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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-09-12
SPORTING.

NJ. M. HEDGES is said to have sold his
trotter, Tony Newell, to Charles Reed,
of Erie, Pa, for $4,000.
The race for special purse at the
Hampden Park meeting on the Both,
was won by St. Julien, with Trinket
second; time, 2:22, 2:173, 2:213.
The fastest pole team in the west yet
developed, is that owned by Mr.. Charles
Schwartz, of Chicago, Argonaut and
David G. On the 18Th they we're given
trial mile on the Chicago Driving
Park track, making the mile in 2:234.
The two Whattons, we'll. known Eng
lieh Aiers, ride with bent-back handle
bars, passing back along under the sad
die, then turning forward in wide loop
again 10 the trout. The riders legs work
in the loops Ct the handle-bar and thus
the head is left open, and in case Of falls
one is not pinned down by long bar.
HENRY MILLER, of Toledo, won the
first prlze, $50 in gold, at the Toledo
Scheutzenfest on the 9th, and Alex.
Miller, of Toledo, the second prize,
rifle teams from Chicago, ILL.,, Detroit,
Adrian, Battle Greek, Ann Arbor, Mich,
Cincinnati, O., and other cities compel.
ifg. Two thousand dollars we're award
ed in prizes in the evening, the lions
share falling TO Toledo.
The batting and fielding averages of
the Detroit club are as follows: Batting
Wood, 1902; Bennett, .286; Houck;
rs; Powell. .27l; Farrell, .255; Han
Ina, .245; Jones, 1856; Trott, .220;
I,urns, 1888; Weidman, .159; Shaw,
.3l9. Fie)ding-Powell, .95l; Bennett,
.o29; Wood, .s97; Houck, $50; Farrell,
>, A; Hanlon, .882; Jones, .7O4; Trott,
s64; Burns, .653; Weidman, .912;
Shaw, .736.
The following table shows the stand
ing of the league clubs at the close OF the
games on the 31st ult.:
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-09-12

SHnIBYv111p, Ind, September g.
Society in the staid little village Of Nor
ristown, this county, was shaken from
top to bottom Tuesday by series of
sensational occurrences, the particulars
Of which are as follows: Along in the
morning Elbe1t Tyner, wealthy stock
man and one of the most prominent men,
socially and politically, in the coun-
ty, was attacked on the street
while on the road to the de-
pot by Mrs. Laura Ormstead, who
keeps q millinery establishment in that
place, who piled buggy whip over his
head and face with all her power. Af-
ter receiving a number of severe lashes
Mr.. Tyner closed in with the infuriated
woman, and, taking the whip away from
her, began to give her some OF her own
medicine. At this point they were sep
grated, and Tyner went on to the depot,
while Mrs. Ormstead returned home
and reported the state OF affairs
to her husband. The latter
armed himself with a revolver and
started after Tyner, and nothing but the
interference of friends prevented a
tragedy, which all think cannot be long
postponed. Mrs. Ormstead alleges as
the cause for her actions the alleged
fact that Mr.. Tyner has made scanda'
lous remarks about her, which Mr..
Tyler denies, and says that it is put
up job to blackmail him.
Alter the sffray between Mr.. Tyne,
and Mrs. Ormstead, the latter, it was re-
ported made some very slanderous state
ments about Mrs. Tyner, prominent
society lady and writer Of state reputa
ton. which, coming to the ears of Joe
Turner, young man who has livedwitt
Mr.. Tyner for years, enraged him tc
such an extent that he assaulted Mrs
Ormstead. striking her several heavy
blows on the head. She screamed, anc
her husband came to her assistance, ant
ne and Turner at once engaged in
savage fight. While they were pound
lug each other Mrs. Ormstead watched
Ter chance and struck Turner terribl
,low on the head with a rock tied up il
her handkerchief, knocking him insensi
bl,e and inficting severe wound. Th
fAir is expected to culminate in trae
eGY vet.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-09-12
NJ. De LessepS.

