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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-10-01
"reminiscences of Herzegovina.
from the Pail Mall Gazette.1

There we're about twenty five of us,
and for eight days not one of us ate
anything except boiled mutton. Every
night sheep would be killed; fire
kindled inside tent to keep the blaze
from the watchful eyes of the Turk,
past whose stations we were running;
and the flesh of the sheep before it had
been an hour dead was cut into Jumps
and thrown into cauldron of boiling
water. After three days of this diet I
could stand it no longer, and for the
next i've days I rode down the country
without tasting bite of anything. Ihad
little rum and water, but that was all.
Hunger is the worst the second day.
The third day you cease to feel hunger,
and you begin to lose flesh, but kept
going.
Splendid savages were some of those
insurgents although some were perfect
gentlemen, others were magnificent
brutes. Peko Pavlovitch was one of
the latter. He could neither read nor
write, stood about six feet six inches,
wore armor on his body, and although
personally most courteous to me, was
the purest savage I have ever seen in q
white skin. I was sitting beside him
when soldier came with flag of truce
from Moukhtar Pasha asking for per-
1 mission to send victuals to the be-
leaguered fortress Of Govansko. Peko
PsYlovitoh could not read, buthe looked
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-10-01
PIE: E:FPE,

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 been developed 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 Wate1town 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, 1884-10-01
P lE R R E,
DA x oTA

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 the
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 78l miles from
Chicago, and through daily trains with
out change of cars run between the two
cities in 81 hours.
The city is mainly built upon the
large and broad terraces overlooking the
river, with its wooded banks ndislands,
and as the slope of each terrace or bench
is toward the river, the city is perfectly
drained and is free from the dangers re-
sulting from floods or imperfect sewer
age.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-10-01
GENERAL.

POSTMASTER GENERAL GRESHAM was
appointed secretary of the treasury on
the 25th.
The failure of Thos. Fawcett, the pri-
vate banker, at London, Ont, on the
23d caused great depression throughout
Western Ontario, where he was largely
interested in various banking enter.
prises. Fawcett's Liabilities are esti-
mated between 100000 and 100000.
MEssRs. BuRDErr & POND, of New
York, carrying on an extensive busi-
ness in the South American and En-.
glsh trade, have been forced to sus-
pend with $5OO,000 liabilities.
The state convention of the W. G. T.
q. began it's session at Waukesha, Wis,
on the Oath.
News from Dayton, O., on the 24t
is to the effect that heavy rain on that
day, the first since the beginning of Au-
gust, has relieved the farmers and
broken up the drouth.
FREDERICK S. NICHOLS, editor-in-
chief of the Memphis Avalanche, died
suddenly of paralysis of the brain on the
23d at Davenport, Ia., his former home.
A FRAM1NGHAM, Mass, girl, aged II
years, ran away from home with dia-
monds and negotiable bonds valued at
$4,000. She intended to elope with a
young man at Boston, but was arrested
on the 22d and taken home.
THos. DIVER was shot and killed at
McKeesport, Pa, on the 22d, by James
Peterson. Whisky was the cause.
The whisky firm of Newcomb, Bu-
chanan & Co., st. Louis, failed on the
22d, the second time in two years.
DOMINGO MORALES, a Spaniard, died
in New York hotel on the night of the
2lst, from what was supposed to be yel-
low fever. He arrived the previous day
from Havana.
The young ladies' of high toned socie-
ty appear to have developed mania for
eloping. The latest escapade of the
kind reported is that of the daughter of
N. s. P. Turnbull, daughter of the
wealthy Chicago pork packer, who
eloped with and married Alex. Vernon,
employed in her fathers packing house,
on the 2OGn.
COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS DUDLEY
has resigned his position, to enter the
banking business.
The failures for the week ending on
she 10Th were 1876 in the United States
The Wholesale dry goods store Of
Peters & Co., late Chadwick, Peters
& Co.)Syracuse, N. T., failed on the
10Th. Liabilities $125, 900, mostly i1
New York.
THE failure Of Rindskopf Bros. 8
CO., extensive clothing dealers, New
J. York, is announced. Liabilities 5000,
600; assets 81, ,1OO, 900.
SAMUEL M1roHEL1, aged 16 year'
was shot dead in Amherst County, Va.
by hunter, named George Fortune
! for refusing to carry 2 beer keg.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-10-01
DAKOTA
Opportunities for Business.


