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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-06-13
DAKOTA;

PIERRE has German paper.
A MASONIC lodge has been organized
at Plankingtop.
THE Brule Index is now owned by
stock company.
CAssE1roN claims a surplus of -, 600
in the city treasury.
Hon. ". n. Donaldson has purchased
the Garry Inter:Ocean:
The Speafash Reeieter is now in the
hands of Maj. W. r. Snider.
A NUMBER OF enterprisiug lady farmers
own claims in Hand County.
The Golden Reef mine at Dealwood
has been consolidated with the Home
steak.
FIFTY thousand dollars has been ex-
pended for buildings a. Chamberlain
this year.
Some fiend in st. Peter threw sulphu-
ric acid on an I0dian pony tho other day,
causing great suffering, lock-jaw and
death.
Iris estimated that the present season,
some $1,000 head Ct young cattle have
been purchased in Minnesota and
shipped to Montana.
FRANK E. KEToHUM, pioneer conduc-
tor OF the Dakota Central, has been ap'
pointed train dispatcher of that division
with headquarters at Huron.
THERE is q movement on foot which
may result in the removal OF the Scan
dinavian Baptist Theological Seminary
from Chicago to Sioux Falls.
If there is man in Dakota who has
not ridden few miles on the special
train, carrying the capital commission.
ere" he is certainly out of luck. -
ONE township in Mop Pherson County
is entirely taken up by Whiteside Coun-
ty, illinois, people. In ten days fifty
houses were built in that township. r:
GRAND FoRKs wants her streets grav-
eled, and expects. the material can he
had of the railroad company for 81 a car
load, which is considered dirt cheap.
The Wheatland Herald figures that
81. .734 acres have been seeded to, wheat
in sight of that village, and that every
acre will yield from twenty to twenty
five bushels of No. l hard. ~, H.. :.
The coroner's jury decided that the
Scandinavian remains found in the vault
back of tie Scandinavian house were all
that was mortal of some drunken lout
VIII, fell in and perished miserably.
BURGLARS entered the house OF D. r.
Kelley, at Watertown, and blew open
the safe, but the explosion aroused the
neople in the adjoining buildings and
j the thieves left without their plunder. !
I The Freeport Tribune says the prairie
4 ID dotted with cabins occupied BY pretty
girls holding down claims, who have
/ lust as much grit as any member OF the
male sex who ever trod Edmunds County
soil. tsss i,s.ss} I. VI =..s., .S. = /S...%1.
/ COMPLAINTS are being made that
though the station Buttzville is put down
i on the time tables of. the Fargo South.
western Road, tickets cannot be secured
Tor that place and no baggage will be
checked to or from there BY the agents
Mr.. H1NMAN, commissioner to secure
signatures Of the Indians to the agree
ment to oede portion Of the 1esery atlorl
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-06-13
8ENER AL.


EDWARD p: M1TahEB, stock broker, Phila-
idelpbia, Pa, suspended On the 9Th, owing
to his being short about SOTO shares of stock
purchased for him, aggregating over $4,000.
A BLACK ring around the sun on the 9th
inst, struck terror to the hearts Of the negroes
at Fort Worth, Texas, on the 9Th.
Hon. EDxuND L. CUSHING, ex-chief justice
of New Hampshire, died at Charlestown, N.
H., on the 9Th, aged 76.
MAD dogs are causing excitement at Little
Rock, Arkansas.
P. J. SHEAHY, one Of the Jurors who con-
victed Guiteau, was on the 9Th taken to St.
Elizabeth Hospital for the insane, at WASH
On the 5tl, reports were received Of severe
drouth in Virginia.
The superintendent of fisheries in Ohio was
on the 5th, ordered by the commissioners to
enforce the state fish laws.
R. UNaER, travelling salesman, died at
Denver, Colo.. on the 9Th, from heniorthage OF
the lungs.
On the %, the grand jury at Austin, Te1ae,
indicted otef fifty members Of the legislature
for gambling. That night some one entered
the court house and s1ole the indictments.
AT Blackstone. R. L, 800 operatives in cot
ton mill struck for higher wages on the 4th.
DENVER, Colo; is In trouble. The city
charter was revised and pending its final read
ing in the legislature was stolen; q copy was
procured and passed, and on the 4th the origi-
nal document was found. Whether the new or
the old charter holds good is a nut which the
courts of that state can crack.
BISMARCK has been selected as the capital of
Dakota. The city gives bonus Of 100000
| in cssh and $40 acres of land.
The farmers near Muncie, Ind, who own
| self-binding harvesters, are the victims of a
conspiracy to destroy self-binders. Several
barns and reapcrs have been destroyed by in
| cendiary hres:
The six days walking match at Baltimore.
closed on the I'd. inst, with Hughes winner,
| he having made SIS miles. Noremac was sec
ond, SIG miles.
| On June 1st, the public debt was 81, ,876, ,21O,
Al, reduction during May of $4, $3.50, ,476.
F. P. K@HLER, lumber dealer at Lake
View, ILL.,, assigned on the 1st. Liabilities
SCHEDULES in the assignment of Blossom,
Hoyne t. Co., naval stores, New York, were
fled ON the 1st. Liabilities $156, 739.
| JAS. A. YOUNG & Co., boots and shoes,
Montreal, Can., failed on the 1st. Liabilitite
| $4,000.
The coinage of the U. s. mints for the month
Of Msy was 81, 72l, 200, of which $2,950, ,000
were standard silver dollars.
In Philadelphia on the LIST, the pawnshope
were raided by government secret service mel
and large number Of pension certificates re-
covered. Pension certificates according to the
law can not be held as pledge for money
loaned.
GEN. G. P. BUELL., q. 8. A., died nea,
| Nashville. Tonn.. on the 31st, from the effects
of an operation performed on his jaw somt
( time ago.
The bottom dropped out Of the Knoxville
Ky., reservoir on the 3Oth, and SOC, 900 gallonl
Of water disappeared in an unknown cave.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-06-13
The Latest Fence SWindle.
(From the Kahoka (Mo.) Gazette.l

