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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-12-04
LATEST NEWa.
A Terrible Fire.

MINNEAPoL1s, Dec la fire broke out
on the fourth floor Of the Tribune building
at 10 o'clock last night, causing the death
OF seven at least, and possibly more lives.
The fire was discovered by the elevator
boy who gave the alarm, but 1t was not
needed by all until it was too late. There
Was delay in the response of the fire de-
prrtment. The following are known to
have persisted: -.
MILTON PICKETT, Assistant City Edi-
tor Pioneer Press. -
JAMES F. lGO, Associated Press Opera
tor.
WALTER E. MILES, Associated Press
agent y ...~.-
W. H. MlLLMAN, Commercial Editor
JERRY ,ENK1NsoN, compos,tor,
Tribune #2<%5 i
ROBERT mcurcHEoN, compositor
Tribune. - @
PROF. EDWARD OLSON. vermirion,
Oak. 49, y" ~:
The bui, ding was a veritab!e hre-trap
eight stories high. Only one elevator sur
rounded by spiral stair case, so that
when the flames gained possession of the
third floor all means OF escape was cut OF
except by outside means There was only
one Are escape upon the building and it
could not be reached by all. The Mime
apolis Tribune, Tribune Star and Evening
Journal occupied quarters In the structure
and all of them suffer total loss. A sum-
mary shows loss Of life Z. aggregate Losses
$877, 0W with insurance Of $l05, COO
~ Two Men Perished. &s ts:.S
sr. PAu1, Mimi, Dec. 1.-TWO mon lost
their lives during fire IN the Washington
hotel on Sibley street, directly opposite the
union depot, shortly after 4 O'clock yes
terday morning. Both men persisted BY
suffocation, being unable to escape from
the room in which they were imprisoned
by flames until thoy were overcome by tho
dense smoke and fell l;fcless TO the floor.
One was Lorenzo Ienardi, an Italian about
thirty. Ave years Of age, who had been at.
tending dance In q Third street hall Sat
urday night and became very much In
toxtcated. The 0thor victim was Christo-
foro Pult, Q young man about eighteen
years old, who WnA employed IN tho hotel
and slept In IN ad joining bed Ia the Same
room Ho also fell 8 victim to tho sutfo-
eating smoke 81, 5 is' IN .5g #
n Sa .
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-12-04

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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-12-04

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES IN. Z .al1,UUU
l8, OOOIPh9nix u'nd'n). $1,000
l25, OO0IPhoenlx tBr'k'n). 5000
SO, $Ol Springti'd F & nj. 1900
0,0WI Imperial. $500. 5000
Is, 1000 Boyleston Dom. 1900
$4,000 Guardian {L'd'n). 1900
81, COON. Br. & Mere. ). 10000
60, O0| Fire Assn N. W 1900
mIMagara N. W. 5000
0OW|C City Of London. :. $1,000
81, TVS Western (Tor'to) 5000
81, 125| Mich. Fire & Me $500
3,O0)Am. Cen. (St. L. 81, 1000
s., Ocl Prudent IN. W 10000
81 ,000| Neptune (Bos'n) 10000
80 OWiSt. Paul F. and n. $1,000
50, W0IMl, Mechanics. $1,000
AMAlliance IN. W. $4,000
81, m0|G lens F"lls(N.Y,) $1,000
$4,000 F1remen's Fund. 1900
&MCI Citizens IN. ". 1900
$4,000 Prudent'l(B'st'n) 1000
g, WVtStandard IN. W 1880
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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-12-04
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL


