VOL. XVII.—NO. 25.
BUSINESS CABDS.
J^OBB & COXKLIN,
BARBERS AND HAIR DRESSERS,
At their new Ton
go
rial Parlors. Shower and Hot
Baths. We have two first-class bath-rooms.
Basement Dunkelmann's block. Main street,
Austin, Minn.
ENTISTfiY,
I)R. P. B. PECK
Has opened an office in Mrs. Wright's honse, first
north of the Davidson House, on east side of
street, where he is prepared to do all kiuds of
work in dentistry, and solicits a share of public
patronage.
~S. WHEAT, M. D.,
IIOM(EOPA TillC PHYSICIAN A SURGEON
Special attention Riven to the dint*apes of women
and children. Office and residence opposite
Congregational church, corner St. Paul and Mill
streets, Anstin, Mower connty, Minn.
QRMANZO ALLEN,
JUDGE OF PROBATE\
Attorney at Law and Real Estate Agent. Col
lections made and Taxes paid. Office in Court
house, Austin, Minnesota. 39-tf
rjlHOS. PHILLIPS, M. D.,
MOM (EOPA THIC PHYSICIAN ft SURGEON,
Has permanently located in Austin. Calls in city
or country promptly attended to at all honrs.
Office and room* In Schlender's block, first door
north of Mower County Bank. {SS^Electric
baths given at the office.
W. ALLEN, M. I).,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office over Solner's store, Austin, Minnesota.
Office hours from 9 to 11 a. m. and from 8 to 5
p. m.
M. GKEENMAN,
A TTOItNEY A LA IK,
Will practice in the courts of record and the IT.
8. court*. Office in Schlender's block. Main
street, Austin, Minn. 40-ly
JOHNSON & PIERCE,
A TTORNEYS A LA W,
Anstin, Minn. Practice iu all the courts of the
state. I'rompt attention given to collecting.
Office over OuHkcImann's store. jun20
J^YMAN D. BAL ITD,
A TTORNEY A LA Wt
Real Estate, Insurance and Collection Agent.
Office, front room,second floor,over Hall 8t West's
store, Austin, Minnesota.
J^AFAYKTTK FRENCH,
A TTORNEY A LA IF,
Anstin, Minn. Collections and other business
attended to carefully and promptly. Agent of
the .ACtna and oth« Fire Innurance Companies.
Office over C. W. Taylor's store. JuuiiO
15. CRANE,
A TTORNE A LA IF,
Real Estate and Collection Agent. Taxes paid
for non-residents. jyofllce, second floor of
Dnnkelmann's new block, Main st/eet. 19-tf
(j
M. CAMERON,
A TTORNEY AT LA IK,
And Real Estate Agent. Collections made and
taxes paid.
H. JOHNSON, M. D., C. M„
c.
(Succestor to Dr. A. Macdonald.)
Graduate of McGlll College, Montreal, late As
sistant Surgeon In Montreal General Hospital.
Office over Clemmcr & Pooler's drug store. Calls
attended day and night.
RAILWAY HOUSE,
HORROBIN A COX.,
Proprietors. Rates, $8.00 per day. Goad Sample
Rooms up town. Guests carried to and from
the city free of charge. Up town connected by
telephone at Clemmcr & Pooler's. Anstin, Minn.
JJKD CEDAR MILLS.
J. OREOSON,
Manufacturer and Wholesale Dealer in the beat
brands of Groccrs' and Bakers' Flour. Also all
kinds of Mill Feed for sale at his store on Main
street, Austin, Minn., and at the mill, two miles
south of the city.
E
LLEN M. FAIRBANKS, M. D.
Office and residence, corner Weat Main and
Maple streets, opposite Public School Bnilding,
Austin, Minn. At home until 9 a. m. and (rem
12 to 2 p. m.
^VERY A JUDSON,
DENTISTS,
AUSTIN, MINN.
Offlco over Dorr &
Wold's drng store.
0
ROAN TUNING.
The undersigned is prepared to do Organ
Tuning and Repairing. All work done la the
best manner possible, and fully warranted.
The bcRtof references furnished. At Donovan's
furniture store, one door east of Oscar Ayer's.
G. T. MILLS.
SOCIETIES.
IDEL1TY LODGE, NO. 39, A. F. & A. M.
A The regular communications of this
lodge are held In Masonic nail, Austin,
Minnesota, on the flrtt and third Wed
nesday evenings of each month.
JOSEPH ADAMS, W. M.
L. D. BAIRD, Secretary.
OYAL ARCH CHAPTER, NO. 14.
Tho Stated convocations ot this Chapter
are held In Masonic nail, Austin, Minnesota,
on the tfconil and fourth Friday evenings
of each month.
EUGENE WOOD. M. E. H. P.
F. I. CRANK, Secretary.
gT. BERNARD COMMANDERY, K. T. NO. 13
Meets first Monday evening of each
9mm* month at Masonic nail.
EUGENE WOOD, E. C.
G. L. CASK, Recorder.
O. O. V.
The regular meetings ot Anstin
(Lodge, No. 20, are held In their hall
every Tuesday evening. Odd Fel
lows from other jurisdictions, whose bnsiness
may lead them to Anstin. are cordially Invited to
visit us. W. H. BULLOCK, N.
O. L. GIBBONS, Secretary.
O. G. T.,
G.
