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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-03-18
To SuDDlant the Potato.

While the Irish are endeavoring, as
it would appear, to destroy everything
English, the latter, or at any rate
some Of them have undertaken q labor
which should end in the agricultural
betterment of the sister isle. This is
nothing less than determined effort to
replace the old family of potatoes-the
Solanum Tuberosum introduced by
Sir Walter Raleigh-by g. new race of
tubers belonging to the same species,
but newer and more powerful to resist
the various rots and diseases which
seem to prey upon the worn-out old
Solanum which has been the parent of
all the varieties exhibited at agricu]tur-
al shows. 1t appears that all efforts
to generate, to restore it's old quail
ties, have failed, and, with few excep-
tions, they are growing year by year
more watery and less farinaceous or
nourishing. In this emergency an En-
glish farmer has been making series
of curious experiments with g. new
tuber called the Solanum Maglia, which
seems to refuse to be a prey to any OF
the unpleasant diseases of the present
species. This new Solaum is one of
the many discoveries of the elder Oar
win, the we'll known botanist, father
of the teacher of the doctor of evolu-
ton. He found it in some islands in
the Pacific on the coast of Chill. It
will grow even in marshy, wet ground,
and thrives without trouble. As yet
the growth is not quite satisfactory,
the plants not. producing sufficient
tubers to be profitable, but the plant
may become the potato of the future,
more especially as those which have
been cooked have been found to con
tain all the best qualities OF the old
:'Murphy." %sss-..~
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-03-18
ON A SINGLE TRACK.

Two Trains Attempt to Pass Each Other,
With the Usual Result.
A horrible accident occurred on the
night of the 9Th, on the Illinois Gen.
trail Railroad, eight miles south of Gra-
NADIA, Miss. Mail train No. 8, south
bound, running twenty miles an hour,
and express No. 10, running thirty
miles, collided. Both engines were to-
tally wrecked, two baggage and one
mail car knocked into tooth-picks and
smoker badly damaged. Both firemen
were killed, their bodies being found in
the debris of the engines. The engineer
on the north-bound train was injured.
News Agent Blake was seriously injured
and will probably die. A party steal
ing a ride on the tender of the south
bound train was instantly killed Eight
or ten passengers in the smoker of the
north-bound train were injured. The
accident was caused by gross negli-
gence. It is stated that the north
bound train had no light, except a
small lantern. It is stated further that
the conductor of the south-bound
train was asleep when the train pass
ed Elliott Station, where he should
have side-tracked it.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-03-18

A fire at Bismarck, D. r., on The
7th, destroyed the post Office, the store
of J. Hanour and the Office Of the
Tribune. Loss $24, 900.
Two men confined in the Philadel-
phia prison where DR.. Goerson was
executed, on the 5th, died from fright
during the ceremony, although neither
witnessed it.
T. S. Arthur, the well-known author
and publisher, died in Philadelphia on
the 9Th, aged 76 years.
A large number OF employees of the
Missouri Pacific Railway at Denison,
Texas, struck on the 9th inst.
Mrs. Eliza Blaine Walker, only sis
ter of James G. Blaine, died at Balti-
more on the Sd. !.
-Four men escaped from the Michigan
House of Correction at Ionia, Mich,
during the night of the 5th. One was
recaptured the following day.
The schools in Montreal have been
nearly strip ipped ofpupils by an epidemic
Of measles. Rev. Mr.. Mills is said to be
dangerously ill from the disease.
At l67 Augusta Street, Chicago, on
the 7th, Henry Lenze killed his wife and
himself with a revolver, after quarrel
ing for several years. They leave a
young daughter. - =, :
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-03-18
Bulwarks Against Bullets.

From the San Francisco Call.
The Yaqui Indians long since used
tactics in war that were unknown to
civilized troops. In former uprising
they were attacked by Gen. Pesquerias,
who was much amused to see the
savages use blankets as shield against
the soldiers bullets. Holding up a
blanket at both ends, so that the edge
just touched the ground, the Indian
rifemen marched boldly towards him
behind this apparently fimsy protec-
ton. The Mexican general was soon
alarmed, however, to find that his
bullets did not stop the strange ad-
vance and the moving fort of blankets
soon came so close to him and poured
in such a deadly fire that he was fain
to fly the field in confusion and with
great loss. The Yaquis had become
acquainted with the simple fact that
while bullet will pass through twenty
blankets strained over frame or laid
against firm surface it will not pene-
trate single one if moistened and
hung UP so as to swing clear of the
ground. The bullets which Gen. Pes
querias imagined we're passing through
the Indian blankets and thinning the
ranks OF the savages were all falling
harmlessly On the outside of the woolen
bulwarks.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-03-18
OVER THE ROAD.
Two Chicago Election Conspirators Sen
to Joliet.