# Hon. GEoRaE II. PHNDLRToN, Of Ohio,
Minister % Germany, died at Brus.
sells on the night Of the oath, aged sixty
four years.
LYMAN r. CASEY Rep.), Of James
town, was elected United States Sen.
ator by the North Dakota Legislature
on the a5th for the short term.
a. T. G, PIERsoN, one 81 the rreatast
Masonic characters in the world. died
at his home In st. Paul on the Goth,
aged seventy-two years. h s@.H s...,.
33 JOHN B. EMERY, the Oldest Grand
Past Master Of the ]. o. o.. Il. OF the
United States, died in Baltimore on the
25th, aged eighty-three years.
VI PEYToN WILKES, aged one hundred
years. died ut Greenville, Ore, on the
27th.
4 JACOB s. HALDEMAN, ex-Mlnister to
Sweden, died on the 27th at Harrisburg,
Pa, aged sixty-six years.
WILLIAM CoCKEIa an aged miser, died
on the 27th at Louisville, KY, leaving a
fortune Of $4,000 He had lived for
years In q squalid hut
Mrs. Eve SHANNON, until recently
matron of the home for the aged and in
firm Hebrews IN New York, died on the.
Goth ult., aged one hundred years and
six months. s,as M b.. s$ #s.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-12-04

sOulAu1nbS between tucS0 TWO were utter
" destroyed. The leaping flames sue
ceeded in crossing Chauncey street to the
upper stories Of the huge Allen block.
largely occupied by Farley, Harvey 4
Co, and those adjacent as far as Essex
place. 1t was hard to direct streams of
water effectively, and for time it
seemed as though Warren street might
yet DO reached. The tiremen here made
. grand rally, and finally the further
progress of the fire was staid. -
A Thrilling rescue from immediate
death was made by Officers Charles
Maynes and BENJAMIN and s'Sleepy,"
the colored attache Of the city hall, in
the building 80 Chauncey street.
/ Edward H E. Whiting, q veteran fire.
man, helped with the hose on
the building. II grew terribly hot,
the walls Threatened to tall, and
the cry was raised to get back, as the
roof was caving in. A desperate rush
was made by all hands to get out, and all
escaped save Whiting. He was struck,
knocked down and immediately covered
by the heated debris. The flremen
said thai he must be- killed.
Onacers Maynes and Beniamin, how
ever, taking desperate chances,
'braved the furnace like heat and the
I risk Of falling walls and tried to find
/ the buried man. s'My God, CAN no one
help mel" was the cry they heard. 1 This
directed them to .. pile Of truck and
timber, under which they found Whit.
Ing imprisoned. Frantically they hauled
and pulled Ct the hot debris. Every mo
ment they expected to be killed by
! falling stones Or set B on flre by the
1 1esthing flames which dArted out In
Smyrna times., 1889-09-04
The Second Tour to the Allie.
ghanies via Pennsylvania
Railroad.

Those who for any reason failed to
join the first Cresson tour, will have
another and perhaps more desirable
opportunity to visit this delightful re.
giOn on Thursday, September 5th. On
that date the second tour, under per-
sonal escort, is appointed to leave
Philadelphia. The autumn season
will be then sufficiently advanced to
bring out the beauties of forest and
field.
The special train of Pullman Parlor
Cars and day coaches will leave Phil
adelphia at 1O.4O A. NJ, and run
through to Cresson on fast schedule
Excursion tickets will be sold, as here
tOfOre, from Philadelphia at $500,
which also includes days board at
the celebrated Mountain House. Pro-
portionate rates will prevail from other
stations. A concession of reduced
rate at the hotel will be granted the
tourists during their stay. The return
coupons of the tickets will be valid for
ten days.
The excursion rates as above de-
scribed from Smyrna is 1925 and reg
ular train connecting with special will
leave at S.28 M.
Smyrna times., 1889-09-04