AUSTIN LODGE NO. 101, I. 0. O. T.,
Meets every Monday evening in Odd Fellows'
nail, corner Main and Mill streets. Strangers
stopping in city belonging to this order are cor
dially Invited.
WILSON BEACH, W. C.
MRS. 0. SLOCCM, Secretary.
T.
JEWELRY.
G. Sghleuder
IS AUSTIN'S
PIONEER
DIALER IK
Watclies, Clocks, Jewelry,
Silver-Plated Ware, etc.
yWOallon him and look over his elegant
«$gcfej»a Mfln street
MOWER
NOTES OF THE TIMES.
THE bank of Montreal holds from
$8,000,000 to $10,000,000 of idle funds.
There is much more money than enter
prise and public spirit in Canada.
THE tire losses in the United States
and Canada for the month of
August, are placed at $5,500,000,
and for the first eight* months of 1885
are esitmated at $65,500,000.
A MEMORIAL window has just been
placed in the Episcopal church at Mid
dleton, Conn., by Edwin Booth and his
daughter to mark their affection for
the deceased wife of the great actor.
THE popularity of Mr. Lowell in
England is shown by the remark of
the London Times that Minister
Phelps, (appointed by the Cleveland
administration) is treading with
success in the footsteps of his pre
decessor.
QUEEN VIC. is a good mother-in-law
lo the Princess Beatrice's husband, as
in a.laition to making him a Knight of
the Garter, and heaping rank and emol
uments upon him, she has also made
him a commandant in the royal navy.
WALT WHITMAN felicitates himself
that in his declining and decrepit days he
fortunately has a good faithful young
Jersey woman and friend, Mary Davis,
"who cooks for me and vigilantly sees
to me." Mary's ability as a cook is
doubtless her charm.
TENNYSON, as poet laureate has $1000
a year, but for fifteen minutes work in
the ring Mr. John L. Sullivan received
$5,084,60, a contrast which causes an es
thetic editor to remark that "financial
ly there is a heap of difference between
genius and muscle. Too true!
IN the hat trade, it is said, there is
practically no sale now for soft hats,
but stiff high hats rule the market, with
black and brown the prevailing colors.
Cups too area thing of the past, with
the exception of fur or seal skin for
winter use. The "derby" hat is the
leading style, aud with the exception
that the brim curls a little more, there
is no marked change.
GENEVIEVE WARD, the actref-s, has
returned from a season of play-acting
in New Zealand. The king says Miss
Ward wanted to marry him, but as he
already possessed several wives she de
clined to be added to the number,
whereupon the king proposed to kill
all his other wives if she objected to
them, but the charming lady chose not
to become a New Zealand Queen, even
under such a gallant offer.
IN tho case of JoeMackin, convicted
and sentenced to the Joliet penitentiary
by a state court at Chicago, of election
frauds, a continuance bf hearing an ap
peal by the Supreme Court has been
asked on the ground that a decree
affirming the conviction of the court
below would result in forfeiting the
$50,000 bail given by Mackin in the
United States court to answer to the
same offense, which case has not been
tried or disposed of.
IN the device upon the new postal
card a fine engraving of Jefferson dis
places tho head of the Goddess of
Liberty, the words United States arc
printed in full instead of the mono
gram U. S., the direction "nothing but
the address can bo placed on this
side,'" is changed upon the face of the
card to read, "nothing but the address
to boon this side." Tho size is un
changed, and a light browu color is
used for the printed math r. Th^iew
features-give the latest card a decidedly
different appearance from the old one.
A YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, man made a
death-bed confession of having mur
dered a man named McNamee, at
Waltham, Mass., six years ago. No
such murder occurred, but at that
time Patrick McEneary was assaulted
on tho highway and robbed, but re
covered from his injuries and still
lives. The author of the crime was
never traced or discovered until the
man who under an assumed name had
carried the burden of his supposed
great crime for years that seemed like
centuries to him, upon his dying bed,
stung by remorse revealed himself.
THE fact that Chicago is something
of a towu may be gleaned from the
amouut of its post office Dusiness as
shown by the report for ihe month of
August, when there were distributed
10,042,316 letters, postal cards and
newspapers, including mail and local
letters. There were forwarded bv the
outgoing mails from the city 8,701,648
letters, postal cards and newspapers.
To transact the delivery and collection
of this matter 321 letter carriers were
employed who made 948 delivery and
857 collection trips daily. The sale of
postage stamps amounted to $154,815
for the month.
AT Marseilles, the deaths from chol
era were 721 from August 1st to the 19th
an average of eighty-three per day.
Consul Mason states that the disease
was not imported from Spain or any
where else, but aro*4 solely from the
filthy condition of the place, where the
most elementary principles of sani
tary cleanliness are unknown, and
the gutters of the streets flow
with the veriest fijth and the
canals and sewers are infected.
One building on the eastern side of the
old port contains seven hundred in
habitants, whose excrements are
thrown into the recesses of the stair
ways. The schools are poisoned by
exhalations from neighboring vaults,
and the scourge invited by every pos
sible villness to perform its deadly mis
sion.
HISTORY OF A WEEK.
Bister Mary Joseph, .of the Visitation
nans, died at the Convent Monte Maria, at
Richmond, Va., September 2. The deceased
was Miss Nora Keiley, and she was tho
youngest sister of Hon. A. M. Keiley,
United States minister to Austria.
