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Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-27
n Terrible Calamity.
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DETROIT, February 26.-The resi-.
denoe of Peter Denner, at Montague,
Muskegon county, burned this morn.
ing. The hired girl and three chill.
dren, aged five and three years, and
one week, perished in the flames. Mrs.
Danner barely escaped from q sick bed
In her bare feet.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-27
Extradition OF Sheridan
ngaI nsaanE,L A. IN. M.

NEW YORK, February 26.-The de-
partment of state received application
from the British government for the
extradltion of P. j. sheridan, sus.
pected Of completely In the Pheaix
park murder.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-27
Wholesale Poisoning.
oNa ,h kn Tim Q,u

ppoO1nT DroP8IVH 70 TT Dhhs
MILWAUKEE, February 26.-The re.
port comes from Michigan that the
cook to q camp, fifty miles from Sagi-
nav, used strychnine for soda In
making the biscuits and that seventy
lumbermen were poisoned to death.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-27

After a long fight Catholic clergy
will be admitted to the Newark New
Jersey retofmAtory. The director of
the house Of refuge, New York, stren-
uously opposed admission Of priests.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-27
strike E ,ded.
snatch In Tug RyE

Special Dispatch TO The BEE.
WILMINGTON, Del, February 90
Most of tbs striking weavers at Arling-
ton cotton mills returned TO work 1t
the company terms, but with promise
Of an advance If the market i'm.
proves
Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-27
A Train Ditched.
.,.aNak A. No.. L.

pPoCIRI DI5pHVUH u 1Hh BHh,,
DUBUQUE, Ia, February ga car
on the Milwaukee & st. Paul was
thrown from the track near here to-
day. Robert Mercer, of Stone City,
and a nan named Mcguire were killed.
The conductor Maa injured.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-27
LaraaY LuatioA.

JERSEY Cry, February 26..-Three
measures were introduced In the New
Jersey legislature looking to taxation
Of railroads.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-27
Robinson's Scheme "For the
Relief Of England, Benefit
Of Ireland and Glory
Of the D. s."
Great Britain Applies For the
Extradition of P. j.
Sheridan.
Routine Business In tho Senate
Van Wyok on Foreign
Relations.
CAPITAL O
Dispatches TO TEE BBB.

fNN
APPLICATION FOR SHERIDAN.
WASHINGTON, February 2 6.--The
department of state has received ap.
plication from the British govern
ment for the extradition of P. j.
Sheridan, suspected of completely In
the Phe nix park murders.
NOMINATIONS.
s. G. w. Benjamin, minister resi-
dent and consul general at Teheran,
Persia; Weckham Hoffman, minister
resident and consul general to Den.
mark Lucius Fl. Foote, envoy extra
ordinary and minister plenipotentiary
to Corea; D wight T. Reed, secretary of
legation and consul general to Madrid
A PATENT CASE.
The senate committee on patents
to-day gave q hearing upon the
charges of corruption filed by patent
practition ara who are opposing DR..
Robert G. Dsgrenforth to be assistant
commissioner on patents. No con-
cluslon was reached. The committee
will meet again.
THE JEANETTE BOARD
adjourned subject to orders from the
secretary of the navy When Barley
and his companions return from 81
IBERIA they will be examined In refer
ence to the De Long. Collins difficulty.
MACE AND sLADE
gave a boxing exhibition at Theatre
Comique tonight. In the audience
<were a number of persons of distinc.
tion, including several members OF
congress. Slade was greatly admired
for his proficiency, though the opinion
was freely expressed that he Is hardly
quick enough to make q successful
fight with Sullivan. A check TO,
$4,000 wal shown rs forfeit money
5 a match with Sullivan, $5, 900 a
.. Slade visited the capitol to.
day and was followed through the
corridors by q large crowd, even
some dignifsd senators and member
of the house left their seats and went
Into the hall to get q sight of the
Maori fighter.
BARRETT's NEW PLAY.
1uo prosiueutp ulculooIb VI tu0 csc'
met, Chief Justice Waite and severaI
justices of the supreme court, Generals
Sherman and Mcclellan and a large
number of senator's and representa-
tives tonight attended the Nationa
theater to witness the play of "Fran
cesca da Rimini" by Lawrence Bar
rett.
. A LAWYER INDICTED.
The grand jury has found an indiot
ment against A. B. Williams, M o
the star route counsel employed b,
Dorsey, on the charge of receiving
stolen goods, based upon his action a
counsel for the parties charged Will
having stolen q watch and other val
uables from Mrs. Ellis over a yea
ago. Williams and Dorsey declare tn
charge Is absurd. They say the pro
ceedings are a part of the prosecution
being carried on by the department @
juttice against Dorsey.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-27
BILLIARDs FOR GIRLS.
Startling Results OF Mrs. Stanton's
Recommendations.