The latest fence swindle was per-
petrated on ex-Ccanty Judge Anderson,
near Fairmont, few days since. A
party came along selling township
rights for patent wire fence. The
Judge became possessed with the idea
that the fence was o good thing, and bit
at the sueared balt. The party wanted
the JUDGES note for $3.50 payable as soon
as he had sold two miles of the fence, at
the same time showing conc]usively to
the judges mind that the profit on the
two miles of fence would represent the
$50, so he would be out nothing. The
Judge agreed to the proposition, and the
party left. In short time he returned.
stating as he was not going to leave that
section for short time he would can
vass for the Judge and sell the two miles
of fence for him, and started out pre-
sumably for this purpose. He returned
in short time and represented to the
Judge that he had sold two and one.
fourth miles, and conse equently the note
was due. The facts are that he had moi
sold the fence, but the second chapter
will read about the same as similar
cases; the note will turn up in the handf
of the third party; and the Judge will
have il TO DAY.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-06-13
HAr1As beat Kennedy easily by about

HAs1As beat Kennedy easily BY about
twenty lengths, at Point of Pines, Mass,
Yesterday, It was beautiful race ior
the first hundred yards and kind!ed m
tense enthusiasm among the crowd upon
the shore, wild cheer following tne
men along the course. Hanlan was aP-
parently not doing his best work, whlle
Kennedy was pulling for all ne was
worth. He could not, however, increase
the lead of half len 9Th or so which ne
gained OF the start. Every now ana
then Hanlan would glance over b1e
shoulder at Kennedy and it looked from
the Judges boat, as if he was forcing
his competitor to his highest and
Watching him to see how fast he could
row. For third of mile there was
no change in the relative positions
of the men; then Hanlan as.f salts
fed with his observations of Kennedys
work turned his face away from the
front and settled down to work as 1t ne
meant business, The change was wonder
full. In anipstantthech champion 8 boatshot
| to the fore. and before he had rowed q
dozen strokes, Kennedy's prov was
amidships of Hanlan's shell. Despite
all Kennedy could do. and he worked
hard to regain the ground he had lost,
Hanlan continued to increase his lead.
he drew away from his competitor WITH
the greatest apparent ease and at the
pier, near the boathouse, half mile
from the starting point, he had increased
his lead to five or six lengths, and wa
still gaining. At the turning stake, one
and q half miles from the start, which
Hanlan turned in 9:304 and Kennedy IN
lO:14l. The, excitement as. the cham:
pion neared the finish was intense, and
when he crossed the line in 10 minutes
seconds, leader by twenty lengths
the spectators were wildly demonst!a
| tive. Kennedy came in IN - mlnu1el
| 50 seconds, his time also beating tn
4 best record of 2O:14} made BY Courtney
at Oswego. =,..z .@.>I,z ..s,. W.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-06-13

