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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-06
TERMS: Two Dollars Per Annum in Advance.

frain from thiA The association of mon
Of all shades Of political belief in our en-
campments and posts, In all our reunions,
as today, proves to all who have eyes
and ears, that this Grand Army is not in
any manner political organization.
During the reading and at the
conclusion of the reference to the
newspaper attacks upon the commanders,
Gen. Logan entered the room and was re-
ceived with enthusiastic cheers. being
introduced by Gen. Beath as the first
was again loudly applauded as he took
ports of the several staff officers were
next read and distributed to the dele
gates in attendance, preceded by the in
PRODUCTION of Gems. Sherman and Logan
from the platform in the midst of approx.
ing plaudib.
The NEW OFFICERS.
COMMANDMENT Chief, John 8. Kountz,
of Iowa.
John P: Rea, Minneapolis, Senior Vice
Commander.
Ira B. Hicks, New Britain, Conn.,, Ju-
nior Vice Commander.
T. N. Shanafelt, Michigan, Chaplain.
w. B. Hall, Pennsylvania, Surgeon.
woxANs RELIEF CORPS oFF1cERs.
President-Mn. Kate B. Sherwood,
Toledo, o.
Senior Vice President t-Mrs. Sarah e.
Fuller, Boston, Mass.
Junior Vice Pesident-Mrs. T. J. An
derson, Topeka, Kas.
Treasurer-Mrs. l. A. Turner, Boston
Mass.
Chaplain-Mn. Annie Whittenmeyer,
Philadelphia.
Inspector Sarah c. Nichols, Au-
burn, N. Y,
ConductorMD. Maggie J. Sias, Pitts
burg Pa.
Guard-Mrs. Lewis Malsh, Minneapo-
Lis.
Portland, Maine is the next place Of
meeting,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-06
GENERAL

JOHN KMPEL, carriage manufacturer, St.
Louis, made an assignment on the 31st.
The John Caswell Tea Company, New York,
failed on the 31st.
THE Philadelphia mint coined l,000, 900 silver
dollars during July.
P. M. HARaRAvE, = banker Of Lampasas,
Tex, assigned, on the 3lst, with liabilities
amounting to $4,000.
TIE production of the Pennyslvania oil
district has increased g. 900 barrels per day.
PAUL STEVENS, former librarian of the
at Camden, Me-, on the 80th, aged 81.
Two mills at Lewiston, Me-, which have en-
ployed 800 men, were shut down on the 3Oth
on account of over production.
The failure of Norton Il Wells, grocers, at
Wheeling, W. Va, was announced on the sOth.
Liabilities 1915, 600, assets much larger.
BEETLE Il Bro, wool merchants, at Phila-
delphia, assigned on the 3Otli.
THE Westinghouse Air Brake Co., shut
downtheir works at Pittsburg, on the I'd of
August, throwing 200 men out of work.
SPAIN has issued q decree making q reduc-
ton, of 60 per cent. in the Cuban export tax
on sugar.
W. J. RANKIN Il Son, wholesale grocers, Gin
cinnati, assigned on the 30th. Liabilities $780,
600; assets unknown.
A LARGE number Of cattle affected with Tex.
as fever. arrived at Chicago, on the 29th.
On doomed at Pittsburg, on the 29th. It
advanced nine cents during twenty four hours.
The car works at Detroit, Mich, shut
down the first week in August, throwing 1900
men out Of employment.
The Commercial Bank, Brazil, Ind. closed
its doors on the 29th. Liabilities about $780,
600; assets Dominally $17O,OOO.
BARNuM's wire works at Detroit, Mich, the
most extensive establishment of the kind in
the country, were reported financially embar-
rassed on the 29th.
RuDD Bros, New York cigar dealers, failed
on the Goth. Preferences @21, ,969.
The accounts Of President Harrison receiver
of the defunct Indiana Banking Company, of
Indianapolis, were found on the 29th to be
800, ,oo6 short
De WOLF Il SWAN, New York stock brokers,
failed on the 2Sth. Liabilities, 9150,0O0.
A. B. PooRE, of Cleveland, O., saperintend-
ent of the American Express Company in that
state, died suddenly Of paralysis Of the heart.
at Old Orchard, Me-, on the morning Of the
28th. -. :
The Grand Rapids attained greater lead
curing the past week, but Saginaw is showing
up well and Is pushing Bay City. Quincy and
Peoria hard, who occupy second, third and
fourth places respectively. The leaders are
ever, and the Milwaukees, who are receiving
strength daily, now have an excellent opportu
nifty to regain their old position among the
foremost. Minneapolis Ia playing . strong
seventh, Muskegon occupies eighth, and Fort
Wayne, Saltwater, st. Paul and Terre Haute
are strung along the rear in the order named.
Following is the summary of games won and
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-06
.A TX 0TA
a Shipping Point.