Pierre is an excellent city to engage
in any kind Of merchantile pursuits
(who]esale or retail), because its rates of
freight are low; it is the center of q fer
tile farming country and the supply
point for numerous cities and villages
located on the banks Of the Missouri.
This is good point to engage in man
ufacturing business Of any kind, and lib
eral aid will be given to any manufact-
uring industry. There is good OPEN
ing for the manufacture of any article
used in building, for -four mills, and for
beer manufacturing.
There are opportunities to invest in
real estate which will produce handsome
returns, and money used in the erection
Of buildings has and will pay 25 per
cent. II you desire to avail yourself of
the opportunities presented in new
country and rapid growing city, and
wish any reliable information in refer.
epce to Pierr.,, it will be gladly fur
uished by addressing
w. S. WELLS,
Pierre, p, T.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-10-01

at Neenah, Wis, on the morning of
the 25th. The building was insured
for $22,0 2,00O; no insurance on the stock.
The stock consisted of 800 barrels OF
-four and large quantity of wheat.
AN infant daughter of Philip
Muench, living near Rochester, Wis,
was drowned on the 25th by falling in
a washtub.
RUsK, Tex, lost an entire block of
business houses on the public square
by fire on the oath. The loss is esti-
mated between $25, 900 and $4,000.
AN unknown man was killed on the
Lake shore track near Milwaukee on
the Oath.
WHILE walking home from a ball at
Rochester, N. Y, on the morning of the
23d, Theodore Rouleau, aged 18, was in
stantly killed by lightning. His COM
panion, Miss Hortense E. Paro, aged 16,
was badly burned on the head, one arm
and hand. She has losth reason.
By an explosion in Eau Claire, Wis,
on the 23d Charles L. Sullivan was
killed and Andrew Tracy severely in
jured.
Two freight trains on the Hannibal
road collided near New Cambria, Mo-,
on the 22d. Three men were killed
and two fatally injured.
FIRE in the Middlesex Bleachery,
Somerville, Mass, on the 22d, resulted
in a loss of 100000.
A LOSS of $150,OOO was caused by a
frelat Portland Ore, on the 22d, which
destroyed a half-dozen buildings, in
eluding the Esmond House. Among
the guests of the hotel was Lawrence
Barrett, the actor.
Ten buildings at Eureka, New, were
destroyed by fire on the 22d. Loss, $780,
600.
The steamers Morning Mail and Bo-
nanza were totally and the lighthouse
tender Lily, partially destroyed by fire
at Cincinnati on the Goth. Total loss
100000.
The Golden Eagle clothing store, at
st. Louis, was wiped out by a confa-
grafton on the Goth. Loss $15O,OOO,
with an insurance of $4,000.
The Opera House block. at Milton,
Ind, burned on the Goth. Loss $4,000.
Two men employed in repairing a
sewer at Braddock, Pa, were suffocated
by foul gas on the Goth.
a COLLISION on the Goth on the Phila-
delphia & Atlantic Railroad, injured
eleven{workmen.
ONE of the crew of the tug J. B.
woodward lost his life at Chester, Pa,
in a fire which destroyed the boat.
The burning of the Grand Trunk
Railway shops, at London, Ont, caused
a loss of $5OO,0O0.
A SLIGHT shock of earthquake was
felton, the afternoon of the 10Th at De-
troll, Toledo. Ft. Wayne, and, othe,
places in Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio
No damage was reported.
BERLIN, Wis, was visited by a disas
trous fire on the night of the 18th
Sixteen frame buildings on Main Street
were swept away, involving loss O.
nearly $4,000.
oUARRYMAN named Edgar Tucker
was blown to pieces by premature ex
flosion of blast at Delphos. O., on tht
10Th.
JAMES B1GELow's 8-year-old daugh
ter perished in fire which destroyed
his residence at East Toledo, on tn
10Th.
A FIRE at Pentanguishene, Ont, o.
the 10Th, destroyedseve stores. Los
$4,000.
WM. 81. PAYNE's -four mill, New Yor]
City, was destroyed by fire on the 10Th
Loss 100000.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-10-01
A BLAINE MAN.
Why the President Of st. Louis Bank
Supports the Republican Ticket.

