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Mower County transcript., 1891-04-01
ORIGINAL HELEN GLADSTONE
No Style About the Daughter OF the
''GrAnd Old Man,,

No Style About the Daughter Of the
"Gr&nd Old Man,
A private letter from an American
lady who is residing IN England con-
tains this sketch of Helen Gladstone,
daughter of the ex-Premier of Bri-
tain -
':Miss Gladstone is an exceedingly
original person. In looks she re-
sembles her father, and she mas l
fancy his vitality. She is always
laughing, joking. telling stories. She
keeps the high table in roar. In
deed, whenever l hear com mmotion
turn to see if Miss Gladstone is not
about. and she generally is. She is
utterly regardless of dress, comes
down to z o'clock dinner in gingbam
and for lunches and garden parties
gets herself up to look like the strong
minded. practical wife of a country
minister.
''She seems frank, sympathetic
kindly, and has great magnetism. -
continues the writer. 'sStreams of
power flow out of her eyes It amuses
me to think what shock she woul
be to many Boston people. If she
were introduced as Miss Brown, OF
Chicago they would pronounce her
shocking, the typical Western
woman a person who must be sa,
upon and silenced at all COSTS"
Mower County transcript., 1891-04-01
An Aged Wisconsin Woman.

Probably few of our citizens are
aware that there is living in Lrin,
seven miles southeast of this city, a
lady who is nearly ia years old. yet
such is a fact. Katie Bauer, who is
now living with her son-in-law, Joseph
Messner has undisputed evidence
that she has attained to that remark
able age. She was born at Baden.
Germany on the Oath day of May.
1777. She not only has the family
record setting forth the day and year
of her birth, but is armed with a cer-
tilted copy of her baptism taken from
the church record of her native par
ish, which event took place nine days
subsequent to her birth. Both docu-
ments carry on their face the STAN p
of antiquity which vouches for their
authenticity and genuineness.---Har
ford Press.
Mower County transcript., 1891-04-01

The Kidds Germ Eradcator positively cures al
diseases, because it kills all the germs, bactara par
astes microbes, and animalcul9 in the human sys-
TEN, which the delegate physicians in convention at
Bostou Mass agreed was the parent of all sickness.
The air. water. fruit. vegetables etc., full of
these, imperceptabie to the eye little wors causing
catarrh. consumption. diabetes. Brghts disease and
all the socalled ncurable diseases. Never known to
fail to cure consumption, catarrh syphilis and kid
ney troubles. Retaed in S2 SO and 5 sizes; sent any
where on receipt of p1ice. AMERICAN PILL g. MED1
CINE Co., Spencer. Clay county, Iowa, proprietors.
Mower County transcript., 1891-04-01
A Nc nstrous Hog.

One of the largest hogs in America,
if not in fact the largest in the
world, was reared by Junction City
.(Kas.) man, The length was eight
feet and nine inches g1rth of neck.
G., feet girth of center Of body, s
feet: width across the hips, 80 in
ches; weight 1882 pounds
Mower County transcript., 1891-04-01
FACT AND FANCY.
The Skillful Blending of tho Real and
Imaginary.

The Skillful Blending of tho Real and
Imaginary.
When man knows in part, he is eager
to know in full He is sure to make
effort to know. His mind works from
the known toward the unknown by
varied processes. He reasons. He
traces analogies. He imagines. He
adds surmises to his certainties. And
after awhile one is puzzled to know
how much of his story is dream stuff,
and how much the substance out of
which true history is made.
But thus it has always been. HON.
er's poems are to such a degree the
product Of his own fertile and splendid
fancy, and Of the myths which he found
afloat in the air of the world he lived
in, that people forgot how much reality
had place in the works of his genius.
When Schliemann began to unearth the
facts of marble, bronze and gold long
buried in Greece and Asia Minor every
body was surprised to find SO much in
the niad and the Odyssey that may be
called history.
Sir Walter Scott has put his own
dream power into the ancient times Of
which he wrote. One who reads him
needs sawen-schooled critic and interpre-
ter at hand to distinguish between the
historical facts and the creations of fancy
which the wizard of the North has
SO bewitchingly blend led. Bishop John
II. Vincent, In Harper's Young People.
Mower County transcript., 1891-04-01
A BLOW ON THE NOSE.
The Romance Of a. Weather-Door
Introduction.
WRITTEN for This Paper.]

u O ID II a Y.
3 y r N was of
such a silent,
und e m onstra-
tive.nature that
he gave stran-
gers the impress
sion he was mo-
rose. Especially
was this true of
the few women
he knew outside
of his own fam
lily. Even in his
callow years he
had avoid e d
G i r l S as he
would a pesti-
lence. Not that
he was a mis-
ogymist; but he
Mower County transcript., 1891-04-01
Wafer Colder than Lover.