At Emporia, Kansas, Mrs. Minnie Walknp
has been held by the Coroner's jiyy to the
grand jury-for causing the death of her
bubband, the medical experts professing to
have found traces of arsenic in thedeceased
man's liver and stomach.
The great Boston dry goods firm of
Jordan, Marsh & Co., are reported to have
a defalcation of nearly a quarter of a
million on their hands. Some employee
bought that amount in goods which never
reached them.
Maj. Aaron Stafford, the last surviving
officer of the war of 1812, died at his
residence in Waterville, Oneida county,
New York on the 6th, in the 99th year of
bis age, having retained his mental faculties
to the last.
Gen. Newton, chief of engineers,
estimates that an appropriation of
$18,000,000 or $30,000,000 will be required
to continue the work of river and harbor
improvements during the next fiscal year.
Train wreckers set fire to a bridge on the
Bloomington & Western road, near Dau
vers, 111., but a farmer discovered the fire
and gave an alarm. The wreckers were
not captured.
The report of the assistant treasurer at
New Orleans for the year ending June 30
last
shows that the receipts were $32,468,494, ex
penditures $32,027,057, and balance, on hand
$16,054, 150.
AtHoboken, N. J., a druggist put up ten
grain doses of morphine instead of
quinine, causing the deaths of sisters
named Oretchen. The druggist has fied.
At Belleville, Ontario, Mrs. Mary Adams
with an axe nearly severed the head of
Martin Archibald, a wealthy farmer who
attempted improper liberties with her.
The thirty-third annual meeting of the
American Pharmaceutical association will
open in Pittsburg Tuesday, Sept. 8, and
continue four days. Delegates will be
present from all parts of the country.
The issue of standard silver dollars from
the mints during the week ending Aug. 30,
was $517,488. The issue for the correspond
ing period of last year was $282,995.
Sept. 1 Ferdinand Ward was brought
before a referee and an examination
begun into the affairs of Grant & Ward
which will continue several days.
It is estimated at the treasury depart
ment that there has been a decrease of
about $3,000,000 in the public debt during
the month of August.
By the explosion of natural gas in a bak
ery at Pittsburg, Samuel Stafford, W. B.
Krebs, J. F. Huggins, John Clark and Mary
Charles were injured.
The White house was reopened to the
public Monday. The building has been
cleaned and renovated during the Presi
dent's absence.
Gov. Hoadly opened the Demooratic
campaign in Ohio with a speech at Hamil
ton. Butler county, on the evening of the
5th.
It is reported that Ben Butler, as attor
ney for the cattle barons, will institute a
suit against the president for damages.
Three men were killed and seven injured
by the caving in of a mass of earth upon
a cage in a mine near Wilkesbarre, Penn.
Mrs. Nellie Grant Sr. rtoris, accompinied
by her brother Jesse K. Grant and wife,
•ailed for Southampton September 2.
At MohawkValley, Oregon Andrew, Bogg
killed Daniel Church and wife and then hung
himself. Bogg's motive is unknown.
The total collections of internal revenue
during July were $8,832,314, or $581,214 less
than for the same period of 18S4.
At St. Louis the examination of Maxwell,
the supposed murderer of Preller, haa been
been postponed till Sept. 9.
The cranberry crop along the line of the
Wisconsin Valley railroad, is estimated at
18,000 barrels.
The standard oil works atjCleveland, Ohio,
burned at an early hour on the morning of
the 7th.
Cleveland's party has broken camp and
he will soon be at his work in the White
house.
At Lynn, Mass., fire destroyed Beebe and
Webber's Morocco factory. Loss over $100,
000.
Providence manufacturers held a meeting
to discuss Secretary Manning's circular,
and resolved against any further tariff leg
islation.
Long Branch has been the most successful
summer resort of the east.
Mrs. Grant visited her husband's tomb
at Riverside September 1.
THE OLD WORLD.
There is great excitement in Spain over
the occupation of Yap, one of the Caroline
islands, by the French. The Spanish war
ships reached Yap on the 21st ult., and pre
pared to occupy it in the name of Spain.
The Spanish officers were dilatory in land
ing troops, and on the 24th of the same
month a German gunboat arrived. Al
though it was 7 o'clock in the evening, the
German commander instantly landed a
body of marines and sailors and hoisted the
German flag over the island. The Spanish
officials made an energetic protest against
the action of the German commodore, and,
on the latter's refusal to recede from the
position he had taken, telegraphed to
Madrid for instructions. A conflict be
tween the Germans and Spanish at Yap is
feared. King Alfonso and his cabinet are
considering the matter and the populace
in Madrid expressed their sentiments by
gathering in front of the German embassy
and attacking the building, teaiing down
the French coat of arms and burning it in
the street.
Mr. Stead, publisher of the Pall Mall Ga
sette, who exposed the traffic in young girls,
with several of his assistants, have had ac
tion brought against them for irregulari
ties iu the matter.
The prince of Wales arrived September 2,
at Stockholm, where he met with an enthu
siastic reception. The prince was received
at the railway station 6y King Oscar.