A NAN named Whitney was lynched at Her.
mann, No., on the 9Th, for the murder OF
CHAR1Es lz1aHroN, postmaster 1t Okla
looEa, H., was relieved Of cash and drafts to
5th inst.
Ar. Onaha, Neb., on the 5tb, Irwin J. somers
was found dead With bullet hole in his head.
Mrs. II. r. Brown, with whom he has been
living for the past seven years, was arrested on
suspicion.
FRANK BBowN and JOHN Anderson, two
desperadoes; died With their boots on at At
lantic, d.; on the Sd. They had been terrorif-
ing the town for several hours by firing their
revolvers before brought down by double
barreled shot gun in the hands Of an unknown
person.
JOHN HAMMER, awaiting trial for the mur-
der Of VIM. Newell, at Winterset, Ia., w.s
taken from the Jail on the night Of the Sd and
hanged.
GEO. W. BURKE, at ono time notorious
countsEteiter, killed Henry Madison, at Brad
AT Ellinger, Tex, DR.. Abney and DR.. SauIs
disagreed and the latter was shot, probably
not fatally. p.
TwEN11.rrs English and Swedish emil
grants, were swindled on the I'd out of $3.50
each by White 4 Basted; New York, by false
promises of employment.
JACOB BUTTERFIELD and "Shach "Sa!er6eld
quarrelled in Chicago, on the Sd, and the latter
was shot in the breast. He may recover, but
the chances are against him.
AT Franklin, Nebraska, on the I'd, a mob
tarred and feathered clergyman who had
been accused of criminal conduct with female
domestic.
AT Harrisburg, Pa, on the stinst., Mrs. Susan
E. Douglass, aged 27, cut the throats of he,
three children, all boys, md then killed her
self: r. ,.
Two murderers-John Boley and Henry
Winebash both colored, were hanged al
Macon, Ga, on the LIST.
ROBERT HENDERsoN was hanged on the Isl
inst, at Raleigh, N. c., for the murder of hi'
wife.
On the LIST inst, two log drivers. John Wag
ner and Alex Brotherton, engaged IN . quarTe
| on the river near Cioquet, Iowa, and Brother
| ton was killed.
In = fight oh the 31st, at salida, COL, W. II
Brown, miner named Evans and T: D. Gau
| non we're killed, and Deputy Marshals Barthurs
| and Stingley nnortally wounded.
q. H. KETcaux, Of MERRIAM. Wis.,; was ar
rested on the 3lst, on chafge Of outrage com
mitted on his tep-daughter, aged IA years.
| PAT ROONEY, the variety actor, was robbe'
in New York on the 91st of q gold watch, chai'
and other jewelry valued at $3.50.
JOSEPH WOLF, wealthy farmer near Day ton
O., suicided on the 3Oth.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-06-13

to the government, has obtained the sig
natures of nine.tenths of the male adults
of Red Cloud agency. He did not push
bis work at Spotted Tail agency, as the
Indians have been q couple of months
without beef and their hearts are bud.
They LOST. during the winter, by storm,
!, 500 head of cattle, and are consequent
" short Oh meat rations: He anticipates
some difficulty at Cheyenne and Brule
agency, as the white men have there been
interfering with the work of the con-
mission by prejudicing the Indians
seainst proposed cession OF a portion
Ct t1eir territory.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-06-13
Preliminary Railway Work.
from the Wall Street NeWs.l

=. Last fall anarrow-gauge road twenty
two miles long was planned, and com
pany organized in Wisconsin, and an
eastern man who scented chance for
profitable investment, called upon the
president to make some inquiries.
= s'How is the new line getting on? he
asked after some general conversation. ..
-: s'Splendid]y. We have the right OF
way for the first five miles, and have
taken steps to 'gobble it for the other
seventeen. -. s&-:': -. -
-; Chow much stock have you issued?"
81 .'Two hundred thousand dollars"
- 'sAnd how much has been sold ?"
.'Well, you see, it has all been prelim.
mary. thus far. We have sold enough
stock to buy blue uniforms for all the
general officers, furnish up several rooms
with mahogany desks aud moqqette car
pets, and q soon ~ We can work ott sui
hoient to purchase horses and carriages
for president, secretary and treasurer and
furnish the superintendent with . yacht
iwe shall begin the 1eA serious work o.
building up grand trunk line.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-06-13
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.

