Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-07-11

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JUSTICE G. r, FENNIMoRE, q well-known
citizen living near Delanco, N. j., died on
the Sd from the effects Of q bite by rabid
dog received three months ago
AT Trafalgar, Ind, Samuel Nj. Hender-
son, aged sixty years, shot and killed his
divorced wife on the Sd and then COM
mitted suicide, Henderson leaves widow,
whom he married recently.
A LARGE number of business houses and
residences were destroyed by fire on the
4th at ELLIOTT City, Nd. s.@- .s.. =
A CYCLONE swept over portions of Iowa
on the 4th. At Emmettsburg the Catholic
church was unroofed and dozen smaller
buildings demolished. At Belmont a num-
Der Of houses were blown down, and the
town of Angola was reported half swept
away. y& & &s
JOHN ZAcHAR, the Racine (Wis.) faster,
on the 4th entered upon the forty -seVenth
day of total abstinence from food. He
drank water and took little medicine 1t
was the opinion of his physician that his
brain was diseased and that he was COM
hitting suicide by starvation. |.@
A FIRE on the 5th destroyed the village
of Glade Run. Pa. Nearly every business
place and forty houses were burned, and
hundreds of people were left homeless.
FIFTY persons were badly injured on the
4th by the falling Of a grand-stand at
Water Valley, La 81 T.
By the capsizing Of a boat on the 5th on
Lake Johanna, Mimi, Harry Tucker, night
clerk at the Ryan Hotel in st. Paul; his
father, aged sixty-four years, and Mrs.
Stephen Dysinger were drowned.
A MONUMENT to Francis Scott Key, the
author of ''Star Spangled Banner" was
unvailed in San Francisco on the 4th.
AT David City, Mo-, thirty people were
under local doctors care on the 5th as the
consequence Of indulging in poisoned ice
cream.
A DYNAMITE bomb was exploded near
the Nicholasvllle (Ky.) courthouse on the
5th, shattering q portion of the building.
1t was the result of joke
NEAR Christianburg, Pa, a negro was
lynched on the 9Th for committing criminal
assault upon an aged white woman.
STREETS and cellars at Scranton, Pa,
were flooded by violent storm on the 5th,
strong We're killed by lightning.
A FIRE did damage to the extent of $780,
600 on the 5th in the business portion of
Marysville, Cal.
MRS. WILLIAM ELwELL, aged sixty-five
years, and her son, about forty years old,
were killed by train near Liverpool, O.,
on the 5th.
ONE-HALF the business portion Of Ell
Moro, COL, was destroyed by fire ON the
5th.
HEAvY storms of wind, rain and hail
caused serious damage on the 5th in the
Albany IN. W, New Brunswick, Milestone
junction, Middlebush and Asbury Park IN.
J.) districts. Yachts were wrecked, shade
trees and awnings destroyed, barns and
farm houses levele6 and crops ruined.
ABOUT four thousand delegates from all
parts of the United States were in attend
ance at the opening session in Chicago on
the 5th of the National convention Of the
Societies of Christian Endeavor.
AT Greeley, Col, the johnson Touring
mill and The buildings and the fences of
the Weld County Fair Association were
destroyed by an incendiary fire on the 5th.
The stallion Rembrandt, valued at 5000,
persisted in the flames.
ACCORDING to the city directory for 1883,
issued on the 5th, Chicago has population
Of $4,000, an increase Of 10000 over the
previous year. $3.50
The business portion of Maumee, O., was
swept by fire on the 4th. The fire was
supposed to have been caused by fire.
crackers.
THE entire business portion of Lake City,
Mich, was burned on the 5th.
The National Conference of Charities
and Correction began its fifteenth annual
conference on the 5th at Buffalo, N Y.
A DESTRUCTIVE storm visited Youngs-
town, O., on the 5th, washing out culverts
and damaging streets The little son of
James Davey was drowned.
JOHN JOHNSON, a farmer living near
Hamlin, N. H., accidentally killed his son,
aged twenty-four years, on the 5th, who
had come home for visit. He then, in
anguish, killed himself.
THREE men, Thomas Broderick, j. A.
Bowles and John Q. Wilson, were arrested
on train when near Chicago on the. 5th on
the charge of being engaged in a plot to
blow up with dynamite the Chicago, Bur
lington & Quincy Office buildings in that
city. The men were said to belong to the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.
ADv1CEs of the 5th say that the recent
wind and rain-storm in Iowa and Illinois
did great damage to growing crops,
wrecked many barns and fences and
killed several horses and cattle.
c. H. WATERS, W. H. Stone and W.
Stone, his son, engaged in a quarrel with
pistols on the 5th at HOLSTER, COL, during
which Waters was killed and the two
Stones were mortally wounded.
FIVE men were found dead on the 9Th in
the Kinuishi mountains, Ind. T. They
were probably killed by Indians.
Ex-GOvERNoR HoUsER, of Helena, M T.,
said on the 9Th that this year the Territory
would produce gold, silver and copper to
the value of $40,OO0,OO0.
TEN buildings in the town Of Warren,
Pa, were burned on the 9th.
The farmhouse of George Dobbs, near
Sault Ste. Marie, Mich, was burned early
on the morning Of the 9Th, and George
Dobbs, aged seventy-two years; David
Merriheld, aged twenty-one years; Alice
Thompson, aged nine years, and another
child persisted in the flames.
The Cincinnati brewers strike, which
was begun April II, was declared of on
the 9th.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND on the 9Th vetoed
the bills granting pensions to Nathaniel d.
Chase Harriet Cooper, William NJ Camp
bell, Jr., and Julia Welsh, and the bill for
the relief of Van Buren, Brown.
ADv1CEs of the 9th say that owing to an
epidemic raging among the cattle in Ko-
komo, Ind, and vicinity the beef and milk
trade there had been about ruined.
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