Miss Jessie Gilmore, a handsome
young society lady of Augusta, Kan.
having had a misunderstanding with
her betrothed, wrote farewell letters
to all her friends in town and her
lover IN Burton, mailed them and
started for Walnut River to Jump in
and put an end to her misery. She
carefully prepared herself for the ia
tai plunge, but first tested the water,
and finding it too cold, her nerve fail
ed, and she shiverlngly readjusted her
attire and sadly returned to her home.
The letters had been read during her
absence and a search party organized
to recover the body, She seems much
crestfallen.
Mower County transcript., 1891-04-01
Women Who Faint in Church.

"OnneH WHO FdIMt IN Cnurche
The latest thing in church fairs i 8
bazaar held in Edinburgh for the
purpose of raising funds to provide
accommodations for ladies who faint
during the service. Evidently the
women of Edinburgh have not yet been
visited with tho wave of woman's ad-
vancement and are not cognizant of
the fact that faintinG IS as old-fash-
ioued as Hannah More's novels, and
that any such encouragement to syn
cope is contrary to the spirit of the
age. If the typical woman Of the
age felt like fainting she would be so
occupied in the scientific study Of her
own sensations that she would forget
to collapse at the proper time.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-08-20

THE rise of the price of grain prom
ises splendid returns to Austrian grain
exporters, and especially as the Balkan
harvests promise to be excellent and
sufficient for the Austrian home con-
sumption.
Mrs. THOMAS b. CARRUTHERs has
been arrested at Rat Portage, Man,
charged with having killed her hus-
band.
BUSINESS futures (Dun's rcport) for
the seven days ended August Is num-
bercd 227, compared with 23l the pre-
vious week and 1877 the corresponding
week of last year.
THE liabilities of Griffin & Sons, corn
factors, London, amounted to 1000,
900. Unsecured creditors agreed to ac-
cept ten shillings in the pound.
THE large paper warehouse of A. G..
Elliott & Co., rof Sixth and Jayne
streets, Philadelphia, has been badly
damaged by fire.
SARANAc lake club house, near
Plattsburg, N. Y, has been destroyed
by fire. Seventy-five guests lost nearly
all their personal effects.
OWING to the depression in the iron
trade, operations at many of the prin-
cipal iron works in the Cumberland
(Eng district have been suspended Tor
some time and tho inability of the
workmen to procure employment is
causing the most acute distress.
| CLEARING house returns for the week
ended August is showed an average de-
crease of 49, compared with the cor.
responding week of last year. In New
York the decrease was $50.
THE reports OF the discovery of ex
tensive anthracite coal fields in Sonora
Mexico, are confirmed by advices re-
ceived by the bureau of American re-
publics-
THREE fatal balloon accidents oc.
Cured recently. At Cincinnati, Mist
Annie Harness fell with her parachute
closed and her body was broken tc
pieces. Near Syracuse, N. Y, James
Buckingham fell with his parachute
into Ongala lake and was drowned
At Tacoma, WASH, an aeronaut named
johnson fell from his balloon a dis
tance Of 1000 feet
LIEUT. SCRIvEN, the commissioner t.
Central America for the Latin Amer
ican department. reports by cable tina
the government of Salvador will erect
It's own building at jackson Park Chi
cago. e
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-08-20
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A PATH OF RUIN.

Jacksonville. Fla. Visited by a Million
Dollar Fire-Ovcr Seventy-Five business
Houses and Upwards of Forty Dwellings
Fall IA Prey to the Flames.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Aug. ia path
Of smoudering ruins, two blocks wide
and six blocks long, extending from
Bay street up to Beaver street and one
block on each side, is the result Of
fire which started at midnight. 1t
caught in Knight & Co.'S grocery adj
joining the large Hubbard building, and
in Il very short time the block was a
mass of flames. Thence they We're car
ried diagnnally across to the Fremont
hotel to Col. Burbridge's large
block, in which the Seminole
club is domicilcd. The fire spread on
all sides, being famed by stiff
breeze that rose. The firemen worked
heroically throughout, but nothing
could stay the flames until exhausted
for want of material. They were
stopped at Beaver street on the north,
at Laura on the west and at Ocean
street on the east. At 7 o'clock over
seventy-five business houses are
burned and over forty dwellings. Loss,
about 81 200, 900; insurance, about one
lnlf
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-08-20
A SUDDEN STOP.

