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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-06-04
.I IEsR RE2.

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 q 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 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 .
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
healthfu], 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.
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P E R 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 the
proposed new state of South Dakota,
and is opposite tho 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
liver, with its 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 the dangers re-
sulting from floods or imperfect sewer
age. .- .
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BUTLER ON THE TARIFF.
The Political What-is-it Gives His Position
ON tho Tariff


ON tho Tariff
DBTRolT, May 24.-The Evening
Journal Of this city publishes this afternoon
the following letter from Gen. Butler, giving
explicit utterance to his views on the tariff
question:
BOSTON, May 1s, 1ss4-7o G. \. Hubbard, Man
DEAR s1R:There is 20 evident good faith in
your communication to me that I break q Gus
tom in answering specihcal questions as to my
ss usgs S9 sues ss hen Rshsp h
word, for never have concealed them. We can
not have free trade in this country, how
ever desirable theoretically it would be-.
snd s Is 70 Be by the
government that for 9 series Of years we must
raise hundreds Of millions Of dollars by taxation
that know Of is the direct tax in proportion to
the number of inhabitants Of state. The genius
OF our people will not permit of that direct taxa
ton, and therefore other taxation must be re-
sorted to. From the beginning of the govern
ment to this time taxation by duties on imported
articles has always been aresort Of our govern
ment except In times Of war. For limited pc
because duties upon imports were insufficient
and therefore favor the raising Of a sufficient
amount Of revenue for an economical admins
duties upon imports, and in laying those duties
to tax all articles ofluxury up to the collection
point; to make free all raw materials not raised
or produced in this country which enter into itz
life, as much as possible, and to cheaper them
in every way possible; and within those limits te
30 tud1ciously place our duties as to best en-
industry. If could would also devote the
taxes upon whisky and tobacco to q fund to pay
the remaining debts Of war only, to.wit: to pen.
sioDs and the care Of soldiers Hers disabled by the
ther statement upon this topic. am very truly
yours. BENZ. r. BurLER.
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A Feminine Dentist.

(From the New York Mail and Express.J
"Why did I select this profession?
Well, I didn't" said a lady dentist to q
reporter. "You see, after I got di-
vorce from my husband, I just took his
business; but, oh! I did not intend to
tell you about that. At first I was very
sensitive; you must know, of course,
that ladies are naturally nervous, and
every time I operated upon a ladys
tooth and she screamed I would cry.
But now I have gotten over that and am
almost hard hearted. lean saw tooth
and hear their screams with business
like indifference. Ladies generally
scream when tooth is being operated
upon, whether it hurts them or not
Very often the lady who comes with the
patient does the screaming. Nearly all
of my customers are ladies'; and I must
say in defense of my ownsex, that they
are more punctual than the gentlemen i;
at least in business engagements. La
dies generally want me to administer
gases, but I seldom do it, because I am
afraid, and besides I want the patient
to see what is going on. Ladies are
the most constant customers, and keep
their teeth in good condition gentle
men do not come until the tooth aches.
or they feel the want of another eye
TOOTH"
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CRIMINAL

COL J. O. P..BURNsDE, distributing clerk
in the Post-ofdoe Department ct Washington,
was dismissed on charge of having embezzled
$45, 900 on the 29th. !
WESLEY JOHNSON, aged "a years, who bru-
tally murdered farmer named Williams and
his wife, in October last, was hanged &C Napo-
leon, O., on the 29th inst.
CAROLINE ScHRE1FER, IN insane woman OF
Albany, N. Y, on the 18th murdered five Of her
children and threw herself under q passing
train. : So, -,
HUaH SKINNER killed Joseph Pierce in :
quarrel near Magdin, Tenn, on the 2sth and
then suicided.
FREDER1cKA BAKER, betrayed girl. drowned
herself in the river at La Crosse, Wis, on the
28th.
An old feud eliminated in the murder Of
John g. Garrett by John Turner, in Madison
County, Ky, on the 26th.
ON the 28th, Neal McKeague WAS acquitted
Of the charge Of numbering the aged couple
named Wilson, at Winnetka, Ill, near Chicago.
JoHN GooDMa, bachelor farmer ii DeKalh
County. NO.. was brutally murdered With !
club, on the 28th inst, By IN unknown person
whose object 10 supposed to have bean plum
der.
JOHN J. NELSON, prominent Waukesha,
Wis, business man, hanged himself in hia
barn, on the morning Of the 2eth. Money
losses rendered him insane.
MAsxED men overhauled the Benton coach
in canyon near Helena, n. +, on the 96th
inst, and robbed the mail pouch and pasen-
gers.
PRENr1m TnLrl, the ST. Louis express rob.
ber, pleaded guilty at 81. Louis, % IL morning
Of tho 97th and was promptly Ssntsnoed %
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FRlGHTFUL COLLISION.

