Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-09-19

THE Fort George Hotel was burned at
Lake George, N. u, on the 18th. Loss,
$50, 600.
THERE were four deaths from yellow
fever at jacksonville, Fla, on the 18th and
forty four new cases. Total cases report
ed to date, Isl; deaths, l04.
JACOBS & PRocToR's Grand Opera House
and the adjoining property ct Syracuse, N.
Y, were destroyed by Are on the 18th.
Loss, $500 900.
NEARLY the entire business portion Of
Berne, Ind. was destroyed by fire on the
18th.
In fifty-mile race on the 18th from Sill
vor City, n. M, to Deming, between q
hours and forty minutes The bicycle time
was four hours aud fifty minutes.
FRANK CoRFREY and Miss Minnie Tahay
were drowned on the 14th In the Sohuyl.
kill river at Philadelphia by the overturn-
ing of their row boat
The drought and forest fires in Arenao
County, Mich, continued undated on the
14th, and the panic-str;cken inhabitants
were preparing Tor flight. Lumber camps
had been destroyed, and the damage al
ready to timber, standing and manufact-
ured, was estimated at 800, 600.
A PASSENGER train on the Baltim ore &
Ohio railway jumped . switch on the 14th
at Aukingtown, O., and ran into freight
train on tho side track, and the boiler Of
the freight engine exploded. Two persona
were killed outright and thirty-two others
were more or less seriously injured The
majority OF the victims were members Of
the It. A. r., who were returning from the
Columbus encampment. S 81.
DURING the seven days ended on the 18th
there were 1A business failures in the
United States, against 157 the previous
seven days. The total of failures in the
United States January 1 to date is 7,O07,
against g. CTS in 1887. -a@ ~. *.@ g
The Roanoke river was on the 18th re-!
ported to have risen thirty-seven feet
above high-wator mark. flooding North
hampton and Halifax counties. N. c., de-
stroying the entire corn and cotton crops
in the lowlands, at an estimated loss of
s5OO,OOO drowning cattle. tearing houses
from their foundations, and, it was feared,
causing much loss of human life
MRS. ELIZABETH LANGL1EE aud her five
year-old daughter, of Boston, were burned
to death ON the 14th by the upsetting Of q
kerosene lamp. ..
FRITZ SHEEN, German farmer living
near Hillsboro, ILL.,, died on the 18th after
forty-eight hours illness, and the doctors
pronounced his case one of genuine Asiatic
cholera. $50
AT Winfield, O., on the 18th Richard
Jones. while sick with typhoid fever, cut
his throat In the presence Of his wife and
mother because they would not permit his
children to see him.
WHILE the paying teller Of tho Third
National Bank of Buffalo, N. Y. was ut
lunch on The 18th sneak thief purloined q
package containing $2. O49
CHARLES L. BoDEND1EcK, pronounced
Anarchist, was caught manufacturing
bombs in Chicago on the 18th.
ALEXANDER GoLDEEsEN was hanged on
the 18th at San Francisco for the murder
OF Name Kelly, fourteen -year-old school
girl, because she refused to accept his at
tention, and Dock Dangan, negro, was
hanged at Columbus, s. c., for the murder
Of William F. Coke, a white bow.
AT Hampden Park, Springfield, Mass,
on the 4th Johnston paced quarter of q
mile in 291 seconds, beating all previous
records for that distance.
A FIRE on the 18th at Washburn, Wis,
wiped out the entlre business section, de-
stroying thirty buildings at loss of $780,
600, small insurance.
Forty THREE new cases and twelve
deaths was tho yellow fever record at
Fla, for the twenty four
hours ended on the 14th. Total number of
cases to date, $50; total number of deaths
to date, 116
A MAN named Wise was lynched on the
18th in the Turtle mountain district of Da-
kota for horse stealing.
CHARLES KLEIN, II night Waterman ut
Fort Wayne, Ind, in a rage Of jealousy
against his wife, shot her fatally on the
18th and then killed himself
HEAVY frost in the section surrounding
Mason City, Iowa, had on the 18th killed
the grass and damaged corn severely, re-
ducing the average acreage, it was esti-
mated, by twelve bushels.
Willow FEVER broke out on the 18th at
N. c., among the refugees
from Jacksonville.
By the upsetting Of q boat on the 14th at
Cary, Ill.,, Walter Graham and his two sis
ters, Maria and Sarah, were drowned
Their home was in Chicago.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
The President on the 18th nom mated
Lambert Tree to be Minister to Russia.
CANDIDATES for Congress were nomi-
nofo1 ~, ho nth fol1ox,s. d nor