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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-02-08
Railway Wrecks.

Near Hanging Rock, o., on the 31st ult., two
men were killed and five others dangerously
injured, by collision between two freight
trains. The accident was the result of careless
ness. Names of the killed. Ed. Locket and
Thomas Kennedy, both of Chillicothe, o.
Tuesday morning, near Fort Steel, W. T., g
paymaster's special train ran into the rear of
freight train, killing brakeman pamed Seeley
aud wounded two others.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-02-08
Disastrous Floods.

Floods have caused great damage along tie
banks of the Warrior, Bigbee and Tombigbee
Rivers, in Central Alabama. Farmers have
suffered severely through the loss of stock and
crops. Several lost from 100 to $50 head OF
sheep each and one farmer mourns the loss OF
a number Of valuable cashmere goats. -Four
or five negroes were drowned. 1t is estimated
that the Alabama and Great Southern Railroad
is damaged to the extent of $130,000.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-02-08
The Public Debt.

The debt statement shows the reduction of
the debt during January to be s12,978, 1886.
Cash in the treasury, 6,o25, 1853; gold certii-
Gates outstanding SIS, 1888, 100; silver certificates
$685. $685. 670; certificates Of deposit, $11, 100000;
refunding certificates, 1859, 100; legal tenders,
$346, ,681, ,016; fractional currency, $7,069, 493;
cash balance available, $143, 901. 1868.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-02-08
A Sneclx nf War.

Last November number of drunken sol
diers in Guatemala, Central America, assaulted
the secretary Of the French legation in that
country, and they were arrested. The supreme
1udcaal lounal S OF Inc country has acquitted
government has severed it's diplomatic relations
with Guatemala and dispatched war steamer
to demand an explanation.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-02-08
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Sellt0nCe6s

Oscar L. Baldwin, the cashier of the wrecked
Mechanics National Bank, of Newark, N. J..
was sentenced to fifteen years in the states
prison, on the 31st ult.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-02-08
The Fire Record.

The Jefferson schOOl-house located on Virginia
Avenue, in Washington, valued $135, 900, and
which accommodated sixteen hundred pupils,
was burned on the 4th inst.
lamp explosion in the oil town of Four Mile
N. Y, caused the burning Of three hotels ana
other property valued at 100000.
The glass works at Brilliant, O., employing
over one hundred men, were swept away by
fire, causing a loss of $50, 600.
The ancient Catholic Church at Rappersweil,
Switzerland, containing many precious relics,
burned on the 4th inst.
A cotton warehouse on Greenwich Street, n
Y, was damaged to the extent of $4,000 by
fire ON tho 4th inst.
Brock & Co.'s barrel factory and adjoining
property at Jersey City, burned on the 9Th inst.
Loss 100000.
The Commercial elevator at Buffalo, N. y,
valued at $155,000. and a quantity Of grain
worth $40, GOO were consumed by fire on the Sd
inst. The propeller Cuba, lying alongside the
elevator dock, was singed to the extent of
$4,000.
Jaynes Co IS barrel factory at Cambridge.
Mass, furnished food for flames on the Sd inst.
Loss $100, 1000, on which there is partial in
surance.
Kellogg's Hotel, Nashville, Tenn, was de-
stroyed by fire on the Sd inst. Thirty five
guests escaped in their night clothes, many OF
them jumping from the upper story windows
loss of $4,000 was occasioned at For.
Leavenworth, Kansas. on the I'd inst, by fire.
| Several soldiers were injured.
I A coal dock, furniture warehouse, and SOC, ,0O(
| feet Of seasoned lumber were consumed by fire
| at Toronto, Canada, on the I'd inst. Loss
| 100000.
Two hotels and one other building were de-
stroyed by fire at Oxford, Iowa, on the 1st inst
Three -four mills at Lockport, N. Y, were
burned on the morning of the 1st inst. Assist
ant engineer of the fire department., George
| Wood, was killed, and several other persons
| were injured. Loss about 100000.
A loss of 100000 was caused by fire il
Lange b Sons piano key factory, New York
on the list inst.
Atlanta, Ga, had a 800, 900 confagration o,
the night of the 30th ult., in its business sec
ton.
New York was the scene of serious confla
grafton on the morning of the 31st ult., in tht
very heart of the city. The block in which th'
Daily Times has its Office was in great part de
stroyed, though the Times Office itself wa
saved. Many stores and Offices of variou
kinds were wrecked, and several lives are re
ported lost. The money loss is estimated a
over million of dollars. Among the loser
are several weekly periodical papers. and
number of advertising agencies, which los
their offices. Among these unfortunates ar
/ The Scientific American, The New York Oh
server, The Turf, Field and Farm, Thompson
Bank Note Reporter and The Scottish America
Journal. ,st.- IS :-;55g
); The Harrison creamery and the extensiv
lce-house connected with it, was destroyed b
fire, at Quincy, H., on the s0th ult. Lof
about $30 900. ,~ -21 - #e5-s~ =
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-02-08
Snow.

