Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-08-22
survivors on the 10th. The Thingvalla put

survivors on the 10th. The Thingvalla put
into Halifax.
The North Chicago rolling-mills, at
South Chicago, shut down on the 10th for
| an indefinite period, throwing out Of em-
ployment sou1e fifteen hundred mon. fz B
CoNsIDERABLE damage was reported en-
the 10th to rice and sugar crops In Louis
lana BY heavy wind and rain-storm,
| which was most severe at Bayou Sara,
Baton Rouge and along the Mississippi
gulf coast, s
A HEAVY frost fell in Northern Mime
sofa and Dakota on the 18th.
DURING the seven days ended on the nth
there were ISL business failures in the
United States, against 1855 the previous
| seven days. The total failures In the
United States from january to date Is
6, AS, against 6. 1872 in 1887 ,..
THE National Csmmandery Of tho Sons
OF Veterans In session on the 18th at
Wheeling, w. Va, elected as Commander
| in-Chief George r. Abbott, of Illinois.
DURING the absence Of Henry Shropshire
| and his wife from their home near Colum-
bin, 8. G., on the 18th the house wa,
burned and their two little children per.
ished in the flames. ts,. =. ~. =. =.
HuaH RLAoHMAN was hanged at Little
Rock, Ark, on the 18th for the murder of
friend In May last, and Alexander Wood
(colored) was executed at Blackfoot, l. r..
Tor the murder Of his wife in March, 1857.
WHILE digging q well on the 18th near
Steubenville, o., George Owens and his
son were killed, and Mrs. Owens died soon
after from the shock. ~ ~*N@s@s-
ADMIRAL LUCE received orders on the
18th to proceed to Port au Prince, Hayti, to
protect American interests in the Haytien
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law which exists. wv :.
AT the meeting of the American Bar AS.
ISOLATION ON the 18th at Saratoga, N. Y,
David Dudley Field, of New York, was
elected president, and General Harrison. of
Indianapolis, one of the vice presidents.
THE National Association of Fire En-
glneers in session at Minneapolis on the
18th elected F. L. Stetson, Of that CITY.
president
The Brotherhood Of Locomotive En-
gineers met at Detroit on the 18th to cele
brate the twenty fifth anniversary of their
organization. Over two thousand members
were present.
AT North Adams, Mass, on the 18th Mrs.
Joseph McDay and Miss Kate Armstrong
were burned to death as result Of starting
fire with kerosene
TIE race war in Vermillion, New Iberia
and Lafayette parishes in Louisiana cul
minated on the 18th in the killing of thir-
teen negroes.
The store Of Wallace g. Kelly, at West
Charleston, w. Va, was burned on the
18th, and Simon Wallace and his mother.
who were sleeping over the store, persisted
in the flames
DEACON LOWERING, aged ninety years, and
his sister and housekeeper, Mrs Richard
son, were instantly killed bv LIGHTNING on
the 18th at Greenfield, Mass, and the
farmhouse, barns and buildings were
burned.
DISPATCHES Of the 18th say that the total
number of~persons lost in the recent COL
ision between the steamers Thingvalla
and Geiser was one hundred and eighteen.
The loss of the Geiser and cargo was
placed at S45OOOO.
GREAT excitement was created on the
18th at the Newport iron and steel mills,
just across the river from Cincinnati by
the discovery of seventeen dynamite bombs
in pile of scrap-iron.