Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-05-16

and negro named Sandy Davis. +
In y 1T OF jealousy on the 10th Charles
Turner,a Pittsburgh iPa.) merchant, shot
his wife dead and then killed himself.
HENRY MORGAN and his ten-year-old son
were killed at Bradner, O., ON the 10th by
. tree falling on them.
THE Department of Agriculture at Wash
1ngton in It's crop report on the 10th says
that the winter wheat crop has decreased
in condition greatly. Pennsylvania shows
q decline of points, New York 16, Ohio 10,
Michigan Il, Indiana 6, Illinois 7, Missouri
2, Kansas 5. Tho general average is re-
ducod points, from 50 to g.
On the Nickel-Plate railroad at Winslow
Siding, Ind, sixteen cars were blown of
their wheels during tornado on the 18th,
and at Wanatah, Ind, roofs, chimneys,
fences and trees suffered severely.
UNKNOWN persons on the 18th stole from
q hotel at Lexington, KY, the cash-box
owned by William Riley, the Chicago hook
maker, which contained about &, 600.
MRS. ANN TYER, Of Wabash, Ind, over
one hundred years old, fell down cellar on
the 18th, receiving probably fatal injuries.
THIRTY stores and dwellings and the gas
works at Hot Springs, Ark, were destroyed
by fire on the 18th, causing loss Of $50, .
OOO
In train collision on the 18th on the Le-
high Valley road near Ithaca, N. Y, sever
al passengers were badly hurt.
MEMORIAL DAY was generally observed
In the South on the 18th.
BURGLARS entered the Pratt National
Bank at Pratt, Kan, on the 18th, while the
officers were at dinner, and stole 81 O18
HIGH water at Rock Island and Moline,
ILL.,, had on the 18th caused damage amount
ing to about $10O, 900 and at Galena nearly
all the streets were navigable by boats. =
WOoDwARD's coffin factory at Owosso,
Mich, was destroyed by fire on the 18th.
Loss, 500, 900. Over seven thousand caskets
were burned.
DURING the seven days ended on the 18th
there were 1873 business failures in the
United States, against 1855 the previous
seven days.
IT was announced on the 18th that DR..
Arthur SPAIN would establish hospital
at San Antonio, Tex, for the treatment Of
hydrophobia by the Pasteur method.
A CYCLONE passed south of Freeport, Ill.,,
on the 18th, demolishing the brewery
buildings of Haegele & Roth, causing q
loss of $4,000, and running the brick resi-
dence and barns Of William Brockhausen,
a few rods distant, causing an equal loss.
REV. GEORGE McDUFFIE [colored), mar
iAcu u1dI, VuO Iuufu0fcu announcer negro VINO
was counting q woman of whom McDuffie
was enamored, was hanged on the 18th at
Greensboro, Ga.
The Mississippi river at Quincy, ILL.,, was
ten miles wide on the 11th The farms
across in Missouri were inundated to the
bluffs and an immense amount of damage
had been done to the crops
TEN persons were seriously injured on
the 18th in smash up at the entrance of
Bergen Hill tunnel, near Jersey City, N.
j., and two Of them were expected to die.
JAMES T. HUMAN, who was assistant
postmaster of Grand Rapids, Mich, and
was indicted in 1875 for stealing sl,94s, was
arrested in Donaphin County, Kan, on the
18th, after having been q fugitive thirteen
years.
MISS ELLEN B. MINER, an insane patient
of the Harrison County CO., Asylum, COM
mitted suicide on the 18th by jumping from
the roof to the ground, distance Of sixty
feet.
The Southern Baptist convention met in
annual session in Richmond on the 18th.
In Washington on the 18th the Senate
Committee on Privileges and Elections de-
cided that Senator Turpie, Of Indiana, was
entitled to his seat.