Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-08-15
DOMESTIC.

- DOMESTIC.
SAMUEL ROBINSON and six other citizens
OF Hugoton, Stevens County, Kan, were
arrested on the 7th by United States au-
thorities as implicated in the murder of
Sheriff Cross and three deputies, and taken
to Topeka for trial.
THE ffty-seventh annual camp.meeting
at Sing Sing, N. Y, began on the 9TH.
PLEURo-PNEUMON1A was on the 7th dis
covered among cattle in the vicinity of
New York, and two hundred cattle had
been ordered killed.
A SEVERE wind and rain-storm on the 7th
at Springfield, o., did damage amounting
to thousands of dollars.
The United States Cavalry troops were
on the 7th ejecting from the Indian Terri
tory non citizens who refused to pay the
cattle tax levied by the Chickasaw nation.
AT Hampton, Va, an incendiary fire on
the 7th destroyed several fine buildings
A COMET was discovered on the 9TH by
Prof. w. r. Brooks, of Smith Observatory,
Geneva, N. Y. $1,000 - - = -
MRS. GEORGE ALLEN, of Cleveland, O.,
was burned to death on>-the. 18th by the ex-
plosion Of a gasoline stove, and the shock
made her husband a maniac. ss 4...
THE North Atlantic squadron, under
the 7th ordered to the fishing grounds in
the Gulf of St. Lawrence to watch Ameri-
can interests and afford American fisher
men protection.
ATToRNEI-GENERAL HoGG, of Texas, on
the 18th pronounced Sunday base ball play
ing, where an admission fee is charged, q
violation Of the Revised Statutes.
The council of the Sioux Commissioners
with the Indians at Standing Rock Agency,
d. T., was ended on the 7th and the Indians
dismissed after their final refusal to sign
the offered treaty. .-.t
A FIRE on the 18th destroyed property
worth 500, 1000 in the business portion Of
Macon, Mo.
MANLEY HARRIS and George Hayes were
fatally burned on the 7th in fire at the
Argand oil works near Parkersburg, W.
Va.
By the fall of trestle on the 9TH over a
river near Napoleon, Pa, two men were
killed and three others were crippled for
life. @...z 49,. .,i.-
E.. II. STEELE, Minneapolis clothing
dealer, failed on the 9Th for $4,000.
A PASSENGER train on the Indianapolis,
st. Louis & Chicago railroad was thrown
down an embankment near Morgantown,
Ind, on the 9Th, and twenty persons were
badly injured.
AN express train on the Texas Central
road was thrown from the track near
Waco on the 9Th by train wreckers, and
six passengers were badly injured. Va.
The citizens Of Conneaut Lake. Pa, hav-
ing stopped the running of railway trains
ON Sunday, the company was on the 9th
building another track to run at distance
from the town, and it would be entirely
abandoned by all their trains
IT was reported on the 9Th that gold had
been discovered at Sprussville, Ind, and
there was rush of people there.
The residence of William Graves, at
Gossam Hill, near Pittsburgh, Pa, was
struck by lightning on the 9Th, and Graves
and his wife were fatally injured. 49, ,s-,.
WHILE drunk on the 9Th Shepherd Parks,
q livery stable keeper, shot and killed DR..
Payton, q pnminent merchant and physi.
clan at Perryville, Ind. :g z.
A TENEMENT house was burned in New
York on the 9th and Gustave Berg, his
wife, mother in-law and child persisted in
the ruins
JOHN TAYLOR & Co., of Trenton. the
leading pork packers In New Jersey, failed
on the Sth for $3.50, 600. g.. s.sfg ~.
A w1ND-sToRM in Washington on the 9Th
unroofed several buildings, blew down
trees, and telegraph wires out Of the city
in every direction were rendered useless.
William AcKLAND, in quarrel on the 9th
in Cincinnati, shot and killed James Freyel
and Joseph Bailey and then shot himself
dead. f,7 se. - .S&4yGf I. a. =e=-5
The Gray National Telautograph Com
pany was chartered at Richmond, Va, or
the Sth, with a capital stock not to exceed
SIS, 600, 900.
ADv1cRs Of the 9Th say that a mail cal
on the Missouri Pacific road was robbed
Of 81, 900 between St. Louis and Jefferson
City, Mo- .~4s5rs @5sEz-e f. Mi
C. HARMLESS of Knox. Ind, who was OK
tensively engaged in the manufacture Of
bogus nickels, was arrested on the 9Th b,
United States officials. 1919
Four new cases Of yellow fever at Mana
tee and two new cases at Jacksonville
Fla, were reported on the 9th
The main building Of Wells College, a
Aurora, n. r., was burned on tho 9th at {
loss of about $9O0, O0Q