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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-04-25
FREpERlCK's CLEMENcY.

BERLIN. April 21.-An imperial decree.
dated April 10, has been issued, granting
amnesty to all soldiers and sailors SEN
fenced for civil offenses, resistance to
officers of the law or violation Of
public order; soldiers and sailors sentenced
by court-martial to terms Of imprison-
ment not exceeding six weeks or to pay q
fine of $50 marks; those undergoing dis
ciplinary punishment, and non-c commits
stoned officers and privates in the army and
petty naval officers and seamen guilty Of
truancy or Of simple desertson for the first
time It is hoped that pardon will be ex-
tended to deserters returning within III
monthA AZ
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-04-25

for the selection or delegates to the Nation
al Republican convention, and the result
was victory for General Harrison for
President
THOMAS c. HANoE, a native of MARYLAND.
died on the 18th at Maoedon, N Y, aged
one hundred and six years.
Mr. A. s. ABE11., founder and proprietor
of the Baltimore Sun, died on the 10th,
aged eighty two years. He leaves an estate
valued at nearly $40, 600, 600!
h DEwART, prominent Democratic
politician and q member OF the Thirty-ffth
Congress, died on tho 10th at Sunbury,
Pa, aged sixty-eight years
THE Democrats In tho Fifth Indiana dis
triot on tho 10th nominated George ".
Cooper for Congress- ~
publican League in Dayton Judge John A.
Caldwell, Of Cincinnati was elected presi-
dent
v. HICKS, q veteran Of tho war Of 1919
and the Black Hawk war, died at Rood
house, Ill. on tho Goth, aged ono hundred
years He never redo on q railroad train,
and though he could not read or write he
amassed quite fortune.
TIE Observation-Disclosures party Of West Vir-
ginia viii meet at Charleston on the Sd of
May to nominate State ttoket
MISS NARY COLLINS died at Darlington,
Wis, on the Goth, aged one hundred and
ton years.
WILLIAM B. DNsMoRB, president of the
American Express Company, died at New
York on the Goth, aged seventy-eight years.
FUNERAL services were held ut ton O'Clock
on tho morning of the Goth in Trinity
Chapel, New York, over the remains of Ros-
coe Conkling. At twelve o'clock the casket
was placed on special train and taken to
Utica, where the interment would take
place
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-04-25
CuBA'S DlsTRESsFUL PLIGHT.
Bandits Overrunning the Country and
Crime Rampant.

Bandits OverrUnn1ng the Country and
Crime Rampant.
KEY WEST, Fla, April 21.-The greatest
excitement reigns in Cuba, owing to Gen
eral Marln's proclamation declaring the
provinces of Havana, hatanzas, Santa
Clara and Pinar del Rio In state of
siege General Marin says his action is
due to the enormous increase of bandits,
kidnapping, arson, etc. The Liberal press
has been suppressed General Marin wants
1t 10 appear that the leading Cubans are
preparing for war. Such is not the case.
The situation is this: The bandits have full
control of the island, have burned numer-
Gus plantations and are doing great dam
age
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-04-25
Five Men Fatally Hurt.

, ST. LOUIS, April 21.-As/ five section men
were passing the Gerlings White-sand
Company's works in hand-car on the St
Louis, Kansas City l. Colorado road near
Labadie, Mo-, yesterday, blast exploded,
blowing an immense rock upon the hand
car All OF the men were fatally hurt A
later report says three have died
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-04-25

American Minister,
Frankfort, was strick-
en- with apoplexy.
He was taken to the
hospital at Wiesba-
en-, where he now
lies Later informa-
ton states that Mr..
Pendleton was strick-
en- while in a train
near Wiesbaden, to
which place he had
taken a trip from
Frankfort Thursday.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-04-25
A Wiscon sin Man in Big Luck.

