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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-18
CHEAP POSTAGE.

The limit Of cheap postage seemed to
have been reached when the department
offered to carry letter from New York
to San Francisco for three cents. Com
pared with the high rates of the early
days of the republic that was almost do.
ing the work for nothing. But that was
not the best that could be afforded in
these days of large correspondence, and
the postal card was introduced, doing
much Of the work formerly done by
sealed letters at one-third the cost. To
do anything for less than one cent seems
impossible under our system of coinage,
but there is possibility that the day
may come and perhaps it is not SO far
off either, when one may not only send
brief note, but also receive brief re-
ply all for one cent. What are known
as "reply post cards - have just been
put in use in England, and there is lit
tie doubt that they will in due course of
time reach this country if they prove
satisfactory. These cards are not yet
sold for one cent, or even for on English
penny, but if they remain in use long
enough the tendency to cheaper all
postal rates will be likely to bring them
down to such seemingly impossible
price. On the 1st Of October the Eng
lish postofice department. began the sale
of "double or reply inland post cards,
bearing an impressed half penny stamp
on each portion" at all the offices in the
United Kingdom. The lcards are made
in two qualities, which are technically
known as "stout" and "thin." For
the stout cards the prices are: For one,
I'D; for two, 3d.; three, I'D. four, 3d.;
d.; five, SD; six, 3d.; or IS. Sd. for a
parcel of 60. The prices for thin cards
are: For one, I'D; two, 2}d.; three,
3Ad.; four, 44d.; five, 3d.; six, 3D.; or
lis. Sd. for parcel of l2O. The reply
cards are not sold in sheets like the sin
gle cards, and they are available only
for transmission between places in the
United Kingdom. They are subject to
all the regulations laid down for single
post cards, and from the numbers fur
nished the local offices, even in small
places, it was evidently expected that
they would at once meet with public fa-
vOr
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-18
Blooming Prosperity.
from the Evansville Argus.


A few days ago drummer for one of
our wholesale houses was travelling in
buggy along country roadin Askansas,
when he came upon tall, roughly
dressed man sitting upon rail fence
whiting. With sociable "good morn
ing" the traveller drew up his horse and
asked:
els that your field of corn over
there?"
"Wal, I calkilate Ill freeze onto a
right smart sheer of it. I'm working the
piece on sheers."
CLOCKS like fine CROP"
cit does"
II presume you are figuring on great
prosperity in future, such immense
crops indicating plenty for all"
Prosperity =? Stranger that hain't no
name fur the cyclone that's agoin' to hit
this settlement atween the eyes this sea.
son. A tornado mout come jist now an
land every burned bit O. grain in the
county over in Tennessee, and yit the
smiles of contentment d never shift of'n
our faces!"
"Some unexpected good luck has be-
fallen you," the tourist replied.
"That's the play to t-y ty. We're
gettin' our slice o. the millennium away
ahead O. the advertised date. Fust, Of
Zack Bolton up an died last month, an
thar hasn't been ear O. corn or side
O. bacon missed in the community since
we tumbled the dirt on top O. him. Then
Wash Tompkins, the boss Of sledge
player, got sent to state prison fur horse
steaiin, thus givh' us poor players a
show fur our pile; then Snaky, the
saloonkeeper up at the forks O. the road,
dropped down to 10 cents drink fur
whisky, and said he'd take corn same as
cash; then my old woman ran off with a
Yankee sewin'- machine peddler, an il
bloomin' prosperity amt hangin' over
the neighborhood I'm gilt:edged liar
from the Red River swamps. Got any
sweet toDacker about you?"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-18

