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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-15
DANGEROUS LUNATICs,

DR.. Hammond in an address before
the Medico-Legal Society Of New York,
on Reasoning Mania, cited numerous
cases in which insane persons who have
been cofnned for violence and have
afterwards been released have repeated
the violent acts for which they were de-
prived of liberty. The New York Mail
and Express in commenting on the ad-
dress says: There is no certainty that
lunatics who have ever shown themselves
dangerous will ever permanently recover
from their malady, and prudence re-
quires that they be kept in confinement
for life. They need not he punished
like convicts, but they can be held under
restraint while surrounded by the COM
forts of life and permitted to engage in
the activities for which they are best
suited. Agreeable employment should
be provided for them as far as possible,
but they should be kept in careful con-
fnement during life. DR.. Hammond
believes that Guiteau is I" the subject of
reasoning MANIA" but that his form of
mental arrangement does not destroy
his responsibility. If there is q kind of
lunacy which does not destroy clear
knowledge of what constitutes crime,
the executioner may be appointed to rid
the world Of its subjects when they
destroy human life, but for dangerous
lunatics who are irresponsible for their
acts there should be some provision not
heretofore made. A law for their con-
finement for life should be enacted in
every state.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-15
GREEK ELECTIONS.

The subject of elections is always an
interesting one to Americans, and plans
furthering the freedom and purity of the
ballot find ready advocates. Greece has
q method that is favorably commented
on by a London newspaper correspond
ent at Zante: He went to Zante pre-
pared to find grave disorder common
since the place had been known to him
by reputation as the most turbulent dis
trict in all Greece. What was his sur
prise therefore, to find 'sthe most COM
plete tranquility" throughout the whole
day, without confusion or dispute, and
only the noise of young boys racing and
cheering through the streets. The vot-
ing was done in q church that being
the rule in Greece, though sometimes q
school-house is used-and no one was
allowed within the building except the
officials and voters, the voters entering
by one door and passing out by another,
sentinels being placed at each. The
voting is done literally by ballots and
bal]ot-boxes, as it was in ancient Athens.
Each box is marked with the candidates
name, and behind it, or in front, stands
the candidates personal representative,
who presents the voter with the ball he
casts, but is not allowed to do more than
call out the candidates name. Persua-
Gion of any kind is forbidden. The
boxes are 80 constructed that the voter
passes his hand into tube from which,
by throwing the ball to the right or left,
he votes yes or no, without the specta-
tor being aware which direction the ball
has taken. He may cast his ballot for
all the candidates if he likes; in which
case, if be vote yes, the vote is practio-
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-15
Babies Names.
[From the Cornhill Magazine!

lFTOm COrunuu M86dZ10esl
Twin girls were lately registered Pea1l
and Ruby, at Vantage, and others near
Cranleigh, Sussex, Lily and Rose. In
1878 laborer at Robertsbridge, pre-
sented with three daughters at q birth,
called them Faith, Hope and Charity;
and farm laborer near Bridport, re-
Gently gave the names Faith and Hope
to twin sons. But sometimes dual births
render parents positively cruel in their
choice of appellations. We have known
the names HUI and Buz applied to twin
boys. Peter tho Great Wright and Will
liam the Conqueror Wright figure in
registration as twins. Another fancy
created by two-fold births is that of fur
nishing the children with identicalnames
transposed. Two sons of gardener at
Chard were few months since endowed
respectively with the names James Reg
inald and Reginald James,; and at k
worth, Suffolk, we noticed not many
years ago the decease of Horace Hora-
ito, whose brother, Horatio Horace at
tested the death entry. Some babies
have been named Enough, in indication,
as it would seem, of numerous prede-
cessors; and on the other hand if found
Welcome, which appears to denote sat-
isfaction at q novel kind of blessing.
/ Una, Unit and Unity point, it may be
suppose, to first arrivals; Three and
Number Seven express different degrees
of advance in family multitude; Last and
Omega suggest resolute protest against
further increase; while Also hints at the
grudging acceptance of an unwelcome
addition, and seems to need after it q
note Of (melancholy) exclamation.
Posthumous is an unmistakable nominal
memorandum of painful fact.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-15
An Old Claim Revived.

