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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-08-13
Tho News Briefly hrvntclort.

The News Isr,sLv hrrntclot.
Paul Windberg, 13.year-old Duluth
boy, was drowned the other day.
The store of Bradley Bros at Lake
Benton, was loosed by gang of tramps
recently.
Nels Haglund, q Minneapolis saloon
keeper, was run over by sire ct car and
KILLED.
The directors of the st. Paul & Du-
luth railroad declared dividend of 4
per cent. on preferred stock the other
day at New York.
H. Shank, aged "a years, and Miss
Edith Cleveland, aged 16, both Of the
village of Morristown, eloped and were
married. The knot was tied in Wis
consin. This is Shank's fourth wife.
Florence Dow, a St. Paul girl, was
drowned recently while bathing at Du-
luth.
Enoch L. Ray, license inspector OF
Minneapolis, is in Canada with $4,000
OF funds intrusted to his care by saloon
keepers. When last heard from he was
in Montreal. '''. &"
The financial statement Of the Farm
ers' State Institute was made recently
by Superin tendent o. G. Gregg. Itshows
that for the year ended July 81, 1890,
the expenses of the Institutes amounted
to $500. The report will be presented
to the State Board of Farmers lnsti-
tutes at its next meeting about Septem.
har & -.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-08-13

FULL returns from the elections III
oklahoma Territory showed on the 7th
that tho Republicans would have :
majority on joint ballot Of the two
houses Of the Legislature.
CoNaREssM IN MORTON, Of the Sew
enth Missouri district, was renominated
to succeed himself by the Democratic
convention held at St Charles on the
Sth.
FIRST ASSISTANT PosTMAsrER.G EyER-
AL CLARKsoN rendered his resignation
to President Harrison on the 9Th, to take
effect Septem' or |.
PRESIDENT HARRISON on the Sth sent
the following nominations to the Sen.
ate: Alexander Clark. Of Iowa, Min
lister resident and Consul General to
Liberia. Consuls-S. b. Horne, of Con-
neotiout at st Thomas, w. l.; Adam
Liebernecht, Of Illinois, at Ta,npico;
Samuel McNutt, Of Iowa, at Maracaibo;
H. l.. Rand, OF Illinois, at Ponape, Car
oline Islands; Alonzo Spencer, Of New
York, at Guadaloupe.
GEORGE Il. SHAW, Supreme Chancellor
of the Knights OF Pythias, on the sth
appointed as his secretary w. s. Rad
oliffe, of st. Louis, who will have charge
OF the Pythian civic headquarters Of the
world in Eau Claire, Wis.
MAXWELL EvARrs, youngest son OF
Senator William NJ. Evarts, was on the
Sth appointed Assistant United States
District Attorney in New York City by
President Harrison.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-08-13
The business Outlook.

New YoRk, Aug. Or. g: Dun &
Co. s weekly review of trade says that
less favorable crop prospects, closer
money markets and further delay in &C
tion on the tariff bill in the Senate have
increased the uncertainty which retards
business. In spite of a sharp advance
In wheat corn, oats, oil and coffee, the
general average of prices for commodi-
ties is shade lower than a week ago.
The outlook depends largely upon the
extent OF injury to crops, the action OF
Congress regarding duties and the
foreign complications which affect the
demand for gold. ..,.s.. r.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-08-13
LATER NEWS,
Some Trains Running.