OSHKOSH, Wis, April 21-James Lowell,
Of this city, has inherited fortune of
$500, 900 by the death of his father at
Niagara Falla Mr. Lowell has been here
for several years, employed as clerk In sew
eral retail stores He will soon remove with
his wife to Niagara Falls.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-04-25
Epit0me of the Week.
NEWS COMPILATION.
CONGRESSIONAL,

i CONGRESSIONAL.
IN the Senate on the 18th bills were passed
Tor public buildings in Lansing, Mich. (t1OO OOO)
Burlington, In. (s75o Saltwater. MIMI ESQ.,
OOO); appropriating $4,000 for the relief of the
Omaha tribe Of Indians In Nebraska, and thirty
nve private pension bills. In the House bills
were reported for the erection Of public build.
1ngs ut Sioux City. H., and Racine, Wis.,. and
for the location of y branch Soldiers Home in
Grant County, Ind. The debate on the Mills
Tariff bill was commenced, Mr.. Mills CTsx.)
speaking in favor OF the measure and Mr..
Kelley (Pa.) against.
In the Senate on the 18th tho bill for the ad.
mission OF South Dakota as State and the
organization Of the Territory of North Dakota
was further considered. A bill was introduced
by Mr.. Belmont to prohibit the coming OF
Chinese laborers into the United States. A
message vetoing the bill for the relief OF Major
Daniel N. Bash, Paymaster United States
army, was received from the President. Eulo-
gies upon Roscoe Conkling were delivered. -.
partment OF Labor, and to create boards of ar-
oi:ration for the settlement of controversies
and differences between Interstate common
carriers and their employees.
A BILL was placed on the calendar in the
Senate on the 18th authorizing the President to
appoint and retire John G. Fremont as Major
General United States Army. The bill for the
oOAuASSIOu u 0outu OukOt0 Us d STATE was
passed by vote OF e to 49,. %. In the House
further consideration Of the Tariff bill was
postponed until the e4th, and the session was
occupied in discussing the Indian Appropria-
ton bill, but no action was taken.
THE Senate was not in session on the goth.
LIN the House tho Pension Appropriation
bill t&S0, 2SO, 0O0) and the Indian Appropriation
bill as. 49,, 2Ss) were passed. A bill was intro
duced to protect the public from interruption
n w 1yQ Sfri <hor
At the evening session twenty-five pension
bills were passed
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-04-25
paree. with last year, would be from
eighteen to thirty-six million bushels.

pA10t. WIN laSt year, would be from
eighteen to thirty six million bushels.
A LARGE portion Of the town Of Caledonia,
Wis. was flooded on the 10Th by break
In the levee on the west bank Of the Wis
consin. Farms were also submerged, and
the damage would be great
CARNEGIE PH1pps l. Co, proprietors of
the Edgar Thomson steel-works at Brad
dock, Pa, decided on the 10th to resume
operations with non-un1on men. The
works, which employ four Thousand men,
had been closed for four months on account
of wage troublea
SAMUEL CoNxERs, at Rookmarth, Ga dried
q can of wet powder on the stove on the Goth,
and the explosion which followed blew him
to piecea
DURING the seven days ended on the 10th
there were 191 business failures in the
United States against 1863 the previous
seven days The total failures from Jan
uary to date were 3,543, against 8, $40
in the same time last year.
EIGHT men surrounded the Yesquitas
ranch ON the Goth near Brownsville. Tex.
and binding the mon and women robbed
the house Of about So, 600 in money and Of
quantity OF jewelry
FIVE clipping couples wore married at
Jeffersonville, Md, on the 10Th
Lebanon, Tenn. for the murder OF Leuten-
anti. T. Lane
ADv1cEs of the Goth say that eight horse
thieves were caught by an armed posse
thirty miles from Purcell, l. T., after run
ming fight, and strung up
BALL games played on the Goth at the
opening of the National Leegue champion
ship season of 1888 resulted as follows:
Chicago s: INDIANAPOLIS T. Pittahnrrh <.
Detroit, 2 New York, 6; Washington, O.
Boston, 4; Philadelphia, 8
THE house Of Fred Slower at Portland
Ore, was burned on the Goth, and Mrs
Slower and her baby were burned to death.
A BLAST explosion on the Goth near
Labadie, No., fatally injured five men.
THREE men were burned to death and
several others were injured by the burning
of the Bethel House in st Louis on the
goth.
EMMA ALTHoUsE, Of Attica, N Y, who is
subject to frances, awoke on the goth from
q thirty-three days sleep, and Immediately
informed her physician that her grand
father was dead. Singular TO relate, the
old man had expired at Mumford while the
young woman was in her trance.
The Goth was the one hundredth day of
the present session of Congress- The House
had passed 425 bills and the Senate SOL
Altogether 200 bills had passed both houses
and gone to the President for his signature
and II, 568 bills and resolutions had been
1ntrOduced-the largest number on record.
AN entire family named Lathrop, father,
mother and three children, occupants of u
farm house near Wolf river, at Embarrass.
Wis. were swept away by the floods on the
Goth and drowned
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-04-25
PENDLETON STRICKEN.

