davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-11-28

The two ends of the new Michigan Central
bridge across Niagara River, below the falls,
were joined on the 21st. The bridge will be
completed and ready for traffic December 10th.
On the Goth Madison, Wis.,, reported fifteen
cases of winter cholera and one death.
G. L. EPPs & Co.. malt and grain, Chicago,
ILL.,, failed on the 18th. Liabilities 100000.
On the Goth at Pittsburg, Pa, Patrick W.
OBrien, the Irish giant and Cbristiana D.
Dunz, the German giantess, were married.
Their combined height is Is feet 8 inches,
combined weight $40 pounds, and the we'd
ding ring was inches in circumference.
The coroner's jury investigating the capitol
disaster at Madison, Wis.,, concluded their
bors on the 21st with verdict that the inter-
nal construction was such as to contribute to
it's destruction during erection; that the pill
lars were too weak; o. F. Nowlan, of James,
vile, experimenting contractor, was found
guilty Of gross negligence; Supervising Archi-
tect D. R. Jones, Madison, and consulting ar
chitect H. G. Kock, Milwaukee, were found
guilty of negligence.
On the 18th, Bescher, the divine, gave din
ner to Mr.. Irving and Miss Terry, the English
actor and actress. Thus does the pulpit and
the stage join hands.
Boston, Mass, dispatch Of the 10th says
the New England railroads during the past
year killed 221, and injured 535 people.
COMPANY was organized on the 18th under
the name of "Choin of Rocks Bridge Com
pany," to bridge the Mississippi ten miles
above st. Louis, at cost of $2,OC0,GOO.
An interesting suit is on trial in the United
States court, Milwaukee, Wis, over the owner
ship of piece of property in Oconomowoc,
Wis.,, and the question to decide is whether
= small island always has been such or whether
it was at one time joined to the main land.
The Pottstown, Pa. Iron Company, employ
ing several hundred hands, on the 18th gave
notice Of a ten per cent. reduction in wages,
owing to the dizziness of business and low price
of manufactured iron.
A WISCONSIN, crank called on the governor on
the 14tb, and demanded 81, 100000 damages
for compensation for serving three years
sentence for larceny. He calls himself Prince
Won Neubrander.
FIRST ice of the season at Pensacola, Fla, on
the 18th.
BUSINESS failures IN the United States and
Canada for the week ending November 18th,
z95, against 215 tho week previous.
The sum of $3.50, 900 has been subscribed,
and q building will be erected at Boston, Mass.
as Unitarian headquarters.
OaLETHoRPE barracks, Savannah, Ca, were
sold on the 18th, for se7,sSl to hotel COM
paDy.
The Cleveland Rolling Mill Company will
close its steel rail mill on December 1st, owing
to dullness in business.
JOHN WArFES drank fifteen glasses Of whisky
at Cleveland, O., on the 18th, on wager. He
won his bet, but lost his life.
The bay gelding Frank at Prospect Park, N.
Y. on the 18th, lowered the trotting record to
2:0S1a.
The composltors on the New York morning
papers on the 18th demanded Acc per 1000
ems. They were given the advance in all Of
fees except tho Tribune, where a strike is in
force.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-11-28
A FAMILY OF COINERS.
A st. Louis Family Arrested for Making
Counterfeit Silver Dollars.

ST.. LOUIS, Novembe 19.-On Satur-
day evening little boy named Henry
Rickert was arrested for trying to pass
three excellent counterfeits OF si!g.r
dollars at Fifth Street store. HIS
mother called at the police station t.
learn if her missing boy had been head
from, and che, too, was locked up
Late at night the father called TO look for
his wife and son, and was put behind
the bars. Yesterday tue dete1:-
TVS took the boy in wagon,
and he guided them to neat resi-.
dence in the suburbs, on kennedy
Avenue, where several small children
had been awaiting the return of their
parents. Buried in the cellar the de-
tectives found bundle of counterfeit
dollars of a coinage which has been
bothering the federal authorities slice
1881. It is thought they were manufac-
tured in plaster molds, and there is glass
in the compound, as they break easily
on being tapped with hammer. The
man of the house, Anton Rlckert, is a
molder an has been out of employment
for months, but always lived we'll. VIC
Tins of the family are reporting from all
directions.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-11-28
CRIMINAL.