Edward Atkinson, the well-known
writer on political economy, writing
on the subject of the plan of the Fair,
says: my general idea is that either
by way of example, of pictures, of
graphic illustrations and figures, one
and all combined, so far as may be, the
exhibition should show the progress of
modern art and industry from the pre-
historic type, or from the type of 1892,
down to the present day. For instance
what a wonderful exhibit could be
made of the progress in the art of
clOthing"
Speaking of Mr.. Atkinson's sugges-
ton, A. c. Yates & Co., the popular
clothiers in the Ledger Building,
Philadelphia, said that such an exhibit
would be highly interesting, and
would afford an opportunity to put
American clothing in comparison with
that of the world. The American, no
doubt, wears better and cheaper cloth
ing than any other people. No matte
how little the American pays for his
clothes, he wants some style to them,
and that is where our clothing excels
the foreign. A man who buys a
twelve-dOllar suit will spend as much
time in front of mirror as the man
who pays twenty-five. We welcome
such customers, whether they be man
or boy, as we make all our clothing to
meet this popular demand for tasty
and gOOd-fitting clothing at a mod.
crate cost.-FrOm the Philadelphia
| Item.
Smyrna times., 1889-09-04
WHOLE NO. l,7SO.
Centreville's Water Suppy.

Centreville will shortly have a sys-
tenn of water works second to none on
the Shore, the work on them being
pushed to an early COlse with vigor
and success. The receiving fltering
basins are about completed, and the
digging of the foundation for the stand.
pipe in the rear of the courthouse is
completed and the stonemasons will
commence work this week. The
stand pipe will be one hundred feet in
height, twelve feet in diameter and
will be built of wrought-iron plates rive
ted together with steel bolts. Eight
inch supply mains will be laid from
the hlter-bed to the stand-pipe. On
the main streets of the town six-inch
mains will be laid and on the cross
streets four-inch mains. Fire plugs
will be erected in different sections of
the town and in case a FIRE should
start which the water from the
stand-pipe would not quench the pump
ing engine could be brought into use
and its entire force directed against
the fire. The stand pipe will force a
three-quarter-inch stream to the height
of one hundred feet -CentreUiIe md
Observer.
Smyrna times., 1889-09-04

The organ of James A. Bradley at
Asbury Park, N. j., appeared Wednes-
day with the assertion that in over 100
places in Asbury Park liquor is lille
gally sold, and that the apathy of the
temperance people has caused Mr..
Bradley's action, which is now final
and decisive. He says: 1.-THE fight is
too great for me alone, and others will
not help" He does not want to see a
licensed saloon in the park, but thinks
an open licensed saloon would be pref
cradle to the hundred "sneaking dens"
now in existence. Prohibition" fur
ther says the organ, ''is a dead letter
In Asbury Park, but it is no fault OF
the law, but of the people" Tho
Ocean Grove Association is much dis
turbed over the matter, and is bitterly
opposed to Mr.. Bradley's suggestions,
Smyrna times., 1889-09-04
Episcopal Convention.
THOSE FROM DELAWARE WHO WILL
ATTEND THE MEETING.

The National Convention of the
Protestant Episcopal Church will con-
vene the first Tuesday in October in
st. Georges Episcopal Church, New
York city. The delegates to the con-
vention will number 500. Each dio-
cese throughout the country will be
entitled to eight delegates-four cler-
gymen and four laymen. The bishop
of the diocese is not included in the
eight delegates. The convention will
be in session three weeks. It will be
divided into two bodies. The house of
the bishops, comprising all the bishops,
will sit with closed doors. The house
of clergymen and lay Deputies will
meet in open session. This will be
the largest convention held for many
years. The work to be done will be
long and tedious. The revision and
enrichment of the prayer book and
hymnal will receive much considera.
ton. The changing of the name of
the church will consume the great
er part of the three weeks. The
missionary work connected with
the church will be reconstructed.
The clergymen from this state will
be the Rev. David Howard and the
Rev. T. Gardiner Littell, of Whining
ton, the Rev. D. D. Smith of Christ
Church, Christiana Hundred, and the
Rev. J. T. Hynes of SeafOrd. The lay
deputies will be the Hon. E. L. Martin
of SeafOrd, S. NJ. Curtis of Newark
and E. T. Warner and F. G. Dupont
of Wilmington.
Lord Plunket, Archbishop of London
will be among the foreign visitors to
the convention.
Smyrna times., 1889-09-04
The Farmers Outing.

