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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-12-05
GENERAL.

J. B. KERLEY l. Co., tanners, Lancaster,
KY, failed on the 2sth. Liabilities $4,000.
The New Jersey Steel and Iron Company,
Trenton, N j., announce q reduction of 10
per cent. in wages after December 10th.
The United States steamer Shenandoah is at
Boston awaiting crew. Every officer ordered
on duty on the vessel gets excused, and sailors
refuse to ship on her. 1t is claimed by officers
and men that che is unseaworthy, is top-heavy
and what might be called a floating coffin.
A MAMMOTH cotton mill is to be erected at
Cincinnati, o.
The committee OF business men on the Mis-
sissippi River Improvement has issued call
for convention to be held at Washington, D.
c., February 8, 1884.
J. c. BRoSsKY, general merchandise, Chipps-
wa Falls, Wis.,, assigned on the 9th. Liabilities
$4,000.
I. JoAcFiMsrAL d Co., millinery goods. De-
troit, Wis, failed on the 9th. Liabilities
| $4,000.
SERoT. MASON, who, while on guard attempt
| ed to kill Guiteau and has been in prieon
| since, was on the 26th pardoned by the Presi
| dent.
NEW YoRK city celebrated the Tooth anniver.
| sary of the evacuation Of the place by the
British and the entering of the American army
or the Gath. A land procession, comprised ol
military ana civiv organizations took fnnr honr.
to pass given point. The naval review was
on the same scale. The city made the day 8
holiday and even q drenching ram could moi
mar the enthusiasm.
| THERE we're 247 failures in the United States
and Canada for week ending the 23d.
| A STEAMER which arrived at San Francisco
Cal., on the 23d, from Onaaska, Alaska, re
ports volcano in active eruption on IN isla nc
in Behring's Sea.
HoRAr1o G. BILLINGS, lumber dealer, Chi
cago, ILL.,, suspended on the 22d. Liabilities
$10O, 1000.
| E. DAWSON, one Of the wealthiest cattle mel
Of Clay County, Texas, assigned on the Goth
Liabilities 1896, 900.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-12-05

MRS. LONG, on the 26th, confessed to the
murder Of the Whittemore boy at Dartford,
Wis. She gives no motive for hel crime.
RIVAL owners of gass well st Murraysville,
Pa, collected their forces ON the 26th and en-.
gagged in battle for possession. Reports from
the place are conflicting. G. v. Haymaker waa
killed, and four others seriously wounded.
Ar Muncie, Ind, on the 26th Raj Scott, after
two years. separation from bis wife, sought q
reconciliation, his wife refused, whereupon he
drew knife and stabbed her to the heart, then
killed their child, and afterward suicided.
A PROFESSIONAL thief named Henry Smith
was killed on the Oath, in Philadelphia, Pa,
saloon row.
AT Laconia, N. H., on the 24th, Joseph H.
Rudy, his child and . neighbor-Mrs. John
Ford-were murdered by Thomas Salmon, who
afterwards set fire to the house. The fire was
extinguished and Mrs. Ruddy. who was yet
alive, gave particulars Of the affair. She is
fatally cut. Salmon was arrested.
A TRAIN on the Southern Pacific was wrecked
by cowboys on the Gath near Gage Station.
Arizona. The express messenger was killed
and the passengers were robbed.
On tho 2sd at Brooklyn, N. Y, Leonard
Rossner, weil-known politician, sulcided.
Business troubles.
AT Jamaica, vt, on the 23d, was arrested j.
H. H.::Meyers, the leader of boy gang Of coun-
terfeiters styling themselves "Brds of the
United Brotherhood"
OK the 22d Jacob Crouch, aged 70, his
daughter and her husband, Henry White, and
visitor named Moees Kelly, were found dead
in bed at Jackson, Miss. Indications point to
murder.
AT Louisville. Ky., on the 22d, Miss Julia
Walker. colored, shot aud killed colored min
lister.
SEVERAL prisoners in the indianapolis, Ind.
Jail, attempted to escape on the 22d, by blow
ing out portion Of the wall with dynamite.
They were caught in the act.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-12-05
He Wasn't Her Pa,
(From the Chicago Tribune. ]
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A young woman went to the station to
meet her father. As the train came in
she saw middle-aged man who resem-
bled her parental relative, and she
rushed into his arms, huddled down on
his bosom, kissed him on the mouth,
the ear, the chin, and all sover his
patent celluloid. 1t was not her father,
but middle-aged traveller for tobacco
house. He took long breath, and
looked around at some other travellers
and winked, as much a. 10 say: "Oh,
I'm such q masher" OF course the
scene could not last forever, though he
wished it could.
After spasmodic hug she looked up
in his face and shrieked, "You are not
my pal"
He said she was right.
She asked his pardon, and he told her
not to mention it."
1--WE public men should always hold
ourselves in readiness to support those
who need it."
She smiled sweet, sad, blushing
smile, and went out into the wide world,
while the traveller walked to the hotel
with the others. They asked him it it
didn't make him feel ashamed to have
such mistake made, and he said no, it
was all right. He said of course it might
look queer, but these things occurred
very often with him, as they would occur
with any fine looking man. Besides, the
girl probably enjoyed it. N,3.*
Then they asked him why he did not
wear his diamond breastpin on such try
ing occasions. He looked at his shirt
front and it was gone. While he had
been allowing her to play ths daughter
she had burQlarlZed his shirt, s@sr
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-12-05
He'd Wait and See.

