Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-01-11

STATE MINE INSPECTOR McQuADE's annual
report on the 9th places the output of In
diana's coal mines in 1887 at 3,217,71l
tons, an increase over 1856 Of 217,7l
tons III #3S Gytt& i t 8
FIVE HUNDRED school children in Akron.
o., We're sick with measles on the 9th,
Which had become epidemic, and business
there was almost entirely suspended on ao-
count Of the disease 1917 = 3. 49, 49,.
A HALE-DozEN structures In the business
section Of Vandalia, Mich, were burned on
the 9th.
ION BUTTERF1ELD, q young farmer, who
was married few days ago, was lodged in
jail on the 9th at Nebraska City, Neb.,
charged with the murder Of his father and
mother by poisoning them. n
Z. A CALI. was issued on the 9th for the sixth
annual meeting Of the United States Law
and Order League. to be held at Philadel-
phia February 81 and 90.
The dinner given by President Cleveland
to the Cabinet ON the evening of the 9Th
was the first state dinner of the season.
The navigation building at the Brooklyn
Navy Yard was destroyed by fire on the
5th entailing loss Of 5000, 900. Many
valuable maps, plans and designs were
burned
The Wichita Board of Trade, after q
thorough investigation, declared on the 9Th
that not one death occurred from cold or
starvation in Southwestern Kansas during
the recent cold weather : :
The reporter lin Washington who some
time ago sent a sham Internal machine to
Chief Justice Waite so that he could write
up the story and sell it to the newspapers.
was on the 9TH fined 500 for attempting
to obtain money by false pretenses
A PREMATURE blast on the 9TH on the new
railroad near Laurel Run, Pa, killed four
Italians and badly injured seven Others
DURING the absence of Mrs Isaac Parnell
from her home in Jacksonville, Fla, on the
5th the house took fire, and her three chill
dren, who were locked in the building, per-
lshed in the flames
Stack at Cumberland Mills, Me-, on the Sth,
and, being discovered, beat Mrs Stack so
horribly that she died in few moments.
DURING the seven days ended on the 9th
there were 256 business failures in the
United States, against $50 the previous sew
en- days
MRS LAURA ROBERTS, an eighty-year-old
lady living at Lima, O., slipped on a banana
peellng on the sidewalk on the 9th. and in
falling broke her neck
A FIRE supposed to have originated from
natural gas destroyed three fine residences
in Pittsburgh. Pa, on the 9th.
AN old man in Attica, Ind on the 9th fell
from bridge two feetinto q spring where
the water was but four inches deep and
was drowned
A FIRE on the 9th at Louisa Courthouse.
Va, destroyed twenty houses and several
business blocks
MRS FLORA SAa1uELs, mother of large
family and owner of grocery and jewelry
shop at Utica, N. Y, fled to Canada on the
9th. She was accused of forgery, and left
debts amounting to $4,000.
DUN J. Co. s agency on the 9th announced
a fair business for the season at all points
reporting, but said the outlook was clouded
owing to the labor troubles
The Union railway depot at Atchison,
Kan, was burned on the 9th. Loss, $685.
900; insurance. $50, OOO
NATHAN B. SUTTON was hanged at Oak
land, Cal, on the 9th for the murder OF
Alexander MARITIME, a ranchman, in Septem-
Der, 1856
sAuNr KITTY" PENDERGAsr, over ninety
years Of age. was burned to death on the
9th in Dubuque, Ia. her house being de-
stroyed by fire :
DURING the six months ended on the 9th
Dr. Reilly, Of Detroit, treasurer, has, re-
ceived from various Irish National League
branches throughout the country and other
sources an aggregate OF 1929, 148 for the
benefit of the league in Ireland
TYPHOID fever epidemic was raging on
the 9th in the penitentiary at Jackson
Mich, with thirty-seven cases.
In collision of Nickel Plate freight trains
on the 9th near Willoughby, O., fifteen cars
were completely wrecked and many others
damaged
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.