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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-04-22
THE STRIKERS WIN.
Reaper Company Obliged
to Accede to the Mems Demands.

McCormick's Reaper Company Obliged
to Accede to the Mems Demands.
Supt. Averill of the Mccormick
Reaper Works, Chicago, was visited on
the morning of the 11th in his office
by committee of the strikers, COM
posed of fourteen men. Mr.. Averill
was very atfable and was apparently
sincere in his expressions OF friendli-
ness toward the men. He had always
argued, he said, against the wisdom of
the strike, and sympathized with the
men, realizing that it was difficult to
support wife and family on 81 .25 q
day. The committee said they voiced
the sentiment OF all the strikers in say
ing that tney would accept no com
promise. Mr. Averill then said he
would make an offer Of terms. In or
der to afford greater relief to day
workers, he said, he would restore the
10 per cent. reduction and advance
the piece-workers 10 per cent. instead
of Is, as they demanded. In the aft
ernoon the strikers held meeting and
refused Mr.. Averill's offer. He then
agreed to the original demand, which
was restoration of the Is per cent.
taken from the piece-workers, and the
10 per cent. reduction in the wages of
the day-workers. The yielding of the
company caused great rejoicing among
the men.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-04-22
MINOR VIEWS NOTES,

Thieves robbed the grist-mill of
Charles Hibbard, in Salisbury Town
ship, Lancaster County, Pa, on the
night OF the 5th, and then set fire to
the building, which, with the contents,
was completely destroyed. The loss
! is heavy. The Welsh Mountain gang
are believed to be the perpetrators OF
the outrage.
Utica, n V, had a $3O,OOOblaze on
the 18th.
J. H. Bell, who murdered F. G.
Small. at Harold, Dakota, last Deem
Der, was lynched at Blunt on the night
of the 18th.
The building occupied by the Gazette,
Buffalo, was partially destroyed by
fire on the 18th. The loss to the
. proprietors OF the paper is $4,000.
Other occupants of the building lose
as much more.
\ large number of horses and mules,
on the rancho OF Senator Stanford,
, near Red Bluff, CAL, wereroasted alive
! on the 10Th. The fire was caused by
tramps. The lossis placed at 100000.
! Fred. Summers was whirled to
| death on a t1y-wheel at Tustin, Mich,
on the 18th, while attempting to ad-
Just belt
At Union City, Tenn. Bud Parrish,
(white) and Freeman Ward (colored)
were hanged, on the morning of the
18th at IL O'Clock, by a mob OF
| masked men numbering about 200.
They belonged to gang of thieves
who recently committed many depre-
dations on citizens OF that place.
On the 18th, several ladies, among
them Mrs. Admiral Reynolds, started
in boat from Fortress Monroe, to
visit Old Point, with couple of ne
groes as oarsmen. The water was
rough and the wind high. The boat
upset near the beach. All were res
cued, but Mrs. Reynolds died from ex-
haustion.
| At Chandlerville, Muskingham Coun-
| ty, O., Andrew Huffman, wealthy
! farmer, during q business quarrel,
shot and killed John Callahan, his
former partner. in a liquor store.
Huffman then gave to his son his re-
volver and asked to beshot. The son
refused and Huffman fled.
| The four story building, SO and S5
! Wabash Avenue, Chicago, was totally
destroyed by fire, on the 14th inst
The losses will aggregate 100000.
At fire in Haiser's piano factory,
New York, on the 14th, the second
floor gave way, carrying number OF
firemen into the cellar. All were more
or less injured, but only one, Hugh Nc
Bride, fatally.
| The tannery OF J. H. Mooney & Co.,
Montreal, was partially destroyed by
fire on the l4th. The loss is esti-
! mated at 100000.
The hardware and crockery store of
| Giles l. Murchison at Wilmington, n.
c., was destroyed by fire on the 18th.
The building was insured for 81, 900,
which covers the loss. The stock was
almost entirely destroyed, and was
| valued at from $40, 900 to $4,000
Fellows. Shaw & Raymond, whole
sale boot and shoes, Boston. made an
! assignment on the 14th. Liabilities
| 100000.
| John Mckenzie, canvasser for the
Equitable Lie Assurance Company,
fatally shot his vile and then COM
mitted- suicide at New York, on the
14th.
| The jury in the case of ex-President
Fish, on trial at New York for en-
bezzlement Of funds Of the Marine
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-04-22
THE REL TROTRLE.
Well Armed Indians on the Rampaee in
Manitoba.