The heaviest snow storm of the season was
experienced throughout the eastern states on
the 4th inst. At New York all the surface lines
of transportation are seriously embarrassed.
The ferry boats we're greatly impeded by float
ing ice all day, and the severity of the storm
delayed the departure of ocean steamers for
several hours. At Washington, D. c., the
feecy substance accumulated to the depth of
fourteen inches on the level, and at Petersburg,
Va, a perfect blocade existed.
New York and New England had the heaviest
snow-storm of the season on the LIST inst, and
last night. The snow is from q foot to eighteen
inches deep, and some of the railroads are suf-
fering from snow obstruction.
A heavy snow storm was experienced on the
30th and 31st, in Washington, Maryland, Vir-
ginia and Kentucky. The snow is half foot
deep in Virginia. Snow is also reported in
other portions of the south.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-02-08
The Panic i'm EurOue.

The financial panic in France continues, the
Union Generate Bank having stopped payment.
The banks of England and Belgium have raised
their rates Of discount, and more failures are
apancai Situation sit in Europe is anvtbng bu
assuring.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-02-08
Burned tn Death.

Mrs. Eliza MedIer, aged AZ, her daughter
Emma 1sadore, aged 9, and son Arthur, 6 years
| of age, lost their lives by the burning of theil
home near Walla Walla, W. T., on the night Of
| the list inst.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-02-08
Suicidal.

At Disco. Ill, on the 31st ult., Mrs. Miller
saturated her clothing with kerosene and
gned ns arss9 hsr Rody & to os Rsf0fe
kill her husband with an axe.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-02-08
A (xAle>

A gale of wind played sadhavoc with floating
property and wharfs at New Orleans, on the Sd
inst. Ten loaded and six empty coal barges
The damage is estimated at $50, 900.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-02-08
An Old Stagef.

The famous private bill for the relief of the
owners of the brig Armstrong, destroyed by
the British feet in the war of 1912, has again
been favorab)y acted upon by the house COM
mittee on foreign affairs. Daniel Webster once
made an eloquent speech in its favor. It has
been before congress ever since.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-02-08
A Deadly Torrent,

An immense reservoir of water at Calais,
France. burst on the 3Oth ult, the contents over
whe]ming a school house and two other build
ings. Only ten of the inmates escaped. Up to
the time the news was dispatched twenty seven
bodies had been recovered.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-02-08
ShiDWPeCks

The British steamer Cosmo, bound from
Sebastapol for Galveston, foundered in the
Back Sea. Ten corpses we're washed ashore.
The Swedish bark Hendricks was run into and
sunk, 100 miles north Of Cape Antoine, Gulf Of
Mexico, on the 4th inst, by the steamer E. B.
Ward, Jr. The second mate and five sailors OF
the bark were drowned.
News has been received that the ship Roxel-
lana was burned at sea and several lives lost.
Astrakhan was swept by frightful gale, re.
Gently, and it is feared that six hundred fisher
men perished.
The British ship Milton burned at sea Decenl,
ber 22d. The crew escaped in three boats
Twenty-three days after the disaster one of the
boats was picked up by the ship Cochin, anc
landed at San Francisco. The other two boats
with seventeen occupants are thought to bt
lost. - ....-' ~'':
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-02-08
NIOftuarys
MOrGuarys
Major Charles A. Webb, of the Sixteenth
United States Infantry, died at Fort McDavitt,

