Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-01-11

committees was announced. Bills were intro
duced for the preservation Of woods and forests
OF the National domain adjacent to the sources
OF navigable rivers and authorizing National
banks to take liens on real estate for loans Of
money. Adjourned to the 9th.
DOMESTIC.
The public debt statement on the Sd
shows the total debt to be 81 ,691, 36O,7O5;
cash in treasury 500, S42, $40; debt less
cash in treasury, 81. 225, sos, 4O2 De-
crease during December, $14, 5S4,65O De
crease since June 80. 1887, $53, $50, $50.
OSCAR CoaER (colored) was lynched on
the Sd at Cherokee, Ala, for setting house
on fire.
In drunken row on the Sd between thir-
ty Poles at Wlkesbarre, Pa, three men
We're fatally injured and all We're more or
less seriously wounded
HE list OF veterans of the war Of 1912
has decreased to 1859, while widows OF
veterans survive to the number of IL, So /.
JAMES Tut died at Brazil, Ind, on the
Sd OF CHAMBERS caught from horse
CHARLES SELP, aged thirty years, of
Columbus, Ind, died suddenly on the Sd
from the effects of excessive cigarette
smoking
JACOB H DE1APLANE, book-keeper at
the Portage straw board works in Circle
vile, O., disappeared on the Sd, leaving his
accounts $12, 900 short
A MADISON [Wis) marble-cutter, Robert
NJ. Bibbs, thirty-tive years old and married,
froze to death near there on the Sd while
intoxicated
HENRY HOPES, employed by R. J. Allen &
Co., of Philadelphia was arrested on the
Sd for embezzling $4,000
1T was discovered on the Sd that ex-
Mayor Cramer, of Hackettstown, N j., who
recently fed after defrauding several bust
ness men, was betrothed to no less than
fifteen women, every one. of whom he
swindled out of money
q: c. MILLER, a leading politician of
Starke, Fla, was assasinated on the Sd by
some unknown person.
SENATOR Palmer, of Michigan, on the Sd
gave SIC, 600 for the erection of building
at Detroit, to be used by The G.. A. r. of the
State.
The coinage of the minis during Decem-
Der last was SIS, 1852, 675, Of which 81, 1885,
200 were standard silver dollars
The visible supply of wheat in the coun-
try on the Sd was ID, 421 $50 bushels; an
increase of ia, 400 bushels The corn sup
ply was 6,O25, 258 bushels; an increase Of
265, 851 bushels pa,
THERE are sixty eight collieries con-
troued by the Reading Company in the
Schuylk1n Pa) region, and sixty-two of
these were deserted on the Sd, the twenty
Eve thousand miners going on strike.
Nearly thirty thousand men have already
been on strike in the Lehigh region for
over three months General Master-Wor
man Powderly advised that no strike take
place, and telegraphed to Reading that he
considered it inadvisable %
ADy1cEs OF the 18th from Madisonyille,
Tex, say that q body of armed citizens call
ing themselves reformers had shot> and
hanged several men who favored maintain
ing saloons and state of terror prevailed
PHYSICIANS are puzzled by the peculiar
formation which, starting at the spinal COL
umn and growing forward until it pressed
against the wlndpipe, and finally closing it,
caused the death by strangulation on the
sd OF the little daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred Palmer, of Algona, Ia 1t is the first
case Of the kind on record
THERE are SO. pensioners of the late
war in Indiana, and during December last
$1,25O, 900 in pensions were disbursed-
ALL the Reading (Pa) Company's mines
were stopped on the 4th, and twenty thou
sand miners were idle. Some placed the
number of idle men as high as fifty thou
sand in the Schuylkill basin alone, which
with twenty thousand in the Lehigh, make
the strike great one
THE Shoe-makers' Trades Union of New
ark, N. j., decided on the 4th to withdraw
from the Knights of Labor
On farm near Zollarsville, Pa, subter-
ranean fire was raging on the 4th. Parties
making an investigation to discover the
cause found the ground 80 hot that they
were oblig ed to abandon the work
THE Decamnar fire Insaea MORO Q1 n goo
OCO against $11, 100000 for the same
month in 1886. The total fire waste for
1887 was p129, 264 900. about$1 100000
greater than in 1886.
The Haddock murder indictments against
all the defendants, except the three who
have never been arrested, were dismissed
at Sioux City, Ia, on the 4th
The business portion of Beaufort, N. c.,
was destroyed by fire on the 4th
CHARLES s. MOORE, one of the most noted
young lawyers in Washington, dropped
dead in the streets in that city on the 4th
A MURDERER named Baggott was lynched
on the 18th near Durango, A. T.
TIE State of Alabama on the 4th let out
all it's convicts on ten-year contracts to
work in the coal mines near Birmingham.
They number six hundred
The Los Angeles (Cal.) furniture factory
was burned on the 4th. Loss, 5000, 600;
insurance, 100000
JAMES SMITH, his wife and four children,
the eldest sixteen year old daughter, were
arrested at St Joseph, No., on the 9Th for
counterfeiting
JUDGE 1RAsdecided at Dubuque, La ON
the 9th that the patent of Washburn &
Aoen, wire manufacturers, was invalid.
BIZ the fall Of viaduct on the 5th in
Cleveland, O., eighty-fve feet above the
ground, two workmen we've killed and four
wounded.