The Experience OF q Couple of Baseball
Magnates While Touring the Yellow
stone Region In n Stage Coach-A Peep
Into the Muzzlc of RevoIvers with High
waymen Behind Them.
DENVER, Col, Aug. 10. - L. c.
Krauthof, president of the Western
Baseball association, and Jno.W. Shea,
president of the Kansas City club, have
arrived in town. They have been
prowling around the Yellowstone
region and met an adventure. To
reach some magnificent scenery it was
necessary to undertake 75-mile stage
coach ride. Mr. Krauthof says tho
stage was held mp by masked men, and
that they were relieved of S763. This
is what Mr. krauthof says about 1t:
I'VE had two or three days jour
ncy before us and we were humping
along nicely over the road. We went
close to the edges of some pretty steep
precipices but we did not mind that,
for we were brave men, or thought we
were. Suddenly the stage stopped with
jerk that piled us in heap in
one corner of the vehicle amid
the baggage, etc. During the
time spent in extricating ourselves,
in the meantime expressing our opin-
ions on things in general and the stage
in particular, couple of angry-looleing
seven-shootcrs were at the windows of
the coach, and we were asked by two
masked men to hand over any val
uables such as money, watches and
jewelry that we might have about our
persons. The fellows were SO polite
and gentlemanly about the whole affair
that we did not like to argue with them
or refuse the request, so we passed over
what change we had, amounting in all
to S563 in cash, besides watch or two
and some little trinkets. After thank
ing us for our kindness and considera-
tion, the men turned the coach around
and told us the best thing we could do
would be to turn back for the railroad
station at once. We started immediate
ly, and upon reaching Il telegraph Office
had to send home for money to continue
our Journey"
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-08-20
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.


ADvICEs from British Columbia state
that the proposed Peace River & Hud-
sons Bay railway is to be built. Tho
road is planned to run from Port Symp'
ton on the Pacific to lIudson's Bay con-
Meeting there with line of steamers.
This route it is claimed, will make the
distance between Europe and Asia
shorter by l,054 miles than the Cana.
dian Pacific, and 2,67G miles shorter
than the Central Pacific and San Fran
cisco routes.
A CLoUD-BURsT in the mountains near
Botzen, Austria, on the 18th, flooded
the lowlands. The mountain streams
were converted into torrents, which
swept through the village of Kollman,
carrying away men and cattle and de-
stroying half the houses. Many per-
sons were drowned.
TIE Welsh Eisteddfod opened at
Swansea on the 10th. During the pro-
ceedings sudden squall and cloud
burst caused the canvas of the pavilion
to collapse, and 10000 persons were
thoroughly soaked with the rain. A
stampede occurred, but no one was in
jured.
So ALARMING has become the increase
of scarlet fever among the patients of
the Milwaukee county wis., insane
asylum that the institution has been
thoroughly quarantined. Twenty
eight cases were reported on the 18th,
but thus far there had been no deaths
Six Americans were in attendance at
the socialistic congress in Belgium on
the 18th. Among them were Mr.. llo-
hen, representing the Chicago social
lists, and Mr.. Kahn representing 0,O00
workingmen in New York
WIN. BRICKuL. of New York, has
brought suit against the city of Balti-
more, Md, for 500, 900 damages for the
alleged infringement of patent for
| feed water heaters for steam tire-en-
gines invented by him.
A BOAT containing party OF four
artists sketching on the Ohio river OPP
posite Cincinnati on the 18th, cap
sized near the Kentucky shore and
three of the party were drowned
The Damon iron works at Boston were
burned on the 18th. Loss, 5000, 900;
partially insured. Kendall's machine
works, on the next corner, were also
burned; loss, $50, 900.
ALFRED SMoNIs, Belgian senator,
who is large cloth manufacturer at
Verviers, will be named by the Belgian
government commissioner to the Chi
cago exhibition.
BY the sudden collapse of a stone
bridge over the st. Mark river, in
Hayti, eighty of the throng OF persons
watching the raging torrent below,
were drowned
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-08-20

