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Mower County transcript., 1890-04-30
A STRICKEN VILLAGE.

Ntne-Tenths of tho Population of Yininr
Afflicted with Diphtheris.
Malignant diphtheria is epidemic in
the village of Vining, in Otter Tail
County, having a population of only
about $50 persons, nine-tenths of whom
are afflicted with the disease. There
have been twenty deaths since April I
and thirty altogether. Instead of adopt
ing measures to check the contagion the
people, mostly Scandinavians, were
seemingly doing every thing possible to
spread it. The funerals of all the VIC
tins had been public and largely at
tended. The State Board of Health had
been notified.
Mower County transcript., 1890-04-30
CANADIAN MONEY.
minneapolis and st. Paul Banks Will Onl
Take 1t At u Discount,

minneapolis and st. Paul Banks Will ONLY
Take 1t at Discount.
The action Of the banks of st. Paul in
refusing to accept Canadian money OK
cept at a discount has been followed by
the Minneapolis banks. The banks
have had great difficulty in getting rid
OF 1T, even the Canadian banks refusing
to take 1t except at large discount.
AS bullion the Canadian specie will
bring about seventy-hve cents on tho
dollar. 1t Is charged that company OF
sharpers In the East have boon buying
up all they could get and then have
shipped it West. The Canadian pieces
are lighter than those of the United
States. Canadian paper money will
hereafter be received in Minneapolis
only at discount Of 2 per cent. and 20
per cent. on coin.
Mower County transcript., 1890-04-30
MIN NESOTA STATE NEWS
a HORRIBLE DEATH.
An O'd MAN Caught In = SHAFT and Every
UOn0 In Hin Nndx HHnkan

An Ola MAN Caught In SHAFT and Every
none tn His Body Broken.
Erick Messer, an old man Is years OF
age: was killed instantly at Granite
Falls recently by having his clothing
caught IN the main shaft of mill he
was running: The shaft was turning at
tne rate OF 200 revolutions per minute
ana the body was literally broken in
pieces. The bones Of both legs, one
arm, the skull and all the ribs wero
fractured and the brains we're protrud-
Ing from the head. His son Eric was
IN the engine-room at the time of the
accident and was Mortified to see what
had been done. The body was taken
down and carried to the sons house.
Messer had lived in that vicinity over
twenty years, coming to this State from
wisconsin. Il is aged wife and a large
family are left.
Mower County transcript., 1890-04-30

IowA's Republican Central Commit ttae
decided In Des Moines on the 2od to
hold the State convention June 2s In
Sioux City. :s.... -.
AT Newcastle on the 2Sd the Renub.
ltcans of the Sixth Indiana district nom.
mated State Senator Henry U. johnson
for Congress.
THE Pennsylvania Republican State
convention will be held at Harrisburs
June a5.
The Maine Prohibltory party will
hold its State convention 1T Portland
June 25.
The Republican State Central Com.
mittee OF California decided on the 2Sd
to hold the State convention at Sacra.
mento August IL.
WILLIAM REYNOLDS died at Pine Hill.
KY, on the 2Sd Of old age. He was
born in Hawkins County, Tenn. in
1779, and was therefore ITO Years old
when he died.
THE Ohio Legislature on the Esd
enacted law which requires tho Off.
GERS OF all State and county institutions
to purchase native stock for consumn.
tion. The law defines native stock to
he that which has been in the State 1oC
days before being killed.
A BILL. providing for biennial instead
OF annual elections OF State officers
passed the Massachusetts Legislature
on the 23d.
AT their convention In Portland on
the Gath tho Oregon Democrats renom.
mated Governor Sylvester Pennoye,
and nominated A. R. Miller, of Jack.
sonville, for Congress-
THE Democrats Of South Dakota will
meet in State convention ut Aberdeen
on juno II.
Mower County transcript., 1890-04-30
FOREIGN.