During the war couple of New
Workers went down into Pennsylvania
to prospect for oil, and, having dis.
covered :.stratum j" they undertook to
purchase five acres of land of an old
German. He was up to snuff, if not to
oil, and refused to sell at any reasonable
figure. One of the would-be purchasers
finally said to him:
"See here. Mr.. Klopp, we propose
to buy this land and tnrn it over to the
government"
"Vhas for?''
"To help put down the rebellion.
The time has come when every man must
show his co]ors. Are you for the Union.
"Vhell- ell-Vhell-?"
care you patriot, or not?''
"Vhell. I tell you how it vhae.
If dere vhas oil in my land 1 hold it for
one tousand dollars an acre und vhas
a rebel. ndere vhas no oil, I sell it to
you for two hundred dollars an acre und
vhas a goot patriot"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-12-05
POKER ON THE HIGH SEA.
A South African Diamond Merchant
SWindIed.

New YORK, November 27.-When the
Cunard steamer Servia arrived yesterday
one Of her passengers left the dock and
ran down West Street, pursued by hue
and cry of "Stop theft" Before he
had gone far he was arrested and taken
to the Eighth Precinct station house,
where he said his name was Henry Rice
and that he was clerk residing at No.
PIT Mulberry Street. He was recog-
nized as Henry J. Rice, the business
manager of Jem Mace. Robert
Solomo:, fellow-passenger, stated
that during the passage he had played
cards with Rice and had been cheated
by him out Of So, 700. Rice denied the
charge, and alleged that Solomon was
trying to blackmail him. The sum OF
So, 175 was found on Rice's person. Sol.
omon is a diamond merchant of Cape
Town, South Africa. and came here with
a consignment of diamonds in the rough.
Rice was taken to police headquarters,
accompanied by friend, who asked
Judge Solon P. Smith to bail him. The
judge declined on the ground that the
offense had been committed Oh the high
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-12-05
CRIMINAL,