Mr.. s. 81. Latin, the we'll known powder man.
afacturer and President of the st. Louis National
Bank, has Just returned from the East where
be paid some attention to political matters. He
s a prominent Democrat, but in conversation
with Chicago Tribune correspondent at the
Southern he said: Il am Blaine man. All my
Family and most of my employees are for Cleve-
land, but I am Blaine man through and
through don't oppose Cleveland because Of
the scandal that ought to lower Cleveland in
anybody's estimation, but he is not q fit person
for the Presidency. He has not got the brains:
He wears a No. 10 collar and No. hat. and
beyond that you cannot say anything for him.
Blaine is man of nerve, a brainy man, states
man, and he shall have my vote Every man
with whom conversed while in the East IA
vored the election of Blaine. These men were
mostly manufacturers, and represented the
great industries of the country. They said they
would feel safer with Blaine at the helm.'-Sk
Louis special
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-10-01
A Druggists Blunder:

Doctor-Weli, how is your ague now?
Patient-Worse and worse. I've had
the shakes awfully every day.
'I can't understand that. Did you
take the medicine I prescribed?'
Yes, but it did no good. DO you
know, Doctor, I think that medicine
might do me good if I took the it before
the shakes come on instead of after"
"Why of course. That is what di-
9ected."
"It did not say so on the bottle"
"Consarn those druggists. What
was on the bottle ?"
. MWell shaken before taken"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-10-01
TERMS: Two Dollars Per Annum in Advanc e.

at the paper while the contents were
being interpreted to him. he then tore
it into fragments, flung the pieces into
the messengers face, and waving his
hand with savage expression declared: !:
"That is my answer" The messenger
went downstairs. Before he reached
the landing I heard a groan. The man
was killed. Another specimen of Peko's
mode of warfare which Witnessed was
an unfortunate Turk, whose back Peko
had scored with his knife and ripped
off three long strips of his skin with his
hands. The poor wretch was more dead
than alive.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-10-01

The Population of Pierre IL
2,600.

The Population Of Pierre IN
2,600.
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 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 l6O acres
(every foo: of which can be cultivated, }
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, 1884-10-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
POLITICAL

The Republicans of South Carolina
have nominated D. L. Oorbin for gov
ernOr.
The Peoples party of Massachusetts
has nominated Judge McCafferty for
governor.
ALvA ADAMS has been nominated for
governor by the Democrats of Colo
RADIO.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-10-01
CASUALTIES.

The property of the A. T. Stearns
Lumber Company at Neponset, Mass,
was subjected to a blaze on the 25th,
which destroyed hard pine and Cypress
lumber to the value of $4,000, and
building wharves etc., estimated to be
worth $4,000, making the total loss
$24O,0O0,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-10-01
An Omaha man has a watch and chai

AN Omaha man has q watch and chain
made from the gold filings found in an
old jewelry factory in Brooklyn. The
boss ieweler was exceedingly careless
and the man who succeeded him in the
business found $50 diamond in the
rubbish, besides $4,000 worth of fl
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-10-01

MRS. MARIA VNToN DAHLGREN, the
widow of Admiral Dahlgren, who wrote
q book about the follies and foibles of
fashionable life in Washington, found
it well to fee the capital and HE her
to the crest of South Mountain. There
where the battle was fought she lives
in charming old stone house and
sharpens her quill for other literary
work,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-10-01

SARA BERNHARDTis is to be paid SEC, ,OOQ
for her seasons work in America.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-10-01

DR. @. 8. BEAULIEU.
Office over sleepsr's Drug stere, Brownsville,
Minnesota
y Peaching at Christian Chapel O. cry Sunday
morning and evening.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-10-01