In distributing the prizes at the Lycee
Henri Nv. PARIS, recently, NJ. De Les
seps, an old pupil Of the school, deliver
ed chatty speech, in which he gave
some interesting anecdotes from his own
life and experience. When he was ex-
amined for his bachelors degree, he was
one of four. The examiner, he told his
young auditors, took down map, and
asked him to show where the north,
south, east, and west we're. Neither he
nor any Of his companions knew the
cardinal points, for in those days geo.
graphy was not taught. Yet he was now
president of the Geographical Society,
and, therefore. those boys who were low
in their classes need not despair. As q
student at the university, he was not an
assiduous frequenter of the classes. He
had passion for riding, and it was at
the riding school that he passed
the time which should have beer
devoted to preparing himself for q dip
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-09-12

THERE will be an international anna
teur regatta held on st. Clair River at
St, Clair about September 9th. The
prizes will be valuable for single and
double-sculls, pair and four-oared
shells. Efforts will be made to bring
many of the eastern siDgle-scuils to-
gether. All the crack fours will be in
yited. The Hillsdales, Centennials,
Mcdocs, Farraguts, Torontos, Wyan-
dottes, Minnesotas and other crews are
expected. The course is fine one,
with one mile and return. An amateur
sculler or crew wishing to participate
will send their entry to j. J. Lynn,
Port Huron, before, September Goth,
who has charge of the management.
Valuable prizes will be given to each
winner. The total cost OF the prizes is
81 600.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-09-12
1st, wrecking the machinery and killing Louis

91st, wrecking the machinery and killing Louis
Schoff.
CHAs. FURGUsoN examined revolver on the
31st at Bucyros, O., and received bullet
through his heart.
The Marielien Chemical Works at Black
Rock, Conn.,, were destroyed by fire on the
31st. Loss $G5,000.
AT Hyde Park, Vt, on the 31st, E. W. Sum-
ner accidentally shot Ligbert Rogers through
the heart.
On the 31st eleven imported horses were
smothered in q burning barn at Bloomington,
I'll. Loss $4,000.
CHARLES CAsKEY, son OF prominent
Windsor, ILL.,, farmer, fatally shot himself on
the 3Oth while examining revolver.
JOHN BFNacoN was killed on the tn at
Chicago, ILL.,, by being run over on the rail-
road.
HENRY MEM, q slate roofer, fell from a
roof in Chicago, ILL.,, on the 30th, and was IA
tally injured. The building is fifty feet l.,
height.
HARVEY G. BOYD was gored to death by a
COW at Fort Fetterman, W. T., on the 30th.
An incendiary fire at Petersburg, Ind, on
the 29tb, destroyed block of buildings. Loss
500, 900.
Two small children of o colored man named
Wood, in Topeka, Kan, attempted to light a
fire with kerosene and were burned to death.
The grain elevator of Myers & Lewis at
Lewis. Ia., with 1000 bushels of grain, was
destroyed by fire on the 3Oth.
By the fall of staging OH the 30th at
Burden Dock, N. Y, Patrick Coughter was
killed and five others seriously injured.
LILLE LARSON was killed at Minneapolis,
Minn., on the 3Oth, by the explosion of dryer
in the laundry room of the Hotel Lafayette.
The chair factory at Lowville, N. Y, burned
on the 30th. Loss $55,000.
On the 3Oth near Scranton, Pa, the con-
ductor of an excursion train put boy, with
out ticket, off the train while it was going al
the rate Of thirty miles an hour. He fell
under the cars and was killed.
Two daughters Of Lewis D. Vail, of Phila.
delphia, were drowned while bathing at Ocean
Grove, N. j., on the 30th.
An ice e-house at Spring Lake, Ind, was de.
stroyed by fire on the 30tb. Loss $4,000.
WATsoN's paper mill at Fairview, Penn,
burned on the 30th. LOSS 100000.
On the 3Oth Fritz Brady, employed III q
stoneyard at Milwaukee, Wis.,, was fatally
mangled by the fall of two-ton stone, which
slipped from the derrick hooks.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-09-12

lomatic career, upon which career he
had duly entered after having kept the
requisite number of terms at the school
of law. In 1925, through the influence
of his uncle, who was the only survivor
of the de la Perouse expedition, he went
as an attache to Lisbon. From Lisbon
he returned to Paris, spent year at the
foreign Office, and was sent to Tunis Just
before the Algerian expedition, in which
he took part. He then saw at Toulon
fire hundred sailing vessels employed to
convey an army of thirty thousand men,
there being also one steamer. What q
change had been witnessed since then!-
and he had been somewhat instrumental
in bringing it about, for last year he had
passed six million tons through the Suez
Canal by steam, and only seventy-five
tons by single sailing vessel. When
he came Oh leave from Alexandria, the
journey on board man-of-war, good
sailor, took thirty. seven days, and there
were forty days Quarantine at Toulon.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-09-12
MINNESOTA.

