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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-12-01
100 Doses.

Oss DMay HOOD psa1saparfh sfonly
medicine of which this can be truly said;
and, II Is IN unanswerab1e arglnneDt = 70
the strength and positive economy Of this
great medicine. Hoods sarsaparilla is made
Of roots, herbs. batks, ETC., long and favorably
known for their power in purifying the blood:
and in combination, proportion, and process.
Hoods sarsaparilla is peculiar to ttseH.
"For econonsy and comfort we use Hoods
Sarssparilla."- Mrs. C. ..BREWgTER. Buffalo.
e .Hood's HarsapariIla takes Tess time and
opanssty. to show its. effect than any other
preparation feyerhearH OF. would hot bo
without It in the house." MRS. C.. A. n.
HUBBARD, North Chill, n. Y. 100 Doses
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-12-01
'Firo at Duluth.

The two principle elevators OF Duluth
aud Zine buildings occupied asI stores and
dwellings burned Saturday night, Nov; %,
with total estimated iosS OF sOmetht n2
more than Ss5J. 900, with an insurance Of
s613,O0O. The fire originated in elevator
O., in the cupola from friction, and from
tnat communicated to elevator A., and the
other buildings. The total loss OF grain,
wheat, corn, oars, and fax seed was $780,,
600 bushels, valued at $5s5, 900, and owned
by Duluth, Chicago, NfiwAukee and other
parties, Etevatd1 @ was Owned. BY the
st. Patti anh DULUTH r. B., and Elevator
Al, BY the Union Improve mens and Elevars
tor company. Several men were in eleva-
tor O., when the fire broke out and two
were suf1ocated from smoke and . third
jumped the distance of eighty feet to tho
ground and was crushed to jelly. The
capacity Of the elevators burned WAS 49,
100000 bushels. %sa
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-12-01
The Oldest Engineer.

VIM. Warren Goodell, the Oldest
locomotive engineer in America, died at
at his home In Bedaiia. Mo-, Saturday.
He was SO years old. He first began
running an eDgi"e in 1884, and. followed
the business continually for fifty years.
since then he has resided with his children,
who number eleven.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-12-01
Sitting Bull Troubleso me.

The Indian commission sent to Montana
to place the Crows upon allotments, re-
port at Washington poor success, only
having made 131 allotments though the
Indians on the reservation number $500.
The Commission attribute quite measure
of the poor success of the project to
the hostility of Sitting Bull who visited
induce them not accept the programme Of
the government. y,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-12-01
The Tariff,

The associated press reports that Presi-
dent Cleveland recently outlined his tariff
views to friend. He said he was neither
free-trader nor high protectionist, but
TODD on middle ground. believing a
system OF duties based on the idea Of rev
thought neither Morrison nor and all was
right, as there is too much politics and
not enough industry underlying the pur-
pose of their scheme, and. said that 1t was
the purpose Of the administration to pro
pose measure to the Fiftieth Congress
taking advance Democratic ground.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-12-01

SINCE 1861 ten Presidents or ex-Pres:
idents have died: Van Buren, and
Tyler in 1862, Lincoln rin 1865,
Buchanan in 1868, Pierce in 1869,
Fillmore in 1874, johnson in 1875,
Garfield in 1881, Grant in 1885 and
Arthur in 1886.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-12-01
Erastus Brooks.

Erastus Brooks, the veteran editor of the
New York Express, died in that city, Nov.
25, aged Is years. He was native Of Maine
and after having acquired the priu' er's
trade, taught school Observation-Disclosures
try papers; In 1885 became the Washington
correspondent of the New York Daily Ad-
the same time with his brother James be
established the Express, though for six
teen years he reported the sessions of con-
gress. By his direction there were no pail
bearers and no flowers at his funeral.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-12-01

MISS WINNIE DAv1s's disappearance
in public was at the laying of the corner
stone of the Confederate Monument at
Montgomery, Ala. She had previous to
that time lived in privacy at Beauvoir.
On the trip from Montgomery to Atlanta,
after the laying of the cornerstone,
Gen. Gordon presented Miss Davis to a
crowd at Newman, Ga, as The
Daughter of the Confederacy,'' title
by which she is generally known in the
South.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-12-01
National Affairs.

