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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-03-26
VESSEL NOTES.
Carrying Rates-The Sunken Propeller
Vessel Sales.

carrying Rates-The Sunken Propeller
Vessel Sales.
CLEVELAND, March l9.-Vessel own
ers are still very firm in the stand they
have taken as to carrying rates on iron
ore the coming season-in fact it is the
universal comment in marine circles that
they hold remarkably well together in
their demand for $1.25 per ton from
Escanaba, and 81. 40 per ton from Mar
'quette. Offers of $l.1 and even $1.20
are reported as being made by mining
companies for transportation from the
former port, and refused by vessel
owners or their agents. No season
charters have thus far been reported at
any such rates. and appearances now
are that there will be none, as owners of
vessels see no advantage in being tied
up and compelled to sail their ships
without profit, or at possible loss. They
prefer to ':run wild" and take their
chances on what the season will bring
them rather than enter into any such ar
rangement. They say they can make
contracts at low prices at any time, and
think they have done so quite long
enough, and now they mean to have
some profit for the wear and tear of
themselves and their craft, or else not
sail them.
THE IRON CHIEF.
CHICAGO, March 19.-The work of re-
moving the cargo of the steambarge Iron
Chief, which sunk in the river Sunday,
is in progress. She has nearly 5000
bushels Of No. 2 corn, and it is estimated
that at least 81, 900 have been wet. This
will entail loss Of about$ $4,000 The
cargo is owned by John B. Lyon & Co.,
and is insured for $50, 600 in the following
companies: Etna, $40, 900; Continental,
$11 200; Mercantile, $1,000; Girard,
$4,000. A Buffalo party has been sent
here to buy the damaged grain. As yet
it is mystery as to when and how the
vessel commenced to leak. The ship
keeper says he sounded the pumps Sat-
urdaV..an found her free from water.
When the leak was discovered there was
nearly eleven feet of water in her hold.
She was drawing fifteen feet three inches
and was fast in the mud.
VESSEL SALES.
CLEVELAND, March 19.-The schooner
Erastus Corning has been sold by Capt.
A. G. Taylor, of Buffalo, to Messrs. r.
Arnold and 8. 81. Foster, of Cleveland,
for the sum of 1922, 1000. The schooner
Exile has been sold by Messrs. H. j..
Webb & Co. to Mr.. John Shaw, of this
city, for $12, 900, all cash. H. J. Webb
4 Go. are purchasers Of the schooner
Thomas GAVIN from Wallace Brothers,
of Lorain, for $40, 200. The last named
vessel has carrying capacity of 1850
tons, and will be used as consort to the
steamer J. M. Osborn,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-03-26

posing parties at that time were Wings
and Democrats. John r. Buckbee and
Chris. Porter were candidates for the
Office of assessor, and their run resulted
in tie vote. At first it was decided
that another election should be called,
but after parleying that idea was aban-
doned, and the candidates agreed to settle
the matter by game of seven-up, and
for that purpose met at the old Ameri-
can Hotel, and, backed by large dele
cation from eaca party, played the
game. Mr.. Buckbee proved victorious,
thus securing victory for the Wings
and causing much rejoicing in that po-
litical camp. Mr.. Porter gracefully re.
signed all claims of the Office, and Mr..
Buckbee received his commission and
served the term out without any objec-
ton being raised. It was rather crude
way of deciding the contest, but posi-
bly, the sensible way of doing it, after
all.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-03-26
OSMAN DlGMA DEFIANT.

The People Exhorted to Garry on q Re-
ligious War.
SUAKM, March 18.-The spirit of
Osman Digma and some of his fanatical
adherents is far from broken. He has
returned with as many as 2, 900 followers
to the neighborhood of his former en-
campment. He adopts theSame tone in
his intercourse with his people as before
the last disaster, and is exhorting them
to religious war. He assures them
that in the third battle success will be
theirs; but the tribes are much
demoralized as they reflect upon the
full significance of their crushing defeat.
Osman does not hesitate to make use of
stern measures towards any followers
who show signs of disaffectjon. Two
sheiks who attempted to leave his camp
have been placed in chains.
Admiral Hewitt's proclamation Offer
ing reward for Osman's head reached
the hands of the sheiks with him.
They read itand spurned it with supreme
contempt.
Osman scouts to the number of $50
are watching close about Handoub.
They are under orders to kill all strag-
glers whether English or of friendly
tribes.
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A New Swindling Device.


