Mower County transcript., 1888-10-10
DOMESTIC.

The statement of the public debt issued
on the lst showed the total debt to be s..
III, ,4S9, ,S3S; cash in Treasury. SIG, ~, ,S45;
debt less cash in Treasury, 81, ,141 ,s75, ,657.
Decrease during September, $12, 2,247, 7,O25
Decrease since June 30, 1888, s23, 7O9, ,OOO
ISAAC SITTER, a peddler, was attacked
by three bulldogs while entering farm
house near Harrisburg, Pa, on the 1st to
sell goods and was fatally bitten.
JACOB KAFER while intoxicated on the
I'd committed suicide by hanging at Fort
Wayne, Ind He was wealthy bachelor,
and no cause could be assigned.
KL1NE's planning mill, Booth & Lees
mills and dwelling house at Altoona, Pa,
were destroyed by an incendiary fire on
the I'd.
WILLIAM r. SMITH and Caper West
lorfer were struck by lightning and killed
on the I'd near Evansville, Ind.
JAMES MCGRATH. Peter Tregunsi and
Andrew Olsen were drowned on the I'd
near San Francisco by the capsizing Of q
fishing boat.
The wife of George Pofang charger COM
mitted suicide on the I'd at Blue Springs,
Neb, after having strangled her two chill
dren. She left letter stating that fear
that she was becoming insane caused the
deed.
PLEURO-PNEUMoN1A was 50 prevalent on
the I'd near Lima, O., that many herds of
cattle had been quarantined.
DURING the nine months ended Septem-
ber 30 last there were 1850 business fail
ures in the United States, with liabilities
of over $50, 0OO, 900, as against 6, $50 failures
and S12S, 600, 600 Of liabilities in the same
period of 1887.
WHILE rescuing the crew from the barge
1o;w
the surf boat was capsized and four men
and one woman were drowned
AN incendiary fire on the I'd at Antwerp,
O., destroyed an entire business block.
On the I'd custom house officers at San
Francisco stated that 80, rs return Chinese
certificates issued at that port were still
outstanding. Those holding them would
not, under the new law, be allowed to re
turn. <~sal5- o.,
The Traders Bank. one Of the old fnan-
cial institutions Of Chicago, failed on the
I'd for nearly 81 900, 900. The fatal illness
of its president was given as the reason
for closing the doors. e.
By the caving in of coal mine on the
I'd at Bedford, Mo-, Nathan Shepard and s.
F. Bailey were killed and two other men
were fatally injured.
TIE exchanges of tho New York clear
ing house for the year ended October l,
1888, amounted to s3O, 1853, 6S6, ,609.21; bal
ances same time, 81, $40, 198, ,527; total trans
actions, $32, ,433,S ,SS5, 1876. 80; total transac-
tions sirce organization (thirty-five years.,
1881, 135, ,273, ,21016. =. -.
Snow fell in the Mohawk valley, New
York State, on the Sd. ..-.5
GOLD LEAF beat the worlds one mile
pacing record for three-year-olds on the
I'D on the Napa (Cal) track, making 2:15.
ABOUT half the tobacco crop in Bracken
County, KY, was damaged on the Sd by
frost. B. sa ~"
The banking house Of Shanklin e. Aus
ten, of Trenton, the oldest bank in North
ern Missouri, closed its doors on the Sd,
owing to the failure of the Traders Bank,
of Chicago.
IT was announced at the Philadelphia
Baptist Association meeting on the Sd that
Robert J. Burdette, the humorist, had been
licensed to preach by the church at Lower
Marion, Pa.
JOHN J. CoNNELL1, awaiting trial at
Salem, Mass, for highway robbery, com.
mitted suicide in his cell on the Sd by
hanging himself with towel
The Chicago Board Of Trade was the
scene of intense excitement again on the
Sd, December wheat reaching $l18
V1RG1NIA's State exposition opened 81
Richmond on the Sd with twenty Thousand
visitors Speeches were made by Gov.
Lee and others.
The American Bakers Association met
In annual session on the Sd at Cincinnati
The courthouse, with most of the
p records, and the Jail Of Sac County, Ia,
was burned at Sac City on the Sd. A
prisoner named Charles Carlson was
thonrht to have neri shed in the flames s=
The American Beekeepers' Association
met on the Sd at Columbus, O., with about
half the States and Cara represented.
PRAIRIE fires were reported raging on
the Sd near Eldridge, D. T., and the citi
gems were fighting to save the town.
THE National Association Of Railroad
FreighC Agents was organized at St. Louis
3 on the Sd, and i. w. Crawford was elected
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