Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-01-25


youngest children to death. # ST,
The blizzard embargo in Dakota was
raised on the 18bh, and the first mail since
January IL arrived at Huron. ;15 5
In South Brooklyn, n Y, on the 18th
Frank Fouckner shot and killed his wife,
whom he married last September, and then
committed suicide. jealousy
A BROKEN rail wrecked an Illinois Central
train at Scales Mound, ILL.,, on the 18Th, two
coaches rolling down an embankment and
dozen persons were badly hurt s.A
THz American Shipping and Industrial
League, in session on the 18th at Washing
ton, adopted resolutions demanding I'M
mediate provision for coast defenses,
restoration Of American shipping. building
! Of a strong navy and improvement Of riv-
ers and harbors. Joseph Wheeler, Of Ala
bama, was elected president sgjnlfst T..
The National Tobacco Association at its
session in Washington on the 18th elected
George W. Helme president No action
was taken on the tobacco-tax question. *3t
SEvEN-persons were drowned on the 18th
in Sand lake, near Ennis, Tex, by breaking
Through the ice while skating: IN p - d,
JAMES GRINDER, OF Rochester, N. Y. fatally
bear hisjw with a Ratchet on the 18th
and then. committed suicide They have
nine children d.
+. PARKER and 8 Fulton, two Nova Scotia
men who took rooms at a New York hotel.
were found dead on the 10Th, having blown
out the gas
A HYDRopHoB1A epidemic was raging on
the 10th in Oxford, N. j., caused by severe
cold weather, many dogs showing signs of
the disease
FRANK SMITH, his wife and five children,
per,shed in the tire that destroyed their
home at Harrod, O., on the 10 b.
Mrs HUDSON, an old lady living near
Vandalla ILL.,, while In d tit on the 10Th fell
in the tire and was burned 70 death.
The overdue steamship Britannia, with
eight hundred immigrants on board, ar
rived In New York on the l9Sh
In glass factory at Butler. Pa, two en-
ployes were caught In y grinding machine
on the 10Th and ground to death
Ice formed at Jacksonville Fla, on the
18th, but, no injury was done the orange
crop -.
THREE men broke into hall at Kansas
City on the 10Th, gathered all the Bibles,
song-books and printed sermons of Sam
Jones and Sam Small, who were holding
their revivals there, and burned them in
the stove 49,. sr .-
The coroner on the 10Th found 81, 600 in
gold hidden in the hut of William Price,
who died recently OF s, arvation at Girard, O.
MISS MARY A. Brown, of Norristown, Pa,
was on the 10th swim lled out of $50, 600 by
Philadelphia woman who conducted q
'ladies" bank.
THE killing of two American prospectors
and wounding of two Others by Apaches on
the Yaqu1 river was reported on the 10th
from Nogales, A. T.
ANOTHER great storm was raging on the
10Th in Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska and
Iowa, with the mercury far below zero.
HE Committee on Appropriations In the
House OF Representatives at Washington
made ready on the 10th the annual Pension
bill It appropriates $50, 275, 500
A PATTY OF masked men attempted on the
19ta to rob an express train on the Wabash
railroad, east OF Kansas City, but were
fooled by officers who had received notice
of theiintended attempt -.
MINNIE RAY. daughter of prominent citi-
sen OF Colorado Springs, Co.., threw her
self in front of train and was killed on
the 195h. She had dec ,ived her father in q
small money matter and was overcome by
remorse
ED CoFFEY, who recently cut his throat
when refused a p r. on by tbs P Pennsylvania
board, confessed. at Pi tsburgn on the 10Th
that he killed Mic JAcoby, for whose MUIR
der Frank Small was hanged few weeks
ago.
IT appeared on the goth that Mrs Celia
Hendricks, the "woman's bank" tnano.er
of Philadelphia, had swjndled friends and
acquaintance out of 100000
ss1 GOLD Was d !scovered on the Goth, Of high
grade and paying quantities., near Omaha,
Neb ''''
4 JAMES MARTIN, hero of a score OF bat
ties and an inmate Of the Soldiers and s IL
OTIS Home was frozen to death on the Goth
near Erie, Pa.
h At a meeting In Chicago on the Goth the
price of barbed wire was increased ,wenty-
1--WE cents per one hundred pounds
A LARGE boiler In K,stner l. Gognn's -four
mill at Janesville, Wis, exploded on the
2Oth, compl.te y wrecking the structure
and killing two men.
A VEIN Of coal six feet two inches thick
was discovered on the 2O5n at Colfax, Nc
Lean County. LII. "''
DEEP snow In the Michigan woods has in
terfered with numbering operations, and
many mills had shut down on the 2Ooh
A ST. PAUL paper s. ated on the Goth that
235 persons persisted in the recent blizzard
AT Reading. Pa, q faith-cure convention
was causing great excitsment on the Goth,
and many cases of alleged cures were re-
ported. n-ss.- = ..4,t.,. -.-.. .-.....
". J. NJ GoRDoN, manufacturing chemist
at Cincinnati, failed on the 2OSh for $780,
900. w., t,.. ...s.,-,.. ..,. '@'S'
y NEAR Little Rock, Ark. two farmers by
the name of Baker and Hit quarreled on
the ooh while dividing their land between
q son and daughter Of each, who were
about to be- married, and stabbed each
other fatally with bowie knives. ,-, Fsz
The new law passed by Congress relating
to permissible writing and printing on sec
ond. third and; fourth class mail matter
went into effect on the Doth. r. - 50 =
AT Fort Keogh, N T., the Thermometer
regis! cred 65degrees below zero during the
recent blizzard 1.-The same point on one
OCCASION last summer it stood 100 degrees
above FARO G@- ~ TS@aE,Giae5.q
A MENINGITIS epidemic was on the Goth
depopulating Asheviile, N G., at the rate of
dozen deaths q day, oil attempts to check
1t proving futile Many inhabirants were
leaving town. ssT h4tzes,&sT44s Is, Il a: a,
DURING the seven days ended on the Doth
there were 276 business failures in the
United States. against 312. the previous
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