On the Goth, at Providence, Tenn, J. J. Gar
rett had a fight with burglars. One burglar
was killed another thrown from second-story
window and Garrett seriously wounded.
PRISONERS fired the jail at Marshall, No., on
the 10Th and when the doors were opened, six
of them escaped.
A RoMNEY, Ind, drug store was demolished
on the 18th by masked mob.
Mrs. LYDIA MAYBEE, aged II, and her
daughter, aged 80, were choked to death, Mr..
Maybee an old blind man, almost killed, and
their house robbed IN Brookville, N. Y, on the
18th, by an unknown villain.
On the 18th mob of masked men number
ing 200, attacked the Fowler, Ind, Jail, took
therefrom Jacob Melting the murderer Of Ada
Atkinson, took him to Oxford, and harged
him.
In an attempt to arrest VIM. Stanford at
Selma. Ala, on the 18th, Stanford shot and
killed J. Dobson, and an officer, and was him.
self killed by the officer.
On the 18th Thos. Burrows, farmer near
Kittery, Me-, was shot and killed in his door
yard. No clue to the assassjns.
NEAR Denver, COL, on the 18th. Peter Olsen
was brutally tortured to death because he re-.
fused to disclose the. hiding place Of small
sum Of money.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-11-28
Discovery of the Cholera Germ.

It appears from the text of DR.. Koch s
report to the German government on bis
Investigations at Alexandra that the
cholera bacteria were fully revealed by
the microscope. In the blood, the liver,
the lungs, the spleen, the kidneys. and
other organs usually affected in gem
diseases, no trace of these living organ.
isms was found. On the other hand, in
the intestines whole colonies were dis
covered in every stage of destructive
and fatal activity. Details Of this char
acter are given, amounting, it may be
sain in general, to the conclusion that
the severity Of the cases was in proper
ton to the abundance of these germs.
DR.. Koch does not, however, consider it
conclusively Established, strongly as the
evidence points in that direction, that
the bacteria are the cause OF the cholera.
They may, he observes, be the result Of
it; or. rather, the infective matter which
generates the disease may brig about
conditions which favor the development
of these organisms in the body. At the
same time the body of evidence regard
ing this class of contagious aud cpl
demic disorders leaves little doubt that
the germs and the cholera go together,
DR.. Koch finds that the nearest resem-
blance in previously identified bacteria
to that of cholera is the thread-like ba-
cillus found in connection with CHAMBERS
in horses. In order to settle the ques-
ton whether these microscopic entozoa
are causes or effects of cholera DR..
Koch and his clloeagues tried to COM
municate the disease by means of these
germs to rabbits, guinea pigs, dogs,
cats, monkeys, pigs and rats; but these
attempts, like all previous ones OF the
kind, failed. The cholera has never yet
been transmitted to any animal but
man. When the German commission
reached Alexandria the epidemic was
declining rapidly, and the infective poi
son was diminishing in strength every
day. It has, therefore, been arranged
to pursue the inquiry in India. " the
home of the cholera" and, il. possible,
to investigate some outbreak at its very
commencement; when the contagion is
most virulent.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-11-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN.