Two girls Of this city, says the Fat
Contributor, having heard that Eliza.
beth Cady Stanton advised billiards
for girls, concluded to pro6tby the ad-
vice of so wise q counselor, and the
other day when the men folks we're all
down town, the girls In question ad-
journed to the billiard room to have q
game.
"Whst shall We play7' asked the
elder.
"Why, billiards, of COURSE"
81 know, you silly thing; but there's
different kinds of billiards. I mean
what kind shall we plsy2 There's dis.
count, and a hundred or nothing, and
pin ball and fifteen pool"
"Oh, I don't know; which Is the
nicest2"
"Hundred or nothing'u easy; maybe
we had better begin on that"
"All right"
"Well, why don't you get your pole
and shooi2 It's your first shot"
"No 1t ain't, either; we have to
choose for shots."
"That's so; well, here; ock-s--bock-
a--bon-a-orock. a--ock .a--BoCK--A--
TUSE; there, it's your first shot"
"Why, you mean thing. "Tsin't
no such thing"
"Don't You call me q cheater, OF I'll
tell ma you take pickles to bed with
you"
"Well, I don't care. Ocka.a.bocks
amt fair; you know you always said 1t
wasn't In ketcher."
swell, do it yourself"
"One err-y--orr-err. y-ick-or.y-
ann-fill'i son--fall- i.son-- nick-o-las
John.
navey--stinkum- sTANKUM-- BUCK
There, now, l told you 80; and you
have got to shoot"
"Well, I'll shoot; but faint fair.
What are you laughing at, you little
fool2"
"Te.he.he.he You aint got no
chalk on your stick; you know q heap
about billiards, you do"
"You think you're smart, now don't
youl Well, you amt. You dassn'
put chalk on only when you make {
run. There! Isuess I've Q pa I
hundred times.
ooh, you big story teller, I saw p'
put chalk on his stick q Thousand timeI
In one games and he never made more'r
two in his Nfe. George says pas
chump In billiards."
"You horrid, nasty thing. VIVA
did ma tell Won nbout being elanUv2 i
l don't tell on you. I'm q goat"
"Whatoh you doing yourself2 Bet
ter mind your own self. Goody
goody. Now see what you've done,
as the other made q lunge at the bal
with a tipless cue, and tore a forty
inch slit In the cloth.
"Well, you made me do IT." thel
she pulled the others hair, they boil
cried and the tournament was yer.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-27

In buying boots and shoes 60 to
Kiewit & Montague, 10th and Daven-
port. mon-thur&sat
Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-27
How the Gas Meter Works.
Detroit Fress Press.

