Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-07-04


reported, and the River and Harbor bill was
further considered. q. In the House the time
was occupied in discussing the Tarin bill. A
protest against the passage OF the Tariff bill
was sent to the desk OF the clerk, eigned by
over 800 Philadelphia manufacturers who en-
ploy 15O, 0OO men,
5o,:zz-:- as s:a::
ADv1CEs of the 23d say that during
wind-storm in the vicinity of Palmyra,
Wis.,, barns were unroofed and lifted from
their foundations, trees and fences blown
down and crops greatly damaged from be-
ing beaten to the ground.
AT Miniature, Neb., in dispute on the
2sd over S12.50 George Arnold shot and
killed George Burton.
GEORGE LONG, who has been counting the
daughter of Henry Baker, farmer living
near Indianapolis. Ind, quarreled with
Baker on the oath because he opposed the
match, and in the fracas both were shot
dead.
CHARLES GREsH, resident of Pulaski
County, Mo-, was dragged from his bed on
the night of the 23d by riders and whipped
to death. He was charged with telling the
secrets of an organization known as the
Agricultural Wheel"
GEORGE NJ. PULLMAN concluded on the
25th the purchase of the entire Baltimore
e. Ohio railroad sleeping-car system, in
Guiding the contract for the operation of
Pullman cars for twenty five years. The
price paid was about 81, ZOO, OOO
THE cigar factory in New York occupied
by Lichtenstein Brothers and others was
burned on the 25th. Loss, $4,000.
CHARLES A. PITCHER, teller Of the Union
Bank of Providence, r. l., absconded on the
25th, taking with him $4,000 belonging to
the bank
TwENTY-FoUR deaths from the heat were
reported at the coroner's Office in New
York on the 25th. The majority were per-
sons in the prime of life and nine tenths of
them were residents in the crowded tene-
ment districts.
THREE explosions of fireworks occurred
in the variety store of Henry Rice, at Ron
dout, N. Y, on the 25th, and Mr. Rice's
mother, aged ninety-two years, who was
unable to leave her room in the upper part
of the house. was burned to death.
THE outgoing stage from Ballinger, Tex,
was robbed on the 25th by a lone highway
man wearing mask. There were eight
passengers, from whom he secured over
$780,
In a wreck on the Pennsylvania &
iSchuylkill railroad on the 26th at Cable
City, Pa, six laborers were killed and four
were fatally injured. The victims were all
lHungarians.
Mrs. CHAIR C1GNARAL1 was sentenced to
fbe hanged August II by Recorder Smyth
IN New York on the Goth for the murder of
her husband.
1T showed in Western Wisconsin on the
e6th, and heavy frosts were reported in Min
hesota.
NED CLARK (colored) was lynched on the
H6th in Worth County, Ca, on the charge
iof attempting to assault young girl thir-
teen years Of age.
: WILLIAM MOORE, negro, was taken from
the jail at Charleston, ILL.,, on the 26th by a
mob and hanged for an indecent assault on
Mary A. Bingardina, weak minded girl of
sixteen years.
In a boarding house at New York on
the Goth Joseph Seaford, ell-boy aged
nineteen years, shot and killed Josie Sheri-
dan, nineteen years old, and then blew out
his brains. Jealousy was the cause.
AUTHORITY was given the Midland Ma
,tional Bank of Kansas City, Mo-, on the
26th to begin business with capital of
$500, 900.
A FAST train on the Baltimore & Ohio
road, heavily freighted with delegates
from the Chicago convention, collided with
a freight train at Tiff1n, O., on the Goth,
and the engineer was fatally hurt and
many of the passengers were bruised.
w. c. FARRAR's $4,000 trotting stallion,
Jubilee Lambert, died OF apoplexy on the
18th at Peru Ind
Asa BRAuGHToN, his wife and child,
were drowned in the canal at Medina, N.
~, on the 10Th while out rowing.
S1LAs ROBINSON, of Minneapolis Mimi,
met his wife with Nicholas Weiss on the
street on the Goth, and after fatally shoot
ing both OF them fired three bullets into
his own head.
: A DISCHARGED stone-cutter named Louis
:Nicoli shot w. B. Wilson, contractor,
and himself afterward in Marquette, Mich,
on the 26th Both would probably die
BY the burning of small frame house
on the Goth at St. Paul, Mimi, Maud Bur-
imeister, aged thirteen years, and Mrs.
Maggie Ross were suffocated
FLOODS were doing great damage on the
s26th in the vicinity of Nelson, Neb. Elk
creek was over it's banks and all bridges
crossing it had been washed away.
H. HODGES, Son e. Co., dealers in straw
goods in New York, failed on the 10Th for
100000.
The sailing ship Farragut, from Calcutta
TO New York, was reported lost on the 9th
She was commanded by Captain Richard
lHardwick, of Boston, and had on board his
wife, daughter and e crew of twenty two
men.
A FIRE at st. Louis on the 9th destroyed
the planning mill and the box factory of
Henry Ganss Il Sons, covering a whole
block. Loss, 100000.
A TRAIN over the Michigan Central rail-
road from New York, carrying number
of civil engineers, arrived in Chicago on
the 27th. Between Niagara Falls and De-
troit squirt Of liz miles was made in 1O01a
minutes including stops.
Tue small steam yacht Enid. oontsining
. pleasure party of eight, was STRUCK by
the steamer James W. Baldwin on the 9th
near, Newburg, N. Y. and Miss Anna
Miller and Mrs. Benjamin B. Odell, Jr.,
prominent society people, were drowned.
GEORGE WILSON was hanged on the 9th
in the Albion an " Jail for killing his
wife on the night of January Il, 1887. ~.
The Mexican Central freight depot In
Paso del Norte. Tex. was burned on the