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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-09-06
He Owned the Town.
From tho Wal Street NaHn. ! j

a year Or two ago, when . young man
from Boston landed in d new town IN
Nebraska, be was at once approached by
q midd dle-aged man. who introduced him
self as jones, and added: (. Going Is
settle down here /? z 8 Yes, I think IS. " q
e Single man, are you q g Yes, sir, 6 8
IS Well, I want to warn yon right here
and now. about certain things. i own the
only church in town; my son keeps the
only saloon here; my brother owns the
hotel, and I am engaged to the only
single female IL this county. My COM
mission on al transactions is ten per
cent cash is advance. Come and see me. =
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-09-06
I, MINI, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1882.

of population, while Europe has only
three miles to the same number of peo-
pie. At the close of 1881 this country
had 100, 900 miles of railway and Europe
108, 900 miles, and all the rest Of the
world $4,000. It will thus be seer. that
we have built nearly as many miles of
railway as Europe and have used quite
as much material. Thus far in the
present year we have constructed about
5000 miles of railway, and will prob
ably increase this to 10000 before en-
tering upon another year. Our cotem-
porary has good reason to brag of the
country's progress.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-09-06
Suicidal,

In sleeping car on the Boston and Albany
road, early on the morning Of the I'd, . wealthy
farmer Of Malta, Ill, named Enoch Chappell,
killed himself with pocket knife. He was es-
corting his daughter to . school in Connecticut,
and seemed to have insane fears for her
safety. = $is s..s:... 5sss d S.s
Daniel n. Sherwood, route agent on the
North Carolina road, having been detected in
riding letters, confessed that his robberies
covered period Of ten years. and soon after
ward committed suicide BY poison.
II At Thelf0rd, Mich, on the 28th, in fit of in
sanity, Mrs. Charles Hovey bound her 5-year-
old child to herself and then plunged her head
and that Of the child in washtub. Both
drowned. .s5. :s sss4.'s. @ :. 5.4
The death by suicide Of Archbishop Nestor,
of the Russian Church, who was the prelate in
charge sof Alaska, is announced from San
Francisco. The Archbishop took passage on
the steamer st. Paul at st. Michael's for San
francisco, the latter being his place Of resi-
dence, and is supposed to have jumped over
board shortly after leaving st. MicEael's. He
was SUBJECT t0 rush OF blood to the head, and
is thought TO have been Temporarily insane at
the time. s ss
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-09-06

Apaches are raiding the country in the vicin-
ity 1f Colabasas, A. r. Miners and ranchmen
have fed from their habitatons. Seven people
had been massacred at last accounts.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-09-06
SATISFACTORY PROGRESS OF THE 90 n
TRY.

With a justi6able pride the New York
Indicator says that .our industrial re-
sources are developing into a broader
basis than those Of any other country,
and that in many things we are far in
advance of Europe. In mining we fur
nish more of the hidden treasure than
all the world combined, in agriculture
we can nearly supply the needs Of the
orId and in manufactures we are not
only reaching position of independence,
but one in which, in some instances, we
can compete with the older nations, In
reviewing the situation the Indicator
points out that in 1881 we made 346, 600
more tons of pig iron, 1000, 900 more
tons of rolled iron and nails, exclusive of
rails, and 400. 900 tons more of Bessemer
bars than during the preceding year.
While We cannot, says our contempor-
ary, produce iron and steel as cheaply as
some European countries, on account of
the advantages they possess in cheap la.
Dor, we are not excelled in the skill dis
played by our workmen, or in the me-
chanical and scientific economies prac-
ticed in any of the branches of it's manu-
facture. In fact, it may be said that in
economical improvements in certain
branches Of manufacture we have devel-
oped an aptitude and skill such as is not
known abroad. The worlds production
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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-09-06
Minor MfShaps.

The fall Of an elevator in the reaper works at
Toledo caused the death of George Taylor and
the serious injury Of d. M. Winn.
A fall OF earth in railway tunnel in process
Of construction at tPittsburg, killed Henry Moore
and seriously injured several others.
Falling Rock in the Cleveland Mine, Ishpem-
ing, Mich, on the 1st inst, killed VIM. Andrews
and John Harvey, Jr.
Hon. H: NJ Martin, leading lawyer and
democratic politician Of Davenport, was killed
BY q bowlder rolling down the mountain ct
Crested Butte, Col.
James Crumler and wife lay down on the
bank Of the river at Niagara Falls on the night
of the 29th, in a state of intoxication. Next
morning their mangled bodies were found at
the foot of the cliff, the unfortunates evidently
having rolled of of the precipice while asleep.
Three girls ranging between the ages Of il
and IA years, were drowned in the Juniata
River, at Huntington, Pa, on the 28th.
At Des Moines, Iowa, VIM. Prouty was killed
by fall down coal shaft. His son attempted
to hoist him from the bottom of the shaft and
attached q weight to one end of the cable to
assist in the lift. The Car shot up 80 suddenly
that Prouty was thrown out and down the
shaft.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-09-06
Egyptian Soldiers.

