Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-02-29
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
The miners employed at Palmyra, O.,
who STRUCK two months ago for an advance,
resumed work on the 21st at the old pricea
. AT a sociable In Milledgeville, Ga, on the
2lsr Belfune Jones, popular young man,
was seized with hydrophobia and died in a
short time He had been bitten by mad
dog four mon his ago.
81. ADJUTANT- GENERAL. VANCE notified Gov
ernor Oglesby on the 21st that thirty seven
persons were killed at Mount Vernon, Ill,
by the cyclone and that eighty were
wounded, twenty Of whom were in serious
condition.
MISS JOSIE HOLMES, indicted in the Fidel-
1ty Bank cases in Cincinnati. was discharged
on the 21st in consideration of her having
given testimony
DENNIS McGRAw and his wife were suffo-
Gated in their home at Lima, O., on the
s21st by natural gas which leaked from the
pipes
HE Inabaug river overf1owed at Palmer,
Mass on the 21st, flooding the town and
doing great damage
/. JOHN MCCELvY, desperate who admitted
having killed nine persons. was shot and
killed on the 21st by Sheriff Holcomb of
Houston County, Tex, while resisting ar
rest
TIE dam OF the Swift Company at Chic
opee, Mass. was carried away by an ice
pack on the 21st, stopping sixty thousand
spindIes, throwing six hundred hands out
OF en- p oyment and doing other damage
AT E.sL Greenwich, r L, on the Dist the
an attempt was made to blow up the house
Of Rev. o. W. Still Both men had been
waging war upon the saloons
HE Indiana State Service Pension AssO-
citation convened at Indianapolis on the
2lst. The purpose is to secure the passage
OF bill granting eight dollars monthly to
every honorabiv discharged Union soldier
and more to those disabled.
NEW YORK fruit dealers and brokers sent
petit on tO Congress on tho 2lst asking
that the duties on foreign fruit be retained
!. GRAFT, BENNETT & Co., iron manufacturers
of Pittsburgh, Pa, failed on the 21st for
$1.2OO,OOO
+ MRS. SARAH REED, aged seventy six years.
was burned to death on the Dist at her
home near Indianapolis, Ind, her clothing
taking fire from a stove.
IT was reported on the 22d from Spencer
County, Ind, that the rec mt cyclone which
demolished Mount Vernon, ILL.,, dipped
down near Helmann, small hamlet, un-
roofing houses overturning barns, COM
pleteiy demolishing many, and killing
STOCK
The 22d was the one hundred and fifty
sixth Dir hday of George Washington, and it
was generally celebrated throughout the
country.
AN explosion of dynamite on the 22d at
Duluth, Mimi, which was being used for
blasting killed two men and injured dozen
others
The sixth annual convention Of the Ma
tional Law and Order League was held at
Philadelphia on the 22d. c. G. Bonney of
Chicago, was re-elect I'd president.
ADvICEs of the 22d from Mason's Land
ing, KY, soy cyclone in that vicinity de-
stroyed a large number OF houses and
barns and killed three men
CHARLES Vineyard and Annie Fox, his
& niece, who eloped from Monroe, Mich, and
were captured and taken to Alliance, O.
committed suicide with pistols on the 22d.
BREWERS, lquor-dealers and saloon-keep-
ers of Dubuque, a., on the 22d incorpo-
. rated the Dubuque Personal Liberty Asso-
ciatie to fight the Prohibitory License law.
Mrs. EDMUND DANIELS, of Wooster, D :,
aged seventy-eight years, died on tho x2d
{ OF brutal injuries inflicted by her husband,
who is six weight years Of age.
ON Missouri Pacific freight train car
loaded with mules was burned on the 22d,
j and twenty three of the animals were roast
ed to death.
SAMUEL L. FEyRE died on the 22d at Han
nibaI, Mo-, aged ninety-sx We RS His wife,
The couple had been married seventy two
4 years.
CHARLES Ho1ToN, son of Charles G. Hol-