Standard (Newspaper) - January 1, 1880, Albert Lea, Minnesota ESTABLISHED IN 1857 ALBERT LEA MINNESOTA THURSDAY JANUARY 1 1880 NUMBER 1 TE Attorney At Law And Judge of Probate Office corner oT Broadway and streets near the Court House Albert Lea Land For Sale Albert Leo Minnesota IS Collection Agent Office at Freedom Bank Albert Lea Minn Attorney At Law Cor Clark Albert Lea Minn TO M Lawyer Office oyer Store Albert Lea Hinn TTp J Attorney At Law And Collecting Agent on Clark St Albert Lea Mian WHYTOCK At Law Opera Block H SQUIBB to Old City Dray Line Deals in hard and soft coal of all kinds blacksmith coal Yard near S M depot Wood sawed and delivered Slate at Hewitt's Partners trade solicited M ALLERY BROS Proprietors of CITY DRAY LINE And Sealers in hard and soft coal wood ice itc Office at J W Smith's store H D BROWN D K P HIBBS H B BBOWN CO LEA Does a General Banting Business WE HATE FOB SALE Improved City and Farms A H Eaa Removed tlie Old 7 A D F T MORGAN Lawyers Office over Wedge drug store Albert Lea Minn Two Doers Horth of II D Brown Bant PHYSICIANS A NELSON M D Physician and Surgeon Homeopathic Physician Surgeon Albert Lea Minn Office nest door cast of the National House on Clark St W H SMITH M B E W McCORD M D Physicians and Surgeons AH calls attended to by night or day in cit j or country at Smith store one door north of the post office Albert lea Minn M DODGE M D PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON facilities for doing business lie proposes to give Satisfaction Than Ever Before FOR HIDES First door of N Parks store iam Street Albert A H STREET DENTIST oyer store south of the Post Office W C MERRILL DENTIST ALBERT LEA Ins Collection and Real Estate AGENCY I buy and sell real estate on commission Collections made in and adjoining ties at reasonable rates Taxes for non- residents Abstracts Sell ship tickets to and from Europe on several first-class lines Foreign exchange bought and sold on all principal European cities I represent the following reliable and time-tried CONTINENTAL of New York AMERICAN OF PHILADELPHIA MILWAUKEE MECHANICS of Milwaukee GEBMAN 111 Correspondence solicited H O HAUKNESS Agent FREEBORN COUNTY Albert Capital THOS E ARMSTRONG PRESIDENT S B Sew American Exchange Not Back National Bank St National Bant MEAT MARKET Office over drag store MONEY AND STOCKS TO LOAN On real estate security Approved Notes Mortgages Apply to A H over brick store south of Post Office TO LOAN A M Tyrer has a large amount ol money to soon at a low rate ci interest Opera House block Albert Lea MISCELLANEOUS Architect and Builder Albert Lea Minn Shop on tic corner of William work properly attended to P Dealer n and custom-made Boots and Shoes Work done to order guaranteed Broadway 1st door north of bim o call before purchasing Lumber Yards AT ALBERT LEA ALDEN Every Description of THE OLD ASD Favorite Stand fle door north of Palmer's store may b- found a full and complete of All of wUl be sold as cheap as the cheapest patronage cf the public IB respectfully solicited Every Class of Meat Eish and Poultry Ic JG Us season J BROMN Proprietor Cash Paid for Hides Tallow tc W P SERGEANT m all kinds of Well Seasoned Minneapolis LUMBER Shingles Sash Doors ami Material Flooring Boards Dimensions Slices lath Pickets Boors Clear lumber Sash Sleeting Paper on liana and for solo at tho Very TIMBER FRAMES Filled to order on short notice J F Agent tea 3 O Agent Alden Yard on North ol Hall's Livery SlaWe Branch E A WICKS Agt J Lnmter will do well to call at the most convenient of my yards m facilities for handling it me and my assortment complete I am ALTO REiBY TO 611 BARGAINS W P SERGEANT Report of the Council Committee Upon Their Action BOSION Dec A special to from Augusta eays the following is an ab- stract from the report of the committee on the Maine election returns made in tbe your committee in submitting this report deem it necessary to state specifically certain facts connected with the returns from many of the towns cities and plantations which have materially affected the In vassing the votes returned there are many which owing to fatal defects cannot be bnt we shall specify only those which have affected the result Article 4 part 1 section 5 of tbe tion regulates the manner of electing tors and representatives to the legislature and also the process of transmitting to the governor and council the process by which they are to determine have been elected This section provides that in case of towns anci plantations municipal officers shall in open town and plantation meeting at tho close of election dny sort count and declare tbe votes cast and form a list of all persons voted for and after the name of each person thus voted for shall write t he number of votes received by him This list shall be recorded in open meeting by a clerk and a copy of this recorded list shall be signed by the selectmen and attested by the clerk and sealed up in open meeting This copy of the reported list thus attested is o bo deposited in the office of the