nually injured, the railroad companies
are responsible for only ten per cent. of
the injuries and five per cent. of the
deaths. This portion of the statistics
forcibly shows how careless individuals
are when they approach railroads for
travel, labor, or any other purposes.
But all these injuries, when compare
lively considered, are found to be sur
prisingly few. Of all the millions of
passengers annually carried, only about
1900 are injured severely and only 460
killed.; and of these, 800 injuries and
200 deaths are all the railroads are Justly
accountable for. More than 5000
passengers, therefore, are annually car
ried safely where one is killed by any
cause; and nearly 1900, 900 persons are
transported safely where one is killed by
railroad negligence. For every passen-
ger at all injured, 100000 are safely
carried; for every passenger whose in
jury the railroad company is at fault,
100000 are safely transported. Statis-
tics from Massachusetts show that in
that state a passenger with average
good luck could travel $500 times the
distance around the earth before getting
killed.
The writer then compares railroad
travel with the old.time stage-coach
1ourneying: It has been asserted on
good authority that there were actually
more persons killed and injured in
Massachusetts fifty years ago, through
accidents to stage-coaches, than there
are now through accidents to railroad
trains, despite the enormous increase in
the number Of persons travelling. Stage
coach travel in France years ago injured
sixty passengers where the railroads
there now injure one. The official re-
turns in France show that man is safer
in n railroad train than in his own house;
and in England, figures prove that a
man is thirty times more in danger of
being hanged than of meeting death on
the railroad. Such facts 60 far to con-
firm for to-day the statement made thirty
years ago by distinguished writer, that
"of all means of locomotion which abu-
man invention has yet devised, railroad
travelling is the safest in an almost in
finite degree"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-18
Little ReDajrS,

Now is the time, before cold weather
settles upon us, to make little repairs
about the house and premises. We have
already had sharp warning, and if fur
ther neglected until winter, when the
short days are crowded with work, they
will be imperfectly made, if made at all.
If the gentlemen of the household have
no mechanical skill, the service of q car
penter will be necessary. Before he
comes, however, some member of the
family should go through the house on
visit of inspection, and memorandum
should be made of whatever defects are
discovered. Then when the carpenter
comes, he can commence work at once,
and as soon as he completes one piece of
work he can without useless delay begin
another, as the employer dictates. Hav-
ing the work planned previously will
prevent loss of time and patience on
the part of the carpenter. 1t is saving
of time and moner also to those who en-
ploy workmen to furnish them always
with some systematic plan for work.
The proper time for making small re-
pairs is just before the fall house clean
ing. Every door and window, and the
fastening of each, should be examined,
and if found out of order, "make note
of it." There are many houses in which
the doors and windows have settled, SO
that they can be opened and closed only
with difficulty, and they are allowed to
remain in thatcondition year after year be-
cause the owners lack order and perse.
verance. The best built house will some
times settle, but it will no., ,as rule, reg
ulate itself. Persons stopping at hotels
will see cards of " Regulations " fastened
to the inside of sleeping apartments.
One of the rules is that the occupant of
the room shall "bolt the door," to in
sure safety. But even in hotels the bolt
does not always strike right. The writer
has seen trunk rolled to the door to do
duty in place of an imperfect bolt that
might have been put in working order in
five minutes time.
If the front gate is out of order, now
is the time to &c fix" it. 1t is common
to see gate-latch so useless that piece
of rope must be used in place of the
latch. Other gates have to be lifted
bodily, because the hinges have given
out, while others are down entirely, SO
that where cattle have free range they
find pasturage in front yards. The gate
tells it's own story. The surroundings of
home-gates and fences included-give
an insight into the character of the pos
sessOr
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-18
RObbeFieSs

Charles s. Childs, superintendent of the cem-
etery at Cambridge; Massachusetts,, while
driving Oh Coolidge Avenue, on the 14th inst,
was stopped by two disguised men; who shot
him in the eye and robbed him of $685. He
will probably die Of his injuries.
In Belmont, suburb of Boston, burglars
secured $4,000 worth of jewels at the residence
of E. Atkins.
G.. s. Wright registered.at the Emery Hotel,
in Cincinnati, and deposited with James Sex
ton, the night clerk, package Of money
amounting to 1886, for which be received a
check. On the morning of the 18th inst, Sex
ten sent bell-boy to call the chief clerk and
then disappeared. The hotel is responsible for
the theft, and has offered reward Of $500 for
its perpetrator.
Geo. D. Rice, cashier of the Lebanon (Pa.)
Dime Savings Bank, was garroted and relieved
of satchel containing $4,000 in bills on the
evening of the 18th inst. Rice resisted desper-
ately and was covered with blood when found.
The money belonged to the bank.
Stephen Van Dusen, of Nilledgeville, ILL.,, was
chloroforped in his residence on the night of
the 10th inst, the safe blown open, and 81, 900
taken,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-18
The Holy Grail.

