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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-10-31
RAILROAD RUIN.
A Train Drops Through a Bridge and
Falls into Creek, Near Fort
Edward, New York.

Fort EDWARD, N. Y, October 3d.
Train No. 78, leaving Glenns Falls at 8
P. N. to connect with the New York and
Montreal express at Fort Eaward, fell
through canal bridge near Fort Ed
ward Station yesterday afternoon. Only
one person on the train escaped injury.
The bridge is on a curve and about
twenty feet above the water. The engine
slowed up when nearing Fort Edward. but
in going over the bridge, the engineer,
Edward Deal, felt the structure totter.
He threw the throttle wide open and
passed over in safety. When the tender
struck the other side of the bridge, Deal
felt q sudden lurch, and, looking back
ward, he saw the bridge, baggage Car,
and passenger coach go down into the
water. Immediately there was intense
excitement. The fire bells were rung,
and hundreds soon arrived at
the scene and assisted in remov-
ing the dead and wounded from
the wreck. The passenger coach
lay upon it's right side, the bottom Of
the windows being on level with the
water. John Jenkins, the conductor,
was in the middle of the car when it
went down. He was seriously disabled,
but did not lose his presence of mind
Binding his cap on his head, he broke
through the windows of the left side
and crswled to the roof. Some of
the bridge timbers had crushed through
the roof, and these were re-
moved and the occupants of the
car were removed through the aperture.
Mrs. NJ. J. Monahan, of Glen Falls,
Garrett Winkoop, of Gloyersville, and
Dallas Crippen, were killed. Mrs.
Monahan was on her way to Fort Ed
ward, having been called to the bedside
of her dying mother. Twenty-foux per-
sons were wounded; of these it is feared
that Mrs. N. A. Burritt, wife of the
station agent at Fort Edward, and Bene.
dict Theise, will not recover.
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A SENSATION IN CLEVELAND.
Failure Of John N. GIidden, Secretary Of
the Republic iron Company.

CLEVELAND, October 23.-To-day'
sensation III business circles is the fail
ure of John N. Glidden, secretary of
the Republic Iron Co., late yesterday.
The company filed in the circuit court
claims against him for upward of $111,-
600, on which he confessed Judgment.
As security the company holds his stock,
the market value of which is about q
quarter of million, but it is understood
considerable of this is pledged for other
debts and questions of priority of claim
are likely to arise. Mr.. Glidden stated this
morning to an Associated Press reporter
that his failure is solely attributed to
the shrinkage of values in the legitimate
iron business. His indebtedness to the
company is for ore purchased on his own
account and sold to other parties
ard for transportation. He says that
in year and a half he has lost over
three hundred thousand dollars from
this cause. He will call meeting of
his creditors and ask extension Of time.
Glidden's embarrassment will not ATTEST
the Republic Iron Company, whose capi-
tai stock is $4,000, 900 and which owns
perhaps the most valuable mining
property in America; nor will it affect
the firm of Glidden & Manning, which
does strictly commission business anu
has no debts.
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GETTING RICH TOO FAST.
A Railroad Clerk Saves Ninety Dollars
Month Out Of Salary Of
Eighty Dollars.

PHILADELPHIA, October 20. - The
Times to day prints an account of the
thieving operations of number Of
trusted employees of the Junction Rail-
road Company. 1t is admitted by an
officer Of the company that further
efforts to hush up the affair have been
abandoned, and that warrants will be
issued for the arrest of the inculpated
persons early next week. Charles E.
Pugh, one of the officers of the juno
ton Road, is director of the Cen
tennial National Bank. Recently, in
the exercises of his duties Of director,
Mr.. Pugh was informed that surprising
ly large bank accounts stood to the
credit of some of the clerks of the juno
tion Railroad Company. One of the
clerks who received a salary of $50 per
month generally deposited $50 in bank
every four weeks. Inquiry showed that
in addition to this evidence of frugality
the clerk was providing literally for
his family. He was employed in the
pay department., and when his
pay rolls were examined it was found
that he had drawn at least $11 500 of the
company's money by placing the names
of dummies on the list. He was the
con of we'll known and trusted rail-
road manager. He was suspended al
once, but the parent made good SIS, OOC
of the loss at once, and has since paid
the balance. The company, however,
declined in the most positive manner to
guarantee that the man would not be
nrOsecuted
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An Electric Gun.
rFnom fha Pail Mall Gazette