Pierre is q shipping point for all
Black Hills freight sent over both the
Chicago & North Western and Chicago.
Milwaukee d St. Paul RailwaYs. Ship
ments via. the latter line to it's Missouri
River terminus at Chamberlain are sent
up the river to Pierre for trans-shipment
to the Hills. The traffic between
Pierre and Deadwood is immense. In
the transportation of freight there are
10000 oxen and mules and 1000 men
constantly employed. the tonnage
amounting to about 20, O00, ,OGO pounds
per annum, ,and the money annually paid
for frejghtirg, amounting to over $780,
GOO is expended in Pierre.
Pierre is the headquarters for Military
and Ranch Supplies forwarded by river
to the various forts and military posts
and to different points along the "Big
Muddy" where small settlements have
sprung up. Pierre has the trade, alto
gether, of not less than $4,000 people,
including Indians. q. s. A. Quarter
masters Office, government storehouses,
and Offices of Collector of Customs,
and Internal Revenue Collector are To-
Gated here. In the river traffic there
are twenty-five steamers engaged during
the season, plying between Pierre and
points above and below.
Building Activity.
During the past season there was
erected brick courthouse, three brick
business blocks, and over 800 wooden
buildings, involving an expenditure of
over 81, 800, 600. There is now in pro-
cess of erection the Park Hotel, q brick
structure 100x120, four stories high, and
everything indicates that there will be q
great increase in building during the
year 1884, and there will be an active de-
mand for building material and mechan-
les in all branches of trade.
The first industry established in Pierre
was brick making, of which there was
manufactured last season over 1000, 600
of superior quality, and arrangements
have nov been completed to manufact-
ure more than s, 600, 600 the coming Sea-
son. There is great demand here for
iron work, and . foundry and machine
shop which could make cast pieces for
buildings. breaking plows for the farm
ers, and do repair work on implements
and steamboats,, would do q very profit
able business.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-06
.IE:FRE
The Population Of Pierre is
2,6oo.


$500.
It has an excellent municipal govern
ernment. The Presbyterian College Of
Southern Dakota, now in operation, and
numerous ward schools, offer superior
educational advantages. There is one
first-class hotel, the Wells House, and
ten second-c class hotels open, two daily
and four weekly newspapers, four banks
and numerous wholesale and retail
houses in various branches of trade.
The surrounding Country
is tbickly settled by farmers and COM
prises the finest farming land in Dakota.
Quarter sections, or farms of 16O acres
[every foo: of which can be cultivated }
can be bought for from 5000 to Fl, 200,
depending upon their distance from the
city. Government land can be taken up
within ten miles of the city. The coun.
try west of the river and included in the
great Sioux reservation (which it il ex-
pected will be thrown open to settle.
ment this spring) is the best wheat
growing land in Dakota.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-06
CRIMINAL