E1IEN NJ FAIRBANKS. ND.
Office and Residence, corner West Msin and
Maple Streets, opposite Public 6chool Building,
Austin, MINI. At homo until A. II. and from Il
to P. N.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-10-01
DED CEDAR MILLS,
J. GRE9SON

Manufacturer and Wholesale Dealer In tho best
brands Of Grecers' and Bakers' Flour. Also al
kinds Of Mill. Feed for sale at his store on Main
street, Austin, Minn., and at the MIL, tVo miles
south of the city.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-10-01
BUSINESS CARDS.

II Obj & CONKLIN,
BARRIERS AND HAIR DRESSERS,
at their new Tonsorial Parlors. Shower and Hot
Baths. We have two frst-class bathrooms. Main
Street, Austin, MINI.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-10-01

I NJ. GREENMAN,
ATTORNEY At LAW.
VIII practice in the courts Of record, and tho q. g.
courts. Office in schleuder's bloch, Main street,
Austin, Minn. A01y
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1884-02-16
GLADSTONE HLEANINHS.

MI. Como arrived home from the
Black Hills on Sunday. He leaves
for his return trip OH Monday. MI.
Ned Perry will accompany him, us
he intends to bring back cattle.
The social club held another Of it's
dances on last Friday night. A large
company was in attendance. Several
ladies and gentlemen from Taylor
were present.
AT the meeting of the literary So
ciety Wednesday evening, the sub
ject: s'Resolved, that the tree claim
law should be repealed was dis
cussed, with Geo. Cook in the affirm.
ative and L. l.. Whipple in the mega.
tive. Decided in favor of the mega
tive.
Mr.. Lee is rustling around making
preparations for building his mill in
the spring. He has not deciced just
where it will be located yet, but it
will undoubtedly be put on the town
plat.
The post-ollice was burdened with
valentines on the l4th and many good
hits were made.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1884-02-16
The West Missouri Country.

What part of Dakota shall go to-?
That depends entirely upon the busi-
ness you wish to engage in. II yon
are farmer take a claim in the West
Missouri country, anywhere within
12O miles west Of Mandan. You will
find that the land will more than
equal your expectations us IL producer.
You will find that wheat. corn, oats,
barley. flax and vegetables yield enor-
nous crops. You will find that the
land is easily broken and that you
can work nearly a month earlier in
the spring and month later in the
fall than you can in the east. You
will find ready market for your pro-
ducts, and lastly you will find that
you are making a fortune and laying
the foundation for long life. If
you are stockman go a little further
west, say 14O miles west of Mandan,
into the Bad Lands, and take up a
claim. You will find there ranges
that cannot he beaten OH the face of the
earth. You will find that your stock
becomes fat and healthy. You will
find that the buffalo OF bunch grass
that cures on the ground will be pre-
ferred by your stock to cut fodder in
the shed. You will find an abund-
ance of pure running water, and you
will find that your stock is sheltered
from the wintry blasts. Lastly you
will find that around you are many
southern stockmen who have win
tered there in the valleys Of the Bad
Lands, and who remain in preference
to continuing in less favored spots.
If you are an invalid and wish to re-
cover health come to Dakota and the
West Missouri country. You will
take Il new lease of life there; yOul
blood will circulate more freely; your
energies will quicken, and before you
know it almost you will act and feel
like another man. The pure, bracing
air, the absence of moisture and the
activity you see around you will
stimulate your Mandan
Pioneer
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1884-02-16

A Liberal Offer.

We have completed arrangements
by which we can furnish the weekly
st. Paul Pioneer Press together with
this paper for $3.50 cash. per ann,lm.
Every subscriber will receive pre-
MUM of one quart of the famous
Saskatchewan Fife wheat. This
wheat sold last year for ssl.OO per
quart. The weekly Pioneer Press is
the best farmers paper i'll the north
west. Subscribe at once and get a
quart of the premium wheat.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1884-02-16
ANOTHER BOOM FOR DICKINSON.
The Development Of our Coal Fields to
be Pushed Forward in the
Early Spring.