Two Freight Trains Meet ON One Track
Between Rochester and Niagara Falls.
LocKPoRT, N. Y, May 3O.-One of
the worst railroad wrecks ever known on
the Central Railroad occurred at 9
o'clock Wednesday night at Murray, on
the single. track branch between Roch-
ester and Niagara Falls. The facts
were kept quiet by railroad officials, and
the matter was not known until yester-
day afternoon. Two trains, an eastern
bound freight and accommodation and q
western-bound freight, met on the same
track while at full speed, and in an
instant fifty-three loaded freight-cars
we're derailed and the two engines were
q shapeless mass of battered iron and
steel with twenty cars piled upon them.
The damage will be over $500, 900 to
say nothing of the loss by delay. The
engineer and train-hands almost by q
miracle escaped with their lives by
jumping, although one engineer, Char
ley A. Keeler, had three ribs broken.
The operator at Murray, it is claimed,
caused the accident by not holding the
west-bound freight at that station on q
siding, as he had orders to do.
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FOREIGN,

MAJ. Won SEcKENDoRFT, who fell into the
hands OF the Egyptian rebels when Hicks
Pasha's army was annihilated, was reported on
the 29th, to be suffering terribly in prison at
KEssA1A is reported completely isolated. The
garrison has plenty Of ammunition, but food is
getting scarce. =
The celebrated Derby race at EPSON Downs,
Eng, on the 28th, resulted in dead hest be-
tween st. Gahen and Harvester.
ADWoEs of the 28th inst. from Southeastern
Spain state that 4G9 dwellings, were DESTROYED
and 514 people injured by floods.
SMALLPOX Of the most virulent type sud-
denly broke out in an eastern suburb Of Lon.
don on the 27th and 1000 cases have been re
ported to the sanitary authorities.
Mrs. LEFFIEY, who poisoned her husband,
was hanged at Lincoln, Eng, on the 26th inst,
and the scene on the gallows was . horrible
one.
An !Edinburg dispatch Of the 9th, states
thats fire in coal pit at Porto Bella, caused
tie death Of nine men.
A London dispatch Of the 24th announces
the suicide Of Rev. Henry T. Edwards, dean Of
Bangor.
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The UNITARIANS.
Annual Meeting of the American Ass0ci
ton at Boston.

Annual Meeting of tho American Associa-
tiOn at Boston.
Boston, May 27.-Atthe annual meet
ing of the American Unitarian Association, q
committee submitted the following officers for
the ensuing year: President, Henry P. Kidder,
Of Boston; vice-presidents, Geo. W: Curtis and
Chss. Allen; secretary, Rev. Grindall Reynolds;
directors for three years, Rev Howard L.
Brown, Miss Elizabeth P. Charming, Rev: Jas.
DeNormandie, VIM. E. James, Rev. Jenkin L,
Jones, of Chicago, Henry W.. Put
nam, of Boston. The directors say
everything indicates permanent restoration
of the strength of the society. The chief diff
Guilty is not the getting of money, but in OBJ
tanning . sufficient number of able. earnest,
reverent young men. From one-third to one
half of all the money spent upon church work
is devoted to the Western country. The report
speaks of the disappointment Of the societies
at Des MONIES and Madison at not receiving the
aid voted by the national convention. Persist
ent efforts will be made next fall to relieve
these churches,
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the remainder by importing stoats and
weasels to cut the threats of the @wee,
timid, covering little beasties? p If SO,
what is the difference in principle be-
tween shooting rabbit and putting it
in q pot and importing friendly wea-
sci to take away it's life? In the one
case man does it to make, in the other
to save, food. We do not see the dis
tinction in morality, but the vegetarian
philosopists may be able to discern what
to coarser sight is invisible.
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ledo, O., on the 22d, while standing under q
tree, waiting for storm to pass.
HERMAN Ko11Na1NsK1, aged 16, deaf and
dumb, was run over and killed near Waukesha
Wis, On the 22d inst,
GENERAL

