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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-03-12
gregate 81, ,000,0 900, on which there is an insur
ance of less than one half.

gregate $1,000, 900, on which there is an insur-
ance of less than one half.
The large works of the United States Stamp
stroyed by fire on the LIST. Loss 100000.
The drug warehouse of Huber Bros, Of
Fond du Lac, was destroyed by fire on the 29tn
ult. Loss $4,000. ~
PH1LADELPHA's fire department was taxed to
ts utmost on the night of tho 28th in combating
five distinct firea, the most disastrous of which
WAS at the Powers & Weightman chemical works,
which were entirely destroyed, involving q loss
of fully 81 100000. An explosion deluged the
streets in the vicinity of the works with blazing
oil, and the escape from the sweeping confar
grafton was almost miraculous.
SEVERAL buildings at Faribault, Minn., were
swept away by fire on the 27th. Loss about
$50, 600.
LAWRENCE CLEMENT, Lamar, NO., farmer,
WAS burned to death on the 29th in q fire
which consumed his dwelling.
VIM. FLEMM1Na was frozen to death at San
ford Beach, N. j., on the 29th and q boy
named Ashen met his death in the same man
ner at Hammanton, NJ.
The OH City, Pa, opera house burned on
the 29tb. Loss $50,000.
A COLLISION between freight and passenger
of the 28th. Twelve persons were killed and q
large number injured.
Two daughters of William Morrison, a
farmer living in Pocahontas County, West Vir-
ginia, were burned to death by q ire which
consumed the family residence on the 28th.
A FIRE in frame building in New York City
on the 2Sth suffocated Cornelius Van Ripper
and his three children. Mrs. Van Riper was in.
stantly killed by jumping from window.
RACINE had a lively condagration on the
morning of the 28th, when the dry house and
store rooms of Mitchell, Lewis l. Co.'s wagon
works were reduced to ashes. Loss estimated
at between $4,000 and 500, 900.
The iron and brass foundry of E. D. Colts,
at Brooklyn, N. Y, burned on the 28th. Pat.
terms valued at $65,O00 belonging to the
Ledger Manufacturing Company. burned.
Damage to building $4,000.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-03-12

streams of melted snow and rain, insists
that the food of 1884 is an exception to
all rules. Seven hard snowstorms. with
thaws and severe cold between, covered
the ground with a mass of ice. Then
came warm weather, which, by thawing,
filed the streams to the brim; and on
top of all more than double the usual
rainfall of month came in ten days.
The Gazette is no doubt correct in the
opinion that with such weather there
would have been great food had all the
hills been covered with timber; but it is
not at all certain that had the steep hills
been covered with forests, as all steep
hills should be, and especially had the
hills of the headwaters not been gener-
ally stripped of their pine and hemlock,
the snow, rain and thaw would have
been so excessive. Certainly, much
more of the surplus water would have
had chance to find the spring reser-
voirs, which next summer will SO greatly
need it; and it cannot be that the fallen
leaves, moss, brush, etc., would not
have greatly delayed the rush of the re-
mainder into the streams. Suddenness
of delivery is what makes an ungovern-
able food,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-03-12
LAWLESSNESS IN GEORGIA.
The Town of Allapaha Invaded by Nj
of Armed Men.