MONTANA produced Sc, 800, 600 in gold
and silver during the year 1882.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-09-12
A SOCIAL CATACLYSM,

Indiana, Torn Up by n
Scandalous Double. Encounter - A
Wealthy Stockman is Horsowhippod
by Milljner, and in Turn Horse.
whips His Assailant-A Young Man
Next Assails tho Milliner in Behalf Of
tho Stockman's Wife and IL Knocked
Out OF Tfmo with a Rock.and.Hand-
korchief SluRKshot.
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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-09-10
NOT ALL DEMOCRATS.

II is an erroneous conclusion, which
some politicians and writers have ar
rived at, that all the people who voted
for CLEVELAND in New York and
PAT1TsoN in Pennsylvania, tbs pres
cnt governor of Michigan, and for
the Democratic congressman in hith.
erto Republican districts in Iowa.
Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, and
other Republican states, have re-
nouneed Republicanism forever, and
will henceforth vote the Democratic
ticket. Any calculations or estimates
based upon this assumption will fall
far short Of realization. Many of
these voters are as strong
Republicans, in principle, to-
day, as ever they were.
Their vote for Democratic candidates
was more in the nature of a rebuke to
party leaders, and of party methods
and practices, than an endorsement Of
Democratic principles. They.are indie.
pendent Republicans who love their
country more than their party; who
desire 10 see the laws honestly exc
cnted, and check put to ruinous and
extFayagant rule which has prevailed
for score of years. They ar. tired of
the rule OF the machine-of the imper-
ious and autocratic dictation of party
leaders. There are young Republicans,
too, who have come upon The
stage of action since The
war, who are ambitious,
and aspire to recognition by the party.
The vote given Wy them and the mo-
tive that actuated them has not been
misunderstood by the leaders OF the
old party, and taking the hint thus
emphatically expressed, such men as
CoNKING, GRANT, BLAINE, GAMER
ON, LOGAN and Others who have been
wont TO dictate the course and shane
the policy Of the party, have retired to
private life. New men aud new faces
will hereafter he seen and new voices
heard in Republican councils. In
Iowa this fall a large number
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-09-10
THE NORTHERN PACIFIC.
THE FIRST PROJECTED AND LAST
COMPLETED OF THE GREAT
TRANSG0NTTNENrAL
LINES.
A Brief History Of the Enterprise.
The Country Traversed by the Road, and
its Resources for Settlement.

Although the actual construction of
the Northern Pacific road was com
plet.d about two weeks ago the formal
ceremonies of driving the last spike
was had Saturday. An address was
delivered by Mr.. HENRY WILLARD,
president of the road, which was re-
sponded 20 by Hon. w. NJ. EyARTs of
New York.
Although The first projected railroad
line across the continent to the Pacific
coast, the Norlhern Pacific is the last
10 be completed. AS long ago as 1885
the project of building a railroad from
New York City to the mouth of the
Columbia river was discussed in the
newspapers. In 1915, Asa Whitney. q
New York merchant, proposed to con-
gress 20 build railroad from the head
OF Lake Michigan To the mouth OF the
Columbia. in case it would give him a
lana grant, sixty miles in width, for
the whole length OF the line. This
plan was embodied in bill which
was before congtess for n number of
years, and IN lS47 came near pa sing.
Whitney may fairly be regarded as the
father OF the Northern Pacific enter
prise. He traversed the country from
Maine to Louisiana, addressing public
meetings and legislative bodies, and
spent his entire fortune in the work.
In 1913 the government made sur
veys OF the routes to the Pacific. The
Northern route was surveyed by an
expedition under Isaac /. Stevens,
governor of Washington Terri ory
who had been Il regular army officer.
His report was very favorable, show
ing that the mountain passes were
tower than In any other portion of the
Rocky Mountain system, the line en-
Iirely practicable, the grades moderate.
and the winter climate of the country
much milder than had generally been
supposed.
When the Union and Central Pa
ellie companies were chartered in 1862
a strong effort was made TO obtain a
charter for the Northern line. II
failed at the time, but was revived in
1861, when the Union and Central
companies were before congress asking
for legislation. subordinating the gov.
eminent lien to their first mortgages.
JOSIAH PERHAM AND THE CHARTER.
The man who succeeded in getting
the charter was Josiah Perliam, who
had organized company, under the
sanction of the Legislature OF Maine,
called the Peoples Pacific Railroad
company, aud had attempted, in 1850.
to obtain the Union Pacific charter for
his corporation. Failing in this, lac
turned his attention 10 the northern
route, aud by promising to ask for no
subsidy in bonds or money from tho
government, no obtained in 1854 a
charter, coupled with a land grant
Just double in area that given % the
Union and Central Pacific companies.
The Northern Pacific grant embraces
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-09-10

