
of the dust are serious or slight, depends
upon the condition existing at the time.
"a large number of fires occur in corn
mills, the origin of which is unknown.
Mr.. Chatterton, the secretary of the
Millers' Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany, informs me that he has records of
"a serious fires which have occurred in
corn mills since 1874, the origin of 56
being unknown. A majority of those
connected with the milling business are
probably entirely unaware of the danger
which may exist in consequence of the
presence Of building devoted to the
useful and, to all appearance, harmless
occupation of the cleansing and grind
ing of corn and the dressing of -four
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-05-10

cream has been removed, shall attach to
each and every can or other receptacle
a metal stamp with the words "skim-
med milk" engraved thereon. All who
offer for sale or have in their possession
skinned milk not SO marked, or any
,adulterated milk, are liable to penalty
of $50 for the first offense and $1O0 for
the second offense and all subsequent
offenses of the kind. In default of pay
ment the law imposes penalty of i'm
prisonment for not less than 10 or more
than 60 days. Similar penalties are
further imposed upon persons who shall
keep milking COWS in a crowded or un-
healthy condition or feed them with food
which is calculated to produce impure,
diseased or unwholesome milk. The law
rigidly prohibits feeding the animals up
on the distillery waste usually known as
"swill," or upon any substance what
ever wh ich is in ON unwholesome condi-
ton or has an unwholesome effect. So
far as the adulteration is concerned, the
new law is very comprehensive, and de-
clares that in addition to that doctored
with the common adulterant, water, all
milk shall be classed as adulterated
which is obtained from animals fed on
swill," " or other deleterious stuff, or that
has been exposed to or contaminated by
the presence of unhealthy surroundings,
or in proximity to persons or places in
fected with contagious disease. In gen.
eral, all milk found upon analysis to
contain less than 12 per cent. of milk
solids or more than 88 per cent. of wa
terry fluid is classed as adulterated. {"
For the purpose of securing proper in
spection to suppress illegal traffic by
milk dealers, the law finally provides for
the appointment of an inspector at a
salary Of $500 per year. This official is
empowered to open any receptacle he
may suspect to contain "skimmed" or
impure milk for the purpose Of analysis.
If this shall establish it's impure charac-
ter, each can containing doctored fluid is
to be emptied and it's owner prosecuted.
To insure the more thorough enactment
of the law, provision is also made for the
appointment of assistants to the inspec.
tor at salary of SIS per day.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-05-10
Didn't Like CIGARS,

While riding down town in smoking
car of the Sixth Avenue Line, reporter
of the New York Times was witness to
an amusing occurrence. A portly and
well-dressed gentleman sat opposite him.
He was smoking fragrant cigar, which
he appeared to enjoy hugely. At
Twenty-third Street a person in the
garb of lady entered the vehicle. She
carried at least $500 worth of dry goods
on her person, not to speak of her rich
jewelry and the beautiful King Charles
spaniel which she bore on her arm.
This striking vision attracted the atten-
tion, if not the admiration, of every gen.
tleman in the car except the happy man
referred to. He seemed to he absorbed
in his cigar and entirely oblivious to the
charms which druggists and modistes dis
pense to the fair sex.
The lady gazed on this imperturbable
man in astonishment. She coughed and
sneezed gently, but he needed her not.
She arose, walked across the car and
opened a window near the smoker. He
would not take the hint, but smoked on.
She could stand it no longer, and, again
arising, she walked over to the gentle
man, deliberately drew the cigar from
his lips, and threw it through the win
dow into the street. - it, --. .
The mans features never moved, and
he remained as quiet, statueeque and
composed as before. Neither was the
lady furried. She took her seat COM
posedly opposite the gentleman, and
patted the pretty spaniel as it lay in her
lap. ..s s., IL.
BY this time Fourteenth Street was
reached, the car window was still open,
and the gentleman prepared for action;
Quick as thought he seized the spanle!
and sent it yelping into the street
through the window. The lady scream
i ed, dashed through the door after the
animal and was seen no more.
s.served her right" was the verdict
Of the passengers.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-05-10
A Deserted Wife.
(From the Detroit Free Press.