Col. Dye has much say concerning the
fighting capacity of the fellahin, and see-
ing that he speaks from experience, gained
both in the barrack and the field, his
structures possess at present moment a
more than ordinary value. His estimate
of the Egyptian peasants solderly apti-
tude is very low. Though gifted with a
wonderful power Of physical endurance,
and docile and good campaigner, the
fellah is neither combative nor inteli-
gent, has not spark of patriotism, dis
likes and!distrusts his officers, and hates
soldering with so intense hatred that,
in order to avoid it, he will often cut off
one of his fingers or put out one of his
eyes. When Col. Dye was in Egypt the
artillery, as we'll as the cavalry, consist
ed exclusively of fellahins. The gum
ners were taken from class superior to
that which supplied recruits to the other
arms of the service. The officers, more
over, were better instructed than their
brethren of the line. IN advantage which
they owed tho the exertions Of the COM
mandant of the artillery school, highly
educated French officer. To the teach
ing of this Frenchman probably, the
stout defense made the other day by the
forts at Alexandria is in some measure
due. A great drawback to the efficiency
of the fallah as a fighting man is the
shortness of his sight, resulting from
ophthalmia. So defective is the vision
Of Egyptian soldiers, says Col Dye, that
hardly any of them can see further
through q rife sight than few rods.
The eyes of the black soldier are better.
Under the same conditions be can mark
30 or 40 per cent, more hits than his
Egyptian comrade. Thissuperior shoot
ing may, however, be in part due to the
negro's greater nerve, confidence, and
eagerness to excel. The black regiments,
being oficered exclusively by Egyptians,
are in no way better organized than the
other regiments; albeit, the negroes be-
ing Injured from childhood to war and the
chase, they make far better fighting ma
terial than the fellahins. With the ex-
ception of few who have risen from the
ranks, the higher officers are the descen-
dants of Turkish fathers and Circassian
mothers. They are generally sufficient
" brave, but cruel, avaricious, corrupt,
and fearfully immoral, mentally inert,
and physically lazy. The younger regi-
mental and staff officers are, for the most
part, the sons Of pashas and beys in
government service, trained in the mill
tary schools established by 1smail. They
are inferior, morally and physically, to
the men they command.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-09-06
CHEAP HOSPITALS.

The subject of reform in hospital
structures has just been brought promi-
nently before the public in paper pre-
pared by DR.. L. w. Baker, an eminent
New England practitioner, and read be-
fore the last meeting of the State Medi-
cal Society, held in Boston, Mass. DR..
Baker advocates the system substantial
l. in use in the United States army in
the erection of post hospitals, which are,
as rule, wooden structures, two stories
high, mounted on piles driven into the
ground, SO as to give free passage of air
underneath and prevent the accumu-
lation of noxious vapors. Structures of
this kind, capable of accommodating
from forty to fifty patients, can be
erected and equipped at small cost by
the authorities of any country town, and
would prevent great deal of suffering
among the poorer classes. Under the
present system of large and costly struc-
lures small cities cannot afford the
luxury of hospital, and the result is
that no proper provision is made for the
cure of the INDECENT sick. According to
DIR. Baker, the system that he advocates
has been thoroughly tried in Great
Britain, where the first such hospital
was established at Crawleigh in 1859.
Since then no fewer than two hundred
and fifty such buildings have been erect
ed in different sections of Breat Britain,
and about fifty thousand patients have
been treated. The propriety of resort
ing to such structures for the care of the
insane, instead of expending hundreds
of thousands of dollars on immense build
ings, has already forced itself upon the
attention not only Of the medical profess
sion, but of economists in general. The
extension of the system advocated
in high quarters, in order to pro-
vide adequately for the insane, to
general hospitals intended for the re-
ception and treatment of the sick
poor, appears to be the only feasible
means of establishing adequate hospital
accommodations in towns of moderate
wealth and population, where at the
present time no facilities whatever are
in existence. The system will probably
be adopted in New England at an early
date, and will solve problem as re-
spects the large manufacturing villages
tha+ have sprung -r all +',o ovaiIabla
water-courses within the last thirty
years that now presses emphatically for
solution and gives no little anxiety to
the more humane members of the medi-
cal profession.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-09-06
Another War.