secretary of state thirty days thereafter THE LAW Ol IT A section of the revised statutes requires that in addition to the foregoing specific and mandatory provisions of the constitution the return shall state the whole number of ballots cast at the election The same of the constitution requires that tho ernor and council shall open and compare the thus transmitted and from them determine who appears to be elected the governor to issue to such persons as thus appear to be elected summons to take seats in the legislature THE Of course the first requirement is that the shall be made and sealed up in an open town or plantation meeting We understand that this is required in order that the tors may be present and see that the are made in accordance with the facts and we are of the opinion that returns not made up in open meeting are not legal returns and cannot be counted and we have acted upon this belief in making tabulations Several protests accompanied with affidavits to support them against the of re- specified therein have been considered by us These protests allege tbat said re- turns should not be counted because they not made np in open town meeting but were made after the meeting closed in some private office or store where no one but a portion of the municipal officers were present and in some cases only the clerk This condition of things in several cases has bees proven to our entire satisfaction and we have rejected the returns thus tive in our tabulations SIGNED Ci In the case of Stoneham an affidavit signed by two selectmen establishes the fact that they signed the returns in blank and the town clerk took this home and filled them up and the selectmen have no edge of what the contain For the foregoing reasons we have rejected in our tabulations the representative from the towns of Jay Stoneham Lisbon ster and Farmington The returns from the town of Seaport have also been rejected be- cause it was not sealed up in open town meeting By the means of these rejections five persons will receive seats in tbe ture who would not have been thus seated had the from the aforesaid towns been made np as the constitution requires These are James O White of the Jay dis- Louis Voter of the Farmington dis- N Bradbury of the Stoneham dis- Joshua E Gordon of the Seaport dis- and Leonard H Beale of the Deerham district The supreme court has held that pal officers shall sign tbe returns with their own hands or make their marks wise the returns cannot be We have found several fatally defective in this particular and have accordingly re- By this rule laid down by the court the New Sharon have been by ns rejected This rejection affects tbe tion of one representative We found several returns fatally defective because they were not attested by the town clerk The supreme court has held such are not legal returns and we have rejected them They are quite numerous bnt we shall specify only snob as affect the result of the election The representative return from the town of Lebanon is one of them Its rejection the election of one representative viz Stephen Lord and Albany are like cases and the rejection of the returns from these towns affects the election of two representatives representing districts com- posed of several towns ITJIiL NAMES INITIALS In some of the towns the fall Christian names of candidates seem to have been used in others only the initials and we hesitated as to whether we conld count the initial names with the full names On examination of the law we find the supreme court ume page has held that the governor and council must count them as distinct and separate persons By adopting this rule laid down by the court the election of five representatives seem to be effected P W Hill Exeter Ales Woodcock of the Danforth J H Hart John Brown of the Harden district end John W Brighton of the Bland district THE The revised statutes require that in case of plantations in addition to the forms re- quired by towns a list of voters of tions be sent in to the secretary of otherwise that the returns from such plantae tions shall not be conn ted We found the returns of seven plantations irregular in this particular We have specified them on our tabulation We find it has been the practice of the governor and council for many years to reject soch acd we have not deemed it safe to deviate from this interpretation of the law so by onr predecessors and in i our tabulations we have omitted all such re- It will be perceived that thes i tions effect the election of several in the county of Washington One candidate for the Senate ems to have been voted for in some of tbe towns of this by the name of John T Jr and in others by the name of John T Wallace bnt tabulated the i oles as thrown for two different men as we unvc uo legal knowledge that tbe same p< won is Two Bete of returns were sent ii to the secretary of state from tbe town of I airfield each of which contradict the and it impossible from the character of the returns to determine the re- sult of the election in that town