Major Charles A. Webb, of the Sixteenth
United States Infantry, died at Fort McDavitt,
Texas, on the LIST inst. .a.-..r,- -:
DR.. James johnson, an old and respected cit
izen of Milwaukee, and physician of wide
repute, died at his residence in that city early
on tie morning of the LIST inst. -: -.
Rev. DR.. Henry W. Bellows, the distinguished
New York Unitarian clergyman and philantnro-
pist, died in that city on the morning of the
2Sd ult., after few days illness. He was a
native of Massachusetts, and was in the 68th
year of his age. DIR. Bellows was the head of
the patriotic and very efficient soldiers relief
organization during the war of the rebellion,
known as the sanitary commission, in which he
did most excellent service. 81 fz@@tssis
Daniel W. Walter, the veteran actor, died at
New York on the 30th ult., after short ill
ness. f49 faZs} 70 FzEE&5. ~ M
Richard Brinsly Knowles, the only surviving
| son of the dramatist James Sheridan Knowles,
is dead. ss,: s.: FOE ;-es
IS. The death il announced Of Gen. Henikstein,
chief Of Gen. Benedeck's staff in the war of
1856, between Russia and Prussia.
Geo. Williamson, ex-minister to Central
America, died at Baton Rouge, La, on the 3Oth
ult. Ss: i.
Paymaster Chas. Bartlett, Of the u. s. navy,
died at Concord, Mass, on the 30th ult., Of
pneumonia.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-02-08
Tragical Tales.

!. Mrs. Adam Lonax was killed by VIM. Jacobs,
her brother-in-Iaw, at Troy, N. Y, on the 4th
inst. The murderer suicided.
Burglars who were being pursued by police
at Chicago early on the Sd inst, fatally shot
officer John Huebner. s. B 5s
Alph. Davenport, q respectable colored farm;
er, residing in Union Parish, La, was taken
from his home by mob of colored men on the
I'd inst, and beaten to death with clubs and
sticks. It is supposed the mob was led by one
Oliver Archie, with whom Davenport had
trouble,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-02-08
LYDIA &. PaNKHAM'S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND.
Is q Positive Cure


a0nnnE1nAnRE<Aza
or all !hosc E'ni,fnl Complaints nnd Weaknesses
s0eOn:MOn to our best female population.
IL will entirely tho worst form OF FeNiae Com
plants, all ovarian troubles, Inflammation and Ulcera
uon, Falling and EspacenIets, and tho consequent
Spinal Weakness aud is particularly adapted TO tho
Change OF life.
1t will dissolve and expel tnmors from the uterus in
ea']y stage Of development. Tho Tendency to can
crrous umors teroi checked very speedily y its
It faintncss latulcncy dcstroysnii craving
for sulants, md relieves weakness of The stomach.
1t cures Blonting Headaches, Nervous P:ostration,
General Debility, Seeplessness, Depression and Indi
gestion.
That feeling Of bearing down, causing pain vefg! !
and bacache Is always permanently cured y its
1t will at oil times and under a circumstances act in
harmony with the laws that the female system
For the cure Of Kidney Complaints OF either this
Compound 10 unsurpassed.
LYDIA l.. IINKNAM's VEGETABLE CGN-
POUNDS prepared at 23s and 235 Western Avenue.
Lynn Mass Prico 81. Six bottesfor s.. Sent by mail
in the form Of pills, also in the form of lczenScs
receipt of price, 81 per box for either Mrs Pinkhaa
freely all letters Of inquiry. Send for rampk
let. Address as above. Mention this Paper
No family should be without LYDIA Z. PINKHAM's
LIVER PILLS. They euro constitution, biliousness
aud torpidity OF the liver. 25 cents per box.
nV Sold by oil Druggists. Ga
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-02-08
Mino,r mi.hap, J,

Mi0Of mishapEs
Joseph Mahlolm, Of Cleveland, found hand
some powder horn on the: knob Of his hall
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-02-08
The Arctic Search.

Secretary Hunt has designated Lieut.. Giles
B. Harber and Master W. H. Scheutze, of the
navy, to assist Lieut. Danenhauer in,,his search
for Lieut.. Chipp and his crew, and they took
passage on the steamship Germania, New York,
ON the 4th inst, with the expectation of reach
ing Irkutsk, Siberia, about the middle of
March. Lieut.. Danenhauer, of the Jeanette,
is at 1rkutsk at present, Oh the sick list. One
of his eyes is ruined and the other affected.
Melville is prosecuting the search while DaneI-
hauer is disabl ed.
The search party found a record lost by De
Long, dated Saturday, October /, 1881. stating
that his men had two days provisions left, but
were hopeful. Three other records were subse-
quently picked up. They showed than Hans
Erickson, one of De Longs men, had died, and
that the entire party were in great distress for
want Of food. Noros and Nindemann we're
sent ahead for relief October 8. They marched
south fifteen days and were found in a starving
condition October "a by three natives, who took
them to settlement. They could not make
themselves understood. The aforementioned
news reached Danenhauer October 80, and i'm
mediate search was commenced, the De Long
party being traced to wilderness on the west
bank of the Lena. The natives refused further
work. and return to Bolonenga WAS necessary
to get Russian assistance. A large force is now
searching, having to dig out everything, as the
ground is deeply covered with snow. The viii.
| derness is devoid of game. Very prompt and
| efficient action was taken by the Russians.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-02-08