The President and members" of the
Cabinet passed Thanksgiving very quietly,
no dinners being given. The report of the
comptroller of the currency is of the
utmost value, being full of facts and fig
ures. It Is understood that in a private
paper the comptroller favors the present
national bank system. The postal service
report is a fattering one for the past year..
The government will commence suit
against the alleged owDers of the Potomac
flats, and make them prove their claim.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-12-01

JOSEPH K. ROBERTS, whom the Pres
ident has appointed Collector of Inter
nal Revenue for Maryland, is a
prosperous lawyer and owns one of the
finest estates in Prince Georges Coun-
ty. He married daughter of Gen.
Thomas F. Bowie.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-12-01

TH1 Empress of Germany has pre-
sented each officer of the Fourth Gren-
adler Regiment of the Guards with a
splendid sword in remembrance of the
18th of October, when she celebrated
her twenty-fifth anniversary as chief of
the regiment. Prince Alexander Of
Hesee, who also celebrated his twenty
fifth anniversary as chief of the Six
teenth Foot, presented 5000 marks to
the regiment.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-12-01

ST1LsoN HUTCH1Ns, editor of the
Washington Post, has secured two
hundred Washington gentlemen to join
him in the formation of club, model
ed after the Iroquois Of Chicago and
the Manhattan of New York. The
Washington club will be styled The
,Jefferson.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-12-01
Hsrs and There.

E. D. Coleman, Of Topeka, Kan, has
sued the Adams Express company for S5O,.
OoO because their detective searched his
room, euspecting that he uas .Jin
Cummings,'' = the express robber. Thirteen
persons at Springfield, Mass, wore
poisoned by Drinking tss in which some
rcoundrei had placed dose OF Rough on
Raes." The Pittsburg Railway and Iron
coanpany hav0 purchased "a. .00O acres Of
land 81 Southwestern Alabama, and viii
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-12-01
Cable Tina.

Natives Of Ambadu massacred the cap
tain and seven Of the crew Of the French
man.of war Penguin. Cholera aaappear-
dent Of the Peri. viAn cabipet has rssigned.
Count Napoleon Ney has been elected q
corresponding member of the American
Geographical society. Elaborate fetes
will be held in Paris during the holidays
for the benefit Of dood suffers in the south
of France. The entire press Of Germany
express delight over the report of the
governments refusal to assume protection
of the Russians in Bulgaria on the occas-
ion of Gen. Kaulbar's departure.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-12-01
Hunters Luck.

Guy ColburD, of Westerly, Mich, while
out hunting Sunday, di charged his gun at
a squirrel The breech pin blew out, strik.
ing him squarely between the eyes. He
was found insensible some time after, and
the iron which was imDedded two inches In
Guys head, penetrating the brain, was
Withdrawn. He Is still living, and seems
in fair way Of recovery.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-12-01
Showed Down.

The forests on the Blue Mountains of
Pennsylvania are again on fire, and great
damage is being done. The Apaches sent
to Florida can't stand the climate, and are
fast dying off. D. 8. FotheriDg CHAM. the
Adams express messenger whose car was
robbed three weeks ago, has been arraigned
IN st. Louis on th charge of grand larcency.
He plead not guilty and went back to jail
'1ake" S9arp and his counsel appeared in
formation as tc Sharp's Indictment. The
strike in Chicago is Slowly adjusting itself.
but some of the strikers refuse to sign the
contract required by the packers.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-12-01

THERE are about forty ladies en-
gagged in the study of art at Cowles Art
School, Boston. OF this number the
majority are taking every branch of in
struction. Upward of 100 students
will shortly be seriously at work in the
various classes.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-12-01

The maximum salary Of the Super
iatendents of female clerks in the
clearinghouse branch, the postal order
branch, and the savings bank Branch
Of tho post-ofice, England, has been
raised from f3OO to G40O a year. III: :~ss
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-12-01
The LtftIaATYcoon.

