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Mower County transcript., 1890-11-19

TEL CROFT"
It's the fault of circumstances, and of
myself, / suppose. l am like fish out
of water or poor butterfly drowning in
the sea- Don't look so distressed, un-
Gle" Qaying her soft, flushed cheek
against his handy; ''things will right
themselves after awhile; they always
do. But, in the meantime, with soft,
appealing look, ''could you lend me a
dollar? am so poor, 80 very poor, I
haven't penny of my own in all the
worldv' s.G*s't 5 Il - u
Mr.. Croft's countenance grew more
disturbed than ever. - .-s&Es @z~sa 8
''Well, swan to goodness If that aim t
too bad!" said he. II gave mother the
last money had to pay her years sub.
scription to the Missionary Trumpet,
and 1 don't exactly like to ask her to
give it back" .s.= .l.i.
"No, uncle, don't do that" said
Zephyr.
''But, tell ye what, my girl" said
the farmer, cheerily, ''the very next
silver dollar that comes my way, you
shall have" .>~: s-.:~
Zephyr stood on tip-toe to, kiss her
uncle, but she said nothing. Side by
side, they walked up the broad garden
path where the tiger-hlies were grow
Mower County transcript., 1890-11-19
shs wes rron Dsston.

she Was Fron Boston.
Miss Beaconhill( visiting the country.
How warm It 10! feel thirsty.
Mrs. Meadows-Wouldn't you like ..
drink of well-water, Miss Beaconhill? :.
Miss Beaconhill-Do not employ I'd.
verbs to qualify nouns, Mrs Meadows
Say ''good water" not well water
Life.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-10-01
Turbulent strikers.

SYDNEY, M S. W.. Sept. pa crowd o
strikers to-day attacked the drivers 0
number of vans which were loaded WI /
wool. The police came promptly to tEit
rescue and dispersed the mob.
MELBOURNE, Sept. 2S-The strike of the
shearers is a partial failure. The shearine
is nearly finished and many OF the men fee
that they will lose their wages if they break
their contracts.
The employers at Sidney have is ued {
manifesto, in which they declare that theil
refusal to hold conference with the
strikers is due to the bad faith of the
unionists, who. they aliese, never hes
itate to break agreements when con
yenient. They complain also that thu
mems requests for conference are always
accompanied by threats of further strikes
uhe pr,nelples heretofore ere a ennncated b.
firmly maintained, and if these are ac
cepted by the men a conference will not bt
needed.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-10-01
FOREIGN GRISr.

The official report of the loss ofthe Turkish
man-of-war Ertogral says that 5S7 pers ons
were drowned and &c saved.
The trial o. the Nationalist leader at Tin
perary, Ireland, is attended by much disor-
der, tho people being wantonly dubbed by
the police.
A dispatch from Zanzibar says that the
sultan will deal severely with the crew Of the
Arab slave dealer which was recently cap
tured by the boats from British m an Of war.
Gilbert and Sullivan's opera, 1.-The Condo
liers.' was produced for the first time on the
continent at Vienna. and failed to satisfy the
taste OF the critical Viennese. The piece was,
in TACT, roundly Missed
Advices from Goa. india state that eight
cen persons were killed and fifty wounded
in an election riot at that place by Portu-
guese residents of Bombay have resolved to
appeal to England to annex Goa unless the
Portuguese government redresses the griey-
ances GIFTS subjects there.
Further reports of damage in France by
foods are being received. The town OF An
nonay, department of Ardechc, and the sur.
rounding country have been inundated by
the overflow from the Canoe and Deaume
rivers and the damage is enorm Gus. Fac
tories have been destroyed, bridges swept
away and the railways damaged to such an
extent as to render them impossible. The
| floods have been accompanied by some loss
of lie. In Annonay, manufacturer and
several women have been killed. The water
is still rising.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-10-01
TERRIBLE DEED,
An Illinois Man Murders His
Daughter Because She
Marries.
Realizing His Deed, the Fa.
ther Puts an End to His
Own Life

