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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-01-11

Apache Indians in New Mexico, Oh the 31st u]t.
A man named Nelson, residing in Montgom-
cry County, Mo-, was awakened by robbers on
the night of the Goth. He opened fire and kill
ed one Of the thieves, who proved to be the
King brothers: The dead brother was taken
home, and while preparations we're being made
for the funeral, band of armed citizens rode
up and opened fire on the house of mourning,
killing another Of the King boys and an old
lady named Austin. Mrs. King and another
son were wounded. The youngest King boy
was in town purchasing coffin, and escaped
the vigi]antes.
John Toohy killed his wife at Minneapolis,
Mimi, on the 4th inst, because she refused to
allow their daughter to get him some whisky.
W. E. Graham, who shot, 1obbed and burned
Phillip Egley, at venango, Kan, was hung by
mob on the night of the I'd inst.
N. Y, shot and dangerously wounded a woman
named Bloom and then turned the weapon on
himself. inficting fatal wound. Jealousy in
spired the deed.
In New York pool room on New Years day,
Isaac Willory, aged 20, was shot dead and his
George s. Reed, of San Francisco, became
deranged by too close attention to busi-
ness. On the 31st ult., he killed his mother-in-
law, Sarah A. Smith, fatally wounded his own
daughter and then took his own life.
Emmett Cloud, negro murderer of Virginia,
was lynched near Southampton by a party of
fifty masked men. He confessed having killed
two clerks sleeping in a country store.
Two sisters named Cr0ughan we're fatally
shot by an unknown man near Mulingar. Ire
land.
Thomas Somerville, switchman on Sixteenth
Street, Chicago, was set upon on the night OF
the I'd inst, by Jimmie O'Brien and some
friends, who desired to avenge an affront
offered to O'Brien's brother, the preceding day.
Somervile made vigorous resistance, but was
finally put in such peril from flying brick-bats,
that he shot O'Brien dead, and inflicted serious
wounds on one Victor Disimore.
In a row at the Southern Hotel, at Selma,
Ala, R. T. Adams, the proprietor. was acci-
dentally shot in the cheek by Babe Burns, when
| he drew a revolver and killed Burns.
An outbreak occurred in the Graham, Texas,
| Jail on the I'd inst. The three Mcdonald
brothers, incarcerated for murder. killed y
guard and escaped. Citizens pursued and q
battle was fought in which the fugitives were
| E;11a1
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-01-11
THE SMOKE NUISANCE.

The rapid growth Of the manufactur-
ing interest and the increasing consump-
ton of coal in connection Herewith has
aroused among dwellersi in large business
centers movement looking to the abate-
ment of the smoke nuisance. Scores of
furnace appliances have been tried and
large amounts of money expended, but
without satisfactory results, the expert
ence in most cases being that the smoke
consumer interfered with the draft, there
by entailing loss. There is soon to be
held in London au International Exposi-
tion to decide upon the best mode of
eradicating the evil. Every known variety
ofapparatus invented for the epurpose will
be shown in competition. The most
benefcent results are confidently ex-
pected. The smoke-abatement COM
mittee, under whose auspices, the ex-
hibition. will take place, have been for q
long time testing the efficacy of numer-
GUS inventions in the great manufacture
ing towns of England, where the smoke
is 4 nuisance even greater than in Gin
cinnati or Pittsburg. The trials have
been made on the working scale, and are
uow declared to have been surprisingly
successful. Several of the smoke-con-
sumers not only accomplish the object
for which they are designed, but do it
with decided saving to the manufac-
turers. The state board of health of
New York states that the tall chimneys
OF the petroleum refneries at Hunters
Point have ceased to vomit forth the
enormous volumes of black smoke and
noxious vapors which Murray Hill, in
New York has found so unpleasant when
borne to its aristocratic precincts by un-
friendly winds. By the adoption of q
simple arrangement of metal hoods and
air-tight conduits, the smoke is reduced
to a minimum, and oil the offensive
gases are again led back into the furnaces
and utilized as fuel. The oil refiners
have also found thatit profits themselves
not to be disagreeable to the surround
ing world.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-01-11
the top of the list, with gain of 78 pc