The United States Minister to Berlin At
tackled by Apop!exy-His Condition Not
Considered Dangerous.
BERLIN, April 21.-Ar. Pendleton, the
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-04-25
SAN DlEGO's BIG DAM COMPLETED.
1t Is the Lnreest In. This Country and Cost
Nearly Million.

Nearly Million.
SAN DIEGO, Cal, April 21.-The compile
ton of the great Sweetwater dam and Ma
tional City water-works was formerly OBJ
served Thursday The dam Is solid ma
sorry built across Sweetwater valley in
order to form a large reservoir for the pur-
pose of storing water for the dry season.
The dam is ninety feet high from the base
Of the gorge, and is claimed to be by
twenty feet the highest dam in the United
States The area OF the reservoir is $50
acres The cost of the dam is $500, 600
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-04-25

while travelling to
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-05
A Religious Revival in Jail.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, March 4-There is a
marked religious revival among the prisoners
confined in Jail here. which owes its existence
to the superstition of the converts brought about
by the wonderful stories which have gone out
concerning the place. The Jail is filled with
criminals of the worst class On the 22d of last
December George Williams, who had murdered
fellow-convict, was executed in the jail-y ard
aud the gaiiows with the rope hanging in the
air was left standing for future use The
prisoners, 100 in number, crowded to their cell
sratiaes TO witness the final plunge of their
friend George. few nights later two or three
inmates who happened to he looking out at the
midnight moon were Mortified to see George
agalp ascend. adjust the rope to his neck and
fall through the trap with realistic effect The
prisoners told their story as soon as they re-
covered from their fright. and the next night
others witnessed repetition of the dreadful
spectacle. Since that time the ghost has been
a nightly visitor, to the terror of the inmates
who have gone to psalm singing and praying.
The jail officials are not very anxious TO disa-
buse the minds of the believers ia the ghost as
il has the effect of making them more traetable
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-05
THE TELEGRAPH BILLS.

The Movement TO Place the Wires Under
Control of the Interstate Commission.
Special to tho Indianapolis Jonrnsi-
WASHINGTON, March 4.-The Senate commit
tee on postofices and post-roads has created
bill from the various measures the subject
which have been referred to it, placing the tsle-
graph companies within the jurisdiction of the
Interstate-commerce Commission and law. 1t
does not anticipate postal telegraphy, or govern
ment ownership or control in any degree 1t
simply declares that the telegraph business is
commerce, and that since the telegraph lines
which run from State to State transact an
interstate-commerce business, it should be sub
jected 20 the same control by the federal govern
ment that the railroad traffic is. Postal teleg
raphy proper seems to be very dead. Without
reasonable doubt the Senate will pass this
interstate-telegraph measure and send it to the
House. but there are no prospects of its receiv-
ing attention in that body, for two reasons:
First there will be too many propositions for the
amendment ef the measure to enable the COM
mittee to agree upon acceptable BILL second,
the tariff, and appropriations, and
few other measures OF radical I'M
portance will occupy all OF the time in
the House It took the House about four
months to finally agree upon an jnterstate-com-
merce bill after one had been reported from the
committee, and then it required the long and
arduous labors of a conference committee to
frame amendments which we're accepted by the
House. 1t is not at all likely, therefore. that
during the two three weeks which may possi-
bly, be squeezed out for attention TO the tele-
graph question that final agreement could be
reached. The House committee postofices
and post-roads and the committee on commerce
in that body have not given any attention,
worthy of mention. to either postal teiegranhy
the question of decla ring the telegraph inter-
state commerce. Mr.. Rayner. who is chairman
of the subcommittee of the House COMMITTEES
on commerce. having the question of making
the telegraph an intersfatecommerce question.
says the committee will report favoraby ball
of the same general character the one which
the Senate committee has agreed upon; but there
will. IN all probability. be such differences be-
tween the two measures as TO very greatly jeop-
ardize final success
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-05
And Adds that the Brotherhood Is DETER
mined to Win, Even if Traffic Has To Be
Stopped on All Roads in the Country.
The Engineers Throughout the Country
Ready to Supply Needed Assistance.
New York Lodges Recommend that the Men on
Connecting Lines Quit on the 18th. and
that All Traffic Stop on April 1.
EXTENDING THE srRrKE.