The Town of Al1apaha Invaded by Mob
of Armed Men.
ALBANY. Ga, March 5.-Al1apaha, q
town of 500 inhabitants in Rerrlen Coun-
ty, South Georgia, is under mob rule,
and in compliance with q request for aid
the governor ordered the Albany
Guards, fifty strong, to proceed to the
scene of the riot at once by special train.
One Of the first acts of the rioters after
learning Of the appeal to the gov
ernor was to take possession of the
telegraph Office and prevent the
sending of any further messages.
Details of the trouble have therefore
been difficult to obtain. Monday after
noon planter named Turner entered
the town while under the influence of
liquor and began firing his pistol at ran
dom in the street. Two unofending ne
groes were wounded, one in the ARA and
the other in the abdomen, probably fa-
tally. Summoning assistance, the sher-
1T succeeded in lodging Turner in Jail,
but not before one Of his bullets had en-
tered window and dangerously
wounded widow named Mrs. Martha
Meiggs. Threats of lynching Turner
were made but not carried out. Yester-
day morning the town was thunderstruck
by the entry into it's confines of q
mounted cavalcade, at least thirty strong,
and armed to the teeth with hetero-
genous collection of knives, rifles, shot
guns, and pistols. Riding direct to the
jail, the leader announced that they
we're friends and neighbors of Turner
and demanded his release. Making the
joil as secure as possible, the sheriff re-
fused to deliver Turner, and collecting
his few assistants, prepared for the de-
tense. A number of villagers armed
themselves with what weapons they pos.
sessed and focked to the side Of the
sheriff. Two volleys were fred by the
opposing band, but no one was
hit, and it appeared that each
was trying to frighten the other.
At this juncture an assault was
made on the jail in a vain at
tempt to batter down the door. Seeing
that indecision was dangerous, the
sheriff shot one of the ringleaders of the
assaulting party, bringing him to the
ground bnt not killing him. As soon as
possible after this charge the message
was telegraphed the governor. Learn
ing of this fact four of the mob drove
the operator from the Office, and, barri.
cading it, took possession and threatened
to kill any one VINO interfered. A short
time before the time for the arrival OF
the troops the rioters beat retreat from
the town, and the sheriff, in accordance
with the governors instructions, ordered
the guards back to Albany to hold them.
selves in readiness for any further
emergency. Great apprehension exists,
as further touble is feared.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-03-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK x
FOREIGN.

A COLLISION occurred at Gibraltar between
he steamer Bertha and the Norwegian bark
Amelia. Nine persons were drowned.
NELLIs, the latest Irish informer. gives the
names of the murderers Of Lord Leitrim as
Patrick Mclaughlin, Thomas Hunt and Michael
McGinn.
A DESPERATE battle was fought at Trinkitat,
Egypt, on the 29th ult., which resulted in the
defeat Of the rebels, who are reported to have
lost heavily. Gen, Graham followed up bis
victory by the capture of Tokar.
GEN. IaLEs1As has taken the oath as provis-
ional president of Peru.
A DISCHARGED gardener, at a convent in Ser
viane, France, on the 29th, killed the lady su-
perioress, wounded one of the sisters, and
finally sent fatal bullet through his own
body.
LONDON police have unearthed q plot to blow
up the law courts.
MARTIN TURNER & Co., Glasgow merchants
IN the East India trade, have failed, with LA
bilities of s500, 1000.
The London police discovered a large
amount of dynamite under the Charing Cross
railway station on the 28th.
GEN. GRAHAM defeated the rebels in battle
near Trinktat on the 9th.
GREECE has abolished the prohibition against
American pork.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-03-12
Human Life in Mexico.

[Zacatecas Letter to Springfield Republican,
As an instance of how little regard the
government has for life, let me tell you
pitiful story: A child was missing
in a mining settlement at the edge of
Zacatecas, and as weeks went by bring
ing no trace of Kim, the distracted par
ents imagined that he had been kid
naped. Thereupon, some thirty persons,
most of them laboring men about mines,
were taken out and shot on the merest
suspicion that they might know some
thing about the lost boy! About three
months afterwards somebody happened
to look down into deep hollow (prob-
ably All abandoned prospect hole) not
many yards from the fathers house,
and discovered something which excited
his curiosity. Closer investigation re-
vealed a small skeleton, the poor child
having undoubtedly fallen in during one
of the epileptic fits to which he was sub
ject, and had starved to death within
sight of home! I happened to be pres
ent when the little moldy jacket and
muddy shoes were brought up, amid a
crowd who wept with sympathy for the
mourning mother; but nobody had a
thought for the thirty victims mostly
fathers of families-who were sacrificed
inthe unavailing search.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-03-12
AFTER the sc0UNDRELs.
The London Police on the Trail of Il
Dynamiters.