RECENT APPOINTMENTS.
he louowiugjfostmasters were appointed
Sept. 2: Dakota—At Lennex, Matilda
Schult? Centreyiile, John J. Davis White
Lake, John Deng Olivet, George W.Baker
Meno, Thomas Bray Hurley, Rowland
Reese Marion, John Ryan Frankfort,
Frank P. Graves Volga, Charles Kieth:
Carrington, Charles D- Smith. Iowa—At
Early, J. H. Cory Sabula, J. L. Kimball
Mechanicsville, J. H. Willis Princeton,
Willis Hopson Martelle, Mark Hoffman
Stone City, M. J. Gavin Toronto, E. P.
Simmons Sterling, Albert C- Ferguson
Melrose, James Duggan.
The following postmasters were appoint
ed August SI, Iowa—Pacific Junction,
AUSTIN, MOWER COUNTY, MINN., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1885.
George W. Colburn Woodbury, L. W.
White Riverside, George L. Shellig Cin
cinnati, Moses N. Bear.
ifakota—Union, George XL Houtz Lake
side, Smith Newcomer Travare, James K.
Weaver Goodwin, GfeorgeT.Nelson Butte,
Mrs. Nettie M. Collins Britton, George L.
Baker White Swan, R. A. Hall Le Bean,
D. T. Curler Waterford, William Gothman.
The following Postmasters were appointed
Sept. 3: Howard, Minn., Mark Takett,
vice McCullom, removed Gary, Dak.
J. H. Gary, vice Slighter, resigned
Hillsboro, Dak., M. R. Morgan, vice
Morgan, resigned.
Sept. 1 a large number of postmasters
were appointed, among them being the
following: Minnesota, at Lake Benton,
John L. Cass Iowa, at Moravia, F. S. G.
Cox Dakota, at Wissengton, Charles
Ferguson.
The following appointments of fourth
class postmasters in Iowa were made on
the 4th ult: At Gilbert Station, J. B. Grin
nell at Charlotte, William F. Houlahan
at Preston, N. Godes at Calamus, A. H.
Crusen at Dixon, Henry J. Wulffzee at
Italis, James M. Pendergast at Cascade,
James. H. Haynes at Durant, Joseph
Weaver at Marksburgh, J. D. Love at
Raymond, W. S. Deitrick at Iron Hill, J.
S. Tracy.
THE RIVER CONVENTION AT ST. PAUL
The convention called by Gov. Hubbard
of Minnesota, to consider the question of
improving the Northwestern waterways,
began its session at St. Paul on the 3rd inst.
Addresses were delivered at the opening by
Gov. Hubbard aDd Mayor Rice, and
ex-Gov. Wm. Bross of Chicago was chosen
temporary chairman. There was quite a
contest relative to the formation of the
committee on resolution, aud the following
were finally selected:
Minnesota—J. S. Pillsbury, O. P. Stearns,
H. M. Rice.
Kansas—John Arthur, C. E. Gifford, D.
A. Millington.
Iowa—T. F. Parker, E. R. Boulter, E. M.
Dickey.
Missouri—E. A. Stannard, N. Cole, H. M.
Kirkpatrick.
Dakota—W. H. H. Beaddle, J. H. King,
C. A. Morton.
Wisconsin—Richard Guenther, P. V.
Deuster, W. T. Price.
Nebraska—Champion S. Chase, A. J.
Sawyer, E. M. Carroll.
Illinois—T. J. Henderson, W. J. Haynes,
J. M. Beardsley.
When the committee on permanent
organization reported, the following were
named as officers:
President—Maj. William Warner, Kan
sas City, Mo.
First Vice President—Gen. G. W. Jones,
Iowa.
Honorary Vice Presidents—Iowa, P. G.
Ballingall, C. M. Miller, Senator Miles Da
kota, Johnson Nickeus, A. Boynton, S. S.
Lockhart Minnesota, Mark H. Bunnell, E.
W. Durant, S. G. Comstock Wisconsin,
Lucius Fairchild, D. A. McDonald, O. H.
Ingram Kansas, D. A. Milliagton, J. D.
Barker, C. E. Gifford Missouri, J. G. Wear,
H. N. Phillips, James McClane Montana,
Martin Maginnis Illinois, H. A. Candel,
George H. Ritchey, W. H. Crocker.
Secretary—Piatt B. Walker of Minneap
olis.
Assistant Secretaries—F. A. Fitzpatrick,
Kansas Pitt Bartlett, Wisconsin J. F.
Wright, Illinois.
Recording Clerk—F. A. Crittenden, Ill
inois.
The selection of permanent chairman
placed Gov. Bross in an embarassing po
sition. Having been notified that he was to
be permanent as well as temporary chair
man, he had prepared a speech and supplied
advance copies to tho associated press. He
was accordingly allowed to fire off his
speech which began by returning thanks
for the honor of being selected chairman.
The following resolutions were adopted
Whereas, In order to secure to the pro
ducers iu all parts of the country the highest
possible return for -their products and the
most favorable exchange of the same and
our proper relations to the conditions of
foreign markets, it is essential that the
cost of transportation be reduced to the
minimum therefore,
Resolved, That the immediate and com
prehensive improvement of the Mississippi
and Missouri rivers and their navigable
tributaries to the fullest extent of their
improvable capacity, in order to secure
safe, permanent ana reliable channels of
sufficient depth and breadth, to afford at all
seasons of the year ample facilities for the
water transportation of the immense pro-
P°
ducts of the Mississippi valley, is demanded
of the government of the United States by
ev-ry consideration of commercial, agri
cultural and social advancement, and by
justice, and an enlightened policy of pro
moting the prosperity and defense of the
nation.
