Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-02-15

Mometer marked 40 to SO degrees below
zero in MINI ssota; from 10 to Is below In
Wisconsin; from l9 to 20 below in Chicago
and v chilly, and from 20 to 35 below in
Iowa. @
The American Newspaper Publishers AS
sociat on began its annual session atIndian-
apolis on the Sth III HI
The Michigan Grand Lodge A. o. q. W.,
In SESSION on the Sth at Detroit adopted
legislation prohibiting the a ,missioa to
membership of habitat drunkaras and
those eng"gei in the manufacture or sale
of intoxi atlng beverages
ADv1cEs OF the 8th say that John Clark,
wife and five children died near Leaven-
worth, Kan, from drinking water from
well near VIII oh hogs dying Of cholera were
buried
Mr. A. j. SNE1I, a well-known citizen and
millionaire OF Chicago, w@s murdered by .
burglar in his residence on the West side
about two o'clock on the morning Of the
Sth.
JOHN WILLIAMS, of Delaware, O., acoi-
denlalIy struck his son with an axe ON tho
9Th while splitting wood, killing the boy
Instantly
The British steamships A,gltha Lufra
and Darien, all bound from England for
Philadelphia, were given up as lost on the
85h with their crews, numbering eighty
men.
On the 9Th two carloads Of goods be-
loved to havs been stolen from Baltimore
Il Ohio freight oars, were seized In the house
Of John Brit ,ain ut Pittsburgh. Pa
OFFICIALS Mt Y mkton, D. H., were ON the
Ssh senCting out official denials of the re-
ports that ono thousand lives were lost In
tie T rritory TN the late blizzard
INTEREST in the go'd-minng enterprises
north Of Ishpeming, Mich, ON the 8sh was
moro >sed by rich developments
A NEGRO arrested at Hinesvlle, g., on
the charge OF setting fire to several houses,
was taken fro n Jail on the 9Th by mob
and riddled with bullets
J. l. HUDsoN's mammoth clothing store
at cleveland, o.. was damaged by tire on
the 9Th to tha extent of 500, 600.
CASHIER EDWARDS, of the Cincinnati Met
that after all claims were paid there would
be $3.50, 900 left for the ockho'dera
In the United States Court ut Fort Smith.
Ark, on the 9th Judge Psrker sentenced
Own D. Hill, George Moss Jeff Hlder-
brand, En- ;nuel Patterson, Richard Sutller.
land. Jack Grow and William Alexander to
be hanged ON April ~ for murder
The sixty-second anniversary Of the birth
day OF the late Senator Logan was COM
memorated ON the OH by the dedication of
memorial tablet in the Metropolitan Meth
odist Episcopal Church in Washington
which the Senator was in the habit of at
tending:
The Builders National Association at Its
annual sess on on the 9th in Cincinnati
elec:edJ. L Stevens, OF Philadelphia, presi-
dent
Four dwellings at Kutztown, Pa. were
burned on the 9th, John Hopp, his daughter,
aged fifteen years, and his sou, aged nine
ye:rs perishing in the flames
JOHN JANAuscHEK,. a farmer living near
New Prague. Mum, killed his wife on the
9th. fatally wounded his ten-year-old
over money was the cause.
THOMAS STEvENs and his wife. of West
Gardiner, Ne. were placed in IN ms .ne
asylum on the 9th. Their Authorization
was that their house was overrun WITH
monkeys
AT Indianapolis on the 9th William N.
Sing arly was elected presid Mt of the State
wsp~ per Publishers Association
The American Hort cultural Society. in
annual session on the 9th at Riverside
Cal. elected Parker Earl, of Golden, ILL.,.
President
CLEMENT A. DAY was hanged on the 9th at
Utica, N. Y. He WIS convicted of tie muir
der Of his mistress Johanna Ross Crow, of
whom he was insanely jealous
The following low temperatures were re-
ported on the 9th: Duluth. Mimi, "a de-
grees below z,ro; Pembina, ID. T., 50 be-
low; Crookston, Mimi. 81 be ow; I'eche, D.
T.. Sc bel. "; Moorehead, MIMI, Al below;
St Paul, Mimi, 80 Lelow; Is pemlng,
M CHI, 35 be,ow: Sycamore. Ill, 80 Lelow;
Waite rtown. Wis. 80 below; Des Moines,
L., 80 below
ALBERT J. SMELL, son Of the millionaire
XII led ty Lurg ars in Chicago, on the 9th
offered reward of 500, 900 for the arrest
| and convict on of the criminala
The Y.nkton 3D. IT, Board of Trade, in a
rcular ON the 9th corr ecting exaggerated
reports of casualties by the Late blizzard in
Dakota. states that the number of deaths
Will not exceed two hundred
In an address. before the Interstate Corr
merce Commit q in Washington on thu
10Th General W lson said the United States
l Tvs cod lied G tnadian railways ut the ex-
pense of our own, that Great Britain's pos
SESSIONS were a constint menace 10 this
country. and th>t we were aiding In the
support OF railways built for political and
W r purposes
AID erfield, Wis, q fire on the 10Th de-
stroyed the pr .ncipal bus ness places Of the
town
AN explosion on the 10th in the Dupont
powder works at Wapwallopin, Pa. blew
four men to pieces and wounded tory
! others, dozen Of whom were not expeo ed
to recover. Nearly every building in tho
place was wrecked.
AT Mechanicsbure, Ind, on the 10th John
Buttery shot bis ep-sister, Eta NJ Mullen,
with whom he was in love, killed Frank
Moore, to who N she was engaged, and then
killed himself.
A GANG OF counterfeiters, who had been
working of a large amount of spurious coin
in the southwestern part of Kansas, were
captured on the 10th at W chita.
DURING the seven days ended on the 10th
there were 237 business failures In the
Unitel States. against $50 the previous
| seven daya
AN east Hound train on the Pennsy,v mia
road was wrecked on the 10 at Sala-
! llanca, N. Y. Ivy an open switch, and three
persons were fatally injured and several
cars were burned
PATRICK JOHN HART was hanged on THO