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Mower County transcript., 1890-04-23
Epitomo of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION,
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CONGRESSIONAL.


RESOLUTIONS OF respect to tho memory OF
tho late Samuel J. Randall were adopted In
ths Senate on the l4th, and adjournment wOs
ordered. '. In the House the death Of Samuel
J. Randall was announced and resolutions OF
respect were adopted, after which an adjourn.
ment was taken.
SENATOR Cameron introduced pension bill
In the Senate on tho 18th providing that all
persons who served in the late war shall re-.
cetve service pension Of IS month and their
widows el2 . month"; Tho Montana election
case was further discussed. In the House
the naval appropriation bill was passed. also
bill to define and regulate the jurisdiction OF
the courts o. the United States.
IN tho Senate on the 10th Saunders and
Powers (RepS.) wero seated Is Senators from
Montana House bills were passed for public
buildings ut Galesburg. ILL.,, Ashland Wis,
and Grand Rapids. Mich. In the House the
Mckinley tariff bill was reported and referred.
As finally agreed upon tho bill places hides and
sugar on the free list and provides for the pay.
ment OF bounty Of two cents q pound on
domestic sugars The total reduction of rev.
onues was e,timated 1T S1l.s64,Sl4 In the con.
tested election GASES Of Posay vs.. Parrctt from
tho First Indiana district and Bowen vs.
Buchanan from the Ninth district Of Virginia.
Mossrs. Parrett and Buchanan (Dems.) were
declared elected The military aoademy ap-
preparation bill was passed
BILL retiring John c. Fremont as . Major.
General OF the United States army was passed
In the Senate on the 18th. A joint resolution
for the appointment OF thirty medical oxamin
ers for the bureau Of pensions without refer
enoe to tho civil-service law was discussed. -.
In the House, after the reading OF the JOURNAL
. motion to adjourn as q tribute Of respect to
the memory Of Samuel j. Randall whose funer.
A occurred at 10 q M. was adopted.
BILLS were introduced in the Senate on tho
18th providing for = monument to Commodore
Perry At Put-in-Bay, O., and for tho admission
Of New Mexico 80 State OF the Union. It was
decided to consider the worlds fair bill on the
elst. In the House the river and harbor bill
(SO.OO.OO) was reported A bill to erect q
pubic building in every town in the United
States in which the postal receipts exoeed s..
900 year was favorably reported. At the
evening session fifty private pension bills were
considered
Mower County transcript., 1890-04-23
LATEST NEWE
Stanley In Belgium.

BRUSSELS, April 19.-Henry NJ. Stan
ley, the African explorer, and the party
accompanying him, reached this city at
2 O'Clock this afternoon. A great crowd
Of people had gathered at the railway
station some time before the arrival Of
the train from Paris, and when Mr..
Stanley appeared he was given an,ova-
tion. The city was decorated in honor
of Mr. Stanley and wore gala appear
ance. The flags of Belgium, the United
States and the Congo Free State were
lavishly used. Tonight the explorer
is dining with the king at the royal
palace.
Mower County transcript., 1890-04-23
4 kNox.no coLL,E.
A Awfu1ly smart Deg Who UndoFstaoAO
the English Laneua "a