Resolved, That we favor any meritorious
project for inceased water transportations
facilities by which the general interests of
tho whole country may be conserved, and
we commend a liberal policy in this regard
to the careful consideration and intelligent
support of congress but we deem the im
mediate and permanent improvement of
the Mississippi and Missouri rivers and their
navigable tributaries, according to some
comprehensive plan, embracing the whole
subject, of paramount importance.
Resolved, That the Mississippi river,
from the Falls of St. Anthony to the Gulf
of Mexico, is the great national highway
for the commerce of the West and the dis
tance between the said falls and the mouth
of the Ohio river being more than half the
distance of the navigable water of said
river.
Resolved, that sufficient appropriations
should be made to give at least six feet of
water in the Mississippi river from Cairo
to the Falls of St. Anthony at the earliest
practicable day, and that we urge upon
congress that an immediate appropriation
be made for the amount necessary to com
plete the work and we also favor con
tinued liberal appropriations by congress
for the improvement of the Mississippi
river from Cairo to the Gulf.
Resolved, That appropriations should be
made by congress for the improvement of
navigation of the Mississippi to the naviga
ble sources thereof, in accordance with the
recommendation of the government en
gineers, and we commend to congress the
careful consideration of the report of the
resident engineers to the war department of
the reservoir system of the upper Mississip
pi.
Whereas, The Missouri river, one of the
largest and longest rivers in the world, wa
tering an agricultural and mineral country
unsurpassed in wealth, its borders popula
ted by over six million people, yet never
having received a direct appropriation from
the national government ior its general im
provement prior to the Forty-seventh con
gress. therefore be it
Resolved, That we earnestly recommend
and urge the present and permanent im
provement of the navigation of the Mis
souri river upon a general and systematic
plan to prepare it for commerce by steam
ers and barges, and we urge a policy of
large and continuous appropriations by
congress therefor. We further recommend
that the improvementjbe carried forward by
a distinct and separate measure, and in not
less than five divisions of the river, and un
der United States engineers and civilians
resident therein, with equal application of
appropriation to the several divisions and
we do now demand appropriations for the
work commensurate with the wealth and
growth of the great country tributary there
to, its remoteness from Eastern markets and
the fitness of the river for a great commerce,
and the construction of ways at suitable
points for the protection of "boats against
damage from ice.
Resolved, That this convention urge upon
the government to appoint upon the Mis
souri river commission engineers and civil
ians residing upon and interested in the im
provement of the Missouri river whose oth
er interests are not incompatible with their
duties as said commissioners.
Resolved, That in the opinion of this con
vention the enlargement of the Illinois &
Michigan canal and the extension of the
same by the construction of a canal from
the Illinois river at Hennepin to the Missis
sippi at Rock Island, thereby connecting the
great lakes with the upper Mississippi and
giving a continuous line of water transpor
tation from the Mississippi valley to the
Atlantic seaboard, is demanded in the in
terest of cheap transportation and the now
immense ana growing oommecce of the
Northwest, and we call upon our senators
and representatives in congress to urge the
construction of such canal and the enlarge
ment OCthe Illinois and Michigan canal by
thegenipral government.
Resolved, Th at this convention approves
the--plans recommended and urged by the
United States engineer in charge of the
Saolt Ste. Marie canal for increasing the
capacity of the same to meet the
rapidly growing demands of commerce
by constructing an additional lock twenty
one feet deep and we favor the completion
of the Hay lake channel at the earliest
.practicable day, and we urgentlv request
congress to make regular appropriations of
the amounts recommended by United States
engineers for the prosecution of these works.
Resolved} That we also recommend an
appropriation sufficient to immediately
complete the work undertaken and that
may be necessary for the improvement of
the Red River of the North and the tribu
tary And adjacent lakes and streams.
Resolved, That the convention favors the
early completion of the improvement of the
Fox and Wisconsin rivers, with a view of
providing a through route of water trans
portation between the Mississippi and the
great lakes.
Resolved, That the Yellowstone river,
the Chippewa river in the State of Wis
consin, the St. Croix river between
the states Of Wisconsin and Minnesota,
and, th4. l^nnesota rive*, by yir
it^-^ th^^esent fend prospective com
merce and the immense benefits that
would flow from their improvement, are
well entitled to the fostering care of the
general government, and that we recom
mend such appropriations for their
improvement as may be deemed judicious
by the government engineers.
Resolved, That in the system of water
way improvement herein recommended is
intended the improvement of the harbors
to which they are tributary.
Resolved, That we recognize, with great
satisfaction, the benefits which have result
ed to the navigation of the Mississippi river
and its principal tributaries, from the ex
tension of the light-house system thereto,
and also the snag and dredge boat service,
and renew the hope that annual appropri
tions will be made to insure the efficiency
of both.
Resolved, That in the opinion of this con
vention annual appropriations of $25,000,000
for the improvement of the rivers and har
bors of the United States, and the con
struction of artificial waterways, would
not be extravagant, and could be expended
so as to enrich the country far beyond the
amounts so appropriated.
After the adoption of the resolutions the
convention soon adjourned sine die. Mr.
Donnelly made a persistent effort to secure
some special resolution relative to produc
ers and criticising railroads but was not
permitted to do so.
