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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-02-21
FORTY.SEvENTH CONGRESS:
Senate


MONDAY, FEBRUARY - Davis presented the
credentials Of Kenna, elected to succeed him
as senator from West Virginia. Sawyer pre-
sented petition of citizens of Wisconsin for
the passag ge of the inter state commerce bill
The tariff bill was then taken up. On
motion Of Sherman the duty on pig iron was
made $3.50 per ton. The amendment chang
ing the duty on bar iron from $40 of l cent
per pound to Sl8 per ton was agreed tO-ayes
rs, noes 16. >. Adjourned.
TUESDAY, February 13.-The President laid
before the senate the resolutions of the legis-
lature of Nebraska, asking for the admission
of Canadian lumber free of duty and COM
mending and thanking Senator Van Wyck for
his efforts to put lumber on the free list. "A
joint resolution passed admitting free of duty
a monument to George Washington to be i'm
phia. .Sewell presented the credentials of his
colleague. Mr.. Mcpherson, reelected senator
from New Jersey. Sawyer presented resOlu-
tions of legislature Of Wisconsin praying for an
appropriation for the harber of Superior, Wis.
The tariff bill occupied the remainder Of the
day.
WEDNESDAY, February 14.-The tariff bill
occt1pied the entire day.
THURSDAY. February 15-The day was spent
on the tariff bill.
FRIDAY. February 16.-The conference report
on the Japanese indemnity bill was presented,
and after discussion, agreed to. -. The tariff
bill occupied the remainder of the day.
SATURDAY, February 17.-The senate spent
the day on the tariff bill.
flOuse.
MONDAY, February IA bill was introduced
for the suppression of lotteries and prohibiting
the transmission through the mails Of lottery
advertisements. The tariff bill and the legls.
lative appropriation bill consumed the re-
nainder of the day.
TUESDAY, February 13.-Page. chairman Of
| the committee on commerce, reported tht
river and harbor bill. The appropriation rec
commended is $780, 900. The house the1
went into committee of the whole on the tariff
bill. Debate continued until adjournment.
WEDNESDAY, February 14.-The house spen
the day on the tariff and legislative appropria
ton bills.
THURSDAY February 15.-WilIiams (Wis.,
submitted conference report on the Japanese
indemnity fund bill, and it was agreed to-
The effect of the bill ia to return to Japan the
original sum received from that government
C$735 000), without interest, to pay the officers
and crew of the Wyoming and Takoing $140,
600, and cancel all bonds comprising eth
Japanese indemnity fund. >. The tariff bill oc
cupied the remainder of the day:
FRIDAY, February 16.-The legislative ap
preparation bill was reported from kcommitte
of the whole and passed. Skinner intro
lief of sufferers from floods on the Mississippi
| and Ohio Rivers, and Wheeler introduced bi
appropnating $780, GOO for the same purpose
Both measures were referred to the committe
on appropriations. :. Adjourned.
SATURDAY, February l7.--The house had
semi-politicaI debate on the tariff bill. Nothin
| else was done.
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Business Disasters.

Messrs. J. V. Ayres' Sons, Chicago; very
prominent iron concern, have failed. The firm
refused to make any statement, but the liabill-
ties are figured by persons conversant with the
business at $1;O0O,0O0. Its assets are not
known. The failure is pronounced bad one,
and it is said that it will most likely involve a
number of other concerns there and in Ohio.
rh liabilities are mostly to banks there an! at
Youngstown, O. 1t is surnlised that the Brown,
Bunnell & Co. 8 rolling mill, in which the Chi
cago concern is the lar est stockholder, is IN
volved in the downfall. The latter incorpora
ton employs several thousand men, and oper-
ates rolling mills, blast furnaces and coal mines
in Ohio, near Cleveland.
The Fox River Iron Company, Green Bay,
WIS.,. made an assignment to J. H. Booth, OF
Milwaukee. The company had capital OF
5000, 900. 1t had fine business and credit on
the start, but soon began to borrow heavily,
and when the Union Iron aud Steel Company
failed, the Wisconsin Company had to sue
cumb. The liabilities are not stated. The as.
sets are 100000.
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Railway Wrecks.