THE European bouises during the
week ended August Is were depressed
and dull.
Two men were killed by collision
on the Union Pacific near brighton,
Col. A freight engine had died" and
while the train was standing on the
track a special dashed into it.
THERE was a destructive fire at Nor
folk, Va, recently during a storm,
breaking out in the Norfolk Storage
quickly spreading. The loss ran up to
5000. 900.
AT Elizabethtown, Ind, there was q
cyclone recently. The brick school
house was ruined. The brick residence
of Charles Cisco was torn away seven
feet above the ground and his son Ezra
was killed. The father is probably IA
tally hurt.
BRlGADIER-GEN. STANLEY at San
Antonio, Texas, severely ccnsured the
court which tried FIRST Lieut. Wal
ter ii. Chatfield, Fifth infantry, on ac-
count of tho merciful sentence imposed
He was charged with wrong reports of
money matters and was sentenced TO be
reprimanded.
THE treasury shipments of small
notes to the west, for to use in moving
the crops, aggregated So, $500 on the
18th.
SAN FRANCISCO stevedores have struck
for an increase of wages
| A SOLDIER from Oklahoma City says
that news has been received there that
the Daltons and their gang of despe-
radoes have been tracked down into
the southern part of the Sac and Fox
country.
THE German Catholic Knights of
America met in annual convention at
Louisville, KY, on tho 10th.
CHARLES DIECKE, aged l6 years, is in
New York hospital suffering from
trichinosis He may recover.
CHARLES LAWRENCE, cashier of the
Keystone bank, and the two Ken
nedys of the Spring Garden national
bank, pleaded guilty at Philadelphia to
charges of defalcation. Sentence was
deferred.
ANOTHER scene of wild excitement
occurred in the Chicago wheat pit on
the 18th. Under pressure to realize
there was a considerable break.
d., ~, ia9 Wy 'a'
river was swept away and thirty lives
were lost
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The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-08-20

THE grave situation created by the
failure Of the crops in Russia is causing
the greatest apprehension in all circles
The Grashdanin declares that the local
administrations will be unable to make
provision for the inhabitants of the dis
tressed provinces by drawing upon the
surplus of other provinces If the specu-
lators are allowed to export corn or If
the artificial rise in corn is not checked
The public demands that the govern
ment Immediately place duty on rye.
The Financial Messenger declares that
it will be almost impossible for Russia
to export corn this year.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-08-20
A SHOCKING SIGHT.

An Octogenarian Found Imprisoned Amid
Nermin and Filth in nu Evident Attempt
to Hasten His Demise Short of Actual
Murder.
DULUTH, Mimi, Aug. 1o.-A revolt
ing case of cruelty came to light last
evening in the suburbs of this city.
Detective Thomas Hayden accompanied
by several police officers and the United
Press reporter, acting on information
received, proceeded to the house of
James Lindberg, demanded admit
tance and asked for the the ''old man."
Unwilling Lindbcrg led the way
through lamentably filthy house,
and in one corner iu room
five by seven feet, the door
to which was heavily barred
and locked, they found Andrew Spang-
berg, said to be 81 years of age, liter
ally recking with vermin and foul with
his own eXcrement. The stencil was
fearful, and QUIZ flies and other insects.
reused at the CLEAN of light which
one of the men carried, danced in
swarms over the poor old man whose
days evidently are numbered. On n
hard bed, not two feet wide, he tossed
and chartered incohcrently, and his al
most sightless eyes told of abject fear
AT the sound of voices. lie was wrapped
in quilts and removed to one of the
hospitals
Inquiry developed the fact that he
had been a comparative prisoner in the
room for years, his reason slowly ebb-
ing away. He came to America leav-
ing his family in Sweden 30 years ago.
He acquired considerable property,
and when dccrcpit age came on him he
willcd it to the children of Lindbcrg,
and it is believed that n deliberate at
tempt has been made to hasten the old
mans death by ill-treatment coupled
with frequent beatings and other
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-08-20

THE reports us to the relations be-
tween Chill and Bolivia growing out of
the latter's recognition of the belliger-
ents, one Of which reports was that
Chilli had declared war against Bolivia,
nre said to be untrue and the stories of
cruel punishments inflicted by the gov
ernment are pure inventions. The gov
ernment simply arrests those who are
supposed to be aiding and abetting the
rebels and sends them to Iquique, the
headquarters of the congressional
party.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-08-20