Well Armed Indians on the Rampage in
Manitoba.
A Battleford dispatch of the 18th
says: The country north of here was
burned yesterday, for miles, by In
dlans travelling westward. All the
farmers on both sides OF the river
were raided, and the horses and cattle
driven away. Signal fires were seen
all around, but the garrison was pow
erless to do anything but hold itself
IN readiness in the event of an at
tack" In view of the large quantity
OF arms and ammunition the Indians
have been found to possess, the Cana
dian government has decided to bring
down measure Immediately prohib-
iting thesale of arms and ammunition
to Indians, under penlty of heavy fine
and imprisonment. During the inspec-
ton OF Indian camps by the Mounted
Police these arms have always been
concealed, and the government had
no idea until now how formidable a
resistance the Indians could offer
against the regular troops. These
arms have been supplied by traders,
until now. In many tribes. every 9TH
or man is armed with either a Win
chester or Remington repeating rifle
and a good stock of fammuniton, while
the balance have weapons of an in
ferior pattern.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-04-22
DOSED TO DEATH.
A Young Physician Makes u Mistake and

A Young Physician Makes u Mistake and
Kills a Brother.
A very distressing accident occurred
at Buena Vista, Ouschita County,
Ark. DIR. E. L. Dawson was called
professionally to prescribefor young
er brother, after doing which he went
to visit another patient. While thus
engaged he was recalled to the bedside
OF his brother, whom he found in
comatose condition. The truth then
flashed upon him that he had given
large dose of morphine by mistake,
instead OF quinine, as he had intended.
Every effort that professional skill
could suggest was made to counteract
the effect OF the fatal dose, but without
avail. The young man died shortly
after the doctors return. DR.. Dawson
is young physician of decided ability,
and his grief over his fatal mistake is
said to be terrible to witness.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-04-22
QUICK JUSTICE.
James Halstead Sentenced to Prison for
Life for tho Murder OF II. W. Smit h.

James Halstead Sentenced to Prison for
Life for the Murder OF H. w. Smit h.
The funeral of Henry w. Smith was
held at Jackson, Mich, on the morn
ing of the 14th. At the same hour
James Halstead was arraigned in
court, charged with the murder. He
confessed that on or about December
80, Smith was murdered at Moffatt's
barn, three miles south of the city.
Halstead lived there at the time, and
says that Smith was killed with a blow
from an axe. He denied that he had
struck him, but that he was killed by
a man named w. II. Smith. They left
the corpse where the deed was COM
mitted for two weeks, and then
brought it to the Franklin House barn
in Jackson, where it was discovered.
The prisoner was sent to state prison
for life. Owing to the excited state of
feeling against the prisoner, the crowd
was kept in the courtroom until the
prisoner was removed to the Jail. w.
H. Smith, whom Halstead accuses OF
the murder, has been arrested, charged
With murder
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-04-22
INDIANS RISING.
The Red Men in Manitoba Joining the
Rebels.

The Red Men in Manitoba Joining the
Rebels.
The following dispatch from Win
nipeg was received on the 10th: The
telegraph wire to Battleford is ap-
parently on the ground and when the
latter is frozen, a weak current is es-
tablished. By this means, word was
sent from Battleford, last night, that
the Indians at Frog Lake had killed
eight whites. These were: J. J. Jurin,
Indian agent; John Delaney, farm in
structor; Mr.. Gowanlock and wife; Rev.
Father Foffard, Rev. Father LIE
Marchand, and two men, names un-
known. Mrs. Delaney is prisoner.
w. Jurin, nephew of the Indian agent,
escaped from the Indians and made
his way to Battleford, on Wednesday.
He reports the fate Of the Hudson Bay
Company's agent, Cameron, as un-
known. Frog Lake is about 100 miles
northwest of Battleford, and is thirty
miles from Fort Pitt. The reserves
there are occupied by bands of Crees.
They number 1000 Indians, but
no attack has been made on the
barracks. Indian Agent Roe has
not been Killed as reported. Advlces
to the Hudson Bay Company from
Saddle Lake, via Edmonton and CAL
gary, say that the Indians there
haveraided thegovernment warehouse
and gone to join the rebels. Saddle
Lake is in The Edmonton Agency,
about 100 miles west of Frog Lake.
1t looks now like general Indian up
rising. The Hudson Bay Company
have received a cipher message from
the agent at Prince Albert, dated March
81, saying: "The whole population is
on our hands. | am securing the
country to collect provisions. Send
flour and bacon at once. The Indians
are quiet, except the Sioux and fifty
Crees who have joined the rebels" A
company has been formed in Battle
ford, under command of Capt. Nash,
fully armed and equipped. THERE'S al
so a "hOme guard" of sixty members.
Saskatchewan River is now open.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-04-22

