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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-03-28
DAKOTA.

1t is said that there Is every prospect that
the tin industry in the Black ILLS will de-
velop into something entitled to rank along
side the gold output. Dean Carpenter, of
the school of mines, has, after more than
years experience, concluded that the
cheapness with which the ore may be
mined and reduced guarantees results,
which will astound even the mast sanguine
friends of the industry.
In the United States Court ut Bismarck
the other day John Quinn pleaded guilty to
selling liquor to Indians at the Standing
Rock Agency and was sentenced to sixty
five days hard labor in the Sioux Falls peni-
Tertiary.
The steam pump for the college we'll at
Brooktngs arrived recently, and has been
so arranged as to throw water into all the
buildings.
party of surveyors passed over to the
Sioux reservation and camped on the Bad
river recently. The new line will be run
from Fl Pierre to Deadwood as the Chicago
& Northwestern, but the line surveyed on
the Sioux reservation is supposed to be the
Illinois Central corps.
While arguing q case in court at Erie, Pa :.
the other day L Norton, of Bismarck,
formerly of Erie, became violently insane,
and later threatened the lives of his wife
and child. He would be placed in private
asylum.
Thomas Houska. of Yankton, stone
mason, took his own life the other day.
His inability to quit drinking liquor caused
him to commit the act
The passing of the Sioux Reservation bill
has induced the Northwestern Stage &
Transportation Company to put on a line
between Pierre and the Black Hills The
river is open.
A. H. Barton, young and popular at
torney, died at the residence of Judge Trip
in Yankton few days ago. The remains
were taken to Maine.
Fannie Millett, aged thirteen years, the
daughter Of John Millett, farmer living
near Bismark, died lately under sus-
picious circumstances On exhuming the
body, which had been buried in field, it
was found to be covered with bruises made
by whip. The girl had been beaten to
death. The father denied that he had done
it,
A convention for the organization of the
Prohibition party of South Dakota was held
at Huron the other day. se
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-03-28
A Famous Indian, and Still More
Famous indian Tighten.

We give below a picture of KIT CAR
son, tie famous scout and Indian
tighter, whose thrilling exploits sur
passed in interest and adventure those
Of all other frontier heroes. KITS
portrait shows that he was very lion
in courage and stern determination,
and also man of fine intellect. He
was, in truth, the ideal American hero
of the wild Western border.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-03-28

Fifteen Thousand HON eless Burmese.
LONDON, March 23-Myinggan, an in-
portant military post in Upper Brrmah,
has been destroyed by an tncendlary fire.
Fifteen thousand people are reported to be
homeless .-
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-03-28
WISCONSIN.

"lSCONS1N.
A fire at Milwaukee the other morning,
starting in Atkins & Co. s shoe mandatory,
extended through an entire block, causing an
aggregate loss to large number of firms of
1925, 900; insured for about T275,OOO a
side wall fell, burying a dozen tiremen in the
debris. Herman Lecher and Richard I,angton
were killed and three others fatally injured
Constantine Oscer, agent for the John
Gund Brewing Company, OF La Crosse, was
arrested at Eau Claire the other evening
charged with embezzljng 1925 belonging
to the firm.
George W. Peck, the Milwaukee humcr-
list, has presented public drinking fonnt-
ain to the town of La Crosse, which was
bis home for many years.
W. H. Lusley, a railway mail-service
clerk, was arrested at Milwaukee a few
days ago for robbing the mails, his pecula-
tons amounting to about So, 600 He was
caught by decoy letters
The Wisconsin Central Railway Company
has purchased the right-of-way between
Rib Lake and Tomahawk The route was
surveyed last fall
Brother Adolphus, of the Sacred Heart
College at Watertown, died recently, aged
seventy-three years
Estimates of the seasons logging on the
Black river and it's tributaries in this State
place the amount banked to date at one
hundred and forty million feet
Recently while R. c. Jopp, the teacher in
the Ironwood school district, Barron Coun-
ty, was walking to Rice Lake from Clear
Lake he was chased by wolves and in his
flight was obliged to throw away his over
shoes and overcoat in order to escape
Silas Cummings, farmer living near
Trempealeau. was drowned in the Missis-
sippi river recently by breaking through
the ice His body was found six miles from
the scene of the accident
Charles Tesch, a carpenter of Appleton
has in his possession a snuff-box which is
hundred and fifty years old. Mr.: Tesch's
fauner-in-law carried the box for the
greater part of the ninety-two years of his
life, and he in turn had received it from his
father, to whom it had long been O COM
pnnion.
The Chippewa Falls authorities Ihavs &C
cepted Donald McDonald's tender of fifteen
acres for public park.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-03-28
A SCENE OF HORROR,