A collision between Turkish and Greek
troops occurred along the frontier from Zorbas
to Degani. It Seems that the Greeks crossed
the frontier and cut the telegraphic communi-
cation between a Tuskish post and q military
were obliged to pass through Grecian territory,
when the collision occurred. A number were
killed and wounded on both sides. The Porte
and the Greek government are in conference in
regard to the outbreak,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-09-06
THE pAMsEL OF THE PLAIN,
By THEODORE WATTS.

When Rowland found the Damsel of the Plain,
Her dafEodil crown Lit all her shining head;
He kissed her mouth, and through the world they
sped.
The beauteous smiling world In sun and rain,
But, when long joys made love golden chain,
He slew her by the sea; then, % he ded,
Voices Of earth and air and ocean said:
" The maiden was Truth; God bids you meet again."
Between the devil and the deep, dark sea
He met q foe more soul-compelHng still;
A feathered snake the m onster seemed to be,
And wore wreath o. the yellow daffodil
Then spake the devil: Rowland, fly to me;
When murdered Truth returns she comes to KILL"
The Athengum.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-09-06

from the half-m1le iron bridge over North River.
The effect was to send span Of 150 feet into
the water. The engineer put on the utmost
pressure and broke loose, sending FIVE cars into
the river and leaving twelve standing on the
brink of the chasn. No lives were lost.
A cattle train left the track at Highland
Greek, near Toronto, on the 28th. Nine cars
were wrecked and 12O head Of cattle killed.
The train men saved themselves by jumping.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-09-06
Trouble In Duhlllns

Dublin, Ireland, was in high state of fer
ment on the 1st inst, caused by insubordin-
alton on the part of the police, who deserted
their posts and left the city to be protected by
troops who were Immediately summoned. It
seems that 234 Of the officers received their dis
missals for attending an indignation meeting.
This so incensed their comrades that they
struck. Several mobs were dispersed at the
point of the bayonet. It is said that the ex-
police officers will emigrate to America
en- masse. There are nearly a thousand of
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-09-06
Deadly Disorders.

CURED at Manila, PHILIPPINE Islands, in short
space of time. Most of the victims were
natives.
The Siberian plague, or t'black DEATH" is ap-
pearing to an alarming extent in remote quar-
ters Of European Russia.
Acable dispatch from Yokohama, states that
IT'S cases of cholera occurred within twenty
days, 572 cases proving fatal. At Toxic about
80 cases and so deaths are reported daily.
Yellow fever continues ut Brownsville, Tex,
and Matamol as, Mexico, on the Rio Grande.
Its reappearance is also reported at Pensacola,
Florjda.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-09-06
AmmAtIc.

Rchland Springs, N. Y. was the scene of an
exciting single scull race between the two pro-
fessionals, Lee and Courtney, on the 1st inst.
The latter won in the unprecedented time Of
19311. Lee followed over the line ~
lengths in the rear. His time, 19:351z.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-09-06
Bank Robbers Arrested.

Several days after the perpetration of the
robbery of the First National Bank at Kewa-
nee, ILL.,, one Edward Welch, Chicago travel
ing agent, was apprehended while in New York
held on suspicion: On the 9th the prisoner
made confession to the effect that br. j. 8.
Scott, of st. Louis, formerly resident of Ke-
vance, planned the robbery, although he took
no direct part in it; that Pratt the acting CASH
ier was D. party to it, and that instead Of the
large sum in gold missing being carried away
in the valise with the other money, it was Pratt
when he (Welch) and his companion locked
Pratt and Miss Harris in the vault and carried
away the remainder in paper money.
The guilty parties are now all under arrest.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-09-06
Horrible Of9iess

A dispatch from Calcutta dated August 28,
says: "Fearful rioting between Hndoos and
Mahommedans has occurred in Salemow. An
eye witness Of the disorders says he saw the
disemboweled body of Mahommedan infant
lying on the ground. Its arms were also torn
Oh. The headless corpses of Mahommedan
men and women were lying on every side. The
houses Of Mahommedans were burned and the
principal mosque almost razed to the ground.
Dead pigs have been thrown into tho wells with
the corpses Of Mahommedan children. The
Mahonmedans are q small minority Of tho
population"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-09-06
FatA1 Floods.

As the rivers in Texas recede, the effects of
the recent flood are made manifest. It is esti-
mated that 25, 900 sheep, beside horses and cat
tie, have been swept away by the food. From
sixty TO seventy five persons are known to have
been drowned.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-09-06
The EcA Kin0.