Two heavy freight traius collided on the
Central Ohio Division Of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad, in tunnel near Bellaire, o.
Both engines kept the track, but the cars piled
on the top of them knocking down loose rock
and earth from the roof of the tunnel and
completely blocking the place, Engineer
Rutherford and Fireman Hines lost their lives.
John Graham, a brakeman, was dangerously
injured. A telegraph operator is responsible
for the fearful wreck.
An express train on the Cleveland and
Columbus Railroad was derailed on the 10Th,
one mile north of Gallon, Ohio. H. G.. Guthrie
of the Madison Square Theater Company, was
killed outright and D. l. Foust, Of Shelby, O.,
aud R.-Cudell, Of Cleveland, fatally injured.
Eight others were slightly bruised. Essg&
A broken wheel caused theeDgine and smok-
ing car Of q Pittsburg ard Western Railway
train to leave the track near Aetna Station, Pa,
iEngineer Cooper and Fireman Edward Brady.
were buried under the debris and fatally
scalded.
The Rock Island dummy backed into a
freight train at Stony 4sland, Ill.,, on the 10th,
killing fireman and causing thousands of
dollars worth Of damage
Ii Two passenger trains scollided at Dundas,
Ont, on the night fSthe 18th. Engineer
Mason and two passengers were killed and
seven passengers injured.
Il Epassenger train on the Grand Trunk Line,
left the track near Flint, Mich, on the 18th.
The engine, Pullman, mail and baggage
;car passed the break in safety, but three cars
became overturned and wrecked. Mrs. Huldah
'Leaman. aged "a, was killed. She was on her
way to Nebraska. Her: daughter, Mrs. Hill,
went insane. Thomas Lindsay jumped and
fell under the trucks where he was fatally
crushed. A large number of passengers were
Injured more or less. The engineer, with rare
presence Of mind, stopped: bis engine and
.quenched fire which started in the wreckage
|of the cars.
|. passenger train went down an embankmen,
near Foristell, Mo-, on the 14th. Engineer
John Lester was scalded to death, John Muir.
|, ply was killed and Charles Rhodes telegraph
'repairer, badly scalded.
\ During fog on the evening of the 18th two
| freigh ghtfssinsgon theeC .ssB, 80 Railroad col
lided pattle curve sshotweep Plans and Sand
/ wich, I'll. Two engines and fifteen cars were
/ wrecked. Engineer Rogers was killed.
/ collision occurred on the Cincinnati North
Nern Railroad, between Ayondale Junction an9
Idlewild, O., in which John Roberts. colored
wAs instantly killed and Isaac Mcknight, Rus
|sell NJ. Manning and Dan Andrews seriously, l.
'|not fafa4@ly lp1qrea,s ME grs7 j TT Z
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Brazilian Homes and Habits.