the top of the list, with gain of 7s pc
cent.
The southern states present hopeful
features. In six of them the increase in
population is equal to or about the aver
age, while in the others it does not fall
far bslow. Tennessee's gain has been %
per cent, Alabama has %, Louisiana 20,
Georgia 30, North Carolina 81, Missis-
sippi 81, South Carolina Al, Florida "A,
and Arkansas heads the list with a gain
of 66 per cent. The Pacific states and
territories, including the western
plateau, exhibit, with slight exceptions.
an extraordinary gain in the number of
their inhabitants. The population of
Dakota, as already stated, has increased
853per cent; Colorado comes next, with a
gain Of 3S8 per cent, Arizona 319, Nebras-
ka268, Washington Territory PA, Kansas
173, Wyoming Territory 1913, Idaho Ter
ritory III, Texas 81, Oregon 80, Montana
Territory 80, California 81, Nevada Al,
and New Mexico 80.
The outlines here given of IN analysis
of the census tables indicate clearly that
the tide of emigration is flowing to the
great northwest and the states and terri
tories west of the Mississippi. Not alone
have natives of the eastern and middle
states left their homes for the western
plateau or the prairie states, but a very
large proportion of the immigrants from
Europe have settled in that section of
the country.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-01-11
CHINESE IMMIGRATION,

The last report of Consul Bee will
allay somewhat the apprehensions of
those who saw in the Chinese immigra.
ton movement the beginning of a human
torrent that would lay waste the hopes
and prospects of workingmen and the
smaller class of trades-people in Ameri-
ca. The hue and cry against "cheap
Chinese labor " that rang out over the
land has subsidized in measure, and
when thinking people ponder the figures
of last years immigration the excitement
will be wholly quieted. Consul Bee es-
Inmates the total of arrivals at l7,767,
During the same period S,l78 Chinese
returned to Asia. leaving balance in
favor Of their colony in San Francisco of
$3.50. OF this number many were old
residents returning from visit to their
relatives in China. The majority Of the
new arrivals were laborers, who had
been hired to work on the Southern
Pacific and Dragon railroads. Latterly
there has been an active demand on the
Pacific coast for Chinese labor, and there
are three agents in Hong Kong and Cam
ton purchasing laborers and shipping
them here. Contracts can be readily
made for Chinese laborers at $50 day,
whereas two years ago that class of
workmen could be had for 80 cents a
day, without board. Owing to the high
rate of wages ruling on the Pacific slope
there has been no emigration of Chinese
to the eastern states, where the demand
for cheap skilled labor has several times
been increased by strikes among cigar
makers and others. A large number of
Chinese have sailed from San Francisco
to Honolulu, but the emigration in that
direction is accounted for by the refusal
Of the authorities at Hong Kong to clear
ships for Honolulu. There are no
Chinese government students in this
country atpresent. All Chinese students
who have been in American colleges have
been recalled and apportioned to the civil
service of their own country. The Chi
nese authorities seem to be satisfied with
the experiment of sending their young
men abroad to learn the languages and
arts of the white races, for the system
will soon be amplifed, and another DELE
cation of students dispatched to the uni
versities and factories of this county and
Europe.
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Baked.

- There is health in sunshine-taken in
proper quantities-but our American
mothers would rather shrink from ad-
ministering it to their babies in such al
lopathic doses as the Hindoo women do.
A missionary in India visited house
one day where there was q newborn
baby which was about the color of pink
sea-shell. r. -
How pretty !" said the visitor, to
the mother.
Oh" was the reply, .eshe'll be
black like therest Of us after have put
her out in the sun for few days =
And sure enough, when the next call
was made, the poor baby was found bak-
ing in the hot Indian sun, stretched on
. bit Of board, with only piece Of cot
ton cloth under it's head for pillow,
Its body bad been first smeared with
mustard oil, according to the strange
fashion Of tnat land. The mothers are
much surprised. to learn that American
children are not treated in the same way.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-01-11
WHAT THE CENSUS SHOWS.