LACoN, ILL.,, Sept. 29.-In little cottage
in this city lie the dead bodies of father
and a daughter, the latter the bride OF a
| lew hours.
Last May, Charles Siefert and fak1: b. came
to this city. The father and daughter were
employed as weavers in the Lacon wooden
mills. young Englishman named Jo-
seph Baxter was also employed in the mills
and courted the daughter, Mary, against
the fathers consent. The young man never
called at the house, but managed to see the
girl elsewhere, and the young people finally
became engaged. Last Wednesday evening
Siefert met the young couple out walking,
abused Baxter, and threatened to kill both
and shoot himself
Baxter boarded two doors from Siefert
and Saturday night he and Mary were mar
ried there by justice of the peace Sie.ert,
when he heard OF this, went to the house
and asked to see the marriage certificate.
This being shown him, he seemed satisfied
and told the young wife to come to his
house and get her trunk which she did, in
company with Baxter. This morning Sic
fert sent li:tle daughter to Baxter with
the information that he wished to become
reconciled with his son-in-law and would
apologize to him for threats and abusive
language. Baxter went over and Siefert
treated him kindly, showed him where he
had made record Of the marriage in the
family Bible and requested him to let
Mary come home.
Baxter consented. and, after much per-
suaslon, Mary, who seemed to be very
much afraid, went. She passed into the
front room with her father, her step-mother
remaining in the kitchen. Mary had not
been in the room five minutes when re-
port was heard followed by another, and
neighbors, attracted by the screams of Mrs
Siefert rushed over to the house and found
father and daughter dead within two feet
Of each other. A double barreled breech-
loading shotgun lay near Sietert's side
The cause of the tragedy is said to have
been Siefert's anger at being deprived of his
daughters wages.
When Mary entered the house she found
her father sitting on a trunk with his face
buried in his hands. She spoke to him,
but received no answer. She then turned
to go into a bed room, when her lathcr
seized shot gun standing behind a door
and discharged one barrel at her, blowing
away one side Of her skull and face. The
poor girl tottered a moment and lell back
ward. AS she did SO the blood gushed out
in torrent deluging the floor and her
fathers face and hands.
He contemplated his awful deed for a
moment, then placing the barrel OF the gun
in his mouth reached down and pulled the
trigger, blowing his head off his shoulders
and scattering brains, particles OF bone and
blood over the walls and ceiling OF the lit
tie room. His headless body fell back
ward over the trunk on which he had been
sitting
The husband of the girl heard the double
report and fastened to his father-in-law' s
house The sight was too much for him.
and he is now raving maniac.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-10-01
AN USDELlvERED ORDER.
1t Causes the Death of Eight Men at an
| Ohio Town.

1t Causes the Death of Eight Men at an
Ohio Town.
EVANSVILLE, Ohio, Sept. 29-About 1
o'clock this morning most disastrous
freight wreck occurred on the Baltimore &
Ohio road near Pleasant Valley, short dis
lance west Of this CITY,
Orders We're given east and westbound
freights to pass at Black Hole, but Oper-
ator Keelty, at that place failed to deliver
the order to the eastbound train Later he
saw his mistake and telegraphed the oper-
ator here thatthere would be wreck pretty
soon and left his post. He is a mere boy.
Both engines and number of cars filled
with oats, coke and merchandise were
piled up in the greatest confusion Eight
men were killed as follows:
John buckingham. engineer: William Fire
stone, fireman.; Freeman Keller, bra KEENAN,;
john Cochran, Ben Smart, Gratiot: Glen BASH
Zanesville; George w. Stoneburner, GAINESVILLE;
Tom McCrary, not found one unknown.
John Kemp, an engineer, had his leg cut
of, and Fireman Wilson a hand mashed.
Those not employed on the train were beat
ing theirsWay rom Columbus. The trains
met on. sharp curve. and the west bound
train had just emerged from piece OF
woods. SO that neither was checked in
speed. The engines crashed together with
awful force, and the freight cars to the
number of twenty-five We're piled up to the
height OF twenty-five or thirty feet.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-10-01
A CAPITAL CRIME.
Colnte de Paris Charged With Treason
Against the French Republic.

Connie de Paris Charged With Treason
Against the French Republic.
PARIS, Sept. 29.-The Comte de Paris is
in serious danger of having his property il
France contiscated on account OF the Bou.
langist revelations. The count has hereto
fore been looked upon as dignihed pre-
tender, who would not stoop to conspiracy
and been respected by those who hated his
pretensions. Now, however, he appears a:
the mover in dastardly scheme tor the
overthrow of the republic.
The government has concluded to insti.
tute an official Investigation, with a view tc
getting at all the facts and of prosecuting
those who have been criminally concerned
The prospects, therefore, are that the pre-
tender and the Duchess de Uzes, who ap
pears to have acted as a feminine 60 between
1or the Royalists and Boulanger, will fine
themselves defendants on very serou:
charges. According to French law the alb
sence Of the count will not affect his trial OF
sentence. French tribunals assuming tc
try and sentence people who may be in
China or America. Treason in plottine
against the republic is capital crime, and
the Boulapger exposures exhibit treaso II il
the most contemplate form.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-10-01
NO GO.
The Fight for an Irrigation Survey Bill
in Vain.