A strange record has lately been made
by oIdtime residents of Indianapolis in
the courts of Iowa. About thirty years
ago Miss White sell, whose family is
yet well known in this county, was
married to a man named John A. Sum-
mers, tanner. Summers was engaged
in his business with Mr.. Simon Yandes,
and was very enterprising and shrewd
young man. Some time before the war
Summers removed with his wife to Rock
Island, ILL.,, where he experienced a
varied career. His wife, beautiful
woman, became blind. He amassed
large fortune, and was compelled to leave
the place because of an undue intimacy
with handsome young widow. He re-
turned to this city to reside permanently,
but soon received such letters from the
young woman that one day in 1869 he
told his wife he intended again to 20
west. He said he could do better there
than here, and promised to send for her
as soon as he had located home. He
drew his money from the bank and left
the house that day, intending to make
the trip overland with a splendid team
of horses. He at first went to St.
Louis, and thence 10 Knobnoster,
Mo. After a short but prosperous
residence there he went to Eldora, Ia. ,
where he made a large amount Of
money, and living with the family of his
brother, passing himself off as an old
bachelor. About year ago Mrs. Sum-
mers, who supposed that he was dead.
after trying in vain to hear from him,
received strange letter.. Itwas written
from place unknown to her, and by q
person whose name she had heard but
could not locate. The letter told her
that her husband had recently died,
leaving large estate to his brother ct
Eldora, Ia. The letter was given to
Messrs. Hooker & Hatch, attorneys,
who, after an investigation, found thatit
was written by sister of MI. Summers,
who had not been remembered in the
will. She was jealous of the luck that
had befallen her brother John, and
satisfied herself with the hope that the
property might be recovered by the
rightful heiress. Mr.. Hatch went to
Iowa and instituted suit against the
brother. The case was called for trial
about tive months ago. The defendants
at first tried to show that the Samuel A.
Summers who gave them the property
and the man mentioned in the complaint
were not the same person. Failing in
that they swore that few years before
his death Mr.. Summers went to Indiana
and erected a monument on his wife's
grave. Their endeavor to impeach the
identity of Mrs. Summers was over
thrown, and the jury returned verdict
for the plaintiff. It was nearly thirteen
years from the time she last heard of her
husband until she recovered the prop
erty, and the young woman who caused
the separation died in horrible agony
from an accident that befell her soon
after her relations with Mr.. Summers
begun.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-05-10
Thjeves and Sxvindler..

Boston detectives on the 9Th pulled in thirty
street-car conductors who were using bogus
punches.
The residence of R. W. Robson, No. 2,109
ware and other property valued at 81, 400, on the
night of the 4th inst.
Emery H. Thomas, of jackson, Mich, who
robbed the store Of Camp, Morren l. Co., of
$4,000 worth of silks, has been sentenced to
seven years hard labor in the penitentiary.
A gigantic scheme of fraud and forgery has
been unearthed at st. Louis. A firm under
the name of Burt & Miller occupied q room at
the corner of Fifth and Chestnut Streets.
from which they sent out circulars Offering
government land scrip for sale. The authori-
ties made descent on the Office, but the prin-
cipals had flown. Meanwhile John B. Cameron.
believed to be confederate of the gang, was
arrested at Sioux Falls, Dakota, and taken to
Yankton. 1t is thought the gang must have
realized between 100000 and $500, 900.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-05-10
MINNESOTA NEWS.

ONLY about $50 dogs have been H.
censed in Minneapolis. The dog-catcher
will soon start out.
The Lac qui Parle Press says that
there is not a glass of whisky sold in that
county.
THR house of s. Van Valkenburg, in
Sauk Center Township, was burned re-
Gently: Loss, 900.
ALLEN HUMPHREY, of Verndale, was
so severely injured in shingle mill as to
cause his death in few hours.
AN offer of $3.50, 600 has been made to
build hotel in Crookston, contingent
upon the furnishing the site and
bonus.
"AN Emergency Fire Company"
has been organized in St. Peter, COM
posed entirely of ladies. This company
did good service at recent fire.
THEY had big tussle in Winona the
other day in electing q president of the
board of education. DR.. McGoughly
was elected on the 316th ballot.
THERE are great many chinch-bugs
in the eastern part of Olmstead County.
In some places they are thicker than
they we're last year.
FREDERICK ERICKSON, of Fremont, the
other day killed seven young timber
wolves, for which he received bounty
of $50 from the auditor of Winona
County.
OLIVER BUsK1RK, of. Middleville,
Wright County, aged 10 years, was
drowned recently while spearing fish.
He fell into the water and before he could
be rescued life was extinct.
JAMES MASON, drunk, was sauatering
on the track at Brainerd, the other day,
when a train came along, pitched him
up and threw him into the air. He was
badly but not fatally wounded.
JAMES L. MURRAY, a convict in the
state prison at Saltwater, escaped by
slipping on workingman's blouse and
overalls, and passing out of the gate
with the citizen laborers.
The Metropolitan dining-room at St.
Paul is now attended by Is colored men,
just from Chicago, who take the place of
those discharged recently for riotous
conduct.
The money for the purchase of the
fair grounds by the Rochester Fair Az
sociation, 81, 500, has been deposited and
work Oh the grounds will be commenced
at once.
BISHOP G. D. Foss, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, who has been quite
seriously i'll at Minneapolis for some days
with malarial fever, is much improved
and, though still confined to his bed, is
considered out of danger.
JENNIE and Lille Allen, sisters, died
at Moorhead the same night, last week
of diphtheria. They had been sick only
four days. -Four other children in the
same family were at last accounts down
with the same disease.
PASSENGERS waiting at the depot
Tuesday night were somewhat surprised
to see the train go by without stopping,
but it soon stopped and came back, and
the conductor explained that he and the
engineer were both asleep, fact due to
their being SO badly over-worked.-Ben-
son Times.
AS fast as settlement is being made
in Norman County, there are still thou
sands of acres unoccupied. The gov
ernment land in the vicinity of Ada and
other towns is of course all taken, but
! there still remain lands of this character
! from ten to twenty miles from town.
Railroad land is plenty and cheap, and
can be procured all the way from one to
fifty miles from town ut from S.. so to $40
per acre.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-05-10
IMPURE MIX,