Probability that the Burlington Northern
Men VIII Quit Work To-Day.
CHICAGO, March A report gained currency
la to tonight that the engineers and fremen on
the Chicago. Burlington g Northern would be
called out tomorrow. The Burlington & North
ern is a new line to ST Paul and has bean gem
orally regarded an of-shoot or
ally of the Chicago, Burlington e.
Quincy, It was said that the vice president
of the Burlington &c Northern was in the city
this evening and had heen formally notified of
the proposed strike. A solid basis for these re-
ports was very difficult to obtain. but they were
finally ascertained to be true, and at midnight
Vice-president G. B. Harris. of the Burlington
& Northern, was closeted with President Per-
kins, of the Burlington & Quincy. Mr.. Harris
had been served with the notice tonight It
was the result of a meeting of the
engineers and fremen. held this afternoon,
at La Crosse The notice was substantially
that if the Burlington s. Northern did not cease
interchaneing traffic with ths Burlington g.
Quincy before p. NJ, Monday, the engine
men would strike in body. Vics-president
Harris refused to be interviewed regarding the
situation, but scnt out word to an Associated
Press reporter that the interchange of traffic
would not cease. THE company" the message
from Mr.. Harris added tpropose to run the
Burlington & Northern road themselves"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-05
Ths nIzstery Of Pendarra.t,s Lite.

SpeciaI TO the indianaDolis Journal
KANSAS CRY, Mo-, March 4.--George Perry.
a well-known restaurant manager, died of heart
disease last night. For eight years he has been
engaged in business here, and only few of his
most intimate friends knew that he had mys-
terry in his life Shortly before he died he said
70 those who were gathered around his bed:
My name is John J. Pendergast, once cashier
OF the Citizens National Bank of Sprin gfeld.
ILL., rejoice in the of George Perry
however. for, assuming that name I left the
city OF Springfield one night while people were
calling me defaulrer, and took train for the
West. came TO Kansas City and worked hard
began a correspondence with the bank and
eventually settled all was short. with interest
and am now square with the world" Pendergast
was we'll liked here. and had host of friends
and admirers He was generous TO & fault, and
was considered philanthroplst.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-05
ANOTHER TARIFF BILL.

MIR. RandsII's Measure Ia Completed aud win
be Presented Tomorrow.
Special to the Jrdianapolis Journaa
NEW YORK, March A Washington special
to the Herald says: 1.-The new tariff bill which
Mr.. Randall has been maturing 10 practically
finished. 1t will probably be introduced into
the House on Tuesday of next week. Mr. Ran
dali said last night it would be complete bill
and perfect in every detail How long have
you been working upon III" Mr.. Randall was
asked.
Two years, was the reply
g 1T ought to be perfect after that much con-
sideration.' his visitor suggested.
'i dent know 10 that learn something
new abcat the subject every day. 1t will not be
a hop. skip and jump Mr. Randall continued.
'lke the one presentedto the ways aud means
committee Thursday last It will embrace
the best expert evidence that could be obtained
from number of persons entirely familiar with
every branch of the tariff question
"tCan you tell, Mr. Randall asked. how
much reduction will be made by your billl'
:. prefer not to speak about that until it is
entirely finished. Then il will be gwen the
widest-s spread publicity
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-05
THE BURLINGTON STRIKE.