A LONDON dispatch Of the 21st reports the
landing Of several Of the crew of the French
brig vocolberg, who report the loss of the yes-
gel by collision on October 3Otb, and the
drowning of 50 passengers and crew.
The boiler of the tug Erie Belle, at Kincar.
dine, Ont, exploded on the 21st, killing four
men.
EIGHTEEN workmen were accidentally drown
ed at DaournaeZ, France, on the Goth.
The Mexican brigand Brisco Sanchez was on
the 20th slain by troops and four Of his band
were captured.
A DISPATCH from Rome, dated the 18th, says
the Catholic bishops in Ireland have received
instructions to endeavor to create friendly
feeling between Ireland and England.
LONDON advices of the 10Th give extracts
from q sreech made by Bggar, at Oldham,
Eng, in which he says that Spencer, lord lieu
tenant Of Ireland, had innocent people hanged
on false evidence.
The German crown prince visited Genoa.
Italy, on the 10th. and was enthusiastically re.
ceived by the populace.
The ameer of Afghanistan had number of
persons executed ON the 18th. They were sus-
pected CT treason.
TIE monument to the Zululand heroes was
on the 18th blown down by tornado at Ports
mouth, Eng.
A JEDDAH letter to tho English government
says British Consul Moncrieff. at Suakim, and
500 men. were killed.
ADv1cEs from London, Eng, of the 18th,
say that China will accept England's mediation
in the Tonquin difficulty.
The French forces in T nquin number 49,
900.
A SISTER of Woskrepepsky. the nibilistic
leader. was hanged on the 18th at St. Peters,
burg, Russia.
FIVE hundred laborers on the Northern Pa
ci6c Railroad arrived at Montreal on the 18th,
in destitute condition. Three hundred have
brought suit against the corporation.
J, A. BURaAN, thieving bank manager, was
on the 18th, sentenced to fifteen years i1upris-
onment at Birmingham, Eng.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-11-28
BEECHER, IRVING AND TERRY
The Great Preacher Dimes and Flatters
Henry Irving and Miss Terry.

New YORK, November 19.-The great
preacher. Beecher, gave dinner yes
terday to the great actor Irving, at which
the immediate members of the Beecher
family entertained Mr.. Irving, Miss
Terry, and Maj. Pond. The courtesy
grew out of a visit paid by the Rev. Mr..
Beecher and his wife to the Star Thea
ter Saturday afternoon, where they oc
cupied box and WITNESSED Shylock
(lrving) and Portia (Ierry) in The
Merchant of Venice" The pastor and
his wife we're SO charmed by the
fine acting that they expressed q desire
to Ma. Pond, Mr.. Beecher's lecture.
agent, to have the foreign artists dine
with them Sunday. The reciuients of
the invitations gladly consented to cross
the Beecher threshold. So yesterday
they attended Plymouth Church and
listened with reciprocal admiration to
Mr.. Beecher's sermon. The clergyman
was at his best, and his parishioners
congratulated each other at the doors
upon dismissal that the old
fire had returned to their beloved
shepherd. Mr.. Beecher came out
of bis pulpit, shook hands with
the actor and actress heartily, ip-
PRODUCED them to several pillars Of the
church, t. Id them how much pleasure
they had afforded him the previous day,
and came to the point by saying tuat hi
folks in Connecticut had sent him q big
goose, which be wo,ld share with them.
Mr.. Irving made a little informal speech
in reply, and accepted the Invitation in
behalf of Miss Terry and himself. The
party then paired off-Nr. Beecher tax
ing charge of Miss Terry and request
ing Maj. Pond to take Mr.. Irving's arm,
and go on ahead. In this or Ter the
party reached the house at HICKS and
Clark Streets.
After dinner quiet, enjoyable talk
was INDUCED in. Mr.. Beecher neglected
his Sunday school to entertain the Eng
lish artists. He highly complimented
Mr.. Irving by telling him that he Was
born preacher.
eff I was not pastor of Plymouth
Church I would be Henry Irving" said
Mr.. Beecber.
"You are born actor" said MIR. Tr
wing. GAS for myself, there Is no one
T feel more inclined to envy than the
pastor of Plymouth Church."
Miss Terry was not slighted in Mr..
Beecher's need of praise. At O'Clock
the visitors departed, carrying aid leav-
ing delightful impressions.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-11-28