NEW YORK, Aug. 1O.-The strikers
traffic on the Central railroad, and 1t is
evident that a general feeling Of disap-
pointment prevails among the strikers,
though they will not admit this. They
placed strong reliance upon the assist
ance of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers, who, according to many of
the Knights, were to have taken b and
in the fight last night. A promi1 ent
member Of the Brotherhood said TOD day
that the Locomotive Engineers were
not to be in this strike. It was not
their fight, but of course, he added,
should they be ordered out, they would
go. He did not think such an order
would be given. The Brotherhood,
said several others, remembers the c.,
b. &, @. strike, in which their places
were taken by knights of Labor, and
are not ovcr-anxious to help the Knights
now. To-day the regular schedule pas
senger service of the Hudson. River &
New York Central and the Harlem
roads was resumed, the only change be-
ing the consolidation of outgoing Wes-
tern trains.
The first car of new wheat of the crop
of 1890 was received at Minneapolis,
August 2, by Messrs. Woodward & Co.
1t was shipped by the Monmouth Mer-
chant Mills of Mitchell, S. D. 1t graded
No. 1 Northern, the quality being fine
and was sold at 95 cents on track. This
wheat was raised by l.. j. Ball, and is
from field which threshed out an
average of 20 bushels to the acre.
On the 10th John Boyle OReilly the
editor-poet, died at his home at Nam
tucket Beach. The cause of his death
was accidental poisoning.
The Greenbackers decided to hold
national convention at Indianapolis on
Aug. ~.
For the week ending Aug. 10, the
bodies of eight murdered infants have
been found in Memphis, Tenn. A mass
meeting of citizens to raise funds to
prosecute the investigation is being
agitated, and meets with much favor.
AT Portland, Or, on the 10th, Charles
Casgroye aeronaut, was killed while
making parachute decension. When
about two hundred feet from the ground
he lost his hold and fell, landing on q
paved street. He was mangled almost
beyond recognition. -
FoRrY thousand socialists paraded
the streets of Brussels, Belgium, on the
10th. ~ z>>Zs3 ~, s.. ~ al. ~
ADy1cEs from the Red River Valley
state that havestinq was in progress on
tho 10th m = ,<.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-08-13
FOREIGN.

1T was reported on the 5th that chol-
era in virulent form had appeared in
several Russian towns on the Polish
frontier.
ADvICEs OF the 5th say that President
Celman, Of the Argentine Republic, had
resigned, and that deputies who vote
against accepting the resignation, were
threatened with death.
ADvlCEs of the 9Th say that President
Celman of the Argentine Republic had
withdrawn his resignation, the Senate
refusing to accept it.
AT the session of the Information al
Medical Congress. being held at Berlin
on the 5th, Prof. Virchow, president of
the congress, stated that 7,O58 mem ber-
ship cards had been issued. OF this
number 623 were issued to American,
42l to Russian, 1853 to British and l7S to
French physicians. 1t was decided to
hold the next congress in Rome in $685.
MOFFET COLLEGE, on Isle Perrot near
Montreal, Cam, was burned on the
morning Of the 7th, and the 800 students
were reported to be quartered in out
buildings and farm houses
ADvlcEs of the 7th say that the Hun
garian town OF Moor had been almost
totally destroyed by fire and that many
persons lost their lives
The election OF Pellegrini to the Pres
idency of the Argentine Republic on
the 7th caused popular rejoicing at
Buenos Ayres. A decree promulgated
raises the state of siege and declared
the liberty of the press.
ADv1cEs Of the Sth say that twanty Ct
the passengers who were on the train
that was derailed and thrown down an
embankment into marsh near Pitzen,
in Bohemia, we're missing, and it was
feared that they were drowned and
their bodies washed away.
The spread of cholera in the south of
Spain was on the Sth said to have
caused panic among the inhabitants
and general exodus had begun to the
north of Spain and France. The NOR
tality at Jeddah was said to be about
100 daily.
The Socorro mine, near Hermosillo,
in Sonora, Mex, was flooded on the
sth and twenty miners were drowned.
THE Treasury Department at Wash
ington was advised on the 9Th that
leprosy existed among the Cuban en-
ployes of the great cigar factories at
Key West and Tampa. Fla.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-08-13
Postal Cards for La,ises.

BIRMINGHAM, Coun., Aug. 2-The
Unconstitutional has made q call for
samples of pearl-gray cardboard, to be
used in the manufacture of correspond
ence postal cards for ladies. Wilkinson
Bros & Co. have sublet the contract to
the Whiting Paper Company, OF Hcl-
yoke, Mass. and this firm will make the
samples. The cards are to be one-thlrd
smaller than the regular cards.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-08-13

PEsrH, Aug. "a number of villages
in Hungary have been destroyed by
fires, which have also devastated
large section of country: Immense
stores of corn and other grain have been
burned, end terrible restitution pre-
walls among the homeless Inhabitants.
At Rorosbocaird women and six chill
dren were burned to death. At Moor
ten lives were lost .s,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-08-13
To Have u Now Hotel.

Crookston rejoices in the certainty of
= new hotel. Property owners have
subscribed the needed $1,000 bonus
Plans are complete and work will begin
at once.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-08-13
Killed by n Motor.

The other evening the 6-year-old son
of Peter Thai, who lives at 1859
Ross street, St. Paul, was run over by
the North St. Paul motor and most hor-
ribly mangled. He was taken home at
once and attended by DR.. Cutter, but he
died in few hours.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-08-13
Twantv Nline,n Drowned.