The bill recently passed by the New
Jersey legislature to suppress and pun
ish the sale Of impure milk, and to
regulate the sale of 's skinned milk. is q
commendable measure, says the New
York Times. It's restrictive provisions
are stringent, but excellent in scope, and
will receive the endorsement Of the pub
lie and all honest dealers. Il provides
that any ons who shall offer for sale,
tranafer OF carry, OF have in possession
with intent to cell, milk from which the
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-05-10
TERMS: Two Dollars Per Annum, in Advance

another rock, weighing about twenty
tons. It rests on a pinacle not two feet
square. So evenly is it balanced that
the slightest touch will cause it to rock,
and yet hundred horses could not pull
it from it's socket. There it has stood
for ages subjected to wind and storm un-
moved, a silent monument of the power
of the Creator.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-05-10

The the sum of $S.67, which remained
of the fund used in celebrating in Ports
mouth, N. H., on the 22d of February,
1882, the centenary of Washington's
birth, was deposited in the local savings
bank against the bi-centennial celebrac
tion, and now, at the expiration Of half
tho time, amounts to $143.58.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-05-10
Suicidal.

William G. Cruger, who recently obtained a
patent for flying machine, and had become
penMiess in making further experiments, put
. bullet through his brain in New York, after
breaking up his models.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-05-10
Fitz John Porter Pardoned.

In response to Fitz John Porter's application
tor remission Of q portion of the sentence OF
the court martial which excludes him from
ever holding an Office Of trust or profit under
the government, President Arthur on the 9Th
inst, issued q proclamation granting the re.
mission Of the penalty mentioned. This re.
moves all legal obstacle to congressional action
and exhausts all the Presidents. 's.powers in the
case under existing laws.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-05-10
Mortu.ary.,, !,

Chico, character known on every course in
the United States, died in the pest-house at
Louisville, on the 9Th inst. His real name was
George Leslie.
Hon. Edward O'Brien, ahip-owner Of
Thomaston, Me-, noted for philanthropic
deeds, died at the ago Of 50.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-05-10
HOW WATCHES ARE MADE,

1t will be apparent to any one who will examine
. SOLID GOLD WATCH, that asids from the neces-
sarJ thickness for engraving and polishing large
proportion Of the PRECIOUS METAL used is
needed only to stiffen and hold the engraved
portions in place and supply the necessary selidity
and strength. Tie surplus gold is actu Aly need
hss 80 far as UTILITY and beauty are concerned.
In JAMES BOSS, PATENT GOLD WATCH GASES
this WASTE Of precious metal ia overcome, snd The
SAME soL1DITY and sT11EarH produced at from
one third to one-ha the usual cost of so i'd cases.
This process is Of the most simple nature as fol.
lows plate Of nickel composition metal especial
y adapted to the purpose, has two Plates Of SOLID
GOLD soldered one on each side. The three are
then passed between polished steel rollers, and tho
result is strip Of heavy plated composition, from
which the cases. backs, centres bezels etc., cut
and shaped by suitable dies and formers. The
gold in these cases 10 sufficiently thick to aomit of
all kinds Of chasing, engraving and ename]ing; the
engraved cases have been carried until worn per
Il city smooth by time and use without removing
the gold.
THIS IS TIE ONLY CAGE MADE WITH TWO
PLATES OF SOLID GOLD AND WARRANTED
BY SPECIAL CERTIFICATE.
For sale by al jewelers.. Ask for illustrated Cat-
slogue, and to see warrant.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-05-10
National Financas.

The reduction of the public debt during the
month Of May was $14, ,415, ,823, making the
total reduction for the ten months Of the fiscal
year about $120, ,000, 900, or nearly double that
Of the corresponding months of last year. The
total debt less cash in the treasury is now
81, III, ,85O, ,596.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-05-10
The Indians

One hundred and forty-one citizens of
Northern Mexico and the Territory of New
a fortnight and $4,000 worth of property
stolen or destroyed. 1t is believed that by the
recent prompt and vigorous action of the
United States and Mexican military authorities
the outrages of the hostile savages have been
suppressed, at least for the present.
A column Of Mexican troops under Col. Gar
cia met the Indians which were flying from
Col. Forsyth's command, and killed seventy
eight of them, including their chief. Thirty
three of the hostiles were captured.