Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-04-11

LIGHTNING fred an oil tank on the 9TH
owned by the National Transit Company
1T Parker, Pa, and thirty-dve thousand
barrels of oil were burned.
RooT, STRONG & Co, wholesalers Of dry
goods ut Detroit, failed on tho 9th for
800, OO0
The village Of .Amesburv, Mass was al
most wiped out by fire on the 9Th. loeA
81, OOO, 600
A TORNADO demolished several buildings
in Sioux City, Ia, on the 9th, and another
cloud an hour later tore up the Illinois Gen.
trail track ut Marcus, fifty miles distant.
The three young children of Frank Dent,
of Springfield, O., died on the 9th from the
effects of drinking water from an old well
into which rats poisoned with arsenic had
been thrown. &-%
SIX men were fatally burned on the 9th
in the Delamater iron works in New York
City by molten iron which was accidentally
poured over them
Dr. BUNDY's son and three young men
were drowned at St. Ansgar, Ia., on the 9Th.
AT the closing session OF tho National
Woman Suffrage Association In Washington
on the 9th it was voted that memorial be
presented to Congress and the States, ask
ing for the removal of the political disabil-
tiles Of women, and that delegates be sent
to each of the political parties asking for
the recognition OF their political rights
During the seven days ended on the 9th
there were 100 business failures in the
United States, against 179 the previous
seven days.
The founding of the Grand Army of the
Republic on April 6, 1866, was celebrated
on the evening of the 9th at Decatur, Ill.,,
by a reunion of Decatur Post. No. l, the
first post instituted.
The Walter Haywood chair factory at
Ftchburgh, Mass, was burned on the 9TH.
Loss, $150,OO0
Four men were killed on the 9th by a
dynamite mill explosion at Miller's Station,
Ind.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND on the 9th signed
the bill granting a pension to Mrs. John A.
Logan and the act increasing the pension
OF Mrs. Frank P. Blair:
The President on the 9th sent to the
Senate the name Of Brigadier-Gen
George Crook to succeed General Terry as
Major-General
A NATIONAL single-tax conference will
be held in Chicago July 4 to discuss the
abolition of taxes on all kinds of personal
property, including houses, machines, grow
ing crops, etc., and the raising of all public
revenues from single and direct tax on
relative land values
A FIRE on the 9th in the lumber yard of
Brown, Clark, & Co., at Williamsport, Pa,
destroyed five million feet of lumber. Loss,
100000
The banks of the river at Rock Falls, la. ,
overlooked on the 9th and carried away a
mill-da1n, barn and three houses
The Ohio Legislature on the 9Th passed a
law creating State Board of Pardons,
which is to be appointed by the Governor
AMEL1o DE JOANNA, manager Of the italian
bank Avellinese, in New York City, de-
camped on the 9th with $50, OOO All the
depositors were poor and ignorant Italians.
A FLOOD in the Cedar river at Waverly.
la. , had on the 9th submerged one half OF
the city. causing great damage
OWING to a falling off in business caused
by The strikes five hundred freight en-
ployes on the Western division of the New
York Central were suspended on the 9Th.
MANY houses on the flats at Mankato,
Mimi, were on the 9th flooded up to the
middle Of the windows and the river was
still rising. West Mankato was submerged.
LIGHTNING on the 9th struck the new
$1O,O soldiers monument recently erect
cd in Mount Hone Cemetery at Logansport
Ind, and badly shattered it.
The National House Committee on POST
offices on the 9th completed the consider
alton of the Post-of1ice Appropriation bill.
AS agreed upon it appropriates 500, 1885,
$40, against revised estimates by the Post
master-General of $50, 1920, $40.
RI. REV: BISHOP IRELAND, OF St Paul. ~t--
dressed large audience at Central Music
Hall, Chicago, on tho evening of the 9th,
his subjecp being The Saloon" which he
said was tne evil of the century and the
cr,-se of mankind. The Bishop said the
remedy was to be found in law, restric-
tive license and religious instruction.
FRANK l. WILSON. a clerk in the Boston l.
Providence freight office at Boston, con-
fessed On the 9th to enbezzlng $40, 900 of
the company's funds.
WHILE Mrs Mary Smith, of Wanemac, Pa,
was making whisky on the 9th her clothing
caught fire and size was burnt to death,
and her three children, who tried to save
her, were fatally burned
MR.. BULL, one of the Oldest and wealth.
est merchants in Detroit Mich, was feeced
out of $40, 900 by @bunko" men on the 9th.
A CYCLONE on the 9th devastated eight
miles of farming country near Corners
vile, Ind, unroohng many buildings and
sweeping fences and timber away
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