The Temple Theatre Comic Opera COM
pany, are at the Grand Opera House, st.
Paul, for t 20 entire week commencing Nov
20. The Little Tycoon was rodu ed ::by
this powerful company at Tempe theatre,
Philadelphia, january 4, 1885, dosing the
season after an unprecedented run of one
hundred and seventy eight consecutive
performances, and at the Fifth Avenue
Theatre, New York season, closing after
one.hundred and FIVE consecutive per-
formances. ssThe Little Tycoon is an
merican-Japanese comic opera, by
Willard Spencer. Esq. Act I.--Deck Of
steamship Electric" Act II. House
and grounds of General KnickerbOcker.
Sale Of seats now open at regular prices.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-12-01
Big Thunder Drowned.

1t Is reported from Bismarck, that Big
Thunder, the Crow 4 hief and six other
Indians were drowned while crossing the
Missouri river ten miles above that city
White Eagle, son of the chief was one of
the number. The party had set out on the
T.r e; t3%a 6nna o. SspnT
recently. + 9~szl~Y ##@t
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-12-01

JOHN L. SULLIVAN, made $4,000 by
his fstic encounter with Ryan. The
only thing that ever strikes Sullivan
with inpunity is prosperity J
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-12-01

Il OAKEY HALL contributed an article
to recent number of the Pail Mall
Gazette on London tramways, in which
he gave picture Of the alleged clumsy
tram-car first introduced in the great
metropolis quarter of century ago.
In this he did injustice to George Fran
cis Train, the man who introduced
street railways in Europe. The first
street car run on , London tramway
was built in 1859 for Mr.. Train by
Stevenson in New York city.
It cost 81 500 and was constructed and
equipped in the style Of those now seen
on Broadway. The big double-decked
cars in London are limitations Of omni-
buses and ars pursl British inven.
1lsa.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-12-01
GlAdstOne's Feeling

NE. r.Gladstone, reply ing tosa vote Of con- !.
fidenceof = ameeting at Bradford, says:
Even the disasters of . party rebouud in
its honor when they arise from sacrifices
due to public principle aud % console ntiou6
even when ERRONEOUS conviction. Such are
the causes from which we suffer. But
patience, quiet, frmness and moderation in
demands and conduct on the part Of Ire
land, the gradual extension Of historical
information and the progress of reflection
on the subject will in no long time bring
about the triumph of the right. >sts :.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-12-01

MATHEW S. QUAY, who stands as
good chance as any: other man to be
the next United States Senator from
Pennsylvania, has a thick-set figure,
= large, well-shaped head, and pair of
fishy eyes. He is no orator, but awk-
ward and nervous when he rises to
speak. He has, however, a strong and
clever pen, and has been successful
editorial writer. Should he be chosen,
it would be almost the equivalent of Sc
lecting Senator Cameron's double, so
intimate are their political relations.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-12-01
One Dollar

Hoods sarsaparflla cures scrofula, salt
rheum, all 1,umors, boils, pimples. general do
biIity, dyspepsia, biliousness, sick headache.
catarrh, rheumatism, kidney and liver COM
plants, and all affections caused by impure
blood or low condition OF the system. Try It.
II was severely afflicted with scrofula, and
for over year had two running sores on my
neck. / took five bottles OF Hoods SaTsspa.
rilla, and consider myself entirely cured"
c. z. LovEJoY, Lowell Mass.
"Hood's sarsapariIla did me an immense
amount Of good. My whole system has been
built up and strengthened, my digestion I'M
proved, and my head relieved Of the bad feel.
ing. I consider It the best medicine havo
ever used, and should not know how 70 do
without It." MARY L. PEKLE, Salem. Mass.
Hoods SaTsaparilla
sod By an druggists 81; sfx forss. Mads
only by G. L HOOD E co, Lowell. Mass
100 Doses Ono Dollar.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-12-01
Destructive Flraa.