On the evening of the second and last
day ot the convention the city of St. Paul
gave a very handsome reception to the
convention at the Ryan hotel and the
following day quite a large number went
by boat on a visit to Stillwater, where they
were handsomely entertained.
NORTI1WJSSTEUN NEWS.
6 Goo. Miller the, man who murdered the
wife of Rev. C. H. Snell and an eleveu
year-old son near Inkster, D. T., last
January, has just had his trial at Grand
Forks and been convicted. Judge
McConnell sentenced Miller to be hanged
on Oct. 30th. The judge also made the
following sentences: Oston O. Lahre,
forgery, five years Robert Cleary,
burglary, three years and three months
A. L. Carter, two years and seven months
William E. Ross, grand larceny, three
years George Harris, burglary, two years
and six months George S. C. Wright,
grand larceny, two years and six months
James Quirk, burglary, two years and
seven months.
Northern Pacific land sales during the
mouth of August footed up 77,912 acres, for
which was received $301,633. Compared
with the sales made during August, 1884,
this is an increase of nearly 50 per cent.
Last year's sales were 32,874 acres for $158,
996. Last month's sales were divided as fol
lows: Eastern distinct (Minnesota, Dakota
and Montana, (72,300 acres for $280,142
western district (Washington and Oregon),
5,612 acres for $21,491.
Matt Clark of Stillwater, has begun a
libel suit against the Minneapolis Tribune,
placing damages at $40,000. The action is
based upon reports in the Tribune relative
to the defalcation of Kerr, the treasurer of
the Stillwater gas company. The Tribune
intimated that Clark was involved as well
as Kerr, and further that Kerr did not
commit suicide, but was murdered by the
detective employed by Clark. Hence the
suit.
The annual udget of the St. Paul and
Duluth R. R., shows that the net income of
the road, including land sales for the year
ended June 30, was $399,639 as compared
with $393,580 for the fiscal year of 1884. A
dividend of 7 per cent was paid on preferred
stock and the balance in the treasury at the
end of the year was $09,414 against $44,103
June b0,1884.
At 6 a. m. Sept. 2nd, four girls and two
men were drowned while crossing the Fox
river at Oslikosh, near the Chicago, Mil
waukee & St. Paul crossing. The little
boat contained nine girls and three men and
was upset from the swell of a passing tug
The girls were on their way to their work iu
the Diamond Match works.
The officers of the St. Croix County Ag
ricultural society are actively engaged per
fecting plans for the twenty-seventh an
nual exhibition,"to be held Sept. 16,17 and
18. Col. McGlincy, of the Elgin board of
trade, and Bill Nye, of the baled hay ex
change, are to do the orating.
Fred Coddington, seven miles north of
Blunt D. T., struck a vein of gas at a depth
of 142 feet that has burned steadily for thir
ty hours. It comes through an inch-and-%
half pipe, driven for a well, with such forc^
as to throw out the plug and a twenty
pound weight that held it down.
A considerable increase has been made in
the working force of the car department of
the Northern Pacific shops at Brainerd. The
train forces are also constantly being in
creased, with the increasing grain and stock
business, and engineers and firemen are in
demand.
September 3, H. C. Peterson of Hudson.
Wisconsin, was sailing on Battle lake with
Misses Guesness and Hawkinson, when the
boat capsized and he was drowned. The
ladies had a narrow escape. They clung
to the boat and were saved.
Patents have just been issued to the
following Minnesota inventors: Charles
Baker of Minneapolis, bridle bit Peter
Johnson of Dassel, fertilizer distributor:
Thomas J. Simpson of Worthington,
horizontal wind wheel.
A Milwaukee firm within the past few
weeks has sold in two lots 850,000 pounds
cf Wisconsin wool to Eastern manu
facturers. The firm report an increasing
demand in the East for Wisconsin wools.
The annual meeting of the Minnesota
State W. C. T. U. will be held at St. Paul,
Sept. 22, 23, 24. It is requested that all the
Union's observe Friday, Sept. 18, as a day
of prayer for the coming convention.
At St. Vincent, Ang. 31, Ed. Keiley, 25
years of age, was arrested for the murder
of Robert Baird at Missoula, Montana, in
December last, who was robbed of $7,000, at
the time the crime was comigitted-
Marquis de Mores has obtained a change
of venue from Man dan to Bismarck, in
the case of murder for which he is indicted.
Court is in session at Bismarck, and the
case
will
be tried,
Mr. J. B. Hodapp, proprietor
of the
Man-
kato Preserving works, intends to put up
this season 75,000 cans of vegetables—corn,
30,000 cans tomatoes, 85,000 beans, 8,000
peas, 1, 200.
Gov. Hubbard has appointed J. J. Hill
and C. A. DeGraff, delegates, and Wm.
Fowler and N. P. Clarke alternates to the
third National Convention of Stockman,
be held at Chicago, November 17 and IS,
jinder the auspices of the National Cattle
Growers' Association of America.
At Cedar Rapids, Iowa, a young man
named Winney, living with his step-father,
George Daniels, shot Daniels with a shot
gun during a quarrel over a board bill, and
killed him.
Mrs. David Boyce, a widow aged SO
years committed suicide by taking
strychnine at Gillford, Wabasha county.
Morbid dissatisfaction with life caused the
deed.