Two sisters, Lucy and Texana Jones. aged
II and 19 respectively, committed suicide bv
hanging at the home Of their parents. near
Gadsden, Ala., on the 3lst, AVN
On the 31st Fortune Dogneaux, q non-union
foreman in the Bradford (Pa.) glass works.
was assaulted by strikers who gouged out his
eyes to prevent him from doing anv mora
work. NY A'oAo
hHoDY BOYLE, farmer living near St.
Joseph, Pa, was robbed of $13, 900, on the slst.
by three masked mon who entered his house
and forced him to open his safe.
JACK REYNOLDS, who shot Sheriff McCord.
was captured on tho S1st, and lodged in iail NJ
Marshalltown, Ia. -
JOHN FLOWERS. half crazy inmate of the
headlng, Pa, county hospital brutally murdered
an old man named Thomas Louth on the
S1st "'-A VI 'no
EDWARD T. STEERS, young society man Of
hcnheld Springs, N. Y, shot himself in
tne presence Of Miss Tessie White, q young
glri who had refused to marry him, on the s1st,
REPRESENTATIVE CULBERTsoN of Kentnckv.
made desperate attempt at suicide at WASH
lngton on the 3Oth, shooting himself five times
IN the back of the head but failing to reach
tne praln. Nervousness resulting from dissi-
the act. '~''A ''0 '"'So VI
HE negro who stabbed and killed Station
agent Beaumont at Ely, Ia., was captured on
me 3Oth and is now in Jail ut Cedar Rapids.
age. - Se'A' "
CHlEF OF POLICE FRANK HATCH, of La Crosse
was shot and badly wounded by on unknown
ruhan on the night Of the 29th. One ball an.
tereo MS BODY and another passed through his
FAuL Overlook, Milwaukee drug clerk.
poison. y '''A1"e
JOHN FLOWERS Drained Thomas South. fel-
lowcpat5ent in lunatie asylum at READING. Pa.
FRITZ BRocKMEIER and John Dolan. inmates
OF the Dayton, O., soldiers home, ouarreled on
knife. >-'~ A'AA'o1 VAIL
STATION AGENT BuRMosr, a. Ely, H.. was
stapned to death on the 29th, by negro whom
no nao fepfoved Tor using indecent language.
"A GANG OF seventeen horse thieves was cap-
tu1ed In Oregon, on the 2sth. The leaders
s. were hung and the remainder turned over to the
ANNIE sEPP1cH, shot at Pittsbure. by VIM.
of the 29th. 1 W VIC 1uoio1De
~, OE1' MORRILL, committed suicide at Wonevoc.
WIS on the 29th, by taking paris green.
NEAR Greeley, Col, on the 29th, John Shea.
during fit of jealousy, stabbed his wife seven
times, infictng fatal wounds. He then killed
himself with eight stabs. -'-'s-
NEARspripg Place. Ga, on the 2stb. Pink
Petit, farmer who quarreled with his wife and
separated several years ago, appeared where
nus w1fe was living, and after receiving 4 re-
f9sal to demand for the deed of : certain
fled. = "--s '1'1 '1o"
In Marion County, Kas., on the 2sth, ! far
mer named Henry Hebert. shot and killed
boy named David johnson, for trespass.
In an attempt to arrest three rowdies on the
26th, Police Officer Mclaughlin, Of Minneapo-
Lis, received fatal bullet wound in the abdo.
men. The militia had to be called out TO sup
press the mob who wanted to lynch the men.
JUAN G. BAoHA, . Las Vegas, N. H., cattle
dealer, was drugged and robbed Of money and
26th. =. -. - :
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The 14-year-old son Of Oliver johnson Of
Eau Claire was crushed to death in the Eau
Claire Companys lumber mill on the 81st.
MRS. UPME1ER attempted tO::cut open sky
rocket with hatchet at Cincinnati, on the S0tb,
when the rocket exploded with terrible force.
killing her and 12-year old daughter and
slightly injWing little boy.
MARY WOLF, aged 18, was fatally burned at
Milwaukee, on the S0th, while attempting to fill
lighted oil-stove.
NATHAN MILLER, Maryville, Kss.. farmer,
and his four daughters were killed by lightning
on the 30th. s-
HENRY GERKE was killed by lightning at
Fo Wayne, Ind, on the 30th.
The steambarge J. I'M. Osborn, of Cleveland.
was sunk by q collision with the Canadian pas
senger steamship Alberta, of Whitefsh Point
Lake Superior, on the 29th. The mate, cook
and five deck-hands were lost. The steamer
was valued at $780,
ROBERT B. CovEY, Of ofGreenpoint, l.. l., while
working on the wreck Of the ship Ohio At New
York on the 29th was killed by dynamite ex-
plosioa. 80
LOUIS W1NNEKEN of Fort Wayne, Ino., was
torn to pieces by reaper on the 29th, his
horses having become frightened.
DISPATCHES Of the 28th report the entire
destruction by fire of DEVILS Lake City, Oak.
A BR1DaE-sPAN over White River, near
Worthington. Ky., gave way under passing
train on the 2sth. killing William .Hiebbetts
and injuring several others.
+ BOY named Bennie Bakal and little glrl
named Dora Shaw were drowned in the river
ct Milwaukee o on the 28th.
4 A LAMP explosion ut Millerstown, Pa, on the
96th, caused = conAagraton which swept
away an entire block. Loss $50, 900; partially
insured.
THE foundry and machine shops of Tunnel
cliff & Co., at Nashville, ILL.,. burned on the
9th. Loss $685. 900; insurance $4,000.
JOSEPH MENDA11, Of Louisville, Ky., fell
from fourth story window while intoxicated,
on the 27th, dying instantly.
CHAs. F. SAuER's tannery at Louisville, Ky.,
burned on the 25th. Loss $780,
THnTY-Two buildings at Tacoma, w. T.,
burned on the 26th. Loss $4,000.
MINNIE LEWIS and Otto Mulhart, two young
Chicago people, were drowned on the 9th
while out selling.
FIRE at Charles City, Ia, on the 25th, de-
etroyed two carriage shops and lumber yard.
Loss $4,000.
B. GooDw1N's store and contents, at Novaso-
ta, No., burned on the 25th. Loss, $50, 900.
FIRE at Galveston, Tex, on the 25th; de-
stroyed property to the value Of $S8, 900.
FIVE men were killed on the 25th inst, by the
explosion of q switch engine on the Lehigh
Valley railroad near Wilkesbarre, Pa.
The wife and two SONS of Capt. A. J. Sur
rey, farmer near lola, Kas., were killed by
the fall Of barn which was blown dowt
during q storm on the 25th.
A PAVILION was blown down upon about $50
picnickers during storm near Indianapolis on
the 25th INST, and about dozen persons were
hurt.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-06

