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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-07-25
DIES lLLA! DIES lRAE!l
Made so by Terrible Cyclones--People
Understandings Demolished--Train
Capslzed--CrOps Ruined.
Wind. Rain and lightning, The Dreadful
Trio Of Destruction.

Last Saturday was made memorable by
the most destructive cyclone that ever
visited this state. 1t was not more vio-
lent than the one which struck New Ulm
few years ago, but it was the cause of
greater loss of life and property on &C.
count of it's longer duration and more ex-
tended sweep. It struck not one town
alone, but number of them; killed not
one or two, but eight people; and deyastat-
ed not one county, but several. This
storm will certainly add MIMI to the list
of cyclone states and give it little advan-
tage over Iowa, Kansas, and other states
in this respect.
Saturday was forbidding, gloomy day
in Austin. The forenoon was rainy and
at times very dark. Between II and IL
o'clock there was heavy dash of rain
accompanied by strong wind, but by
no means strong enough to assume even
the appearance of cyclone. The sky in
reminding one of the imagined scene
when the sky shall roll up like a scroll.
The afternoon was pleasant. and ex-
tremely warm, becoming towards evening
very sultry and oppressive. Soon the
news of the cyclone at Owatonna began
to arrive, and it was the theme of con-
versation all along the street.
The storm seemed to have originated
on the upper Minnesota river, moving
down the stream and striking Lake Crys-
tai, Mankato, St. Peter, and Kasota.
From these points it moved eastward
along the G. Il N. w. r. r. to Elgin, and
from there toward the northeast into Wis
consin. Elgin, thriving little town of
500 inhabitants, was the worst sufferer. In
one minute its neat stores and dwellings,
almost without exception, were mass of
fragments intermingled with dead and
wounded. Next to Elgin Owatonna felt
the fury of the storm. There churches
were moved from their foundations. stores
unroofed, the damage being confined how
ever to the smaller and more frail struc-
lures. The large windmill was entirely
destroyed. the elevator partially blown
down, and the fair buildings laid in ruins
The western bound train from Chicago
was hurled from the track and capsized.
About forty passengers were wounded,
some fatally; none killed. Waseca, was
considerably shaken up and much dam
age done. At Mankato the city hall was
unroofed and badly injured; and the
beautiful shade trees in which the city
abounded, as we'll as the fruit trees were
uprooted and twisted off in large numbers.
The scenes at Owatonna and Mankato
were repeated in several other towns, but
were less marked, as the violence, of the
storm seemed to increase after it passed
Mankato and until it reached Elgin:
The storm swept over an immense tract
of country, passing over the richest part
of our state and extending into Iowa and
Wisconsin. 1t is impossible to estimate
the damage to buildings and crops. A
half million dollars is a low estimate, as
Dodge county alone is said to have lost
over $4,000. Eight persons were
killed outright, and a large number
wounded, some MORALLY.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-07-25
Wide Awake DrugRists.

Austin Druggists are always alive to
their business, and spare no pains to Sc
cure the best of every article in their line.
They have secured the agency for the
celebrated DR.. Kings New Discovery for
consumption, coughs colds, hoarseness,
asthma, hay fever, bronchitis, or any af-
lection of the throat and lungs. Sold on
positive guarantee. Trial bottle free.
Regular size $1.OO 3
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-07-25

For lame Back, Side or Chest, use Shil obs
Porous Plaster. Price = cents.
sHILOH's COUGH and Consumption Cure
Is sold by Us on q guarantee. It cures con-
SHlLVH's VlTALI1ER is what you need
for Constipation, Loss of Appetite, Dizziness
and all symptoms of Dyspepsia. Price 10 and
Z C SRdi5 wH toSofING COUGH and Bron-
chitis Immediately relieved by Shiloh's Cure.
For sale by DORR 4 WOLD. ~
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-07-25
As when She WAS Young.