Delegates from twenty-five Unions began
the annual session of the Dakota W. C.T.U.
at Chamberlain, Sept. 3rd. A number of
noted laborers in that field participated.
The chairman of the Iowa State prohibi
thmcommitteehas is§n$d
convention at Cedar Rapids Sept. 25^ to
nominate a candidate for governor.
During the month of August the Manitoba
R. R. carried very nearly 1,300 more people
into the Red river valley than during the
corresponding month of last year.
H. H. Winchester, representing the Min
nesota Furniture company, Minneapolis,
committed suicide at Sheldon, la., on the
evening of the 29th.
The sickness general at Colchester, Ont.,
among hogs, is pronounced genuine hog
eliolera. The mortality among the swine
is great.
The sureties of Col.Vistal, the postmaster
at Storm Lake, Iowa, have made up his de
falcation of $906. His whereabouts are un
known.
The sash, door and blind factory of R.
McMillen & Co., at Oshkosh, Wis., burned
on the 4th inst, involving a loss of $50,000.
The Good Templars of Iowa, pronounce
against liquor license in every form, and
will support the third party movement.
The fair at Mankato is claimed to have
had the finest exhibit in all departments
ever made in that part of Minnesota.
The Rice county fair closed September 3,
having been moderately successful, as the
weather was not always propitious.
The comptroller of Minneapolis estimates
the expenses of the city government for
next year at $592,725.
Mankato has shipped 200 car loads of
stone for the insane asylum building at
Norfolk, Neb.
Owing to indifference among the farmers,
the Red Wing fair was not very successful.
A heavy frost in Michigan Tuesday night
damaged corn, buckwheat and tomatoes.
Sept. 1st, the first day of .high license,
closed six saloons at Madison, Wis.
About one hundred teachers attended the
Institute at Faribault.
THE MARKETS.
ST. PACI.
WHEAT—No. 1 hard, cash and September
78c bid October, 80c bid November, 80c
bid No. 1 Northern, cash, 73c bid No. 2
hard, cash, 74c bid.
Corn No. 2, 42c. bid.
Oats No. 2 mixed, 24c. bid, 25c asked.
No. 2 white, 26c. bid.
Barley No. 2, 60c. bid.
Rye No. 2, 47c. bid,
Baled hay, $8.00 asked timothy $10.00.
Dressed beef, choice steers 8£c. 9£
veal, 7 8 c.
Butter, extra 20c. bid, 23 c. asked.
Cheese, 7 10c.
Eggs, extra ll)^c. bid, I2%c. asked.
Potatoes, new, 20@25c per bushel asked.
MINNEAPOLIS.
WHEAT—No. 1 hard, cash, 81^C bid 82
asked. October, 80c No. 1 Northern, cash
and September 74c.
FLOUK—1Quotations for car or round lots
at the mills: Patents, $4.65(^4.75 straights,
[email protected] first bakers'. [email protected] second
bakers', [email protected] best low grades,
$2(«J2.25, in bags.
CRICAOO.
Wheat, Sept. 77% Oct. 79£
Corn, Sept. 43}^.
Oats, cash 24£ Sept. 24%.
Flax seed No 1, $1,20.
Pork, cash, $8,75 @8,80 Sept. $8,70.
Live Stock, Cattle [email protected] Hogs
$4.20(§4.60 Sheep, [email protected].
MILWATKEE.
WHEAT—Cash 78c Oct. 79%. Nov. 81%.
DULUTII.
WHEAT—Cash 80c. Oct. 80^c. Dec. 84J^c.
A Novel Industry of the Dpnnlavfllians.
Four miles beyond Woodbine, out on
the sandy stretch of old sea bottom or
beach that is named the Cape May
Peninsula, we came upon Dennisville,
where all the Dennises of all time had
evidently settled.
"We're all in the loggin' business,1'
said a tall, thin Dennis, yet as far as
the eye could reach not a tree conld be
seen standing that would make even
the ghost of a fair log. "They ain't a
growin'," continued the man. "They're
underground. We dig for them or
spear them, as you might say. Here's
the tool," and, stepping into a low hut,
he brought out a crowbar that, like
everything else, seemed attenuated and
was stretched out into a long, slender
pointed rod. "We wade along," con
tinued the man, "and probe with this
feeler, and whpn we stride ft Jog wo
feel around, and if it is a good one we
dig her up, and if it aint we let her
soak that's about the way of it."
"So in JersejTyou burrow for your
logs?"
"That's about it," replied the man.
"You know, we're obliged to be a whit
odd or so we've got the name of it,
onnyhow."
"The secret of this business," said
my friend, the geologist, "is that ages
ago all this area was covered with a
tine growth of large trees, and the
same are found growing in some parts
of the swamp yet, but they have died
out and fallen down and sunk into the
soft mud, and so been covered up by
mold and mud, until many other layers
have grown over them but in some re
markable way tue wood is preserved,
and these sunken ancient logs are just
as good for shingles and other articles
as they were when alive hence for
many years there has been a steady
hunt for them, and Dennisville is a
result of the industry. To the botanist
the tree is the evergreen white cypress
and the numbers that once grew over
this swamp and that have oeeu en
tombed are beyond conception. The
trees upon or near the surface are the
only ones available and fortunately are
the best, but far below there are prob
ably myriads of others turned to stone
and representing the past geological
ages of 'he earth. The logs are worked
out by the me$ who are named
"S^ajftpoodies, and who live in the
malarious district all their lives. When
a log is found a ditch is made about it,
into which the water soon flows. A
great saw is then appliod and the roots
removed, and as a rule, the log will
rise to the surface and can be cut up
and carried off, though in many locali
ties the shingles are made right on the
.• SutyQi^"»^iaucipt'7
spot and dragged over the swamps on
roads, in many cases, made of boughs
and twigs. This curious business is
not confined to New Jersey, but over
in 1 elaware and Maryland there are
similar swamps, where the shingle
business has been carried on for years.
