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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-08-08
What Wells Thinks of Austin,

Arriving at Austin our attention was at
once attracted by the magnificent new
court house in course of construction.
None can view this pile of brick and NOR
tar without admiring it, but to our mind
it is too grand or the surroundings. We
visited the factory of the Austin Canning
and Preserving Co. which is on the east
side, and found them busy at work pilin q
up the cans, Of which they now have
about 80, 900, which is less than half they
intend to make. Contracts have been
made with farmers for corn and tomatoes,
and as soon as possible the work of can
ming will begin. From the cannery we
went to the Springdale Creamery Of Page
& Richardson, which for convenience of
arrangement and natural advantages
stands at the head of all the creameries
in thescountry. The spring which sup
plies the water used. is cool and clear as
crystal year in and year out. Under the
guidance of Mr.. Richardson, we visited
the cream room, churning room, refriger-
ator and engine room. We also looked
at the very complete arrangement for
washing and steaming cans. Having
seen all of the inside of the creamery, we
started on tour of the outside, ending
up with the pig pens which are so conve
ously supplied with sunlight, that any
kind Of pig ought to make 500 pound
porker. Mr.. r.. don't keep any of the
scrub hogs. He has the squarest and
most thrifty looking lot Of pigs that it
has been our fortune to see: Springdale
Creamery makes about 1000 pounds Of
butter every day. Like the Wells Cream
cry, they get the highest price paid in the
market. Messrs Page g Richardson can
well feel. proud Of Springdale which we
would like to describe in detail had we
the space. Austin is on the improvp.
slowly but surely. - Wells Aduocatct Is S. {.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-08-08

Total. .$1S, 565
Most of the property was fully insured,
but only against fire, and the loss will fall
entirely on the owners. To them a fire
would have been blessing as compared
with this calamity. Fortunately no one
will be ruined. H. o. Basford suffers
heavy loss of type and jobbing material !;
but he left immediately for St. Paul and
Chicago for new outfit. The Reg,ster
will be printed for the present in the
TRANsCRIPT office, and Its publication de-
layed but a day or two.
The stores of Hill & Co., and J. Greg
son which stood adjoining Ira Jones
building are badly damaged. So great
is the pressure of the debris against them
that they are racked to one side and the
glass fronts ruined. The shed in the
rear of Mr.. Hills store was totally shat
tered, and the groceries in it destroyed.
As soon as the rubbish is cleared away
these stores will be Strengthened up with
jack screws and put in thorough repair.
1t is hoped that the loss of all will be
less than it now appears it will be; for
much is simply covered with dust and
looks worse than it is.
This is no time to adorn tale or point
a moral but we cannot resist remarking
that this disaster ought to put an end
to trusting in poor foundations,
10 cheap brick-laying; and to f1imsy
frames. A little more money would ena
bic our mechanics to put up buildings
that can not fall. The county is pursu-
ing the right course with the courthouse.
At all events we hope that no more such
calamities may occur in our growing
CITY.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-08-08
LIE ROY.

w. Hayes has finished cutting his bar
ley, and it is in good condition.
Our editor seems to be on the fly lust
now; is taking in the beauties of Southern
Dakota.
Miss Lizzie Porter has completed her
sojourn in Minneapolis and returned to
her home last Monday accompanied by
Miss Aggie House, who is the welcome
guest Of grandpa and grandma Porter.
&C. A. Smart who returned at the de.
sire of his mother from D. T. has, as q
faithful son, watched at the bedside of
his loved mother these many days. And
now that she is laid away to rest in the
silent tomb, he will return the last of the
week to look after his interests there
LeRou IndeDendent
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-08-08