Bank, returned a verdict of guilty at
midnight of the 11th. Sentence was
deferred. ~
r. c. Wilson, town treasurer of Han.
cock County, Ohio, shot himself OF,
the 10th and will die. He had lost in
wheat speculations, and was a de-
faulter.
As the result of an old quarrel,
George Anderson was shot and killed
at Chicago on the 18th by Jacob Ker-
win.
The Stillman Hotel, an apartment
house, and one of the finest buildings
in Cleveland, was partially destroyed
by fire on the 18th. The inmates
were all saved. The loss is estimated
at about $65, 900.
The entire business portion of the
village of Lees Summit, twenty-five
miles east of Kansas City, was ruined
by fire on the 18th. The losses will
reach 100000. Twenty-eight build
ings were burned.
Edward Lambert, the young man
who shot his mother-in-law, his wife,
and himself, at 1874 South Desplaines
Street, Chicago, died of his wounds, at
the county hospital on the 10th. p
Julius Loiseau, a professor in Co.
lumbia College, New York city, COM
mitted suicide on the 10th, by shoot
ing himself.
A. V. Arnold, a wealthy lumber
merchant of Williamsburg, Pa, COM
mitted suicide on the 10th, by shoot
ing himself.
Failures in the United States for
week ending on the 10th, 189.
Geo. H. Mills was hanged in Brook
lyn, on the 10th, for the murder of his
wife, October 6, 1888
A body, supposed to be that OF S. S.
Conant, the long missing editor OF
Harper's Weekly, was found in creek
on Coney Island, on the 10TH
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-04-22
BURIED ALIVE.

6even Mon Entombed Under q Mass of
i Brick While Repairing = Smokestack.
! "A horrible accident occurred at
'Oscoda, Mich, on the 18th. While
George Fulton, Joe Biddle, Tom
Mitchell, George Gordon, Frank May
nard and John Hartwick were clear
ing the brick out OF a mill smoke
stack, the bottom tier gave way and
the seven men were buried under 5O,-
600 brick, the seventh being unknown
by name. Five we're killed outright
Biddle, Mitchell, Maynard and Hart
wick. The unknown man was severe
y burned and fatally injured, and
Gordon, aged II, marvelously escaped
any serious injury. Nearly all those
killed were mangled beyond recogni-
ton
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-04-22
RUSSIA'S ANSWER.
Tho Attack In Afxhanistan Not Authorize
bv Russia.

1ne Attack In Afghanistan Not Authorized
by Russia.
In the English House of Commons
on the 10th, Mr. Gladstone said that
reply was received from Russia the
previous night. This stated that Rus
sia had already asked Gen. Komaroff
to explain his conduct in attackingth the
Atghans at Penjdeh. Mr.. Gladstone
added that Russia had not yet received
Gen: Komaroff's explanation. In re-
gard to the question of the present oc-
cupation of Penjdeh, Mr.. Gladstone
stated that he had been in communi-
cation upon the subject with Sir Ed
ward Thornton, British ambassador
at St. Petersburg, and that the latter
had informed him that the Russians
do not occupy Penjdeh, but have re-
tired to the positions they occupied
before the battle with the Afghans.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-04-22