The heirs of Nicholas and Marc An
tome Fonquet, who came to America
with Lafayette during the revolutionary
struggles, are only now appearing be-
fore congress as claimants for money due
their ancestors. They we're expert
makers of gunpowder, and passed cou-
pie of years in the continental service,
commissioned as artillery officers, and
specially charged with promotion of the
knowled ge of their art as manufacturers
of powder The value of their service
was admitted, and the continental con-
gress at the close of the war, allowed
them $34,559. The elder Fonquet re-
turned to France and mysteriously dis
peared. The younger married in
America, but, owing to the absence of
the father, the allotted compensation
could not be drawn. The grandchildren
of the younger Fonquet, who died in
1912, now claim the amount due. The
papers relating to their claim came into
their possession but recently, and upon
their face are so convincing that the
house committee on claims has reported
recommending that the heirs have leave
to 10 to tho court of claims, there fully
to establish their right. If they can col
lect interest for hundred years, they
will have pretty fortune.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-15

ally thrown away. If, by any means, a
man should vote twice-but this is not
easy, since the ballots are not given out
by the officer until the moment of voting
the extra vote will be found and thrown
out at the counting, a careful system of
registration providing for this very con-
tingency. When votes are counted, the
process which takes place within the
church is witnessed and attested by rep
resentatives of all the candidates, and
the result is heralded by crier at the
church door. Nominations are made in
Greece after the simplest and most DEM
ocratic manner. Any one may run for
an Office, and has the right to place q
ballot'box in the voting-plaoe, provided
he has been proposed by sufficient
number of friends and has paid fee of
2OOf. The elections, however, are COL
lective after manner which permits
combinations among the various candi-
dates equal to the number of Offices to
be filed, SO that the issue is usually
confined to narrow limits. Men do not
necessarily vote in the election districts
iu'which they live. They vote in the
district to which their names, by an
alphabetical arrangement, assign them.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-15
The Fire Record.

. AAo = A10 1A0VUkue
The Vance aaouring-mills at Venice, Ill.,, val
ued at $90, 600, were swept away by fire on the
11th inst.
Parker l. Hoefers foundry and 800 bales of
cotton belonging to Gary Il Sons, burned on
the 18th inst, at Meriden, Miss. Loss "a, 900.
A fro at Mil!bury, Mass, at 2 o'clock on the
morning Of the 11th inst, burned Aikens
block, the Masonic block, the Minbury cotton
mills, and boarding g-house. Loss $40, 900; in
Goodrich l. Co.'S carriage factory: at New
Haven, Conn.,, was consumed by fire on the
10th inst. Loss &c., 900; insurance $4,000.
Nine business houses on the east side Of the
public square at Decatur, Texas, were swept
away by fire, on the 10th inst. Loss heavy.
at st Louis, No., burned on the 9Th inst. Loss
A number of business firms and the post
Office were cleaned out by fire at.Natick, Mass,
on the 9th inst. Loss $16O,0O0. :
The fine residence Of J. B. Powers, at st..
Pau, Mimi, valued at 830, coo was consumed
by fire on the sth inst. The family had mar
Canton, D. T., was visited by = serious con-
flagration on the 9th inst, which partially de-
sGoyed the Union Block and caused . loss Of
. A oondagration At jackson, Tenn, on the 9Th
inst, swept away property. vailed 1t @5O, 900.
The fire is claimed to have been the work of a
band OF incendiaries and the citizens are organ
ling to prevent further operations by the van
1ais. = 3 b sta@.1t! :, II .,aH 1 =
- Connorsville. Ind; suffered great loss in
the burning Of the Cooley Morrison furniture
works ON the 7th inst. Loss $60, 900.
T. Jehrees b Co.'S. cabinet house at Mime
apolis, Mimi, was cleaned out by fire on, the
7th inst. Loss shout 436, ,O0O.. ssz,.S..-z.
An entire block Of buildings were swept away
by . conhagration at Ober1in, O., on the 7th
inst. Loss about 45O, ,OOO... -, : :szE.~s
=. Prince Frederick, the county seat Of Calvert
County, Nd, was almost destroyed by fire on
the 9Th inst. Loss e60, 900,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-15
MOftuafY.