Over Hundred Lives Lost in the Burned
Theater at Oporto-pnnic-S Stricken Men
Butcher Women AMI Children In Their
Mad Struggle for Life.
OPoRTo. March 23-Thc bodies of sixty
six victims Of the theater fire were identi-
fled yesterday. Many heartrending scenes
were witnessed. Besides the bodies there
are also fifty three heaps of unrecogniza-
BILE remains Several projects have
been organized for the relief of the
families of the poorer victims The
work Of searching in the ruins is being
pushed forward day and night Electric
Lights have been provided for the searching
parties The full number of the dead can
not yet he given 1t is reported that sew
eral Americans and Englishmen were in the
the,,ter and We're burned to death.
In the cheaper parts OF the house the
attendance was principally Of the rougher
class, including many sailors and dock
porters, who crushed down the weaker
people in their rush for the doors, using
their fists, shoes and knives, and merci-
lessly slashing their way to the front.
Girls, children and women were literally
butchered by these panc-stricken brutes in
their mad endeavor to get out Many
victims who escaped otherwise all right
were desperately cut in the fight at the
doorways. Some of those who were within
jumped from high windows
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-03-28
RED KNIFE

was a typical Indian war; or and cut
throat. The history of his raid, and
of KIT CARsoN's skill and heroism in
meeting the perils of the occasion, is
begun in No. z of the New York
Ledger. ROBERT BoNNER's Sons have
issued millions Of sample copies of
this number of the Ledger, but there
are, probably, persons who have not
yet had a copy, and we are informed
that any one who has not had one OF
these sample copies can get one free
of expense by simply sending his
name and address to the Ledger Office,
at the corner of William and Spruce
streets, New York. This is certainly
an easy and cheap way to get a speci-.
men number of the greatest Indian
story ever published.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-03-28

KITS last great contest with the
Indians occurred in 1867. the year be-
fore his death. when RED KNIFE a
perfect Indian fiend, suddenly attacked
the defenseless settlers of the remote
frontiers. A most graphic, spirited
and thrilling account of that most des-
perate struggle is now being published
in the New York Ledger. under the
title of RED KNIFE; OR KIT CARSON
LAST TRAIL RED KNIFE, as will be
seen by the picture of him which we
give below,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-03-28
IOWA..


William Huddart. an old man working on
the high grade to the Iowa approach of the
new Missouri river bridge at Sioux City,
was crushed by falling bank and killed re-
GENTLY
At Sioux City few days ago drafts for
$3, 900, which had been carelessly t;rown
into waste basket at the Sec urity National
Bank, were found by Oscar Metz, a poor
rag-plcker, and returned to the bank.
William Waddle, Il commercial traveller
widely-k nown throughout the West, died in
Davenport few mornings ago. The night
previous he was married on his death bed
to Clara Belle Courier:
The mayor of Keoku1 has issued procla-
nation for the closing of all the saloons OF
the place by May 1. The move is in the in
terest of testing the Prohibitory law:
NJ. j. Hurlburt, a cooper and an old and
respected citizen of Ced n Falls, commit
ted suicide the other day by hanging.
Sioux City is to have an elevated rail-
road, company, with a capital put at
81, 900, 900. having prepared articles of
incorporation.
W. c. Storz, wealthy farmer residing
near Carroll fell dea few days ago.
1t is understood that the will of the late
T. J. Potter, of Burlington, bequeaths all
his property, estimated at 5000, 900. to his
wife and children.
Two white swans were noticed to alight
in the river in front of Fort Madison the
other day. An old hunter said that it had
been more than twenty years since swan
was killed in that vicinity.
Pete Ringo, who was elected member of
the City Council of Montezuma, is the first
negro ever elected to position in Powe-
shiek County:
Arbor Day in Iowa is set for April 81, the
anniversary of General Grants birthday
The Commercial National Bank of Du-
buque closed its doors to the public few
days ago. The recent failure of the Church
l. Graves Manufacturing Company, of Min
neapois, developed the fact that the bank
held the paper of that firm to the amount
of over 100000 Pres dent Graves was
not Interested in the Mime polls firm, but
had favored his brother J. X Graves, who
was interested. and the sequel was heavy
loss to the bank The loss will be about
$5OO,OOO.
A fire in Iowa Falls q few days ago
burned fuckers elevator, Office and corn
cribs Loss, 1913, 900
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-03-28
Steps are being taken to stock the waters
of the streams Of Waukesha County witch
115, 900 brook trout spawn from the State
hot 5 . ,-rs.
MICHIGAN.