A recent number of the New York
Times contained very valuable census
tables. They indicate pretty clearly the
states and territories that are marching
onward with rapid pace, those that are
growing slowly, and those that are stand
ing still. The increase in population in
the last decade has been IL, ,597, ,412
which is equal to a gain of 80 per cent.
In some sections Of the country, how.
ever, the gain has been very small, while
in Others it has been very large. Ver-
mont shows the smallest increase. the
gain being only one-half of per cent,
while the territory of Dakota stands at
the head of the list, with a gain in popu-
lation Of 853 per cent.
The figures show that the eastern OF
New England states all fall below the
average increase in population. Maine
comes next to Vermont in her slow pro.
gress, with percentage of 81; New.
Hampshire follows, with gain of 9 per
cent, Connecticut 16, Massachusetts %,
and Rhode Island 81. The middle At
lantic states do not present much more
favorable showing, all, with the excep-
tion of West Virginia, being under the
average. New York, strange to say,
stands at the bottom of the list, with q
gain of only 16 per cent. in 10 years,
Delaware comes next, with II per cent. :,
Maryland 20, Pennsylvania %, Virginia
%, New Jersey rs. West Virginia is
above the average, having an increase Of
40 per cent, and the District of Colum-
bia shows the respectable gain Of IS per
cent. The central states, with the excep-
ton of Minnesota, cannot claim any un-
usual advance in population. as the in.
crease in two-thirds of their number falls
below the average. Indiana's gain is
only IS per cent, Ohio's reaches only
20, Illinois 2l, Kentucky 25, Wisconsin
Is, Missouri 26. Iowa runs above the
average, her increase being So per cent. !;
Michigan is slightly better, with q gain
Of 38 per cent, ana Mimi nesota stands st
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-01-11
The Fire Eiend.

The large sugar refinery of H. A. Havemeyer,
at Brooklyn. was entirely destroyed by fire on
the 9th inst. The loss on the building and
machinery will reach $1,5O0,O 900. One hundred
will be temporarily thrown out of employment.
Other fires, At St. Louis, Watkins Il Coz hat
store 5000, 600; at New York, several dry goods
houses, $685. 900; at Shelton, Conn.,. Radclffe's
woolen mills; at Baltimore, Nd, the Westmin-
ster Presbyterian church, 500, 900; at Savannah,
Ga., Lathrop & 20. g cotton warehouse, $50, 900;
at Sackville, N. B., the Mount Allison Academy,
$28,OOO.
Fire in the woolen mills Of F. Schofeld, at
Manayunk, Pa, ON the 9Th inst, destroyed
property to the amount of $4,000. -
Whitaker & Sons pork house burned at st.
Louis, on the 9Th inst. Loss $50, 900; insured
for $4,000.
The furniture store Of John A. Baldwin, at
Williamsburg, N. Y, burned, on the 9Th inst.
Loss $75, 900; insured for $35, 1000.
The Texas Pacific Railroad lost their depot
and Offices at Marshall, Texas, by fire on the Sd
inst. Loss $4,000.
=, An entire square Of buildings at Greenvil]e,
Texas, was converted into mass of smoking
ruins on the I'd inst. Loss $4,000.
A number of stores and dwellings,, together
With fourteen horses, burned at Batesville, Ark,
on the Sd inst.
New Years blazes: Eight firms suffered by
fire at st. Paul, Minn., the loss amounting to
$4,000. The Waternall building ut Philadel-
phia, Pa, was damaged to the extent of $685.
900. Hendricks livery stable, with twenty -four
horses and accompanying outfit, was swept
away at Worcester, Mass. A lighter and 391
tons Of cotton at Jersey City wharf vanished
in smoke.
Hadfeld & Ducker's cracker bakery at Brook
lyn, was destroyed by fire on the I'd inst. Loss
$75,0OO.
John A. Lords eteam tannery, at Peabody,
Mass, valued at 1926, 900, was burned on the lst
inst.
The steamer Rosa B., laden with 1900 bales
of cotton. burned at Boyou Barbone, on the
Mississippi, on the I'd inst. The steward
drowned.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-01-11
Fatal ExDlOsi0ns.

At Oskaloosa, H., on the 9th inst, three boys
caused IN explosion of five hundred kegs Of
powder, by firing at the wooden magazine con-
were instantly killed, and nearly all the the
plate glass fronts in the business part OF the
city we're blown out. Many persons were in
jured by falling glass. The damage will reach
$40, 900. The names Of the victims are John
Phillips, Gerald Joyce and John Sledman.
A boiler in a saw mill at Winamac, Ind, ex-
ploded or the I'd inst, killing John Helm, and
fatally injuring Daniel Duit; third man was
badly hurt
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-01-11
Fearful SfalnDe6e.

frightful stampede occurred in the Salem
Church at Quincy, ILL.,, on the afternoon of the
5th inst. by which forty persons were injured.
several. it is thought, fatally. The funeral
services of a minister we're being held, aud the
was backed to H s IN the cs. a:
lery broke down, which was the immediate
cause of the panic. Men, women and children
rushed for the doors, and many were thrown
down and tramp!ed under foot.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-01-11
Minor MiRhapS.

