Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-09-05

The total cost OF the foreign mail service
OF the United States last year was $49O, O67.
The number Of pieces Of mail sent to for
eign countries aggregated So 228, 1884.
The United States Government sold and
gave away Is, 49,, 833 acres OF land during
the year ended June 80 last
ISAAC WILL on the Both ult. shot and
killed his twenty year old wife at New
Florence, Mo-, while in q drunken rage.
/ "A MYsTERIous infectious disease, which
had some characteristics Of typhoid fever
and some of malaria, had caused twenty
five deaths at Caldwell, O.. on the SOth ult
.THIRTY-ToUR new cases Of yellow fever
were reported at Jacksonville, Fla, on the
SOth ult., and the panic was said to be
spreading and passing beyond control.
BIZ the premature explosion Of ad dynamite
cartridge on the 9Oth ult at South Bethle-
hem, N q, three men were killed
I In a quarrel on tho 9Oth ult. at Warren,
Ind, George Mckee shot and killed his
brother John. .-.'
THs last span in the great bridge across
the Hudson river at Poughkeepsie, N. Y,
was completed on the SOth ult.
JOHN FlLLHART, aged ninety three years,
vile, N. Y, on the S1st ult. No cause was
known. g
AN old bridge over Dry Fork, near Tay-
louisville, Ala, went down on the 3lst ult.
while party of young folks were on their
way to picnic over it, and four were
killed and several wounded. ~~
IT was announced on the 31st ult. that
banana "trust" had been formed at New
Orleans with q capital of $19,000,OOO.
OWING to ill-treatment by her husband
Mrs Thompson drowned herself and her
one weeks old babe on the 31st ult. at New
Lisbon, o. go -s
CHARLES ]. De BAUM, tho absconding as
sistant cashier of tho Park National Bank
Of New York, who stole $110, OO0 was ar
rested on the 3lst ult
ELIAS KoHN, Of New York, aged sixty
two years, cut his wife's throat on the 3lst
ult and then shot himself through the
head. Domestic trouble was the cause
DURING the seven days ended on the 31st
uk. there were 1876 business failures in the
United States, against ISL the previous
seven days. The total of failures in the
United States since January to date is
6,721, against 6,4l2 in 1887.
AN explosion of mine gas occurred on
the 3lst ult in the colliery Of the Mount
Pleasant Goal Company, near Scranton,
Pa, and it was believed that many miners
were killed.
A WATER SPOUT carly on the morning of
the Slst ult. did great damage in the Hot
Springs (Ark.) district. A raging food
swept through that city, destroying many
structures and partly submerging others.
1t was said that thirteen persons were
drowned, and that nine bodies had been
recovered. The financial loss was placed
at 800, 600.
DURING the twenty -four hours ended at
six p. m. on the 31st ult there were twenty
six new cases of yellow fever and three
deaths at Jacksonville, Fla. People were
quitting the city in thousands.
REPORTS from the Northwest on the 31st
ult showed an average yield Of eighteen
bushels of wheat to the acre in Northern
Minnesota and fifteen bushel to the acre in
Dakota.
THE Woman's Christian Temperance
Union will hold its annual meeting in New
York October 49,
GEORGE w. Cox was hanged on the 3lst
ult. at San Andreas, Cal, for the murder
Of his son-in-law, Henry G. Cook, last No.
vember.
DURING the last fiscal year the total
number Of applications received at the
Patent Office in Washington was 40, 177;
the total number granted, q, 1O1, against
23,217 the previous year; total receipts,
81, 49,, 944. decrease of So, 1902; total ex-
penditures, s953, 73O, decrease Of s27, 914.
There were 1921 cases on hand awaiting
action.
HEAVY wind and rains storms had on the
S1st ult injured the Gotten crop in West
ern Tennessee and the northern portions
of Mississippi, Arkansas and Alabama
about ten per cent
FIVE cowboys were drowned on the 31st
ult. near Pixies Peak. Co.., by cloud burst
which flooded the place where they were
sleeping.
ARCHER Cook (colored) was hanged on
the 3lst ult. by a mob at Farmville, Va,
for assaulting a white girl
BURKE MITCHELL, negro wife-murderer,
was hanged on the 31st ult. at Houston,
Tex.
great damage to fencing. corn fields and
small buildings in the Vicinity of Mont
pelier, Ind.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Rev. JESSE PRATT, the oldest Baptist
minister Of Arkansas, died at Little Rock
on the 28th from grief over the hayward
ness of a son.
The Pennsylvania Democratic State con-
vention at Harrisburg on the 28th nomi-
mated Henry Meyer, of Allegheny, for Au-
ditor- General.
THE Republicans Of New York in State
convention on the 2Sth at Saratoga Springs
nominated Warner Miller for Governor,
Colonel s. " r. Cruger for Lieutenant
Governor, and William Rumsey for Judge
of the Court of Appeals. The platform in
dorses high license, denounces pauper i'm
migration, approves the declaration of
principles adopted by the National conven-
ton in Chicago, heartily Endorses the Re-
publican nominees, declares against free
trade and condemns the course Of Gov
ernor Hill.
THE Minnesota State conference of
Farmers and Labor organizations in $685.
sion at St. Paul on the 2Sth nominated Ig-
natius Donnelly for Governor.
CANDIDATES for Congress were nomi-
mated on the 28th as follows: John P.
Remington, by the Delaware State Demo
cratic convention; James McCabe, by