Jonathan Holmes Cobb, the well-known law
yer, who in 1920 made successful experiments
in the manufacture Of silk by the cultivation of
mulberry orchards in Massachusetts and Vir-
ginia, died on the 10Th inst, at Boston, Mass.
aged SO years.
John J. Dwyer, well-kpown pugilist, died at
the Brooklyn hospital on the 10th inst.
Jeremiah Godfrey, prominent citizen and
politician Of Detroit, Mich. died on the 9th
inst, after lingering illness.
London dispatches announce the demise of
Rev. Thomas Jarret, the linguist, and John
Muir, the writer on oriental topics.
Henry c: Pindell, prominent lawyer Of
Louisville. KY, died on the 9th inst. aged 50
years.
VIM. H. L. Gruner, celebrated German
engineer, is dead.
Hon. Albert B. Hatch. prominent lawyer
and democratic politician Of New Hampshire,
died at Portsmouth on the 9Th inst, where for
quarter century he was clerk of the federal
courts.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-15
DeadlV ExnlOsivea.

While workmen were engaged in tunnel on
the Canada Pacific Railroad, in British Colum.
bla, eight cases of giant powder and fourteen
kegs of gunpowder exploded, killing Hugh
Craig and wounding Thomas Williams, John
Lawson and James Durgan.
When the steamer Sidney was near Ravens.
wood, on the Ohio River, on the 10th inst, he1
steam--pipe burst, killing two persons and
wounding fifteen.
The powder storehouses at Acton, Mass, ex-
ploded on the 7th inst, causing a heavy 10 IS,
One employe was blown into the canal.
An explosion of giant powder at the packing
house Of the Lake Superior Powder Company,
located at Dead River, three miles north OF
Marquette, Mich, on the 9Th inst, resulted in
ths, the total % demolition OF the building and the
shock was plainly felt at 1shpeming, twenty
miles away. The bodies Of the victims were
torn to atoms and scattered broadcast. The
fragments were collected in pals and inferred.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-15

A California bear seems to be 80
much Of a gentleman as to quietly de-
part from q house when lady told him
that his room was better than his COM
pany. The Wood River Times tells the
story as follows: -"
About 10 o'clock in the evening a
lady, living in Wood River, California,
was followed home by what she took to
be large Newfoundland dog. Arriving
home, she paused at the door to open ii,
but it was some time before she succeed
ed. During this delay the animal got
quite close to her, and as he seemed
harmless the lady called him in. @+' ri
Her surprise may be imagined when,
on striking light, she saw q huge,
black faced bear looking at her, showing
his teeth, as if grinning at her mistake.
More dead than alive, the lady opened
the door, and, gathering her skirts as
women sometimes do, began shooing''
Z. Bruin, as if appreciating the gravity
Of the situBtion, hurried out, whereupon
the lady fell into chair, and did not re.
cover her presence of mind for at least
fifteen minutes, when she ran to q neigh
boris and told Of her adventure: Gs@s:
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-15
DRINKING WATER