One of the most interesting novelties
at the Vienna international exhibition is
an electric gun. The powder is fred by
means Of piece of platinum in the
cartridge, and the electric current neces-
sary for heating the platinum is OBJ
tanned from a little accumulator, which
must be worn with belt specially de-
vised for the purpose. Besides the ac-
cumulator and q belt, q glove and
shoulder-strap are necessary; the glove
is worn on the left hand and is connect
ed with one pole of the accumulator, tho
strap with the other. All this would, it
must be confessed, be rather formid-
able addition to q soldiers accoutre-
ments, and one is hardly surprised to
hear that the inventors do not expect
their patent to be Immediately adopted
in all the European armies. Meanwhile
thew point out that the electric gun af-
fords several advantages, besides the
charm of novelty, which ought to com
mend it to the sportsman. In the hrst
place, it is said to be very economical;
and what new application of electricity
is ever said to be anything else-at first ?
There is no great saving on the gun or
the cartridges, but then only quarter
of the ordinary charge of powder is neces:
sary. Moreover, thegun is economical OF
time and trouble. The cartridges serve
many times over, and there is none OF
the bother of taking off the old caps.
But the crowning merit which is claimed
for the electric gun is that it is warrant
ed never to "kick." If this warranty be
really true, the application of electricity
| to sport ought not to be long delayed.
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smaller every way now than at that time,
and greatly reduced both in bone and
muscle. His eye-sight is tolerably
good; he can see distinctly at great dis
tance and can distinguish objects on a
mountain six or seven miles distant
with greater ease than many young per-
sons. In fact, he can see better at that
distance than very much nearer. he is
of course very dull in hearing, as might
be supposed. His teeth were all gone
forty years ago, but those who are more
intimately acquainted with him affirm
that his third set are now fast appearing.
His other senses are comparatively
good. His mental faculties are not
much impaired either, except that he is
getting rather peevish and self-willed,
aud somewhat childish in his converse
tion. When we'll advanced in life Mr..
Smith married comparatively young
lady, who, though now on the verge of
a ripe old age, is nearly two score years
younger than her husband.
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An Old Timer.
tFrom the Pictou IN. S.) News.]

From the Pictou IN. 81 News.l
There is q man at present living at
Waugh's River, three miles from Tatam-
agouche village, in the county of COL
chester, who is probably older any other
man in Nova Scotia. His name is John
Smith. He was born in the Shetland is
lands, Scotland, in the year 1765, and is
therefore just l18 years of age. having
outlived by nearly half century the
period allotted to man. His father was
ScotchmaD, but his mother was OF
foreign extraction. He enjoyed few
educational privileges, having spent his
early years as q shepherd boy in the
highlands of Scotland. Mr.. Smith is OF
medium height, but is very much
stopped and greatly emaciated. Those
who remember seeing him about twenty
five or forty years ego, ray be i much
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-10-31
GENERAL.

The Army Of the Cumberland held its annual
| meeting at Cincinnati, o., on the 24th. Gen.
Sheridan presided.
Snow to the depth of several inches fell at
Hanover, N. H., on the Oath.
The twenty seventh annual conclave Of the
Grand Commandery Knights Templar, of Illinois
was held at Chicago, on the 24th.
MATTHIAS A. Fox, pioneer Of Dane County;
Wis.,, died at Oregon, Wis.,, on the Oath, aged
IS years.
Dr.. SEXTON II. WALKER, several years ago q
prominent and wealthy physician of st. Louis,
No., died in poverty at that place on the 24th,
aged IS years.
PATRICK EaAN, the noted Irish agitator has
located at Lincoln, Neb., where he will go into
the grain business. On the 24th he applied
for his first papers of citizenship. He has also
sent for his family who are still In Ireland.
MOSES TRAuTxAN l. Co., Wholesale clothiers,
Phihdelphia, Pa, failed on the Gath. Liabili-
ties S160,000.
GOLD in paying quantities, quartz and
placer, has been found near Lisbon, OAK.
W. P. COPELAND, well-known Washington
correspondent, died at Philadelphia. Pa, Oh
the 23d, aged 81 years.
CHARLES MCCARTNEY, an editor, killed two
| roughs who waylaid him on the Goth, at Flem-
lngsburg. Ky.
In q quarrel between two families hamed
syms and Rogers, on the 2ist, at Mclean
Church, Barry County, Ga., three OF the Syms
| family father and two s0ns-were killed.
On the 10th thirty-two editors from Florida
visited Chicago, Ill.,, on an excursion.
Rev. DR. HENRY POTTER was, on the 20th,
consecrated assistant bishop Of the Episcopal
| diocese Of New York. The ceremonies were
| impressive and imposing.
| AN almost unknown tr0tter named Frank,
| owned by James Keenan,. of Boston, trotted a
mile at Fleetwood Park, on the 18th, in 2:11.
A LARGE body of convicts on the island Of
Poolo- Condor. in the China Sea, mutinied on
| the 18th and escaped. Two Of the keepers
were killed and several injured in the melee.
MOODY, the evangelist, Is being troubled by
rowdies in Cork.
GEN. JAMES B. STEADMAN died at Toledo on
the 18th.
TIE Association for the Advancement of
Women held it's eleventh annual session at
Chicago on the 18th, 18th aud 10th.
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NEWS OF THE WEEK,
FOREIGN.