r rom LNc New Ork times
At St. Nazaire: France, the Com
pagnie Generate Transatlantique is
building four large steamships, which
will be finished by next summer, to
run between New York and Havre.
The vessels will be named La Cham
pagne, La Bourgogne, La Bretagne,
and La Gasgogne. La Champagne
will he ready first. The vessels are
constructed under the French subsidy
law, and must, consequently, DO fash
ioned of French materials and able to
maintain speed of seventeen knots
an hour. Their dimensions will be
500 feet in length and so feet beam.
Their tonnage will be 1000 tons each
and 5000 horsepower. Mr.. Louis de
Bebian, the general agent of the line,
said yesterday that the vessels would
be decorated by AQard, the best deco
rator in Paris, who decorated Mr..
Vanderbilt's house on Fifth Avenue,
and would be very fast. So far as
comfort and decoration we're con-
cerned, the vessels would be as fine as
any that came to this port, and the
French style in which their interiors
were constructed would be something
that had not been seen here before.
The steamships, which were, OF course,
named after old provinces of France.
being made under the French subsidy
law, could be called on for use as gov
eminent vessels in case OF need.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-04-22
The Cigar Factories OF Madrid.

From the London Telegraph.
Before the everyday tourist had
learned to babble of Velasquez and
Murillo, and regarded it essential to
his reputation as man of taste to 60
into ecstasies over Moorish arches, the
cigar factories of Madrid were among
the principal show places OF the unin-
teresting capital which, for some mill
tary or other reasons, has been
dropped down in the middle of one of
the dreariest areas in Christendom.
You know you are approaching it by
the odor of tobacco, and the Babel Of
voices which halls the arrival of the
"Gringo" can be compared to nothing
except a gigantic boarding school with
all the masters backs turned to the
pupils. Thousand of women-young,
middle-aged, and old-are busy roll
ing up cigars so deity that the un-
practiced eye has some difficulty in
catching the movement of the artists
fingers. A pinch of leaf here, turn of
the wrist there, the slightest possible
touch of the tongue when the case de-
mands it, and "Claro," or g. "Madu-
ro," or Colorado" is ready for the
market. Here cEeroots are being
turned out by the thousands, here Gig
arettes by the tens of thousands. In
another building boxes are being
made, labeled, and tied up, and in and
around and over all resound the noisy
hum Of female tongues that will not
be tied. But not hand is for a mo-
ment idle. The workers, like science
teachers at South Kensington, are
"paid by results" and it requires a
great number OF government cigars be-
fore the madriIena can earn the where
withal for an ola podrida, a gay man.
tiIla, or the measure OF sour wine
which tempers on high days and holi-
days the frugal fare of the water
drinking Spaniard. Some of the old
crones are az hideous as any OF the
ancients whom Gustave Dore loved to
draw. But many of the matrons are
slightly ladies, while the flashing eyes
and rog,1ish fun of the young ones
somewhat ernbarrass visitor who is
unaccustomed to face such a battery
0; criticism without being able to ex-
change n compliment with the COM
pany who are SO ready to express
their individual opinions of the ca
bailero. In truth, it requires some
courage to venture into thegreat cigar
mandatory of Madrid, though those
who are fond Of picturesque sight
and not afraid Of the smell of tobacco
or the play OF Spanish eyes might wan
der through the peninsula from Vigo
to Malaga and not come across a
spectacle wiI;c!, would live half az long
in their memories
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-04-22

DRINK, and plays poker, and goes to
the theater with strange ladies and
dodges his creditors. Does that very
young man write all those funny
things? Yes, dear. 1t is because he
is SO very young that he writes them.
Will he know more as he grows older?
Perhaps; if he should live to be
couple of thousand years older he
might know a little more. Is the
young man fresh? Is he ? Ifhe should
wade through the ocean, dear, the blue
waters OF the loud sounding sea could
forever after be used for drinking pur-
DOSES
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-04-22
A CHANCE FOR POLAND.

Russians Searching Polish Houses for
Arms-Fears that Poland Will Rise.
News reaches Vienna from Russian
Poland to the effect that the Russian
police are searching all the chateaus
and castles in Pololida and Ukraine
for arms, seizing all they find unless
the possessors hold a special licenseto
own them This is attributed to a
fear OF a Polish uprising in the event
of war between England and Russia.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-04-22
THE SUNS DISCOVERY.
A Leading New York Paper Says Gran
Disease is Not Cancer,

A Leading New York Paper Says Grants
Disease is Not Cancer.
Dispatches from New York of the
10Th report the condition OF Gen.
Grant much improved. On that day
he was much stronger than usual, and
went down stairs to lunch. The lead
ing editorial of the Sun, of the 18th,
reads as follows: "The improvement
in Gen. Grant s condition steadily con-
tinues. 1t is now ascertained that his
disease is not cancer, and there is no
reason in his physical organization
why he should not recover his health
entirely"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-04-22
ROYALTY AND RIOT.
The Prince of Wales in Dublin-RiOts AT
MR1lOR and Cork.