Western pioneers who are laying out
the towns that are to be the nucle,lses of
the future cities of that growing section
should profit by the experience of their
predecessors in city building In what was
then the backwoods, but now the center
Of the thickly populated east. All great
cities find the drinking water question
one of paramount Importance, as it is so
closely allied to vital sanitary measures
that by some it is considered the desid-
eratum of all others. The British
Medical Journal says: America is suffer-
ing in very marked degree from the
pollution of drinking water, which is so
apt to be the Nemesis of the accumula-
ton of great city populations, unless
primary regard be paid to scientific san
itation, and especially to the supply of
pure drinking water, as well as the
preservation of purity in the soil and
air. - The drinking water of the great
cities Of America appears to be in some
instances little better than sewage water,
and in numerous cases the pollution of
potable water in great cities is such as to
cause, at the present moment, consider
able disgust on the part Of city resi-
dents, and to call for government inter-
ventien, which is unfortunately slow,
and not always satisfactory in its action.
From comparative results which have
been published by DR.. A. R. Leeds in
the Chemical News, it would appear
that the water at Newark, Jersey City
and Hoboken had become suddenly no.
ticeable for the highly marked favor of
carboic acid, indicating that the pollu-
ton of that particular water supply was
at that moment of an especially chemi-
cal nature. When the board was made
aware of the nuisance it was ingeniously
urged that water was all the better for
being polluted with carbolic acid, mas
much as it served to disinfect the other
kinds of filth which got into the drink
ing water. The plea, however ingen-
ious, was not held to be good in law, and
80 for the moment the inhabitants of
Newark, Jersey City and Hoboken have
to drink their potable water without the
preliminary disinfection, which made it
more unplea SAINT to the taste, if less
noxious to health. Boston is suffering
from what is described as striking and
interesting scientific pecuharity. Its
drinking water shows albumenoid am
monia to the extent Of 0.0605, a state
ment which analytical chemists and
medical officers of health will read with
grim surprise. Philadelphia and New
York also, it appears, receive their water
from polluted sources. The feeders,
which empty themselves into Croton
Lake, the principal reservoir of the New
York water, pass through settled coun-
try, with numerous tanneries, factories,
etc., along their banks. Wilmington,
Del,, also ranks among the towns sup
Piled with polluted water. Under these
circumstances, it is satisfactory that an
energetic effort is promised to maintain
the public interests and to protect the
public health by improving the sources
of water supply, and guarding them
against contamination.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-15
Railway Wrecks.


An accommodation train ran down an en-
bankment near Hastings, COL, on the 11th
inst.Joe Hickey and brakeman named Ford
we're killed. Four others received slight in
juries.
A locomotive on Pan Handle passenger
train broke through bridge and fell into
stream near Xenia, O., on the l1th inst. The
air-brakes saved the cars from like fate. No
one was injured.
A freight train of four cars and wild engine
tried to pass each other on the same rails near
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on the 10th. Result. both
engines reduced to scrap iron and piled up
alongside the track. Fortunately the engineers
and fremen Of both engines escaped death by
jumping. Engineer Mercer of the wild engine
had some of his ribs broken, and his fireman
was badly cut and bruised abont the limbs.
Several others received severe shaking up.
The smash up occurred on the Chicago, Mil
waukee and St. Paul line.
A passenger train jumped the track at Cliff
ton Narrows, West Va, on the 18th inst, kill
ing the engineer, Thomas Smith, and fatally
injuring the fireman. The train had just
rounded curve when it ran into boulder,
throwing the engine and baggage car into the
Kanawha River ".
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-15
Tho Old Eddvatone. iohthouse

Citizens of Plymouth are at present
much interested in the impending de-
struction Of the old Eddystone Light
house, the structure built by Smeaton,
which has been replaced BY d new one,
the need for this not being the decay of
Smeatop's work, but the dissolution Of
the rock through the action of the
stormy sea. The Plymouth citizens de-
sire that the. old house shall be re-erect-
ed on the main land after it has been
taken down, but the Trinity Board say
they can not furnish the necessary
funds Hence has been proposed .
meeting to form q company to defray
the expense Of the dertaking, member-
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-15
A Man with Glass Legs.

A French paper mentions as an extra
ordinary instance of hallucination that
one Of the members of the executive
council of the Bank of Brussels was
many years ago seized with the convic-
ton that his legs were of glass, and
positively. refused to move. A financial
crisis. came, involving to some extent the
bank. s,Mr. B. got up and went to
Brussels. where, by his energy and skill,
he largely assisted in getting matters
straight.5 At the end Of 9 month he re-
turned home, remarked how marvellous
it was that he had not smashed one of
his legs, and, taking to his bed once
more, he never left it. - .t=
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-15
Fail OF n Meteor.

An immense meteorite fell about fifty miles
southeast of Fort Assinaboine, Arizona, on the
night of the 10th inst, its glare lighting the
country for many miles around. -Four minutes
after striking the earth the report was heard in
Assinaboine, sounding like tho discharge of
heavy gun, and the earth was perceptibly
shaken. The shock was also felt at Fort Ben
ton and the coal banks, nearly one hundred
miles south. The meteorite has not yet been
found.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-15
Tra4ical Tales.