Snow storms are reported in the southern
portion Of the Rocky Mountain regions Of Col
orado and New Mexico: The mountain peaks
are white with snow. This is very early win
ter even for those high attitudes.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-09-06
MOHtuaFys

Major Chas. W. Wingard, u, 8. A., died at
FottDouglas, Utah, on the LIST inst. ~ I,
Je'nee a. ~ r,o"a;..o citi,e,, 1T Denver
ed with the Union Pacific and various railway
enterprises.
VIM. 81. Allen, president of Girard College,
Philadelphia, passed away on the 29th.
J. c. Crawford, solicitor-general of the pro-
vince of New Brunswick, died on the 28th,
aged SO years.
Mr.. 8. A. Kicker, well.known pork-packer
and grain-dealer of Chicago, died on the 28th,
aged IS. He was childless widower and NIL
lionaire, and his property will be distributed be-
tween surviving b1 others and sisters.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-09-06
NEWS IN BRIEF.
The Public Debt.
The Hostile Reds,

The amount Of the August reduction of the
national debt is $l6, ,128,281 Total debt less
cash in the treasury, e1, ,65S, ,92e,171.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-09-06
EgYplian Affair.".

General WOlseley, the commander Of the
British forces in Egypt, telegraphs that the re-
24th and 25th was more important than at first
supposed-that the enemy was completely
routed and fed in confusion. He also announces
the capture of Arabis chief engineer and mill
fary adviser, who is now prisoner. The ap-
pauing discovery was made that the Egyptians
had polluted the waters of the canal BY filling
one Of the locks with corpses of soldiers and
dead horses. Gen. Wolseleys troops were de-
pendent on the canal for their drinking water.
Arab has flooded the country on both of hia
TANKS. The BedOuins continue to harrass the
o@aht1th6tRs oat ct Meks and the British nteRd to
date the dry bed of Lake Mareotis.
On the night of the 28th, the Arabs attacked
the British positionlat Kassasin, and were re-
pulsed with heavy losses, the fight going on by
moonlight. The infantry were hotly pressed
Sb ha es7y TeP p e p3es g s
fusion. The LOSSES on both sides were quite
heavy.
Up to the 4th inst. no engagement had taken
place since the moonlight skirmish at Kassas-
sin lock. Arab Pasha has formed camp
which threatens the Suez canal and the Brit
more troops as he has to reinforce the troops
at the front constantly, owing to inroads by
sickness. The British man-of-war Minotaur,
shelled folce of Egyptian infantry and caval-
ry between Ramleh and Aboukir. The khe-
dives ENJOYS at Ismailia have already arranged
with Bedouin chiefs to bring over considers
bic number of their people. A wounded Arab,
captured at Kassassin, states that hardly had
the British cavalry disappeared when horde
of Bedonins came up, killing the wounded and
robbing the dead. The peasants are being en-
couraged to bring in supplies to be sold to the
army. British veterinary surgeons have been
sent to Italy, Spain, Smyrna, and the United
States to inspect mules.
De Lesseps declares that Arab Pasha has the
whole of Egypt at his back, with q force Of
$4,000 to 10000 Arabs and arms for 100000.
The khedive, he says, is prisoner, and will
never be able to govern the country.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-09-06
The Rexolt i'm Corea.

Particulars of the insurrection in Corea have
been received. On July 2Sd an organized band
Of insurgents attacked the royal residence and
the Japanese legation at Sioule, the Corean
capital. The king alone was spared out of the
inmates Of the palace. The queen murdered
the kings heir and the latter's betrothed, both
children, by poison forcibly administered. The
Japanese legation retreated to the coast, being
repeatedly assaulted on their way. Four were
killed, three wounded, and several are missing.
Japan has sent feet to the scene.
Secretary Of the Navy Chandler has received
Z telegram from Admiral Clitz, commanding
the United States naval force in Asia, announc-
ing that Commodore Shufeldt's treaty with
Corea had been rejected and requesting that
ship Of war be sent to Corea.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-09-06