J. 81. KERR1CK & Co.. machinery, iron and
wood work dealers, Minneapolis, assigned on
the 26th. Z. .55:s&E. si2
NEAR Maysviue, KY, on the 25th, Thomas
Calvert, respected citizen, was shot dead by
Robert Farrell, horse trainer.
VICTOR ELo1, for wife murder, and Kendrick
Holland, for similar crime, were hanged ut
New Orleans, on the 25th.
MRs. Adam MILLER, was fatally shot on the
26th 1t : place called Glades, near York, Pa,
by her brother.in-law who believed in wltch-
craft and insisted she had bewitched him.
A QUARREL. shout woman near Glasgow,
No., on the 18th, resulted in the death Of.
Addison Smith ct the hands Of Andrew John
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-06
Spurgeon's Jokes.
(From the London Truth.l !

] remember q grave pastor remon-
strating with the mighty Baptist. Il
wonder now. said the dull old fellow,
show you, as an influential minister,
can reconcile it to your conscience to
make 50 many jokes in the pulpit?'
You wouldn't though" said Spurgeon,
st you knew how manyI kept to my
self.
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The Value of Humble.Bee

Glover does not seed in New Zealand,
because there ere no humble-bees to
fsrtilize the flowers. Various attempts
which have been made to introduce the
insects have proven futile, but j. @.
Firth has succeeded at length in getting
. consignment of humble bees, which
were transported in q torpid state in
chilled room. II successful in acclima-
timing them, Mr.. Firth expects them to
save him 5000 q year in clover-seed,
al supplies having now to be imported.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-06

The Grand Army posts in Boston and
vicinity are arranging to tender Gen.
Phil. Sheridan an epen-an campfire re-
ception during his coming visit to that
city. It is believed that ct least O,OOO
of the @boys will fall into line on that
occasion. The festivities viii occupy
one day aA1 0veai1ss
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-06

The position occupied last week by the clubs
in the National League. are unchanged, Bos ton
leading Providence by two games, with New
York and Buffalo well up. Following is the
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DR. @. 8. BEAULIEU.

nR. @. 8. BEAUL1EU.
Office ove- sleepsras Drug stere, Brownsdale,
Minnesota.
~ Peaching at Christian Ohape, ., Ary Sunday
morning and evening.
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TLLEN NJ. FAIRBANKS, II. d.

IL
Office and Residence, corner West Main and
Maple Streets, opposite Public School Building,
Austin, MINI. At homo until 4. II. and from Il
to 2 P.W.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-06

T YMAN D. BAIRD,
IL ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Rtal Estate, Insurance and Collection Agent. ONCE
third room, second floor, Levy's Block, Austin,
Minnesota.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-06
SONGS AND SHOUTS.

The singing of some of the clubs and
the shouts of the people along the line of
march, added zest and enthusiasm to the
occasion. At the base of the electric mast
on Bridge square, where the parade
conference.-the there had been arranged
a pyramid of seats on which Prof. Bird
sells chorus of children had place and
added their songs to the volume Of mer-
riment. The procession had not finished
crossing Washington avenue or Hennepin,
when the front reached Washington and
First avenue south, where the depart
ment commanders, Gen. Logan, Gen.
Sherman, and the other notables took q
position and reviewed the column as it
marched down First avenue to the place
of breaking. The boys here had fair
chance at the generals, and their enthu-
siasm knew no bounds. Gen. Sherman
and Gen. Logan were constantly surround
ed by glad and excited men, who broke
from the ranks and grasped again the
hands of the men who had led them
through the war
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-06