The Holy Grail is said to have been q
precious stone, q jasper Of great brillian-
cy, wich fell from Lucifer's crown when
hurled from heaven. This was caught by
the angels and held pendant for long
time between heaven and earth. When
Christ came down to be the Saviour of
the world the stone al o descended, and
cup was made from il, which came in
to the possession of Joseph of Arimathea.
At the last supper the Lord drank from
this oup-and Joseph caught therein bis
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-18

Twenty business buildings at Manson, Iowa,
valued with their contents at 100000, were
swept away by fire on the afternoon of the
14th.
The burning of Gulbraith's spinning mills, at
Glasgow, caused loss of E50,000.
A block Of business houses vanished in
smoke ct Farrell, Texas, on the 18th. Loss
nearly &100, 200. ~ e..
Packer Colliery No. 2 of the Lehigh Valley
Coal Company, at Shenandoah, Pa, was de-
stroyed by fire On the 18th. Loss $3.50, 1000.
The loss by the burning Of the magnificent
residence of the earl OF Shrewsbury, near
Stafford, England, is 50, 2,5oo,000. 49,.
r By the burning of an elevator filed with
grain, at Bridgeport, Conn.,, on the 18th, $685.
600 worth of property was consumed.
The postoffce, a newspaper Office and several
law offices were wiped out by fire at Olathe,
Kansas, on the 10Th inst. Loss $4,000
The Methodist Church, the Suncook House
and several other stores and dwellings, were
consumed by fire at Suncook, N. H., on the
18th. Mrs. Joseph Damans was killed by a
falling chimney. Pecuniary loss $3.50
Every mill on the upper dam at Miltown, Me-,
burned on the night Of the 10th, together with
large amount of lumber and two dwellings.
Loss $30, 900. t7.2:, p iT.:E - -, 80
Ell Paso, Ili., suffered the loss Of an entire
block of buildings including the Ell Paso Hotel
Loss estimated at 800, 900.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-18
Arab PaSha,'

The trial Of rebel prisoners commenced at
Cairo, Egypt, on the 18th inst. Arabi Pasha
was brought before the court and replied to
inquiries IN a long but important speech.
rebel cheftain's assertion that the cutrages were
committed against his will. It is reported that
emissaries of the khedive have been allowed to
enter 4,rabi's cell and grossly insult him.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-18
ShipWFeck>

The new steamship Balgaim, 1000 tons bur-
American trade, was totally wrecked on her trial
trip on the 18th inst.
The steamship Herder of the Hamburg
American Line, which left New York on the
Sd inst, for Hamburg via Plymouth, with 80
cabin passengers, 81 in the steerage and crew
of 100, was wrecs ed on the rocks Of Cape Race.
N h INST TTe and
donbtedly prove a total loss with her cargo.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-18

II is said the secretary of the treasury
will soon make call for the extended
fives. We hope the secretary may not
be unluoky enough to call in the ex-
tended fives" Of Mi. j. Sullivan, Of
Boston.-B Boston Commercial Bulletin.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-18
War;

:. an army of 10000 Kurds, under Sheikh
Obeidullah, has appeared before, the city of
Van, in Turkish Armenia, and demanded the
surrender Of the place. Persia and Turkey
have both sent armies to operate against the
Kurds, who, as soon as the crops are ready to
harvest, annually make incursions into the Per-
sian and Turkish provinces adjoining: Kurdis-
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-18
Death i'm the Wind,

OF property was inflicted on the Island of Cuba
by recent cyclone. At Herradura 800 huts
and houses, including large number of to-
bacco drying establishments, were leveled.
Two thousand palm trees were cut down. At
Consolation de Sur 761 houses were destroyed.
The bodies of fifteen persons drowned by the
overfowing of rivers have been recovered and
many people are yet missing.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-18
CaDtain webb,s Latest.

Captain Webb, the famous English swimmer
who entered tank in Boston containing five
feet ten and one-half inches of water with the
pleted his task at midnight on the 18th, having
remained in the water 1854 hours. He was
rather unstrung from loss of sleep.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-18
In Hoe SiglaO Vinces.

S1 thousand citizens Of Chicago gathered at
the base ball park on the 9th inst, to witness
the contest for the prize banner of the Knights
Templars. The judges awarded the emblem
to st: Bernard commandery, which scored 390.9
to 374.2 made by Raper commandery, Of In
dianapOlis
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-18
Political.