Nearly 10000 people patronized the
Changers Interstate exhibition last
week at Williams Grove and scores of
agents having agricultural machinery
on the grouud were kept busy showing
its merits to the hundreds of farmers.
Tue hum of machinery was heard in
all directions and the traction lengines,
of which a large number are in the
grove, gave forth their shrill whistles
all day long. Large saw mills split up
many huge logs into boards and har-
vesting, threshing and other machines
used by the farmer were put in op-
GRAFTON to illustrate their advantages.
The fakir was present in all his glory
and induced many of the credulous to
invest in his dimsy wares. Judge
Henderson, of Carlisle, made a brief
speech, in which he highly compli-
mented the Patrons of Husbandry for
elevating the intellectual standard of
the farmers.
PRECARIOUsNEss OE FARMING,
State Lecturer Brown, after show
ing the great agricultural advantages
of this country and the general pros
perity which has followed them, con-
tended that the American farmer did
not enjoy in full proportion the ma
tional prosperity. Farming, which
should be and naturally is the most
profitable of all legitimate avocations
returned less profit on the investment
and paid less wages to its votaries
than any other business.
For so great and marked a decline
as the past twenty years have shown
in farming for profit there must exist
powerful and active causes. Monop-
oily is our bane. Trusts are its ripest
fruit and fullest development. The
beneficiaries of the one and the open
apOlOgists of the other do not hesitate
and do declare that trusts are mere
private affairs, with whom a President
Tor any one elsel has no right to
interfere.
We are the victims of atrocious dis
elimination by the great corporations
which control our transportation, our
telegraphic, telephone and express
business. 1t would be indeed difficult
for dispassionate Judge to define
wherein the action of great transpor-
tatiOn and transmission corporations
does come short of reasonable con-
spiracy.
Smyrna times., 1889-09-04
Half Rates to Baltimore.
FOR THE MARYLAND EXPOSITION AND
BATTLE OF NORTH POINT.

The most extensive and interesting
exposition MARYLAND has ever known
will be held in Baltimore, September
9th to 14th, 1889.
The programme of the exposition
promises a great and diversified display
of products and machinery, an extern
sive exhibition of live stock, races, and
horse and cattle sales. Other features
include an imposing industrial and
civic parade. composed of two hundred
floats and fifty thousand uniformed
men, the celebration of the battle of
North Point, and u representation of
the bOmbardment of Fort McHenry.
The handsome new post Office will be
dedicated with appropriate ceremo-
nies, participated in by the President
of the United States and his Cabinet.
For the benefit of visitors the Phila-
delpha, Wilmington and Baltimore,
Baltimore and Potomac, and Alexan-
dria and fredericksburg Railroad
Companies will sell excursion tickets
to Baltimore, from September 7th to
14th, valid for return until September
2lst, from all stations on their lines, at
a single fare for the round trip.
Smyrna times., 1889-09-04
DON'T

get into the habit of taking medicine for every
little imaginary trouble. Nature often reminds
US by slight shocks that we have transgreSSed
the laws of hygiene, and that our conduct in this
lactics are more etficaciOus than therapeutics.
But there are physical antagonisms which IL is
folly to neglect Clearly defined diseases requir-
ing prompt and specific treatment-ot these
intermittCnts, chillS and fever-are the most
common, and Of the remedies proposed some are
so nauSeOuS as to lie unfit for weak stOmachS
while others dsastrOuSly affect the head and
nervous system. From such heroic remedies the
disguised sufferer turns to LOwberS Brazilian
Vegetable Pills (e egantly sugar-coatedl and finds
immediate relief, without any physical disturb
auce whatever from the action # the medicine.
This j. the secret Of the immense popularity of
these Pills
'One pill usually cures me of headache, to
which am subject. "A. W. SMALL, Lincoln, Del.
"fhey cause RGtUrGl evacuation of the bowels
without any OF the disagreeable effects common
tn oth"r medicines. use them for coStlvenesS,
e KNIGHT. soy Commerce street, Philadelphia.
Peter Smith, Esq formerly u manufacturer in
Philadelphia, now residing on his farm near
Hazlettville, Del, furnishes US strong testimO-
nial ofthe transcendent virtues of this remedy.
He says:
Dear Sir-I was afIl ctel with fever and ague
from August, 1887 to February of this year 1855
tried all sorts of Chill cures without avail and
grew so emaciated and weak that | could not
get upstairs. In February l began the use of
your Brazilian Pills, and before ! had taken half
the box was so far recovered that l could use
the Mall and Wedges. / am now (April 30), in
'Up-tOp condition. have had dyspepsia all my
life but since taking these pills every symptom
has disappeared, my mind and memory in sym.
pathy with the body is clearer and more active.
PETER SMITH"
SO Pills in a box (sugar-coated) 50 cents For
sale by Druggists and Dealers.
LOwber's Worm LOzenses,
Pleasant to the taste cordial to the stomach. A
reliable Worm destroyer excellent for bilious
ness in children-35 in box, % cts. Druggists
and dealers.
Smyrna times., 1889-09-04
Through to Boston.