ADv1cEs from Paris on the Oath were to tk'
effect that war between France and China ovel
the TOnquin troubles was inevitable.
TIE pope and Bismarck have come to an un
Outstanding and the pope will give in little
TIE poor guardians of Limerick will bujld
one thousand cottages for lsboring men.
AT Iiactopee, Mexico, party Of bandits
seized Ignacio Garcia, wealthy Mexican, but
his servants came to the rescue, = fight ensued
and Garcia and two bandits were killed.
The Marquis Of Landscowne, on the 23d
took the oath Of Office as governor general OF
anada.
Count STEFAN BATTHYANY WAS killed in q
duel on the 22d at Temesvar, Hungary, by DR..
julius Rosenberg.
The Chinese are assisting the Black Flags in
AMMAN. All was quiet in Tonquin on the 22d,
the French awaiting reinforcements.
TEE viceroy of Canton, China, has asked fol
1000, 900 taels to pay damages incurred in the
recent riots.
ADv1cEs from 1ntersbure, Russia, on the 22d,
give particulars of the work Of pirates on the
Sea of Azov. Merchants, bankers, and public
officials belong to the gang, and would lure
vessels on the rocks by false signals and by
lights, then murder the crew and plunder the
vessel.
ANOTHER explosion in the Wharncliffe col
liery on the 22d, injured several searchers fol
victims Of the explosion on the 18th. Two are
reported killed.
On the 10Th at Quebec, Ont, was held the
farewell ball to the Marquis OF Lorne, ex-gov-
ernor If Canada.
The celebrated chateau Of Prince Czartory.
ski al sienawa. Austrian Galicia, burned on the
Goth. Loss $600,000.
FIVE men were killed by an avalanche, in
Asara, Sicily, on the Goth.
The Mexican government is negotiating in
New York City for loan of $40, 100000.
By an explosion in colliery at WHARF.-THE,
Yorkshire, England, twenty miners were kslled,
TIE cholera has reappeared in Egypt. It is
supposed to be owing to the infltration into
the canal flowing through village of water
from cemeteries in which cholera victims were
inferred.
In fight of one hundred workmen from q
flood in the Severn tunnel, England, on the
18th, four were killed.
The diamond miners at Capetown, Africa,
are on strike, and on the 18th they engaged
in riot destroying much property. Troops
fred on them and killed two.
The town of Altata, in Mexico, was visited
by cyclone on the Sd and many people killed
and houses wrecked. Since then yellow fever
set in aud the deaths now number 20 per day
So says dispatch dated the 18th.
At Halifax, N g.. on the 18th, detectives ar
rested VIM. Brocken and James Holmes TO,
having in their possession 100 pounds Of dyna
mite in satchels, for which they can give II
satisfactory explanation. They claim to be
Americans and ask protection from this gov
eminent.
SEVENTEEN peasants were on the 18th sen
fenced to prison in styris, Austria, for robbint
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-10-31
CRIMINAL.