"You must see some very amusing
cases of sea-sickness ?" said Sun re.
porter to an ocean steamships steward.
said the steward, solemnly, "because
they always recall my own experience.
Most cases are pathetic, tho smile
sometimes when the braggart keels
over. On every trip we have at least
one man who boasts of his ability to
Withstand sea-sickness. He always says
that the trouble is as largely mental as
physical, and that a man of invincibIe
determination can ward it off by an
effort of will. The fall of this man to q
condition of pitiable wretchedness has it's
humorous features for us-not for the
man."
care women more subject to sea-
sickness than men?"
Eyes, but, on the other hand, they
stand it better. A woman struggles
right up to the point of despair agairot
the-what might call the improperly
of the thing. She isn't so much tor
tured by the pangs as she is worried by
the prospect of becoming disheveled,
haggard and dreggled. She fights
against it to the last, and keeps up ap-
pearances as long as she can hold up
her head. Then she becomes maudlin
and pathetic. She takes to her room
and invariably asks three questions.
First, whether people die frequently of
seasickness, then how many miles we
are from shore, and lastly, when We will
get there. She also often asks me how
deep the water is, and if I think it pos
sible for any one to 60 seven days with
out food The doctor is always talked
over. I am asked time and again if I
think he is capable and efficient, and if
I had confidence in him. When the
patient gets 80 ill that she loses interest
in the doctor. she usually lies on her
side and cries by the hour. Luckily
the more violent attacks only last a
short time"
!" How is it with men p
"Oh, men give in at once. They bel
low like bulls and make great rumpus
until they are compelled to take to their
births. Then they grumble and swear
until they are we'll enough to go on deck
again. A great many passengers come
aboard loaded with medicines and
schemes for the presentation of sea.
sickness. I never knew preventive
yet, except the one I mentioned when
we first began to talk"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-11-28
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.

MANDAN has six miles Of side track.
PIERRE has trebled her population in
the past year.
The Wnonsocket Times has been dou-
bled in size.
GRANT County farmers are investing
extensively III fac sheep.
CAPT. VIM. HARMON has resigned the
post trad.rsb,p at Fort Lincoln.
B1s,1ARcKi is making an energetic move
to secure better and purer water sup
ply.
IT is claimed that 100000 worth of
buildings have been erected in Pierre in
six weeks.
SECRETARY TFLLER is now acting gov
ernor of Dakota, Ordway having gone to
Washington.
WINTER fence builders on the line of
the Hastings and Oak ota have struck for
higher wages.
TEE Chamberlain Register predicts
the building Of a railway along the river
from Yinkton TO Bismarck.
The first ulsrria sa, the first birth and
The first death il, Pierre occurred on the
Same day-the 18th Of July, 1888.
The Sioux Falls city cornell appro-
priated S17C Is tc furnish hall for the
use of tls cppstitn 1onal convention.
SOUTHERN DAKOTA has competitor
as a female orator, Mrs. T. J. Lille,
who is I CT 2rl on "The World, the
Flesh and the D1viI.'
A NEW paper bas been published at
Dunbar. Sargea"' County, by Col. VIM.
L, King. Col. King vas form .rly an
old trou,iar l. >ilall fighter.
The Mime. ota ,uine, located on Silver
Creek, tWNut, mi south of Lead City,
ilas been so!.i to Alexander Majors,
rprrcs*nting a Scotch syndicate, for
sG5, OU0.
A RIPPLE of excitement Yves occasioned
at the GIN rheater, Deadwoo !, the
other nc: ling, by one OF the male in
mates " :,l7;,iry ffan;ically forth in SIM
pie nis ht at:ir. and shouting: "Guosts,
ghosts; a million ct, stly ghosts p
Two meu, james Sadier aud GINS AL
den, were :,tr1,,k by an engine al Fargo
rn the 18th and instantly killed. Alden
was minneapolis man, and leaves q
wife end two children. Both were
slightly intox scated at the time of the
acc,de Mt.
A. NoRwt GI.lN stopping at a Chamber
a,u hote', +. ;,meH III the night that he
was pursue. BY officers OF the law, and
without stopping TO wake up he jumped
out Of the widow, a!nghtins upon the
roof of an adjoining building, sixteen
| :,et fellow.
FRANK ELLIOTT, formerly of Stillwa-
| ter, i:lnu., has teen missing for some
time from De Graf, and Indications
point to iou' play. He had 5000 in his
| o, secession at the time of his disappear
tuce. bur a sum almost equal to that
vas coming t. him in wages. He left
! all other val,,ablcs in his hotel.
A SwEDE couple who live near Sioux
Falls have four children, two OF them as
perfect specimens Of the Alb1no as we're
ever seen, and the other pair are ordi-
nary fair haired children. The Albinos
are of Opposite gender, and thu little
! girl, no e'ehstan ling her cff-color, is
pretty as a picture. Her hair is white
| as the t,lven snow and kinkV as the
vol of t1e most thoroughbred Afri-
eau.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-11-28
MINNESOTA.