Andrew Gunderson, aged II. and Fred.
Meters, aged 81, residing at Isabella, Pierce
Perrin on the 4th inst, and were drowned.
Edward F. Ryan, Michael Ryan ard Richard
Adkins, employed on the Paradise, Co.., tun-
mel, were buried one hundred feet deep by
snow-slide, on the 31st ult.
By collision between freight train and
street car, at Indianapolis Ind, on the I'd inst,
Sister of Mercy was killed and another person
seriously injured
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-01-11
POSTAL AFFAIRS,

The vigorous war inaugurated against
crooked contractors for star route mail
delivery by ex-Postmaster General
James, during the few months of his in
cumbency, and the subsequent action in
the matter by Attorney General Brews-
ter, has drawn the attention of the peo-
pie to that department of the govern
ment. In reviewing the postmaster gen.
erals report, the Pail Mall Gazette draws
a comparison between postal affai1s in
Great Britain and the United States.
It says: Enormous as the business
of the United States is, and large as is
the postofice revenue, this department
Of the federal government does not pay
its way. For the last fiscal year the gross
revenue was 97 1857 1000 and the expendi-
ture e7,850,00O; so that the deficiency
was nearly e500,00O. To that extent the
United States postoAice is a burden
upon the general taxation. With rev.
enue of about the same amount the
English postofice department gives net
profit to the nation of nearly 93, 600, 900
per annum. It would be quite that bnt
for the heavy cost Of the Indian and
China mail services, which are over-sub-
sidized. This is, moreover, exclusive of
the telegraph revenue, which is now
sufficient to pay the interest npon the
capital expended in the purchase and
extension of our inland telegraph sys-
tenn $50 great contrast naturally sug-
gests inquiries as to the cause. They
lie in manner on the surface, and are
clearly expounded by Mr.. James, the
United States postmaster-general, in his
report. The deficits are chiefly the re-
suit OF frauds upon the department.. In
the early days of the postohce, and down
to 1851, the federal government followed
the wise plan of making the department
self-supporting, but since that date it
has been the victim of organized gangs
of robbers, who by "lobbying" and
other disgraceful practices got congress
to pass extravagant mail contracts, prin-
cipally for routes through the unknown
and unpeopled wilds of the west. To
such an extent had these frauds gone by
1861 that the postofice deficit in that
year reached 92, l30, 900 pounds, and al.
though the west has been opened up by
railways since then to an extent that has
replaced the old star" routes-or
routes through regions so unknown that
the mail drivers had only the stars to
guide them in their ceurse-the mischief
still continues" The Gazette then saws
the Investigation into the alleged frauds
should be continued, and all unnecessary
expenditure cut off so that the depart
ment may be self. sustaining.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-01-11
Down to Death

An appalling calamity occurred at Shanes-
vile, O., on New Years eve. The Knights of
Pythias were holding festival when the floor
gave way, prccipitating about 800 to the first
floor. The hot stove fell with the crowd and
the oil from broken chandeliers saturating the
clothing of the unfortunate victims, the Whole
mass Of humanity was soon enveloped in
flames. The widest excitement and confus ION
prevailed and the scene which followed is de-
sc'ibed as beggaring description. The first
reduce the number to
number terribly injured.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-01-11
FORTY-SEvENTH CONGRESS.
Senate,