The London Police on the Trail of the
Dynamiters.
LONDON, March 5.-The police seem
to be on the right trail for the discovery
of the authors of the dynamite outrages
and think they have evidence which will
soon lead to their capture. It has been
learned that three men landed at South.
ampton February Goth. from a steamer
from New York, two of them very gen.
tleman-llke in appearance, the other
rough and sailor-like. They purchased
two portmanteaux, one of which
has been identified as that found at
the Charing Cross station filled with ex-
plosives. The other was that found at
the Victoria station. A portion of the
overcoat found in the Charing Crosf bag
is similar to the garment worn by one
of the three men. It is believed that
three other men, who have not been
traced, landed likewise at Southampton
and acted in concert with the three
whose movements are partially known,
but kept aloof from them. The three
men first mentioned left Southampton
about the same time the two gentlemen
came to London, where one went direct
~ to the Waverly Hotel. He had with
him valise as heavy as lead. The
other man went to the Waverly few
days LATER. After they left the hotel,
two boxes made to contain small Ameli-
can clocks and tray of a cash box SIM
liar to that in n portmanteau, found at
Paddington Station, were discovered.
The tailor took ticket from Southamp-
ton for Bristol, but this is not believed
to have been his destination. He had
previously written letter addressed to
Limerick. It is supposed that six men
were concerned in the plot and
that they divided themselves into
three parties February 81. A
reward is offered for the apprehension of
five men, two of whom are described as
Americans.
An Irish American named Burns, or
Baron, who described himself as an
American detective, took lodgings at
Bradford, February 9Th. He had two
black trunks and allowed no one to
enter his loom. At midnight,
February 10Th, he brought home with
him several strange men and women.
On another occasion, some time after
this, Kissing sound was heard to pro-
ceed from this strangers room, followed
by an explosion. Burns opened the
door and exclaimed that there was moth
Jog wrong. He disappeared February
2lst A woman called for his luggage.
She said Burns was about to return to
New York.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-03-12
Cooking in New Hampshire.

ttrom the Manhattan.
The art of cooking is unknown
throughout New Hampshire, but it is
not too much to expect that its single
college should set good example. Not
so. At the only inn, the visitor is re-
galed with fried beefsteaks, pork and
beans, doughnuts and pie, and is looked
upon as on the hightoad to perdition
should he be detected in the act of
drinking simple glass of claret or beer.
The students may read of the banquets
of Lucullus and Of Apician feasts; they
may study chemistry an dacquire dis
vote themselves to hygiene with success,
but they will not be permitted to par
take of chop or beefsteak cooked in 9
civilized way. Without flippancy it
may be said, that q lecturer on cookery
would by no means be ont of . place at
Dartmouth.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-03-12

of the Mexican war. Passed yeas 227, nays 46,
Mr.. Cox (N. W moved that the house ad-
journ, his purpose being to prevent Mr.. Con-
verse from making q motion to suspend the
rules and consider the bill increasing the duty
on wool. Adjourned. 49, .-s-. ,-.0s
TUESDAY, March "A bill was reported to
amend the Chinese emigration bill; also to pre-
vent the adulteration Of teas. The house went
into committee of the whole on the naval ap-
preparation bill, but after extended debate the
committee arose without action and the house
adjourned.
WEDNESDAY, March 5.-A bill was passed
appropriating $4,000 for the south
pass, Mississippi River. A resolution
was passed appropriating $4,000 addi-
tional for expenses of the Daaville investi-
cation. The bill for the relief of the Missis-
sippi flood sufferers was reported on unfavora-
bly,. Robertson from the committee on elec-
tions, reported q resolution unseating T. Luna,
delegate from New Mexico. and seating IN his
place F. A. Manzanares. Adopted. Mr.. Man.
zanares appeared at the bar of the house and
took the oath. The house then went into CON-
mittee of the whole on the military academy
appropriation bill, and when the committee
arose the house adjourned.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-03-12
A BUSHEL OF MONEY.
The Pacific Express Company Robbed at
st. Louis.