(COrres. OF the San francisco ChlOnlce.J
The dwellings, are usually made Of
saplings or canes crossed and plastered
with mud. The floors and windows are
never washed. Brooms, used only in
extreme instances, are made of a sapling
tied around with few green branches.
Scrubbiug< brushes, mops, busters and
whitewash, paint and varnish are un-
known. The windows have no SASH
weight, but are held up when opened by
a nail or piece of iron Of some sort.
The doors are made of heavy wood,
hacked out with adzes and secured by
locks of medieval pattern, having keysas
ponderous as that of the Bastile at Mt.
Vernon; the floors have no covering.
the bath-tub is tin basin; the towel is
made OF sheeting; soap is luxury.
Portugal is hundred steps behind
America, but a step in advance of Africa.
Every body knows how to ride horse
here, but nobody can push saw or
drive aplane. Such a thing as board
sawed "true "iis unknown. There are
numerous little saw-mills throughout
the country where boards are sawed by
means of water power, but the boards
are never of equal thickness throughout,
ranging from half an inch to two inches.
Nor are they of equal width, varying
from 6 to IS inches. Nor are the edges
cut straight; nor are they even planed or
smoothed by machinery. Consequently
all the woodwork about the house is of
the most wretched description, and
painting, whitewashing or cleaning il
almost impracticable. I have seen few
sewing machines throughout the coun-
try. They are all moved by hand. /
have seen three pianos in the course Of
800 miles of travel. They we're all
cracked. I have seen houses that pos
sessed illuminating lamps. They were
so few that they we're distinguished from
the rest. For instance, in this town Of
1,4O0 inhabitants there are known to be
three lamps. Senor P. has one, Senior
B. has another, and the Baroness of r.
has third. People go about at night
through the dark Of streets with lighted
candle in their hand. A piece of paper
encloses the candle to keep off the wind.
Although but 100 miles from railway
and $50 miles from Rio there are but
mails week, and when one, arrives the
postmaster, even in daytime, lets off: q
rocket to notify the town.. 10 send a
letter to Rio requires five days; to get
an answer requires eleven. TO fill an
order consumes month. In conse-
quence, dirt, laziness and procrastina-
ton are the prevailing characteristics.
Nothing can be done, nothing is ever
proposed, to be done;, it is always
/" a1,annha" -morrow). When TO-
morrow comes it is the same thing over
again.
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Enulish Diet.

The robust heath Of the the English in
snsr %s2 i sa ssa to e b s2S hff e,e ss
They like lain, solid food, we'll cooked
and do not as a rule, demand variety.
Meat, vegetables and puddings are their
staple dishes, i4and thin soups and for
eign kicksRaws. find no favor il their
eyes" They despise alike French r4 dishes 9
as rich and unwhole lesome, and German
cookery as, coarse and unpalatable. The
roast.b beef OF, Old England tis, their staff
of life, and ham and eggs come next in
their good ,graces.I Ice water.is a rarity
among the mass of the population, who
look or it, almost az poison. III; .,I.'> ''-':
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-02-21

In saloon row at East Lewiston. Pa, on
the 18th, Thomas Campbell stabbed Byron
Hendricks fatally with pocket knife.
Alfred Bastine, of Kankakee, ILL.,, was shot
dead at Ennis, Texas, on the 18th, by VIM.
Davis, whom he threatened to mutilate with
an axe. t:
Reuben Corwin and James Hamlin, farmers
gagged in deadly combat On the 12th, to settle
an old grudge. Both were terribly slashed
with knives and it is thought will not survive
their iniuries.
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The ElOOdlS.