THE progress of the European sugar
beet crop is slow. The continued wet
and cold weather has seriously set back
the development of the roots, especially
in the low lying districts, although the
leaves are luxuriant Even with ex-
ceptionally fine weather in September
it is doubtful whether the increased
acreage will yield an increased pro-
duction. The present tests are on a
level with those of 1888, when the fiual
yield was twenty per cent below the
yield of 1890.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-08-20

STOCK in the proposed candidacy of
Senator German for the presidency had
quite a boom among the politicians in
Washington by reason of the fact that
the Farmers Alliance Of Maryland in
dorsed him with great unanimity for re-
election to the senate. This, his friends
claim, indicates that he would be ac-
ceptable to the alliance as the demo-
cratic presidential nominee.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-08-20

THE newspapers of Lima, Peru, con-
tain elaborate accounts Of the removal
of the remains of Francisco Pizzaro,
who led the conquest Of Peru, from
vault under the altar Of the cathedral
at Lima to the chapel of the viceroys in
the same building. The remains were
subjected 20 a careful examination and
the body was found to be admirably
preserved,
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-08-20

THE Chilian congressional envoys in
Washington have received advices from
Chilli which they say confirm the state
ments that President Balmaceda had
removed all the judges in the country
and appointed other persons to their
places The judges removed include
the chief justice of the supreme court
and his six associate justices, the judges
of the courts of appeal and all the dis
trict judges. Tho envoys say this ac-
tion Of Balmaceda is in direct defiance
of article 1O5 of the constitution of Chilli.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-08-20

Mr., SURGEONS faculty for remem-
berlng names and faces is well known,
but sometimes he makes slip, and the
following little anecdote shows his
felicitous way Of setting himself right
on such occasions. Meeting recently a
young student whom he had not seen
for year, he said: Right glad to sec
you, Mr.. Partridge" The student was
of course immensely gratified to find
that the great divine remembered him.
but reminded the pastor that his name
was not Partridge. but Partridge. "Oh,
yes," quoth Mr.. Spurgeon, ~ must not
make game of you any more"
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-08-20

''IT is going to be a long time before
the American product is admitted to
Germany on an equal basis with their
home meats" said p. d. Armour, of
Chicago, who has just returned from
abroad. There is really something
more involved than a matter of comfy
between the two nations. A national
taste in the matter Of meat eating is in
volved. The Germans will eat their
meats raw. For that reason I think
that no meats will get into Germany
except under German inspection. As
for the favorable French legislation,
that appears to have been hung up by
the French senate"
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-08-20

ARRIVALS from the region Of Sonora,
Cal, on the Colorado river. report a
most wonderful change in the topog-
raphy of the country. Many old land
marks are obliterated, prominent nat
ural objects are wiped off the face of
the earth and new ones created in un-
expected places. The small stream
four miles north OF Lerdo, which prior
to the earthquake was readily forded,
has become impossible. The Cocopah
Indians predict another earthquake,
liable to occur soon. They say natural
signs indicate IL.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-08-20

w. II. WOODWARD. having In charge
the arrangements for bringing dele
gates to the sovereign grand lodge Of
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows
at St Louis, announces that all rail-
roads will transport members for one
fare for the round trip
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-08-20

c. A. FARGO, one of the new senators
OF the Cherokee nation and a man Of
much influence, says he is in favor Of
selling the Cherokee strip at once. AS
soon as the Cherokee council convenes
in November he will introduce bill to
sell the strip and Immediately divide
the proceeds among the people of the
nation. A large number of the other
members of the council have already
promised to support this measure.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-08-20
A CRIME UNCOVERED
By the Finding of the Mntilatcd Body OF
Denison McCuc at Racine, Wis.

BY the Finding of the INITIATED Body OF
Denison McCuc Mt Racine, wis.
RACINE, Wis, Aug. l9.-The horribly
mutilated body of Dcnnison McCuc, "a
prominent citizen of Rockford, Ill, was
found in the river here The body was
entirely devoid of clothing, and one leg
was off at the trunk. The foot of tho
other leg was missing, a long cash was
found in his breast, from which
the lungs protruded, and the throat
was cut, while number of
deep knife gashes were found on
his face and hands. He was last
seen alive Friday
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-08-20

DURING the twenty -four hours ended
at midnight Of the 10th there were forty
cases of heat prostration In New York
city, all OF which proved fatal