''I 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 q
single gray hair left. Since began ap-
plying the Balsam my hair has stopped
falling out, and / find that tbs a perfectly
harmless and agreeable dressing"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-07-25

HELPED HER OUT.-''For years have
been severe sufferer from pains in the
back. Tried various applications. One
cured me. Cured others equally quick"
Mrs. Benning of 18th st., Buffalo, wrote
this. Sold by Dorr & Void.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-07-25

THE NEW TR1cYcLE.-This machine is
propelled by steam, and will carry two
people twenty miles in an hour, it is said.
It is quite an invention but does not COM
pare with Burdock Blood Bitters, which
will carry the invalid along the road to
health to beat all. For sale by Dorr &
Void -.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-07-25

Miss Eva Burch, Owatonna, Mimi,
says: my father used Browns Iron
Bitters for neuralgia and derived great re-
1iof
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-07-25

WELLS s'R0UGH ON CQRNs. Ask for
Wells CROUCH on Corns." 15c. Quick,
complete, permanent cure. Corns, warts,
buniOnS.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-07-25

Tho last column indicates the number of
previous terms taught so far as known. A.
indicates joint district: Many of the Districts
made no reports as the law requires, hence
the delay I'M publishing this report.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-07-25
Bucklen'S ArnicA SAlvc.

The greatest medical wonder of the
world. Warranted to speedily cure burns,
bruises, cuts, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, cancers, piles, chilblains, corps,
letter. chapped hands, and all skin erup-
lions, guaranteed to cure in every in
stance. or money refunded. rs cents per
box. For sale by all druggists.
HuMBUas Impostors TIL ieves !!
The above are terms applied to the unre-
liable and dishonest. DR.. Thomas Eclec-
trio Oil for diphtheria, catarrh, asthma.
rheumatism, and all aches, sprains and
pains is not 2 thing Of deception but a
Pnt up Sa% solo, si ana does what
claimed for it: For sale by Dorr &
Void.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-07-25

Book
mwthh Of
mingteaa
n,ismaikdt 10c.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-07-25
To Exchange.

A few choice bargains in Minneapolis
property, for farm lands in Mower Co.
J. A. WALTERS,
318 Nicollct Ave-, Minneapolis, MINI.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-07-25

Drs. Newton & Blair. Buckhannon,
W. Va, report that Browns Iron Bit
tiers are giving general satisfaction"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-07-25

Adjourned meeting July 81, 1883.
Present-His honor, the Mayor, and
Aldermen Hayes, Smith, Phillips and Hall.
Reading Council proceedings suspend
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-07-25

plete one.
Prof. Rankin reports himself as devel-
Oping powerful muscle in fishing and
rowing. We mention this now in order
to put any mischievously inclined pupils
on their guard, and also to please his many
friends with the news of his returning Wig
orous health.
Miss Carrie Schwan invited number
If her friends to tea Saturday evening in
order that they might meet her brother
Joseph once more before his return to St.
Paul, where he went Monday morning.
A very pleasant time was had, made so in
part by nice ride ON the river after tea.
The Austin editors showed up iu their
sanetums on Tuesday morning, after a
most delightful trip to Winnipeg. Bar
ring little hOarseness, which is always
incident to such trip-due to climatic
influences, of c0urse-they returned as
we'll as they went. which is saying a good
deal. 49, .., 49,
&C. w. Taylor has purchased the fine
residence of r. B.. Wheeler, paying there
for the sum of IS, 500. This is one of the
pleasaptest residences IN our city, and we
trust that it will long be the happy home
OF our popular merchant and his estima-
BILE wife. Mr.. Taylor will take possession
Oct. /. ~
The Universalist Sunday School pic
nicked in HOLSTERS grove last Thursday
afternoon. Games, hammOcks, swings,
and q nice layout of tempting eatables,
with most wofui destruction Of the same,
were the. main parts of the program. Ali
present had q nice time, returning happy
and refreshed, at the close of beautiful
day. .:. @S. =, =, +. 81 Is, II r .
-Schleuder and iDorr & Void have
moved their stocks Of jewelry and drugs
until the old one can be repaired. Tie
floor will be let down level with the floors
in the new.stoEes, and fine plate glass
front win take the place of the unsightly
windows which have so long projected
over the sidewalk. Repairs are already
begun. s 81. s. ~ s. ss =... z 81 a,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-07