For several days past A. c. Hill
and E. c. Gill two capitalists from
Willard, Minn.. have been here nego-
tiating with Michael Lally for the
development of the immense coal
fields owned by the latter inst east of
town. Yesterday a conclusion was
reached and the mines will be devel-
oped Oh an extensive scale in the
early spring. The vein is said by
competent judges to be the best quail
ity of Ignite coal yet discovered
along the line and is about twenty
feet thick. There is enough coal
to supply the territory for years to
come and it is destined to become one
of the great industries of Stark conn-
ty. Messrs Hill and Gill are gentle
men of energy and are backed by
heavy capital for the development of
these mines, which will without
doubt prove Il paying investment as
the whole territory will soon depend
on this section for their fuel. Mr..
Hill will take up his residence here
i'll the spring and superintend the
development of the industry.
n clergyman Was telling a marvel
lous story, when his little girl said:
Now, pa, is that true, OF is it just
preaching!'
a. ID. Carpenter has been COM
missioned notary public.
A shoemaker with small capita]
can secure a bargain for a complete
shoemaker's outfit. There is good
opening here for this business.
Reason for selling, poor health. Adj
dress S. b. Jackson.
Mr. j. F. Vinton, one of our enter.
prising and leading young business
men, was married To Miss Josephine
Fisher, an estimable young lady, of
Wadena, Mimi. The ceremony was
performed by Rev. II. b. Schatlner ut
his residence on "Wednesday evening,
Feb. l3. y long, happy and pros
porous life to them is the sincere
wish of the PRESS,
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1884-02-16
Her Entcrprising Citizens.

Messrs Blackwell and Scotney. &C.
companied by five others, all old
timers in the Hills. and thoroughly
posted in the country. started out sew
eral days since to locate a freight
road from our town to Dickinson. on
the Northern Pacific railroad. AS
soon us they return and report. d par
ty of twenty men, fully equipped,
will leave Minnesota and will work
the road thoroughly to point at
least half way. and in the meantime
others of our citizens will pick out a
point on the Belle Fourche above the
mouth of Redwater, and if necessary,
a bridge will be built of sufficient
strength to sustain any freight outfit
which may pull over it. The propo-
sition at present is, that such a bridge
will he built entirely at private eX-
pense, which speaks volumes as to the
enterprise of the citizens of Mime.
sela and vicinity. There is no doubt
but that Butte county and Minnesell
will have big boom the coming sea.
son. and the projected freight road is
only the commencement Minnesota
Boomer.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1884-02-16
What They Are Doing.

The following is a sample of num-
erous letters received here and shows
that the citizens of the Black Hills
are fully aware of the advantages to
be gained by the Dickinson and Black
Hills freight line and are going to
work in earnest to make it a success:
CROOK CITY, ID. Il. Feb'y 2, 1884.
II. F. Beckett & Foot,
Dickinson, ID. L.
Gentlemen:--At a meeting of
the directors of the Butte City Town
site Co., held to-day, there was a petit
ton laid before us asking that the
company furnish plank for the pur-
pose of bridging a few Of the worst
streams between Dickinson and the
Hills. The company granted the petit
tion and planks for that purpose are
ordered. and within Il week the slit
tie Moreall.' at least, will be we'll
bridged and it is the intention of this
company to take steps toward brldS-
ing the Belle Fourche as soon as pos
sible. OF course, you understand
that this is no small undertaking, but
we are aware Of the Importance of it
and we are anxious that the Dickin-
son freight line cross the Belle
Fourche at this point and we are of
the opinion that it will be to their
interest to do so. We wish to say
that as Il community, we at this
point, wiz. Butte) will extend any aid
that we are able to toward assisting
the Dickinson freight people into the
Hills. / write you at the request OF
Mr.. Geo. Browning and the Black
Hills Townsite Co. Hoping that we
may find it mutually advantageous
for us to work together,
/ am Respt'y Yours,
j. l.. DENMAN.
Mir. Denman is a large wholesale
commission merchant at Crook City
and is very much interested in the
new line.