get it and to be the post master. A
teacher from Minneapolis has already
started school, which is we'll attended
The store is utilized for Sunday school
purposes and for church sociables; but it
is too small to accommodate all the pupils.
More than one hundred were present at
the first church sociable. Mr.. Baird is
certainly cnterprising in thus pushing out
on the frontier. The little town ought to
be named Bairdvillc in honor Of his
energy. At any rate the TRANSCRIPT so
christens it, and sends to it and its foun-
der its best wishes.
Recently Sheriff Corey's little daugh-
ter, girl six years of age, performed a
job which lifts her into notoriety second
only to that of the unfortunate victim of
her tonsorial proclivity. Having been in
or near barber shop, and observed the
process of hair cutting, she resolved to
try her hand at it, and she did, too. By
means of that wonderful power of per-
suasion which she doubtless inherited
three year old child of Will Stewart, to sit
hair cut. Snip, snip, snip went the scls
sors, and one by one dropped off the lit
tie silken curls which were the golden
setting for her sweet, baby face. One by
fell the little ringlets which fond mother
had often twined around her finger, and
perhaps had often moistencd with tears
Of JOY as she watched their growth. But
Nellie sat still, and the cruel scissors
sheared away her beauty. Poor Nellie's
head 1t looked like big bunch of
whipped cream, run over by glacier
upheaved by an earthquake and smoothed
down by cyclone. Her hair was cut
tight enough to make the heart of a print
ers devil leap with joy. There was not
hair enough left to tempt Sioux Indian
to scalp her. What there was displayed
itself in zigzag corrugations and fantastic
figures. Scattered here and there over
the vast expansc of baby Uranium were
little patches of glistening scalp Her
parents had to be introduced to her, They
don't like the Job one single bit. They
are not even thankful that it was so skill
fully done that not an eye or an ear Is
missing. But they must wait until the
little head is again clothed by kind nature
and guard it better next time. The other
girl-but ask the sheriff. lie is happy.
He can now capture criminals and fit them
for the penitcntiary. The ability of his
little daughter to crop the prisoners heads,
which she will do without charge, makes
him an invulnerable candidate for the peo-
nile
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-08-08
A Good Word for Dakota People.

IhoVCo1S, -. L., uiy 1OCO
EDITOR TRANSCRIPT Noticing in the
R'rotW Of Grand Meadow that Dakota is
largely settled with people who can not
pay their debts at home, wish te say that
while there may be q few such We do not
think it should be so stated as rule, as
the Recoi1i would have it's readers under
stand. We have great and glorious
commonwealth here, and we do not wish
to be stiymatized as tramps. Generally
speaking, Dakota is settled with as good
a class of citizens as can be found in any
country outside of her borders. If the
editor of the Record, who, by the way,
has changed his trade as often as any
man who ever tried to be an editor, would
only come out into this country and see
the school-houses and churches, he would
not think we are the offsco,lrings of all
creation. We have two denominations
numbering about Is, and DeSmet, the
county seat of our county, has four
churches numbering about 100 members.
Wehave five weekly newspapers printed
here that will compare favorably with
any outside of this county. We have a
good county seat and four other villages
in our county of Kingsbury, viz Nord-
land, Lake Preston Manchester, and Iro
quois, the home of your correspondent.
We have just elected delegates 10 the
Constitutional convention to be held at
Sioux Falls, and instructed item to work
and vote for clause to the constitution
prohibiting the sale and manufacture of
Intoxicating liquors. Does this look as
though we were below the average? Our
crops will compare favorably with the
crops in any of the states, and better than
in many of them.
We have taken the TRANSCRIPT. ever
since its first issue, and we learn by it
that in building up one locality it is not
necessary to tear down another. We
hope the Record will take lessons from it
and let its readers understand that we are
but one people of one grand and glorious
commonwealth which has proven itself
one too many for every emergency it has
been placed in. No, Mr.. Rscord, we are
not rascals here, but honest citizens gem
orally. X.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-08-08
As whom She was Young.

II have used Parker's Hair Balsam and
like it better than any similar preparation
know Of" writes Mrs. Ellen Perry, wife
Of Rev. P. Perry, of Coldbrook Springs,
Mass. MY hair was almost entirely
gray, but dollar bottle of the Balsam
has restored the softness, and the brown
color it had when l was young-not a
single gray hair left Since I began ap-
plying the Balsam my hair has stopped
falling out, and l find that it is perfectly
harmless and agreeable dressing"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-08-08

& For lame Bacf, Side or Chest, use Shiloh .
Porous Plaster. Price Is cents. ~ $50.
/ sH1LUH's COUGH and Consumption Cure
is sold BY ua on g guarantee. 1t cures con'
! sRlLOH's vITAL1zER is what you need
Tor Constipation, Loss OF Appetite, Dizziness
and all symptoms Of Dyspepsia. Price 10 and
Z GROUP Ss6i5 P'1 W Tt5i COUGH and Bron,
chitis Immediately relieved by Shiloh.s Cure,
For sale By nORR 4 WO1,1. = = :"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-08-08
A Run On q Drug Store,