Wo have therefore rejected the that town in onr tabulations Tbe rejection the election of one representative ILLEGAL Accompanying and attached to tlie return from the town of gan there was a statement signed by the selectmen that a certain number ballots were protested as being illegal undei 29 chap 4 of the revised statutes of the ballots objected to was attached t the re- turns The selectmen in their ci allege bow many of tbe ballots were thrown and in the certificate they inform f e nor and council that they the re- turn subject to the legality cr gality of that kind of ballots The ballot wi s in the form of an ordinary sheet of paper folded to make two leaves on one page the names were printed and 01 the next pages tbe balance of tbe names of i be appear Wo are fully Sed that that kind of ballot is clearly in violation of the letter and spirit of the foregoing named statute and we accordingly reject 1 a ber of ballots in making our tabuli tion OFFICIALS A protest was filed against the returns the town of on the ground tbe officers who attested a were not legal Affidavits presented with tbe protest establishes the fat t that not one legal selectman presided at n out the returns and receiving votes of the selectmen was a foreigner and sonld not legally hold the office of selects lan The superior court has held that a boaid of town officers consisting of less than is not a legal board Acting upon this opinion we hare rejected the from 1 10 town of This affects the ion of one ot the representatives AND Several protests and affidavits o support them were referred to ns asking the tion of returns on account of bribery and in- of voters and on of legal defects in calling the town ing Also on account of improper check lists The copy of the record presented ns from the town of Skowhegan shows that iur the tion iu that town only one copy o the rant was posted and the record does not shew that one was posted in the town Ob- to counting the vote of the city of Auburn was made because name was added to the check list in -ee of the wards in violation of the law w lie the ing was going on on election d vits filed fully establish that fact Other plainly show the same of in other cities We these facts as not legally cognizable b the ernor and council as a canvas img board and we have disregarded them in our tabu- lation We recommend the refu ence of all papers to the legislature THE IX THE The from Portland ar s defective because they do not comply the con- requirement which provides that the names of all persons receiving votes shall be stated in the returns 1 large ber of votes were returned from said city as and there was possible means afforded by ths returns t t determine for who such votes had been th OWE The returns from the cities o- Baco is ton Bath and fatally de- because they were not signed by a majority of aldermen I he statutes and by decisions of the courts anch cannot be counted and we have been obliged to reject them It will the house of representatives to detti rmine in the first instance and finally who have been elected to the house from these cities as we have no legal evidence before its to mine that THE LATTEH ASKED FOB Me Dec Sallowing is Governor reply to the letter of Hon Lott M LEWISTON Dec 25 Hon Lott M rill chairman Your communication of the reached here lay just as I leaving Angnsta andl this early opportunity to reply The exe tement in the public mind is in my mind v holly without excuse and is without i he of a systematized attack of operation and Blander upon the not only without parallel ut cause Be that as it may it is the duty of every good citizen to nse his best to allay public excitement however created BO far as he is able and to to such measures as will allay civil strife and at the same time secure the ends of Yon intimate that it is in my pov ar to restore peace and good feeling to the State and all its inhabitants by asking the opinion of the supreme a on each law point involved in the variation -8 of the count from the returns Nothing give me greater pleasure than sn i opinion upon the points involved in tue present con- dition of affairs and alao upon snob as might be likely to arise to indicate the points that occur to which have not already been 4 upon and I doubt not that we may be to secure a satisfactory solution of tbe doubtful compli- cations or if not satisfactory at least such as may be deemed ive The fact to which yon allude that so arge a number of Republican members have foiled to receive certificates is dne to the fa t that so many municipal officers failed to amply with the constitutional requirements and this by judicial decision the aent and oil have no authority to took This con- dition of affairs is no fault of the ment and council yours io Mr Morrill will send a co to Gov Garcelon to-morrow in an- swer to the foregoing ising questions to be submitted to the supreme court It is the general judgment of both parties that Gov Garcelon will ag -ee to refer the matter to the courts take from the arsenal