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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-03-26
LATEST NEWS
Con. Robert G. Schenck Is Dead.

Con. Robert @. Schenck ts Dead.
WASHINGTON, March 23.-Gen. Robert
Cumming Schenck, congressman, sol
der and diplomat, and leader in pub
lie affairs generation or more ago, died
at o'clock this evening of pneumonia
at his residence on Massachusetts ave-
nue., just off Thomas circle. 1t was not
until yesterday that it was known he
was seriously i'll, but when his friends
heard of it they were prepared for the
worst because of his advanced age. Be-
sides an honorable record in the army
he gained honor as diplomat in rep
resenting the United States in Eng
land
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-03-26
Tho News Briefly Chroulcled,

Tho News Briefly ChronlcIed.
There were 291 births and 100 death
in Minneapolis in February.
County Attorney John l. Place died al
Wheaton the other afternoon.
M. H. Flarsheim & Co., wholesal.
liquor-dealers at St. Paul, failed recent
ly for $4,000.
Winona wants signal service station
established in that city.
Albert Pikarine, Finlander, neal
New York Mills, went home drunk re-
Gently and kicked his wife, who gave
premature birth to twins, and Pikarine
was held to the grand jury on the
charge of assault.
The removal of the Sioux Falls Is. D.,
brewery to Pipestone is considered a
settled fact.
Architect Burlington, Of Minneapolis
has prepared plans for the Chicago
worlds fair buildings, and hopes to have
them accepted.
Frank Miller was killed and Alfred
Westergreen mortally hurt by the fal!
of derrick at the Baxter granite quar-
ry at Minneapolis few days ago.
Joseph Shwalkowski, youth OF q
years, who in June, 1887, murdered his
uncle, George Tometzk, in game Of
cards at Stephen, but who escaped from
the village lookup, was captured in Chi
cago recently.
The new hotel at Winona has been
christened Tho Winona.
A store room owned by Winkler at
Eyota was burned the other night
Loss, 81, 100; insurance, 5000.
E. H. Prince, job printer, who had
| Of late had charge of the Duluth Tribune
job department under a lease, flel re-
Gently, leaving numerous creditors and
a wife.
Rev. DR.. H. G. Thwing, of Mime
| apolis, has been offered the Chancellor
ship of the State University at Law
renee, Kan, and will probably accept
the offer.
Peter Pierson, printer who recently
came to St. Paul from Chicago and Sc
cured work with the West Publishing
Company, jumped off the Robert street
bridge the other night, killing himself
instantly. He had been sick for some
! DAYS and became Respondent.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-03-26
Millions of Fish.

The United States fish hatchery at
Lester Park, Duluth, is now Matching
from 1000 to so, 900 fish of various kinds
daily. DIR. Sweeney. the superintend-
ent, has already planted about 1900, 900
white fish on the minnesota bank" as
it is called, which runs parallel with the
north shore five miles out in the lake,
and is formed by the silt brought down
by the St. Louis river. The whole plant
will amount to about 40. OO0, 900 white fish
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-03-26
A BRAVE SOLDIER GONE.

sudden Death At Chicago Of Major on.
eral George Crooks, Commander Of the
Department OF ths Missouri-sketcho of
His Brilliant Military Career.
CHICAGO, March 22.-Major-Ge General
George Crook of the United States
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-03-26
Kilroin to Serve His Sentence,

PURvIs, Miss, March 22.-Jake Kill
rain arrived here Friday morning, but is
now at Richburg. He will be taken to-
day to Columbia to serve two months in
the county Jail. The sheriff is undecided
IS to whether or not he has the right to
hire Kilrain out. The Atsorney-Gen-
eral thinks he has, while the district
attorney has issued a contrary opinion.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-03-26

Army, died very
suddenly at 7:1O
o'clock a. m. yester-
day in his apart
ments at the Pa
cifc Hotel, where
he has lived for
two years. He has
mot been in perfect
health since his re-
turn from the
Southwest a month
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-03-26
Lost Six Men at Sea.

GLOUCESTER, Mass, March 22.-Cap-
tain Bobben, of the schooner Norseman,
reports that he spoke the schooner H.
A. Duncan, of Gloucester, at Browns
bank, and she reported losing six men
during the storm of Wednesday.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-03-26

-Bridgton, Me-, has at least one alb
sent-minded citizen. He met with an
accident and was confined to the house
for several weeks, but forgot entirely
that he held an accident policy emitting
him to twenty five dollars q week.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-03-26
Sold Buttered Lard.