Two chicago Election C0nspirators Sent
Joseph c. Mackin and William J.
Gallagher, convicted of conspiracy in
the Eighteenth Ward election cases at
Chicago, were sentenced. by Judge
Blodgett, on the 10Th, to two years in
the Joliet penitentiary and a fine OF
$4,000 each, the court having pre-
viousiy overruled motion fora new
trial, as we'll as a motion in arrest OF
judgment. Pending Incorporation for
a bill of exceptions, which will be pre-
sented to Judge Gresham, of the Fed.
eral circuit court, the prisoners will
occupy quarters at the county Jail,
and at the end of ten days, in the
event that Judge Gresham refuses to
grant a supersedeas and admit the
conspirators to bail, they will be
transported to Joliet and begin their
time at that institution. Immediate
ly after the sentence was pronounced
the prisoners were taken in charge by
Assistant United States Marshal
Hayes and Deputy Marshal Douglas
and escorted to the marshaps private
office in the government building
Both men took their sentence without
apparent surprise or visible change.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-03-18
CHILLED TO DEATH.
Great Loss of Cattle During the Winter in
Indian Territory.

Great Loss of Cattle During the Winter in
Indian Territory.
Intelligence from Indian Territory
elative to cattle mortality saws that
in the great pastures of Crane, Lari-
mer & Foster, in Usage County, cattle
are lying dead by the hundreds. This
ranch comprises 100000 acres. which
is leased from the Usage Indians, and
is enclosed by wire fences. Last Sep
tember 5000 head were placed on the
range. The stock entered the winter
in fair condition, but the cold was too
severe and protracted. Hay was fed
regularly, and the hills and timbers
afforded partial shelter. In many
places the ground is stamped entirely
bare. The estimated loss is extreme
ly heavy, and is said to exceed 60 per
cent.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-03-18
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
~
Minnesota,


ToBoGGAN1SG is very popular at
Northfeld.
THE Delano firemen talk of a jollifi-
cation in May.
THE Waterville -four mill is to be
shut down for repairs.
The New Era, Hastings, has put in
q steam power press.
The Winona Advent church is being
fitted up for grocery.
A STEAMBOAT will be placed on Lake
Elysiam this summer.
AcoLoNY has been organized in Good
hue County to settle in Dakota.
s*s~ THE Red Wing Creamery Company
are erecting a new buildingtwo stories
high.
i FARMERS about Marshall are begin
ming to get their grounds ready for
spring seeding.
E. b. BENSON succeeds III. B. Gates
as cashier at the Meeker County bank
at Litchfeld.
r. Iowa parties are about starting a
creamery at Bloomington Prairie,
Mower County.
The Porter Milling Company, Vino
ma, has resumed operations after put
ting in a new engine.
JOHN BUCKLEY, a Wisconsin Central
section hand, was killed at Somerset,
by being run over.
The Brainerd band has re-engaged
Prof. Dresskell as leader and instruct
or for 1885, paying him $500.
POSTMASTER DOUGLAS, of Moorhead,
who is 81 500 short in his accounts,
is a brother-in-law OF Senator Win
dom.
N. J. ScHAFER and Adolph Kno-
block, Jr., of Owatonna, have gone to
Millbank, Dak., to engage in the hard
ware business.
HENRY BAUMGARTEN's boarding
house and saloon, Wabasha, was en-
tirely destroyed by fire. Loss, So, 900,
fully insured.
WORK on the Robert Street bridge
at Crookston has been started. The
bridge will be twenty feet wide and
have 2OO-foot span.
Forty buildings will be put up early
this spring in the new village of Madi-
son Lake, and steamer will be put
on the lake for summer tourists.
JACOB DIETRICH, of Elizabeth, Otter
Tail County, employed in the Northern
Pacific yards at Brainerd, had a leg
cut off by fallingunder moving train.
A LAND company in Chicago has
purchased $500 acres of land in the
town of Winfield near Bird Island,
and intends locating a German colony
there.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-03-18
REBELLION IN ALBANIA.

Turkey Has Another InsurrectiOn on
Hand-Resulars Defeated.
An insurrection has broken out in
Albania. All the available Turkish
troops have hurried to the scene. A
force OF Turkish regulars was defeated
by the insurgents near Lyoumet. At
Prisrend the garrison was driven into
the citadel by the insurgents and are
now besieged. The Austrian consul at
Prisrend and the orthodox priests
have also taken refuge in the citadel.
The insurgents have cut the telegraph
lines communicating with the districts
in rebellion.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-03-18
TERRIFIC EXPLOSION.
Six Thousand Pounds of Nitro lycerino
Blown Up-Two Mon Killed.

