Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-07-15
HISTORY OF K WEEK.

HISTORY OF K WEEK. :
Attorney General Garland has rendered q
decision on the three points relative to the
acceptance of the Dolphin by the govern
ment submitted to him by Secretary Whit
ney. The attorney general holds that the
vessel cannot be accepted, that no contract
exists between Mr.. John Roach and the
government, and that the large sum of
money paid to him for the vessel may be
recovered.
A serious strike is in progress in
Cleveland, Ohio, among the workers in
iron. Upon one day a mob drove away
the workmen from every iron working
establishment in the city and seriously
assaulted many workmen. A few of the
works have been started up again under
the protection of large bodies of police but
most of them remain closed for fear of the
mob.
John Rogers, merchant of Howden, War
rick county, Ind, fell in love with cousin
of his wife staying at his house. Mrs. r.
ordered her cousin to leave. Rogers
knocked his wife down and went off with
her cousin. When he returned he found his
wife had killed herself and two children.
Rogers left, and the cousin is prostrated.
The Chicago street car strike was
terminated byJ. Russell Jones, president
of the company, agreeing to personally
investigate the charges against the sixteen
discharged men and to reinstate them if
the grounds for discharge were insufficient.
The strike cost the company 900 in loss
Of receipts.
Miss Cleveland's new book was issued
Monday last simultaneously in New York
and London. The book is 300 pages and en-
titled "George Eliots poetry and other
Studies" The fact that the author is the
sister of the President makes great sale,
10000 copies being taken Immediately.
The wife of Secretary Bayard is lying
hopelessly i'll at their..home in Dover. She
has been an invalid for many years and
has been unable to entertain in Washington
though she has resided there long time.
The flly Refrain, owned by Commodore
Kittson of st. Paul, won the Atlantic
Stake for two year olds at Monmouth Park
on the 18th. Distance three quarters of a
mile. Time 1.1511.
The wife of the late Richard T. Merrick
of Washington died on the 9th inst. Her
husband died about two weeks ago, and she
was so i'll that she was never told of his
death.
Albany, N. Y, had 1926, 900 fire Sunday
night and four Or five men were caught by
falling walls, two being killed outright.
Gen. Miles has been ordered to take the
field in the Indian territory, to suppress the
Cheyennes.
The Western Union Telegraph has COB
bled up the American Rapid company.
Belfast, Maine, has been devastated by
fire.
TERRIBLE DISASTER AT LAKE MIN
NETONKA.
One of the most terrible disasters which
ever befell this region of country, occurred
at lake Minnetonka, on Sunday the 18th inst.
Mr.. Coykendall of Minneapolis, who is a
| son-in-law of ex-Mayor A. c. Rand of Min
neapolis, occupies cottage at Breezy
Point, Minnetonka, and on the day in ques-
| tion he had invited the Rand family to
spend the day with him. Accepting the in
| vatation, Mr.. Rand drove out from Mime
apolis early in the morning, arriving at
| Breezy Point about noon. The members of
family joined him there and they proceeded
| to the Erygla cottage, which was the sum-
mer residence of the Coykendalls. After
passing few hours happily they arranged
for an excursion to Upper lake on the little
pleasure steamer Minnie Cook, owned by
E. D. Newell, grocer of Excelsior. The
steamer was not handsome one, and was
not particularly noted either for beauty or
speed. She has been used each morning by
Mr.. Newell in receiving orders and deliver
| ing goods at various points Oh Lower lake,
while during afternoons and Sunday she
was at the service of the Blue line of Ex-
celsior for small parties. Her boiler was
an upright one, and was not Of a character
| to make the boat the safest in the world.
Her engineer, George Mcdonald, was ex-
perienced in the work, and had served for a
number of years under his father, Lou Nc
Donald, who is among the leading steam
boat men in the Northwest He has been
considered a very safe engineer, and re-
| ceived his license for the season less than
two weeks ago. He began his duties as en-
gineer of the Minnie Cook about July l.
Soon after 2 O'Clock yesterday afternoon
she steamed up to the wharf at Breezy
Point and received happy but fated party,
who were soon to meet an untimely death.
The party as it was then made up was
composed as follows:
Ex-Mayor A. C. Rand aged 81 years and
wife.
Their children Miss Mary Rand aged 16;
Harvey Rand IA years.
Frank Rand aged 10, son of A. B. Rand
and nephew of A. c. Rand.
J. r. Coykendall aged 43 years, with his
wife and their daughter Katie aged five
years.
Robert Hussey, aged 12years son of A. B.
Hussy, of Minneapolis.
Geo. Mcdonald, aged q, engineer of the
steamer and son of Capt. Lew Mcdonald OF
the City of st. Louis.
Appropriations being made for an after
noon of pleasure, the party left for Upper
lake. 1t is supposed that the Upper lake
was reached about 8 clock, when evidences
of the approaching storm were manifest
and the steamers bow was turned home
ward. The storm burst upon them with all
its power and fury while opposite Big
island and in sight of their destination.
The engineer apparently used every effort
to increase the speed of the boat, and she
responded nobly. The elements were too
powerful for the boat, and it was with diff
ficulty that she kept right side up as long
as she did. Alternating rain and hail, &C
companied by a terrific wind blowing from
the south, swept across the lake. The
storm was binding one, and the last seer
of the boat was when she was off Spirit
island, just outside Wayzata bay, strug
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