A Awfully smart Dog who UndsrstaaAs
the EnElish language.
I saw. this myself, down In Kentucky.
and thereunto ! give my hand and seal
snd can produce my Witnesses in proper
form. ] was visiting cousin down in
the bluegrass region-Conner was his
name. He has been member of tho
Kentucky Legislature for years He
has . magnificent farm, herd Of ane
cattle, good horses, and other posses-
sions that belong naturally to the Ken.
tucky gentleman Of the old school We
were sitting out on the old verands in
the shade one hot August afternoon,
smoking. A splendid collie lay sleep
ing on the step. commented on his
beauty. ...-.s Z
"Yes," said the legislator, ''that's
the smartest dog in all this country.
Every evening at six o'clock, punctual
to the minute, he goes by himself and
brings the cows from the pasture"
Then the conversation turned upon
something else and we forgot all about
the dog. In little while we heard .
commotion in the road before tho front
gate. and there was the collie with the
whole herd, which he had reused from
their siesta and cud-chewing in the
middle of the afternoon. His tail
waived like q plume, his ears were
cooked, his tongue was lolling out and
dripping, his eyes were blazing with
pride, and smile of radiant exultation
lighted his handsome face. He said, as
plainly as ever man spoke: There
ye see, it's true; 1 can do it just exactly
as I'm billed" h..
But pride goes before q fall, or some-
thing Of that sort, silly old saying
whatever it is. Conner looked down
the front walk in amazement; then he
stood up and shouted, as only six-foot-
er of Kentuckian can shout: "You,
Ranger. take those cows straight back
where ye got 'em from"
And the dog understood the English
language perfectly. But what trans
formation! His ears fell, he hung his
head, tucked his tail between his legs,
and started of down the road again.
He was the most chagrined, detected
and humiliated creature ye ever saw.
Kentucky Bourbon? No; I never drink
it-ChicapO Inter.Ocaan
Mower County transcript., 1890-04-23
THE PLASTER STUCK.
And y Order to Get Rid of It . Miner
Had to Break Ills Neck. 8 81

Ana ~ Order to Get Rid At It q MlneR
Had to Break Ills Neck.
i A miner named Tobias, in our camp
on Chickasaw Shelf, had been suffering
with wandering rheumatic pains for sey-
eral weeks, and the most OF them finally
got together between his shoulders and
hung there. He tried one thing and an
other until our brief list OF remedies
was exhausted, and then brilliant idea
struck him. He gathered some pitch of
an old stub, added some tar scraped from
the wheels OF Q passing cart, and melted
1t up for plaster. He took piece Of
stout canvas . foot square, covered 1t
over with the mixture, and then had one
Of the boys clap it on his back. The re-
suits were all he could have hoped for.
In four or Ave days the pains left him,
but day or two later the plaster began
itching SO vigorously that he had to stop
and rub his back on q stone every ten or
fifteen minutes. -.... s....
The boys were finally appealed to to
rid Tobias Of his tormentor, but we in
vestigated to discover that the only way
to get 1t off was to skin him. It seemed
to have grown into his flesh, and the
slightest pull at 1t made him yell with
the hurt. We tried soaking and greas-
ing and reheatin, but it was no 60. And
the more we fooled with it the more it
ltched. We had heap of fun at the
poor mans expense, for by and by he
had to get up nights to go and rub on
his favorite bowlder. BY and by he de-
clared that it must come of, happen
what would. He wouldn't let one of US
touch it, but planned way Of his own.
He had one Of the boys cut hole in the
margin Of the cloth at the top and run a
small rope through it. The other end
was made fast to stone weighing about
a hundred pounds. When all was ready
Tobias took his stand on the brink of
0ulch thirty feet deep, shut his eyes
and teeth, grabbed a stake with both
hands, and gave the word to push the
stone over. When the rope straight
ened Tobias uttered yell which was
heard mile, and five seconds later let
go of the stake and went head over
heels down into the gulch. We climbed
lown a. soon as possible, but it was no
lse. The fall had broken his neck.
When we turned him over to see about
the plaster it was there in the same old
spot. The weight of that stone hadn't
even started it loose at the top. ~. Y.
Sun.
Mower County transcript., 1890-04-23
CURIOUS CALCULATIONS.
Tho Number of Babies Born In tho World
Each Year.