The Brotherhood Must Win. and All Traffic
VIII Be Stopped if Necessary.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
NEW YORK, March 4-The Herald has the
following special from Chicago: "This is fight
of life and DEATH" said Chief Arthur to your cor
respondent at an early hour this morning. and
as he said it his face became white and stern.
I'VE must win this fight. The men of the Broth
erhood are pledged to each other" Chief Arthur
granted long interview to the correspondent.
and the tenor Of his talk that if it is neces-
sary to the winning of this strike every road in
the United States will be tied up and the
traffic of the entire country suspended.
This is the first time Chief Arthur has talked so
plainly. ''The Brotherhood will not compro-
mise" said the Chief, "bur will dig the ditch
in which il proposes to die in case 1t cannot
VIM
The desperation of the head of the Brother
hood has never been made manifest before
The organization stakes its existence upon this
fight, and Mr.. Arthur well knows that to lose it
means the extinction of the order. as we'll as his
own official death. 1t is believed he has imbued
the order with his own spirit, and that the
Brotherhood men will follow him to victory or
defeat.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-05
WAR-DAYS CRIME RECALLED
Men Who Avoided Justice Score of
Years Finally in the Laws Clutches.
Prompted by Feeling of Personal Spite and
Revenge. an Old Man Betrays His Accom-
plices. in. the. Murder of Jack Ballard.
spseial to tn. 1ndianapolts yourna:.

Special TO the Indianapolis Journas.
WASHINGTON, Ind, March 3.-The indictment
of the four men in Martin county, for the
murder OF Jack Ballard, and the arrest of two
OF the men, have brought to light the story of
one Of the terrible political crimes which were
committed in southern Indiana during the time
of the civil war. The neighborhood Of Jack
Billiards. home, in Martin county, was the
stamping ground" OF the reasonable band
In which that infamous trio, Bowles,
Miigan and Horsey, alleged to
have figured Eso conspicuously. Steve Horsey
yet lives in Martin county, and he is frequently
seen at the courthouse in West Shoals. The
spot where Ballard was killed is but a few miles
from French Lick Springs which were then
owned by DR.. Bowles. Ballard was a
member of Company /, Twenty-fourth
Indiana Volunteers, whose captain was
killed in the battle of Shiloh. In the spring of
1864 the regiment. then veterans, was stationed
at Evansville, and few days before the 18th of
March, 1864 Ballard obtained leave to visit his
home and family ir Martin county. He started.
with instructions TO arrest deserter supposed
to be in hiding in Lost River township. In due
season he reached home. but his mission was
suspected by the Knights of the Golden Circle,
and plot was laid to murder him. It was well
carried ont, for the morning Of the 18th of
had left his house, and instantly killed. The
rifle shots were distinctly heard by bis wife and
children. Suspicion fastened upon certain per-
sons, but owing to the fact that the people of
the neighborhood were largely il league or in
sympathy with the assassins, nothing could
be done toward punishing them
and the matter rested for nearly
a quarter of century. Last Thursday an old
man named Albert Quackenbosh appeared be-
fore the Martin county grand jury, confessed
that fs of the party that murdered
Ballard, and implicated John G. JONES' VIM.
Stanisld and James Archer. all of whom have
been arrested aud are now in tue hands of the
officers. Jones is member of the Board Of
County Commissioners and is elder in the
Christian Church. Archer is brother to two
of the Archers who were lynched at Shoals two
years ago, and uncle to Samuel Archer,
who was executed July g. 1886. Stanfield is the
father of the young girl who was murdered a
few months ago by Charles Archer, her lover.
Charles is a of James, and is now in Jail at
Shoals, charged with Miss Stanfield's murder
The Archers claim that the girl com mmItted sui
eide. She was seduced by Charles Archer. This
trouble between she Stanfield and Archer fam
lilies created such i'll feeling that Quacken-
bosh, out of revenge and to protect himself, ap-
Peared before the grand jury and informed on
his accomplices in the murder of Jack Bal
lard: He was promised immunity for his con-
iession.