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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-11-05
CASUALTIES.

The Office of the Reporter, at Mound
vile, W. Va, together with a large
dwelling house adjoining, was destroyed
by fire on the 29th. Loss 100000; no
insurance.
THE stables of Henry Keiffer, a brew
or, were destroyed by fire at Brooklyn
on the Goth, together with fifteen
horses and an ice-making machine val
ued at $32, 900. Total loss $4,000.
CLAUS GERKEN, aged 81, was Instant
" killed by the accidental discharge of
his gun, at East Pennington, Polk
County, on the 26th.
GEORGE FUNDAL, one of the crew of
the White Eagle, fell into the river at
La Crosse on the 29th and was drowned.
The Newport villa of Mrs. Mary G..
Holmes, of New York, was destroyed by
fire on the 29th. Loss 100000.
Mrs. MARY HORN, aged 80 years, fell
down flight of stairs at Beaver Dam,
Wis, on the night of the 29th, and was
Instantly killed.
A FIRE at Fayette City. Pa, on the
29th, destroyed property to the value of
$4,000.
AN explosion in one of the buildings
of the Milwaukee Gas Works on the
night of the 29th, caused damage to
the extent of about $685. 900.
In fire which partially destroyed the
lookup at Edgerton, Wis, on tho morn
ing of the Goth, prisoner named Gun
derson was roasted alive. It is thought
Gunderson set the place on fire.
A FREIGHT engine on the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad exploded it's boiler at
Locust Point, on the Goth, killing Joshua
Dixon, the engineer, and David Burke,
the fireman.
An explosion Of dynamite at Tomah,
Wis, on the evening of the 29th, killed
Lewis Styles and fatally injured Albert
Hancock. The dynamite was being
transported in buggy, and was ex-
ploded by sparks from passing torch
light procession. Windows were shat
tered for block on each side.
FIRE at the corner of La Sale and
Michigan Streets. Chicago. on the 29th,
destroyed property to the value q
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-11-05
IE1FFE,
The Population of Pierre IL
2,600.

The Population Of Pierre il
2,6o0.
It has an excellent municipal govern
eminent. The Presbyterian College Of
Southern Dakota, now in operation, and
numerous ward schools, offer superior
educational advantages. There is ono
frst-class hotel, the Wells House, and
ten second 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 thickly settled by farmers and COM
prises the finest farming land in Dakota.
Quarter sections, or farms of 169 acres
(every foo: of which can be cultivated, J
can be bought for from $500 to 81, 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 is 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, 1884-11-05

a Manufacturing Business
can easily be established at Pierre, ow.
ing to the low freight rates obtained,
competition between river and railroad
transportation, the abundance OF wood,
which is now selling for 81 a cord, and
the immense quantity of coal and other
raw material in the adjacent reservation
west of the river.
a Jobbing Trade
has already beendeveloped by Pierre mer-
chants with the Black Hills and the
country up and down the river, and
with lower rate of freight than can be
obtained at Watertown or Huron, or
any other point in South Central Dako-
ia, and being the only railroad point on
the boundary of the reservation soon to
be opened, Pierre is destined to become q
great jobbing center.
Activity in Real Estate
began last year and more sales were
made than in the previous two years Of
the city's growth, and there has been q
healthful, gradual advance in the price
Of city property, and every one has made
money by operating in real estate. The
indications point to an early springs
business and an advance in prices.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-11-05
SLAUGHTER in Fashions Name,

lcEOM AAAo NAOuuoAs}
With the @silly season." as it is
termed, has come a timely protest
against the shooting of gulle. There is
no excuse whatever for shooting gull.
No bird is more harmless or more beau
tiful, or adds more to the scenery which
it haunts. am afraid that the ;ndis-
criminate slaughter of these beautiful
wild creatures is mainly due to the de-
sire of ladies to decorate their head
dresses with CULTS wing. Furs are
reasonable necessaries Of dress. Feath-
ers, as an ornament, are absolutely un-
necessary, and ought only to be worn by
savages, with whom. according to books
of travel, they are extremely popular. I
remember once meeting at dinner q
lady, distinguished writer, who was an
ardent anti visectionist, and dis
claimed most eloquently, as she sat by
me, against the atrocious tortures per-
petrated by Pasteur, Ferrier, Brown
Eequard and others. Her dress was
trimmed with the plumes Of humming-
birds, and she did ample Justice to
crimped cod, veal outlets, lobster salad
and pate de foie gras. reminded her
that her humming-birds had been shot
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-11-05
The ssPretty'' Barmaid.