Lewis Ham, farmer living in Car
yer County, near Waconia, pleaded
guilty before Judge Edison at Chaska a
few days ago to selling larded butter,
and was fined 500. Several six-pound
rolls of lard covered with butter had
found their way to st. Paul within the
last three months.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-03-26
FOREIGN.

A GENERAL strike of working-men was
in progress at various points in England
on the 18th. Over 100, 900 men were out,
and this number was constantly being
| increased.
THREE-FoURrHs Of the village of
Gamhel, Switzerland, was destroyed by
fire on the 18th.
IT was reported on the 18th that
Prince Bismarck, Prime Minister OF
Germany, had resigned.
ALEXANDER SHAW, treasurer of the
Canada Jute Company at Montreal, was
arrested on the 18th on the charge OF
mbezzling $4,000
The resignation of Prince Bismarck
as Chancellor was accepted by Emperor
William of Germany on the 18th.
The schools act, abolishing the right
of the Roman Catholics to have separate
schools and obliging all classes OF the
community to patronize the national
secular schools, was passed by the Man
itoba Legislature on the 10th.
IT was estimated on the 10th that
there were 500, 900 idle men throughout
Great Britain owing to the strike at
Lancashire.
THE Emperor Of Germany on the 10Th
appointed General Won Caprivi, Com
mander of the Tenth Army Corps, Chan
cellor, to succeed Prince Bismarck.
The Government of Siam on tho Goth
sent six of its brightest young mon to
America to be educated at Westminster
College at New Wilmington, Pa. All
expenses are to be betrayed by the King.
ADv1cEs of the Goth say that Portu-
guese customs official and his escort OF
500 natives had been massacred near
Lake Nyassa, in East Africa
The great strike of English coal min
ers ended on the Goth in a complete sur
render by the employers.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-03-26
LEARNING A LANGUAGE.
A Vocabulary of Ninety Words AnswerO
for Ordinary Use.


for Ordinary Use.
How annoying it is not to be able to
understand language! With the scanty
Spanish at my command l am able to
ask for and get whatever l want, but in
conversation can only obscurely guess
the speakers meaning by word caught
here and there, generally at the end of
sentence. If only they would speak
slowly, and use the shortest sentences
and simplest words! Yet it is a de-
cidec advantage to be able to speak the
language of the country, if only lit
tie; for the people always suppose that
you understand and know more than
you really do, and this is a material
benefit. One can learn with ease, and
in very short time, ali that is abso-
lutely necessary to make ones way
through a foreign land. Here are few
hints:
Take firsta lesson or two in pronuncia-
ton from competent teacher; then
master about dozen verbs-the auxil-
iaries, of course-and several other ir-
regular verbs should be acquired with
perfect flexibility. Among the most USE
full of the latter are, in French, pouUoiT,
rouloir and a4er;; in Spanish, podeg,
Querer and ir. Then the numerals should
be learned, and so thoroughly as to be
able quickly to count hundred back
ward. After all, these amount 70 only
two dozen words. Next follow half
dozen propositions and half a dozen adj
verbs of time and place. And lastly,
brief vocabularies of nouns, those to use
in travelling (perhaps dozen), at the
hotel IA score), and in inquiring ones
way about town "a dozen).
Altogether, believe that vocabulary
of ninety words, carefully selected,
would answer every pressing need. OF
course, in order to be thoroughly COM
Portable, one should carry with him
pocket dictionary. 1t is far better tn
procure this than any of the conversa-
ton manuals offered at the bookstores
as royal roads to the acquisition of lam
guage. These are not to be recommend
ed; their vocabularies contain words that
one would never need, and omit some of
the most necessary; their converse
TONS are highly grammatical, stilted
and Observation-Disclosures Traveller.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-03-26

f THE Asa Clothier dairy barn, together
with twelve head Of fine COWS, was de-
stroyed by fire on the 2oth at Decatur,
Ill. #
Two BLOCKS Of buildings in La Villa,
I suburb of jacksonville, Fla, we're
burned on the 20th. Loss, $125, 900.
TIE Cataract Hotel at Niagara Falls,
N. Y, one OF the largest and most
historical hotels in the State. was sold
on the 9oth to Mrs. Peter A. Porter for
SOL 200.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-03-26
The Ohio Out of /. Banks.