A Run On q Drug Store.
Never was such a rush made for Drug
Stores as now at any of them for trial
bottle of DR.. Kings New Discovery for
consumption, coug hs and colds. All
persons affected with asthma, bronchitis,
hoarseness, severe coughs or any affection
of the throat and lungs, can get a trial
bottle of this great remedy free, by calling
at above drug store. Regular size 81. 5
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-08-08

A GOOD tslker on the stage or platform,
in SOCIETY or at home, must not only pos
sess brains but clear strong voice. Ca
tarrl,, ora severe GOLD; is almost certain
to injure the VOICE. Hut these complaints
may be completely eradicated with
q few applications Of Thomas Eclectrft
Oil unrfvaled In its speclalties. Sold BY
Dorr e. Void F&S -: 49, =, '23
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-08-08
Bucklen,s Arnica Salve.

The greatest medical wonder of the
world. !, Warranted to speedily cure burns,
bruises, cuts, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, cancers, piles. chilblaips, corns,
letter, cllapped hands. and all skin erup'
tions, guaranteed to cure In every in.
stance. or money refunded. Is cents pc,
box. For sale by all druggists. *,s
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-08-08

loved lodge room, A cage, containing a
canary and in the third story of Bias
ford's building, was pulled from under
the roof. 1t was somewhat out of shape,
but the bird was safe and was soon rescu-
ed. The furniture generally was totally
destroyed, broken into thousand frag-
ments but a fine large mirror was taken
out uninjured.
1t is not possible to state the loss suffer
ed on account of this disaster. The build
ings originally cost probably $4,000,
and of course the owners have lost prop
erty which cost them that amount. How
ever, the buildings as they were, were
really of no value, and so far as they are
considered, their fall was opportune, and
benefit to the city and to their owners.
Ira Jones says he has lost nothing, no
more than he would by the death of q
horse whose lungs were gone, whose liver
was consumed, and whose hide was raked
into shoe-strings by barbed wire. He
thinks the damage to his stoves can not
exceed one hundred dollars. As good an
= ~
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-08-08
e Average - Average
Scholarship. Department,

Number of scholars enrolled, 10 aver
age attendance for term, II number
cases of hardness, g.; time lost by. ,tardi
ness, hour and Is minutes; neither
absent nor tardy, Hannah Nichols. I.
ANNA VAIL, Teacher.
-Messrs. Fred Baird and John Cressey
seem to have struck a rich lead in Dako-
ia. They have two stores, the main one
N. w. r. r., from which they ship goods
to the other; the second on Baird s claim
twenty-three miles west in Faulk Co.and
sixty miles east of the Missouri river.
The location Of the new store on Baird's
claim IS the nucleus Of what must be 9
business center. Already more than
eighty buildings can be counted 81. sight
of the place. Mr.. Baird has sent tina PEE
tition Of 3 hundred names for tie sestab
lishment Of post Office, He is sure to
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-08-08

Mr.. G. A. Miller, Clerk of Circuit
Court, Westminster, Md, says: II used
| Browns Iron Bitters and found it good
tonic and appetizer"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-08-08
For Sale at q Bargaln !

A desirable house and improved farm
of 1913 acres only one half mile north of
the city of Austin. All enclosed with a
good fence. rs acres under cultivation.
Good buildings, good soil and good loca-
ton. For price and terms enquire Of
E. B. CRANE, or F. !. CRANE,
Aug. Sd, 1883. Austin, MINI,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-08-08

WELLS CROUCH ON ConNs. ASK for
Wells Rough on Corns." 15c. Quick,
complete, permanent cure. Corns, warts,
hllniOns
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-08-08
Never Give Up.

If you are suffering with low and de-
pressed spirits, loss of appetite, general
debility, disordered blood, weak consti.
tuition, headache, or any disease of a bill
ious nature, by all means procure bottle
of Electric Bitters. You will be surpris-
sS Ssy 561 viii Pe be- gpqed %S a'
strength and activity will return; pain
and misery will cease, and hencef orth you
will rejoice in the praise of Electric Bit
tiers. Sold at fifty cents bottle by all
druggists. 5
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-08-08
Polishing the Wrong End.