A London correspondent, alluding to
the number of drunken women he saw
in the great metropolis, more even than
of drunken men, has this, incidentally,
of London institution novel to Amer
ican eyes: Whether. the presence of the
barmaid behind the counter encourages
the women to come in and drink, or
whether she is put there to encourage
the men to come in, or simply because
her labor is cheaper than a mans is a
problem. She is there to stay, appar-
emily, and seems to be regarded as one
of the established institutions of the
country. It is the custom to speak OF
her as the "pretty barmaid." Perhaps
this. was true of the first generation of
barmaids, but it is not easy to find the
justification for it now. The barmaid
of the period hes business-like reso-
lutte look, as if she could exercise the
functions of an American "bouncer" on
occasion, but those we happened to see
were certainly not beautiful. The one
making most pretensions to prettiness
was a modestrlooking girl in the foyer
of the handsome new Empire Theater.
She tried to open bottle of soda-water.
The cork was obstinate. When she put
the bottle between her knees and began
to tug with all her strength, I confess
that my American instincts overcame
me. 1 took the bottle away from he1
and pulled the cork myself. Probably
this was very ridiculous thing to do
Sir Lepel Griffin says that the degree
of Difference paid to women in America
is absurd, or something of that sort
An American (from Wisconsin, told an
Engishman, with some Western in
tensity, that in America the man who
put woman behind the bar to sell his
whisky would be lynched by the men
who drank it. The Englishman
seemed very much amused.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-11-05
GENERAL,

DIR. PARET, of New York, was elected
bishop by the Protestant Episcopal
Conference at Baltimore.
s. SEL1a, wholesale milliner, San
Francisco, made an assignment on
the Goth. Liabilities $25,OO0; assets
$4,000.
The Peoples Bank, at Canton, ILL.,,
suspended on the Goth. Liabilities
100000.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 29th
states that yellow fever has broken Out
on the west coast of Mexico.
The Armstrong we'll in the Thorn
Greek, Pa, oil district, was torpedoed
on the 9th with fifty quarts of nitro.
glycerine and. immediately commenced
to flow at phenomenal rate. The yield
per day is estimated at 5000 barrels,
Before the torpedo exploded the well
was considered worthless.
ON the 28th Walter Q. Gresham, Sec
retary of the treasury, was appointed
Judge of the Seventh Circuit, in place
of Justice Drummond, resigned. Ex-
Secretary Hugh McCulloch takes the
treasury portfolio.
The Scott liquor law was on the 28th
declared unconstitutional by the su-
preme court of Ohio.
The U. S. steamer Tallapoosa, which
was sent to the bottom of Vineyard
Sound by q collision in August last,
has been raised and is now at New York
navy yard for repairs.
WILBUR F. STOREY, proprietor Of
the Chicago Times, died at his home in
that city on the 9th, after protracted
illness.
The comptroller of the currency has
eclared dividends of 80 per cent. in
favor of the creditors of the Hot Springs
Ark, National Bank and the First
National Bank of Monmouth, Ill. With
this dividend the creditors of the latte,
bank will have received 20 per cent. Of
their claims.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-11-05
PIE B B E,
DAKOTA

The city Of Pierre is the county seat
Of Hughes County, OAK, and is 10.
Gated on the east bank of the Missouri
River, in the geographical center of tho
proposed new state of South Dakota,
and is opposite the center of the great
Sioux Reservation. It is the present
terminus of the Dakota Central through
trunk line of the Chicago & Northwest
ern Railway; is distant 781 miles from
Chicago. and through daily trains with
out change of cars run between the two
cities in 80 hours.
The city is mainly built upon the
large and broad terraces overlooking the
river, with it's wooded banks and islands,
and as the slope of each terrace OF bench
is toward the river, the city is perfectly
drained and is free from tho dangers re-
sulting from foods or imperfect sewer
age.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-11-05
CRIMINAL.

