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

committee OF the whole came to an end.
THE Senate on the 20th confirmed Melville
w. Fuller, OF Chicago, for Justice Of the United
States Supreme Court The vote stood II ayes
to 20 noes. The Naval Appropriation bill was
reported and placed on the calendar, and the
bill to prohibit the coming Of Chinese laborers
into the United States was considered. >. In the
House the Senate bill sppropriating ee5O. 900 to
aid State homes for disabled volunteers was
passed. Tho conference report on the River
and Harbor bill (s2s. e77, 1867 was agreed to- At
the evening session twenty-four private pen
sion bills were passed.
DOMESTIC.
WHILE drunk at Brooklyn, N. Y, on the
18th, Michael Dunphey shot and killed his
brother and then committed suicide.
JUDGE Couch filed q decision at Water
loo, Ia, on the 18th declaring that ginger
ale was an Intoxicating drink and under
the ban of the Iowa law.
A w1ND-sTORX at Gentleman, Neb., on
the 18th tore the Presbyterian church from
its foundations and destroyed twenty frame
buildings. No lives were lost.
TIE fourth report of the Civil-Service
Commission, made public in Washington
on the 18th, showed that between January
Ii, 1856, and June 80, 1887, 1876 examinations
were held in various parts of the country
II, 965 men and ,SS7 women were examined
and 9, 100 men and !, 596 women successfully
passed. OF the successful applicants 1902
men and 100 women received appoint
ments.
A FIRE on the 18th at Fayetteville, Tenn {
destroyed the Elk National Bank and sew
eral other business blocks.
A NEW and dangerous Counterfeit of the
one dollar silver certificate Made its ap-
pearance in New York on the 18th. The
paper was poor imitation of treasury
paper, but the bill was perfect in details,
and only q fraction longer than the treas-
nrx plate.
ELSIE kELI1,- tue three-yoar-o1d dauRh-
ter Of Robert Kelly, of Chicago, died on
the 18th of hydrophobia. She was bitten
by black -and-tan dog few days ago.
FIVE girls and two boys, from ten to
thirteen years of age, were arrested in
Philadelphia on the 18th for having, as q
regularly organized gang of thieves, en-
tered and plundered the residence Of citi
zens who had left the city for the summer.
The new silk mills of the Phoenix Manu-
featuring Company at Pottsville, Pa,
equipped at a cost Of $3.50, 600, began opera
tions on the nth, employing one thousand
hands. 49,
MURRAY LEWIS (colored) was hanged on
the 18th at Greenville, Miss, for the muir
der of his mistress.
The Dunn breaker and buildings con-
nected Herewith at Old Forge, Pa, were
destroyed by fire on the 18th Loss, $780,
600. The mine was also on fire.
Two BOYS, Joseph Sippel and Anthony
Smith, were fatally bitten by a large blood
hound at Buffalo, N. Y, on the 18th.
The National Education Council, in ses-
sion on the 18th at San Francisco, elected
j. L. Pritchard, of Iowa, president for the
ensuing year.
In an interview in Chicago on the 18th
Chief Arthur, of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers, said they had been
beaten in the Burlington railway strike,
and that it would be better now to declare
the strike OF and for the men to seek EN-
ployment where they could get it.
AT East Buffalo, N. Y, on the 18th Mrs.
Mary F. Floss and her sister-in-law, Mrs.
Mary F. Wittig, were burned to death by Q
kerosene lamp explosion.
The Western Iron Manufacturers Asso-
ciatisn was dissolved on the 18th at Pitts
burgh, Pa. :. :
JACOB DAuCHER, arrested for the murder
of Louis Shoenberg at Denver, Col, hanged
himself on the 18th in his cell at San Ber-
nardino, Cal.
A wATERzsPour burst on the 18th about
eight miles south Of Vincennes, Ind, at q
point known as Bald Hill, on the banks of
the River -Duehee, and flooded the country
to the depth Of four feet, doing great dam
age.
A sK1FF capsized in the river at Louis
vile, KY, on the 18th, and Jack Pender-
CAST, William G.. Malone and Dan Morrill,
were drowned
Two BROTHERS, Freeman by name, living
In Wise County, Tex, settled quarrel
about a cane-mill with rifles on the 18th,
both being killed.
A FIRE on the 18th in Julius Bauer's
piano and organ establishment and in the
Chicago Carpet Company's store in Chica-
go did damage to the extent Of S2OO,O
PROF. n. L. BARTLETT's daughter Carrie,
w. I. Chambers daughter Myrtle and DIR.
Enfield's daughter Grace, aged ten, eleven
and twelve respectively, were drowned In
Coon river near Jefferson, Ia, while bath
ingon the 18th.
A HUGE water-spout rushed from the
ocean and passed over st. Augustine, Fla,
on the 18th, upsetting boats in the river,
wrecking buildings near the sea-wall and
tearing out the streets. Several dray- loads
of fish were secured on the streets after it
nad passed. ,..
JACOB r. RE1FF, an aged farmer living
near Norristown, Pa, was swiudled out Of
SO, O0O by confidence men on the 18th.
The mayor Of Petersburg, Va, on the
18th issued an order to the police to pro-
hibit the sale Of newspapers on the streets
on Sunday. -- -.
THE three Anarchists under arrest in
Chicago for plotting the murder of Judges
Gary and Grinneu and Inspector Bonlield
were arraigned before Justice Lyon on the
18th and their cases continued ten days I'M
der e6.O0o bonds each
The Brotherhood Of Locomotive Engi-
neers Has started q movement to establish
new federation Of all labor organizations
In the United States