Cry OF MEXICO, Aug. 9.-The
Socorro mine, near Hermosillo in
Sonora, has been flooded. and twenty
miners have been drowned.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-08-13
Drowned In Lake M,nnetonks.

Louis De w. Washburn, q leading
civil engineer of Minneapolis, was
drowned in Lake Minnet onka the other
night with his niece, Gussie Buchanan,
daughter of E. H. Buchanan, of Sioux
City. la. He was in the water near his
cottage trying to teach the girl to swim
when he was seized with cramps and
both went down,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-08-13
SIMPLY SPOKE HIS NAME.

A Man Mortally Wounded Found Along
aldo y Railway Track.
The other afternoon the mon on tho
Great Northern train from Moorhead
found a man by the side of the track
near Kent. in this county, in a dying
condition. He appeared to have been
struck either by passenger train or bv
some instrument on the side OF the
head. crushing the skcll and making q
wound three or four inches long by one
and q half or two inches broad,
through which the brains were oozing
out He was in comatose state, but
under the influence of stimulants re-
vived little, and when asked his
name said Benjamin Clark, very dis.
tinctly, but nothing more could be un-
derstocd, and he immediately relapsed
into Inconsistencies and did not
speak again. He died afterwards. No
clew to his identity had been obtained.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-08-13
THE TREAcHERous UNDERTow.

The IReACHEROUS UNDER OW.
1t Causes a Loss of Four ives in Mary
land Stream.
BALTIMORE, Md, Aug. 9.-Mrs.
Mollie Storm, wife of Mr.. S. w. Storm,
and Edith ", his l4-year-old daughter,
Mrs. J. Z. johnson and Carroll Graham,
aged years. son of Mr.. J. s. Graham,
were drowned Thursday in St. lnigo's
creek, St. Mary's County. while bath
ing. The bodies were recovered and
were brought to Baltimore. The
drowned were members of party. OF
fourteen Baltimoreans-Mrs- Storm and
two children, Mrs johnson and three
children and nephew, Miss Nettie Ora
ham, her three nephews and a niece,
and Mrs. Stevens. The party, with
the exception of Miss Graham, who
stood on shore. went bathing in the
creek about a quarter of a mile from the
house where they were stopping. The
steamer Sue came along. The delight
of the young ones at the sight of the YES
sci found expression in hearty cheers
and waving Of hands, which salutations
Captain Geoghegban acknowledged by
several whistles The Sue at this time
was about quarter of mile distant
from the bathers. The under tow from
the steamer caught the women and
children and swept some of them beyond
their depth. Miss Nettie Graham cried
out so loudly that Captain Geoghe'
CHAN heard her, but before he
could reach the bathers number OF
oyster men went to the rescue and saved
nine. Mrs. johnson and Edith Storm
lost their lives in efforts to save Mrs.
Storm and Carroll Graham. Mrs. Ste
VEINS when carried ashore was insensi-
BILE, but was resuscitated.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-08-13
Epit0me of the Week.
NEWS COMPILATION.
CONGRESSIONAL.

CONGRESSIONAL.
THE United States Senate on the 5th was
aevoted to the consideration of the glassware
schedule of the tariff bill. Senator Berry, Of
Arkansas opened the discussion in speech on
general tariff legislation, denying that the
tariff question had been ssttied during the last
Presidential legislation. He was replied to by
Senator Wilson, OF Iowa. -. The House spent
the day considering matters Of minor import.
Ance, considerable portion OF it being spent
In discussing re solution asking the Secretary
Of tho Navy for the reason for IN increase In
the force ofmen at the Kittery navy yard
AFTER disposing Of routine business the
United States Senate on the 9Th proceeded to
the consideration OF the tariff BILL tho pending
question being on Senator Morgan's amend
mont in regard to iron ore. Senator German
Spoke.at great length In favor Of the reduction
Of tho duty on Bessemer ore, having in the
course OF his remarks coloQues with Senators
Sherman. Cullom. Spooner, Blair aud Dawes.
No action was taken. In the House the reg
ular order Of business having been demanded,
the Speaker laid before the House the confer.
ence report on the original package bill. which
was adopted. The House then went into com.
mittee Of the whole on the general deficiency
bill.
IN the United States Senate on tho 7th after
come preliminary business the tariff bill was
taken up. the pending question being an
amo0OmonI 10 reuOCe tho duty on pig lr IN
from three-tenths Of u cent per pound to five
dollars per ton. In the House resolution was
adopted calling on the Postmaster General for
copies OF the agreement for the transportation
OF mails between the United States and for
eign countries. A bill was passed making the
inter State commerce law applicable to unin-
c0rporated express companies. The House
then went into committee OF the whole on the
general deficiency bill.
In the United States Senate on the Sth
after some preliminary business. the con.
ference report on the fortiticatit n bill was
taken up and agreed to. The conference re-
port on the sundry civil appropriation bill was
taken up and passtd. The concurrent resolu-
tipn, providing for the transfer, with Mrs.
Grants consent. Of the remains Of General
Grant from New York to Arlington Gene terry
at Washington was agreed to. The tariff bill
was further discussed. -. In the House consid.
GRAFTON Of the general deficiency bill was re-
sumed the pending question being on the
amendment granting a months extra pay to
employees Of the House and Senate The amend
ment was lost. The evening session was de.
voted to the consideration Of private pension
bills.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-08-13
Uncle and N eco Drowned.