At Cincinnati, Ohio, at 2 am, on the
2Oth, fire broke out in the 4th story Of the
wholesale clothing house of Mat
Stouler & Co., and that and the
adjoining building, also Wholesale clothing
were destroy ed. Both were six story
buildings. Loss 1000; two.thirds in
sured. At sBeilevue,, 10 cottaxes, four
stores and a lumber yard were burned.
The fire originated in the hotel and was in.
cendiary. Loss $5O,OOO. The medical hall
OF the University Of Virginia at Midland
Junction, has been destroyed by fire. The
Capital woolen mills. at Sacramento, Cal.
burned on the 9oth; loss SIS. 900 At Al
iegheny City, Pa, fire broke out in an ice
house caused by some boys building a fire
to roast potatoes, dwellings were de-
stroyed and as many families rendered
homeless. Several barns and ice houses
were burned. In fighting the fire one fire.
man was killed and four seriously injured
The inmates of the dwellings lost ali their
cords and barely escaped, with their lives
At Willsville, Ohio, Maggie, the eleven
year-old daughter of Angus Mckenzie, a
farmer, was burned to death. The little
ones clothing took fire from q CRATE dur
ing the temporary absence Of the mother,
and before assistance could arrive the
child was badly burned that she died in an
hour.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-12-01

The Prussian Minister of Education
has decided against the admission Of
women to the universities as students
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-12-01
Postal Matters.

:. i. .s. Postal Matters..;, s.:. -essg
Third Assistant Postmaster General
Hazen in his annual report makessa cheer
full showing 1fpr the current, yeaf., For the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1885, he q tt
mates the deficiency of revenue to be sup
piled out of the general treasury, at
H.7S9553, which is only 1924 Ola more than
yPsr ended June SO, 1854 and 81, US 6l2
Less than for the year ending June 80, 1885,.
The estim ated amounts chargeable to the
general treasury for the current. and the
next hscsl year will probably be greatly
reduced, both by decrease Of the estima-
ted expenditures From the tendencies.
shown tits evident with prosperous con-
dition tn the business of the country to
favorably influence the revenue, and with
. continued exercise of care in regulating
the expenditures, the postal service viii
again at no distant day become selfsup-
porting. =s,E. 4.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-12-01
Briefly Told.


Marvin Smith. Of Moutville, Conn, has
just celebrated his 10ad birthday. He is
an 18 2 pensi0ner. Mr.. George g.. Scott
1s M SAID to have paid Mr.. 3. E. Jaffrey $6O.-
North & Co., of Toronto, boots and shoes,
have assigned. Liabilities, $l2O. 600:
nominal assets, $4,000. Colored field,
hands in Louisiana, who are Knights OF
Labor, are striking for higher wages The
statue Liberty is now lighted nightly.
William Lavelle, of Lockport, N, T., is &C.
cused of numbering his mother, who was
80 years old. Smalls is con estine the
election Of Elliott to congress in the
Seventh South Carolina district. The
Boston police intend to enforce the Sunday
Four girls, each about IS years Of age,
we're arrested in New York opium den.
One hundred girls at the shoe factory of
Wolfe Co., Cincinnati are on q strike.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-12-01
Casualties.

At Syracuse, n. T., Jerry Callahan driv-
ing with his wife, son and Mrs. Foley was
struck by railroad train and Mrs.. Gala
han and son instantly killed and the other
two fatally injured. Ten miles from Edna,
Mo-. father and three sons were husktnp
corn on their farm on the 24th, when all
were struck ~ lightning, two Of the bows
being killed, the third fatally injured avd
the father slightly stunned. G. B. Paul of
Onslow, Iowa, was killed at haywood is
miles from Chicago; he had charge Of 4
train Of hogs, and while asleep IN fbo ca
I, ioose IL was run into by another freight
train, causing his death and the destruction
OF car OF hogs. At Iron Mountain, Mo.
Peter Kahn and Sanuel O,Neill quarreled
at dancing party, and Hahn's friends car
ried bim home with q bullet In bis heart.
At Wichita, Kans., Jeffer, on Bromley and
his wife, keepers of an eating house and
chronic quarrellsrs had q dispute and
Bromley shot the woman and killed him
self. Gasoline explosion caused the house
occupied ]. FL. Fihlay at James .ille. Wis.
to burn and Mrs. Finley was seriously in.
jured by her garments taking file. Chas
ScheiR, a German, and possessed of some
property with happy domestic surround
lngs committed suicide at Minneapolis bv
taking laudanum Nov. "a. He was is wears
old and owned the West and Niccolet hotel
barber shops and 315, 600 homestead.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-12-01
Wire Cuilings'