The rise in the Upper Maumee has done
great damage at Toledo and the water reached
a point on the night of the 18th inst, 20 inches
higher than the hlg hest point during the great
floods two years ago. The middle grounds,
the Union Depot, and the whole Of Water
Pennsylv ania Railroad bridge. the Cherry
Street wagon bridge, and the Western & Lake
Erie. Railway bridge have been carried away.
The flats in the upper portion Of the city are
under water, which In 800 houses stands from
two: to five feet deep. At Cincinnati and Louis
vile The floods are slowly recedlng. and at the
latter place the high winds caused many houses
to topple over which had hitherto remained
standing. In Indiana tive-sixths of Jefferson
vile rem ins under water and the misery of
the 1000 people there is iDdescribable. Fifty
Louses fioated down towards the falls with no
possible hopes of saving them. Reports from
Cairo, Little Rock and other points show the
Mississippi to be still rising. In Buffalo the
First, Second, Third, Eighth and Thirteenth
Wards are almost entirely inundated, and the
rivers in various parts Of New York arc rising
and doing great damage. Three hundred head
Of cattle were drowned in pens in the Thir-
teenth Ward. The additions to the relief fund
at Cincinnati amounted to 800, 900 and at Iudi-
annapolis to $4,000. At Louisville several thou.
sand dollars we're received.
The water at Cincinnati on the 14th was more
than sixty-six feet above low mark. Business
is almost suspended, and the city is practically
cut of from railway communication Soup
houses have been established at various points,
| and Bishop Elder has thrown open the CATH
o]ic churches to accommodate the homeless.
! A large number Of row-boats have been sent
from Cleveland. One-third of the city of New
port, KY, opposite Cincinnati, is covered with
water, and 5000 families are III suffering con-
dition. The mayor calls for help. The people
of Lawrenceburg, Indiana, are suffering great
ly, and carloads Of food have been sent from
other parts of that state, the legislature hay
ing also appropriated $4,000 for relief. The
Ohio ls higher than it has been before since
1882. r. o.: q.
A singular lnishapsoccurred to three-story
brick building in the Inundated district at Gin
cinnati, on the morning of 1.-The 18th, by which
three persons were killed and several badly i'll
jured.,~ It seems that some parties who were
engaged in building raft, went into the cellar
Of sewer gas Was lgnited BY the light, and a
terrific explosion followed, wrecking the struc-
ture and burying the seventeen inmates.
Three were taken out dead, four of the injured
are not expected to live.
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affections still sway, attract and impel,
whether he vet remembers us as we re-

affections still sway, attract and impel,
whether he yet remembers us as we re-
member him we do not know.
"These are the unsolved, the unsolu-
BILE problems of mortal life and human
destiny, which prompted the troubled
patriarch to- ask that momentous ques-
tion for which the centuries have given
no answer, If man die, shall he live
again 2
every man is the center of circle
whose fatal circumference he cannot
pass. Within it's narrow confines he is
potential; beyond it he perishes. And
if Immortality is splendid but delusive
dream, if the incompleteness of every
career, even the longest and most fortu-
nate, be not supplemented and perfected
after it's termination here, then he who
drea lis to die should fear to live, for life
is tragedy more desolate and !nexplic-
able than DEATH"
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T., See Here, Boys.

!. In dischargidg boy who Was acqu1t-
ted of, shooting q companion on the
ground that, though he handled a loaded
revolver carelessly, the shooting was
accidental, judge Gildersleeve, e1-cap-
tain Of the American rifle team, said: ::
"Youo should not have loaded pistol
upon your person, or about you, l may
claim to have had extensive experience
ID handling fire: arms, yet would as soon
have {, rattlesnake near me as a loaded
gun. aud one is likely to be as dangerous
40 fhat Ather:" s"@aq j. L3ty:;iSG, -
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The Dublin Assassins,

profound sensation was created in court il
Dublin on the 18th by the appearance o1
James Carey, town councillor, as an informer
He testified that plans were arranged to assas
slnate the lord lieutenant and Secretary Forste,
the funds coming from the land league. Re-
volvers and rifles were brought from 1ondo1
by Mrs. Byrne slung under her cloak: There
was the deepest stiffness in the courtroom az
Carey detailed the meeting OF seven conspir
ators in the park and Cavendish and burke
Joseph Brady drew knife and sta bbed Burke
and then Cayendish. afterward cutting the
formers throat.
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Obituary..