Wv Nv"
The well known devotion of the gas
meter to the interests of the gas COM
pany Is now explained. The pressure
of the gas Is unequal, and when 1t
presses hard 1t rqueezes the gas
through the meter and condenses that
which is In the pipes In the house.
When the pressure is less the gas
In the house pipes runs back and
through the meter In the mains. But
the sagacious meter makes no note OF
this. That Is not its business; 1t Ii
the company's business. 1t Is trained
TO register only the gas which goes
into the house, and which has to b.
paid for, BY attending strictly t.
this duty, 1t Is not of tho slightest In
terost to the gas company whether thu
family burns the gas or not; whether
or not Its members 60 away for q sum
mer vacation, the gas goes through
and the meter reports it. The ga
goes back, the meter is dead, dum|
and blind the same the next day ant
the next. Whan the owner of a houa
comes from q years travel abroad al
gas bill Is resdY to welcome him.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-27

Fine lot Of Toilet Soaps at VIM
GentlemAn's.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-27
A Naval Disgrace

A Naval Disgrace.
Philadelphia Press.
The United Ttstes steamer Ashue-
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-07-18
l7TORNEY 4 AY LAH'.

AuNi !, vi II &C c.'s in all tha courts Of the
= ate r',p ":'en lou give to Collecting OF
'S' "'"t C''ul b'nk. juno
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-07-18
Cincinnati's Nickname.
(Olive Logan in Harper's.l

The nickname of Porkopolis is of
English origin, and was the brilliant IN
spi1ation of a sponsor who never saw
Cincinnati. In the year 1925 there
flourished in the Queen City gentle
man named Jones. He was president
of the United States Branch Bank, and
was locally known as "Bank Jones'"
The pork trade had already taken such
proportions as to rouse the financial en-
thusiasm OF Bank Jones. and in a sue
cession of letters be dilated upon the
prosperity Of the pork prospects of the
Queen City. These letters were ad-
dressed to the Liverpool correspondent
of the Cincinnati bank, and this gentle
mans imagination at length became
fred by Bank Jones enthusiasm. In q
moment of wild generosity he hied him
to the studio of some Llverpudllan
Thorwaldsen and ordered the construc-
ton of what is set down in the annals as
"a unique pair of model hogs" These
noble efigies we're made of papier-
mache. and were sent out to Cincinnati
as q present, accompanied by the IN
scription-destined in part at least to
become fauous-"To Mr.. George w.
Jones. as the worthy representative OF
Porkopoiis.'' The hogs have still local
habitation and name. They add to the
l,urden Of lite in the Office of one of the
largest "slaughterers" of Cincinnati,
having passed by inheritance from Bank
Jones down, from hand to hand, among
tue pork monarchs of Porkopois Tor
nigh upon hslf century.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-07-18

TwENTY-s1x buildings burned at Evansville,
Minn., on the 9Th. Loss $15O,000.
The Utah Powder Works at Ogden, Utah,
exploded on the 9Th, killing one man and in.
juring several others.
The residence of Ira T. Cummings, near
Middletown, N. Y, burned on the 5th. Loss
$25,000.
One of the mills of the Hurlbut Paper Co.,
in South Lee, Mass, burned on the 5th. Loss
$25,OOO.
Two children Of James Mullen, aged and 6
years, were burned to death with their fathers
residence at Joliet, ILL.,, on the 4th.
!. F. KELLEYs saw mill near Huntsville,
Ala, blew up on the 5th, killing 4 men and
seriously woundiug z others.
In Chicago, on the 4th, Matthew Heradek,
aged 18, was killed by a stray bullet; Emma
Knopf, aged 10, received 32-caliber bullet in
the pit Of the stomach; stray bullet which,
caught Julius Lockman, aged 2l, in the head,
will cause his death. There were SO casual
ties, Of which the above were fatal.
Ar Erie, Pa, on the 4tb, Albert Kuhn reck-
lessly fred revolver from street car win
dow. The ball struck and killed Miss Mary
Steiner. Albert's brother Frank was so over
come by the occurrence that he committed sui
eide.
THREE men we're drowned by the capsizng
Of yacht on the 4th, off New York City.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-07-18
Quackery in London.