THE British steamer Bilboa was lost
on the 21st in tho North sea and fifteen
o! her crew were drowned.
In a speech on divorce on the 21st in
the House OF Commons at Ottawa, Ont,
Premier Macdonald characterized the
United States system as one of the
greatest social abuses of the day.
RANDOLPH DUBOIS, who murdered his
wife, two children and mother-in-lawi in
St. Albans, Que, couple Of months
ago, was on the 22d sentenced to be
hanged on June 30.
THE council of the empire of Russia
on the 22d passed a bill prevent ting
children under ii years of age from
working in factories.
THE oil works of w. A. Rose & Co., at
Bankside, Eng, near London, were
burned on the gath. Loss, $500, 900.
A MOB of 1000 persons attacked the
Jewish quarter of Baila, in Galicia, on
the s4th. The military was called out
and eleven persons killed before order
was restored.
NEAR Shelburne, Ont, a farmer
AADAAAO~ AAOAA AoOA UAO"ACU Vulco VI u1S
children in barrel of rain water on the
Oath and then threw himself into a
creek. He was taken out by neighbors
in dying condition.
THE house of William Arthurs at
Belleville, Ont, was burned on the
Oath, and Mr.. Arthurs and his wife per.
ished in the flames. Both were over &C
years old.
FIVE sisters named Damovieroff, the
youngest 1e years old, committed sui.
eide at Moscow on the Gath. 1t was be-
lieved that fear of arrest as Nihiltsts
led to the commission Of the deed.
In an interview on the 25th at Freid-
richsruhe on the labor question Prince
Bismarck said the conflict of classes
would never cease, and he did not think
it was the intention of Divine Provi-
dence that it should, because if it did
human activity would come to dead.
lock.
In boat race on the 25th at Sydney,
N. S. w., for the worlds championship
Peter Kemp defeated Neil Matterson by
forty lengths.
Mower County transcript., 1890-04-30
Green-Eyel Jealousy.

George R. Buchan, civil engineer
rom Pittsburgh, Pa, shot and probably
fatally wounded Joseph F. Anderson, a
grocery clerk, while walking on the
street in Minneapolis the other evening
with Anderson's wife. The Andersons
separated few years ago, but the hus-
band was jealous of Buchan, and, &C.
cording to the wife's statement, began
the quarrel, which resulted in the shoot
inr .
Mower County transcript., 1890-04-30
Tho Nows Briefly Chronloled.

Au0 ~ O"O sbESouy CnrOulOu0Os
The insane asylum at Rochester is to
be remodeled.
William Robert Smith, an old resi-
dent OF Winona, died the other morning
of inflammation of the bowels. He
leaves wife, daughter and two sons.
Henry Heinmann committed suicide
at st. Paul recently by hanging him.
self.
Axel Paulsen, of Minneapolis, the ia
nous Scandinavian skater, skipped the
country recently, and his wife had in
stituted proceedings for divorce.
Parties interested in 6, OOO- barrel -four
mill at Oneota arrived recently, and
work on the mill would soon commence.
The river and harbor appropriation
bill recently reported in the House at
Washington gives Duluth harbor $780,
900, Grand Marias harbor $4,000, and
Agate Bay harbor $4,000
The body of Eddie Heigler, drowned
in December last, was found in Maple
lake near Crookston recently.
Charles Weston's barn on his farm in
Walcott was burned to the ground by
lightning recently, together with two
head of cattle, hay and feed.
William Mccormick, brakeman in
the employ of the Milwaukee road, was
killed at the depot in Faribault re-
Gently.
At the last meeting of the Minnesota
Academy of Natural Science the other
night it was proposed to annoint a COM
mittee to aid in raising $4,000 for the
prosecution OF sciences in the Phillip
pine islands.
The Minnesota naval veterans met at
st. Paul recently and elected officers
for the ensuing year as follows: James
Kavenaugh, Commander; John J.
Brady, Executive Officer; H. J. Barber,
Paymaster; E. B. Mitchell, Secretary,
and John Ryan, Surgeon
Mower County transcript., 1890-04-30
Expressed Thanks.

Governor Merriam recently received
letter from R. B. Hoover, president OF
the Lincoln Memorial League of Spring.
field. ILL.,, expressing thanks for the
floral tribute presented by the Gov
ernor on behalf Of this State on the oc-
casion of the commemoration of tho
twenty-fifth anniversary of Abraham
Lincoln's death.
Mower County transcript., 1890-04-30
Finished Its Work,

The North Dakota seed wheat com
mission finished its work in Minneap-
oils the other day and left for home.
Tho total of all subscriptions to date
was $307,175. OF this amount $1S1, 500
was subscribed in St. Paul, 1928, $50 in
Minneapolis, $780, 900 in Duluth and $685. :
425 in North Dakota.
Mower County transcript., 1890-04-30
Apprellenslvo,