ON the 28th, James G. Buck, prominent
resident Of Braddock, Pa, was sentenced to
the penitentiary for five years for completely
with gang Of highway men.
NATHANIEL LEE, farmer, WAS victimized by
bunko men at Madison, Ina, ON the 2sth. He
il out 81, 800.
OFFICER BuLLARD attempted to arrest .
thief named George Wilson, at Detroit, Mich,
en- the 28th, and received bullet in hts abdo-
men, which caused hie death in Z few min
utes. Wilson escaped.
A QUARREL between Judge George Tenny
and James II. Anderson, Lancaster, KY, re-
suited IN an encounter With pistols on the 20th.
Anderson WAS killed.
7 Ar Chicago, Ill.,. on the 28th, Fred Rummel
shot and killed Emma Lsveuve, aged ~, and
put bullet into his own brain. Jealousy and
whisky.
AQuARREL between James and Isaac Davis,
farmers, near Monmouth, H.. resulted in the
death Of James. Isaac bit him on the head
with whid1s tree. s~@ >sss4 5s:t1 a@s.,zs
AT Chicago, H., on tho 2eth John Schmidt
shot biz divore ed wife and suieided. Il
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-12-05

monopolozed by mortars, kind of ord
rance which the dictionary, with SEEM
ing delight, tells us s'can throw bombs,
carcasses, shells, ETC., at high angles Of
elevation, at forty-five degrees and even
higher" It is amusing to read this tri-
umphant declaration in the light of q
new achievement. Not only can this
style of Gatling throw it's whole battery
of cartridges upwards at any angle, even
to that of eighty eight and one-half de-
grees. with effect, but also at an angle
downward. Not only can any fort with
in $500 yards be rendered untenable,
but scaling parties, if such ever be sue
cessfuliy introduced again IN warfare,
have new terror, and "forlorn hope''
itself is rendered so forlorn as to be
practically impossible.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-12-05
SAD END OF A ROMANCE.
A Promised Bride Finds Her Lover in .
murderer's Cell,

ST.. Louis, November 29. - Fred
Spilker, the German saloonkeeper who
shot his partner last week, has been
visited by his fance who arrived in this
country only to find her lover occupying
a murderer's cell. Spilker was born in
Minden, Westphalia. where he went to
school and was raised with Kornhardt,
the man hs killed. The girl was to be-
come his wife when he came to this
country, and it was understood that
the separation of the lovers was
only to be for few months.
When Spilker went into busi-
ness and everything looked prosperous
he wrote to the girl to come to St. Louis.
Her near relatives had died in the mean
time, and gathering together everything
she had, 6, 900 marks in all, she left for
this country and arrived safely in New
York. Spilker lived over the saloon,
and it was intended that they should get
married at once. A very affecting scene
occurred at the Jail when the girl met
her lover in his cell. They have decided
to pool their financial issues, and make
a strong fight in the criminal court.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-12-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN.

! run E4VIN1
| ADMIRAL COuRBET has asked for more
troops for Tonquin operations.
THIRTY persons were arrested in County Mayo,
Ireland. charged with conspiracy to destroy q
| landowners property.
The customs authorities at Toronto, Ont,
seized consignment Of watches aud jewelry
on the 28th, owing to the goods being UNDER
| valued.
F1RE in Roubaix, France, destroyed Dillie's
factory, and Mott l. Mailleson's factory.
Loss 1900, 900 francs. Twelve hundred work.
men are thrown outof employment by the fire.
BAHR1 PAsHA, chief of police Of CONSTANT
nople, and six other officials. were arrested on
the 26th, charged with levying blackmail.
The archbishop of Namur has been ap-
pointed cardinal and primste for Belgium.
TIE Spanish government will disband ten
| regiments of infantry and substitute battery
of artillery.
LORD CHIEF JUSTICE CoLER1DaE, Of Eng
and was so favorably impressed with the sys-
ten of courts in the United States, that he
recommends changes in England patterned
after US.
FIRE on the 25th at Port Perry, Ont, de-
stroyed three hotels and several other business
places. Losses foot up $3.50, 600.
News from London dated the 24tb, says that
advices from China are to the effect that 5000
Chinese attacked Hal Dzuong on the 18th. Af-
ter whole days fighting they were compelled
to retreat. The French loss was $50 killed.
The town was destroyed.
OPPOSITION 10 Mormonism is being agitated
in England.
JAMES & Co., merchants, Manchester, Eng,
failed on the 24tt. Liabilities s110,000.
TIE Touring mill of David Spence. Guelph,
Ont, burned on the Oath Loss $4,000.
ADv1cEs from Shanghai Of the 23d, say that
China will assist the Black Flags in Tonquip,
IN repelling the French forces.
On the 22d the police Of London arrested =
man named Wolff. socialist, and discovered
several Internal machines in his rooms.
Two steamers collided on Lake Geneva,
Switzerland, on the 2lst, and 30 persons were
drowned.
The firm Of Eichtenholz, at Odessa, failed
on the 23d. Liabilities $l,5OO, 900.
On the 22d James Russell Lowell was elected
| rector of the University Of st. Andrews.
SHARPLEs, Sons d Co., lumber dealers,
Quebec, Ont, on the 22d announced them
selves financially embarrassed and asked for
an extension. Liabilities 100000.
The army of Hicks Pasha, numbering 10,
900, was annihilated by the forces of Ell Nah
di. the false prophet, on the 21st. The battle
lasted two days and WAS fought near Ell
Obeid, Egypt.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-12-05
SPOKTINH.