The citizens of Bradford, Pa, were
startled on the 10th by q terrific ex-
plosion which shook the houses in all
parts of the town. Inquiry revealed
the fact that the nitro -glycerine manu-
factory of the Rock Glycerine Com
pany, located at Howard Junction,
three miles away, had been the scene
of a terrible casualty. A magazine
containing 5000 pounds of glycerine
had exploded and w. H. Herrington,
one of the proprietors, and II. v.
Pratt, an employe, were killed. The
factory, twenty-five feet away, was
blown into fragments. Pratt's body
was found 200 feet away. All his
bones were broken, but the skin was
intact. Harrington weighed 100
pounds. One or two pieces of flesh
was the only trace that could be found
Of him. Trees were torn up by the
roots and great holes made in the
earth. The loss was $1,000.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-03-18
THE FUNDS.

They are Excited at London by Reports
of Movements of Russian Troops.
A London telegram of the l tn says.
Financial circles are excited over
official reports to the effect that Rus
sian troops have advanced further
into Afghan territory. The Russian
Government admits that such move
ments have taken place, but asserts
that it was only intended for the
purpose Of seeking a more suitable
position in case Of war with Afghanis-
tan. It is generally believed that both
Afghans and Russians are hurrying
forward and that collision is i'm
minent.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-03-18
Smoking Among the Puritans.

From the New YORK POST
The early settlers of the Plymouth
colony were greatly addicted to smok-
ing, which practice subsequently be-
came so common that the weed was
smoked in church during service. This
custom, it seems, soon caused consid-
erable annoyance. as the exercises
were greatly dist :1rbed '9by the click
ing of fints and steel to light their
pipes, and clouds of smoke in the
church." Hence, in 1879, the colony
passed this law: "It is enacted that
any person Or persons that shall be
found smoking of tobacco on the
Lords day, going to or coming from
the meetings, within two miles of the
meeting-house.s shall pay IL pence for
every such default" Under this law
were fined Richard Berry, Jedediah
Lombard, Benjamin Lombard, and
James Maker ':for smoking tobacco
at the end of Yarmouth meeting house
On the Lords day..
Four thousand eight hundred dol
lars has been subscribed by the Yale
students for their navy. .-.s
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-03-18
Dakota.


TWENTY-ElGH: arrests were made in
Fargo duringFt nary.
Troy is to have il new general store
opened by Waterto" II parties.
The jamestown Light Guards have
adopted dark blue uniform.
HURON is to have an opera house
and skating rink, to cost So, 500.
SOUTH DAKOTA farmers are going to
cultivate flax extensively this year.
THE school house at Troy that has
been q mile from town, has been moved
in.
MILLBANK has organized a stock COM
pany with 81 900 to start cream
cry.
LA INQUIRE County had 5000 acres
in crops last year, and will have
$4,000 this year.
The suicide of G. T. Lee, of Lee
Bros, DEVILS Lake, was on account
of unrequited love.
The Foster County Gazette has been
removed to jamestown, and is now
called the Dakota Age.
In the two years ending with 1884
Dakota paid in premiums 1888, 1924
and received for losses by fire $780,
972.
FISH are reported so plentiful in the
Shevenne River, a few miles north of
Valley City, that they are being killed
with clubs.
A MILLIONAIRE Chinaman lives at
Rockford. He owns mines, United
States bonds, horses and carriage and
wash house.
PROF. CowEN, principal of the Valley
City public schools, has been made as
sistant superintendent of public in
struction for the territory.
Nor one solitary storm or blizzard
has visited Valley City this winter,
and snow has not at any time been
over three inches in depth on the level
while there are no drifts to speak of.
CLEMENT SCHMIDT, formerly of VAL
ley City, but now living at Ashtabula,
has been tarred and feathered by
party of citizens, who were tired of
Schmidt's eternal quarreling with his
wife.
On the Dakota division of the North
ern Pacific Road, extending gfrom Man
dan on the Missouri River to Fargo.
on the Red, there has not been a snow
plow needed this winter, and passenger
trains have made their time without
exception.
The Dakota legislature is composed
of twenty-eight farmers, eleven mer-
chants, nineteen attorneys, two bank
ers, two real estate dealers, one civil
engineer, three physicians, two lumber
dealers, three printers and an agricult-
! ural dealer.
MITCHELL, of the Rapid City Repub-
lican, vacates the editorial chair with
the remark that he is "driven to the
alternative of abandoning either jour
| nalism or the practice of the law, and,
| with that human weakness born of
avarice, will follow the phantom which
promises the greatest gain"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-03-18
The Use Of Petroleum.