MINNESOTA.
:; FEn9us FAnis has organised d g. A.
r. post.
JOHN MANNING has bteeu convicted of
forgery at Saltwater.
TIE Bishop Whipple school at Moor
head now has "a pupils.
A YOUNG man, name unknown,
recently died from exposure at Wabasha.
Tn1RTY, ZONE years ago the first white
settler-Edward Dly-atrived at WI
n011e.
DULUTH hiss already shipped half
million bushels of wheat this spring by
water.
OwAroNNA is making preparations for
the state fair, and really expects to en-
tertain big crowd.
AN insurance company is out s40, the
value of an insured COW, struck by light
nipg near Rochester.
A kE#&iAkRD has been offered for the
body of Mr.. Smith, who recsRtlg disapH
peared from Valley City.
DAssE1, Meeker County, with apopu-
lation Of $50, bas three local papers and
| is threatened with three more.
NEBRASKA sbarpefs shipped large
amount Of worthless seed corn to Roch-
ester end other towns of the state.
THREE 15-year-olds stole q keg of
beer and got glorlously drunk. One is
serving thirty days term in the lock-
| up.
ANNA B1cKET at Mankato bought
strychnine to poison rats, but took it her
self. The suicides parents live at Min
ncapolis:
TIE body Of Elmer, Gould: who mys.
teliouely diSappeard from Duluth sew.
eral weeks ago has been found in theS
Louis River.
The annual fair Of the Olmstead
County Agricultural Society will be held
iu Rochester September 10th and con:
tinue five days.
The Methodists of the Winona and
Mankato districts viii hold a camp meet.
lug at Clear Lake, heat Wascca, about
the. 1st of July.
| FATHER E FRANcis, of st. johu's uni
vers,ty at St. Cloud was tl1rqwa from 9
carriage the other day and had All art1
broken and shoulder dislocated.
| A. e CALDWELL and Robert Bloom
of Sioux Falls, have purchased the out
fit of the Wo1tbington Journal aud viii
resuscitate the paper at an early date.
JOHN KING, pilot Of the Centennial
which ran into skiff and drowne d on
of the occupants In Lake PepiD, ha'
been fined $3.50 and dismissed in tn
Wabasha court.
l J. J. SQU1REs, village marshal of Rusl
City, has been dismiss ed by the cOunci
, for an un provoked assault on Franl
Warner, q former employe of his, bu'
, who wss starting rival meat shoE
across the street from him.
One of the largest transfers of lant
which have occurred in Barnes Count,
for some time has been recorded in th
Office OF register of deeds The none.
: involved is $95, COO. and the number o
acres transferred G, 800, making the pric
per acre over Sl5.
Some changes are announced in tn
! faculty Of Carleton college. Miss Elle1
. F. Huntsucceeds Miss Seerlo (who goe
to Japan as q missionary teacher) as az
t sistant to the professor of Latin. She
t q graduate of Lawrence University, Ap
yleton, Wis. She has also taken
: special course at Wellesley. Pro-
Q Charles Fl. Cooper, of Dartmouth; is t
take the chair Of history. He is gradu
ate of Dartmouth, and stands very hig
in tho appreciation of those who kn0'
him. Miss Mary E. Byrd, from An
Arbor and Wellesley, is to become Pro-
g Paxne's permanent assistant.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-06-13
A Mouth Full Of Diamonds.


''Diamond dealers have a very hard
time of it to keep up with the sehemes
constantly evolved by sharpers to rob
them," exclaimed a lieutenant of police.
'sThere Is new scheme called the
tongue racket 1t is, in my Judgment,
one of the finest ever conceived"
t'How is it worked?"
"Hy tive thieves-a man and woman,
who 1sual1y assame the role of husband
and wife; The pair drive up in a car
riage before the jewelry shop they have
selected, and alighting, enter the
door. The man always appears very
eyed and infirm and leans heavily on the
woman's atm for support. A pair of
crutches even heightoa the effect. Reach.
ing the diamond counter the old man
seats himself. He is too weak to stand:
His arms are evidently partially para
lyzed and hang limp by his side. BE
asks to see some loose diamonds. The
clerk holds the tray very close 70 the
mans eyes because his eyesight is SO
poor. Having no use Of his arms and
hands the clerk even takes up gem that
he can truthfully commend and shows it
| to the prospective purchaser. The tray
is set before the old man. but the
clerks eyes are riveted upon the gems.
of course. SeS5tal paper packages OF
the briiliants are opened. Glearly the
old mar is selecting a memorial pres ent:
Ultimately several packages arc spread
out on the tray. Perhaps hundred or
more diamonds. The ncareightedness
of the puot old man Increases. He leans
even further over and, With his face close
to the gems; gazes tixedly at them. just
at this junctufe the woman, with an ec'
static exclamation, points to some prom
inent article In an adjacent .case or
the will behind the clerk. lnstinctitely
the eye of TIE s.leeman follows the di
rection indicated. One Instant is enough
The thlef's tongue meanwhile mas beer
thrust into one OF the open parcels o.
diamonds, and as quickly withdrawn in
to his mouth with three or four OF th'
gems adhering to it. The theft cah only
be detected by weighing the parcel O.
counting the gems. This is rarely re
sorted to, as no suspicion is excited. Th'
next move on the part of the thieves il
to select couple Of gems and o1de
them set; or to order them sent G: o. y
to any address in respectable localit..
that occurs to their minds. Then the
enter their carriage and drive away"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-06-13