A letter has been received at the execu-
tive office asking the Governor to do what
he can, through the public press and 9TH
erwise, to prevent Michigan citizens from
beng lured by INSCRIPTIONS land agents
into em1grating to and purchasing land In
Virginia. The writer says thousands have
gone there and purchased land upon the
representations made in the circulars of
these land agents, md after year or two
Of hard work have found themselves
ruined and been compelled to give up all.
Insurance men will investigate the death
of E. A. Chapman, photographer OF Char
lotte, who expired suddenly as alleged
from the effects of an overdose of medi-
cine He had a policy of $40, 600 on his
life.
Oregon Hamilton, of Newaygo, charged
with whipping his nlneteen-month-old
daughter to death, was convicted of muir
der in the second degree recently. Hamil-
ton Is q widower.
William N. Brown, a lumberman of
Mount Pleasant was arrested the other
day, charged with cutting timber on In
dian lands
Mary B Holtrop, farmers daughter,
was struck and thrown fifty feet by train
few days ago near Graadville, but would
recover.
The State has made arrangements with
the United States Government to use the
land at MacAinac Island for State military
encampment ground in July next
Colonel Chauncy Chaplin, who died at
Howell few days ago. was one of the old
est Masons in Michigan, and in 1924 he sat
in lodge with General Lafayette
J. H. Hubbard, twenty-eight years old,
from Stanwood, arrived at Muskegon re-
Gently and secured job rs switchman on
the Chicago 4 West Michigan railway The
day after he Went to work he was RIM over
and killed
Northwestern lumbermen, chiefly from
Michigan, are buying large tracts of pine
land in Mississippi Records at Jackson
show they have purchased $50, 900 acres in
the past six months
An ambitious Clyde farmer loaded seven
cords of wood upon couple of wagons the
other day, hitched one tenn to them and
hauled the loads to Port Huron He
wanted to become a record maker, and he
got there.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-03-28
MINNESOTA.

St. Louis County has voted to bond itself
for the construction of county roads. Com
missioner Mckinley says $500 OF the
amount bonded can be spent this year, and
that in addition to taxes will make about
$5U, 900 to be used for country highways.
Louise Montague, who became famous as
Forepauge's $40, 600 beauty. is now living
quiet life in St Paul. Her husband is Z.
T. Wilson. well-known restaurateur
Rev. Sheldon Jackson, of Stl1a, Alaska,
who was reported to have been drowned in
the Skirna river, Alaska, was in St Paul a
few days ago. The Rev Mr.: Sheldon re-
ferred to was an English missionary.
receiver was asked for recently for the
grocery business of F. S. Rice. OF Minneap-
oils Rice was said to have absconded,
leaving liabilities of $14. 900.
A German farmer named John LANCER,
Holding, refused to send his twelve-year-
old daughter TO school and furnish her with
proper books and clothing for that purpose.
The school board brought suit against him
and he was found guilty and fined fifteen
dollars and costs and was also ordered to
comply with the school laws, which he
promised to do
academy was destroyed by fire Loss
$50, 600; ms france, So, OOO
1t is reported from Duluth that McGari-
gle, the escaped Chicago boodler, was in
that city few days ago. where he was seen
by Board of Trade and newspaper men
The St Mary's convent at Winona has
been sold for use as public hospital; con-
sideration, $3S, 600!
The storm which ragged the other night
through portions Of Minnesota was one of
the severest that has been experienced
this winter: It consisted of cold wave of
unusual severity, accompanied with a
heavy and cutting wind. which in many
places was rendered worse by binding
storms
The capital stock of the Northfeld Cream
cry Company of $4,000 has been raised
and the articles Of incorporation have been
drawn up. A. W. Norton is president of the
board of directors
While John Keely, of Waseca, was lead
ing an unruly bull recently the animal ran
away. The rope was fastened around
Keely's hand SO securely it could not be
disengaged. He was dragged about the
yard, his head battered and bruised, and it
was feared his skull was broken
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-03-28
Death of u Woman Born In the White
House.