- Detectives Harper and Rogers arrested
man named Allen I. West, alias Phil.
lips, alias Moore, on Clay: Street last
evening, and lodged him at the city
prison, with two charges OF grand lar
ceny and one of petty larceny opposite
his name. 1t is charged that for some
time past West has been operating a
variety of swindling games in this city,
from which number of people have
suffered. The particular, operations for
which he is now under arrest are &C.
RES of impositions upon sewing
machine agents and dealers. It is as
serted that on the 10th of January he
went to the store of J. s. Cohen, to
whom he represented himself as tailor,
and bought $45 sewing machine on the
installment plan on which he paid SIS
on account. and orderded the machine sent
to the Donahue House, on Fifth Street,
near Mission, promising to call the next
day and pay further sum. He failed,
however, to appear at the stated time
and upon sending to the Donahue
House, Cohen learned that both West
and his machine had gone. The
machine was subsequently discovered
at the store of r. O'Connor, on Har-
rison Street, near Third, where West
had sold it for $17. On the 29th of
February he again negotiated for q
machine, this time with s. w. Young.
1864 Mission Street, which he had sent
to the United States Hotel, on Fourth
Street. No money was paid on this
contract, the agreement being that West
oh o,,11 ON roan+h r1pfi1 tho rori no
of the machine, $65 was paid. The
next day the machine was sold to How
ard Street pawn broker for 81. Three
days later West went to the Wheeler
and Wilson sewing-machine agency and
secured again on the instalement plan
q $50 machine, which was sent by his
order to the Hancock House, on Mis-
sion Street, between Third and Fourth,
where it remained for one night and
was then disposed of to some one on
Dupont Street, and has not yet been
recovered. Again, on the 28th ult., he
went to the store Of Goethlas & Co., 1107
Stockton Street, and selected machine,
which he had sent to 9O2 Clay Street,
and on the same day called at L. A.
Begazz's store on Montgomery Avenue,
and ordered another machine sent to
1925 Market Street. In the meantime
the detectives had been on the lookout
for West, and, and hearing of the trans
action at Goethlas' followed the machine
as it went to 9O2 Clay Street, where they
arrested their man. W.st was also
wanted for the embezzlement of books
from P. F. Collier, W. Ogle and F. Dew
ings & Co., and for the embezzlement
of q watch and chain from ''Uncle' Har-
ria -
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THE: CATTLE PLAGUE.
A Letter from Gov. Crittenden, of n
Ouri, on the Subject.

A Letter from Gov. Crittenden, of Miss
ouri, on the Subject.
ST.. Louis, March 19.-Gov. Critten-
den has addressed letter to the chair
man of the meeting recently held in
Adair County, this state, where the foot.
and mouth disease is said to have ap-
peared, in which he advises the people
to use prompt and vigorous measures to
stamp out the disease. He calls atten-
tion to certain law on the
subject and thinks it sufficient
to meet the emergency if properly en-
forced. He says he will do everything
in his power to assist the people in stay
ing the spread of the malady and desires
to be kept informed of the condition o.
things. In reply to the request of E. II.
Craig, formerly inspector of cattle yards
at Brighton, Medford and Cambridge,
Mass, now a prominent farmer and cat
tie raiser at Caldwell, in this state, who
asks for the appointment of commits
sion with full power to effectively deal
with the disease, the governor
says he has no authority to create
such commission and expresses
the belief that the existing law
is ample to protect any community if the
people will use precaution. The opinion
seems to be growing both in this state
and Kansas thst reports OF the disease
have been exaggerated and that much
if not all of the sickness among cattle is
the result of foot-rot or frost bite and
not the dreaded foot-and-mouth disease
at all.
NEosHo FALLS, Kan., March 49,
Several surgeons representing important
cattle interests both East and West have
arrived here. They all prom ounce the
disease genuine Epizootic Apth@ be-
yond doubt, but express surprise that it
is SO slightly contagious. The climate
of Kansas and all other. circumstances
are so decidedly unfavorable to its spread
and development that all ara confident
it can be easily and wholly abated by
the destruction of the infected herds and
the disinfection of the premises. AS it
is only question of few dollars no
alarm is felt since the call for a special
legislative session. In two weeks there
will not be case in all Kansas.
Lieut.. Gov. Fipney sent, to-day, the
following dispatch to the governor Of
Illinois.
| NEosHo FALLS, March 15-To Gou. Haneil-
ton: Recent dispatches represent you as say
ing you would issue proclamation quarantin.
ing against Kansas cattle. We hope, before
taking such action. you will make thorough in
vestigation. No fat cattle are affected and only
| five herds of stock cattle and they are closely
quarantined. D, W. FNNEY,
Chairman Of the Quarantine Committee.
There need be no fears of the disease
spreading in this section of the country.
There is fixed determination to hold il
just where it is until the Legislature car
act. Public sentiment is such that il
will not be healthy for anyone to disre
gard the regulations of the quarantine
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-03-26
GENERAL