point of fact Our farmers are now nearly all day
labOrers The bosses are few and far between,
and the drones are nearly all dead-MObile Reg
lister (Dem.j
WHEN the law saws that II n man is insane he is
to be Imprisoned for life, and If he is not insane
his pretense that he Is is to be taken as evidence
that he ia a murderer, the field for expert testi-
m0ny will be considerably limited. The infiu-
ence of sympathy for the prisoner will be en-
trely removed. for whatever the verdict
reached on his mental condition, 1t will be pad
for him. There will be little inducement to take
sides, and the Prisoners case will be decided
more nearly on it's merits than under the pres
emit system.-New York Tribune
LEAVE for a time the churches surfeited with
grace to continue as they well may in the safe
road so fully pointed out, and concentrate the
endeavor OF moral uplifting upon the waits of
society who but for an oath would not know of
the existence of a God Take pos session of the
teenling schools from which the ElliOtts and the
Dnnns graduate. Leave the avenues to reach
salvation by their own better lights, while the
ministers of the Lord carry His grace into the
nolsome alleys Even a theologian may find
that the wisdom aud the example of Christ war
rant the effOrt.-Chicago Times.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-07

working order by the united action of good
people, would materially improve the condi-
ton of things"
Under the operation of the Massachusetts,
law, the Advocate says, already the Sunday
liquor traffic has been so much controlled
that the arrests for Sunday drunkenness have
fallen off one-third, though the police are
doubly vigilant. At Charlestown, the other
day, Mr.. Knowles recovered 5000 from a
saloon-keeper named Young, for selling two
glasses of liquor to his minor son. This was
the first case of the kind tried in Suffolk
county, and the award was 800 for each glass
sold, the full extent of the law. We COM
mend these facts and results to those ex-
treme Temperance men" who are doing bat
tie for the liquor league by asserting that
the liquor traffic is worse under any form OF
license than it would be without any legal
restraint whatever.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-07
The New Michigan Senator.

Lansing Special
Thomas Witherell Palmer. was born in
Detroit. January 25, 1880. His father and
maternal grandfather fought with Hull dur
ing the siege of Detroit. The boyhood of
the Senator-elect was passed in the city of
his birth. and at the age of sixteen he en-
tered the State University but at the end of
year the threatened loss OF his eye-sght
obliged him to relinquish his studies. He
made two later attempts to resume at the
University, but was each time obliged to
withdraw. In 1S4S Palmer visited Spain ana
South America. In 1850 he settled in Apple
ton, Wis, and engaged in the mercantile
business, but lost his all year later by fire.
He returned to Detroit and engaged in the
real estate business, subsequently embarking
in numbering. which pursuit he is still large
ly engaged in, owning some OF the largest
mills on the Saginaw and Muskegon Rivers.
Personally, Palmer is cultured gentleman.
He is a man of literary taste, a lover of art,
and one who makes friends wherever he
goes-friends who never desert him. Up TO
1873 he had never held any but local Office,
In 1876 ne sought the Republican nomina-
ton for Congress. but was defeated in the
Convention In 1878 he was elected to the
State Senate. In 1880 he was one of the five
leading candidates for the gubernatorial
nomination, but was defeated Last year he
presided over the convention which re-nomi-
mated Governor Jerome. There was a deter
mined opposition to the latter, and so great
was Palmer's popularity that he had difficult
ty in preventing his own nomination.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-07

THE representatives in Congress of the
Observation-Disclosures party have issued their
usual proclamation pointing out the only
panacea for the country's woes The docu-
ment, after predicting panic goes on to say
that "the government can issue paper money
in time of peace as well as in war, and should
do so if the necessities of the people require
su1h action" The address says that Elm
order to relieve the present necessities of the
people and the requirements of the govern
nent, to prevent panics and preclude their
recurrence the money now in the treasury
should be Immediately used in payment of
all outstanding Understanding obligations
now due or payable at the option of the gov
eminent, and that an additional amount of
full legal-tender notes should be issued for
any OF the purposes for which the govern
ment requires money until the peoples rep
resentatives in Congress decide its volume is
equal to the demands of business and the
permanent welfare of the people, The add
dress then declares that the legal-tender notes
should never be funded, but should always
remain a circulating medium in the hands of
the people
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-07