Many men daily polish their boots who
never give thought to the condition of
their hair. except to harrow it occasion
nlly with brush and comb. or submit it to
the paralyzing attention of the average
barber. What happens? Why this
From neglect, mental anxiety, or any of
~ score of causes, the hair turns preEa-
turely gray and begins to fall out. Par
kcr's Hair Balsam will at once stop the
latter process and restore the original
color. An elegant dressing, free from
grease. T.. :z.-: 2,l4:.: ~ 4
A PosTAL card from Mrs. Dennis Smith,
Louisville, KY, says: ''For blood impu-
rites Burdock Blood Bitters seem partic-
,llarly adapted. Never before had COM
plexion so clear. Use all the time. Sold
by Dorr s. Void. Nh d. s.; : I. II ,.5s
Or MATcHLEss MERIT. For. the nose
and throat, externally of internally used,
Thomas Electric Oil is g. matchless.
Asthma, catarrh. and serious throat adec-
tions are quickly annenable 70 this efficient
remedy. Sold BY DOR &-Wold.
St. Landry democrat., 1883-11-03
A Shocking Fate.

ST.. PAUL, MINI, Oct, "a
Near Lake Washington, LIE Sueur County,
L. Chapman, of the firm of Hammel g.
Chapman, Lake Washington Saw-mill, was
this afternoon engaged in the mill as head
sawyer, and in going about his work in
some manner lost his footing and fell on
the saw while it was in motion, and he was
horribly mutilated. His right arm was
badly sawed in number of places, and his
skull was sawed clear through, and part
of the brain was found on log near by.
Chapman was still living at five p. M, but
his death was expected every minute. He
has been operating saw-mills for many
years, and is:widely and fsYorably known
St. Landry democrat., 1883-11-03
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

A MAN bitten by cur dog at Des
Moines, Ia, got verdict for S225 damages
from the owner on the 26th.
LORD CoLERIDGE addressed the Yale
students and was entertained by President
Porter on the Goth.
FRANCIS j. KELLY, the boy murderer
| of r. T. Winett, at Rockford, Ind, has
been sentenced to imprisonment for life.
The Ceur de Leon gold excitement
has reached Salt Lake City, and miners
are starting north to the new placer dig
gings.
Two engines and twelve cars were
wrecked on the morning of the 26th at the
Fremont (O.) depot of the Wheeling d
Lake Erie Road.
| INSURANCE COMMISSIONER TARBox
of Massachusetts has refused to reinstate
the United States Plate Glass Insurance
Company.
A YOUNG woman named Jennie Metz
ger was assaulted at Indianapolis the night
of the 26th by an unknown man and woman
and dangerously cut.
DIR. A. j. LEITCH, of Mineral Bridge,
O., on the 26th dropped lighted newspa-
per into gas well fifty feet deep and was
fatally injured in the explosion which fol-
lowed.
The trial, for hypothecating pay ac-
counts, of Lieut.. c. E. Hargons, ON the
Fifth Infantry, has resulted in a sentence
of one months suspension from rank and
command.
|
DESIGNS have been invited for the
main building of the Worlds Industrial
Cotton Centennial Exposition at New Or
leans. The building is to embrace 1,0OO,-
600 square feet.
THIRTY wells in the Allegheny, Pa, }
oil fed have stopped flowing, and this,
| it is thought, fortells the collapse OF the
New York oil field also.
WHAT is called the Overland Iele-
phone Company has been organized at Gin.
ctnnati, with $500, 600 capital. 1t is under
stood to be branch of a New York COM
Ipany.
Four THOUSAND unstamped Chinese
letters were discovered on the 18th on the
steamer Toxic arriving in San Francisco.
1t is thought similar fraud is practiced in
sending unstamped letters to China.
The Peoples Railway Company, of
Indianapolis, a concern organized with an
authorized capital of $175, 5,0oO,00o, has be-
gun suit against the Chicago Times for
$500, 900 for reflections on the company's
character.
| ALEX. MITCHELL, the millionaire
President Of the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul Railroad, was rendered a grand recep-
tion by Milwaukeeans on the 26th, in honor
of his safe return from Europe. The mill.
ltary turned out.
St. Landry democrat., 1883-11-03
A MANAGES FREAK.
A Man Considered as Harmless Crank
Embraces Red-Hot Stove and is Liter
ally Roasted to Death-Burned to Deaths
in the Woods.
WARRENToN, NO, Oct. a.