RUMBERGER d Bro. commission merchants,
Petersburg, Pa, failed on the 10th. Liabilities
$25,000.
Two Philadelphia newspaper reporters ex-
posed Henry C. Gordon, the spirituli site
medium, on the 18th.
NINE. ANNA BISHOP, the once famous singer,
died at New York on the 10th.
LAWRENCE BARRETT sailed from New York
for Liverpool on the 18th inst. q
VESSEL owners at Cleveland demand 81. rs on
ore from Escanaba to Lake Erie ports, and
81. 40 from Marquette.
Ar Methodist conference at Baltimore,
Nd, on the 18th, Rev. J. A. Register announced
bis apostacy to the Protestant Episcopal
Church.
JOSEPH couture, a manufacturer of knitted
goods in St. Charles de Stanbridge, Quebec,
assigned on the 18th. Liabilities $500
HENRY BROWN, (colored) aged 121, died at
Niagara, Ont, on the 18th.
The brig Screamer, under surveillance OF the
revenue steamer Dexter, at Vineyard Haven,
Mass, has on board twenty-five Cubans who
claim to be refugees, but who, according to
Cuban advices are bandits.
The clerks in Pritzla1f's hardware store at
| Milwaukee formed pool and bought tickets in
| Canadian lottery. One of the tickets drew
$4,000.
VETERINARY surgeons in Oregon, are baf1ed
! by disease that is killing large numbers of
valuable horses.
AFARMER named Mcdaniel plowed up jug
containing $4,000 in gold in q field near Island
Shoals, Ga, recently.
BENJAMIN RUPERT, one of the pioneers of
Dubuque, a.. and the oldest Odd Fellow in
the United States, died at Dubuque on the 17th.
! J. E. Cooke & Co., of Morris, N. Y, made an
assignment on the 10th. Liabilities $75,-
| 00O.
The Indians at Poplar River Agency, Dak.,
are said to be starving.
In 1875 the city council Of New York passed
resolutions, on the death of ex-President
Andrew Jackson and had them handsomely
engrossed at cost of $500. They remained
in the vault of the city clerk until q few days
| ago, when it was discovered that daughter of
the deceased statesman is living in Nashville.
The resolutions were forwarded to her. accom-
panied by complimentary letter.
YELLOW fever is raging at Tehuponepee
City, Mex. John Myers, an American railroad
contractor is among the dead. People are
leaving the city.
MRS. McL1MAs. of Monroe, Wis, has secured
q verdict of $4,000 against the city of Lancas-
ter, Grant County, for injuries received by a
fall on q sidewalk.
HYDRoPHoB1A is raging in several counties in
Iowa, one farmer having lost eighteen head OF
cattle.
BUSINESS failures for the week ending on the
18th inst. were ZIG, against 272 the week pre-.
vious.
Mrs. OzE1 STocKwEL1, of Fitchburg, Maaa.,
gave birth to daughter on the 26th ult., and
IN the 5th INST, was delivered Of another
daughter.
HENRY A. TnDEN, youngest brother of Sam
uel J. T1lden, died at New Lebanon, N. Y, on
the 18th, aged 63.
The Ftz John Porter bill passed the Senate on
the 18th, by vote of 36 to IS. Senator Logan
made forcible speech against its passage but
with the exception of Senator Conger no one
else evinced any enthusiasm, many Of the mem.
bers being paired and absent.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-03-26
MRS. Mo11lE JOHNSON, residing near Ada,
O., was fatally burned on the 18th by her
clothing becoming ignited.

