Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-01-04
Epit0me of the Week.
NEWS COMPILATION.
DOMESTIC.

INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
H. -. DOMESTIC.
The exchanges ut twenty-six leading
nlearing-hopsss in the United States during
the week ended on the Oath aggregated
1916, 7OS, 32O, against $1,Ol6, sos, 9O3 the
previous week. As compared with the cor
responding week of 1886 the decrease
amounted to 20 per cent
A RIOT was averted at tho Washington
navy yard on the 245h by the presence of
an armed force The trouble grew out Of
che discharge OF sixty men,
The story of the life led by shipwrecked
crew for nine months on a barren island In
the South seas reached San Francisco ON
the Goth. The sailors lived solely on fish
and the meat and eggs OF birds
DURING the year 1887 the miles of new
railroad built in the NORTHWEST numbered
S.5O4
The Manhattan Temperance Association
of New York City at its meeting on the 25th
warned Mayor Hewitt that he must keep
the saloons closed ON Sunday or steps
would be taken to remove him from office.
Forty buildings at Wakefield, Mich, were
burned on the 26th, including the bank,
theater, post-offioe, clothing and general
stores and dozen saloons. Loss, 500, OO0
The miners and all freight employees of
the Reading road, excepting those at Read
ing, Pa, abandoned their positions on the
24th, and fears were expressed that the
passenger train men would also join the
idle army of ten thousand strikers
MISS ANNIE CANE Of Da las. Tex, set fire
to death, and at South Boardnan. Mich.
two children OF Mr. and Mrs Hart Hental
persisted in flames
WHILE going home with Christmas pres
ents on the Oath Mrs Ellen O'Neill, wild
Ow. and two OF her children were killed by
q locomotive near Rhinebeck N Y
Ex-GOvERNOR ALGEE, of Michigan, on the
26th repeated his charity of LAST year, Civ
ing clothing to five hundred newsboys, and
fuel and flour to thousand poor and de-
serving families
Snow fell in Louisiana and Mississippi on
the 10Th to the depth Of eight inches
AN old woman at Phillipsburg, O., who
owned plenty Of real estate and was quite
wealthy, killed herself with poison on the
25th lecause she was afraid she could not
pay her taxes.
A FIRE on the Oath in the State prison at
Michigan City, Ind, destroyed the entire
plant of Phelps. Dodge & P,llmer, of Chica-
go, used in tn, manufacture of boots and
shoes Loss. 100000.
ADv1cEs OF the Goth say that the schooner
Mary P. Collins. of Philadelphia. recently
fOundered in q storm, the captain and five
of the crew perish ng.
Hoes on the Oath attacked and killed
Mrs Sarah Ewing, sixty years Of age, mother
of farmer near Shelbyville, Ind
OWING to disapDoin in love Miss
Nellie Andrews hanged herself at the home
OF her stepfather, Hiram L McKnsley, in
Lyons, N Y, On the 255h.
CARROLL MCBEB, who was charged with
the murder of Joseph Hardwick at Center
Ala, twenty years ago, was acquitted on the
24-h
fering for the neoessaries Of life in Kansas
were on the 25sh pronounced largely ex-
aggerated
The report of the United States Geological
Survey, issued on the Oath, shows that the
total value of the mineral products of the
United States for 1886 was over 1862, OOO,-
600. thu largest mineral production yet re-
corded in any country
EDWARD Il. HENDRICKS one Of the Oldest
telegraph operators in the country, CON-
mited suic de at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the
26th. Whisky was the cause
AS THE result of debau ch a woman and
her daughter, five years old, were burned
to death on the 9th near Wilkesbarre, Pa
JOIN STILLwEIL was frozen to death on
the 9th at South Pl5tsburg, Tenn, and
Joseph Faivre m It like fate at Perryviue,
Mo- Both were old men,
Mrs. Ida NJ MACAULEY. who recently shot
and killed her husband in Chicago, was on
the 27ch found by a coroner's jury to have
been insane and irresponsible for the act.
DURING the year 1857 4, 365 miles of rail-
road have been constructed in the South
west, Kansas being far ahead among the
different States
CHRlsToPHER LuNLER, farmer living
near Canton O.. was found on his haymow
On The 9th, after a weeks disappearance,
with both legs froz en- up to the knees He
declared he had intended to remain there
until he froze 10 death.
On the 9th two colored boys were
burned to death at Louisiana, NO., while
playing near a brush-pile
The great strike on the Reading railroad
ended on the 9Th, and arbitration would
be resorted to for the adjustment of the
matters in dispute
natures for the pardon of Farmer Nc
Claughry. one Of the convicted Cook
County Qll) booders, now at Joliet, was
placed in the hands of Governor Og 4esby Oh
the 9th
THE annual meeting of the Western Com
mercial Travellers Association commenced
at st. Louis on the 9th The association
has ], 300 members
TIE Mississippi river at St Louis and
points south was closed to steamboat nav
igation on the 9th by the unusually low
stage of water.
/. The Indianapolis & Wabash railway and
the Indianapolis. Quincy & Missouri railway
were consolidated On the 9th under the
name of the Indianapolis, Decatur West-
ern railway:
A BLIZZARD ragged in Illinois, Iowa, Wis
consjn and Kansas on the 9th, greatly de-
laying railway trains. III some places the
cold was intense.
TIE claims OF William Weber to sixty six
acres of land in New York City were proven
on the 9th. The property is worth $780,
OOO,OOO
In Lee County. Ga on the 9th Nathan
Reed, who did not live happily with his
wife, murdered her and Their six children.
burning them in his cabin, after which he
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