OF The independent Republicans
will vote the Democratic ticket, and
elect Democratic governor and legis-
lature, but the voters need not, there
fore be all classed as Democrats The
Democratic party may retain this vote,
and enjsy its advantage in the en-.
suing presidential canvass by prov
ing itself worthy Of continuance OF
It's confidence. BY assuming we'll
defined policy in the Interest OF the
people, anl by the imitation Of the ex-
ample OF the independent Repub-
Leans, and shelving the pro-
fessonal politicians, and bringing
forward new men who aE IN sympa-
thy with the masses, th/ vote Of The
independent RepublicaI element eau
be retained for the Democratic noni-
nee for president in 1854 By elec,ng
SAT- RANDALL speaker, and eyadng
the popular demand for revision Of
the tariff, the Democracy will forfeit
its claims upon this vote, and it will
either remain silent or crit hack TO
the ranks of the party to which they
belong. 1t will he well for Democrats
in office 10 bear in mind that Repub.
liean defeat is not purely DEMOCRATIC
victory.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-09-10
Interesting and Successful.

Tom Green Tim,s
One of the most interesting features
of the Fort Worth GAZETTE at pres
ent IRE The letters Of Colonel II. L.
Bently. The impressions that En-
glish customs and English manners
make on an intelligent and observing
foreigner, are always attractive read
ing, but these letters have the add.
tional charm of being written by a
man Of no ordinary literary ability.
Besides, he is personally acquainted
with two-thirds of the GAZETTE read.
ers in Texas. OF the many original
features of the GAZETTE, none have
been more successful than this.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-09-10

to build from the Missouri river west
ward, and from the Columbia river, in
eastern Washington Territy, near the
junction of the Snake river, north
eastwardly toward lake Penn d Oreille,
in northern Idaho. The company did
not feel strong enough to put forth
any financial scheme for competing
the entire road but only asked for
money enough to build two divisions.
which it mortgaged separately, with
the land grants attaching to them.
In 1850, after Mr.. Billings had sue
ceeded to the presidency negotiations
were completed with syndicate of
bankers, including the New York
houses of Winslow, Lanier 4 Co.,
DreXel, Morgan and Co. and August
Bslmount d Co., and the London
house OF j. $. Morgan & Co, by which
II loan of $40, 900, 900 was placed during
that and the two following years, and
money thus secured for completing the
road across Montana and nlling the
gap in the track which Then amounted
TO over 500 miles.
HENRY WILLARD OBTAINS CONTROL
In 1881 very important change
took place in the management OF the
Northern Paciiiic's affairs. Henry
Willard, Il German by birth, who came
to this country Ut the age of eighteen,
and won considerable reputation as q
newspaper correspondent during and
after the civil war, and who had be-
come Interested in railroad manage
msnt in Kansas and Oregon as the
representative OF large German finan-
cial interests, had gradually obtained
control, during the six years following
the panic OF 1873, of the transportation
lines by rail, river and sea- in the state
of Oregon. These line; he had consol-
idated and greatly extended, 50 that
country, was remarkably efficient
transportation system In 1881 Mr..
Willard determined, if possible, to Sc
cure n harmony of interests and con-
troll between his Oregon lines and the
Northern Pacific line, so as to make
the former the western extensions and
feeders of the latter III 1881 he organ
lied what was known as the Blind
Pool' in New York. and obtained
within few weeks, from subscrip-
tions, over IS, 600, 900 of money, with
cut disclosing the use which he meant
to make of this large sam, and with
out giving any other security than his
personal receipts, With this money
ana other means of his own he quietly
purchased Il controlling interest in the
stock of The Northern Pacific Com
pany and was elected its president in
September of that year, placing bis
friend and former associate railroad
management in Kansas and Ore son,
Mr. Inpmls +. Dukes, in the vice
presidency, rs the chief executive Of
ncef OF the company.
TERMINAL CITIES AND PORTS.
The principal eastern terminus of the
northern Pacictic ~ stem is at the
twin cities of st. Paul and Minueap-
olls. In the latter the company has a
large handsome building for its gem
eral offices, and there it has three
Trunk line connections with Chicago.
me road has two terminal lake ports
al the head of Lake Superior, Duluth
ana superior, each of which has an
excellent harbor, The construction of
me Wisconsin division, eastward rom
superior, now in progress, will soon
AFFORD third harbor at Ashland, At
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-09-10