PRAIRIE fire near A1anketo on the 18th,
destroyed over 100 tons of bay.
TEN acres Of trees belonging to H. 81.
Gokey. of RtuvlIie, we're burned by
piaII1e iir1.
A. P, Long vas canRht by train on
2 high railway bridge near Carver, and
had to jump to save his life, receiving
severe Injuries.
Mrs, CARPENTER, of Mound Prairie,
was thro VII from her wagon, sustaining
a fracture Of her hip and arm, from
which it is doubtful if she RECEIVERS.
JOHN ,51SKEn, an old settler of Lake.
town, CARY. County, died suddenly re-
Gently, aged >ixty-e'ght years. The day
previous he attended the wedding of bis
uaue liter, aid Was apparently in good
health.
PRAIRIE fire started on the 18th near
St. Cloud, sweeping for miles over the
prairie. Among those losing their hay
are Messrs. Bartholomy, Robbers,
Searle, D. nohue and Jodoin, the latter
also losing 9, 600 bushels Of oats.
RED Wing sports have bought 81, 800
worth of experience from three parties
calling themselves Galloway, Long and
Swift, who got up foot race and roped
in the Yertla,it ones. The crowd is work.
ing inte,icr towns in the state.
Two freebooters named Taylor held
up M. Keegan at Midland, near Tracy,
and took ST, and then proceeded to Tracy,
entered the store Of P. Fox and at the
point f a revolver obtained S25 in money
and an equal amount IL goods, and then
stealing a pair of horses, left the coun-
try.
THE St. James (Watonwan County,
Journal says that the New York children
brought to that place in august OF last
year have proven great nu1sances. Out
Of the thirty distributed there, all but
seven have run away and are back in
their old way of living IN the larger
towns,
FIVE burglars entered Blair's hard
ware store 81 Waterville and got away
with twenty revolvers, ten dozen knives,
r1zors, ETC., and then entered drug
store. where they were discovered. A
posse of citizens rallied and captured
the whole patty and most OF the stolen
property.
The state superintendent Of instruc-
ton has called meeting OF county SUI
per,ntendepts Of schools to meet a: st.
Paul on Frls;ay, December 28th. The
object is to iscuas educational matters
and agree op plan Of action in the mat
ter of &c eral school work and holding
institutes.
IN Norwood, August Shower. aged
seventy years, married Mrs. Koffish OF
like wears. before consenting to the
uuion the old lady succeeded in getting
a deed of all The old mans property, and
before the fret quarter of the honeymoon
had passed got gloriously drunk and re-
fused to live with him.
TIE Faribault Republican says: 1.-The
failure of the corn crop is affecting the
pork interest in this vicinity very unfa-
vo1ably. The farmers fiud, upon husk-
ing, that the effects of tile frosts were
even more disastrous than they had an
ticipated, and there will be but small!
proportion OF sound corn in the crop Of
this season. As a result of scarcity OF
iced. pork producers are crowding thelt
hogs upon the market. which tends to
knock down the price. Buyers are now
paying So % per hundred weight fol
shipment.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-11-28

