Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-05-23

18TH 49,. In the House MI. Randall (Pa.) spoke
at length against the Mills Tarin bill. The
plan he advocated for reducing taxation and
the accumulated surplus was by the abolition
OF internal revenue taxes, with tho exception
OF q hfty.cent tax on whisky. He claimed that
protection to home industries was q funda
mental Democratic principle. Mr.. Mckinley
(O) also spoke against the bill, and Mr. Brock
inridge (ky.) spoke in its support.
DOMESTIC.
HEAVY frosts were reported in Illinois,
Iowa, Indiana and Michigan on the 18th.
FIVE HUNDRED of the Detroit Dry Dock
Company's ship carpenters struck on the
18th because the company refused to dis
charge a man who did not belong to the
union.
A FIRE on the 18th in Chicago destroyed
the candle and glycerine works of the
Dearborn Manufacturing Company Loss,
$4,000.
IT was estimated on the 18th that the
flood losses in the Sny and Indian Grove
levee districts at Quincy, Ill.,, and Hannibal,
Mo-, would aggregate &, 100000.
A CYCLONE in Baxter County, Ark.
wrecked many dwellings and destroyed
crops on the 18th, causing heavy losses to
farmers. No lives were reported lost
THE American Womens Baptist Home
Mission Society held its eleventh annual
meeting at Washington on the 18TH
The superintendent of lunatic asylums
held their forty second annual convention
at Fort Monroe, Va, on the 10th.
The new capitol building for Texas was
dedicated at Austin on the 10Th.
ADv1CEs of the 10Th say that tobacco and
vegetables in portions of Tennessee and
North Carolina had suffered much injury
from cold weather and frost.
WILLIAM GEORGE was hanged on the 18th
in the penitentiary at Columbus, O., for the
murder of James Scott.
The Presbyterian General Assembly
opened its centennial meeting on the 18th
at Philadelphia.
AFTER an unbroken fast of flfty-four
days Mrs. Wedler, who had been trying to
starve herself to death in the hospital at
Lancaster, Pa, partook of food on the 18th.
IRON and steel imports for the first quar-
ter Of 1888 were 2s7, 7s4 gross tons, 16,4l5
less than for the first three months of 1887.
The courthouse at Sidney, a., was set
On fire on the 18th and burned with all the
records. Loss, $75, 900.
HARRY BENSON, the Patti ticket swindler,
awaiting extradition to Mexico, committed
suicide at the Ludlow street Jail, New
York, on the 18th by jumping from the
second tier to the ground.
FIVE additional breaks were made in the
Sny levee on the 18th, and the whole of the
bottoms reaching from Louisiana No., to
Hannibal, Mo-, were inundated. The food
lowered an area forty miles long and five
miles wide. The loss to crops was esti-
mated at s., 100000.
BY the explosion of boiler on the 18th
pn the farm Of Benjamin Fessenden, near
Fort Penn, Pa, Mr.. Fessenden was killed
and four others were badly hurt.
A HAIL~sToRM passed over Pratt, Kan
On the 18th, destroying fruit and killing
cattle over an area Of many miles,
In the districts flooded by the Mississippi
river great restitution and suffering were
reported on the 18th. At Indian Grove
there were one hundred and fifty families
homeless, the majority being partially shell
tered in barns and other buildings on farms
not inundated. The destruction was said
to be great from Keokuk, a., to the remote
parts Of Arkansas.
The Michigan Supreme Court decided on
the 18th that the Local Option law, which
has been adopted by over forty counties, is
unconstitutional, on the ground that the
act was entitled Ito regulate,'' while it
really meant prohibition, and therefore
conficted with the constitution.
On the 18th four men were lynched near
CLo WCSGcIu VI Lli0 CucrOk00 SUrlp,
in Indian Territory, by vigilantes. They
were charged with robbery, thievery and
murder in the neutral strip and in Southern
Kansas.
A FALL of coal on the 18th at the Hickory
Swamp mine near Shamokin, Pa, caused
the death of three men.
Four Of the family Of A. J. Murray, q
prominent business man of Hastings, Neb.,
were fatally poisoned on the 18th by eating
tomatoes taken from corroded tin cans
A FIRE at Palouse City, W. T., on the
18th destroyed seven business blocks, at a
total loss of $3.50, OO0
DURING the seven days ended on the
18th there were 1872 business failures in the
United States, against 1872 the previous
seven days.
TIE First National Bank building at st.
Cloud, Mimi, was wrecked by gas ex-
plosion on the 18th, the front being hurled
across the street and shattering buildings
on the opposite side.
THE fifteenth quadrennial conference of
the Methodist Protestant Church Of the
United States opened at Adrian, Mich, on
the 18th.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
The Illinois Prohibitionists met at
Springfield on the 18th and selected Miss
Frances E. Willard, James Lamont, Hale
Johnson and J. B. Hobbs as delegates-a at
large to the National convention
NEVADA Republicans met at Winnie
nn,,coo m tho nth and aolactad M u Eolav