The result Of the election in Ohio on the 10th
inst. proved great surprise to all parties and
more especially to the democrats themselves,
who least Of an expected SO overwhelming .
defeat of their opponents. s The heavy gains
came from republican trongh hoIds, counties
which gsye Foster nearly 4oeo 4 year agorss
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-18

cording democratic majorities. Estimates put
the democratic majority in the state at q, 900,
and makes the congressional delegation stand
Is democrats to republicans. The democrats
elect Follett, Jordan, Murray, Lefevre, Seney,
Hill, Campbell, Hurd, Neal, Converse, Geddes,
Warner, Wilkins, Paige and Farran. The re,
publicans elect Mccormack, Updegraff, Taylor,
Keifer, Mckinley and Robinson. Several of
the districts are very close and an official count
may change the above result somewhat.
Returns from the West Virginia election show
a republican gain of probably 1900. The
democrats elected three out of four congress-
men, Goff Qep.) being successful in the First
District.
Howard Carroll, well-known writer in the
New York Times, was to-day placed upon the
republican state ticket for congressman-at
large, vice Hepburn, declined. Mr.. Carroll is
an out-spoken civil service reformer.
Dispatches from Wheeling represent that
john w. Mason, republican, was elected to
congress from the second district by major.
ity ranging from twenty-five to fifty. This
makes gain Of two congressman by the re.
publicans. Heretofore the Virginia delegation
has been solidly democratic.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-18
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Fatal TidaI Waves.

A report has reached Panama that the dis
trict of San Bias, Mexico, was swept by four
tidal waves which followed close after an
earthquake on the 7th of September. Several
villages were destroyed and seventy persons
drowned
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-18
A svREN.
BY ROBERT BUCHANAN.

There sat we, side by side. She queenly stoled,
Amid the cleaning fountains of her hair,
With liquid azure orbs and rosy lips,
Gorgeous with honeyed XII sts ; I like man
Wholoves fair eyes and knows they are fend's,
And in them sees heaven he knows is hell.
For, like glorious beast, she ate and drank,
Staining her lips in crimson wine, and laughed
To feel the vinous bubbles froth and burst
In veins whose sparkling blood was meet to be
An angels h2bitation.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-18
Sickness and Death.

Yellow fever has swept off 1913 citizens of
Pensacola. The report For the 18th, includes
thirty=three new cases and six deaths. DR..
White, of the marine hospital service, has been
Frustrated. Lieutenant Thomas Winnie died at
Fort Brown, end Mexican perlshed at Browns
vile. Special advi es repre- eat that fifteen
deaths occurred ut lIer, Mexico. on the 18th,
and that the epidemic Is stu SPREADING a,noug
the. ranches On this side of the lilo drande.
Nearly two hundred deaths from diphtheria
have within two months occurred in Pittsyl-
tania County, Virginia, including twenty pupils
in one school district.
Two hundred pers ons are lying ill with ty:
phom fever in Winnipeg
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-18
SuiCides

Miss Sallie Bronson, of Detroit, whose brain
had not recovered from the effects OF sun
stroke, pawned her watch and purchased a
steamboat ticket fer Port Austin, and on the
Sth sprang overheard in the vicinity of Star
Island.
Eva Stone, 16-vear-od girl residing with
her parents at G.ldden, Ia, shot herself with
her fathers pistol on the 10th. No cause as
signed.
Rev. J. L. Denton, superintendent of public
instruction of the state of Arkansas, jumped
from a balcony at Fayetteville, in that state, on
the 9th inst, and was killed. Il had been
mentally unbalanced several DAYS previous to
the tragedy. Deceased was one of the most
prominent Methodist divipes iu Arkansas.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-18
Minor MiShapS.

The Chicago express train on the New York
Central road struck q carriage in Syracuse and
killed Mrs. Meg one, Mrs. Comstock, and Mrs.
Burgess.
By the capsizing of boat in Harlem River
on the 18th inst, John w. Gree]y and his sister
Emma we're drowned.
A freight train ran over and killed two little
girls at Natick, Mass, on the 18th.
James Stephenson and James Hohemier were
killed outright and two men named Watkins
and Lautier badly injured by the explosion OF
a boiler in saw mill at Petersburg, ILL.,, on the
18th. Stephenson was one of the proprietors
of the mill.
Capt. Jas. Stover of the schooner Jane c.
Woodruff, was run over by the GERS and fatally
injured at Port Huron, Mich, on the 10th inst.
Charles Scarritt, wholesale grocer OF Gin
cinnati O., was thrown from buggy and fatal
ly injured on the 10th lust.
Four men were killed in an iron mine at Re-
public, in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, on
the 10th by the falling of rock.
P. T. Langvilie. prominent lawyer Of Gal
weston, accompanied yachting party on the
gulf, but fell overheard and was drowned.
At q baptismal ceremony near Canton,
Georgia, a rotten bridge carried two hundred
persons into the water. many Of them having
arms or legs broken.
4 barrel containing $4,000 breeo1- loading
caps exploded at Bridgeport, Conn.,, denolish-
ing the building ill Which it was located. No.
body WAS hurt.
Two brothers named Haske blew out the gas
in their room at a Brooklyn hotel on the night
Of the 9Th ard were found dead in the morning.
Two men we're burned to death at Stag Creek,
Canada, on the uight of the 9Th,
A boiler explosion at Shelbyville, Ind, killed
Geo. Young and fatally injured Harry Smith.
During horse race at Lexington, ILL.,, be-
tween animals ridden by Elmer Enoch and
Grant Preble, the formers horse fell and broke
its neck, and Prebe was thrown from his steed
and his thighbone smashed.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-18

