Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-07-11

reported to authorize the appointment Of an
assistant Secretary Of the Navy and to perfect
the quarantine service of the United States.
The Senate Land-Forfeiture bill was DIS
cussed.
THE Senate was not in session on the 9Th ~.
In the House the Land-Grant Forfeiture bill
was passed. II it becomes a law it will forfeit
hfty-four million acres. The debate on tho
Tariff bill was resumed, and the only changes
made were to restore the present duty ON
wood-screws, pen-knives and razors and fixing
the duty on new printing type at fifteen per
cent. ad valorem.
DOMESTIC.
EDWARD Cousins, q colored man in Lock
land, O., cut his own throat and that Of his
baby and nearly killed his wife ON the I'd.
WHILE bathing on the I'd near Eagle River,
Wis, Frank s. Smart, Jesse Hull and the
1atter's son, aged seven, were drowned.
SEL1GMAN, MAY & Co., wholesale dealers
in boys clothing at New York, failed on
the I'd for s50O,0OO with large assets.
TWENTY-FIVE business houses and resi-
dences in Paragould, Ark were burned on
the Cd
THE consolidation of the St. Louis, Alton
& Springfield and the St. Louis & Central
Illinois railroads was agreed upon on the
I'd.
c. C. NELSON, banker of Atlanta, Ca,
disappeared on the I'd, taking with him the
funds OF the North Side Savings Bank.
MASKED men stopped stage coach be-
tween Madeira and Hildreth, CAL, on the
I'd. and secured $4,000 in silver bullion
TWENTY-FIVE people were injured in a
smash-up on the Northern Pacific road,
near Helena, NJ T., on the I'd.
The public-debt statement issued on the
I'd showed the total debt to be q, los, 992, so;
cash in treasury, s10S, 22O, 464; debt less
cash in treasury, 81, 165, 5S4, 65s Decrease
during June, $l4, 429, sos. Decrease since
June 80, 1887, s113, S44,OSO.
THREE men were fatally scalded on the
I'd in boiler explosing at Port Huron,
Mich.
The ten men recently reported to have
been drowned in Long Island Sound near
Port Chester, N. Y, turned up safe on
the I'd.
FLAGSTAFF, the principle town on the At
lantic & Pacific road between Albuquerque
and Los Angeles, was almost totally de-
stroyed by fire on the I'd
In battle on the I'd between officials and
desperadoes near Eufala, Ind. T., one of
the former and two Of the latter were
killed. s~-.
The Northern Indiana Insane Asylum at
Logansport, Ind, was opened on the I'd
and the first inmate from Delphi admitted.
The asylum and grounds cost the State
$685.
SM1THsoN's lumber and shingle mills at
Petoskey, Mich, were destroyed by fire on
the I'd. Seven dwelling houses and all the
camps were also burned.
GREEN'S Brigade, Sickles' Brigade and
the Irish Brigade dedicated monuments
at Getty sburg, Pa, on the I'd. Many reg
iments also dedicated monuments, and the
cornerstone of the Memorial Church of
the Prince of Peace was laid with solemn
services.
THERE fell due in New York City on the
I'd ST., OOO, coo in interest and dividends of
corporate and other securities.
In a practice game on the I'd Captain
Dunlap, of the Pittsburgh Pa.) ball club,
was struck in the face with very fast
ball and his right jaw was broken.
L. A. BRECK and his wife were each sen
fenced on the I'd to four years in the peni-
tertiary at Cleveland o., for forging
will which made them the heirs of Martha
Hail Mcdonald. H.,
AT a railway crossing near Carrollton,
"a, on the Sd man named Stokes and
wife, from Olney, N. Y, were struck by a
train and almost instantly killed. !.
OWING to lack of orders the Bigelow car
pet mills at Clinton, Mass, shut down on
the Sd, rendering thirteen hundred hands
idle
AN examination on the Sd Of the &C
counts Of Joh4 II. Vanloan, of the Second
National Bank of Jefferson City, N. j.,
showed a shortage of S15, 400 '::::1
The "'White Caps" in Orange County,
Ind, took out Of bed a man named Cook,
accused of defaming his dead wife's
character, on the night of the Sd and ad-
ypiricforo1 hmm
with hickory switches ON his bare back
He was likely to die.
THE Music-Teachers' National Associa
ton met in annual convention in Chicago
on the 4th.
A STATUE of Josiah Bartlett, the second
signer of the Declaration of Independence
was unvailed at Amesbury, Mass, on
the 4th.
A FoLD1SG-BED snapped together on the
3D. and nearly killed an old lady at Fayette,
Ny.
THIEVES broke into the ticket Office of
the Lake Erie e. Western road at Findlay,
O., On the Sd and carried away $500 in cash.
THERE were no new developments at
Pittsburgh on the 4th in the iron-workers
lockout. Fifteen firms had signed the
scale
ROBERT WILLIAM FLAcK, of Syracuse, N.
4OoG AlS lllc Ou VIC 4OI IA Oh dUCcupt 10
navigate the whirlpool rapids at Niagara
Falls in an open boat
The Nations Birthday was more gener-
ally observed throughout the country on
the 4th than usual.
AT Genda Springs, Kan, three negroes
set up a bar in, corn-feld adjoining the
grounds where the celebration was held on
, the 18th, and when Mayor Kenyon and
Justice Furry. interfered they were fred
upon, the mayor being killed and Furry
fatally wounded. '
The centennial celebration was begun at
Cincinnati at midnight on the 3d. the up
roar on the streets of horns, bells, fire.
crackers, drums, trumpets and human
voices never having had q parallel in the
city The hilltops were ablaze with red
fire, and the pyrotechnic display excited
admiration. At eleven o'clock on the 4th
the formal opening exercises took place in
Music Hall. Governor Foraker made the
address Of welcome, and Mrs Polk, widow
Mex President Poll, started the machinery