There was consumed and lost in
one way and another during each day
of the year 1884, an average OF &c, 900
barrels of petroleum. Here is the ba~
sis for some entertaining mathemati-
cal work, the aim in view being to de-
termine how long the oil supply is like
ly to last. If $4,000, 900 barrels are
consumed each year, there must be a
hole of considerable size left in the
earth's interior, and as the oil yield
ing region is not, comparatively
speaking, very extensive, this hole
must ultimately represent more than
a minor fraction of what was once g.
seemingly inexhaustible source of oil
supply. If, twenty years from now,
the oil wells fail, their loss will not be
the loss it once would have been.
Electricity has made oil a convenience,
not necessity, and, long before the
wells run dry, ingenuity will probably
have placed new light at the COM
mand of the poor and the isolated, as
of the rich and the crowd.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-03-18

FREDERICK DOUGLASS says that
Abraham Lincoln was the only public
man with whom he ever conversed for
an hour without being reminded of
his color.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-03-18
TERMS: Two Dollars Per Annum, in Advance.
so LONG.

he was not "carried to the skies
On dowery beds of ease,
While others sought to win the prize
And sailed through bloody seas"
But he essayed one night to coast
Close by the Androsco@n,
And went to join the heav My host
By means OF toboegan.
New York Tribune
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-03-18
Cheap Sugar.

Cheap sugar, the New York Confec-
toner thinks, is not likely to result at
once from the recently promulgated
conclusions of an experienced chemist,
who announced that sugar can now
be made from sorghum at an expense
not exceeding l cent per pound. 1t
says: "For the past twenty years this
wonderful sorghum, or rather its
friends and advocates, have been
promising to revolutionize the sugar
trade, but as yet the promises have
not been fulfilled. The realization of
the doctors dream, If not the learned
gentleman himself, to our unaided WIS.,
ion, appears to be "a long way Off"
The free lunch system, so common
in lager beer saloons, has been sue
cessfully initiated by Bridgeton IN.
j. storekeeper, who treats all his Gus
toners to q cup OF coffee and bis
cult,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-03-18
EtSif. kSS CARDS.
r Obj & CONKLIN,

T Obj & CONkLIN,
BARRIERS AND hair DRES6ERG.
At their new Tonsorial Parlors Shower and Ho,
Baths We have two first class bath. .roo1na
Main Street, Austin, Minn.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-03-18
TEsrIsrRY.

DESrIsrEY
DIR. p. B. PECK
Has opened an office In Mrs Wrights house. first
north Of the Davidson House, on east side OF
street, where he IS prepared to do all kinds Of
work in dentistry, and sollcts share Of public
patronage.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-03-18
0RMANZO ALLEN,
THOS. PHILLIPS, NJ. D.,

TT1HOs. PHILLIPS, M. D.,
HOMEOPA THO PHYSICIAN H. ND SURGEON
Has permanently located in Austin. Calls in
city or country promptly attended to at all hours
Office and rooms In Schleuders block. first door
north Of Mower County Bank. 11-Electric baths
given at the Office.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-01-14

...Baltimore, January The Bal
timore Manufacturers Ree0rtf viii to-
morrow publish a list OF all manuiactur-
ing and mining enterprises organized IN
the Southern States in 1854, giving
name, location and character OF business
OF each. The list shows 1868 new en-
terprises with an aggree ate capital reach
ing the enormous sum of $l04. POS. 500,
divided among fourteen Southern States,
as follows:
Alabama: One hundred and eighty
seven new establishments with a capital
OF SIG 925,00O.
Georgia One hundred and ninety six
with s., 445 900 capital.
Kentucky One hundred and thirty.
seven with $2I 762 600 capital.
Louisiana Fifty-threc with 1854,
600 capital.
Maryland One hundred and five with
s., III, 500 capital.
North Carolina Two hundred aud
twenty six with 81, no, 900 capital.
Tennessee: Two hundred and fifty with
$l0 IT'S, 600 capital.
Virginia One hundred and eighty
eight with sl3 40, 900 capital
West Virginia Seventy-seven with
"a, 392 COO capital.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-01-14