MRS. Mo1IIE JOHNSON. residing near Ada,
O., was fatally burned on the 18th by her
clothing becoming ignited.
NEAR Cortland, ILL.,, on the afterooon Of the
18th, he Omaha express killed Andrew F.
Sell, OF Sycamore, who was asleep on the track.
A SMALL viaduct in process Of demolition at
Pittsburg, Pa, fell with four men distance of
twenty-five feet on the 17th, killing Daniel
Mullins and seriously injuring the others.
FIRE at South Chicago, on the 18th, de-
stroyed the frame row known as Calumet Block
and twelve other wooden buildings. Loss be-
tween 500, 600 and $1O0,00
The bark Lucie, bound from Liverpool for
San Francisco, was sunk by collision at sea.
Six of the crew lost their lives.
Two freight trains collided at Toronto on the
morning of the 18th. An engineer and fireman
were probably fatally injured. Loss $25, 900.
MARX Il RowEL1A's glycerine factory, New
York, was damaged by fire to the extent Of
SAC, 900 on the 18th.
The extensive foundries of Hoffman,, Bill
ings g. Co., at Milwaukee, were destroyed by
fire on the 18th. Loss $50, 1000.
Gus SHERBERT, car repairer, WAS fatally
crushed between two cars at POI stage, Wis.,, on
the 18th.
A BOY named W. T. Williams was run over
and beheaded by q locomotive at Minneapolis
on the afternoon of the 18th.
THREE employees in Vallejo Mine, on Aspen
Mountain, Colorado, named Geo. Marshall,
VIM. O'Brien and John McGinnity, were killed
by a snow-slide on the 18th.
WOODWARD & FoxoN's Wholesale drug store
in Kansas City, Mo-, burned on the morning of
the 18th. Loss $115, 900.
JOHN RoNsToNE and John Marshall. were
crushed to death by the caving Of trench at
Dayton, O., on the 18th.
OLIVER DYER, Yale student who was rough
ly handled by his classmates in asparring exer-
else, diedOn the 18th from the effects of injuries
received.
LEsNER Sons gristmill, at Charlton, N. Y.
was wrecked by the explosion of boiler on
the 18th. The proprietors were killed and two
farmers wounded.
The wife and three children of R. G. Otwell,
Cleburne County, Als., died from eating Chi
cago beef on the 18th. Otwell was ill and did
not partake. The remainder of the family died
in few hours after the meal. The meat is to
be analyzed.
A TERRIBLE explosion occurred in the coal
mines Of the Southwest Virginia Improvement
Company at Pocahontas. TazewelI Comfy, Va,
at o'clock on the morning of the 18th. One
hundred and fifty miners, mostly foreigners,
met their death.
LAWRENCE ROONEY, whose family reside at
Blackberry, Kane County, ILL.,, WAS frozen to
death on the prairie near Blunt, Dak., on the
18th.
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A Wandering Heir.

[From the Chicago Inter-Ocean.l
A very interesting story about miss
ing heir and all those subsidiary evil
ones who want to get his rightful moneys,
which fill up the orthodox romance, has
just come to light, and has been localized
in interest by several of his (the missing
heir's) prospective heirs and heiresses
living in that pretty little suburb of Chi
cago, Lake View. Themiseing heir is
Robert Wilson, who, after twenty-five
years wanderings, arrived in Chicago
last Christmas. he has, or rather had,
an elder brother living at Amherstberg,
Ontario, Canada. This brother. who
was said to be of unsound mind, when he
died bequeathed the whole of his for
tune, amounting to about $50, 600, to
nine persons, none of whom were rela-
tives of the deceased, one, indeed, be-
ing simply the clerk of the firm of John
son & Frazer, of Amherstberg, the men,
bers OF which firm had been appointed
trustees of the estate of the Amherst
Wilsoc L. "A his being declared insane
The balance of this story may be
most briefly told by simply detailing the
travels of his younger brother Robert,
''the missing heir"
Robert was born in Quebec, Canada
in 1929 or 1880. He left Quebec when
about ten years of age and went to his
uncle, John Wilson, doing business in
George Street, in the Minories, London,
England. Not being bright lad, his
English uncle, after taking care of him
for three or four months, sent him to
another of his uncles, Caleb Wilson, at
Sydney, Australia. This was in 1910.
With this uncle Robert lived until 1850.
In that year, for what reason is not
known, Robert sailed for San Francisco,
being then tbout twenty years of age,
and there went to work, doing whatever
he could find to do; serving respectively
as bar-keeper, hostler, and common Ia
borer; working in the latter capacity for
nearly eleven years for the firm of Tobin
& Duncan, in the China trade. This
tracks his travels up to the year 1860.
Then, however, he disappeared, and was
not heard of again until after the recent
death of his brother in Canada, period
of between twenty three and twenty-four
years, when he was discovered by Col.
G. G. Robbins, of Amherstberg, Canada,
at Mendocino, a lumber and mining re-
gion in the northern part of California,
where the Colonel is interested in min
ing operations as engineer. 1t was
found that Robert (assuming him to be
the missing Robert) had been working
at Mendocino as common laborer dur
| ing the last twenty-five or twenty three
years.
The heirs under his brothers will of
course deny that this is the real Robert.
A suit, however, has been already com
menced on his behalf to have the will of
his brother declared invalid, on the
ground that it was made by him while
legally incapable of making will, be-
ing at the time of unsouy mind. The
trial of the case will come off in April
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how that the former has 18, 600 facto-
lea that eranl0v 316 O(O oy,erativos a

