Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-03-21

In mine shaft at Glenwood, Pa, Rich-
ard Henwood and Peter Steele were killed
on the 14th by bucket falling on them.
The steamer Japan from the Medlterran-
can ran into the pilot-boat Starbuck of
Barnegate on the l4th, and the latter sunk
with five men,
AT Springfield, NO., on the 14th Dr.
George NJ Cox, United States Pension Elk
aminer, met a woman named Efae Ellis ut
the railway station. entered carriage with
her, then beat her with bottle containing
sulphurlc acid, which burned out her eyes
and otherwise dis6gured her handsome
face. The woman was the mistress of tho
doctors son. and it was alleged caused him
to lead a shameful life driving his parents
to distraction.
DARIUS NJ. WARREN, under arrest at Ben
ton, Me-, for the murder of his wife, asked
on the 18th to see his two daughters, aged
eight and three years respectively. He was
taken into their presence by an officer,
when he drew a revolver and shot them
both fatally and then killed himself
A STRIKE OF engineers and tiremen on the
Atchson. Topeka n Santa Fe system was
begun on the 18th ut all points on the lines.
The strike created great surprise, as the
road had not been handling Burlington
freight
Coal boats collided on the 10Th in the
Ohio river at Browns Island, O., and nine
boats and eighteen barges We're wrecked.
Over four hundred thousand bushels OF coal
We're scattered along the banks or buried in
the bed of the river. No lives were lost
The two thousand employees OF Mcclure
u Co, coke operators at Scottdale, Pa :.
struck on the 18th because the firm refused
to grant the demands Of the men for a d.
vision of the work
A FIRE in Philadelphia on the 18th do
stroyed property valued at $4,000
FARMERS at Winchester, O., on the 10Th
tarred and feathered two Mormon elders,
and then chased them to the Ohio river
which the fugitives safely crossed.
AT Woodland Mills, Tenn, ON the 10th
Eli Daire, negro under arrest for burning
barn, and being taken by rail to the Hick-
man Jail, was taken from the car by
masked men and hanged to tree
The strike on the Chicago, Burlington l.
Quincy road was on the 10Th pronounced a
complete failure by the officials in Chicago
Passenger and freight trans were running
with regularity and there were no indica-
lions of dissatisfaction apparent The
Union Pacific engineers who struck at Coun-
Gil Bluffs, Ia, rather than draw Burlington
THE last rail of the Denver, Texas l. Fort
Worth road was driven on the 18th at a
point twenty miles south of Denver
IT was believed on the 18th that twenty
persons persisted in Essex County. N j. !,
during the recent storm. At New Haven.
Conn, seven persons persisted and there
were over twenty deaths in towns adjacent
to New Haven, while hundreds Of people
suffered from frost bites
A FIRE on the 18th in the wharves at So
vannah, Ga, consumed three thousand bar
rels of resin and three hundred and fifty
barrels of turpentine.
In wreck on the Southern Pacific road
on the 18th at Cotton, Cal a score of load
ed freiget cars were destroyed, thirteen
being burned A conductor and q brake
man were killed
The banking house of J. J. Borden l. Son,
at Sparta, I'LL, was ra ded by burglars early
on the morning of the 18th and So, 500
taken from the safe.
The snow-blockade in New York City was
broken on the 18TH and the steam and
street railways were once more running
One of the incidents of the blockade was
the building of immense bontires in the
middle of snow-drifta Store-keepers lib
orally contributed boxes, and the big heaps
were thus melted away. .
A FALLING wall at ire in Milwaukee on
the 18th killed two hremen and injured five
others By the fire about $500, 600 worth
of property was destroyed.
GREAT damage to the oyster fleet in the
Chesapeake bay by the recent storm was
reported on the 10th. Over one hundred
vessels were wrecked and about thirty peo-
pie drowned Inundation of the lowlands
of the Maryland, Delaware and Virginia
peninsula also caused great loss
The report was declared untrue on the
18th that Rev: Sheldon Jackson, Presby-
terrain missionary, had been drowned at
Sitka, Alaska
The through California express train on
the Santa Fe road left Kansas City on the
10Th in charge Of Engineer Ben Wharton, a
non-union man, who was expelled from the
brotherhood in 1877. His wife was in the
cab acting as fireman.
DURING the seven days ended on the 10th
there were 2O2 business failures in the
United States, against 1875 the previous
seven days
OUTSIDE of Chicago, where matters ro-
manned unchanged, the strike of the engi-
neers on the Santa Fe system was spread
ing rapidly on the 10th, it's effects having
extended to points on the Pacific coast,
and other roads seemed certain to share in
the difficulty: The determination seemed
to be to compel the Burlington road to sur
render to the Brotherhood
JOHN DEAN. of Belleville. O., retired
farmer, seventy years old and worth $780,
600, killed his wife on the 18th and then
committed suicide. Temporary insanity
was the cause.
The Bo I'd of Health of San Francisco,
CAL, declared officially on the 10th that tho
smallpox epidemic was over: There were,
since last November, 473 cases and 81
deaths
AT Philadelphia on the 18th c. M Currier,
of Chicago, was elected president of the Ma
tional League of MusicianR
AGENTS of the Illinois Central railway
were indicted on the 10th at New Orleans
for violation of tie Inter State law by over
charges on cotton shipments and alleged
Determinations. This was the first indiot-
ment of the kind on record
A PASSENGER train fell down a thirty
foot embankment on the 10Th near Bing-
hamton, N. Y, and the cars caught fire and
were consumed One man persisted In the
flames, q half-dozen persons were probably
fatally hurt and many others were wounded.
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