LONDON, April 26.-Advices from all
parts of Europe, except Russia, show
that the ruling powers are looking for.
ward with great anxiety to the list 0,
May. In Vienna troops are being con.
centrated for the purpose of dealing
with any further outbreak, and the mil.
itary authorities in all industrial cen.
ters of Austria and Hungary have been
enjoined to special vigilance.
CONSIDERABLE excitement exists a,
Lewiston, ILL.,, over the work of mad
dogs. On the Goth three persons were
bitten. Many horses, cattle and other
domestic animals have been bitten.
F. d. TERR1LI, telegraph operator
at La Crosse, Wis.,, was placed in charge
of the police on the Goth. He has be.
come demented over Christian science.
A CYCLONE passed about five miles
from Memphis, Tenn, on the evening
of the 9th. Considerable damage was
done to houses but no lives were re-.
ported lost.
The highest water ever known was
reported from Dallas, Tex, on the 9th.
On the morning of the 27th thirty y-one
feet of water was reported in the Red
river at Arthur City, Texas. The bot.
toms were overflowed and crops de-.
stroyed.
DURING a quarrel at Cincinnati, O., on
the Goth, between VIM. FL. Niemer and
Joseph Smith, the former was killed by
a blow of the latter's fist.
THE senate on the Goth, appropriated
81, 800, 900 for the purpose of carrying
out the stipulations Of the treaty with
the Sioux Indians of Dakata.
AT Lima, O., on the 9th, Willis
Osman and Edward Standish quarreled
over girl, Osman stabbed Standish
eight times with knife, and he will
probably die.
Mower County transcript., 1890-04-30
LATEST NEWS.
A Town Demolished.

CorToN PLANT, Ark, April GA de-
structive wind and rain storm occurred
in Woodruff county at an early hou,
this morning. Yorkville, village a
few miles southwest of Cotton Plant.
was almost entirely blown away, and
the disaster is; very great Houses,
barns, fences and structures of all kinds
were taken up by the WIND and carried
some distance. The store of C. D. York
& Co. was completely demolished and
the stock of goods destroyed; houses
were overturned by the force of the
wind, and the families narrowly es
capped death. Hundreds of cattle and
stock are reported killed, but no loss
human life as far as can be learned.
Mower County transcript., 1890-04-30
In = bad Way.

In = bad Way.
"There is a scene of great destitution
on Calumet avenue"
us there"
SIT is a fact, and in one Of those pala,
tial residences, too"
"Is it possible?"
"Terribly true; simply case of star
vation."
"What?"
That's right. Mother and four
daughters starving to death"
do tell?"
"Hired girl runs away, and none o'
the others knew how to cook. Ma
tional Weekly.
"A celebrated Boston artist was asked
his opinion of the different musical iu
struments He replied: ''There is bu'
one which xnnoys me, and that is the
Instrument that sounds like chicken
picking ont of tin pail"
Mower County transcript., 1890-04-30
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

JOHN E. CowEN, said to be the oldest
Odd-Fellow in the country, died on the
21st at Amesbury, Mass, aged 50 years.
He joined the order in Philadelphia in
1881.
CAPTAIN WILLIAM L. Couch, leader
of the Oklahoma boomers, died on the
21st at Guthrie, Ind. T., from the effects
of rife wound inflicted April by j.
C. Adams.
SANTIAGO GONZALES, a resident Of
New Mexico for seventy-five years, died
on the 21st at his ranch Ion the Red
river in the 1O8th year of his age.
The Portland daily press., 1890-12-27
HAPPY HOMES FOR THOUSANDS.
Supposed swamps In South America
Found To Be Fertile and.