in Bangor the arms and ammunition there and bring the same here waa not generally known in this city until to day On Christmas night a team was in waiting at the railroad station here to receive the contents of the State arsenal in order to convey them to the State house The excitement here over the Bangor affair was intense The wildest rumors prevailed until a true account of it was received It was rumored during tbe day that the Capital guards were ordered out bnt there was no truth in tbe report Then it was said tbe Montgomery guards Portland would be here by the afternoon train bnt they did not put in an appearance STATEMENT OT OOV Gov Garcelon reached the city this after- noon Only two of the councillors were here BO no business waa transacted Gov lon was seen to-night and said he knew nothing farther of the Bangor affair than what had appeared in the papers that for judicious reasons he had ordered French bally to remove the arms and ammunition and he thought the whole matter was one of great discredit to the city INCREASING THE POLICE At a special meeting of the city government in the afternoon it waa voted to increase the police force to 200 men so that the city shal may have a body to call upon in case any trouble should arise A lengthy petition signed by 253 nent citizens of Gardiner of both political parties was mailed to the governor to night urging upon him the propriety expediency and justice of asking the opinion of the judicial court iu accordance with the request of Mr Merrill A petition was also made to tbe governor to-night by seventy-nine citizens of Richmond without distinction of party Also a petition from Hallowell signed by Republicans Democrats and Greenbackers Indignation meetings are being held at various points throughout the State to-night and addresses made prominent citizens and others of leading local influence There were at Biddeford North Berwick Rockland Calais Lewiston and other places of all parties were in attendance g At Lewiston three thousand people attended Dinghy Congressman Frye and others addressed the meeting Frye characterized the action of the nor and council as a palpable and cal steal He had met but one Democrat in Congress who attempted to defend the action of the plot was hatched a month ago Republicans will never let Davis be Governor of Maine Tlie Hangar Jji AT Me Dec The attempt to The Situation COMPANY'S ASMS SEIZED BT BOSTON Deo The Bangor Whig and says that the arms of the Hersey light infantry of Old Town one of the State militia companies were taken sion of by the last night between II and 12 o'clock and removed from the company's to the residence of Lieut G E commander ol the company The company baa ten Springfield loading rifles Old Town is the residence of the Fusion candidate ior governor A COMPROMISE Dec Portland special to the Traveler says the prevailing sentiment among tbe better and leading class of crats in that vicinity seems to be that Mr Merrill's proposition will be accepted and that tho difficulty can be settled without trouble of any sort There is a better ing in consequence Dec dispatch from Bangor mentions that influential Democrats have united in an appeal to Gov Garcelon to accept the suggestion of Morrill and allow tbe courts to settle the pending troubles The same dispatch intimates that the governor is likely to heed the request Me Dec meeting this afternoon Large audience every town in the county being represented some coming fifteen or twenty miles withstanding extreme cold Gee Joseph A Hall spoko at length The closing portion of his speech was as Believing that a patriotic sense of duty on the part of ths people will bring ns out of this trouble i my voice is now for peace decidedly against j force Bnt when the j proach of anarchy and disputation of civil liberty shall stand upon oue side and the prevention by force stands upon the other when law shall be no longer of avail and courts become powerless to give justice then I am for resorting to the last great right of free men and assuming the responsibility to go forward like men who knowing their duty in the hour of peril dare to do it ting the consequences fall they justly upon those who forced ns to the dread The following resolutions were Resolved Tbat while vte earnestly desire a peaceful adjustment of this unfortunate state of at the same time we request Smith acd the to use every means in their power to obtain their Beats to which the votes called them at the organization of tbe legislature and should they not be able to do this then we request them to unite in organizing the Legislature at some place where a majority of both branches as duly elected can carry out tbe expressed will of the people Resolved That we pledge our ed Senators and Representatives throughout the State our earnest support in whatever course they may decide to follow trusting that legal measures may accomplish what is just and right and that force the last great right may not become necessary TRADES Attempts to Interfere in Violation of