Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-04-04

In saloon quarrel on the Doth In San
Bernardino, CAL, the bartender, Oliver
Griffith, and two other mon were shot
dead.
DAVIS Il RANKIN's five story brick building
in Chicago was burned on the 295h Loss.
$3.50, 600
AN explosion Of natural gas occurred in
mine No. 6 OF the Keith Il Perry Coal Com
pany, near Rich Hill. Mo, on the Doth, kill
ing forty-hve miners, most of them ne
groea
The Coburn Shuttle Company's four story
mill in Aver City, Mass, was burned on the
Goth Loss, 100000
The new Chinese treaty, made public on
the Doth, prohibits for twenty years the
coming of Chinese laborers to this country
1t also agrees to pay to the Chinese govern
ment the sum OF $276, 679 for loss OF prop
erty in the West by Cinnamon in riots
The president and cashier of the National
Bank Of Raleigh, N c., were arrested in
Toronto, Ont, on the 29Lh on the charge of
forgery. On their persons was found $14,-
TIA belonging to the bank.
MAsTER-WoRKMAN PowDERLY on the goth
issued long manifesto to the Knights OF
Labor, in which he urgently requested that
education be made the future motto of the
order, and that strikes be entirely done
away with. He says that the Knights Of
Labor strikes have never been successful,
and that the time to call a halt has arrived
AT the International Council of Women
in Washington on the 29th Mrs Elizabeth
Cady Stanton in her advocacy of woman's
suffrage said that it the rights of women
were not to be obtained by just and fair
means they would Join hands with the An
archists, and the scenes Of the French Rev.
n INT ho
Of organization, legal condition of women.
property rights and other subjects were
discussed
AN epidemic OF hydrophoba among cat
| tie OF all kinds prevailed on the 3Oth ult.
in Jackson County, w. Va, and the farm
ers had lost thousands of dolla:s' worth of
| fine stock. The bite Of a mad dog caused
the trouble
MISS BULL, 4 young lady, committed sui
eide in New York on the 5OJh ult because
she could not get newspapers to publish
her poetry.
NEAR Macon, Mo-, on the 3Oth ut some
children set fire 20 a barn, and three young
sons OF DR.: I. $. Richardson persisted
i HARRY PAINTER and Charles Wilkerson
blew out the gus in tEeir room in Heading
(Pa.) hotel and were found dead on the
3Oth ult
In quarrel on the 3Oth ult. at Chilli
Gothic, Mo, J. L. Gillespie and his wife
fought with knives and both were fatally
wounded.
REPORTS Of the 3Oth ult. from the winter
wheat sections Of Illinois and Missouri
showed the winter wheat to lie damaged
from twenty to thirty per cent
The survivors of the Army OF the Poto-
mac and of the Army of Mort fern rginia
will hold a reunion at Gettysburg July l.
and g.
FIRE on the 3Oth ult at Coldwater, Miss,
destroyed ten business buildings
A DELEGATION OF the American team of
wheelmen sailed from New York on the
3OGh ult. to make tour of Europe.
SIXTY bridges h: d on the 3Oth ult been
washed away and much land flooded by
freshets in Wayne County, Mich.
The springte M.ss) Printing Company
failed on the 3Oth ult for SOL, tn
DAVID JENNINGS, OF Lyons. n Y, having
spent twenty-one years and $50, 1000 in
experiments, claimed on the 3Oth ult. to
have discovered means OF perpetual mo-
ton.
The engineers fremen, switchmen and
brakemen in Chicago on the Milwaukee &
st Paul road were all ordered out on the
3Oth ult, causing general te-up Several
pelted with stones at The Stock Yards and
one man was badly injured Cars were also
set on fire. Chief Arthur, of the Brother
hood of Engineers left Chicago for Cleve-
land, but before leaving dlsclaimed any
knowle ige of the action of the ST. Paul
men, and said that as the men &C ed as in
dividuals they would notreceive dollar of
assistance from the Brotherhood, and not
dollar of Brotherhood money would be ap-
piled to assist the switchmen now Oh strike
PLAIN talk was the order of the day at the
session of the International Council OF
Women in Washington on the 3Oth ult.
During the discussion of the subject of
Social Purity the doors were closed but
the reports tell of the earnest protests en-
tered by noted women against the vices
which society tOlerates even it it do not ap-
prove. The constitutional rights of women
were disc used in the evening"
NEAR Forrest, O., on the 3Oth ult the six
children of Farmer Jacob Kraus found and
ate some wild prrsley. from the effects of
not recover.
The President on the Goth ult sent
message to the Civil-Service Commission
ers recommend ng that the limits Of the
classified service be extended He also
signed the Urgent Deficiency bill.
In quarrel on the 3Oth ult near Ef1ing-
ham, ILL.,, Henry Lane, a farmer, killed his
wife and then committed suicide
WoRKMEN, in remodeling an old house at
Piqua, O.. found on the 3Oth ult the bones
Of four children, and the discovery revived
a tradition that they were the heirs to n
considerable fortune, and disappeared
many years ago
DURING the seven days ended on the 3Oth
ult there were 179 business failures in the
United States. against 212 the previous
seven days. The total number OF failures
in the United States since January 1 is g.
O53 against 3, 1913 in 1887. The liabilities
aggregate 1884, 600, 900. against SIG, OOO,-
900 last year.
THEODORE GALLOWAY, a negro murderer,
was taken from Jail at Sayneville, Ala, on
the 3Oth ult and hanged, the mob depart
ing after riddling his body with bullets.
In quarrel on the 3Oth ult over a
nickel at Atlanta, Ca, Noil Stark shot dead
his brother, Flaentz Stark
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
CAPTAIN JACOB HEAToN died ut Salem, O.,
on the 9th, aged eighty years. He was
well known to all prominent anti-slavery
men, having been associated in the work