\ NtLp WOMAN NAkING rHK
fCIobS HEK ~HRlII~ lSkAKTHLN
Ysit- WotnelsaQFt. Penn. January
This village : situated near the
foot OF the south mountain ~ Inc Ale
shency~. For tie past several noatts
the citizens have been disturbed hy thr
most urearthly yr3ls from the bills. II
was |eentgally supposed that they eaaa-
mated from some strange animal whAca.
bad taken refuge in the rocks MIR.
G~ressmcr, oi the Bethany orphan =
home, a reform institution ~ the foot
Of the mountain. several times heard
the cream OF toe beast. Fran klln
Waterman. Jacob Mathews and Theo.
Starxee, all old hunters, followed the
rail for several hours, but were finally
obliged 10 give q up, a. they were ed
far up into tie mountain Businesses,
Stones and huge rocks were rolled down
the hill on their paths, and They were
Obliged 10 dodge these missiles every
now aad then.
TSheo. Startzee says he saw a living
thing, half human. half beast Tie TODD
sui, the blood chilling ia his VEINS. and
not daring 10 move. lie had bis gun
StiAf tNt " AtaN|S l. it&A
started on 4 tun. and, 10 use his ONT
words. "Hew dewu tie HILL" and did
not stop until he got home, nos taking
time TO see whether the beast Was iol-
lowing hun or not. A party u! employees
at the kobtsouia uruac shot at the
beast, but missed IL IL Is reliably stated
that the managers Of the furnace offered
500 for the animal alive, aud 800 lor
lis dead body. For some weeks every
person has gwen The mountain a Wide
berth. Several farmers also lost sheep
and chickens.
The entire mystery is at last cleared
up. A party of Womelsdort hunters
secured the entire mountains They
found human footsteps in the snow,
which they traced TO a rude hut a de-
serted charcoal-burntr's cabin. Here
they found a young woman, probably
twenty-five wears al age, who had been
livin1 10 this way tor some time past.
She was thiuly dressed, her surround
ings were uncoatt1, aud she showed a
dlsluclinat!on to be disturbed. She has
a wild and haggard look, and who she
is no one knows. Size will probably be
removed 10 the ~poorhouse. She threw
stones down the mountain and yelled to
scare the people away.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-01-14

....A cold wave is coming down from
the Northwest; the mercury III many
places is reported twelve to forty de-
grees below cro.-Th Filth In
ternal Reveneue District OF North Caro-
lima has been consolidated with the
Fourth and sixth districts, and Collec-
tor Wheeler is relieved from duty -
The Baltimore Gazette Publishing Com
pany made an assignment; liablitle.
SIS, 600 a slight earthquake shock
VAS felt at Gibraltar yesterday.--
Capt. Phelan, the Irish nationalist, who
was severely stabbed in an aifray IN
New York city, is rapidly recovering.
THE wholesale grocery house Of
b. Moog, Mobile, Ala, seized by the
sheriff: liabilities over 100000.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-01-14

....Col. Andrews has rendered Gov.
elect Scales his private car for the use
ofhimselfand friends, and Daisy" Col,
Frank Cox's elegant private car has
been placed at the disposal O fhis family.
Transportation has also been rendered
by Col. Andrews. for the Governors
military escort. The Greensboro band
has rendered its services and will 90 to
the Inauguration as a part of the escort
Greensboro Patriot,
....Raleigh Visitor: Col. Samuel
Rufdn, n among the most prominent
citizens of Franklin county, died at Mo-
bile. Ala, on Thursday night last. aged
about y years. He was well known in
this city, and in fact, throughout the
State. He married Miss Annie Hay-
wood, daughter of the late Hon VIM II
II Haywood. of this city. He remain.
will be carried to Louisburg for inter
msnt.
....A case of what be termed might
kidnapping, occurred in the city on Sum-
day night about the hour of midnight.
at the residence of a Mr.. Gibson, who
is keeping a boarding house on Main
Street. This gentleman states that
about the hour named some one knock
ed at the door of his dwelling and upon
opening the same he was seized by two
men and pulled from the entrance and
held while a third party, whom he
claimed was Durius Morgan, entered
the dwelling and conveyed therefrom a
young lady in her costume en- disdo,He
by the name Of Miss Lilly Riggs. to a
conveyance in waiting and rapidly drove
away. The young lady bears relation
to Morgan as step-daughter, and to Mr..
Gibson, as a niece by marriage. There
was much screaming and ado, the neigh
bors says during the proceedings, and
vociferous calls for police. A number
of rumors are current upon the streets
regarding the affair, Il of which is that
Morgan and the girl eloped with a view
TO Observation-Disclosures Sentinel.