Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-07-25

sey City, for wife murder.
A GANG Of y.thieves was broken up in
Cincinnati on the 10th. The members were
about twelve years old, but had planned to
rob bank.
The seashore residence Of r. B. Aymer,
Of East Warren, N. j., located at Wexford,
was ransacked by burglars on the 10Th,
and Sl5, 600 in bank stock carried of.
ACCORDING to the California State GAIA
teer. issued on the 10th, the present popu-
lation Of that State is ], 500 900, nearly
double that Of $780,
In Denver on the 18th Benton Rhodes
and Robert Boyle pleaded guilty to robbing
the mails on the Denver & Rio Grande
road and were sentenced to Ave years. i'm
prisonment. E.,>.t
WILL HousroN, who shot and killed .
negro woman last May, was hanged ct
Winston, N. c.. on the 10th.
FoURTEEN horses belonging to T. n.
6lutz, OF Kansas City, wore poisoned on
the 10th by some unknown person.
HEAVY rain caused tlood on the 10th at
Wheeling, W. Va, debris from tho hill.
sides rendering some streets impassable.
One Of the Baltimore d Ohio bridges COL
lapsed, and 1t was feared that from ten to
twenty persons were drowned. At Cald-
wells Run four dwellings were swept
away, eleven persons being drowned. The
damage in Wheeling was placed at CSC, 600,
while the loss to crops in the surrounding
country could not be estimated.
w. 8. BREWER, Of Bellwood, Neb., and G.
J. Buchannon. Of Kentucky, were drowned
in the Platte river at Bellwood on the 10th
while fishing.
The livery stable Of Clark Byrne, at
Leavenworth, Kan, was burned on tho
10th, and fourteen horses were cremated.
THE Director Of the Mint at Washington
reported on the 18th that for the year 1887
the product Of gold amounted to $4,000,
0O0 and of silver to $5S, Isl, 900! Coinage of
the mints during the calendar year, &c.,
$40, ISL
BEAUERE1sES, Broderick and Cooling, the
alleged conspirators against the Burliug
ton railroad, were held under g, 600 bonds
each in Chicago on the 10th to the Federal
grand jury.
A coNFLAeRAT1oS on the 10th in Rock
ingham, N. c., destroyed the courthouse,
seven stores and one dwelling.
In the Standard Theater at st. Louis on
the 18th two employees were fatally burned
and others seriously injured by the explo-
sion of jugs of sulphuric acid.
In Northern New York forest fires had
on the 10th caused great damage
DURING the six months ended on the 10th
sixty eight persons were killed on the rail-
road tracks within the city limits of Chi
cago.
AT Bonneville, Ind, the freight and pas
senger depot was entirely destroyed by
fire on the 10th, as were also several
freight cars.
DURING the seven days ended on the 10th
there were al business failures in the
United States, against $50 the previous
seven days.
SIMON PITTS, blind negro, was hanged
on the 10th at Clayton, Ala, for the murder
Of Loudon Walker.
SEVEN men were killed on the 10th by q
steamboat explosion at Westport, Ind, on
the Ohio river.
A. P. MARBLE, Of Worcester, Mass, was
elected president of the National Teachers
A.~ociation at San Francisco on the goth,
after Which the convention adjourned
JACK ALleN was hanged on the Goth at
Monticello, n r, for the murder OF Ulsura
Ulrich last October. -
In the mine OF the Lake Superior Com
pany, near 1shpeming, Mich, q single blast
ON the 10th dislodged mass of gold-bear-
ing rock, weighing three hundred pounds,
the gold in which WAS valued at $4,000 to
800, 900.
By boiler explosion on the Goth at
Hopkinsville, Ky., one man was killed and
two others fatally injured. The engine
house and other buildings were demol-
ished.
One of the three Chicago Anarchists
under arrest for conspiracy to murder
Judges Gary and Grinnell and Inspector
Bonfield made confession on the 10th.
LINv1LLE COMBS, eleven years old, was
on the Goth imprisoned for life at Frank.
fort, KY, for killing his three-year-old
sister.
The New York Legislature on the 10Th
abolished the use of machinery in penal
institutions, decreeing that convicts shall
make only and by hand the goods required
in the prison system.
A CONDUCTOR was killed and five train
hands probably fatally injured in q COL
hsion in q tunnel near Wilkesbarre, Pa,
on the Goth.
HEAVY forest fires were raging all over
Arenac County, Mich, on the Goth and all
the way between Deep river and Gladwin.
Timber Of all kinds had been destroyed,
fences had been burned and othe= proper
ty damaged.
Two MEN-Charles Winkler, q we'll
known contractor, and laborer-were
crushed to death by the falling Of wall in
Chicago on the 10th.
HICKS CARMICHAEL (colored), who muir
dered Deputy Sheriff Shipe May 10 last,
was executed on the 10th in Knoxville,
Tenn. F..
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
The New York Legislature met in spe-
cial session on the 18th tor the purpose Of
appropriating funds to provide work for
State convicts.
The Prohibitionists of the Seventh ILL.,
nois district on the 18th nominated A. II.
Hansen for Congress-.
THE Democrats of the Eighth Indiana
district on the 18th nominated E. T. Brook
shire for Congress-.
TEE National Democratic Campaign Com
mittee met at New York on tho 18th and
elected Calvin s. Brice, Of Ohio, chairman
Hon. P. DARDEN, Grand Master of the
National Grange, died at his home in JET
ferson County, Miss, ON the 18th.
FANNY DAVENPORT was on the 18th, in
New York, granted an absolute divorce
from her husband, Henry M. Price.
DEMOCRATS of the Second Mississippi
district on the 18th renominated j. B. Nor
pan for Con0ress