Th passage of the first train over
the new POughkeepsie, N. Y, bridge
was celebrated last week with great
eclat. This bridge with a short con-
Meeting line, forms the link to be rem
dered available for the purpose of
through freight traffic, without de-
tiOu at Jersey City, by the Delaware
& New England Company, a corpora
tion chartered by the late Delaware
Legislature. The Philadelphia Inquir-
er regards the new route as heavily
handicapped in its competition for the
coal trade by the fact that it materially
shOrtens the haul that the companies
controlling that trade get over their
own roads. The Reading, for instance,
gains a much larger sum in tolls if it
hauls its coal to either Port Richmond
or Elizabethport than if it hands it
over to the bridge route at Hamburg"
Smyrna times., 1889-09-04
A Red Lion Watermelon.

Told by Rev. Benz C. Warren.
Thursday of last week, Rev. E.
HOffecker, of the New York Confer
ence, conducted me to the Office of The
Christian AdvOcate, where we had a
very pleasant interview with DR.. Buck
ley, who told US, that years ago, when
he was a boy, he visited Red Lion
Camp down on the Peninsula" and
that man offered to sell him a water
melon fOr$2.5O. On being asked why
he charged so much for it, the man
removed plug from the side of the
melon and assured the doctor that it
had the best juice of any melon that
ever grew. 1t is hardly necessary to
add, that 1.-THE juice" of the melon was
rye whiskey. l told the doctor that
in these days no such watermelons
were to be found on the Peninsula.
Smyrna times., 1889-09-04

The National Encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic in Mil
waukee, refused last week to recognize
the Sons of Veterans as an auxiliary to
the G. A. r. A resolution was adop.
ted thanking President Harrison for
the appointment of Corporal Tanner as
Commissioner of Pensions, declaring
their complete confidence in his integ-
rity approving his endeavors to do all
that can be done under the law for the
veterans of the war. The resolution
also asked for a full investigation OF
his administration of the Pension
Bureau.
Smyrna times., 1889-09-04

Dalmatian insect power as q remedy
for the cabbage worm has been tried
this season with success. 1t is busted
over the plant occasionally with dust
ing-box or blown from a small bellows.
A solution of tablespoonful of saltpe-
ire in a gallon of warm water sprink.
led over the cabbages once a week has
also been a valuble remedy. and the
work Ofapplying it is not laboriOus, as
a watering-pOt can be used.
Smyrna times., 1889-09-04