ACCORDING to the New York papers,
says London Truth, Mrs. Langtry has
invested $Sl, 600 in Fifth Avenue and
other sire cts in that city. In the assign
ment deeds Mrs. Langtry is described
as Emile Charlotte Langtry, Of the
island of jersey" which may perhaps be
interesting to people who were under
the impression that her name was Lilly.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-11-28
THE VERDICT.
The Architects and Contractors are Re.
sponsible for the Accident.

MADISON, November 21.-The coro-
ner's jury investigating the cause of the
collapse of the south wing of the capitol
extension returned verdict at 4:45
o'clock this morning, having retired at 8
o'clock last evening and been in active
discussion of the evidence all night.
After detailing the particular manner of
the death of each of the five victims and
attributing it to the falling of portion
of the south wing, the jurors find as fol-
lows:
That the internal construction of the build
ing was such as to render it especially the sub
ject Of disaster from accidents liable to occur
probably because Of the settling Of. the east
ern and western walls, cracks occurred in the
brick piers and pilasters supporting the ends
of the Orders and columns, endangering the
building and the workmen in and about it;
that one Of the cracks occurred and was known
to the contractors in charge to exist for several
weeks prior to said falling, in the second story
pier of the south partition wall, near the south
east corner Of the building, and that said con-
tractors attempted to strengthen said pier in
an entirely insufficient manner; that Mt the
time Of such repair on TUESDAY, November
9Th, said pier WAS apparently yielding under
the weight 1t supported, and was in q precari.
OuS COuUlClOus tuat ~ ILLS tluo tuero TeSLeO
on the column having it's base upon said pier,
a weight variously estimated at from fourteen
to eighteen tons, which was gradually increased
by placing concrete filling in the arches above;
that on the day Of falling, November 9Th, the
pier had given way still more; that in all prob
ability the buildin, gave way al this point.
First. we therefore find, that Oscar F. Now
Ian, one Of the contrs ctors, by causing sald
second story pier Of the south partition wall,
near the southeast corner of said south wing,
to be improperly and insufficiently repaired,
was guilty OF a grave error and contributed
thereby to the failing of the south wing Oh the
9th day Of November; that D. R. Jones and
b. G. Koch, as designing and consulting arch
itects we're guilty Of negligence in designing
the internal construction Of the said south
wing of the capitol extension without Edue
and proper regard for safety during erection
and thereby contributed to the falling on ths
9Th day of November, 1883.
Signed, ALLAN D. CoNovER,
L. s. HANKS,
JAMES E. MosELY,
FRANK NJ. Dorm,
D. T. SoRENsoN,
B. WARNEs,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-11-28

Officials at the capitol and citizens
generally do not hesitate to express
much disappointment at the verdict,
which is altogether too easy on Supervise
ing Architect Jones, under whose very
eyes all the defects in the construction
were allowed: Then, again, nothing is
said about the faulty iron columns,
which nearly every expert testified were
one of the chief causes of the disaster.
Architect Royington, of Chicago,
called in to assist Jones and Koch in
their construction of the extension, re.
ports the iron columns in the north wing
as altogether too defective and, in &C.
cordance with bis suggestions, the build
ing has been shored up all ready to re-
move the columns. It is probable that
wrought iron will be substituted. Other
changes in the specifications, particular.
~ as to brick piers, will be decided on
by the commissioners tomorrow.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-11-28
GENERAL.

E. DAWSON, one Of the wealthiest cattle men
Of Clay County, Texas, assigned ON the 20th.
Liabilities e425, ZOO.
M1oHE1s l. Co., Wholesale notions, New York
failed on the 21st. Liabilities >500, 900.
HEsRr snxoNs, . Chicago, H., lumber
desier, failed on the 18th, Liabilities 49,.