ALL the Buffalos got big increases in
salaries for 1884.
HARRY STovEY made Ill runs during
the championship season, leading the
whole profession.
WESTON is in England. and has un-
dertaken to walk fifty miles a day for
100 days, delivering temperance lectures
on the route.
JOE BArr1N has signed for another year
with Allegheny. Mcknight intended
letting him 70 until he heard Lucas, of
St. Louis, was after him.
The score in the San Francisco walk
ing match at 10 on the evening of the
23d was: O'Leary, 404 miles; Hart.
423; Hartman, 403; Mcintyre, 4l8.
JOHN MAXWELL, of Cincinnati, and
Morgan's unknown" of New York,
are matched to run two miles for $500 a
side, on the Oath, at the Cincinnati Base
Ball Park.
The winnings of Martin, the cham
pion light weight jockey of England,
during the past year, will, it is said, foot
up $25, 900. Martin is only fifteen or
sixteen years of age.
ALRoY, who has the fastest 3-year-old
record of any horse bred outside of Ken
lucky or California (2:274), is looking
we'll at Marshland, where he is kept in
condition by jogging.
The Buffalo team cost $l5. 700 last
season. The team lost $4,000 on the
season, counting everything. Its re-
ceipts were $14.379.30 on the home
grounds and $l2, l65 on foreign ones.
DIVER BROS. have sold to John Han
nigan the bay gelding Warfeld, foaled
1875, by War Dance, dam Florac, by
imp. Mickey Free, out of Dixie, by imp.
Sovereign. Warfield will be trained
again next season.
JONES and Hubbard, of the Yale COL
lege nine, who played with the cham
pion Athletics the last of the season, re-
ceived salaries of $1,000 and $500
respectively. Jones played seven games
and Hubbard three.
Ar the Manchester, Eng, November
meeting the plate race for 2-year-olds
and upwards was won by 2-year.old
Decisive, Friar Bush second and Arch
er's Qormerly Mr.. Lorrillard's) 5-year-
old Passaic, third. There were six
starters.
IT was condition of the foot race in
Carson City, New, between Neil Clark,
of Carson, and Downie, the Truckee
foot-racer. that Downie should lie fiat on
his face and give Clark fifteen feet start
in hundred yards. Nevertheless
Downie won.
The Athletics have signed fifteen
players for next year. Those signed in
addition to the men playing last season
are: Houck, of Detroit; Hilsey, of the
Philadelphia club; Larkin, Of the Read
ing club, and Milligan, last of the POTTS.
vile nine.
SHEEpsHEAD BAY is to have a new
track, to be pear-shaped, and to meas
u1e one mile and furlong. Mile races
will be started from new "chute, " in
the rear of what is now the quarter-pole,
while the finishing post will be moved
some distance down. The new track
will be wide and spacious.
| THERE is movement on foot among q
number of young business men, of New
Orleans, to organize an athletic club.
It is proposed to purchase square o1
ground, build clubhouse, tan bark
track for runners, baseball diamond,
cricket and football field, lawn tennis
court and bicycle track for outdoor re-
creation.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-12-05
The Improved 6atiing Gun.