Ex- Gov. MOSES, of South Carolina,
who is in prison at Detroit on q charge
of swindling, attempted to commit sui
eide on the 29th, by hanging. He was
cut down and will live to stand trial.
ON the 29th, Horace Deland, of
Brookfeld, N. H., aged 18 years, chained
himself to brush heap and then iqnited
it. Near his body was found a razor
with which he had gashed his throat
before immolating himself. He left q
note telling his parents he was tired of
life.
AT Edwardspord, Ind, on the night
OF the 28th, a man named Dick Adkin-
son fred into Democratic assemblage
killing Lincoln Keith, a Republican.
Atkinson is in Jail and may experience
the excitement of lynching bee.
IT was discovered on the 10Th that
Fred. W. Duvernois, a private banker
OF Detroit Mich, had disappeared with
from SIC, 1000 to $40, 900 of his depositors'
money. Several insurance companies
for whom he was agent, also suffered
severely.
GEO. T. JACKSON, president of the
Enterprise Cotton Factory at Augusta,
Ga, is defaulter to the extent of over
$6O,OOO. He has confessed.
On the night of the 9th, burglars
took $1,000 in cash and $4,000 in
bonds of the Rockaway Beach Improve
ment Company from the store of A. B,
Smith at Rockaway Beach.
AT Good Hope, N. NJ, on the 28th,
Joe Hickman, miner, was murdered
by his partners, Frank Beck and Tom
Welsh, because he refused to Join them
in plan to rob neighbor.
GEo. W. SrourENBuRa, a wealthy and
prominent citizen of Chicago, commit
ted suicide by shooting at Lakeside, a
suburb OF the Illinois metropolis, on the
morning of the 26th. He was 30 years
of age.
THREE brothers named Saam mnr-
dered stranger near Weinsburg, O.,
on the 9th. Two of the brothers have
been arrested.
CITIZENS of Helena, Neb., hanged a
man who shot the sheriff while resisting
arrest for incendiarism, on the 9th.
AT Murray City, Ia., Deputy Sheriff
Locke, in quelling a disturbance on the
9th, shot two Polish miners, one fatally.
For the murder of Ellis Watson,
Howard Sullivan has been sentenced.
at Salem, n. j., to hang on the Sd of
December.
AT Rockport, Mo-, on. the 25th,
William Sutherland, farm hand, fatal
ly shot his employers daughter because
she refused to elope with him. He
then attempted to suicide by poison,
but failed.
Rev. JOHN B1aas, Baptist preacher
at Sadorus, ILL.,, was sentenced to the
penitentiary for sixteen years for horse
stealing on the Oath. Before becoming
a preacher he had served term in pris.
on for se-stealing.
THIEVES took $1,000 in two-cent
stamps and 800 in currency from the
post-ofice at Centralia, ILL.,, on the
night of the 23d.
MADDENED by poverty and the de-
sertion of her husband. Mrs. Annie Lo-
gan, of Philadelphia, on the 24th, rave
her 3-year old child fatal dose of laud-
anum and then took one herself,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-11-05
He Cleared Out The Gang.

An old negro was accused in the JET
ferson Market court yesterday with
threatening to shoot Lucius L. Corr, q
young colored man, of IA Grand Street..
"Iise innercent, 20 OnaF," said the
prisoner. "Mer names Hastey-Frank
Hastey, an Use been workin' long Pier
%, Norf Ribber, TO de las eighteen yars.
Dis mans jallus OBJ me. I hired him,
an when foun' him wufless clared
him out. Then he got er gang an laid
TO me. Use been all trew de wah an got
wound in mer lef' side, an SO Use no
slouch, Use tellin' yer. When I seed
dee gang I pulled outen mer spyticle
case an hild it hin mer ham an says:
Cit outen de way darr an de way dose
niggers run sot me lafin' 80 dat I
caught col in mer mouf."
Corr was certain he saw pistol in
the old mans hands. II saw de debbel
in his eyes, anyhow" he added. TIE
case was dismissed.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-11-05
$4,000. James Carr. foreman of
oigar mandatory in the top story, after
saving the lives of his employees, lost his