One of the swamps in Delaware ex
tends over twenty-five square miles,
and 'there is hardly a
house in Sussex county but
what is shingled from the ancient
deposit.- Correspondence Philadel
phia Times.
Gen. Bragg's Caller.
Gen. Bragg, of Wisconsin, made
quite a reputation for himself While he
was in Congress fighting old war claims.
He told a story the other night about a
little bill he was once asked to support.
He made it a rule while he was a mem
ber not to go out into the lobbies in
response to the cards of lady callers.
One day early in the week a small card
with a morning band came into Gen.
Bragg. It was from a Virginia lady.
The (Seheral rdftis^d to gcTtftts. Each
day the card came to him persistently.
Thursday of the last week the General
fancied ne saw a tear stain upon the
corner of the card. It had such a
Bte
athetic look that he no longer resisted,
went out into the lobby and ad
vanced to the center of the ladies1 re
ception room. "Is there a lady hero
who wishes to see Gen. Bragg, said
he, in a low, deep voice. At this a
plain looking woman in deep monrning
stood up in the corner of the room.
Gen. Bragg went toward her and said:
"What am I to do for you, madam?1'
She replied: "Tomorrow is private bill
day. I have a claim on the calendar
which I hope you will not oppose.11
"Ah," said the General, "I would like
to know something about that bill if I
am not to oppose it. For what is the
claim?" She said in answer to this:
'It is for several thousand fence-rails
taken by tho Union troops from my
father's place, for clover trampled
down by cavalry and for tho rent of
ground occupied by several of the Un
ion regiments for drill practice.1'
"Was your father a loyal man?'
asked Gen. Bragg. "He was a loyal
man,11 said she "although very old."
"Where was your fathers place?" "It
was near Fairfax Court House, just
this side of Hunter's Hill." "You in
terest me," said Gen. Bragg. "I was
in camp myself in that vicinity during
the war. I am very glad to know that
there was one royal person in that
neighborhood. According to my mem
ory there were nothing thcro but mean
rebels, and the older they were the
meaner they were." The claimant's
face flushed at this, as she said with a
tart snap: "Well I reckon you Yankees
got paid for everything you lost.11
"Good day," said (Jen. Bragg, and as
the story goes it was also good day for
the little bill.—Washington Letter.
Drowned by an Octopus.
In our harbor lie a number of Chinese
junks preparing for another fishing
trip to the coast of lower California.
The Chinese who sail from this port
fishing are quite different from the
Mongols who run laundries. Sun
burnt they are, and look almost as
bronzed as Modoc Indians. A Sun
representative had a talk with one of
them recently, named Hoy Kee, who
seemed to be intelligent and speaks
English rather fairly, and elicited the
news that on their last trip they lost
one man. It occurred down at Ballenas
Bay, below Abrejoicc Point, on the
coast of Lower California, about 400
miles south of San Diego. They were
engaged in gathering the abalone, the
beautiful shell which adorns many
homes in the United States. One of
the men, whose first trip this was,
strayed away from the rest, it beign
the lowest point of the tide, which was
commencing to run in, with big break
ers. It seems that this Chinaman stand
ing barelegged with the water up to his
knees was surprised at being caught by
one of his legs by an immense octopus,
or, as our informant called it, a devil
fish, and in a sccond he was tripped
over, drawn out into deep water and
drowned before the rest of the China
men realized what was the matter with
their fellow shell-gatherer. The boats
of the Chinamen were high up on the
beach, and when they were got into
the water no trace could be seen of the
missing man. Several days afterwards
his remains floated ashore in a
horrible state of mutilation. The
octopus, from the description of it,
must have been a monster with a body
ten feet long, each arm measuring
about ten feet. Our informant said his
{"unk
expected to leave to-day for the
jower California coast in search of
abalone shells and fish, but will not
touch at Ballenas Bay, of which he and
the other Chinarqen have a supersti
tious dread owing to the loss of the
Chinamen there during the last trip.
A tA»t Art Thought to be Found.
Utica Observer: A Utiea gentleman
of leisure believes that he has discover
ed the lost secret of making violins,
that probably originated in England in
the twelfth century, and which has im
mortalized the names of A matte at
Breschia, Stradivari and the Guarneris
at Cremona, and Steiner in the Tyrol.
He has made sixteen violins and over
two hundred experiments, and can now
construct a violin with* the tones of a
flute or anv other that may be desired.
He discards all former theories that at
tribute the excellence of old instru
ments to the lacquer, varnish, singing
woods, etc., and finds that scientific
principles and sound wood are the
basis of all perfect instruments. A
prominent manufacturer has already
offered him $10,000 for the secret, but
he is not quite ready to sell it.
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Special attention given to Graining in ImiU'
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