WASHINGTON, December 25. Information
has been received of the organization of the
"Companhia Nova Era Rural de Brazil"
with capital of $25, ,0O0. 900. mostly fur
nisaed by European bankers and merchants
to establish 20 agricultural settlements upon
public lands of Brazil which the govern
ment gives in aid of the enterprise. This is
to be spent in constructing railways for
placing the settlements in communication
with each other and their markets. and to
carry out engineering works, mining opera
tiOnS and manufacture of sugar, bricks, tile,
lime, etc, for export and consumption.
The &C mpaDy proposes to select 5000 fami-
lies in Europe of skilled agriculturists and
mechanics, transport them free of cost to
Brazil, where houses will be prepared for
them and tools and implements furnished
The colonists will be divided and scattered
over the estate as nucleus for others, to be
taken later.
The federal and state governments of Bra
I'll have offered guarantee of five per cent
interest on one-third Of the capital invested.
1t is also learned that a syndicate Of New
York capitalists has purchased for 100000
the sugar plantation and factory known as
the San Ramon, one of the largest in Cuba,
and Is arranging to construct transportation
lines throughout the estate to increase the
cultivation area and reduce the cost of pro-
duction. 1t expects to double the present
product of 100000 bags. Other syndi-
Gates are prospecting for similar purposes.
The expedition recently sent by the Ar
gentine government upon the Parana river
to explore the Gran Chaco tract in the north
ern part of the Argentine Republic, hereto
fore as unknown as the interior of Africa,
has returned, having travelled 1000 miles. 1t
reports the Gran ChacO not a swamp, as
supposed, but land of much promise. The
climate is mild and healthful. The soil is
rich for maize and corn, and sugar cane
grows of enormous size. There Is much
valuable land.
A syndicate of capitalists Is preparing to
run line of tank steamers for the transpor-
tation of sugar between Cuban and United
States ports, thus avoiding packing in hogs
heads and reducing the cost of transporta-
tiOn,
The Portland daily press., 1890-12-27
IN Darkest ENGLAND.
The Salvation Army Scheme Loses
Its chief Prompter.

LONDON, December 26.-The Times an
nounces that Commissioner Smith Of the
Salvation Army, has resigned and that the
resignation is most important because Smith
formed one substantial guarantee that an
earnest and business like effort would be
made to execute the practicable part Of Gen
eral Booths scheme Of social regeneration.
1t is known now that Smith was the real
author Of "In Darkest England" but char
table hypothesis assigns General Booth
credit for having written at least two chap
ters
Booths explanation is that he supplied a
professional writer with materials.
The Times believes the substantial parts
Of the scheme of the city and farm colonies
originated with Smith. General Booth as
serts that the difference between Smith and
himself Is that Smith always thought that IL
was absolutely necessary to keep the social
working scheme as distinct as possible from
the religious work of the army. Booths
method of inviting donations, despite his ap-
parent willingness that the funds should be
divided, leads to a mingling Of all separate
funds into one common fund, rendering 1t
obvious that every contribution to a specific
department sets propOrtlonate amount Of
the general fund free, to be spent at the dis
cretions of Booth.
Nothing but sense Of duty, the Times
continues, could have induced smith to re-
sign at so important a jnncture. There
must be something wrong with the scheme,
or the management of Its funds. Those who
promised donations are not entitled to with
hold them until full and satisfactory ac-
count of Smiths resignation Is given. He
was the life and soul of the social reform
wing of the army. 1t Is likely that the res
ignatiOn Is destined to be deathblOw 70
Booths more ambitious schemes.
The Portland daily press., 1890-12-27
OTHER sIc STORMS.
The BlIzzards which Made the Win
ter OF 888 Memorable.

"The New England climate is changing.
We don't have the winters that we had
when was boy" Many an old resident
has made this or similar remark during the
mild winters which have been experienced
here since 1883. But In 1888 there were two
storms that made old people think of the
houses half buried in huge drifts and the i'm
passable roads which they saw after the
winters snow storms. Yesterdays storm,
the first big one Of the winter OF 1S90-91, may
rank with the two of 1888. TIE first of the
billiards of that year was on January &c.
That was the storm which buried the horse
streets were filled with an army
of men digging up the snow, which great
number Of teams was kept busy hauling
away. Trains were stalled for hours, en-
gines and snow plows off the iron adding to
the difficulty. One train from Boston
reached Portland nearly 10 hours late. At 0
o'clock on the night Of the 26th, seven pas
senger trains and one freight were blocked,
on both divisions of the Boston & Maine,
within a mile of Biddeford. On the Maine
Central, the train from Portland, due In Au-
gusta at 6 So on the evening Of the 9th got
In at 10 o'clock the next morning One Of
the trains from Bangor to Portland stayed
all night at Augusta. This state Of things
prevailed on all the roads In northern New
England. The blockade on the New York
Central was one of the greatest ever known.
and traffic was at standstill on Pennsylva.
mia roads.
The second storm of the winter was on
March IL. The famous march bliZzard'
hardly needs to be recalled. 1t was in this
storm that New York was so cut off from tbf
outside world that food threatened 10 he
come scarce before the railroads could dis
out their buried trains and get things ID
running order. Teams were abandoned 10
sons were found nearly dead from exposure
IL was In this storm that the late Roscoe
Conkling was thought to have been so in
lured by the exposure, to which he was sub
1ected, as to hasten his death. Wires were
gle line in New YORK city being In working
The Portland daily press., 1890-12-27
ON THE RACING SEA.
Vessels Driven Ashore and Battered
Into Fragments.
Schooner Stowe Wrecked at Narra-
gansert-captain and Two Men Of
the Hurlburt Drowned-YaIe's Crew
Saved by Life Line.