show that the former has 18, 600 facto-
ries that employ BIG, 600 operatives
turn out an annual product;of $3.50; 900, :
600 while the latter has considerably
smaller number, and they employ only
222, 900 operatives and yield an annual
product Of only $500, 900, 900. The po-
litical significance of these figures is
worth noting. Where manufactures
abound there is always a very pro-
nounced sentiment in favor of q pro-
tective tariff, and that means cold COM
fort for the Democratic party. Possibly
in course of time, the factories will be-
come stronger than the saloons in New
York, and redeem the city from the
thraldom of the Tammany and the Hi
bernians.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-03-26
A Big Game Of Seven-Up.
From the Alta Californi

In talking with an nold- timer in Plumas.
the other day, we dug up the following
reminiscence: When Plumas was organ
lied, in 1854, the first business was the
election Of county officers, and the OPP
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-03-26
Noah and the Devil.


The origin of wine is traced back by
the rabbis to q. curious legend not Pc
culiar to the rabbis, but to be found in
Mohammedan traditions as well. Noah
was once busy breaking ground for
vineyard, when the devil drew near and
inquired what he was doing. "Why, I
am planting the vine. I value its fruit
and it's juice.'' II shall assist yeu,"
said the devil, and began to manure the
soil with the blood of lamb, lion, pig
and monkey. The work being finished,
the devil turned to Noah and preached
this exhortation: "They who taste the
juice of the grape will have the qualities
of these animals, as mild as the lamb,
as fierce as the lion, as beastly as the
pig, and as lively as the monkey" The
rabbis have also referred elsewhere to
the effect of different glasses of vine
the first making one gentle as lamb,
the second bold as lion, and 80 on.
We fear that rabbinical psychology was
family. The conscience is capable of
being blunted by successive repetitions
OF crime as is the stomach able to ac-
commodate successive draughts of vine,
Without special transformations occur
ring. r.......s.. .~ez .s .ass.,t..
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Saloons and Factories.

It is . fact not generally known that
New York now leads Philadelphia as
manufacturing city. Recent statistics
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-03-26

A NEW piano, invented by NJ. Wilhelm
Fischer, has been brought out at Leipsic.
In outward appearance it resembles q
cottage piano, and it has the ordinary
hammer action, but in lieu OF the fa-
milisr strings tuning forks are sub.
stituted for the purpose of procuring
pure as. we'll as sustained tone. %sss=
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-03-26

New York Cry pays annually S., 20.
600 for pure milk and Sc, ,200, 600 or
SKINNED milk and water. .gs
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-03-26

ELLEN M FAIRBANKS ND
Office and Residence, corner West Main and
Maple Streets, opposite Public School Building,
Austin, MINI. At homo until 4. n. and from II
to P. n.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-03-26

ATTORNEY At LAW
Real Estate aud Collection Agent. Taxes paid for
non-residents. ~ Office, I'd floor OF Dunk elman's
new biock, MalA street. 19-tf
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-03-26

Rooms up town. Guests carried to and from tho
city free Of charge. Up town connected by tele-
phone at Olemmer d Pooler's. Austin, MINI.