'1pEH1Su S. .--
Dune by the dsy OF roll; also Calsominins. All
work warranted Rasideace, near :Ames' Foundry.
rs IA s{ MRS. lORD.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-18
Heavy DefalGatiOns.

Franklin L. Chase. prominent Chicago law
yer, has proven defaulter for large sum,
variously estimated at from $4,000 to $780,,
600. The money he appropriated was entrusted
to him by clients who reposed perfect conf
charged With the lawyers downfall. His
friends are making efforts to raise the money
necessary to make his embezzlement good.
Mayor Esinhart, OF Iberville, Quebec, AMI
formerly member of the Canadian parliament
was arrested, charged with defraudlng the
Bank of St. James out of $10,O
The mayor of Long Island City has been in
dicted by the grand jury of Queens County, N.
Y, on a charge of disposing of city bonds to
the amount of $1S0,0O0 and making no return
Of the proceeds to the treasurer.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-18
MOftuarY.


Rev. Thomas Guard, pastor of the Vernon
Place NJ. E. Church, Baltimore, Nd, died
from the effects Of surgical operation on the
18th. Deceased was native of Ireland.
Greenberry B. Harrison, the second sheriff
Of Mc1eon County, Illinois, died yesterday at
Bloomington, having been paralyzed while
looking at the comet.
Edward Clark, president of the Singer Sew.
ing Machine Company, died of malarial fever
at Cooperstown, New York, leaving large for
tune.
AParis cablegram announces the death of
Count Napoleon Ney, a son Of the famous
marshal, at the age Of 70.
Congressman William NJ. Lowe, Of the
Eighth District of Alabama, died at Birming-
ham, Fla, on the 18th inst.
Lieut.. Winnie, of the Nineteenth Infantry,
died Of yellow fever at Fort Brown, Texas.
VIM. Crust, an English agricultural pub
Usher Of some prominence, is dead.
Albert Tu1berry, for six years mayor Of Ne
braska City, and once nominee Of the democ-
racy for governor, died on the 9th inst. at the
age of ". 5.l.t-
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-18
Railway Wrecks.

At Alma, Co.., an engine and car were
thrown from the track and the conductor and
two unknown men instantly killed. A hand:
car near Chillicothe, O., was run into by a
train, one of the Occupants being killed and two
seriously injured.
An eastbound New York express on the Chi
cago and St. Louis Railroad ran into COW at
Pana, ILL.,, on the 10th. The engine, baggage
car and one coach left the track, killing fire.
man and lnjuring the engineer.
Near Chattanooga, Tenn, on the 10th inst,
a collision. occurred on the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia Railroad, between a
freight train and passenger train. Engineers
James N. Waters and John Hobbs were killed
and their bodies terribly burned.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-18
THOS. PHILLIPS, M. D..

TNHO6. PHILLIPS, n. D., ,...'- '' .-,7"@f
RONOEOPATHI PHYSICIAN d SURGEON,
Has permanently located in Austin. Calls in
city country pr ,mptly attended to at oil hours
,Csn.ulta'is n fro. Once over Dunklemsnns store
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-18

A USTiN UNION BAND AND ORCHES IRA
IA OHAs. Il. WILDouR. Leader. This Baud has
eighteen members AMI the Orchestra six Either
crga,izatton are prepared to furnish first class
music ct Al hours notice for any and all occasions
whore their services may bo desired aid at resson-
able rates. ALI application. made to the Leader,
or to ". d. Wi'msn, Secretary, will receive prompt
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