The Number of Babies Born In tho World
Each Year.
It has been computed that between
se,o0o,o 900 and 81, 600, 600 babies are born
in the world each year. The rate of
production is, therefore. about 70 per
minute, or rather more than one for
every beat of the clock. With the one
a-minute calculation every reader is
familiar, but it is not every one who
stops to calculate what this means when
it comes to years supply; it will. there
fore, probably startle good many per-
sons to find on authority weu-known
hospital writer that, could the infants
of year be ranged in line in cradles,
the cradles would be overflowing and at
the same time extend around the globe.
We have the ingenious conclusion also
that supposing the little ones grow up,
and the sexes be about equally divided,
we would have an army 100 times larger
than that Of Great Britain, and = Hife
for each soldier besides. The same
writer looks at the matter in still
more picturesque light. He imagines
the babies being carried past given
point in their mothers arms, one BY
one, and the procession being kept up
night and day until the last corner in
the twelve-month had passed by. A
sufficiently liberal rate is allowed. but
even in going past at the rate Of 20 .
minute the reviewer 1T his post would
only have seen the sixth part of this In
fantile host after they had boon passing
him at the rate of 1900 IN hour during
tie entire year! In other words, the
babe that had to be carried when tho
tramp began, would be able to walk
when but = mere fraction of its COM
rades had reached the reviewers post;
and when the years supply Of bsbies
was drawing to close, there would be
. rear guard, not of infants, but Of romp-
ing six-year-old boys and girls.-St.
Louis Republic
Mower County transcript., 1890-04-23
ISLES" IN THREAD.
How tho Numbers Now In Use Originate
and What They Mean.

How tho Numbers Now in Use Originated
and What They Mean.
Every seamstrcss, whether she wants
No. 80 or 60 or 125 thread, knows from
the number just what size the thread
will be and what kind of sewing it can
be used for; but how the numbers came
to be just what they are and just what
they mean not one person in 1000
knows; yet it is very simple matter to
explain, providing you only know the
points and how to elucidate them.
When $40 yards of yarn weigh 1000
grains, q pound of cotton, the thread
makers mark it No. l. If 1850 yards
weigh pound it is marked as No. 2.
For No. so yarn it would take so multi
piled by $40 to weigh pound; this is
the whole explanation of the yard meas
urement as used by the spool cotton
manufacturers The early manufact-
ured thread was of three instead of six
cord, the number being derived
from the number of yards to
the pound, just as it is to-day. No. 60
yarn made No. 60 thread, though in
point of fact the actual caliber of No. 60
thread would equal No. 20 yarn, being
made of three No 30 strands twisted to-
gether. .4< 80, ...:. ..
When the sewing-machine came into
the market as the great thread-consum-
or, unreasoning in its work and in
exorable in its demands for mechanical
accuracy, six-cord cotton had to be made
in place OF the old and rougher three
cord, it being much smoother. As thread
numbers were already established, they
were not altered for the new article, and
No 80 six-cord and No. 60 three-cord
were left identical in both size and
number. To effect this the six-cord has
to be made of yarn twice as fine as that
dem anded in making the three-cord
variety. The No. so six-cord is made Of
six strands of No. 100 yarn. The three
cord spool cotton is the same number as
the yarn is made OF. Six-cord spool cot
ton is always made from yarn double its
number. Thread is q simple thing, but,
simple as it is, there are 1000 kinds of
it and each kind goes through hundreds
Ct different processes.-St. Louis Re-
public.
Mower County transcript., 1890-04-23
They Found Coal.

John Smith and Joseph Sheridan. two
expert woll drillers, are drilling we'll
on the farm of Joseph Remiok, near the
village Of Shieldsville, and when at the
depth o. about 200 feet recently. their
drill passed through dve feet Of what
seemed to be black band ore, and be.
meath this there were several inches of
coal. Mr.. Gruber said this was tho best
indication of coal he had seen in Minne-
sofa.
Mower County transcript., 1890-04-23

DR.. J. Owens, one of the leading
physicians Of the Northwest, died of
consumption at tho Metropolitan Hotel
In St. Paul the other day. DR.. Owens
graduated at the University OF New
York in 1878, taking the honors of his
class. He was made professor In the
St. Paul Medical College in 1881, and
later became editor Of the North wes tern
Lancet
Mower County transcript., 1890-04-23
A Fatal FAN.