The Pacific Express Company Robbed at
ST.. LOUIS, March 3.-Prentiss Tiller,
money clerk of the Pacific Express Com
pany, whose father, Carter Tiller, is a
Louisville detective, disappeared about
3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, taking
with him one or two valises full of
money packages. the total amount being
very nearly $4,000.
It .is the custom of the company to
keep the money clerk and the day watch.
man on duty in the Office on Sunday,
the doors being secured by chain locks,
and no one being admitted except the
messengers, who arrive on the morning
trains and have money packages to turn
over. Yesterday afternoon the teller
was on duty, and the watchman re-
mained in the back room tending to the
door, the front doors being kept locked.
About 2 o'clock the watchman went
out to lunch, leaving three messengers
sitting by the stove while he was gone.
Tiller went out and returned with 8
stranger whom the messengers supposed
to be new clerk or messenger. Tiller
and the stranger went into the front Of
fee, and were thought no more of. An
hour later Tillor came into the back
Office to wash his hands, and remarked
to the watchman who bad returned that
he believed he would go out and get
some lunch. Wiping his hands he re-
entered the front cfice, and was not
seen again.
Half an hour afterward the watchman
walked into the front Office to get some.
thing, and was surprised to find the
front door unlocked and Tiller absent.
He spoke of it to the messengers who
we're sitting by the stove in the rear,
and they told him of the stranger. This
alarmed him, and he summoned the SUI
perintendent, who soon discovered that
about bushel of money packages we're
missing. Detectives have learned moth.
ing as yet.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-03-12
Mrs. Vanderbilt's Music Room.


One of the most remarkable entertain
ments this season was that given by
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, at last
weeks meeting of the Thursday club.
The music was furnished entirely by
professionals, Josefy, Clara Louisa
Kellogg and others being selected.
But the music was secondary to the
wonderful music room, which was only
finished on the day of the concert. It
was rightly called ttsymphon in white
and gold," and contained tapestries,
pictures, bropzes and bric.a-brac in
wonderful profusion. One feature was
the colossal Fireplace and mantel in the
great entrance hall, supported by two
finely-carved figures with ''Salve" and
ssPax" sculptured on either side. The
company that assembled did justice to
the surroundings in their gorgeous at
tire. It is pretty plainly to be seen that
the Vanderbilts are firmly established
in society, and every body that can get
bid is mighty glad to 60 to their
houses.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-03-12
Like Lady Dudley's Necklace.

w. from the NeW 1orK ouu'J
A facsimile of the disr> ona necklace
of Lady Dudley, of England, has just
been made by a Maiden Lane jeweler for
lady of this city. There are forty-one
blue-white, old mine stones in it, the
largest of which is Al karats and the
smallest II karats. Its total weight is
974 karatp. The diamonds are all Of one
luster and beautifully matched. Pend
ant from the necklace is five pointed
diamond star, which also may be worn
as q lace pin or hair ornament. The
necklace and star are worth more than
S2O. 200, -. sn.-z.-
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-03-12
The Origin of Mosquitoes.

from Gno hlauudttdu AOI IepAu
The Indians have a very satisfactory
account of the origin of the Montezuma
mosquitoes. The legend runs thus.
There were in times of old, many moons
ago, two feathered monsters permitted
by the Manitou to descend from the sky
and alight on the banks of the Seneca
River. Their form was exactly that of
the mosquito. They were so large that
they darkened the sun like cloud as
they flew toward the earth. Standing
on either bank they guarded the river,
and stretched their long necks into the
canoes of the Indians, as they attempted
to paddle along the stream, gobbling
them up, as the stork king in the fable
gobbled up the frogs. The destruction
of life was SO great that not an Indian
could pass without beng devoured in
the attempt. It was long before the
monsters could be exterminated, and
then only by the combined efforts of all
the warriors of the Cayuga and Onon-
daga nations. The battle was terrible,
but the warriors finally triumphed, and
the mammoth mosquitoes were slain
and left unburied. For this neglect the
Indians had to pay dearly. The car
casses decomposed and the particles,
vivifed by the sun, flew off in clouds of
mosquitoes, which have filed the coun-
frv ever since
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-03-12
Floods and Forests.

[From the New York Commercial Advertiser.]
The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette,
in several recent issues, while conced.
ing that forests have great effect in re-
tarding delivery in the channels of
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-03-12
The Most Heroic Figure.