WHLAT-No. 2 Red, ..............
CoRN-No.!2................ ......
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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-07-18
AUSTIN, MOWER

ptched battle ensucd. Marshal Hensley was
killed, Ben Bagley was mortally wounded, and
| the desperad0es escaped.
NEGRO and white man, who refuse to give
eir.names, outraged two little girls at Sun
bright, Tenn, on the 9th. They confessed and
alynching is expected.
JAMES GILMORE has confessed to setting fire
to the Bridgewater aims house on the 7th. The
| buildings were destroyed but the inmates were
rescued. He says he showed straw up venti-
lator fue and disabled the steam pump.
NELSON HOWARD, who killed John Kane at
Mound City, ILL.,, on the Fourth, was on the
9th taken from tho jail by mob and hanged.
TIMOTHY SM1T11 trusted clerk Of Jno.
Pickering Mosley, brokers, Boston, Mass.
confessed on the 9Th to losing 1900 of the
firms wealth in private speculations.
TRAMP committed fiendish outrage on
the wife of John Kessler, near Chrisman, III.
on the 9Th. Mrs. Kessler was in a delicate
condition and her injuries are serious. The
tramp escaped.
A BANK messenger in St. Louis had fight
with sneak thief on the 9Th for package of
$4,000 which the thief endeavored to obtain.
he messenger was victorious, but the would
thief escaped.
In quarrel in Chicago, on the 9th, Chas.
Mccarthy was fatally shot in the stomach.
DISPATCH from Boston. Mass, dated the
9Th, reports that steps are being taken to secm
the release from the insane asylum of q woman
confined there for three weeks. Her husband
placed her under the care of physician, who
Ted her chloral for some time and finally sent
her to the asylum. It is alleged she is perfect
ly sane.
AT Otsego Lake, on the 9Th, Alexander Perry
was shot and killed by Mrs. Amos Bidwell.
He made improper advances during the ab-
sence of her husband.
In attempting to quiet drunken mob at
Davis City, H., on the 5th, the marshal shot
and killed bystander named Frank Thompson,
On the 5th George Davis cut the throat of
James Price at Cambria. Wis.
AT barbecue near Deposit Station on the
6tb, Levi Miller was cut in fourteen places by
VIM. Middleton.
A WOMAN named Mrs. Christian was arrested
at Laredo, N. NJ, on the 4th, charged with
numbering her husband. She confessed to
having killed seven men.
ANDREW J. MCCULLY, the noted rifle shot, was
arrested at Staples Mills, Num-, on the 5th,
for the murder Of his sweetheart at Sycamore
ILL.,, twelve years ago.
JOHN CONNER escaped from the Waupun
Wis.,, state prison on the 5th.
AT Norristown, Pa, on the 4th, James Jack
strangled his wife.
NEAR Oakdale, Tenn, as q Sunday school
picnic was returning home, a gang of roughs
started row. Jesse Hooker stabbed Tom
Lyle in the side, and was shot dead by Lyle's
brother.
j. ANNOY KNOX. editor of Texas Siftings, and
David B. Sheahan, q noted sculptor of New
York, quarrcled on the evening of the 4tb, and
fought duel to settle the difficulty on the 5th,
near New York. Knox received flesh wound
in the left arm in the second round.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-07-18
SPORTING.