FRANK R. sHERw1S, the noted speculator,
was found guilty of contempt of court at Al
bany. N. Y, on the oath.
On the 23d. at Clifton. No., L. L. Daring
was struck on the head with hammer by his
aunt, Mrs. VIM. Straub, and killed.
In New York City, on the 2sd, Mrs. Rose
Rich was arrested for stealing goods from her
employers. She confessed her crime and stat
ed that she was forced to do it by her husband
who was lazy, shiftless vagabond.
On the Oath farmer near New ComerstoWn,
O., named Albert Prizin, murdered his wife
and three children and then suicided.
AT Chanute, Kas.. on the 22d, R.::J. Barkley
was shot and killed by RAM Waters because he
had maligned the latter's sister.
THREE men, supposed to be tramps, caught
a young man in the woods near George Station,
Pa, robbed him OF $40 and cut and kicked him
in brutal manner.
On the 22d dispatch announced the death
of the wife Of John Russell Young, United
States minister to China.
The Charlie Ross case was revived on the
22d. Now it is said that man named Mosher,
brother Of the burglar killed several years
ago, who was lynched near Cheyenne re.
Gently, was the custodian of the kidnapped
boy.
AD1spArcH from Philadelphia, Pa, on the 10th
stated how railroad clerk there saved 800 per
month out of salary of $50, by placing dcti-
tious names on the pay roll.
AT Chicago, Ill.,, on the 21st. A. J. Mason
shot and killed W. 81. Paddock in domestic
row.
JOHN A. WEPPLER, . saIoonist of Denver,
Co.,, suicided by shooting while eating supper
on the 18th.
A FaEE fight occurred At church sociable
at Bayville, L. l., on the 18th, in which sew.
eral women were injured. and the pastor re-
ceived several gashes on his head which may
prove fatal.
An old standing feud between B. A. Jester
and B. F. Hudspeth, was settled on the high
way near Fort Gaines,' Ark, on the 10Th, by
Jester stabbing Hudspeth to desth.
On the 18th Ed Patterson and Charles Ray
mond, two colored meu, were playing domi-
noes in a Chicago saloon, when q quarrel
arose, in which Brown was pounded over the
head with whisky bottle by Patterson, until
death ensued.
A NOTORIOUS crook named Richard Day, was
shot and killed at Toledo. O., on the 18th while
resisting arrest.
On the 18th the house of Edward McLaugh-
lin, farmer near Joliet, ILL.,, was entered by
masked men, and the occupants tortured until
thsy revealed the hiding place of d, ZOO.
A sALooN1sr named Hehron, near Hudson,
Vs.. fatally shot . vagrant named Wolf, on
the 10th.
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CASUALTIES.

PARKER Il YouNa's piano stool factory at
Lisbon, N. H., burned on the 24th. Loss
$25, 900.
On the 2sd near Muncie, Ind, buzz saw
burst, killing Jacob Ritter and seriously wound
ing two others.
NEAR Wheeling. W. Va, on the oath, Perry
Lincoln blew into the smuzzIe of his gun. bis
foot on the hammer; his foot slipped and he
was killed.
The saw and shingle mills Of Bliss, Brown l.
Co., near Saginaw, Mich, were destroyed by
fire on the Path. Loss S75, 600.
On the oath L. Chapman, one of the proprie-
tors Of Hammond l. Chapman's saw mill, near
Lake Washington, Miun., acting as head saw
yer, slipped and fell on buzz saw and was ia
tally injured.
JOHN AaNEw. OF Marshall, Wis, was killed
at Aberdeen, Dak., on the 23d, by falling lum-
Der.
A FRAGMENT Of bursted grindstone killed
Michael Proprikus at Detroit, Mich, on the
23d.
On the 23d, fire at Gensseo, H.. destroyed
an oat mill and two grain elevators. Lo So
100000.
Two children Of VIM. e. Post, Of Passaic,
N. J., set fire to the house during the absence
Of their parents, on the 23d, and were burned
to death.
A BROKEN rail rail overturned two coaches Of
passenger train on the Louisville and Marsh
vile Road, near East st. Louis, on the 29d,
Forty persons were injured, none fatally.
A BOILER in : pump factory at Belpre, O.,
exploded on the 2sd, injuring nine persons,
four fatally.
OK the 2sd. 1t Kingston, Pa., = squib fac
tory exploded, wrecking portion of the build
work At the time. Two Nere killed and dve
theirs fatally burned. .5:5s.5 ...s. (
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A PuSs Now in Fashion.