door, and hung 1t about the neck of his little
son. An explosion soon took place, two chill
dren losing their eyeslght. It is thought that
the horn was an internal machine placed by
some enemy.
VIM. Wayne and Lloyd Hunt, aged II and 1S
years respectively. ran into deep pond while
coasting at Cincinnati, o., on the 4th inst, and
were drowned.
A careless servant named Rosa Roscoe, used
kerosene to ignite a fire at Springfield, Mass,
on the Sd inst, fatally burning herself and
Mrs. Yeller and her infant.
Nelson Decker while pushing his wife and
child across a small lake in Prairleville town.
ship, Barry County, Mich, broke through the
ice. He was rescued but his wife and child
were drowned.
Daniel McCleary, driver on the new Chicago
cable railway, and who recently severed the
cable through carelessness, was killed by q car
on the I'd inst.
heavy landslide occurred on the grade Of
the New York, Chicago and st. Louis Road near
Cleveland on the 1st inst. Twenty-one men
were excavating at the time, all of whom
escaped but two-Henry Hart and Joseph
Loesky. The former had leg torn off, pro-
ducing death in short time, and the latter will
lose q leg by amputation.
Three ladies were drowned at Broadway
Depot, Va, on the morning of the LIST inst,
while attempting to cross the Shenandoah river
in boat.
Master T. G. Plunkett, of the U. S. steamer
Michigan, was drowned at Eric, Pa, on the
31st ult., ,swhile skating.
Thomas Lewis, william Gillander and two
Indians attempted to cross the river at Victoria,
British Columbia, on the 30th ult., in canoe.
Their frail bark was crushed by the ice and all
drowned
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-02-08

BEWARE OF INVITATIONS.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1882-03-02

A meeting attended by three
thousand wine merchants and
keepers of wine shops has been
held at the Cirque d'Hiver,i in Paris
for the purpose of protesting
against the severity of the laws on
the subject OF what in the slang of
the wine market Is called wetting
that Is, diluting. At present
the French law treats dilution as
adulteration, which 10 crime pun
isha5le by fine, imprisonment, pla.
cardipg of Offenders name, and
even loss of civil rights. On the
ether hand, the wine merchants,
whose meeting part OF an agita-
ton that has extended over some
years, desire that it should be
treated as q mere breach of cop-
tract, rendering sales, when it is
discovered, null and void. A petit
tion to the Chambers was resolved
upon, praying that the penal regu-
lations now in force should be re-
served for cases of adulteration
with matters Injurious to health.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1882-03-02

In Verona, Italy, the official in
trusted by the Syndic to issue IL.
censes for marriage, mixed up the
names OF the applicants In such
sort that when the day arrived 70,
uniting number OF young couples
the wrong people found themselves
named in the document, and had
to choose between taking the part.
ners selected for them, or postpon.
ing their marriage altogether fol
some time. With much reluctance
on the part of some, and joy on the
part OF others, the ceremony was
allowed to proceed, a number of
people who, until then, had been
strangers to one another, being de-
clared respectively man and wife
in true Italian form. In the opin-
ion Of the Syndic this WAS not a
matter Of much Importance, 1t be-
ing certain, in that gentleman,s
opinion, that thus mated they
would experience quite as few dis
appointments as they would had
they each chosen their own mates
for life; while by promptly agree.
Ing to accept the official arrange
ment they had saved the State rep.
rsssntatives much trouble and not
wasted the time Of the clerks in
preparing fresh licenses in return
for the fees.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1882-03-02
LAST NIGHTS NEWS.
Special to the HERALD by the Western
Union Telegraph Company
PACIFIC COAST.