Louis De W. Washburn, a leading civil
engineer of Minneapolis, was drowned in
Lake Minnetonka the other evening
with his niece, Gussie Buchanan, daugh-
ter of E. II. Buchanan, of Sioux City, la.
He was in the water near his cottage
trying to teach the girl to swim when
he was seized with cramps and both
went down. Mary Buchanan, sister to
the unfortunate girl, was in boat near
by but could render no assistance.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-08-13
A Sad Drowning.

The other morning about o'clock
q young man named Fred Stebbins fell
from the deck of steamboat near Rob
nson's Point down the river from St.
Paul, and was drowned. With him on
the boat. which was out for an excursion
trip, was young lady to whom he was
engaged. They were to have been mar
ried on Friday. Stebbins was good
swimmer. but he was sucked under by
the current caused by the reversing Of
the engines of the boat
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-08-13

w. S. Alexander has resigned the
position of General Traffic Manager O.
the Great Northern, and P. p. Shelb
Assistant General Traffic Manager, ha
been advanced to the position. Mr..
Alexander has held the position for
eight years. 1t is said that II. D.
Minot, who has contemplated retiring
from tho Presidency OF the Eastern
Minnesota for some time, will now re-
sign and be succeeded by Mr.. Alex
ander.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-08-13

more. for Governor. The resolutions
favor tariff reform, the resubmission Of
the prohibition question and the free
coinage of silver and oppose the Lodge
bill
The Iowa Democratic State conven-
ton assem- b]ed at Cedar Rapids on the
9th with 500 delegates present.
Rev. JOHN w. DATMuN, for twenty
five years chaplain and superintendent
of the schools connected with the Bos-
ton municipal institutions on Deer
Island, dropped dead of apoplexy on the
9th.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were
made on the 9th as follows: Illinois,
Fifteenth district, Jesse Harper, nomi.
mated By joint convention of farmers,
miners, Prohibitionists and Knights of
Labor; Texas, Seventh district, w. H.
Grain (Dem.), renominated; Missouri,
Eleventh district, r. p. Bland dem. y,
renominated; Kansas, Third district,
B. 81. Glover Farmers Alliance); Geor.
gia, Sixth district, James n. Blount
Dem.), renominated.
The Georgia Democratic State con-
vention in session at Atlanta on the 9TH
placed a full State ticket in the field,
headed by w. J. Northen, of Hancock
County, for Governor.
The following Congressional nominal
lions were made on the 18th: illinois,
Fifteenth district, L. L. Lawrence
Labor); Sixteenth district, A. j. Reed
er Farmers Alliance); Iowa, Seventh
district, J. II. Barnell (Labor); Indiana,
Ninth district. Milton Handsome Pro. };
Ohio, Thirteen district, Irvine Sungan
(Dem.l. r
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-02
Signs of the Times.