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, March 23-Mrs
Rachel Jackson Eckford died here yester-
day She was born in the White House,
April 9, 1885, during the Presidency OF
Andrew Jackson, her uncle. She married
in 1860, the late Governor W. B. Knox, Of
San Antonio, and in 1882 Mr.: John Eek
ford, who survives her. She was most
estimable woman and as beautiful in per-
son as in character.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-03-28


LONDON, March 23.-F4oods are reported
to be terrible in Croatia At Chaba cotfins
have been washed out OF the cemetery and
are floating about the roads and fields.
Portions OF Agram are submerged. Near
Laszlomer in Hungary six villages are in
undated.
The situation throughout Hungary is ap.
pa ling, owing to the floods The dykes at
Bekes are rapidly giving way, and the town
is doomed Fifty more houses have col
lapsed since the last reports, and many
more are ruined. At Zeuplen the floating
ice has destroyed many houses, and all the
country stores of corn and food are lost
The foods are also playing havoc about
Odessa The Dnieper and Dniestsr rivers
have overtlowed their banks. Villages have
been deserted by the frightened inhabit-
ants and are isolated The roads for miles
about the streams are impossible except
for RATS
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-07-26
CHAPTER XVIII.
A TERRIBLE DECISION.


Jack Graham. at Mrs. Harcourt's request,
bore Miss Wentworth to the library. Hav-
ing placed her on sofa, he pretended to
explain all he knew about her fainting.
His explanation proved quite satisfactory;
and as it was suggested by.one of the SER
wants, who had been summoned to the libr-
airy, that it would be well to call in the aid
of the family doctor, Jack promised to send
him, his residence being only few yards
from Pertaard railway station.
After expressing many regrets at the I'M
fortunate occurrence, Graham took his de-
parture, sent the doctor to Hazelwood
House, and returned to London we'll salts
fed with the first step in his sinful scheme.
By the time Miss Bentley got back Ada
had somewhat recovered; but neither
speech nor sense had returned to her till the
following morning.
The effects of the sudden attack were in
creased weakness, and, if possible, in
creased outward tranquility. These were
the only effects apparent to the family doc
tor; but Miss Benteys love-quick eye de-
tected another, great change in Adas
manner toward herself. 1t was as Affection
nte as ever but it was the affection of one
woman for another, not as it had been
hitherto, the passionate love of daughter.
Her aunt was convinced that another Sc
IiG, nau ?on,e oerween 'hen M prooa-
t;onsd II" ha ,."' 10 NJ nIu 30 sue 9ues-
=, ae a,,o No. u,niau . eAoi'eu ner
,ha ~ had eona sndds,is a aeo III ath .on
s,s and dslms;ons hod 1 aiwons o 40 az o'nei
sWon,d Won lie ~ 49, III Wo,os
House for = tma9S Misc Ro,tla1 os SD
~, ,o, M thu, o-,rao,f :. - 49,
A. vonyna s''o't ~ "ou'u Dsn0'
aYes. b,t NOT vot amt aa,r ~, Co.. !.
waaL or two tno,v nrs ei' hattar a. ,Ia, :"
The family Doctor and r n9 Snre that 7 shall a
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-07-26
OF ''two-faced men y III often hear and cad
But this chap with SIX faces takes the lead.
A Fighting Judge.

