Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-08-29

SQOAo III It's IaVOr. AOJOuf0eQ TO TIE x7th..
In the House the Dehc ENJOY bill was taken up,
but nothing was done as no quorum was
present. At the evening session forty-hve pri
vate pension bills were passed
DOMESTIC.
WILLIAM Cole was lynched on the 10th
ut Guide Rock, Neh, for shooting two
mea
A w1ND-sroRM on the 21st at Wheeling,
w. Va, did damage to the extent of $3.50,
600.
A CYCLONE passed across Delaware on
the 21st about six miles below Wilmington,
cutting path two hundred feet in width,
levelinx trees, orchards and Dut-buildings,
and doing damage estimated at $50, COO.
Three men were killed
The Hermann Berghoh Brewing Com
pany's new brewery at Fort Wayne, Ind,
was burned on the 21st at loss of 800, 600
A FIRE on the 21st at Rondout, N. Y,
did damage to the extent of 100000
CATHERINE W1LLEN, aged thirty-oue
years, committed suicide on the 21st at
Cincinnati through fear of becoming an
old maid.
CAPTAIN Nat KINNEY, the notorious chief
and founder of the Bald Knobbers' organ
ization, was shot and instantly killed at
Ozark, No., on the 2lst by Bill Miles, an
enemy.
= 8. R. Posi-, well-known New York
grain dealer, failed on the 2lst for $3.50, Co.,
A VIOLENT wind storm swept both sides
Of Chesapeake bay on the 21st Frame
houses and barns were demolished, entire
fruit orchards were destroyed, and corn
fields were in many instances swept clean
A FLASH Of lightning on the 2lst did &c.
600 worth of damage on George Rains
ford's ranch near Chugwater, Wy. T.
Eighteen horses were killed, including a
magnificent mare valued at s. 900.
STORMS in Louisiana had on the Dist
done great damage to the rice and sugar
cane crops, and cotton crops in Tennessee
and Alabama had also been injured.
THERE were five new cases of yellow
fever and one death at Jack sonville, Fla,
on the 21st.
DANIEL LYONS was hanged in the yard of
the Tombs prison in New York on the 2lst
for the murder of Joseph Quinn on July
6, 1887.
A STATEMENT prepared on the 21st by the
Treasury Department at Washington esti-
mated the surplus for the fiscal year end
ing June 30, 1889, based on House appro-
priations, ut S26 $50, $50.
Mr.. MACK BROWN while sitting in the
rotunda Of the Peabody Hotel at Memphis,
Tenn, on the 2lst was fatally shot by
Lewis Lane. When questioned as to the
motive for the deed Lane said he felt like
killing somebody and shot Mr.. Brown be-
cause the latter was not looking at him
ADvlcEs of the 21st say that the recent
wind storm in Saline County, NO., did
damage to the extent Of <300, 600 The loss
at Norborne and vicinity alone was esti-
mated at 500, OO0
:. THERE were nine new cases of yellow
fever at Jacksonville, Fla, but no deaths
during the twenty -four hours ended on the
I'D
By an accident on the I'D to train run
ming from Springfield to Columbus, o., q
dozen passengers were badly injured.
The damage by floods throughout Ohio
and West Virginia had ON the 22d reached
g. 900. Six lives were lost in Ohio
DURING heavy fog in the bay of San
Francisco on the ed the steamer Oceanic
ran into the City Of Chester, damaging her
so badly that she went down in i've min
utes. and thirteen persons were drowned.
WHILE preparing fireworks ON the 22d
at Bradford, Pa, for celebration an ex-
ploslon occurred, killing Edward Duell,
Robert Hurley and w. C. Curtis and
wounding others. s.. .: %l.j.
DISPATCHES Of the 22d say that nine per-
sons lost their lives in the recent cyclone
at Still Pond, Md, and others were badly
injured.
HIGH water in Pennsylvania had on the
22d caused a loss OF $780, 600 in Westmore
land County, and the entire loss in other
portions OF the State was estimated at
1900, 600 -Four persons lost their lives:
The Decar Hill yarn works at Darby,
Pa, were burned on the 23d, involving q
loss of $4,000 ~
N1coLo FEMMENErrA was hanged at
Buena Vista, Col, on the 23d for the MUIR
der Of Michael D. Casey at Granite in
March last. = s. \
DISPATCHES Of the 23d say the damage
throughout Western Pennsylvania by the
recent floods was estimated at 81, 500, 900.
The water was subsiding and railroad
traffic had been partially resumed. @>4@
SECRET service officers arrested gang
Of counterfeiters at NV York on the 2Sd
who were engaged in manufacturing and
showing five-dollar silver certificates OF
very fine Workmanship.
THERE were two hundred cases Of lead