FRESNO, CAL, March 1.-The fol-
lowing 10 the list OF passengers fol
the South and East on the train
which passed this place at 5 P. M:
J A Fowler. Deming; Mrs Hawley,
H w Scott, wife and child, DR. c
w Breyfogle, A G Pauselle. ID M
Carman, Mrs Winglss, Minnie
WILDER, Mrs Ayers, Mrs w L Mer-
ry and family, Miss M G Hill, Mrs
n Read, Mrs M b Adams, Henry
Myers, Harvey Miller, u w Cap.
tain, II 9 Fox, DR. Simms, E Ev-
erett, g Jackson, Les Angeles; Mrs
] e Anderson, Jim Mahoney, Tue
soB; w L Merry, Washington; ]
q vogeley, PittsburE; George H
0urrie. Prescott; A GSissen and
wife, 0slton.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1882-03-02

in the fsld in Pennsylvania this
year il the Cameron slate is not
broken.
New York and Pennsylvania,
the two leading States OF the
union, seem to engross q very large
proportion of the scandals of the
Republican party; and there need
be little surprise II, this year, the
Republicans of both threw off their
degrading thralldom.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1882-03-02

An old woman took blackened
clay pipe out of her travelling bag
In a st. Louis railroad alton, and
began to smoke. She was told
that smoking was not allowed in
that room. Without taking the
pipe from her mouth, she drew q
long knife and laid it across her
lap. She was allowed to puffsway
until her train came along.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1882-03-02

HERE In the United States, and
especially on the Pacific Coast, we
are tempted to think that we have
. monopoly of railway grievances,
and yet we are all wrong. The ex.
psrience Of the Canadians with the
Canadian Pacific shows that job.
berry and chicane are by no means
restricted to this country. There
they must pay sos, 900 900 in cash
for the line-$25, 00e,0oO of cash
subsidy to the syndicate, and
$50, 900, 900 cash for those sections
to be completed by the govern
ment. They must also give the
syndicate $50, 900, 900 worth of land,
which the government could have
bonded at least as advantageously
as the syndicate. Mr.. Fleming es.
timated that the sections which the
syndicate will complete would cost
$4s, 600. 900; therefore the country
is to pay S26, 500, 900 on account Of
running expenses. Does any one
suppose that more than $28, 500, 600
would have been required for that
purpose under a different manage
ment? In the cost of building the
road Canada has gained nothing;
in the cost of running 1t she has
lost something. But that is a mere
bagatelle to the total loss by the
bargain. If construction of the
line had been contracted for; II
sec, 500, 600 were paid thereafter for
operating It, the whole road, cost.
ing $31, 100000, would still have
been the property of the people.
The Treasury could have got an
ever.incressing revenue by leasing
1t after once its traffic paid run.
ming expenses. Such policy has
been followed with great success
by the government of India in re.
gard to roads that on completion
had prospects nothing like SO good
as those of the Canadian Pacific.
But we have not stated all the
losses yet. A company of private
money makers have received
power to monopolize Northwest.
ern traffic; to hinder the construc-
ton of independent lines; to lord 1t
over the territories; to hold vast
area of land speculatIvely; to bull
dsze municipalities wanting rail-
way facilities; to build up this
town and destroy that. In every
future year the people will have to
pay more to the company than
they would have been called ON to
pay for the road, and forever they
will have to pay enormously fol
liberty to use the road, though
they will never get dollar from it,
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1882-03-02
FoRTrNATET,Y the late rain

FORTUNATELY the late rains
have made us the masters of oul
own pasture problem and only
limited number of Los Angeles
sheep have been shipped to Ari'
IONA and New Mexico. The pro.
cess of transporting these creatures
by railway is trying one to the
animals and results in considera-
BILE loss to the shippers. However,
the ordeal Is nothing compared to
the horrors of Wholesale shipments
Of cattle from the western
plains to New York and
other Eastern cities. There
they are loaded into cars as
thick az they can possibly stand,
aud carried for days together with
out rest, food or water. Within
the four walls OF the car thus
crowded, there Is an endless strug-
gle for mere existence. The horn
ing and trampling are as terrible
as anything the imagination can
conceive. If a steer is overthrown
or sinks from exhaustion, he lie
trodden to death, end the CARCASS
will not be drawn cut until the
train reaches the unloading eta
ton. There they are driven out
with blows and shouts into a
muddy yard, perhaps in the midst
of a storm of Ice or snow, and fed
and watsred at an enormous ex-
psnse to the shipper; for. be it
known, no monopoly connected
with the railway is more exacting
than this of the cattle yards. But
what must be the condition of the
animals when they are landed in
an Eastern city after such a jour.
ney as that? They have lost flesh
heavily; some are dead; many are
sick and weak; all are bruised In q
manner frightful for the con.
sumner to think of, and few or none
are really fit to slaughter. Yet
with this beef the people Of the
East are regularly fed!