The American riAemen will be allowed
to use the screw wind-gauge only y in the
International match at Wimbledon.
The championship mile race between
the Scottish champion and John Raine,
of Ottawa, was won by the former by
yards; time, 4:392.
LOUISE ARn1A1NDo, the bicyclist, made
q record at Chicago Of 1493 miles in five
minutes less than twelve hours. Her
record for two days was 247 miles.
FRED ARCHER, the great English
jockey, rode ten winners at the Ascot
meeting, landing three of his mounts
first past the post in one day.
DEXTER is in the fine stables of Rob-
ert Bonner. He is now 25 years old and
is in fine condition. He is given daily
exercise and looks as if he could 60 a
race and win it.
In the native American and English
resident cricket match, at Philadelphia,
on the Sd inst, the Americans, in the
first inning, got 248; Englishmen (un-
finished inning), four wickets down, 112.
The Rochester Bicycle Club opened
their new track on the 5th inst with
tournaments. Eighty-three wheelmen
were present, including twenty-one
members of the Buffalo Club. The
three mile race was won by Westbrook,
the Canadian champion, Leu Pierson,
Of Cincinnati, second.
A DISPATCH from San Francisco notes
the following item: The equine wonder
belonging to s. Trefy, of Sacramento,
was sold Wednesday to Horace Eldred,
of that city for 1900. After the eale
the horse was driven around the Agri-
cultural Park course and made remark
! ably fast time. The quarter was made
in O:30, the half in 1:04, and the mile in
2:O9s.
In the inter collegiate race on Lake
George, N. Y, on the 4th, Cornell was
in the rear at the start, but quickly
passed the others and won, seven
lengths ahead of the Pennsylvania Uni
versity crew, Princeton thirty and Wes-
leyan with wonderful squirt at the
close, almost tapping the New Jerseys.
Time. Cornell 1857; Pennsylvania,
1929; Princeton 12:4O; Wesleyan 12:47.
LEE won the professional ecullers'
match on Charles River, Boston, on the
4tb, Plaisted, Elliott and Mckay.
| Plaistad took the lead from the start,
with Mckay second and Lee third. But
before the stake was reached Lee had
passed both, and held the lead to the
finish, which he reached in 20 minutes
so seconds; Mckay second, nearly ten
lengths behind, 81 minutes 18 Sec
onds. Plaisted and Elliott much to
the surprise of 10000 spectators,
| drOp,ed ont of the race at the turn. The
second race, single scull working boats,
three miles with turn, was won by S.
Gookin in % minutes 4 seconds. The
third event, amateur scullers' race, was
won by John Murphy in % minutes BIZ
seconds. The double scull race was won
by Lee aud Mckay in 81 minutes and ]
second
The following table shows the stand
ing OF the league clubs at the close of the
games on the 9Th inst:
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-07-18
GENERAL.

AT Chicago, john Frott, aged GO, was mar
ried on the 18th to Louisa Lemming, aged 1s,
A TORPEDO boat shaped like cigar was tested
at New York on the 10th and proved satisfac.
tory. Tho boat can run eighteen miles an
hour. The experiments made show that moth
ing known to science can resist destruction
when struck by the torpedo, which is ~ feet
long, 18 inches in diameter and filled for about
three feet from the tip with dynamite.
STILES, GoLDY & Co., commission mcr-
chants. Chicago, failed on the 11th. Liabili-
ties $4,000.
The board of aldermen of New York CITY
passed over the mayors veto on the 11th a
resolution giving laborers in the employ of the
city Saturday afternoons as half holiday until
September 18th.
IT being surnlsed that spectators were buy
ing up the despised trade dollars at bullion
value, with view to have congress pass the
necessary laws next winter redeeming them
in full, the New York chamber of commerce
held meeting on the 10th, and pledged their
influence against the passage of such law
ARTICLES of association were filed on the
10th in Milwaukee, Wis, by C. L. Colby, VIM.
P. MoLareu and Nathan E. Woodward. It is
intended to found a college equal to any in the
country and also to establish academies at vari.
as feeders to the parent institution. The cap
ital stock is $1,000,000.
On the 9Th the time-lock in the sub-treasury
building at New York got out of order aud the
safe could not be opened until the 9Th.
MoNU MENT to the memory of Gen. Custer
and his men was completed and declared salts
| factory last week by the commissioners il
charge Of the work. 1t is Of Monte]lo, Wis.
granite, and was cut, polished and lettered
by the Montello Granite Company. The base
is feet 6 inches square ard u inches high
tho die feet inches square at the base and
inc]ines slightly to within few inches OF the
| top. where it slopes abruptly, terminating il
point, the whole monument is 5 feet 6 inches
| IN height. It will be placed in the Fort Re
| OCH, Montana, cemetery,
SECRETARY OF WAR LINCOLN on the 9TH is
sued on order to the effect that the captured
| Apaches shall be held as prisoners of war, ant
! giving the military police supervision of til,
| Indians on San Carlos reservation.
MISS MARIE Won ELsNER, known to the mu
sical void as Mile. Marie Litta. died at hel
home in Bloomington, Ill.,, on the 7tb, aget
% years. She has been on the operatic stag,
! as a star since 1879
OVER 200 Dewsboys we're banqucted at Chi
cago rink on the 9Th, by the Immanue! Churcl
| Society Of that city.
WALTER LEWIS, of Chicago, aud Rose Ken
nedy, of Springfield, ILL.,, were married il
Prof. Kings balloon at Cleveland, O., on tn,
| 4th. After the ceremony the professor tool
the couple on flying excursion, landing neal
solon, 10.
TIE property of the Salvation Army at Pat
| erson, N. j., was attached for debt on the 5Jh
MEASLES are epidemic in Naxville, Arkansas
and several cases have proved fatal.
WH1Tco11B & KENDALL, provision dealers
Chicago, assigned on the 5th. Liabiitie
| 100000
| RICHARDSON Bros, lumber dealers, More
head, Mimi, failed on the 5th. Liabi'itje
| $47 900.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-07-18