The Prince of Wales in Dublin-RiOts at
Mallow and Cork.
The departure Of the Prince and
Princess of Wales from Dublin for the
South OF Ireland, on the 18th, gave
rise to demonstrations which resulted
in almost riot. At Mallow the police
and military were called upon to re-
move large party OF Irish National
lists from the station while the royal
party passed. A number of the mob
were seriously wounded. At Cork a
public meeting of Nationalists was
held at which inflammatory speeches
were made amid great confusion. The
meeting was followed by another riot,
in which the houses Of several alloyalists
were wrecked,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-04-22
DECLINES TO FIGHT.

A French Canadian Reximenf Refuses to
Proceed Against RieI.
Great surprise has been caused at
Montreal by the receipt OF news that
the Sixty-ffth MontreaD regiment of
volunteers now at Calgary refuses to
proceed against Riel. makingthe excuse
that they need equipments. Col.
Ouimet OF the regiment has returned
to Winnipeg. This is the only French
Canadian regimeut of Montreal, and
it's refusal to proceed is generally sup
posed to be due to unwillingness to be
led against the French half-breeds
under Riel
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-04-22
RUSSIA MAKES DEMANDS.
An Explanation Asked From England of

An Explanation Asked From England OF
Sundry Incidents.
Mr.. Gladstone's apparent hesitation
over the Kushk River affair has
emboldened Russia, and she is
now taking her turn in demanding
explanations and withdrawals. The
report is confirmed that NJ. De
Giers has demanded an explanation
OF the presence of Capt. Yates, of Gen.
Lumsden's staff at the Kushk River
battle, and of the part he is said to
have taken in provoking that engage
ment. Special dispatches from St.
Petersburg even assert that Russia has
demanded the recall of Gen. Lumsden
himself, on the ground of his pro-
nounced sympathy with the Afghans
in their hostility toward Russia, but
this statement is doubtful.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-04-22
A SAD CASE.
A Family Starved to Death, and tn
Bodies Frozen.

A Family Starved to Death, and Their
Bodies Frozen.
About FIVE miles below Point
Pleasant, W. Va, on the side of hill,
there lived an old woman called
Granny Galloway, with two grand
children, girls about 8 or 10 years old.
For several days no smoke had been
seen coming from the chimney. The
neighbors finally forced the door on
the 10th, and found the old woman
and the two children dead in bed and
partially gnawed by rats. The bodies
were much emaciated, and the three
had evidently starved and frozen to
death during the last cold spell.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-04-22
Fred. Douglass at Lincoln's Ball.

[Ben: Perley Poore in Boston Budeet.1
Fred. Douglass was at first denied
admission to the ball given on the
night OF Mr.. Lincoln's second inaugu-
ration, but some one told the oHicious
usher whom he had treated SO cava-
lierly; and the young man hastened to
admit him. Almost the first head he
saw looming up among the crowd was
Mr.. Lincoln's, and the latter, seeing
him also, called out, in his CHEEKY, fa-
miliar voice: "Come this way, Fred.
Douglass, come here, l want to zee
you" Then, grasping his hand, he
said: II want to ask you what you
thought OF my speech this afternoon;
/ saw you standing there in the mud
while / was talking" Mr.. Douglass
answered.; "President Lincoln, it was
an inspired hour Mr.. Douglass
then went on to rehearse some Of the
wonderful utterances of that ina,,gu-
ration speech that had burned them
selves on his brain. Continuing, he
said: 'Mr Lincoln then introduced
myself and Mrs. to Vice President
johnson at his side. Mr.. Johnson
scowled, then presently smoothed his
face into civility: but said to Mrs.
., as We walked away: THAT man
is no friend to such as you and T."
OLYMPIA, Washington Territory, will