OVACuaEys
The demise is announced of Ann Gerry
daughter of signer of the declaration Of In
dependence: J0hE G. Mason, banker Of Wor-
cester, Massachusetts; E. T. Darlington, q
newspaper publisher Of New Haven and Rev.
Lyman H. Atwater, of Princeton College; Geo.
Dawson, prominent journalist, Of Albany;
n. Y; VIM. G.. Medlicott; founder Of the Med
and j. .. Rutledge, a composer Of songs.
Goode, who in 1887 assaulted Queen Vic
toria, died in the Broadmoor lunatic asylum.
Ex-Gov. Stephen Henistead, second govern.
or of Iowa, and the first lawyer who settled in
the state, died at Dubuque on the 18th, aged
70 years.
Daniel J. Campau, who died in Detroit yes
terday, had for q quarter OF century been
helpless from paralysis. He was direct de-
scendant of a marquis who settled i'll that city
in 17O1.
Ex-Gov. Edwin D. Morgan. of New York,
died at his residence IN New York City, on the
morning of the 14th. He served two terms as
governor of his state and represented her in
the United States senate from 1864 to 1870.
In 1866 President Lincoln nominated Mr.. Nor
gan to the Office of secretary of the treasury,
but at Mr.. Morgan's request the nomination
D. TalIant, q pioneer banker of San Fran
cisco, Cal., died on the night of the 18th aged
Il. g. Clark, one of the first settlers in the
Black Hills, died at Deadwood from the effects
of an alteration with Thomas Rollins. At
one time he owned large part Of the site of
Leadville.
Meyer Magnus, the German philanthrophist,
! died in Berlin yesterday.
Moi. A. D. Hit, formerly one of the largest
cotton buyets in the south, died in an aims
house at Columbia: and was gwen pauper's s
burial.
Archbishop AIcCabe, Of Dublin, is dead. He
was but recently made cardinal by Pope Leo
XIII.
Richard Wagner, the eminent composer,
closed his earthly career at Venice on the 18th.
Commander Francis Morris, U, s. n, died at
Newport, r. l., on the 18th.
Major General Geo. Webb Morrill,, died at
Scarborough, N. Y, on the 18th.
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Disaster nj Cincinnati.

Cincinnati's condition is truly deplorable.
Miles of her river front are submerged by the
great freshet; her water works and gas works
have come to stand-stlll; many of her people
have been either driven from their water-sur-
rounded houses or are imprisoned in them;
and thus far $4,000 has been raised as relief
fund. At last accounts the water in the rivea
at that point had reached stage of nearly
sixty-tive feet. On the 18th the depot of the
Cincinnati Southern Railway. situated on the
river front, caved in owing to the inundation
and a number of people are reported lost.
Other towns along that river and it's tributaries
are likewise suffering from the floods, the city
of Louisville especially.
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!. Potatuo9 in ireland. .

A writer II the London Globe, re-
marks that tie results Of! recent irish
harsvlests have produced g general ais
trust in the potato, and that the queset7, queset,
ton Of the: food supply Of the Irish peoii
ple has consequently become one, OF the
utmost possible importance. he Eecom71;
mends as atjudicio1is and feasible sexpe-'
dent, that the oat crop Of last year
shoqld be, doubled, ,apd . Few common conn
al8 III IKE thS SeHbfgs and sa tas
extent. and and asserts that slight pains
the cheaper forms Of fish which swarm y AZ p
in the Irish seas might be- made 2 comii III
men article ofadiet among the Irish peo7
ME- ituoal s;I ssu huutd yIf!aaa 10 aua.:
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-02-21
MurderOuls Deeds.