$l36,OOO. James Carr, foreman of q
cigar mandatory in the top story, after
ing the lives Of his employees, lost hie
own,
WHILE cage was being lowered into
the shaft of mine near Londonderry,
n. s., on the Goth, the cable broke
dropping the cage distance of 200 feet
to the bottom. On the way down it was
upset, throwing the passengers, six in
number, out. Three were killed in.
staltly and two others fatally injured.
THIRTY travellers were dangerously
poi'oned, on the 28th, by food served
for breakfast at Dalton, Ga., on the
Atlantic & Western Railway.
! wo stores in the Shackleford Build
ing at Saratoga, burned. :.on the :::2Sth.
Loss, $4,000.
STEAMERS arriving at San Francisco
ont the 28th report a severe storm along
tho coast of Lower California. The
Mexican steamer Mazathan, with all on
board, is reported lost. Seventy houses
at Cape st. Lucas were destroyed, and
nine Mexican coasters, with nearly forty
men, lost.
Col. GRIFFIN HALsTEAD, father of
Murat Halstead, was killed in Butler
County, O., on the 9th, by missing q
bridge and falling into a ravine while
returning to his home at night.
The Grand Trunk Railways freight
shed and storehouse and seven loaded
cars at Lindsay, Ont, were destroyed
by fire on the 9th. Loss $4,000.
FIRE at Loogootee, Ind, on the 9th,
destroyed eleven buildings. Loss $780,
900; insurance $15O,OOO.
Ar the mines of the Youngstown
Coke Company, near Uniontown, Pa,
on the 9th, an explosion of fire damp
imprisoned twenty-five men, who are
thought to have been suffocated. It is
known that three men were killed and q
number injured.
The building occupied by A. G..
Spalding & Bro, Chicago, was dam
aged to a considerable extent by fire
on the 26th. Loss on stock, $4,000.
The Touring mills of Charles q. Hill
& Co., Manchester, N. H., burned on
the 25th. Loss, $25,000.
The residence of J. r. Hutchins, at
Montreal, was wrecked by the explosion
of gas which had escaped from broken
main on the 25th.
Two children of William Pancoast
were suffocated in fire which destroyed
their home, at Portland, Me-, on the
night of the 24th.
The Milwaukee & Northern car
shops at Fort Howard, Wis.,, were de
stroyed by fire on the night of the 23d.
Nothing but the books were saved.
Loss $25,OOO.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-11-05
Hand.Shaking.

From the London TRUTH
The Scotch hand-grasp is the rough
est; the Frenchman shakes hands with
the tips of stitched and drawn-together
fingers. which signifies that he walls
himself round with politeness as with a
fortress to keep off intruders. Never ex-
pect anything of person who shakes q
soft hand in'a limp way. have had a
wide experience of false cordialty,
which was betrayed by "old soldiers" I"
who, in battering through hotels and
boarding houses, have lost all woman
hood, by hardened diplomatists, by per-
sons thankful for past favors and hop
ing for favors to come, and by exhibit
ors at universal exhibitions wanting
puffs. An Italian, who in all cases, tries
to hide his little game, hates to offer
his hand. To avoid doing so when he
meets an Englishman, he rubs both his
hands slowly together as if washing
them. An enthusiast about ideas, prin-
cipals and systems, rarely puts cordiali-
ty into hand.shake.
Theirs hand-shake, though brusque
and dry, was not unpleasant. That of
Gambetta contrasted with his apparent
openness.and heartiness, and did not
express character. Clemenceau's is
nervous and rapid, and with friend
very friendly. Grevy scans your coun-
tenance in agood-humored way in hold
ing your hand: Nine. Adams hand
shake is that of a fearless and amiable
woman, who wants to make conquest
of every man woman and child she
meets. It is counted improper for a
French Miss in her teens to offer so
much as the tips of her fingers whether
they are'gloved or not, to gentleman.
The French lady shakes hands in a
pussy-cat style, and the German frau in
an honest, simple, motherly fashion.
Victor Hugo does so in the manner of
grandiose statue, into which, as into
Galatea, the breath of life had been
breathed. When he mas to do with q
lady, he, with Olympian majesty, tenn
pered by chivalrous feeling, takes her
hand slowly, gravely and kindly, and
after raising it to his lips lowers it to
the level where it was when he raised it.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-11-05
The Chinese Baby's First Shave.

'------ Ef00 t6e 10ftand OfeEon1an.E -
When q Chinese boy is month old
his head is shaved and a bladder is
drawn over it, and as his head grows the
bladder bursts and the cue sprouts
forth. The first shave is made the oc-
casion Of magnificent banquet and the
guests are expected to make the host q
handsome present in coin for the newly
shaven baby, with which bank &C
count is started to his credit. This is
the most pleasant feature Of the affair
for the baby, as the razor always pulls
and he cannot take part in the feast.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-11-05

ACCORDING to the Indian Forester
famines in India are caused by goats.
They eat the young saplings; forests
thus disappear, rainfall ceases, and the
crops fail. Why the people do not re-
taliate by eating the goats is not ex-
planned.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-11-05
The Kinds of Oil.