A YOUNG married lady named Mccoy had .
narrow escape from premature burial at Rich
mond, NO., on the 29th, reviving from trance
after her body had been prepared for burial.
The bill to abolish the contract system of L.
Dor in the Massachusetts state prison was de-
feated on the 29th inst.
A WELL in the Nineteenth Ward Of Pittsburg
tapped strong vein Of gas at depth of 1850
feet on the 18th. Plttsburg expects great
things from it.
FROST on the night Of the 2sth was general
throughout Wisconsin and tobacco, barley.
vereiy. - ~
A P1rrsBuRa dispatch of the 2sth inst. says
1,500 miners Of the third pool have refused to
accept reduction.
TIE Red Cross relief steamer Josh v. Throop
started on her last trip up the Ohio, on the 28th,
distributing the remainder OF the household
effects and farm implements to food sufferers.
The body of Nellie D. Cooley, the wealthy
heiress of Wilkesbarre, Pa, who disappeared
in December last, was found in the Susque.
hanna River, near Manticoke, Pa, on the 28th.
The Hot Springs Ark, National Bank closed
its doors on the morning of the 27th, against a
run. Liabilities $40, 900.
The directors Of the Penn Bank Of Plttsburg
struck indications of crookedness in the
management of the affairs of the bank ON the
9th. Oil dealers under fictitious firm name
had been allowed to over-check to the extent
Of $24O,OOO.
INaE & MALONE, ,tobacconists, Petersburg,
Va, made an assignment on the 9th inst.
The Junior member of the firm is the oldest son
Of Senator Malone.
The Wisconsin Universalists' convention
meets at Monroe, June 60.
The first message over the Mackay-Bennett
cable was received at Rockport, Mass, on the
9th.
A STUPID humorist at Norwalk, Conn.,, on
the 26th. printed statement that steady run
was being made on one of the Oldest banks in
city-meaning q gravel bank. Before he could
explain his alleged Joke frightened depositors
took 100000 from the Norwalk Savings Bank.
The Penn Bank, Of Pittsburg, again closed
it's doors on the 26th inst. Illness Of its presi.
dent was ascribed as the cause.
STRoNa's BANK, of Green Bay, Wis.,, sus.
pended on the 26th.
The spinners' strike at Fall River, Mass. wal
declared at an end on the 26th.
ASSIGNMENTS at New York on the Goth
Rufus NJ. Brundier. china dealer, liabilities
$S7, 600: Ried & Smith, merchants.
THE Crawford County Bank at Denison, la.
assigned on the Goth inst.
The wife of RobertJ. Burdette, editor of Th,
Burlington Hawkeye, died at Ardmore, Pa, OF
| the 26th.
THERE were 232 failures in the United Statel
and Canada during the week ending on tn
2Sd, an increase Of % over the previous week
J. NJ. WOOD, proprietor of the Blake house
Racine, Wis.,, made an assignment on the 2s,
| inst.
JOHN CUMMINGS, clerk of the Standard Oi
Company at Long Island City, was reporte,
as missing defaulter on the 23c.
The failure of Joseph B. Mcdonald, lumbe
dealer, Woburn, Mass, was announced on tn
| Esd. Liabilities 1926, 900. i Ill.,. b
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DA * oTA
Opportunities for Business.

Opportunities for Business.
Pierre is an excellent city to engage
in any kind of merchantile pursuits
Wholesale or retaiD, because its rates Of
freight are low; it is the center Of 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 manufac cturing.
There are opportunities to invest In
real estate which will produce handsome
returns, and money used in tho erection
of buildings has and will pay % per
cent. lf you desire to avail yourself Of
the opportunities presented ii new
country and rapid growing city, and
wish any reliable information In refer
ence to Pierre, it will be gladly fur.
niahed by addressing
w. IS. WELLS,
Pierre, p. T.
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Ruined by Rabbits.
rFrom the London Standard
YsN0 rl-

IFrOm the LONDON SCandard.j
New Zealand is in difficulty. It is
in danger of being overrun with rab-
bits, which threaten to eat the inhabi-
tants out of field and farm, house and
home. Lord Granville said that an old
friend of his once wished that rabbits
had been made by nature two inches
longer, for he would not then miss
them so frequently when out shooting.
The farmers of the Britain of the south
are more exacting. They echo Calig-
ula's wish regarding his enemies, and
pray that their millions of little guests
had one neck, so that single stroke
might destroy all. It is, perhaps, no
consolation to the colonists to remem-
Der that they have brought this attic
ton on themselves. slime was ere
Zealand's woes began, when wild in
woods the noble Maori ran," and saw
no rabbits crossing his path. Then
arose rash Englishman, and remem-
bering his experience at home, said |:
"Let us import q couple, and SO make
the wilderness cheerful with thousands
of bounding bunnies." This recurrence
to the circumstances of the old home is
characteristic of Teutonic colonists, and
the s'happy pair" were soon secured.
The rodent Adam and his nibbling
Eve were turned loose, and their Cain
and Abel never came to blows. A null
titude of descendants then crowded up,
no delnge interrupting the increase.
The doctrines of Nautilus have found
little favor among English laborers,
Irish peasants, Hindoo ryots, or African
tribes; still less among rabbits, whose
early and prolific marriages have be-
come proverbial. The problem is
pressing. If the rabbits 60 on increas-
ing as at present the whole pasturage
Of the colony will be destroyed.
Shooting viii not do; traps
and potien have been tried !;
but the multiplication beats the
subtraction, aud all go merry as mar
riage bell amid the still augmenting
population with paws. Even if the
New Zealanders we're opposed to eating
flesh on principle, the difficulty would
be inst the same. Vegetarians want
feed, and however reluctant q human
being may be to kill an animal in order
to eat it, what is he to do if the animal
Is resolved to devour that which was
intended to be the sustenance Of man
+ Are the inhabitants of the two islands
to bow to the. decree Of destiny and lie
down and starve rather than lift q hand
against the sacred lives of the little
[creatures7 Perhaps Prof. Newman
will kindly explain. Or, is it justifiable
for the colonists to endeayor to redress
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lMMURED FOR LIFE.
A Fiend Incarnate Escapes the Gall0ws
Through Official Dexterity.