Gov. Currier of New Hampshire
hos appointed Ex-Gov. Clancy Unit
ed States Senator to fill tho va
cancy caused BY the death of Austin F.
Pike. Sixty applicants, it is said desire
the Turkish Mission vacated by Sunset
Cox. Ahram 8. Hewitt took the oath Of
office as mayor Of New York city, Nov. "a
At Holyoke, Mass, Peter Carry, aged nine
years, was so brutally whipped by his
father on Sunday that he died on Moadav.
The lad drank some whiskey and went
home drunk and for this he was whipped
by his unnatural parent uutil the neigh
bors aused him to stop. The burial of
N: Hoxte, the general manager of the
Gould Southwestern railway system took
place at Des Moines, Iowa, Nov. Is. Mr.
aoxie, who has been great sufferer from
Kidney malady for many months, died at
New York City. The jury In the case of
NJ Quade, one of tho New York aldermen
accused of bribery stood nine for &C.
quital and three for conviction and were
discharged; re-trial takes place at once.
President Cleveland declines to refnstate
"m. A. Stone the Pennsylvania U. 8. dis
tr1ct attorney suspended for offensive
parLisanship. Several members of the
Buffalo, N. Y, Merchants Exchange have
been indicted for = conspiracy to steal
wheat from the elevators. One of the
accused confesses that 10000 bushels had
been stolen and sold for che profit of the
gang.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-12-01
NOTES OF THE TIMES.

WonBn are employed on the stats
Of over 200 newspapers in the United
States. @@.@7< r
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-12-01
BUSINESS CARDS.
w II. II. BULLOCK.

BARBER AID HAIR DREHSER,
At his new tonsorial parlors. Shower and hot
baths. have two nrst class bath room, Baee-
nent Dunkleman's block, Main street, Austin,
hinn.
Huntsville gazette., 1886-08-07
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

MUCH damage was done in New Jersey
6y the storm on the 31st A man named
Dorpher, living near Dunhams Corners,
was struck by lightning and instantly
killed.
The carriage works of Orville H. Short,
the most extensive manufactory in SYRIA
cuse, N. Y, were burned on the 3lst.
About 1000 wagons and much machinery
were destroyed. Loss, $4,000.
IT is estimated at the Treasury Depart
ment that the public debt statement will
show q decrease for July of $S,Go0,O0 All
JOE SHoBEY, colored, of st. Louis, was
called to his door at an early hour on the
morning of the 31st and shot by some un-
known person for some unknown cause.
QUITE a sensation was created 10 Little
Rock on the 31st by Mr.. Pollock clubbing
John French. Mr.. Pollock's little daugh-
ter had been insulted by French.
In torchlight procession at Birming-
ham, Ala, on the night Of the 3lst, float
loaded with fireworks caught fire and ex-
ploded, injurlng five young men.
THE President on the 31st nominated
Alexander B. Upshaw, of Nashville, Tenn,
chief clerk of the Indian Bureau, to be
Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
If Senator Whittorne's bill, which pro-
poses to refund the cotton tax collected III
the South from 1865 to 1868. passes, it will
give Tennessee $7,S73, AGO, and Arkansas
S2,555,63S.
The City Council of New York on the
31st passed resolution requiring Chinese
laundrvmen to give receipts to customers
written in English.
A LARGE number of persons are arriving
in Waco, Texas, daily, from the drouthS
stricken counties in the western portion
of the State. Many of them are almost
destitute and completely discouraged.
TIE notorious counterfeiter, David
Stanley, was arrested on the 1st in Scott
county. Tenn. while circulating dangerous
counterfeit quarters and ten cent pieces.
THE Norwegian bark, Agnes Campbell
which arrived at Ship Island quarantine
station on the 30th from Aspinwal, mas
lost six men from yellow fever.
EAMoNG the clerks dismissed from the
patent Office on the 51st was Miss Alice T.
Meikleham, the granddaughter OF fresl
dent Thomas Jefferson. tt
Four convicts were sunstruck Will
pulling fodder in Madison parish, La, On
the Sd, two dying in the field.
Two farmers named Walker and Nc
Williams had shooting affray about
debt, near Wheeling, Ala, on the Sd, 10
which the former was shot and fatally
wounded
The epidemic of typhoid fever at Pitts
burg continues. Twenty-four new case'
were reported op the 3D.