DR.. H. J. Glenn, the largest wheat. grower
in California, who was once the democratic
nominee for governor was fatally shot by bis
bookkeeper, H. Miller. who had been, dis
charged. III = .fi' =. :j..-,':
About three months ago Henry Sheldon, of
Illinois, married lady in Livingston County,
Ny: They for some reason separated and
sheldon returned to Illinois. On the 18th he
| returned to Exeter, Otsego County, where Mrs:
Sheldon yves stopping with a brother, and
| after a few moments conversation shot her
fatally He then jumped on horse and,
after riding ami'e, entered barn MS and ID killed
In q fight in Young County, Texas, over the
management of a school, the teacher. Mr..
Rogers was killed and three others wounded.
When am International train pulled up at
Webb Station, near Laredo, the conductor
found the telegraph operator lying dead on the
floor, having been bntchered by robbers. ,.t y ~
An old 'fend between. two brothers Wallace
and one David Holiday, residents Of Jackson
County, in Southern Illinois, terminated near
| Ava, in that county, on the 4th, by Holiday
fatally shooting both of the brothers, who had
attacked him on the public highway with mur-
derous intent A coroner 3 inquest resulted in i;
( While riding past school house. near
Omaha; Lemuel Harbaugh was snowballed' by
the pupils. He pointed = needle egun} toward
them, but claims that it's discharge was acci-
dental Nine children were injured BY I'm! slln!gle
Hairy Hover; of ,Pittston.: Pa, railroad
fireman. was stabbed to the heart, on the night
of the 18th, during melee at 'Sayre,, PssaI -
Albert Wilhger and Swan Hooetson,o quar-
relied at Minneapolis on the 18th: when the ilatr
ter drew, . pocket, knife and stabbed bis
0pSb1aaa} 81 s olnnR ss aas esa ths is west
| nj
insanity, entered 4 room where his cousin,
Nathan Baer, was s1eeping3 and out his head
almost completely from bis shoulders. Bael
resided in Nebraska and was visiting Rysley.ts
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-02-21
RObbefieS,

S. D. Houston, tax collector Of Lawrence
County, Aa., was waylaid by highwaymen
and robbed of $4,000 on the 10Th. The rob-
bers took Houston's horse and left him to foot
his way home.
John L. Mcdowell. treasurer Of the Young
Mems Christian Association at Altoona, Pa.
and prominent in commission circles, has
skipped out with $40O of the associations
money and between $50, 900 and 340, 1000 belong
ing to parties dealing with him.
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|. A. A. d. SWAN. Of Ogden, Utah, re-
|, Gently bought $2, 500, 900 worth Of cattle
in that territory It is understood that
the money was furnished by British cap
itaiistss;cG>jz h!!,o"e jpt ..lrl :i:t- y.
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An Agnostio ON Immortality:

I. :. fFrom Senator lngans khs.) Eutogy.J
i "Ben Hill has gone to the undiscov:
"Whgthef his journey thither was but
one step across an mPerceptible, from
tier, or whether an intermlnable ocean,
black, unauctuating, 0 and yoiceless,.
stretches between these earthly coasts
and those invisible shores-:we do not
know. ..e-:":''-''~ ''~s.'s'.'.s''s--''-~
+ tsWhether on that August morning
after death he saw a more glorious
sun, rise. with !, unimaginable splendor
above celestial horizon, Or whether his
7 'apathetic and unconscious ashes still
sleep in cold .ohstructioa and insensible
obliviion-we do not sknoW.,I s.i.Iyy I
b ,''Whether his strong and subtle ener-
qiesa' found instant exercise IN another
forum whether his de exterous and disci.
p1ined faculties are now contehding in q
4 higher senate than ours for supremacy,
+ oorwhether3his powers were dissipated
I and dispersed .Mittll MEitli / ID parting breath Z
J T;S:Whetbsr his bis passions, ambitions and
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NEWS IN BRIEF.
ShipWFeck.

Two fishing smacks have been lost at Yar-
mouth, England. The crews, numbering four
teen. drowned.
Tie steamer HISTORIAN, from Portland. a.
rived at Greenock, Scotland, on the 14th. She
lost ffty-six head of cattle and many of her
crew were frost bitten.
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Wrecked by an Expl1sion.

On the 10Th inst. Watchman Keegan, of the
Blaisdell knitting mills, near Amsterdam, N.
Y, entered the cellar, which contained guam
tity of gasoline, with lamp. An explosion
occurred which wrecked the building and de-
stroyed four sets of machinery and a large
quantity of stock. Loss estimated at ESQ, 900.
Watchman Keegan was terribly burned.
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A waterspout covered the railway track near
Los Angeles, COL, with mud or the 18th. A
freight train happened along soon afterward
and was thrown from the track, smashing two
engines and six cars. A. W. Sproull, fireman,
was killed,