At dance at the house Of John Mooney, in
Indian Territory, on the night Of the 10th inst,
two young men named Montgomery and
Horton got into quarrel, which ended in both
drawing pistols and shooting several times at
each other. Montgomery was killed outright
and Horton mortally wounded.
Two laborers named Monahan and MacAvoy
quarreled at Steubenville, O., on the 11th inst.
The latter was fatally stabbed.
At Lnkyille, Oregon, on the night Of the 18th
inst, mob Of masked men attempted to take
murderer named H. c. Lewis from the Jail.
Lewis fired on the mob, who responded with a
volley, which killed the deputy sheriff and
wounded Justice Wright. The would-be
lynchers then retired.
A terrible tragedy was enacted at a school
house at Harrisburg, Pernsett County, Ark, on
the 7th inst. County Treasurer. J..J. Smith re-
monstrated with the teacher for whipping his
child. The conversation became heated and
finally led to Smiths striking E. J. Wi]mot, the
teacher. on the head with a billet of wood,
crushing his skull. The injured man died in
three hours. -
In drunken quarrel at New Orleans on the
night Of the 9TH inst, Richard Shea was stabbed
to- death by James Cosgrove:
An aged couple named O'Massey, living near
Charlottesville, Va, were found murdered on
the morning Of the 9Th inst, in their house.
Money was the object.
mob took Charles Shelton, John Redmond
and Harry French from the jail at Los Lunas,
CAL, on the 9Th inst, and hung them to tree.
A courtesan named Mary Sigman and her
mother were assassinated at Mount Vernon,
Ky., on the 9Th inst.
/. A remarkable story comes from the City of
Mexico. The report is that highwaymen at
tackled stage full of armed men and that
eleven of the outlaws were killed.
It is reported that nine Europeans Journey
ing from Tunis to Gafsa were murdered be-
tween Tunis and Kairwan.
Advices from New Mexico are to the effect
that Deputy Sheriff Miers and Martinez with
posse were attacked by Pueblo Indians while
attempting to arrest some of the Pueblos who
bad escaped from jail: Miers was killed and
Martinez mortally wounded.
shocking tragedy took place at Boston,
Mass, on the 7th inst. Mrs. Harriet Bell while
returning from grocery store near her home
was accosted by an unknown man who followed
her to the doorstep of her home and then cut
her throat. She lived but short time. The
assassin escaped.
brace Of cattle thieves named Arnold
Howard and Frank Young, in Jail at Del Noter,
COL, were visited by mob on the 7th inst.
Howard was killed outright and Young NOR
tally wounded.
An affray with pistols took place at Arkansas
City, on the 9Th inst, in which j. W. Hale was
killed by John Fuller.
Three negroes-Lewis Smith and Aaron and
Ed. Clark-were killed in an affray at Arkadel-
phia, Ark, on the 9Th inst. The shooting was
done by Joe Ross and Thad. Henry, both white.
Tax Collector Robert Taylor was shot dead
by DR.. Sims at Perryville, Perry County, Ark,
on the 4th inst.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-15
a RuinOpns nelmve.

The overflow of land caused by the breaking
Of levees along the Mississippi is causing deplor-
tiers. A steamer which arrived at New
Orleans on the 10th inst, from Red River, re-
ported that below Alexandra $50 families were
living on rafts, and in sadly destitute con-
dition. The Bayou Sara levee was crumbling
away rapidly aud letting the water over large
tract of country, including the richest sugar dis
trict in Louisiana. dispatch to Gov. Cullom,
Of illinois, from Cairo, stated that about 200
families, including in the neighborhood of q
thousand people, mostly colored, living in the
flooded districts Of Alexander County, Illinois.
have lost their property and are without
present means of livelihood. Government
rations are being served out to the sufferers all
along the line.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-15
RiOtOus Strikers.

militia amounting to FIVE hundred men we're on
duty at Omaha, guarding one hundred railway
laborers. The presidents of two labor associa-
tons have been held to bail for assault with in
tent to murder. The Willow Springs distilIery,
with So, ,000, 900 worth of goods in bond, was
also protected by bayonets.