In Lexington, KY, at the old Broad
way Hotel, one night many years ago,
the famous Thomas F. Marshall, wit
and orator, was engaged at game of
billiards with Judge John Rowan, a
brilliant jurist, in whose honor the
county of Rowan, late become notorious
for outlawry, was named. The game
they were playing was on one of the old
fashioned billiard tables which had
pockets at the corners. The strong
point in Judge Rowan's game was his
remarkable capacity for pocketing balls,
an evidence that he would, if he -four
ished now, be AN accomplished fifteen
ball pool player.
During the progress Of the game a
spectator said to Mr.. Marshall:
Judge Rowan is quite an adept at
putting in balls.
Eyes" replied Tom, ''and nobody
ought to know that better than ], for
I've been carrying one, ever since. that
he put intome ten years ago"
Marshall and Rowan, years before
that. had fought duel in which the
belicose judge had Caught his man."
ARK tasaC Iraoetey.
The saloon is undeniably the hot bed of ig-
norance and vice. Its mission is wholly evil.
1t drinks up the sap that nourishes the tree
Ct our National life.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-07-26
Unwelcome Seals in Penobscot Bsv

1t is not generally known, remarks tho
New York Sun, but nevertheless is a
fact, that Penobscot Bay, on the coast Of
Maine, is full of seals. Ten wears ago
there were only few seals in the bay.
but now they literally swarm there.
They are very shy, and cannot be taken
in the water, but they often crawl out
upon rocks and lodges to sun themselves.
and then there is great sport shooting
them. One tourist at Islesboro shot
twenty-eight during the season, and now
the salmon fishermen wish he had shot
them all, for the carnivoi GUS quadrupcds
have taken fancy for salmon diet.
and threaten to exterminate that noble
fish in the bay and lower river. They
frequent the neighborhood of the pounds
where salmon are confined. and when
ever one of the fish pokes his head
through the meshes it is immediately
grabbed by seal, which. ii it cannot
draw the fish through the meshes bodily.
deyours what part it can reach. AL
Northport the other day fisherman
took from his pound a large salmon
whose head had been entirely bitten of
by SEAL and such Instances have been
noted all along the bay. The fishermen
talk OF war of determination on the
seals, and it is really question Of which
snail go-the seals or the salmon.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-07-26
Quicksand.

Quicksand is composed chiefly Of small
particles OF Quicksand mica mixed
largely with water. The mica i So
smooth. that the fragments slim upon
each other with the greatest fasiiity ~
mat any heavy body which displaces
them VIII sink and continue to sink nm
III solld bottom is reached. When
particles Of sand are jagged and angular
any weight pressing on them will crowd
them together until they are compacted
INTO solid mass. A sand Composed 81
mica or soapstone when suificientlv
mixed with water seems incapable 81
such consolidation. ~ 3. g.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-07-26

In August, 1886, three high officials
left China as an imperial Commission
to examine into the con iition of their
countrymcn abroad. After year alb
sence they have reported upon the state
OF tho Chinese in Spanish, British, and
Dutch colonies. In the PHILIPPINES the
Chinese community complain bitterly of
wrongs at the hands of the Spaniards,
and beg for Consuls. There are about
fifty thousand Chinese there, prosperous
in business, and they are murdered,
burned out, aud pluudered without re-
dress. In Singapore they number
$50, 600 and are the richest among the
inhabitants, owning four-ffths of the
landed property. In Malacca and Selan-
gore they are well protected, and several
of them are mlllionaires. The Chinese
in the Dutch colonies complain OF being
outrageously treated. In Australia
they prayed hard for measures for their
protection. There are several millions
of Cinnamon at present working in
foreign lands.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-07-26

According to Mr.. Mookerjee, Hin
doc authority on pisciculture, the re-
suits Of fish-farming are remarkable.
Professor Huxley has stated that an acre
of land will produce in year ton of
grain or two or three hundred weight
Of meat. The same area of water, how
ever, will yield a creator weight of fish
In a week. There seems to be no good
reason, says Public Opinion, why fish
should not be made a more important
part of the diet, and with well-man-
aged fish pond on every farm large
amount of nutritious, valuable, and ex-
cellent food could be easily produced at
very small expense. The subject is
well worth the careful attention OF
thoughtful farmers.