From the New York Times.)
. Gordon is without doubt the most
heroic figure of the day, and bis mar
velous ride to Khartoum will live in
history with the expedition to Marsala.
Wide as is the difference between the
campaign of the Thousand and the Jour-
ney of solitary, unarmed man, the
sublime heroism with which Garibaldi
hurled his little band against the
Neapolitan kingdom was closely akin to
that with which Gordon rode along to
meet foe that had exterminated armies.
Between Assouan and Khartoum the road
swarmed with rebels filed with hatred
of Egyptian and English rule and
maddened with Mohammedan fa-
naticism, but Gordon did not hesitate
to make his way through them.
His confidence that he bears charmed
life so long as Providence has work for
him to do was justified by the result.
He reached Khartoum, where his au-
thorjt~ i as absolute and unquestioned
as it could be were he at the head of
an English army corps. The secret of
Gordon's faith is his religious faith.
The source of his power is the convic-
tion among the people that he is as just
as he is fearless.
II must be confessed that the course
pursued by Gordon since he reached
Khartoum will suggest the suspicion
that he may have passed the narrow line,
which, in some cases, divides religious
exaltation from lunacy. He has pub
licly burned the whips of the Egyptian
rulers, and the book in which the debts
due from the wretched inhabitants tothe
Egyptian treasury were recorded. This
was humane and just measure, and the
spectacular way in which Gordon car
ried it out was we'll adapted to impress
an Oriental community. Tothis act, how
ever, were added a general jail delivery
and the burning of the jail. Without
doubt horrible acts of oppression had
been perpetrated in the Kharioum jail,
and without doubt many of the prisoners
whom Gordon found in the jail were in
nocent. At the same time, how can a
sane man imagine that town like
Khartoum, Inhabited, according to all
Europeans who have visited it, by the
worst ruff ms that the slave trade has
produced, be kept in order without
Jail? A community Of Quakers might
perhaps be governed for brief period
by the law of love, and without magie-
trates or penal code, but Gordon is ap-
parently trying like experiment. in
town compared with which Leadville or
Deadwood is quiet Christi ian village.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-03-12

A conoRED man recently knocked off
the nose of fellow-laborer with stick
of wood at Waco, Tex.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-03-12

JAoKsoNvMLE, Fla, ships an average
Of one thousand boxes of oranges daily.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-03-12

FLLEN NJ FAIRBANKS, MD.
Office and Residence, corner West Main and
Maple Streets, opposite Public School Building,
Austin, MINI. At home until 4. N. and from u
to 2 p ".
The National tribune., 1884-07-03
Life and Death Struggle with Bloodhound.
lSraecinE b PhiIn Times

BosToN, June 2S-About o'clock this
morning Z. w. Jackson, bookkeeper. was on
his way from Medford to Maiden to catch the
early horse car for Boston While passing the
residence of George X. Goalding a large Sibe-
rian bloodhound belonging TO Mr. Goulding
rushed out to the sidewalk and attacked Mr..
Jackson in most savage manner. The animal
jumped for the mans throat, but caught hold
of his wrist, which was put up to ward off the
attack. A desperate struggle followed. The
vicious beast, having tasted blood, fought like
tiger and tore the flesh in several places from
MIR. Jackson's arms. The dog being large and
powerful, il required all Mr.. Jackson's strength
TO keep il away from his throat.
The struggle lasted considerable time, dur
ing which the cries of Mr. jackson for help
could be heard half a mile away, but unfortu-
nately there was no one in the vicinity at that
early hour and the man and beast had TO con-
tinue the struggle for life or death. The dog
finally got vise-like grasp of Jackson's wrist,
which he crushed and broke between his teeth.
The hand being his right one Mr. Jackson was
at great disadvantage. He finally succeeded,
however, in grasping the animal by the throat
and, with the unnatural strength of a man
whose life is at stake, succeeded in choking the
beast TO death. Mr.. Jackson was taken home
and his wounds, which are serious, were
dressed. The dog has been chained, but fire.
quently broke away and was the terror of chill
dren and Of everybody else who passed that
way
The National tribune., 1884-07-03

VgT ANTED-By the Editor of THE TRIBUNE-The first
w names OF the following officers: Hospital Chap
lain D. D. Van Antwerp, Of North Carolina; Medical
Inspector N S. Townsend of Ohio; Capt and Assistant
Quarternaster O. D. Lincoln, unknown Capt and Asst
Quarermaster ]. Robinson, of Iowa. Asst Surgeon G.
L. Randall of Michigan; Capt. and Asst Quartermaster
NJ. Pinner of New York Capt and Asst Quartermaster
A. d. Garoute. Of Ohio; Capt and Asst Quarermaster
X. Hawey, of Illinois; Mater j. O. Culver, paymaster
Of Wisconsin; Major A. j. Taylor late 21st Ohio inf
Colonel 4, Il Grimshaws late ith Delaware inf.