The Fight for an Irrigation Survey Bill
in Vain.
WASHINGTON, Special Telegram, Sept. 20.
The last appropriation bill of the con-
gress-the deticiency-is still III the hands
OF the conterees, and the disputed points
are being settled a; rapidly as possible
The hard fight that has been made over
the appropriation of $40, 600 for artesian If
rigation investigation seems to have been
made almost in vain. There is little hope
that the house will agree to the appropria-
ton. Chairman Cannon, of the house, in
sists that the money to be expended for this
purpose must be under the direction of the
agricultural department.. He has agreed
that if the Western senators will allow the
secretary of the interior or even the secre-
tary Of war to handle the funds the appro-
priation will be made
lit goes to the interior department Pow
ell will have its management and his course
IN the past has made the senator's distrust-
ful. The secretary Of war has no business
with the funds and he.would also probably
select one of Powell's lieutenants to make
the expenditure, and the prospects are that
the appropriation will TAIL for this session
at least.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-10-01
ACCIDENTAL.

Thomas Lewis, a lineman in the employ of
the Thomas. Houston company at Omaha,
cut into a live wire and was instantly killed.
Little Ferne Lisle. aged twelve, lost his life
IN attempting to rescue his nine year-old
brother from q creek, into which he had fall
en- at Carindon, Iowa. The brave lad uc-
ceeded in getting the little fellow out safely,
but was SO exhaus ed that he lost his own
life by drowning.
During fierce storm in the Boston noun
tains in Arkansas a party of ten Turks,
who were travelling south with lot of dancing
bears. lodged in q creek bottom in one ofthe
gulches. The heavy storm caused torrent
IN the ravine, and seven of the men and all
| the bears were drowned.
While Barnum's circus parade was passing
through a thickly peopled street in Musca-
tine, Iowa, one of the big elephants became
enranged at something and charged about
in terrific style. The crowd fed terrified in
all directions. Before the huge animal could
be controlled lie had killed two fine horses.
At Bay City. Mich. fire started in lumber
piles on Eddy Bros. & Co.'s warf and IL stiff
wind from the orth carried tho flames from
one dock to another, and in less than two
hours $50 piles comprising three million feet
| had been destroyed entailing loss of $780,
900.
Three young men named Arthur Bower
Charles Mcdonald and Hugh Rooney, went
out in a sail boat at nbridge, Ont. Their
boat was afterward found lying on it's side
with Bower hanging dead in The rigging
The othertwo men are supposed to have been
! drowned.
terrible explosion of gas took place in
the hurry shaft of the Lehigh & Wilkesbarre
Coal company at Wilkesbarre Pa There
we're five men in the shaft at the time of the
explosion. Their names: Lawrence Casey,
James Sullivan James Boswell, Fireboss Ed
ward Bulson and Anthony jennings This
shaft is considered one of the easiest in the
world. The origin of the explosion is UNI
| known.
By the deraling of q train between Flor
ence and FiesoIe, Italy, FIVE persons were
killed and twenty injured. King Hum bert
and Queen Margaret were about to start
for the races, but upon learning of the dis
aster they abandoned their intention and
Immediately proceeded to the scene of the
accident. where they personally directed the
| care of the injured
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-10-01
DROWNED HERSELF.
Suicide of Mrs. DIR. Charles C. Hayes
Daughter of Wisconsin Ex-Gov.