The recent Improvement of the Gat-
ling gun seems to be the highest point
possible to be reached in the develop
ment of that remarkable mechanism. No
addition was necessary to its efficacy in
direct firing; the problem to be solved
was vertical firing-the discharge of .
machine 90 as to take effect behind forti-
fed positions. The problem was sug-
gested by the doctor himself and prompt
y solved by the rare ingenuity which
led to his former conquest in warlike
methods. The dropping Of hot shot into
! the enemy's works haA hitherto bsen
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-12-05

DIR. ISAAC BARTLETT, OF Hope, Me-,
who is 70 years OF age and still in good
health and active practice, has lived for
years on bread and milk alone, and says
it is the best food for every one.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-12-05

You can't make : purse out Of your
Sows here, !" muttered Bismarck, - he
signed the edict against American pork.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-12-05

nR @. 8. 6EAUL1EU.
Once over slsepaRs Drug Stere, Brownsdale
Minnesota.
- Pescbing at Christian Ohspel every Sunday
morning and evening.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-12-05
Il YMAI ID. BAIRD.

T YMAN D. BAIRD,
IL ATTORNEY AT Law,
Raj Estate, Insurance ard Collection Agent. once
third room, second door, Levy's Block, Austin,
Minnesota.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-12-05
0ANEhON,
ATTORNEY ATLdH,

And Real Estate Agent. Collections made and
taxes paid. Omee, north side Public Square, in
brick building, Austin, MINI.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-12-05

F1LEs Y. FAIRBANKS, ND.
0haoe and Residence, corner West Mstn and
Maple Streets, opposite Public School Building,
Austin, MINI. At home until 4. II. and from u
to21.W,
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HISTORICAL SKETCHES.