The size of the crowd was only equal
led by its enthusiasm. The atmosphere
was charged with it as with electricity,
and citizens and comrades were alike az
fected by it. It is not so with the cam
araderie that exists in most orders. When
the Knights Templar, or the Odd Fellows
or the Knights of Pythias have demon
stration the crowd on the street. most of
whom have no conception ofjubiio, ju-
bilia, jubilum, look on and admire the
uniforms, the music and the regular or
der, but feel no other sentiment than
that of admiration. But with the Grand
Army, while it may be called . Iecret or
der, it's methodr are perfectly open to the
world, and the tie that binds it together
also surrounds the heart of every citizen,
male and female, who lives in the coun-
try preserved by their blood and sweat.
1t is no wonder, then, that the citizeno al
combined to do honor to these heroes
and We'd with each other to see who
should do the most shouting as they pass
ed along. The enthusiasm rose and fell
as the waters of the sea. The section
that Logan was in could be followed about
the city by the thunders and shouting
that followed it everywhere. The old
Minnesota battle dags were another fea-
ture that set the crowd roaring, likewise
the remnant of the First Minnesota vol
unteerS. 49,.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-06

NJ. GREENMAN,
ATTORNEY At LAK
VIII practice ia the Of record, and the q. a.
courts Office In Schleuder's blook, Main street,
Austin, Minn. 401y
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-06

Manufacturer and wholesale Dealer In the besS
brands Of Greeers' and Bakers' Flour. Also an
kinds Of Mill Feed for sale st his store on Main
south Of the city.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-06

HALL d HAv.

Rooms up town. Guests carried to and from the
city free Of charge. Up town connected by telo-
phone at Clemmer d Poolorb. Austin, MINI.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-06
TTORNEY At Law,

And Real Estate Agent. Collections made ana
taxes paid Oface north side Public Square, IN
brick building Austin. MINI.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-06

posts and 148,16S members. On March
81, 1884, thiIty-six departments reported
1923 posts and 239, ,595 members, q gain in
these twelve months of four departments
and 1,748 posts and 81 ,4l2 members.
NATIONAL HOMES.
The committee appointed at the Last
encampment tosecure the establishment,
by the government, Of soldiers home
west of the Mississippi, have performed
their duty with great success, and will
report in detail to this encampment The
establishment of q home In that large Sec
ton is most excellent project; but the
great value of this measure is that it en-
1arges the presentsystem, which provides
only for those disabled In the service.
The committee placed in this bill the
provision that ell honorably discharged
soldiers and sailors of the war Of the re-
bellion, who, by reason Of old age or dis.
ease, are incapable of earning living,
shall be entitled to all the benefits Of the
home, whether the disability was in
cured in the service or not. As congress
has also in this bill recognized the justice
of admitting ex-sailors and marines to
the benefits of this home, I recommend
that the encampment memorialize con-
gress in favor of the modification OF the
existing statutes 80 as to admit our COM
rades of the navy to equal privileges in
all the homes. / was asked during the
year to assist in the project OF raising
and North Carolina of homes for confed-
crate veterans, Believing this to be out
side of the line of my authority, and that
I had no right to commit the Grand Ar
my in any matter not in the line of our
declared objects, I could only say that the
proposition would have to 60 before the
national encampment.
wonANs RELIEF CORPS.
I Ideemed it q duty to call personally on
the national officers of the Woman's Re-
lief corps in Boston to ask If there was
any service which we could render in
the prosecution of their work. I also met
on several occasions their efficient West
ern organizer, Mrs. Kate B. Sherwood,
senior vice president, and In all these in
terviews was deeply impressed with the
fact that they had in themselves the
ability and resources to carry out the de-
tails Of organization, and that what they
most needed from us was the expression
of our hearty appreciation of their work
and of sympathy in their objects. They
are now much further advanced in or
SANITATION in this one year than the
Grand Army was in the same time. Com
rades who doubted the wisdom Of our
taking any action Last year will soon see
that this Woman's Relief corps is to be
our Grand Army reserve, ready to respond
for efficient help in all our social and
charitable work.
SONS OF VETERANS.
At the last encampment the following
wasadopted:
Resolved, That we hail with pleasure all
organizations having for their object the
perpetuity of the principles which are
dear to us, and we recognize in the Sons
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-06

rT~HOS. PHILLIPS, n. D.,
RONOEOPATHIC PHYaECIAN 4 SURGEOH.
Has permanently located In Austin. Calls In
CITY country promptly attended to at oil hours:
office and rooms in Schlender's block, first door
north of Mower County Bank. ~ Electric baths
given at the office.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-06
BUSINESS CARDS.

7 Obj & coNK11N'
BARRIERS AND AIR DRESSERS,
at their new TonsoriaI Parlors. Shower and Hot
Baths. We have two 1rst-cass bathrooms. Main
Street, Austin, MINI.