THE secrecy of the ballot is carefully
guarded in Australia. The tickets are
printed at the expense of the public, a regis
tTation of candidates being required on or
before given date. The names of all regis
tered candidates are then printed on the
voting paper, which the government pro-
vides, and the counterfeiting of which is
made a criminal offense. The voting pa
pers are not furnished to party "ticket ped
dlers" but deposited with the officers Of
election. When the voter approaches the
polling booth he is handed a paper. He en-
tiers a compartment provided with pen and
ink or pencil, and, concealed from observa-
ton, grasses the names of the candidates he
does not wish to vote for, and then folding
the paper presents it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-07

THE Journal has urged high and strict
license law for the regulation OF the liquor
traffic, and we have been met with two classes
of opposition: First, the so-called temper
Gnce people" who have nailed prohibition to
the masthead and who openly proclaim that
they would rather see the State wallow in
free whisky than to have anything short OF
legal prohibition; and, second, the liquor
league, which, of course, wants no more re-
straint than possible, and is very glad
to accept the assistance of all sorts of allies
There is no prohibition lawn the State of
Massachusetts, There is form of license
restriction there, and it is working well un-
der wise and prudent and persistent admin
istration. The Western Christian Advocate
of this week, which, of course is fully COM
mtted to prohibition, has, however, the good
sense and the president wisdom to say, in an
editorial notice of the Massachusetts, law:
"The temperance people of Ohio, Indiana
and Kentucky can profit by the example of
their Massachusetts brethren. They want
prohibition, and hope to secure it before
many years. but while those of the East are
doing good and keeping their ideas in prac-
tice by doing the best they can under exist
ing circumstances there is too much DISPOSE
ton at the West to sit with folded hands
until all is gained. Our present liquor laws
are by no means all that they should he but
they have some points which, if brought into
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-07

AN unusual number of icebergs have been
encountered already, thus early in the sea-
son, which is remarkable in view of the
fact that the winter has been an excessively
cold one. A mild winter causes these floating
islands of ice to become detached, and to
make their way southwark in the Atlantic,
while severe one generally holds them fast
to their mooriugs May and June are the
months when they are most numerous in the
region of the Newfoundland banks.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-07
Bntler,s Absenteeism.



Governor Buffers absenteeism from his
Office is becoming marked feature of his
regime, and is regarded as especially scandal
Gus considering the nature of his recent
business in Washington-the defense of a
whisky violator of the Federal revenue laws.
The feeling is not very demonstrative as yet,
but deep. One eminent citizen to-day says
that he ought to be impeached, and leading
lawyers aver that his conduct admits of no
palliation on account of legal ethics, as he
could readily turn his business over to other
counsel. Lieutenant-governor Oliver Ames
has had to sign some important appropria-
ton bills and otherwise assume the Cover
nor's duties, IN order to keep the machinery
of the State from coming to a standstill.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-07

THE Logansport Journal referring to the
troubles which have existed in that city and
county among Republicans, growing out of
the controversy over the postof1ice, says with
commendable spirit:
while grievous differences may have ex
listed among Republicans, and TO certain ex-
tent causes may have existed for those differ
ences, still they are all men of sense and
men of principle, and not one of them but
will stand as firm as a rock for the party and
as to exchanging Republican principle for the
Democratic substitute. that would be like
asking lis to exchange the United States SEN
ate. led by sucn man as Edmunds, for our
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-07
THE WAR IN VIRGINIA.
Admiral SlSaggs Gets Away with All His
Fleet, Including the ''Dancing Molly"