from the HOpul6r science MOnt0Iy.1
For moment let us glance at the
principal sources of animal and vegeta-
BILE oil-supply, ere the fountains of min
eral oil were revealed for the use and
comfort of the human family.
First and foremost, of course, ranked
the fish-oils-the well-known train or
drain) oil which drained from the blub-
ber of the great Greenland whale "a
large whale som times yielding fully
thirty tons of blupber-each ton repre-
senting nearly two hundred gallons of
oil. Though the cachalot, or sperm
whale, could never rival the Greenland
whale in the quantity ofits contribution,
it had at least the advantage of quality
and variety, since, besi.les ordinary
blubber, it yields large amount Of
sperm-oil, and also spermaceti. OF the
latter valuable product, the head alone
often yields ten barrels.
Next among oil-yielding fish come the
grampus, or dolphin, the porpoise. the
shark, the seal, the cod, the herring and
others.
OF animal fats are butter, tallow, lard,
goose-grease, reats-foot oil (prepared
from the feet of oxen, and used by cur
riers in dressing leather), and mares
grease Imported from Buenos Ayres
and Montevideo, where multitude of
horses are annually slaughtered for
their hides, tallow, and bonesD. In
Russia, especially at Moscow, yolk-of
egg oil is in great repute for making
soap and pomatum.
Vegetable oils form o very impor-
tant item in our supplies, inasmu ch as
oil-seeds TO the value of e5, 800, 900 are
annually imported into Britain for
crushing purposes, and our exports of
oil are roughly valued at $1,000, 900.
The export of seed-oil from London,
Hull, and Liverpool, in 1880, was H.
508,000 gallons.
Under the head of seed-oil rank lin
seed, cotton-seed, and castor-oil.
Colza-oil, also, is made from mlstard,
hemp, radish, rape, turnip, and other
seeds. Then we have olive-oil and
almond-oil. From India comes poppy
seed oil; from the Black Sea, oil of sun
dower-seeds. From Ceylon and the
Pacific isles comes cocoanut.oll From
Western Africa the palm-nut oil of the
oil-palm, and oil of ground-nuts, for
use in fine machinery. From Singa-
pore and China we receive kokum-oil
and vegetable tallow. About fourteen
thousand tons of croton-ol are annual
ly imported for the use of the wool
dressers of Britain.
Besides these, so familiar to ourselves,
almost every country has some specially
in oils. Thus, in Southern Russia, tobac-
COOL is largely used; in Italy, oil of
grape-stones; in China, oil of tea-seed
in India, oil of nutmegs, of seeds of the
gamboge' tree, of custard-apple-seed, of
cashew-nut, of cardamon, of neam, OF
margoza, and many others. Brazil, too,
has large number of oils, both animal
and vegetable, peculiar to itself.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-11-05

TERMS Two Dollars Per Annum, in Advance.

with sand cartridges, and the cod had
been sliced to death, the calf slowly
bled to death, the lobster boiled alive,
and the Strasbourg goose fattened to
death before q slow fire. I was told
afterward that she considered I had in
suited her. But I have not as yet ten
dered an apology.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-11-05
ON PARTING WITH A FRIEND.
BY JEROME B. BELL.

Oh, that had the prophets fabled power
To stay yon glorious sun
Until named the hour
When he-again his course begun
Should close this happy day,
And tear me from my love away:
Then Eternity would halt its flight,
And never more would there be night.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-11-05

HIRAM GRUBLER, miser at Ringers
town, Pa, has become insane over the
loss, by theft, of $500.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-11-05
RAILWAY.

The use OF the term
" Short Line" in connec-
ton with the corporate
name Of q great road, con-
veys an idea of just what ie
required by the travelling
pubic a Short Line, Quick
Time and the best Of &C.
commodations-all Of which
,at Railway In America.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-11-05
BUSINESS CARDS.

r Obj 4 CONKLIN,
BARRIERS AND HAIR DRESSERS.
At their new Tonsorial Parlors Shower and Hot
Baths. We have two first. class bath -rooma
Main Street, Austin, MINI.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-11-05
DENTISTRY.

DIR. p. B. PECK
Has opened an ONCE in Mrs. Wrights house, first
north of the Davidson House, on east side of
street, where he is prepared to do all kinds of
work In dentistry, and sol1cits share of public
patronage.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-11-05
T1HOs PHILLIPS, NJ. D.,

Has permanently located in Austin. Calls in
city or country promptly attended to at all hours.
Once and rooms in Schleuder's block, first door
north of Mower County Bank. A5TElectric baths
given at the Office