THURSDAY, January 5.-Bills introduced: To
promote the efficiency of the navy; to increase
the efficiency Of the signal service Of the army;
to provide for the disposition of portion of
Many petitions were presented, of which large
number prayed for the exercise of government
control over rail transportation charges.
Adjourned.
FRIDAY, January 6.-Bllls introduced: To fix
the terms of office of collectors of internal
revenue; amendatory of the pension laws; ap-
propriating money for the selection of site
Minneapolis, Minn The resolution of De
cember 18th offered by Davis (W. Va. }, relating
topension frauds, calling for statements of their
nature and character, what amount of arrears
had been paid, the number of cases added to
the pension roll under the ''Arrears Act" the
number of applications Hereunder, the esti-
mated annual expenditures required the esti-
mated total cost of arrearages paid and to be
paid, and the total regular pension roll after
arrearages had been determined, came up and
was debated by Davis, Edmunds and Hill. 90.
Sherman attempted to call up his 8 per cent.
bond bill but Beck objected. The amendment
of Mcpherson makes the bonds redeemable after
January i, 1891, instead OF payable after Janu-
ary I, 1887, and extends the time of payment to
thirty years from date Of issue. Plumb gave
notice of an amendment directing the use of
all funds now held in the treasury for redemp-
uOn OF United States notes IN excess OF $lOU,-
00O, 900 for the redemption of 315 per cent.
The amendments we're ordered inserted and the
bill reprnsee ft:,s aa executive session the
senate adjourned till Monday.
House.
THURSDAY, January 5.-Orth announced his
resignation from the committee on rules, pro-
tested against the present method of appoint
ing committees and stated that at some future
time he would introduce for consideration
proposition to change the method of eecting
committees. Orth's request was granted. It
caused quite futtcr among disappointed
members. Springer stated that he was about
to make a suggestion in regard to the appoint
ment of committees, but would not do 50 at
present The apeaker said he did not under
stand that it was necessary for him to vindi-
cate himself by saying anything in reply. 1t
must not, however, be inferred because the
Chair does not undertake to challenge the
statements charging him with injustice. that
the chair acquiesces in the views taken by the
gentleman from Indiana (Orth). The Speaker
stated Hewitt had requested to be relieved from
service on the committee on public buildings
and grounds as his private business relations
were such as might make it impossible for him
to serve. The request was granted. A resolu-
ton was adopted thanking the khedive of
Egypt for the obelisk brought over by Com
mander Gorringe. Adjourned till Monday.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-01-11
TraXical Tales

For some time past band of mara7ders has
invaded the town of Corning. Ark. On the 7th
inst. .,one Of their number reeanted and was killed
for his treachery. A posse Of citizens attempt
ed to arrest the crowd and in the melee three
Of the outlaws were killed.
Robert Perkins, J.Dykes and Simon Mericle
were killed and several others wounded in .
melee at Westport, La, recently.
DR.. E. A Adams, of the Michigan asylum for
the insane, was fatally stabbed by patient on
the 9Th inst, while making his daily round
through the wards. ~
A dispute over horse race in the village Of
Westport, La, recently, resulted in three Of
tho disputants being killed and three wounded.
The killed were: Robert Perkins, James Dykes
and Samuel Mericle. -.,+re
Fifteen men, six women and four children
have been murdered by indians in the districts
of Moele, PUN. Sahmpa and Arizhe, Mexico.
Renegade Apaches murdered four men and
carried of girl near Campo Sonora. Cow
boys are raiding cattle ranches in the neighbor-
hood uf Tombstone.
John Morgan Shaw was shot and killed BY
his brother Morgan, near LouiGsna, NO., on
New Years day. In May, 1880, John Morgan
killed his brother Perrin, and this second
tragedy is the result Of the first.
Ed. Graham, Texas COW. .bQg, shot and dan
gerously wounded Charles King, an employe Of
rancho at Red Canon, Dakota, ON the I'd inst.
While boy Was absent in search OF surgeon,
Graham finished his victim with another bullet.
a party Of eleven Cinnamon, Ct work on the
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-01-11
Deadly Dynamite.

While some workmen were thawing out .
can of dynamite by immersing it in kettle of
swede named Quilberg and seriously ,njuring
Charles and s. NJ. Nelson.
On the 3lst ult., King Smith, boss Of gang
of railroad constructionists, near Wampum, Pa,
foolishly placed quantity of dynamite in an
old powder kes near stove in order to dry it.
At noon, and while the men were gathered
substance exploded, fatally injuring Wilford
Cunningham, and seriously wounding seven
others.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-01-11
Explosion i'm n Mine.

On the 7th inst, while over two hundred men
were at work in a mine near Lonsford, Pa, q
fall of coal broke lamp in miners hand, and
Immediately fearful explosion occurred,
caused by the ignition of the accumulation of
gas in tue works. sixteen meu we've injured,
three fatally. A portion of the mine caved in,
and the gangways and chutes were considerably
wrecked.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-01-11
he, Nar1Onss Finances.

The public debt statement makes the follow
ing exhibit: During December, 1881, the debt
decreased S12, ,793, ,62S; cash in the treasury,
S253, $50; gold certificates, $5 1888, 100; sill
poslt outstanding, $50, 590, 900; refundin5 certi6
Gates, $575,25o; legal tenders outstanding,
$346, ,68l ,0l3; fractional currency, $7,075,926
decrease since June 80, 1881, S75, 10Y, ,094.