Suicide of Mrs. DIR. Charles c. Hayes
Daughter of Wisconsin Ex-Gov
ernor.
HYDE PARK, Mass, Special Telegram
Sept. 29.-Early this morning Mrs. Hayes
wife of DIR. Charles C. Hayes of this town
and one ofits most prominent physicians
deliberately walked into the Neponsct rive
and was drowned.
DR.. and Mrs. Hayes had lived in Hyd,
Park twenty years and until within 81,
months have occupied pretty little cot
tagc on Mount Neponset. For the past yea
Mrs. Hayes has been ailing and on account
OF her extremely nervous condition decided
to sell the old home. AS soon MS the sal
was consummated she seemed to brood
over the loss of her home Last "Wednesday
she said:
l cannot conceive what should have pos.
sesSed me to sell my comfortable home. If dc
such things as these. l don't think 1 can be
trusted to do anything.
Last night Mrs. Hayes retired and wher
the doctor went to bed shewas calmly sleep.
ing. At6:30 he arose and discovered pinned
Oh the wa a letter addressed to himself
1t was written in a clear hand, and said she
had no desire to live, and closed by sayin.
her body would be found in the Neponset
river. a search was instituted and in a
few moments her body was brought to the
surface about ten feet from the shore She
was fully dressed. Mrs. Hayes was about
tiity years Old and was a daughter of ex.
Gov. Mills Of Madison, Wis, who survives
her. Her only son, Mills Hayes is s
prominent lawyer in ST. Paul, MINI. DR.
Hayes is a brother Of the Hon. Francis
Hayes of Lexington. The body will be
taken to Madison for interment.
THE NEWS AT MADISON
MADISON, Wis, Special Telegram, Sept
2S.-Gen. Simon Mills. one OF the mos,
wealthy and prominent resic ents of this
city, received intelligence tonight that his
eldest daughter Mrs. C. c. Hayes of HYDE
Park, Mass, had committed suicide by
drowning. She was married in 1859 to Mr..
Hayes, physician of considerable note.
and she was hityone years old Her maid
en- name was Florence Emeline, and she
was great favorite in the early DAYS o.
Madison. Since last spring she had been
III broken health, and it was only three
weeks ago that her sister returned to her
home here, after having been with her fol
some time on account OF Ter serious merry.
Gus condition. Her death was great
shock, and the aged father is Frustrated.
The latter was the territorial treasurer o.
Wisconsin, paymaster general OF the stat,
during the war and has held dozen other
high public positions He is the oldest
settler but one in Madison. A son is a
prominent cranberry grower of Monroe
county, this state, and daughter is at
home here. Mrs. Hayes, the suicide of to-
day. has only one child. son, who is a
graduate o. Harvard and now a practicing
lawyer Of ST. Paul.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-10-01
BARRUNDIA'S DEATH.
A Statement of the Affair Made by Cap
Pitts

A Statement of the Affair Made by Capt.
Pitts
Cry OF MEXICO, Sept. 29--In the official
Gautemaaan report Of the Barrundia affair
is, letter to the port captain Of San Jose
from Capt Pitts, dated at that port on board
the steamer Acapulco, in which he says:
Barrundia boarded the steamer at Acapulco
having a ticket for Panama. and was diSarmed
by me. On Aug. 2S the authorities boarded the
Acapulco, bearing q letter from Minister Miner
telling me that l must surrender Barrundia il
the authorities demanded it. went to the cap
tain with tile port captain. Before l could fin
!sh reading the letter, Barrundia commenced fir
ing on us. We sought refuge and he followed
continuing to fire upon us. The firing then be
came general and about sixty shots were FREQ
before Barrunda was killed. The passenger:
had been ordered below before the arrest wa:
attempted
The sergeant and corporal who headed
the recent revolt OF the guard at the custom
house. in which the commandment was
killed, have been sentenced to death.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-10-01

AN ENGLISH novel By much adj
mired writer contains the following
description Of the American girl:
THE cold-blooded, cut throat Anne r
lean girl, calculating her romance
by the yard, booking her firtations
by double-entry, and marrying at
compound interest, with the head OF
a railway president and the heart OF
an Esquimaux.' . Well, we'll! VIII at
American girl Tilted that author and
left him out in the cold?
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-10-01
OTHERWISE.

Suakim advices report the famine in the in
terror as terrible. Thousands are dying of
starvation. Caravans are plundered by the
desperate natives to obtain iood, and the
owners are murdered if they resist.
At Hiawatha, Kan, for the past year Mrs.
William B. Allen. colored washer woman,
suffered from a we'll defined case of leprosy
She has just died. having completely rotted
away.
An application has been made for a writ of
habeas corpus in behalf of Michael Schwab.
the anarchist now serving life sentence in
Joliet. I'll. Schwab was not present in the
state supreme conrt when his case was passed
upon.
The steamship Orinoco. which arrived at
New York from Bermuda, brought. Capt.
Slower and six sailors Of the ship Abbie
Clifford, which was lost at sea 200 miles off
the Bermuda coast in the big hurricane OF
of Aug 81. Mrs. Slower, the wife of the
captain, was washed overheard and drown
ed.
Two sections of the report of the franchise
committee were considered and adopte by
the Mississippi constitutional convention.
One section provides for o senate co imposed
of As members and house Of Representa-
stives of 1913, which, by inys NOUS gerryman-
dering, assures white supremacy in DO tn
houses. Efforts were made to have the rep
resentation increased, and to have the state
SO apportioned as to give the negroes con-
troll of the lower house, but without avail.
The first case under the new anti-lottery
law OF refusal of admission OF newspaper
to the mails because it contained lottery
advertisement, occurred at the Washington
City postofice. When the usual sacks OF
papers to be sent out of town arrived at the
postoffice few copies of each paper ere ex-
amined by one OF the clerks The clerk
found that the Sunday Chronicle, contained
the lottery advertisement as usual and
notified the proprietors that the copies could
not be received.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-10-01
A Libel on Free Thinkers