PROVIDENCE, r. l., December 26.-The
three masted schooner Bill Stowe, of Roston,
Dill, master, loaded with paving stones for
New York, came ashore three quarters Of
mile north Of Narragansett Pier this noon In
northeast snow storm. The wind blew
sixty miles an hour. The crew of six men
were rescued by the Pier life saving crew
and residents. These were no sooner landed
than news was received OF another schooner
In distress at Black Point. Here the three
masted schooner, A. FL. Hurlburt, of Glou-
cester, Captain William Thurston. with 400
tons Of ice for New York, was in peril. She
had left Woods Holl this morning, and on
hearing the breakers hastily let go her an
chors. Her captain thought he could ride
out the gale, but at 4.25 her chains parted and
the vessel struck. Within twenty minutes
every mast had fallen. Captain Thurstcn,
Steward Hammond and Seaman Lawrence
were knocked overheard by falling spars
and drowned. Mate John Rooney jumped
overheard and was hauled out. The remain
der Of the crew was rescued by life savers.
Both vessels are total wrecks. Capt. Thurs
ton belonged in Boothbay, Me-, and leaves a
widow. Steward Frank Hammond was
from Bristol, Me. He leaves a widow and
two sons. Seaman Lawrence was from
Portland, Oregon.
The Portland daily press., 1890-12-27
Rev. Iosapn a. Pratt.
Investment Associations of Which Il
Would be we'll to Beware.
Boston Journal.

A reader of the Journal asks for informa-
tion concerning certain Investment Asso-
citation" doing business In this city under
charter from another State. The association
Is one Of a number of schemes which have
sprung up within few years, and are un-
derstood to be doing a thrifty business
among people who imagine that by some
miraculous process they can receive large re-
turns from a small outlay. The plan is de-
lightfully simple, but not so simple as the
people who are beguiled by 1t. Numbered
bonds are issued, of the nominal value Of
s100. Each member" pays So down, and
$1.25 per month thereafter, for one Of these
bonds. Once month the money accumu-
lated In this way, less certain percentage
for expenses" is applied to paying as many
bonds as IL Is equal to meeting. the bonds be-
ing taken IN tie order Of their numbering.
The 'catch" In this plan lies here. A, B
and G, who start such an association, divide
among themselves and their families and
friends the early-numbered bonds, and meet
them from the monthly payments before
there Is time for the scheme to collapse
This Is pleasant for those on the inside, but
hardly as satisfactory to X, Y and y, and
their associates at that end Of the alphabet,
who, holding bonds Of larger numbers, con-
tinue making payments TO enrich the lucky
fellows on the inside until they grow weary
or poverty stricken ana drop OH, losing
every dime they have contributed. The ex-
pectation of these lapses constitutes the
chief source Of profit.
This project calls itself an Investment
association, yet there Is no hint of any in
vestment of any kind, except that in the
eredulity of bondholders. The underlying
principle Of the whole thing Is expressed In
the old motto, "The devil take the hindmost."
such a scheme is likely to keep afi0at at least
long enough to pay the maturing" early
numbered bonds held by the people on the
inside; as for the rest. they must take their
chances, but we have the word of the pro
jectors that large percentage Of them will
drop out, and we think It very likely. The
officers of such an association not only take
their whack at the treasury by taking for
themselves the early numbered bonds, but
they take out 20 per cent Of all payments
after the first, for the expenses" Of doing
this precious business. We believe that
there Is nothing In our statutes which pre-
vents the carrying on Of such enterprises as
this; but we are quite sure that there ought
to be. Meanwhile, to the people who are
eager to be suddenly rich and who furnish
mrst Of the victims for such devices as this.
we would suggest that no wiser, safer or
surer way of getting money has yet been de-
vised than to earn 1t and save 1t. The thing
to do with aluring schemes Of any kind
which promise to give good deal for a little
Is to let them severely alone. u Is sale to
assume that they are prompted by other than
philanthropic motives, and are simply traps
for the unwary.