Joseph Mills, on Truax Prairie, was
cleaning out we'll recently on the
farm OF Harvey Ganong, and was being
hoisted out OF the we'll when he was
overcome by the impure air and fell
backwards. One foot became entangled
in the rope and he was hoisted nearly
to the top when the rope broke and he
fell to the bottom and was instantly
killed.
Mower County transcript., 1890-04-23

a.CoMMODoRE" LOUIS ScuwARrz, Who
Was said to have introduced lager beer
Into this country, died at Elizabeth, N.
J., on the 10th, aged 50 years.
AT the Republican State conventi
In Portland, Ore, on the 18th Binger
Hermann was renominated for Con
gresham at large and D. A. Thompson.
Of Portland. was named Tor Governor.
THE Massachusetts House Of Repre-.
sentatives on the l7th rejected by vote
of III to 40 the bill to give municipal
suffrage to women.
Ex-PREslpENr HAYES and his daurh.
ter Fannie sailed from New York on the
18th for Bermuda.
THE funeral ceremonies over the re-.
mains Of the late Representative Ran.
dali took place from the Metropolitan
Presbyterian Church at Washington on
the 18th, and on tho conclusion of the
services tho remains were taken to Phil.
adelphia for interment
THE Tennessee Prohibitionists will
meet in State convention at Nashville
June 4.
AT Shoals, Ind, a Democratic conyen.
tion on the 18th nominated John F.
Britz for Congress from the Sc cond dis
trict on the SS7th ballot.
THE Oregon Democrats in State con.
vention on the 18th at Independence
nomin ated for congressman N. l.. But
ler and George Myers.
Mower County transcript., 1890-04-23
The News Brlouy cnrou,o,ed.

8nO NO"o nEbOuy NuEOuNOSOus
At Fergus Falls the other day, Mrs.
Walter Bohn was trampled to death by
horse.
J. M. Donaldson. Minneapolis jewel
or, was recently robbed Of valuable
diamonds at Butte, Mont
Mrs. Belle Giddings, of Minneapolis,
shot herself the other day. She was
orazed with pain from neuraliga.
The Southern Minnesota Sheep Breed
ers' Association have decided to hold
their annual sheep shearing at Eyota
on Saturday, May 4.
There are 1856 children in the forty
one public schools of st. Paul.
The trestle on the Milwaukee railway
at Lamoille was burned at O'Clock the
other morning.
An interesting discovery Of ancient
Tolteo or Aztec pottery was recently
made at Grand Marais, and large guam.
tity of andirons and broken vessels had
been taken out.
Mrs. William Bohn, aged 70, Of Fer
gus Falls, fell in front of horse recent
ly and received fatal injuries.
The Board OF Education of Fergus
Falls have elected Prof. Frank A. Weld
superintendent Of the city schools.
Mrs. F. r. Griffin, wife Of Superin.
tendent Griffin, of the Northern Pacific
road, died suddenly of heart disease 1T
Fergus Falls recently.
The United States Senate recently
passed the bill for reimbursement to O.
NJ. Laraway, late postmaster of Mime
apolis, for the robbery of his Office.
Henry Willard promised at reception
given the other night at Minneapolis
that the electric exhibit made At tho
Paris worlds fair shall be duplicated at
the Minneapolis exhibition in Sep
tember.
Mary johnson, = 7-year-old girl Of
Fergus Falls, was crushed to death in
the Northern Pacific turn-table the
other night 49,. -.~~~-..~.
An Alliance cheese factory is to be
started at Magnolia.
The barn of P. Barry, of Ellsworth,
was destroyed by fire the other morn
ing, together with q valuable team of
horses and quantity OF hay and grain.
The st. Paul presbytery recently de-
cided in favor of the revision of the con-
fession Of faith. The Duluth presbytery
voted against revision. --
The Indians in the neighborhood of
Pipestone are taking great deal OF In
terest in the establishment Of an Indian
school at that place. A petition with
the signatures Of 2s3 Indians attached
was recently forwarded to Washington.
Samuel Dawson, son Of st. Paul
millionaire, was robbed at Little Rock,
Ark, recently Of $1,000. ss..=. H.. :, \
News was received In Minneapolis re.
gently Of the death at Nassau. Bahama
Islands, Of malarial fever, Of ex-Con-
gresham Eugene M. Wilson, Demo-
cratic candidate for Governor Of Minne-
sofa in 1883 and member Of Congress in
1868.
. Levdausky's dry-goods store and M.
Norastrum's blacksmith shop at Sacred
Heart we're destroyed recently by are,
resulting from . lamp explosion. Tine
loss was about $40, 900, exclusive Of $500
in money which was consumed In Low.
dsusky's store.
Mower County transcript., 1890-04-23
EIGHT. Hour Men.