CINCINNATI, o., March 23.-The river
at this point at midnight marked IS
feet inches. From all points above
reports have been received that the
Ohio was still rising, and it is expected
that sixty feet or more will come down
upon the city. This will drive the
water back on second street. Merchants
in the lower part of the city are already
preparing for the emergency by remov-
ing their goods from cellars and placing
them on the upper floors.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-03-26

A DESTRUCTIVE cyclone passed over
the village of Edgemoor, near Chester,
is. c., the 23d. Fourteen houses were
blown down, a negro named James Mil
Ter was killed and several persons seri-
ously injured.
ALBERT BARR, an cmploye of the
Rock Glycerine Co., Lima, O., was
killed on the night of the 23d, by the ex-
plosion of forty pounds of dynamite he
had in his wagon en- route to shoot a
gas we'll.
THE coasting steamer Ethel Gwendo-
line foundered off Rattray Head, Coun-
ty of Aberdeen, Scotland, the 23d. Sew
en- of her crew were drowned.
The Canadian government has decid-
ed to expend $4,000 in purchasing seed
wheat for the farmers of the Northwest
Territory.
THE main part of Hamilton, ILL.,, was
destroyed by fire on the 23d. Loss,
$780, ZOO.
BY the capsizing of skiff on the
Ohio river opposite Cincinnati on the
|23rd, William Kinney, Peter McGinnis,
Peter Mccarthy and John Burke, the
latter was only nine years old, were
drowned.
AT Dubuque, Ia, on the 23rd, while
gambling, Sam Lee caught Frank Fook
cheating. Lee pulled a revolver and
so did Fook and the result is two dead
Cinnamon. ....,. :.:.as&& 4.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-03-26
Epitome of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
CONGRESSIONAL,

CONGRESSIONAL.
BILLS were introduced in the Senate on the
18th to insure preference to veterans OF tho late
war In employment on public works, and to
prevent 6esertion from the army by retaining
from the pay of each enlisted man 81 month
In the House bills were passed authorizing
census enumeration Of tho Chinese population
of the United States creating the ofhCos Of as
sistant general superintendent and chief clerk
OF the railway mail service. A bill was intro
duced providing that members Of the House
shall DO elected by districts to be fixed by Con-
gress upon publication OF the census returns.
THE Senate passed the urgency deficiency
bill on the 18th. A bill was introduced to
amend tho Interstate commerce act, and Sen
etor Hawley CONN., spoke In opposition to tho
Blair educational bill. -. In the House the pom.
sion bill (s0S az, 46D was reported; also tho
Notifications bill (@4,5al,67s). A resolution
was adopted for an estimate as to tho amount
OF money which will be required for the pay
ment OF arrearages in case the limitation Of
the nrrears act Is repealed.
VICE. PRESIDENT MORTON occupied tho chair
in the Senate on the 10TH Mr.. Voorhees, spoke
on his resolution as to the cause Of agricultural
depression, and Messrs. Evarts and Cali spoke
in favor Of the Blair educational BILL A bill to
increase the pension of q soldier of the war Of
1S1S-Isaao N. DAILY, oS years old-from Is to $50
q month was passed. In the House tho Mary
land contested case Of Mudd against Compton
was discussed, but no action was taken. The
report of the committee on the worlds fair was
presented.
In the Senate the Blair educational bill was
defeated on the 20th by . vote OF 81 to 81. Bills
were introduced to provide new artificial limbs
TOR disabled soldiers every three years instead
Of every i've years; extending the jurisdic-
ton of circuit and district courts to the great
lakes and connecting water. In the House q
bill was introduced granting pensions to per-
sons who supported dependent fathers and
mothers, and who. under existing laws, would
have been entitled to pensions. The bill for q
public building at Burlington, Ia, was passed.
BY vote Of $50 to 145 Sydney E. Mudd (Rep.)
was declared the lawfully elected Represent
alive from the Fifth Maryland district, thereby
upseating Barnes Compton
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-03-26
PERSONAL AND PoLITicA,