&c. ONLY one man in thirty carries an
umbrella 30 as to protect his back. II
he keeps his vest buttons dry his coat
tails are never thought 9,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-06-13

THR Baron de. Bonnemains, one OF
Marehal MacM Mahon's o aides, and Lieuten-
ant Weiss, q relative Of President Grevy,
Of France, have settled down on large
sheep ranch % Montana Territory, #.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1883-05-31
WANT sATISrACTION.

The town of Coltax, like almost all
other towns in Washington Territory re-
Gently visited by Mr. Willard, is extreme
" anxious to know what the ruler of these
outlying provinces has in store for it,
and so, last week, its citizens appointed II
committee to visit and consult with the
officers of the o. r. 4 Mo- at Portland.
The committee appointed consisted of
Messrs. L. N. Sweet, Leon Kuhn and
JAS. A. Perkins, Mayor Of the town, and
these gentlemen left here last night on
their mission The building up of the
Oregon Improvement Company's new
town on Rebel Flat seems to be the thorn
just now piercing the flesh of Colfax,
and Notwithstanding the assurance with
which the railroad organ in that towo has
predicted the arrival of Pullman palace
cars, etc, during the coming summer,
they have awokc to the fact that the cit
liens Of Washington propose and Willard
disposes. We hope they may be success
full in getting him to dispose as they pro-
pose. Democrat.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1883-05-31
ANOTHER ROAD IN PROSPECT

|, is understood that Ainsworth 4 Co
have men at work building wagon road
and intend finally to build a railroad from
Eagle pass, point about 800 miles in-
land from the Pacific coast, on the Cana
dian Pacific railroad, south forth-four
miles into the kootenai country. Prelim-
mary surveys have been run through
there over year ago. Ii. NJ. Mozart
ney, Chief Engineer of the new line, is
now on the ground preparing for an ac-
tive summers work. Neil Mcneil, form
erly at the Northern Pacific front, is
Superintendent of Construction. He has
at present near 200 men ut work, and
pete" Fairwea,her left Portland Tues
day morning with animals aud supplies
for the new road. They will he taken
by water to Yale, B. c., and thence over
the Canadian Pacific route to destination.
". Democrat.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1883-05-31
DOMESTIC HAPPINESS OF
GREAT AMERICANS.

Take American public life, for instance,
and it il remarkable what a vast proper
ton of noted men have been very happily
married Washingon's domestic life was
so simple and pleasant it was commented
on continually, until people tired Of hear
ing about it. The home. of John Adams
and hi, son, John Quincy Adams, were
models in every respect; and Mrs. Abigail
Adams was without question the -trong
est.mindcd woman in the country, from
the outbreak Of the revolution to the end
Of the century Jefferson 50 idolised his
wife that her death overwhelmed him,
and he lived ever after in a halo of her
memoir. Madison and Monroe were
both devoted husbands, and Mr.. Monroe
was one of the most distinguished Of The
women who have presided at tn Whit
House. Jackaon's devotion to hi. wife
was shown by tenderness and service
which even his enemies praised and by
wounds be carried ~ his grave The
Van Burens were happy people. John
Tyler married while President and his
widow still lives. Polk looked up to his
wife As though she was a queen, and a
right royal one she would have been had
she been born to that misfortune Mr..
and Mrs. Fillmore had very delightful
home. Mr.. and Mrs. Pierce were a, hap
PLY united as husband and wifi, could
be. There are no scandals of any sort in
the White House. And that represents
the characteristic home life Of the Amer
lean people. What is other than that is
adycnttious and morbid and false liz.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1883-05-31

Modern medical science is gaining a
fDothold in China. Miss Howard, an
American physician, having been called
upon to treat the mother and the vile
of the Chinese Viccroy, Iii Hung Chang,
has become very famous among ari-tocrat-
ic Chinese ladies, who now flock to coz
suit her. 1t is also said that the Emper-
or of China has arranged to educate a
number of youths in European medicine
and survey in Hndostan colleges.