It is said that there is no surer test Of
hard times than can be found in the ad-
vertisements of the newspapers. When
the columns are filed with advertise
ments offering expensive articles for sale
it is to be considered ominous, because
the rich are the first to feel the pressure
and begin retrenchment by getting rid of
some of their luxuries. If there is any
thing in this rule, hard times are in the
near future, for the papers during the
past two or three weeks have been liter
ally crowded with the offers of gentle
men who are in apparent distress and are
offering dog carts, hroughams, victorias,
horses and all the other accessories Of
private stables, as well as bronzes and
bits of bric-a-brac, to the highest bidder.
1t does not seem, from casual observa-
ton, that nybody in New York can be
very hard pushed for money. The dis
play which is made in the streets and at
the theatre indicates boundless wealth.
Wall street, however, shows some signs
of distress. Money has been very tight
during the past three months. A few
days ago it had got up to 10 per cent,
though in the early part of the summer,
and when business is usually supposed to
be stagnant, 2 and 4 per cent. ruled
easily.-Once Week.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-02

powers or plcUurlng the horrible nad a
fertile field in that murder. He went to
the scene of the tragedy, and not only
used his sense of sight, feeble as it was,
to an advantage which other reporters of
perfect vision did not accept, but he
brought TO bear upon the case in hand
his sense of smell and touch.
To see the horrors of the case he was
compelled 10 stoop close over the charred
remains, and, as a consequence, he could
not help using his olfactories. And yet
he went further. l do not believe Mr..
aesrn ever approached an object close
enough to see it that he did not favor it
with his caressing touch. The tan yard
victim was no exception. Mr.. Hearn
saw it, smelled it, touched it. Yea, he
put a finger into the eyeless socket of
the half consumed head, pretty much as
he had habit of thrusting his index
digit through the button hole of your
coat.
Then he went back to the Office. sat
down to a desk, or rather lay down on
one-for he never sat upright while pre-
pairing a manuscript-andw when his task
was done he had accomplished a literary
horror. No man of this generation ex-
cept Lafcadio Hearn could have drawn
such a shuddering WORT painting Of
what he saw, had smelled and handled
in the victim of ''The Tan Yard Murder. :"
Therefrom dated his engagement as a
reporter for The Enquirer. l began work
in the same department the day follow
ing the murder, the day upon which Mr..
Hearn's master stroke of descriptive
writing appeared in print.
Q. p. CAYLoR.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-02
Making the Sun Work.

One Of the most notable inventions
displayed at the Paris exhibition is an
apparatus for transforming the heat of
the sun into motive power for pumping
water and other mechanical uses 1t is
The device of a French inventor named
Charles Teller.
This apparatus is Of great interest as
foreshadowing the time when solar heat,
in combination with electric transmits
sion of force, viii be made to furnish
motive power for all engines, and take
the place of coal and steam-a change
which will vastly cheaper manufactures
and travel, and greatly enhance human
comfort the world over.
The heat which comes to the earth in
the suns beams is, as has long been
known, the equivalent of from one to
five or more horse power for every
square yard of the earth's surface, &C
cording to the latitude and the season of
the year.
The utilization of this waste heat, its
conversion into disable power, has been
the study of inventors, and much time
and great sums Of money have been
spent upon it. NJ. Telher's continuance
aims to accomplish this ject.-Swedes-
boro News
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-02

The Norwich Bulletin says recently
the Pennsylvania railroad wanted big
iron bridge, 2J8 feet long and weighing
%, 600 tons, moved from its place over
Mill Creek, near Lancaster, TO a new site
forty-tive feet away. Master Carpenter
Beard took the job. He had 100 men to
help him. He made his preparations
leisurely, and. when the last train had
passed over the bridge. with his hundred
men and his trestles. rollers, jacks and
cranes he set TO work. In just ffty-eiGht
minutes from the time the work began
the bridge was in its new place and a
freight train Of such size as TO require
two locomotives was passing over 1t.
Now the ancients couldn't have done
that in the same time if they had had
10000 men. What we know about iron
and its uses and how to work il is worth
more TO the world than all the lost arts
of all past ages ombined.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-02
Tho Rat, Took tbe Morninz paner

A family of rats here have amazingly
disturbed the family in whose cellar they
dwelt. For several days in succession
the morning paper, which was left upon
the front steps of the house early every
morning, was missing. Complaint was
made at the office of the paper, and it
was found that the sheet had been prop
erly delivered right along. Some days
later a neighbor, who had arisen early in
the morning, happening to look out of his
window, saw two large rats upon the
doorstep of the house opposite. He
watched their movements for while,
and saw them take the morning paper
and disappear with IL under the piazza
He reported what he had seen, and an
investigation showed that the rats had
burrowed down from beneath the porch
to the cellar, and, in a secluded spot, had
built a nest and were rearing a promising
batch of young. The nest was con-
structed ont of Hartford morning news
papers.-Hartford Telegram.