WAVASVVVs
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
MRS. LoRENDA SMITH died at the
home Of her son, H. p. Smith, near
Galva, ILL.,, on the 18th, aged 100 wears
| and months.
OLD GABRIEL, the mission Indian who
was known as the Oldest man on the
Pacific coast. died on the 18th at
Salinas, CAL, in his 151st year. The
record OF his birth is in the mission at
Monterey.
THE Utah Legislature adjourned si,.I
die on tho 18th.
EZEKIEL. SULLIVAN, veteran of the
war of 1919, died Of paralysis on the
18th at Seymour, Ind, aged 1903 years.
He was never sick three days in his life.
MRS. JAMES HICKMAN and Miss Ame-
liza Gale, two centenarians died on tho
18th near Parkersburg, w. Va.
j. YOU'VE ScAMMoN, one of Chicaro's
most noted pioneers, died on the 18th,
aged 70 years.
GEORGE H. BALLou, for thirty years
one Of the best-known journalists in
Iowa, died in Davenport on the 18th,
aged 81 years.
The North Dakota Legislature ad-
journed sine die on the 18th.
towA's Senate passed concurrent
resolution on the 18th fixing April Is as
the date OF final adjournment
EZEKIEL SULLIVAN, = veteran of the
Mexican war. died at Columbus, Ind,
on the 10th, aged 10S years.
MINNIE MADDERN, the well-known
actress, was married in New York on
the 10th to Harrison Grey Fiske, editor
of the Dramatic Mirror.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-03-26

|
O., snatched a purse containing So, 800
and escaped, leaving Mr.: Sterrettpenni-
less.
AT Westport, Conn.,, Annie Loveric
and Mamie McDermott fought with
bare knuckles on the Goth, the result of
quarrel about a young man. Miss
Loveric won the battle.
IT was stated on the 20th that over
200 moonshiners, with over 100 illicit
stills, had established a fortified camp
in Franklin County, Va, and openly de-
fed the authorities.
TIMOTHY W1NEMAN, aged 10 years,
shot and killed BERTHE Polhamus, aged
II years, at Joliet, ILL.,, on the goth dur
ing quarrel over game of marbles.
A STATE conference of Iowa Repub-
licans who favor modification of the
liquor laws will be held April 2 in Des
Moines.
A GENERAL raid against the sellers OF
liquors in Indian Territory was COM
menced on the goth by United States
Marshal Walker.
The Minnesota encampment, &. A. r.,
at Minneapolis on the 2Oth elected
James Compton, of Fergus Falls, De-
artment Commander.
THE town of Alexis ILL.,, was nearly
ruined by fire on the 2Oth.
The believers in man named George
Jacob Schweinfurth, who claims to be
Christ reincarnated, assembled on the
Goth near Rockford, ILL.,, for ten davs'
! meeting. - r.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-02-21

Perseverance viii accomplish every
thing" had these words for writing
lesson once and | shall never forget
them. 1t IS great thing to have per-
severance There was once a man who
was shut up an q dungeon with walls
200 feet taick, made of the hardest kind
of stone. lie had no tools except a pair
of scissors lis brother had sent him in a
loaf of bread, but lse remembered that a
drop Of water will wear away q stone if
it falls on the stone long enough, and
that a coral worm, which is so small
that you can hardly see it, will eat up
and destroy a coral reef if you will only
give ii time enough. So he said that he
would persevere. and dig Il hole through
the wall OF the dungeon with the scissors
and escape if ii took him a hundred
years
He had been eligging about a year
whcE the govoYGor pardoned him and
the iaileI' brought him the joyful news.
Butthey ycouldn't get him to leave the
dungeon, lie toAl the jailer that he had
undertaken to die his way through the
wall and 2scapetin that way, and that he
was going to stick to it, no matter how
long it might take. The jailer urged
him to give it mp and walk out of the
door, and even offered him $40 to give
up dis Dungeon to a new lodger, but
nothing could induce him to change his
mimi. So he staid in the dungeon and
dug awgy at the wall for forty-seven
years, and every six months he had to
payA big bill for damages to the Jail,
and he fnally died when he was half
thrGugh dhe wall This shows what
splendid thing perseverance is, and that
we AL ought to persevere. w. L. Alden.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-02-21
Jumpers Egotisn.