Tho Minnesota Eight-Hour League
met at st. Paul the other afternoon. 400
delegates, representing every large city
in the State, being present A motion
was adopted for a meeting OF representa-
tives from all labor organizations OF the
State, to be held at date in tho near
future, for the formation of State
federation of labor.
Mower County transcript., 1890-04-23
Last of tho Pan.

WASHINGTON, April 19.-The Inter-
national American conference at noon
to-day adjourned sine die. Prior to ad-
journment the delegation from Chilli
offered a resolution, which was adopt
ed, that to commemorate this conference
countries represented associate them
selves with the United States in cele-
brating the 4O0th anniversary of the
discovery of America by Columbus.
Resolutions thanking the various off,
GERS of the conference were also adopt
ed. Secretary Blaine made a closing
speech.
Mower County transcript., 1890-04-23
Death Of Caprivrs Cousin,

Frederick Vonschlegell. Judge Of pro-
bate OF Hennepin County for a num-
ber of years, died at Minneapolis
the other morning of cancer of
the liver. He was Republic
an. He had been educated in Ger
many, and served in the German army
in the body guard of the Emperor. He
was also q cousin OF Chancellor Caprivi
Mower County transcript., 1890-04-23
A Locomotive Explodes.

A Alooomotive explosion occurred tho
other afternoon on the Rochester &
Plainview branch of the Winona s. St.
Peter railroad. 1t occurred just as the
train from Plainview was pulling into
Viola Center. Sixty feet of track was
blown up and the engine completely
wrecked. No one was hurt.
Mower County transcript., 1890-04-23
FOREIGN.

4HE IFuSSlRn D1OC was opened on the
18TH by Chancellor Won Caprivi, the sue.
cessor of Bismarck, who in q lengthy
/ speech expressed confidence in the fu.
ture peace Of the empire. w..
The India National Congress on the
18th adopted resolutions demanding
home rule for India and hailing Glad.
stone as the champion OF the cause.
At Bergamo, Italy, the root Of weav.
ing mill in which 800 girls were at work
fel. in on the 10th and seventeen OF
them were killed.
The annual report on the 10th of the
Canadian fisheries department showed
! that the product of last year was ST..
655, 366, gain of $3.50, 745 over the pre-.
vious twelve months.
THE public debt of France was on the
10th estimated at So, 200. 900, 900, making
it the heaviest OF any country in Europe.
In the ruins Of house Of a woman
named Skohiski, which was destroyed
by fire on the 18th at Varsovia, Costa
Rioa, the police discovered moro than
sixty corpses, forty Of infants and the
others OF young girls from - to Is years
Of age.
THE Imperial palace at Oramenbaum,
near St. Petersburg, was burned on the
18th, and Sc ven servants lost their lives
in the flames.
At Moscow, Russia, the bodies of tho
widow OF an army officer and her fve
daughters were found in their house ON
the 18th. They had committed suicide
rather than endure their poverty.
In the British House of Commons on
the 18th Chancellor Goschen said the
revenue from alcoholic beverages the
past year was over &S20, 0o0. 900. and the
figures showed a universal rush to the
beer barrel. the spirit bottle and the
wine decanter. E.
OVER 30. 900 cases of la grippe were re-
ported on the 17th in Valparaiso 81 s<,. :
The British steamer Euclid was sunk
on the 18th in = collision with, the
steamer Altyre near Hartlepool, and the
Euclid's captain and three of her sailors
were drowned.
AN incendiary fire on the 18th de.
stroycd 130 houses at Neu-Iandeo, in
Austria.
THE schooner Annie May was lost on
the 18th at Codroy, Can, and the cap
tain and three men were drowned.
The Dahomeyan army, with tho King
at its head, arrived near Porto Novo on
the 18th. On the march the Dahomey.
ans burned eight villages.
Mower County transcript., 1890-04-23
Babes Burned to. Death.