ally Roasted to Death-Burned to DeatIss
in the Woods.
WARRENToN, Mo-, Oct. "a
The citizens of this place have tonight,
witnessed horrible spectacle. A man by
the name of keeney, who was considered a.
harmless crank, has been wandering
around town day or two, and this even
ing, as he was cold and wet, the authorities;
locked him up in the large room adjoining
the Jail, under the Courthouse. A good,
hot fire was burning in the coal stove, and
the Jailer left him there and went to supper
Some time afterward persons passing on the
street heard terrible cries in that direction,
and on going to ascertain the cause saw
Keeney standing up and hugging the red-hot
stove and his clothes on fire. The door was
broken and the man snatched away as
quickly as possible, but too late to save
him from terrible death. The flesh from
his breast, arms and face was literally
roasted. DIR. kamlach was called in and
pronounced the case hopeless. Keeney is
the same man who was knocked off the rail-
road track at the Red Hill bridge last
spring and crippled. He was for some time
afterward quite rational, and no one
dreamed he was SO insane as to walk into
the jaws of death in this fashion.
The excitement over the strange death of
keeney has hardly died away before we
have second. Daniel Ellie went to the.
woods with his gun and it is supposed shot
himself, his Clothes taking fire and his body
burning to ashes from the knees to the up
per part Of the chest.
St. Landry democrat., 1883-11-03

STEPS are being taken by the Nation
al Board of Steam Engineers to have Con-
gress revise the navigation laws.
THE most noted case recently dock
eted in the United States Supreme Court is
that of the City of New Orleans VS.. Myra
Clark Gaines. The record in the caseis the
largest ever submitted to the Supreme
Court, or probably any other court. 1t IS
bound in one immense volume, which
weighs over 200 pounds and contains $780,
900 words. 1t takes two men to open and
shut the book.
Two convicts, John Taylor and Jo
seph Bird, escaped from the Penitentiary
at Salt Lake City, Utah, on the 25th, snatch
ing rifle from the guasd as they ran.
THERE were nine more deaths from
cholera at Alexandria, Egypt, on the 25th.
ONE of the Irish murder conspirators,
Michael Waters, died in prison on the
25th.
IT is recommended by the Naval Ad-
yisory Board that seven new war ships be
constructed.
In recent fight Mexican troops are
reported to have routed the Apaches with
great slaughter.
LATE news by cable is to the effect
that Russia in her foreign policy is entirely
devoted to peace.
AN English firm has been awarded
the contract for turret armor for the. United
States Monitor Miantonomah.
On the 25th the Society of the Army
i tol ~ lof4,n
and decided to meet next year at Roches-
ter, N. Y.
IT is charged by Henri Rochefort that
the French Ministry have an understand
ing with the Due d'Aumale to restore the
Orleans dynasty.
For insulting the royal family Rich
ter, a Secession deputy in the German
Reichstag, has been sentenced to six
months Imprisonment.
OFFICERS of the United States survey
steamer Hassler, just returned from Alas
ka, report the discovery of fine harbor at
the southern end of Nichol Pass.
IT has been decided by the Treasury
Department to reopen the question as to
the amount of duty to be paid on imported
rice. Brewers are lutetSSGcu III tue Actl~
sion.
A DEsPERADo named David Salusa,
for whom the San Miguel County authori-
ties had offered $500 reward, was captured
on the t24th by cowmen at Wagon Mound,
Texas, and taken to Las Vegas, N. M.
In Philadelphia suit has been begun
on behalf of Mary Rose Berlear against the
Sisters of the Order of ST. Francis, to re-
cover $1,000 deposited with the order in
money and goods upon her admission eight
cen years ago, and six years salary at 81
500 for services as needle woman.
A PROCLAMATION being extensively
circulated by the Russian Nihilists de-
mands that the Gar shall summon repre-
sentatives of the Russian people, and asks
for full amnesty, freedom of the press, free
dom Of speech, and the right to hold public
meeting as the only means of preventing
revolution. Pitiless vengeance is threaten
ed if the demands of the Nihilists are dis
regarded.