Among the Historical notes by Hon. c. J.
Faulkner in the Martinsburg Independent
we find the following:
Thomas Van Sgearingcn wee born in Berke-
lev county, Virginia, and elected representa-
tive in Congress from 1919 to lS2l, lie died in
ls23 from q fatal bilious fever, which carried
OH the most prominent citizens OF Shepherds
town.
Charles Roberts is chiefly remarkable for his
longevity. He was q native of Oxiordshire IL
England, but had resided in this county about
eighty years. He died in Berkeley county
February 18th. 1876, aged TIC. Daring his life
he never knew sickness.
Thomas Worthington was born inthe county
of Berkeley in 1863; emigrated to Ohio and
settled in Ross county in l79S. In 1903 he was
o member Of tie State Constitutional Conyen-
ton He was Senator in Congress from Ohio
from 1893 20 1907, and again from $50 to 1914,
when he resigned and from ISL 20 ISIS he
was Governor of Ohio.
Lewis p w. Balch, the first judge appointed
for the Berkeley circuit after the close or our
late civil war He was far advanced in life
when elevated to the bench, but preserved much
of the vigor and eccentricity of his mind. lie
was emine!itly fitted 20 perform the duties eX-
pected of him at that sad period OF our history.
lie was slave 20 popular pre- udice, intolcrant
In his opinions and Overbearing in his conduct.
lie was Unfortunately vain of his judicial posi-
ton. and brought his authority 10 bear OF the
unfortunate rebels, ifnOt with the bloodthirsti-
ness, certainly with all the bUiloonery and vim
dictiyeness of Jeffrey. The character of his
| judicial administration may be inferred from
the following extract from one of his opinions:
" Common fame is plirG facie ground for put
! ting person on trial for an olienSc. Ii is the
duty of a magistrate to arrest on such evidence,
and the Oluts Dr05Qrdi 0finnOccncc is on the ac-
| cuscd.' There was much ircshpcsS and prgi-
nality in the character of his mind while his
/ heavy and grotrsque figure his bombastic and
/ theatrical airs npon the bench, with the quaint
and characteristic opinions To which he gave
uttcrance, afforded a rich fund of entertain
mcnt to the usually crowded court room. a
| keen sense of the ludcrOUs was irrcsi-tibly in
/ spired by his appearance He presided on this
circuit from March 1865 to March 1865; but
even his own party could tolerate him no long
err An accurate sketch of his personal appear
ance has been prepared by one of our best ma
tive artists, and as we have rarely he'd sucii q
specimen of judicial eccentric.ty if not mon
strosity i'm this section Of the country, he may
BE regarded,as the natural outgrowth of the dis
eased and disiointcd period in which he official
! Is hourished; il is hoped that the picture may
| be engraved and pcrpetuated as a reminiscencc
/ of times never to be seen again. lie died ~ his
residence near LcctOwn, in the county of JEFF
/ ferSOn, IN 1855
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The preparations in progress For tie reunion
of the Army of the Potomac i'm Washington
next week ar such as to INSURE most interest
ing programme and thoroughly enjoyable
time The President and Cabinet. and Gcncr-
MS Grant sherman, Hancock, Sheridan
Mcclellan and Scklcs arr 1aking personal
interest in the event and will not only lend
the honor of their distinguished presence, b'It
i'm every way are doing all they can to make
the reunion OF 1850 memorable
Tho Baltimore and Ohio IS n usual to be
found in the front when So noble a cause is to
be advanced hv free and liberal reduction in
regular rates Of fare. Round trip tickets will
be ON sale at all stations west of the Ohio River
on May l4th and 18th, and cast of the Ohio
River On May 18TH These tickets viii be good
To return up 10 and including May 18th west
of the I>vcT and May 18th east Of the river.
fare one way for the round trip and the tick
cts good on all trains making the stops
The reunion 0hScry2nccS commence on We'd
ncsday. the 10Th with q grand parade of the
veterans OF the celebrated corps of the Army
Of the Potomac the First, "cconf Third Fifth,
Sixth Ninth, Eleventh, Twelfth and Nineteenth,
together with the L. 5. regular troops, District
Militia Communicates Of the Loyal Legion
and Posts of the Grand Army OF the Potomac.
Il Will bc a very imposing array, and the
review before the President and the most
famous military chieitainS of the country a
notable feature. Subsequent 10 the parade the
different corps will meet at design ted centres
for the transaction of as ociatiun business and,
later i'm the aftcrn~cr ~ corrs.will meet
together in the National Theatre. All Will
meet again in the cycninyat the same place 10
listen to the ovation and poem the latter by
the noted newspaper correspondent, George
Alfred Townsend. Addresses will follow by
distinguished officers On Thursday the
Public Build ugs will be visited, and in the
afternoon a delightful tripmadc the resting
place of George WASHINGTON at Mount Vernon.
In the evening there VIII be 4 grand banquet
and interchange of "reminiscences Upon the
whole, the two days will be replctc with enjoy
able events. and the soldier boys with their
friends will have about the finest time imag-
;,,rl.la
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Noti.e Of Sch.ol Electj.n.

nURSUANT To Section Of Chapter 10, Acts
of lS,l. School Law, an Election will be
held at Kabictown and summit Point IN IA
bctown District Of jefferson County, West
Va, on the
7zird Tscs9ty # 1ng, 1888, U5Hl,
IRON, sunrise. or as soon thereafter as prlc.r't-
bic. tin sunset of that day for the purpose OF
choosing Board of Education, 20 consist Of a
President and two Commissioners, for lhhle-
town district, and County uperipicndcnt for
the County of Jefferson ciso, " TEe the
scisc # the voters &c kaAlctovn district ON
thc question of granting to The Board Of Li4-
cation of said district authority 10 levy Tor Tie
support of the free schools therein.
~ order of thc Board OF Education.
p. ". MORROW, Secretary.
April 2G lSSG-5;. Free Press Fee, $50.