{ErOm the New 4OrK Mall anu E1pressJ
care Angory cats getting to be fash
ionable for pets ?" asked reporter of an
East Side dealer.
"Oh. YES. indeed" was the reply;
"within the last month the demand has
been quite large and strange to say I
sell as many by mail as I do in the city.
Only yesterday sent one to New Or
leans and last week one to Chicago.
They seem to be rapidly taking the
place of puge. Come in and see the
CATS"
So saying, the reporter was shown in
to q room where dozen or more ami
mails with long tails and hair sweeping
the floor were playing together or sleep
ing on hair cushions. Some were white,
some tortoise and others mouse colored,
or blue, in the parlance of the trade.
"There are also black and chinchilla
cate,' said the dealer. "These blue
ones are the rarest, but the white cats
seem to be the favorites. Some people
maintain that only the white cats are
tie pure breed, bnt that is not SO, as
quite frequently white cats will have
different colored kittens" :"
"What is the most valuable cat you
have?'
"This large white Tom is the most ex-
pensive; he is worth $50. The other
cats are worth from $40 to $50. The
kittens are worth $40 for the males and
$15 for the females"
The dealer then explained the differ
ence between Angora and the Persian
cats, which is very slight, the Persians
having longer face and larger ears.
The animals are very delicate and require
great care in raising, colds being the
chief enemies of the feline kind. Each
cat must have hair cushion and be
washed regularly and rubbed with Coco
anut oil. Birds and scraped beef are
found to be the bes| food for them. A
few cats are imported from England,
but most of them are raised by man
IN Maino
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MARINE DISASTERS.
Particulars Of the Loss Of the Barge John
Marsh with All Hands on Lake
OntariO-.- Other Disasters.

CHARLOTTE, N. Y, October 23.-Yes-
terday morning at s o'clock the tug
Barrows sighted vessel flying a signal
of distress five miles off this port on
Lake Ontario. She put out and found
the barge Pacific drifting helplessly
about the lake, having lost her rudder
AID had her port side stove in. The
captain of the Pacific said the tug Carl.
bou left Montreal Saturday for Fair
Haven towing the Pacific, John Marsh,
Eugene, and another. They were
struck by heavy gale and the tow-line
parted, leaving the barges to drift off.
The Pacific was thrown against
the John Marsh, knocking O hole
in each boat. The crew on the Pacific,
five minutes subsequent to the collision,
saw the blue lights of the Marsh disap-
pear and the vessel was never seen after
wards. She was running light and had
a crew of three men and one woman,
who must have perished. Their names
are not ascertainable. The Eugene
hoisted sail and reached port safely. The
Caribou put into Oswego, and reached
here last night in search of the Pacific.
The Marsh was owned by Vetal Pardee,
of Montreal. and was uninsured.
THE REED CASE STRANDED.
DETROIT, Mich, October 23.-The
schooner Reed Case, of Chicago, went
ashore on the north side of Middle Bass
Island, Lake Erie, during heavy gale.
At last accounts she was pounding badly,
but as the storm has subsided she will
doubtless be released without much diff.
fculty. A wrecking expedition will
leave here to assist her. The crew is
safe.
DISASTERS TO MACKEREL FISHERS.
PRov1NCETowN, Mass, October 23.-
The fearful gale Of last Saturday night
has caused great loss of life to the fish.
ing and coastlng feet off Cape Cod. II
is reported here this evening that q
Chatham vessel lost the captain and
| twelve men out of crew of fifteen. A
boat went out with these thirteen
men after school of mack
erel, and the squall struck and
nothing could be seen OF them.
The cook and one man were left on
board. The squall blew the sails allaway.
The vessel q fitted across the bay under
Marshfeld, and report says was towea
into Plymouth to-day by a Gloucester
schooner. Nothing has been heard from
the eight men lost from the schooner
Helen M. Crosby. tits generally thought
they have perished. When the vessel
last saw them they had seine around a
school of msckerel. The vessel shot
up to the boat, but they refused
to take the line, there was so much
water in the boat. Their lantern in the
boat went out. Capt. Higgins shouted
to them, "Leave the seine and come
| aboard" The vessel drifted away from
them and they could not be found again.
A dory was found on Scorton Beach this
morning which answers the description
| of that lost from the schooner Helen M.
Crosby. A diligent search is being
made for the missing crew, who are ma
tives of Harwich