CHIcAGo, Sept. 29.-In response to call
to all Tree thinking associations, issued by
the Pioneer Aid and Support association,
delegates of thirty five societies responded
and arranged details for a memorial ceIe-
bration of the execution of the five anarch-
ISIS It was decided to celebrate the me-
mortal day on Sunday, Nov. s, this day be-
ing fixed upon so that more people might
have an opportunity to attend. A big
demonstration is expected. and many
prominent speakers will address the PEG.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-10-01

Few people who live at distance
from the great lakes have an ade-
quate conception of the magnitude
oflake commerce. It will surprise
them, perhaps, to learn that during
234 days OF navigation lastsyear,
tonnage passed through the Detroit
river TO the amount Of 10000, 900
tons more than The entries and clear
ances of oil the seaports in the
United States, and 100000 tons
more than the combined foreign and
coastwise shipping Of Liverpool and
London.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-10-01
Dakota Protection;sts

WASHINGTON, Special Telegram. Sept. %
Representative Hansbrough contributed
this week to the Politician short story, O.,
hetariff, and looking at it from NORTH
Dakota standpoint, he asserts that the tariff
OF the Mckinley bill is the best possible 10,
the producing interests of this country
Mr.. Hansbrough will go to North Dakots
imnlediatelya,ter congress adjourns and talk
and write tart Fl and of the work of congress
North Dakota proteclionist is Senator
Casey. His speech in the senate OH the bill
is receiving wide circulation, about 25, OOC
copies being sent out to the West
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-10-01
NEWS SETTINGS.
Criminal, Personal, Foreign
and Other Interesting
News Items.
WASHINGTON.

Under decision from the interior depart
IN ent a Chippewa Falls man secures valu
a Bile piece OF land on the site OF West Supe-
Eor
Senator Pettigrew says the Cheyenne In
dams at Pine Ridge agency will no doubt
be sent to Montan a. They are now moving
in that direction, ,abo ut 200 of them having
deserted to the Tongue river county. He
thinks the commission to be appointed will
grantthe request of the Indians and trans
Ter them.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-10-01

Persons contemplating buying
mummies may profit by the experience
of Herman Frank, of Milwaukee.
He bought two for$2, 500, paid $500
duty on them, and saw them crumble
into impalpable dust when the band
ages were removed. They were not
overripe mummies, whose picking,
had been delayed too long. They
were, in fact, fresh young mummies
counterfeits made by. Il fake mum ;
my mandatory in Egypt.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-10-01

The Scientific American offers the
following receipt for pertaining a
room: Break off branches Of the
Norway spruce and arrange the m
il. a large jug we'll filed with water.
In q few days tender, pale green
branches feather out, soft and cool
to the touch, and giving the delight
full, health-giving odor.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-10-01

A YOUNG lady of Youngstown, o.,
was engaged to teach a school at
New Britain, Conn, but upon her ar,
rival there the principal informed
her that she was too t'homely." He
offered to pay her months salary
and her expenses back to Youngs-
town.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-10-01

Mrs. CUsTER's most eliminate friend
is said to be the actress, Clara Morris,
between whom and the widow of the
brave and handsome cavalry officer
a warm attachment has existed for
many years.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-10-01

WHEN Mrs. Ann Clemens, 70 years
of age, arose and attempted to put
on her shoes at Central, w. Va, a
large copperhead snake sprang from
one of her shoes and bit her on the
thumb, probably fatally.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-10-01

SOLAR storms are raging and
spots are plentiful on the sun, from
which the New York Herald guesser
is led to expect that the seasons of
1891 will be considerably colder and
dryer than those Of 1890.