Admiral Skaggs Gets Away with All His
Fleet, Including the dancing Molly"
West Point Va) Special
The exciting event of early this morning
was the chase of the pirate sloop Dancing
Molly. The captain and his crew of two
men had gone ashore in search of wood,
when another pirate boat far out in the bay
signaled the fact that Governor Cameron's
steamer was approaching, and gave warning
to move quickly. The captains wife aud
two daughters were the only persons on the
Dancing Molly. They called in vain for the
crew, who were out of sight and hearing.
As the small craft was lying close in one of
the inlets on the eastern shore, and the
steady splash of the wheels of the Vir-
ginia steamer was distinctly heard the
plucky females determined to attempt to
run the blockade and reach neutral waters,
despite the three frowning cannons which
were already visible The mother took the
helm and the two daughters unreefed the
sails, and the Dancing Molly, which was
forced to do much lacking in order to reach
the mouth of the inlet, moved off The re-
malnder OF the vessels of the pirate fleet
were safely out. The breeze was not ex-
actly in favor of the fleeing craft, and the
Peed succeeded in gaining rapidly on her
for short while. The race was nip and
tuck between the Virginia gunboat and the
piratical sloop, the first trying to reach the
mouth of the inlet and blockade it, while
tlIO idooSl was otl oNSiy od4i " SCV
The pirates wife and daughters were equal
to the emergency. All were skilled in hand
ling the sails, and were determined not to be
taken. The Victoria Peed began TO send
solid shot over the water as a warning to
surrender, but the Dancing Molly and her
crew did not take in their sails
and safely got out of the inlet and then with
a stiff breeze in her favor, left the big steamer
far in her wake and easily joined the balance
of Admiral Skaggs' fleet in neutral waters.
The chase, which was witnessed from shore,
was very exciting, and, although the people
on the Virginia side are sworn enemies of
the oyster pirates, they really wished for the
escape of the tiny craft When they saw it
was simply manned by three women, and,
when the Dancing Molly got safely out the
group of Virginians chivalrously gave three
cheers for the pirates plucky wife daugh-
ters The Peed, when last heard from, was
still cruising along the eastern shore, hoping
to surprise some of the pirates Governor
Cameron's defeat yesterday by Admiral
Skaggs has had the effect of making him
more than ever determined to wipe out the
last one of the oyster pirates. Their perfect
organization, however, renders this difficult
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-07
Splendid
LieutenantGovernor Hanna's Splendid
Record

J. H. W. in Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
In view of the results, the man on the Repub-
lican side who comes out of the recent fight
against the spoils gang, head and shoulders
above all others, is MISUNDERSTANDING
Hanna. His clear head, splendid courage
and admirable temper enabled him to do the
right thing at the right time, thus insuring
at least a partial protection for the public
against the ravages of the element which
owed its elevation to power to the influence
of whisky and the indifference of 10000 of
the voters of the State who remained away
from the polls at the last election. Keeping
always within the laws, never violating the
rules of the Senate or parliamentary customs,
he met the mob at every turn, ana in every
instance brought them to his feet like whip
ped ours, who could only whine over
richy-deserved chastisement. Honest men
battling for an honest result, and being
in the majority, would have carried their
points, but gang looking only for spoils
could never override man with the iron
determination of Governor Hanna when
backed by the consciousness of doing duty.
The greatest emergency in the legislative
history of Indiana arose in the battle against
the metropolitan police bill, and Governor
Hanna was equal to it. With the galleries
and lobbies filled with a drunken mob, all
swearing vengeance against him, with the
crowd upon the floor OF the Senate ready at
any preconcerted signal to assault him and
place a Democrat i'll the chair, while the
mob should aid in the confusion with their
drunken yells-in the face of such a situa-
ton man with less moral and physical
courage than Mr. Hanna would have
faltered perhaps surrendered Early in the
evening he was informed of the programme
and when the galleries cheered the state
ment of Hilligass that he would soon have a
recognition, Colonel Friedley said to Mr..
Hanna, That yell indicates that they are
ready" Eyes, have heard that kind of a
yell before from men who were trying to
override law and order, and think we can
take care of them now as we did them" was
Mr.. Hannas quiet reply.