SIR c. D, a parsonage not un-
known to fame, once encountered the
late Martin Farquhar Tupper on Clyde
steamer, and was accosted by him in
these terms: 81 perceive that l am not
the only distinguished man on board"
Mr.. Tupper smiled not as he spoke,
being quite in earnest and, indeed, wish
ing to pay Sir G. what he conceived
to be high compliment. This little in
cident occurred on deck. Presently Mr..
Upper went down into the cabin, but
before doing SO handed his umbrella to
a young lady, perfect stranger, to take
care Of it for him. Young lady," he
observed TO the astonished recipient of
the umbrella, you will now be able to
say in after life that you once held the
umbrella of Martin Tupper" Same
smileless expression as before. The
story is told of Tupper that one evening
he attended a dinner party after having
lost his portmanteau in the afternoon,
and at the table, when he had talked a
great deal about his loss, a wit who was
present interrupted him by saying: elf
| had lost my portmanteau, Mr.. Upper,
[, being an ordinary man, should have
been justified in boring a dinner table
with my grief. But you, Mr.. Tupper-
your philosophy is proverbial. San
Francisco Argonaut.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-02-21
STUCK FAST in THE CHIMNEY.
The Ludicrous Predicament of an Incau-
tious Nergo Thief
Atlanta Constitution


The Ludicrous Predicament of an Incau-
tious Nergo Thief
Atlanta Constitution.
PALMETTO, February 16.-A ludicrous
attempt to commit burglary occurred here
last night. A negro named Bob Nails
spent some time Yesterday afternoon in
the store of Mr.. f. Hopkins, and decided
on his plan to get in the store last night.
So when night came he went to the rear
window in the store and broke out the
glass, but failed to get in because of the
iron bars across the window.
He then conceived the idea of going
down the chimney, so he climbed up ON
the awning and from there to the top OF
the house, which is only one story high.
He then to rid hmsef of all encumbrances
and make himself as small as possible,
stripped himself of every article Of his
clothing, left them on top of the house,
and slipped himself into the chimney ;
but the chimney, instead of being one
with the old-fashioned large tlue aud
large, open fireplace, was one built for IA
CRATE in which to burn coal, and had a
very small flue and throat, consequently
when Nails got about two-thirds of the
way down he stuck.
He could neither go down or up, so
there he stuck from l2 o'clock till day.
He yelled and sung, but could get no help
until parties went in the stoIc to make a
fire in the morning, when he made his
presence known to keep a fire from being
built under him. They got couple of
negro men to go on top of the house and
let down a rope, which the thief got hold
of, and they pulled him out, when he had
the appearance of being covered about a
quarter of an inch thick with SCOT. He
made full confession, waived commit
ment trial, and went to jail.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-02-21
MY OLD UMBRELLA.

Old friend, neglected there you stand
Behind my closet door,
You've really grown too shabby now
To carry any more.
Around your rusty frame the silk
In faded splendor elings,
While numerous little genteel darns
To view the sunlight brings.
need the space you occupy
Within my small domain:
And yet TO throw you out, think,
Would give me mental pain.
Some sad and pleasant memories
Encirce your gaunt form,
Outside OF times you've sheltered me
From sun as well as storm.
Yes, many tramp, old friend, we've had
In riil and pleasant weather;
To weddings gay. and funerals sad
We've often gone together.
And when with merry friends I've climbed
The mountains-you as prop
Helped me to triumph o'er the rest
BY gaining first the top.
, When ina crowded car I've gone,
And could not get u seat,
Twas your croosd handle held the strap,
And kept me on my feet.
But far above your usefulness,
one memory sweet see,
'Tis thls-'neath your protecting shade
My John proposed to me.
Elsie Hacking in Good Housekeeping.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-02-21

OF Evergreen, Wisconsin, claims to be
the largest nursery Of the class in America
1t now contains several millions of small
Evergreens, comprising some fifty vari-
cites, and about the same number of Orna-
mental Trees and Flowering Shrubs.
These Nurseries now serve about three
Thousand customers annually. whose
orders range all the way from one dollar
to one thousand dollars or more each. A
stenographer and Typewriter is employed
for the correspondence. During the dig
ging and packing season twenty-five to
thirty men are employed and about fifteen
to twenty are required to take care of the
trees during the growing season. These
Nurseries arc making specially Of plants
for Evergreen Hedges, and have several
millions ready for sale, of three or four
of the most popular varieties.
Their prices on Tree Seedlings are
much below any others we have seen. 1t
will pay any of our readers thinking of
planting an Evergreen Hedge, or any other
ornamental trees or shrubs, to send a
postal card to these nurseries asking for
their Catalogue.