Apropos of the remarks in the Lon
don Medical Press and Circular, char
acterizipg New York and the ''States''
generally as terribly quack-ridden; the
New York Medical Record quotes the
following from the Journal of Science.
It shows that things occur in London
which would not be possible in many
parts of America: "A quack who has
his headquarters near Westminster
Bridge has an ingenious method of be-
guiling the public. He tells his hearers
that if a reIson affected with iIcipient
consumption blows through glass tube
into water it will at once turn milky, and
and invites them to make the trial. As
the liquid which he offers is lime water,
the result follows as matter of course.
He then edds a few drops of his medi-
cine containing eoue acid to the water,
when tho cloudiness at once disappears.
This, he argues, is preof that the same
remedy will eradicate consumption from
the human system. Multi.udes OF those
present believe him and buy his secret
remedy" p. !.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-07-18
ans on his side, and serious trouble ie

feared.
A BRUTE named Wm. Rof, Jr., of
Two Rivers, recently raped Polish
woman who bad only been relieved of
the pains of child birth 80 hours pre-.
viously. he went into the house, chased
out the husband, and theu carried out
bis designs. He tried to eettle when the
husband returned with two men, but
failing in this he skipped the country.
WHILE returning from Verndale to
Woodside, Otter Tail County, Martin s.
Docbstader, prominent ard well-known
man, and a Mrs. Bryant, were badly
burned about the face and hands by the
explosion of q pound package of powder
set off by spark from cigar. Also, a
boy named Henry Carr was blown out.of
the wagon and between the horses,
where he was rescued without further
injury.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-07-18

ARTHUR HAGAN, the new Philadelphia
pitcher, although not more than twenty
years old, has wonderful record thus
far this year, not more than two or three
hits per game having been averaged of
his delivery. In one game of six innings
he struck out twelve of tho eighteen
men at bat. He has been troubled to
find catcher who could 20 up under the
bat and hold the third strike. He
pitches a ball hot and swift over the
Dlate. but has all the curves.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-07-18
A Minister'S Well.TrA1ned Parrot.
rFrom the New York Tribune.]

ADr. Kittridge, of Chicago, in max
ING preparations for his marriage, .solda
green rarrot to q neighbor, who talks ct
returning it because every time the
door opens it cries out, "D-nthe book
agent" ..'
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-07-18
SOCIETIES.,

EHDEL1TY LoI GE, No. SO, A. F.&A.N
"A i1e regular commute .tions of this lodpa
NN~are held 10 Masonic Hall, third s.orv Bas
~ 1orts bi'ck, tin, MINES ,sa, on the frst
Van thru Wednesday evenings of each
L. G. B,sFoRD, Secretary. W. "'
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-07-18

TEN billions of hairpins are manufac-
tured in this country annually, and yet
they are not sufficient to present hair
getting into the butter now and then.