BETHLEHAM, Pa, April 19.-The log
house Of farmer Andrew Young, Of
lPennsville, near here, was destroyed by
fire last night. Two little children OF
Mr.. Young were burned to death, and
Mrs. Sields, the housekeeper. was hor-
ribly burned while rescuing the other
children. The fire was caused by the
explosion of a coal oil lamp.
AN express and freight train on the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad collided near
Barnesville. o., on the 10th. Both
trains were badly wrecked, an engineer
killed and several passengers wounded.
| AT Cleveland, O., on the Goth, Mrs.
John Schumacher went to the attic,
pounded her head with hammer until
almost unconscious and then hanged
herself from door hinge. It is thought
she was insane.
AT q colored baptizing given in a
creek near Springfield, O., on the aoth,
a part Of bridge loaded with spectators
gave way. Four persons were fatally
Ihurt and over fifty were injured.
STEVE JACOBS, q colored man who
was suspected Of burning barns about
Fayetteville, Tenn, was on the Goth
taken By : mob and lynched BY hang
ling.
Mower County transcript., 1890-04-23
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL :

1T was 8C8G0Q ON Inc l4Gu LQ8Cs WHO
Mr. Lawrence Barrett's general health
was not affected, humorous growths
would probably prevent him from ever
again appearing on the stage. s
ANDREW CAMPBELL, the well-known
inventor and manufacturer of printing
presses, died suddenly in Brooklyn, N.
Y, on the 14th, of heart failure, aged 80
years. T15 '.,'>
MRS. LAURA M. JOHNS, president of
the Kansas State Woman Suffrage Asso-
citation, contradicted on the 14th the
statement that women we're getting
tired Of voting at municipal elections
and were ceasing to vote. She said that
women were steadily gaining influence
in nominations and elections. .l
IowA's Twenty-third General Assem-
bly, adjourned sine die on the 18th at
Des Moines. The resolution for pro-
hibitory amendment passed the Senate,
but failed to receive the necessary two
thirds vote in the House. =.
AT the municipal elections in Illinois
on the 18th forty two out Of sixty-seven
towns voted against license.
JACOB EsTEY, the famous organ man
ufacturer, died suddenly on the 18th at
his home in Brattleboro, VT, aged 20
years.
GOULD ROCKWELL, q millionaire and
retired Businessman, 81 years old, and
Miss Mamie Louise Deleyane, aged 20
years, were married on the 18th ct Lew
isboro, n
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-19
1.-CopyriGht-Kunkei Brosu 1856

the puppet man out of countenance.
Suddenly he whops over his hourglass
with q jerk and q procession OF small
bears dressed as hunters and soldiers
whirls around in front of him. Another
pause. Then little puppet jester strikes
bell; the cock comes forward and
creaks again. A pause. The hour strikes;
the mans mouth jerks open and shut,
while the big bear at his right mods his
head. This is supposed to be counting
of the strokes, but the mods and the
jerks are ridiculously behind time. We
still stare anxiously after this and are
rewarded by another wall from the
broken hearted cock; then it is all over
for this hour. 1t is a slow show, but far
more amusing than il the cock crowed
like real cock and the machinery ran
on time. 81 sS
There is general barking of unhappy
dogs. They are being hitched into the
carts now, the country people are pack
ing up their things and it is time for
lunch. Au revoir.
JESSIE CORINNE CHAMBERLIN.