A Fiend Incarnate Escapes the Gall0ws
Through Ofncial Dexterity.
DETROIT, May 27.-David Stone, the
half-wtted uncle of little girl six-year-old
named Lulu Dycke, who was arrested last week
on suspicion Of having outraged and murdered
her, made q confession Of bis terrible crime
Sunday night. The matter was kept pro-
found secret and last night he was taken into
court, without public knowledge of what was GO
ing on and sentenced to states prison
for life. He was then put into close carriage
and driven across the country to jackson,
where he arrived at an early hour this morn
ing. These extraord dinary proceedings were
taken on account of the intense feeling ut Hills
generally threatened in case the suspicious
entertained against Stone should ripen into
certainty. &+' L-te --
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fve years in the penitentiary- the full penalty
Of the law in Missouri for grand larceny.
Ar St Louis, on the 2Sth, sAdolph surs, .
German apple peddler, about 45 years Of age,
shot and killed his wife and then put bullet
through his own brain.
II Baldwin County, Ala, on the 26th inst,
the bodies Of two negroes were found in .
box floating on the 6tyx River. The box was
labeled Free transportation to hell"
Ed. AND ELLA BUXTON, shrewd swindlers who
had showered forged checks on Milwaukee gro
GERS and merchants were arrested on the 27th.
JOHN TRuxBo was foully murdered while on
3 fishing excursion near Joppa, Ill.,, on the
9th inst.
JAMES RussE11, Of Roseburg, Ore, aged 16
years, was sentenced to imprisonment for seven
years, on the 26th for killing Jesse Quiene, a
companion, aged 10.
& TMDEN J. ABBoT, late cashier of the Union
Market National Bank at Watertown, Mass,
was indicted for forgery and embezzlement, on
the 26th.
AID. MICHAEL GA4NoR, of Chicago, who was
shot on the 18th inst, by James Dacey, q pot
house politician, died on the Oath.
THOMAS P. GRINNEIL,, q New York merchant,
committed suicide on the night of the 2sd.
P1cKPo0KETs defly secured $3.50 from pas
sengers on train at Jackson, Mich, on the
24th inst.
Mrs, s,ALExANDER!EDMoND, Of st. Louis, on
the 25th, while temporarily insane, cut the
throats of her three children and then her own.
A ANoRwEaIAN farmer named Kettleson, at
Zumbrota, Mimi, on the 25th, murdered his
wife and then suicided.
Ar Bowling Green, O., on the 25th inst,
George Anderson, an old man Of IS years, was
beaten to death with cane by his insane wife
TIE body Of John schott, one of Mllwaukee's
numerous missing persons, was taken from the
river on the Esd. A bullet hole in the left
breast indicated that it was either case of
murder or suicide.
HANa1Nas on the 23d: Lloyd L. Majors at
Oakland, CAL; Charles B. Clarke, wife mur-
derer, at Little Valley, N. Y; Laban Stevens
at Cincinnati, o.; Leonidas johnson at McDon-
ough, O.; John Ketchen [colored) at Waycross,
Ga.
ANNIE BEANDER, . little 4-year-old girl at
Chicago, fatally injured her playmate of the
same age, Anton Hoppe, with . hatchet, in a
quarrel, on the 29d.
CHARLES A. HNcKLEY. of the West Side
Savings bank, New York city, skipped out with
$96, 900 on the 2sd inst.
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.IEsPRE,
The Population of Pierre ID

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-cla 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 CON-
prises the finest farming land in Dakota.
Quarter sections. or farms of 100 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 OK.
pected will be thrown open to settle.
ment this sprinR) is the best wheat
growing land in Dakota.