0oooSA 80tt09D~ ;
Tho above Il good hksnsas Of Il1a LYDIA Z pfnk.
ham, Mas, who above al other human beings
may bs tzuthfuny oaledt The "Dsar Friend OF wouans
- some Of hsr correspondents love 70 eal hsr he
lsasalously devoted to hsr work. which = ths outoon0
Of hfsstudy; and q obliged TO kesp TX lsdy
assant1to halp hsr answsrths large oosEsspondsncs
which daily pou1s In upon hsr, each bearing fs special
burden Of suffering. Or JOY q rslsass from IT. Hsr
Vegetable Compound = . medicine for GOOD and not
svn purposes have personally investigated Il aad
am atisasd oe ths truth Of this.
On account of fts proven msrios n 3 Eseoumsndsd
and pessmibsd By thsbsst physlcans in ths country
Ono sAySs ut works hko . charm and nveo much
pain. Uwn eurs entirely ths woase form u falling
Of the uterus lsueorrhos, irregular and painful
Msnstsuation IN Ovarian Troubles Indannna&ion and
Ulooeation, Toodnss, III Digplacssnas and the ooa.
~ s0hangs of lt6s." l
bpsrnsAtss svsey portion q ths ysszn, and dives
now lito and vigor. Is rsmovss fainfns AatuIsncv,
Destroys an craving for atmulants, and rslsvss weak
AeO of the stomach. u cures Goa4ing; HsadaeheA
Hssvous ProGazaAon, General psh1iAy, nespasslnsssI
Dssrsasioa and hdiesseion. That 6sshng Of bsaxine
down, ,cautng pain, weight ed backachs, b always
pssansaly cured by IL usA y Win q IN tmss, and
unde IN efrcnn,tancsa, act IN harmony with the hw
that govszns the female system.
Heoas only pr boet3s or IL foe k,and Sosdh hv
GusgisA Any adyios 70 spscial casas, and
thsnamas Of many who havs bssn Gstossd to pes6scs
AsaltA b tie uss oe 10 Vegetable eanbs5
oaeaiaed q addlsE Nh r. VIII slnp fR zspay.
ashsf hahe emIym, 49, 81 # 4
1or 0dnsy complaint of stfAsr ssx this compounds
S1smpasDsd = abundant testt1nonials show.
Nh F1nkhamS livr Fms = ons Writes, sars
~ bast q ~ seorsd for thS enc e Ocnsapation
1niosGsD and 1oss idity q ~ IVA. He Hood
ariasrvos1s wundepia - Hns and I'D DIR
= q1aitAs conposad g - Dopslazi1ily. 5sss
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-09-06
The Fire Record

The Planters Hotel, Cairo, ILL.,, was reduced
to ashes on the Sd inst. Loss $15, 900.
"A fire at Harrisburg. Pa, damaged the
Chesapeake rail-works to the amount Of $780,
600. Several stores at Harrisburg, Ill.,, valued
at $685. goo, were burned by an incendiary.
The Hotel Brunswick: the Pleasant House,
Central Hall, and dwelling, burned at Old Or
chard Beach, Me-, on the 1st.
The new city hall at Iowa City, H., was en-
tirely destroyed by fire on the 31st ult.
The gunt oat Algernon, was entirely con-
sumed by fire in New York harbor on the 31st
ult Loss $35, 900.
Brewer Co.'s desk factory, New Yo city,
and the Nashua Cotton Mills. Brainards, N.
Y, were destroyed by fire on the 30th. Loss
by the former, $45, 900; the latter $25, 900.
The Bee Line oil sheds at Cleveland, O., in
which were stored 800 barrels Of refined petro-
leum, were fired by sparks from tug on the
night of the 29th. The fire communicated to
an adjoining saloon and from there to an oil
laden railway train, all Of which property was
consumed. The frey stream ran through q
sewer to the river where it struck the schooner
James Wade, damaging the vessel to the extent
Of about 1000. The loss approximates $780,
600.
The major part of the town of Farmersville,
$4,000.
Other fires on the 29th: Several manufac-
turing establishments at Haverhiil, Mass,
100000; st. James Hotel and three stores, Mt.
Pleasant, Mich, $25, 900; mill and ice-house at
Lehigh. Pa, $25, 600; Bishops Opera House,
Red Oak, Ia, $35, GOO; the Sierra Lumber Com.
pany's mill at Red Bluff. Cal., with heavy loss.
A mill valued at $25.00O was destroyed by
fire at Hubbardstown, Mass, on the 28th.
Bauman's pork-packing establishment, Osh-
kosh, Wis.,. was consumed by fire on the 28th.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-09-06

The Base Rail- Championship.
The following table indicates the position of
the various clubs in the contest for the cham
pionship:
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-09-06
M lsS. q. L. AMES.

jN 1sS. v. l.. AMES,
(Or b 'tter known as MRS. TOPLIFF,) is back to
Austin, to attend to all calls as MIDWIFE dav or
right Sne 1s the riga: woman in the right place.
Rooms over Sweningson Johnson's store. P. O.
Box 27l. - W