THE Cincinnati Ncws-JoupaI says
"the bribery of 1850 was low,
sordid, thieves operation before
which the great fraud looms up as pos.
sessing at least something of the
greatness which genius for crime inn
parts. 1t was, and is up to This time,
the browning infamy. FOSTER was
chief devil and head center in that
business. The roof and crown of all
villainous political operations will be
the operations OF the Republican party
in 1884, as it goes from bad to worse.
FOSTER is manager of the preliminary
canvass in Ohio: it is made for his ben
eft; the party will not lack agents
with "a genius for sordid methods.
There was ring and boss rule under
GRANT, a bold and high-fraud to
usher in HAYES, n star route ring,
grown under HAYES, and a sordid pur-
chasing of an election with an ex-
penditure of somewhere between 8
haltmillion and q million dollars,
WhaN will come next if the peopl,. do
not rise-in their might to crush the
party that has thus gone from bad TO
WorseO
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-09-10
LIE MAILER sI;PPLY.

II Yesterdays work is to be consid-
cred a fair sample of the Efficiency of
the waterworks tor fire protection,
Fort Worth may hang its harp on the
willows and look TO other sources for
water TO put out fire. Yesterdays was
the first fire since the works were in
augurated, and to say that the works
were dismal failure is but to state the
fact in unvarnished terms. What ex
cuse there may be for the failure is
not known, but there should be none.
Protection that does not protect at ali
times is no protection worse
than no protection at all.
1t was fully fifteen min
utes after the alarm was given
before water was supplied in any
quantity, and then the force was in
sufficient to reach the fire. Once dur
ing the progress of the conflagration
the water ceased to flow at all, and the
fire engine had to be resorted to to
assist in eXtinguishing the flame.
The GAZETTE trusts that there is some
explanation for this, and that tbs
fault is with some Qttdche of the COM
pany, and not with the works, as it
believes to be the fact. If there is "A
remedy the authorities should see il
applied at once.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-09-10

WIZARDS excursion will cost that
or the company he repre-
sen,s. fully si50,c0O, aud 1t may be
written down that such mammoth
entertainment was not entered into
without first counting the cash and
estimating the benefits to result there
from. 10 is an expensive advertise
ment of the road and the country
through which IL runs, but 1t is well
worth the money 70 the company and
its stockholders, which own large
bodies of land on the liue Of the road.
Among the cxcursiouists are about
thirty representatives of leading for
eign papers, and large number OF
prominent citizens from foreign coun
tries, who will speak well of the
country and its advantages for money
getting, Expensive rs the junketing
tour may be, the money expended Will
soon flow back into the treasury of the
road from business attracted to its
line, and land sold to investors and
agri,ulturists, who will become pro-
ducsrs and patrons of the road.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-09-10

The MAHoNIrEs of Virginia are
represented as being in very unhap-
Ply frame of mind because some of
their number are not permitted to
hold two Offices at the same time. To
hold Office IS the acme of personal lib-
erty and happiness according to the
theory OF these latter-day political
sayan;s, and any law, ruling or edict
which interposes with this privilege is
construed by them as an infringe
ment OF the constitutional provision
which guarantees 10 every citizen lib
eriy and the pursuit Of happiness
Two Of the MAHoNITEs hold dual
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-09-10
Should Have Branded 1t "sarkssr.' ;,
san AutOnIO IlghtI

san AutpniD lsi- gull
The Fort Worth GAZETTE says
."rhe Republicans of Ohio are prepar-
ing to withdraw Hoadiy from The
gubernatorial canvas. This, probably
because they see no other chance OF
defeating him. As Mr.. Hoadly is
the Democratic nominee just how the
Republicans can Withdraw him the
Li9M cannot see. It would he n big
thing, aud new wrinkle in poliiic.,
if the opposition could Withdraw men
they could not defeat. The Cincin-
natl Democrats, however, have started
n scheme in which they have organ
ized another Democratic party. The
two factions will hate each otler, but
love ioadly. 1t il an arrangement
where armed neutrality will be OBJ
served, and at the first opportunity
Mr. Hoadly will feel the knife of both
between his ribs, and it is safe to say
that he is "gone.n
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-09-10

THE fact that large quantities of
greenbacks, returned ia the treasury
department for cancellation have been
found among the waste paper in the
Office uncancelled should be eneash to
satisfy anyone that an occasional visit
to Washington, by the heads of de-
partments is essential TO the safe and
proper conduct of the the public bust
ness. Now that Secretary FoLGER
has returned to his desk, the hope is
INDUCED that he will give some atten-
ton to this matter and ascertain who
is to blame for such criminal negli-
gence.