A few nights ago two gentlemen, of
Milford, one Democrat and the other
Republican, were talking politics.
The Republican asserted that his party
would carry Delaware in 80. The
Democrat Immediately said that he
would bet five dollars the Republi-
cans would neUer again carry the
State. The bet was Immediately taken
and the two five dollar bills were put
in the hands of a third party, with the
understanding that he use the money,
and, if the Republicans never carried
the State, he would never have the
money to replace. Strange bet was it
not?
Smyrna times., 1889-09-04

thing looked brighter, happier, love-
lier. I felt contented, energetic and
went to work on some of my thousand
page medical works that evening with
renewed vigor. The study was more
fascinating than ever. Did you ever
think what insanity means? 1t is
indeed fearful thing to contemplate.
To those poor creatures this joyous
world is a blank-a nOnenity. To
them all is stygian darkness. The
glorious sunshine, the beautiful songs
of the birds, the delightful fragrance
of the fiOwers-all are as dead as their
own blighted intellects.
To the cheerful greetings of friends,
loyal and true, or to those who one
day were dearer-aye than life itself,
they can but return idiotic mumblings.
We pity them. They are deserving of
all the tender care and solicitude
bestowed upon them. have stood by
bedsides where life hung by a thread.
have attended sick mothers of the
poorest in bOx-like apartments up four
or five flights of dark, back rickety old
stairways and have seen starvation
written on their pale, wretched coun-
tenances. l have heard the agonizing
shrieks Of those patients enduring the
most terrible suffering. l have wit
messed surgical operations that made
the stoutest of us quail-yea 1 have
seen the work of the grim monster,
death itself in many forms, and have
learned to face these with fair degree
of GOODNESS; but to me there is some
thing in the eyes snaky CLEAN, this
frightful cOntortions, the awful yell OF
the maniac-the echo of lost soul -
far more terrifying.
w. X. CONAwAY.
Smyrna times., 1889-09-04

Private Secretary Halford has begun
suit against a cigarette firm to prevent
them sending out photographs of his
daughter with their goods. 1t is get
ting to be almost unbearable, and
many a modest womun has been
shamed to learn that her face has
become the property of every tough
who smokes a cigarette. 1t was bad
enough when the scantily-draped forms
of fiashy actresses were used, but to
have modest woman's picture made
common property is going too far.
Smyrna times., 1889-09-04

The seized sealers will have their
cases tried in the Alaskan district
court. The Rush will proceed to San
Francisco when relieved by the Bear
at Onnalaska. In all there have been
fourteen sealers boarded by the Rush
and warned out of the Behring Sea,
besides six ct Dtured.
The St. Pal brought down 100000
seal skins.
Smyrna times., 1889-09-04
ConsumptIon surely Cured,

To THE EDTroR.-please inform your readers
that have q positive remedy iQr the above nam
ed disease. BY SIS timely use thousands Of hope
less cases have been permanently cured. shall
be glad to send two bottles Of my remedy FREE to
any of your readers who have consumption II
they win send me their express and postohice
address Respectfully,
n. "A. sL0CUM, NJ. c., Isl Pearl g.. New York
Smyrna times., 1889-09-04

Mr.. AlgernOn Wydpants, making a
long call "Of course, Miss Fussan-
feather, you are aware 1 am called to
Newport to pass the rest of the sum-
mer?'
Miss Fussanfeather, weary of enter
tanning him, "Y-e-s?"
"Oh, indeed! Have some friends
nrging me to come Immediately"
''HOw nice Then, OF course, you
will leave at once!"
Mr.. Wydpants is still wondering
how he ought to take that remark.
Smyrna times., 1889-09-04

Bill collector "Ah, sir, good morn
ing. So you have just returned from
the glorious Catskills?"
Merchant: Eyes, yes, oh, yes; got
back yesterday fine country"
Family well?"
VERY, thanks-did 'em good. It
pays to go away for while in sum-
mer."
"Yes, they say little change may
be very beneficial. I'm glad to hear
that something pays. Would it be too
much trouble to-er"-&c. presenting
bill.
Smyrna times., 1889-09-04

The hog cholera continues unabated,
about MiddletOwn anda large number
of the swine have died of the disease.
Mr.. Harry Ellison, a well-known
farmer residing a short distance from
town, has lost 4S head within the past
few weeks, and only has seven left.
These will probably live. Several town
residents have been losers by the dis
ease.