Ohio Dec to-day announced a decision in an in junction case of interest to trades men The glass manufacturing firm at on the 13th inst brought twenty-four Belgian workmen to take the place of a like number of men whom they discharged for refusal to disregard the order of the glass blowers with reference to the number of boxes to be made in a week Efforts having been made to in- the Belgians to break their contract they having hired for three years the asked and obtained a temporary in- junction restricting David P Swearer dent of the glass blowers from in- with the Belgians Swearer having come to to use his influence with the new workmen Judge Bell on a fall hearing refused to modify the temporary in- junction and ordered that the dis- charged men must in any attempt to procure annulment of the contract of the Belgians or to converse with the men for tho purpose of inducing them to leave their present employers the expiration of the time of the contract Tho judge reviewed at length the tion and working of trades unions and concluded by saying that he bad no doubt but that the union represented by Mr Swearer was in conflict with the laws of the State and of the United States CABLE CHRONICLES MASSACRE TJie o Gen with Uen Roberta abouts and Communications Murderous Muck at Distress in from Cold and of of tbe King of rages by In A FG H AX ISTA KHAN'S LONDON Dec A private letter from a British soldier in Cabul states that one ot Yakoob Khan's generals told Sir Frederick Roberts that Yakoob Khan himself signed the death warrant of the embassy and dered the bodies of the murdered men to be dragged through the streets of The letter reiterates the statement that worth of Kossian gold was found in Cabal GEK LOST LONDON Dec 20 The following dis- patch from Lahore dated Friday night says Since Gen Gough passed no news has been received from him The mors of his arrival at Cabul were ture The wire to-day was working as far as bat at night it was ed between and A BROKEN RAIL DITCHING A OK THE CHICAGO ATTACK A despatch dated Friday To-day being a Mahometan festival the fanatical portion of tbe population is much Some mounted ran amuck through the British camp Gen Tytler was acd two fanatics killed TURKEY A IN BOGGLE Dec following are some of the particulars in regard to tbe case of the priest who was sentenced to death for translating the bible into the In September the police ed a missionary for distributing religious tracts but he was soon discharged the police retaining a boob in the Turkish language printed in passages con- trary to Islam ism and two manuscript of the same character On the day after the release of the missionary the priest who is now under sentence was ar- rested on the charge of being the author of the above mentioned pamphlet and was re- manded for trial in shape the case now stands though it is probable the priest be discharged owing to the demands of Minister SPAIN Dec houses of the cortes adjourned to January 10th The abolition which passed the Senate vides for the gradual emancipation of slaves in Cuba in after eight years of provisional servitude under their present masters It ia proposed to enact severe statutes against vagrancy in connection with the scheme and to extend the jurisdiction of courts martial The Indian members of the chamber of deputies declare tbe law will satisfy neither owners nor slaves Two of tbe Can Take Fire Col Bond of Auburn in tbe Paine of Chicago and of Twenty Persons More or Severely Fatal Stabbing Affray at Cri as e and Casualty Record A BROKEN KAIL IBAIN DITCHED ST Louis Dec night express on the Chicago Alton railroad was ditched Berlin 111 aboni 11 o'clock last night and two persona killed and several injured The following dispatch from Superintendent Stager at Berdan gives all the particulars received by the officials The Kansas City night express was thrown from the track two miles west of here by broken rail The train was running about thirty miles an hour After the engine and all the cars the sleeper which was the last one on the train had over safely a steel rail rendered brittle by the cold snapped and threw the sleeper from the track This ditched all the other carer the engine alone remaining on the track Twenty-five persons were injured most of them slightly The porter of the sleeper George Paine of Chicago and Col L P Bond of Auburn Illinois were tilled The smoking car and the reclining car were burned The injured persons were taken to Jacksonville and placed in the hospital there and are being well cared for The track is clear From other sources it is that the accident occurred to the train which left here at last night for Kansas City It happened at p M The train consisted of a gage smoking and chair car and a sleeper and but one passenger coach The sleeper was well filled and here it was that the in- jury was done As soon as tbe car ran off the stoves and that end of the car waa almost instantly in a blaze The gers many of whom were injured rushed to the other end of tbe car to escape bnt finding