Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-09-26
DOMESTIC,


yellow FEVER made its appearance on
the 18th at Gainesville, Fla, six persons
being stricken down.
HEAVY rain storms resulted on the 18th
in disastrous floods at Port Jervis, N. Y.
and other points on the Delaware river.
FLOODS in the streams near Scranton.
Pa, on the 18th washed out the tracks of
the Lackawanna road so that all traffic was
suspended.
WILLIAM BONN, who gouged out his
wife's eyes, was sentenced on the 18th at
Long Island City, N. Y, to twenty-six
years and eleven months imprisonment at
hard labor.
JACOB /. SEIxAs, the oldest wholesale
dry-goods merchant in New York City,
having started in business in 1887, was
forced to compromise with his creditors
on the 18th. who espresso sympathy and
gave him time settlement at fifty cents
on the dollar His liabilities were s4OO. 900.
JOHN MURPHY, deputy postmaster at
Artesian City, Kan, was arrested on the
18th for robbing the United States Ex-
]rcss Company of $4,000. He confessed
tie cri me and restored 5000 of the stolen
1-o1ey.
The New York State Labor conference,
i. session on the 18th at Troy, resolved to
support no candidate who did not favor
the repeal of the industrial conspiracy
laws.
IN the Cherokee Nation on the 18th fight
took place between two Indians, Blue Hog
and Pigeon, in which both received mortal
woun DIS and a mulatto girl was shot dead
The affair grew out of a contest for the
girl.
In st. Louis on the 18th Judge Barclay
decided that under the constitution and
acts of Congress none but negroes and
Caucasians were eligible to citizenship in
the United States.
CHARLES r. HARRIS. agent Of the Santa
Fe road in Coleman, Tex, ordered William
Attley, drunken cowboy, out of the sta
ton on the 18th, and Attley shot him dead.
NEAR Lancaster, Tenn, on the 18th John
SIN tn, Jr., a railroad contractor, was seri
ously shot by two men and robbed of
$1,000
THE Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd Eel
lows in session on the 18th at Los Angeles,
CAL, elected General Underwood, of Ken
lucky, Grand Sire.
DURING the twenty four hours ended on
the 10Th there were 1870 new cases Of yellow
fever at Jacksonvlll Fla, and IA deaths.
Total cases to date, 1888; total deaths, 40.
A SAFE belonging to A. II. Mont, of North
Baltimore, O., was robbed Of Il, 600 on the
18th.
Two freight trains collided on the 10Th
on the Burlington road, near Galesburg,
ILL.,, during fog, and three persons. were
killed.
The nineteenth annual reunion of the
National Association of ex-Prisoners of
War was held at Indianapolis on the 10Th.
Thomas N. Mckee. of Washington, D. c.,
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year.
MRS; MARTIN, Of Huntingburg Ind, con-
victed Of infanticide, was on the 10Th sem
fenced to Imprisonment for lite.
The nineteenth annual reunion of the
Society Of the Army Of the Cumberland be-
gan in Chicago on the 18th.
THE triennial congress Of American
physicians convened in Washington on the
10Th with some of the most prominent
members of the profession in this and
foreign countries in attendance.
WILL A. STRONG, ex-Secretary of the
State of louisiana, charged with en-
bezzling $500, escaped from the court
room While waiting for the verdict of the
jury on the 10Th and had not been recapt-
ured. 1870. .....+ ..E
AT Atlanta, Madison and other towns in
Georgia several earthquake shocks &C.
cured on the 10th. An hour before the
first shock there was brilliant meteoric
display, the stars in the western sky leap
ing like balls Of fire from place to place
AN unknown man recently left box in
railroad station at Paola, Kan. The box
was accidentally smashed on the 18th and
Q skeleton was disclosed. No clew.
Two MEN were killed by the explosion Of
boiler in saw.mill at Point Mountain,
W. Va, on the 10Th. e -. .-,s-.5-
REPORTS prevailed at New Orleans on
the 10Th that the late United States Mar
shall, r. B. Peasants, was defaulter to
the amount of SIS, 900. "
MASKED robbers on the 18th entered the
house Of Isaac Hariger and wife, an aged
couple living near ligonier, Pa, and
robbed them of one Thousand dollars In
8 anid which 5xas in the hnusA