Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-02-08
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emplOymhnb five hundred men
HE Belgo, the fourth successive steamer
from China witch small-p on board, was
quarantined at San Franelsco on the Cd
SEVERAL business blocks, including the
post-otioo and Ga-et'e otfloe, at CORTLAND,
O., were destroyed by fire on the 2d.
On the I'd two carloads OF potatoes, corn
and food We're sent to the Kansas sufferers
from Pierre, D, I.
FIVE years ago the fve-year-old son OF
Captain W. f, Dickinson. OF Common wealth,
Wis, mysteriously dis ppoared. It was re-
por ed on the I'd that negotiations for, the
return OF the hoy for a ransom were pend
ing, and that $40, 900 had been demanded
by tho kidnapers
The Merced canal In California, twenty
seven miles long, and built to irrigaue over
$50 900 acres, was formally opened on the
I'd. .s. ..-..e A
A GAS expert at Pittsburgh, Pa, reported
on the I'd thai thu gas discovered In Ohl-
cago was worthless; t,at 1t would be use
less to bore deepsr wells, and that If Chi
cage wanted naOural gas she must pipe it
from other poinCa
Ar Barnesvillo, O.. on the I'd the boiler
Of q portable saw-mill at Lafayette Bolan's
farm exploded, killing John Arnold and
Charles Sullivan and fatally injurlng four
other men. 5'f4I
The indianapolis Sentinel, the Democratic
State organ, was sold on the ~ to Fort
Wayne syndicate for $75, 900
The three hundred wire-workers of the
Cambria Pa} iron works, who struck
against ten per cent reduction, returned
to work on the 81 at the old rates H..
JOHN GREENWOOD, charged with commit
ting u murder seventeen years ago, was
arrested on the I'd at Livingstone, mn
Mrs. HENDRICKS. the Philadelphia broker
ess, charged with swindling customers
there out of 800, 900, was arrested at Mid
dle'own on the I'd
ADvIoEs OF the I'd report the discovery of
gold In Alaska. 49,
THE report on the I'd Of the Wisconsin
Fish Wardens shows that in 1887 mum
Der OF pounds of fish caught in Lakes Mob
igan and Superior was 1856, TAG; value,
$3.50, go -.
DR. W. B. FARNHAM, Chicago dentist.
aged seventy six years, committed suicide
on the 81 by taking tinoture of aconite.
Poverty was the cause.
TIRED of life made unhappy by loss of
property and domestic troubles Mrs George
Edwards. of Erie, Pa cut her throat on the
-, dying of the wound and leaving hus-
b. nd and two children.
AT a stone quarry near Paris, Ky, two
men had their eyes blown out ON the ~ by
q premature blast
The General Executive Board of the
Kn.gnts of Labor reported that the order
had increased by fifty thousand members
since January.
A REUNION and banquet of the survivors
OF the Thirty fourth Congress took place ut
Washington ON the I'd
DURING the seven days ended on the Sd
there were $50 business failures in the
United States. against 26S the previous
seven days
CARRIE E. WmrEsDE, of California,
claimed on the 81 to be the owner of thirty
valu able lots in the city of Madison, Wis,
upon which many residences stand.
ERNST BRocKoB, a thirteen -year-old boy,
die in greaJ agony on the 8 IN Chicago of
hydrophbbia He was bitten by dog q
month ago.
TIE striking miners at Shenandoah, Pa,
| attacked non union workmen on the Sd, q
| riot followed, and in the fracas three men
were wounded, two fatally:
The product of the Michigan copper
| mines for January was s. 152 tons
In the Federal Cour5 ut Indianapolis on
| the Sd the motion for a new trial In the
cases of Coy and Befnhamer, the convicted
| oally-sheet conspirators. was denied, and
| Coy was sentenced to the penitentiary fer
eighteen months and to pay a fine of $780,
and Bernhamer for one year and fine Of
ST. 900
HENRY TMRNEY, seventy-year-o miser
living at Lincoln, ILL.,. was found dead In
his bed on the Sd he left $25, 900 worth
of property.
The Assembly chamber of the New York
Legislature was declared to be unsafe on
| tho 26 nnYnjsaion ropnrtiY,p hot "a
whole ceiling nigh collapse at any time.
AT Fort Biakeiy. w. T., Two saw-mil;s, the
largest on Puget Sound, we're burned on
the Sd at a loss of $3.50, 600, with no insur-
| ance
HUBBARD HARRELL, cOl0red boy ten
years old, was made drunk by q party of
! men on the Sd near Long View, Ga., aud
| going to the home of his trother-in-law,
James Pope killed three children.
! THE three thousand emp Dyes of the Troy
| IN. W steel and iron works accepted the
| ten per cent reduction in VASES on the 8 i.
The men had been out two mon his
The graduating mill of the Austin pow
der works. near Cleveland, O., was blown
up on the Sd One man W 10 killed, and MOI
a vestige OF the structure remained, lit size
being simply marked by hole In the
ground
ADv1cEs received In New York on the Sd
were to the effect that the outlook for
epring business throughout the country was
never better, and that trade was constantly
on the increase, with aa easy money mar
ket ~"
JAMES CORNELIUS, a negro boy fourt cen
| years old, was Hanged on the Sd at Minden,
La, for the murder year ago of Erness
Wren, aged four yeara
The elevator in II. n. Hollis establish
ment at New York fell on the Sd, fatally in
juring three men. a.. .erst - -
The works of the American Paint l. Oil
Company at Cleveland O., were destroyed
by an explosion on the 3D. $50 -
The President on the Sd approved and
| promulgated a revision of the civil-servlce
rules, whoh makes IN offlce-holder who
levies political assessments or a .tempts to
coerce the opinions of their snbordinates
liable to discharge. Several other impor-
tant changes in the rules are also made.
By an explosion on the Sd in The IN king
house of the Standard Explosive Company,
near Toms River, N j., two men were
blown to atoms. 4.
GOVERNOR OGLEsBY, Of Illinois, was at the
State prison in Joliet on ths Sd, and &C
corded an interview to Fielder and Schwab,