the door looked a panic seized them and for a few the scene was a ble one Finally the door was broken down and all got out except Col Bond who was burned with the The names of the injured were not received here Berdan is about miles from here and is within a short distance of where three other accidents recently occurred A BAD SMASH ST Dec a train of twenty-five coaches was ascending the ern approach the bridge at to-night seventeen cars broke loose and dashed down the grade at great speed When opposite the railway depot they encountered a freight train on the Chicago Burlington track and a number of cars of both trains were smashed to splinters Charles Both engineer Artey Jones fireman and Harry Easton conductor of the Chicago ton Quincy train and Geo Gray man and S Osborne an employe of pork house were badly injured and another man name not ascertained injured badly CHIMES ROME FATAL STABBINO AT D T Dec 26 A man named Raymo stabbed one at Mandan last night with a knife from the effects oE which Biley died this morning His intestines wera terribly exposed by the ugly gash friends say it was in self defense be being cornered in a room and had to cut himself out The murderer is in jail BUSSED TO DEiTH PERSON ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION Or THE PAWS Dec dispatch from Home reports that Tuesday last King Humbert was going on a hunting expedition when the darmes who preceded him encountered a crowd who refused to disperse and fired on the gendarmes The latter returned the fire An active search for the culprits is in progress FOREIGN NEWS Dec 20 The well-known phil Sir Henry Drummond Wolff writes he has received letters and telegrams from which show that unless help is given to the destitute people in Kou melia thousands must perish from cold ant starvation Dec 20 Thousands of persons crossed the Seine on the ice on Christmas day Tbe total imports of wheat into Prance from August to the of November was sixteen million hundredweights CANNIS Dec 26 The condition of the empress of Russia is slightly improved LONDON Dec A Vienna dispatch says that notwithstanding Mukhtar F aba's proclamation the Albanians are not sub- quietly to the secession of gro They have created great disturbance at where they plundered and set fire to two Greet churches and several houses belonging to Christians LONDON Dec 26 A Berlin dispatch re- ports that the Russian university statute which has been for some time in course of revision will next year become a law The alteration will place the students under tbe very strictest military discipline United States Court Fargo In the United States court Rt go the business of the term has commenced with the of the following cases A soldier named Crowell of Standing Rook plead guilty to an attempt at rape upon the person of a Indian girl Had the caso gone to trial he would have been convicted upon the first count in the indictment alleging rape The penalty of the fall crime under the United States statute is death Crowell was drunk and in a water closet ravished the little girl The witnesses would have been positive and the doctor's testimony direct He will be sentenced for ten years the under law John Nolan plead guilty to selling to the Indians at Standing Book President of toe Topeka Santo Fe road denies the road has paused in- the bends of Jay Gould Dec R Jaynes while personating Santa Claua last night a church festival at Paris Ey was burned to death by the cotton batting of his costume catching fire from a candle on the Christmas tree DEATH Dec Coleman colored -head waiter at the Miles House terribly beaten with a boulder on the ing of Dec 2 by John Woodson a barber and a waiter named Price died to-day of the injuries then received Woodson is now in jail but Price gave bail and is running on the river A LIAISE BLAZE Me Dec block and two houses adjoining were The occupants were the Dennison Manufacturing company of Boston and B C Dennison fancy goods insured STAMPED TO DEATH Dec a saloon in South Camden Christmas Eve Joseph son was stomped te death by George ing CANE PRESIDENT INDICTED NEW Dec grand jury has indicted David president of the Orleans Savings institution on tbe felonious ly appropriating to his own nse f 3.000 belonging to said tion BOUSED O Dec brewery at Delaware was destroyed by fire last night partially insured i CA IN Dec Willson brother-in-law Bight who waa murdered near Caledonia Pulaski county last week has been for the murder The atthe is wholly of a circumstantial nature but points strongly toward Willson Dec broke open a vault in the colored iu the western suburbs ried away the bodies of Henry Jones late a teacher in the St Louis Silas Edmundson and Maria years old The trustees medical colleges of tbe city success PRISON FKE LOUISVILLE Dec fire in ville prison to-night destroyed the occupied as a and machine shop by Perin Gap prison contractors Tbe with various kinds of wood working machinery property of Peria Gail vainest about The in- of the building caused it to burn like B to-day
