Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-12-12

W wagon works were burned on the 6th.
The insurance OF $211. 900 covered the loss
MRs. HENRIETTA SMELL, OF Chicago, on
the 9Th oftere q reward Of $50, 600 for the
arrest Of William T. Tascott, the sup
posed murderer OF her husband.
Of Mary MoGrady Ii Pittsburgh, Pa q few
years ago, on the testimony Of Johnston
Dickson, now q convict IN that State.
Gray's sentencs Of death was commuted
TO fmprisonmeatf for life and Dick An. on
the 9Th made altidavit that his evidence
was false. .. ~. So -
81 the derailing 81 caboose on the 9th
on the Cairo Short Line near Coulterville
ILL.,, three stockmen were killed.
TIE shipments Of iron ore from the Lake
Superior region during 1888 exceeded, ali.
previous annual shipments from that dis
trict. NJ .8 ..,.. Il J.
ATAltoona, Pa; burglars caused 3 IRE.
on the 9th which burned q half-dozen
stores and q row of stables. 81
NoTIoEs;writts in red ink and embell-s5
ished. with sketches 1T SKULLS and .orass-s
bones and whips were left at all the sport
ing-houses in Lima, O., on the 9th. warn
ing all inmates to leave the city within
twenty-folr hours on pain OF being
whipped and tarred and feathered. sI.s
i rJoHN CH1srIaAy and wife were suho-
Gated on the 9Th by coal gas IN their house
near Tonawanda, N. Y. 5.4 2-..
.. The people of Wapella, ILL.,, witnessed a
fine example Of the phenomenon Of the
mirage on the 6th what seemed to be the
town of Midland City, twelve miles dis
tant, being plainly visible suspended high
in the air. 40 Il, @ss5 n = y ..S,4ss5EE
FIVE suicides occurred in New York
City on the 6th-four Germans and
Frenchman. ls2 @$.,& 3 r
MRS. BARBARA SMELL was burned to
death on the 9Th at Lima. o. Her clothes
caught fire from spark from stove, and
before assistance arrived the woman was
burned to q crisp. --,.-
IT was discovered on the 9th that q Nor
mon church had been in existence in
Brooklyn. N. Y, for six months. Elders
Potts and Smith, who preached there,
aimed that they did not believe in po-
lygamy. ~ ~ "E*,$es "~
81. P. STANLEY, book-keeper for the Nor
ZACH Dry-goods G mpany at Arkansas City,
Ark, disappeared on the 9th, it was sup
posed to Canada, being 1880 short in his
accounts.
SAMUEL MARsDEN, aged fifty years, and
Gertrude Gibson, aged sixteen years,
eloped from Amelia County. Va, on the
9th and were married at Reidsville. The
bride. who is quite pretty, said she had
plenty of offers from young men, but they
were all drunkards.
BURGLARS made an attempt to rob the
Kpobnoster (Mo.) Bank on the 9th, but
only succeeded in getting away with 400
after doing 81, 500 worth Of damage.
A NUMBER of clergymen met at New
York on the 9th and made arrangements
for religious services in churches through
out the country on the morning Of April
30 next, being the centennial of the in
auguration of President Washington.
A TERRIFIC thunder and lightning storm
prevailed on the 9th at Buxton, D. T. g.,
IT was reported on the 9Th that scheme
was ON foot to organize a federation Of
all railroad employees in the country ex-
cepting conductors.
Four times Henry Blackman, convicted
of the murder of Stonewell Fondee in
Schley County, Ga, has been prepared for
execution, the date each time being put OF
by new trials. He was to have been
hanged on the 9th, but on account of new
evidence the Governor respited him until
next March:
A LITTLE daughter of Charles Tinesdell,
of Luzerne, N. Y, had on the 9th gone
twenty one days without food. The child
was confined to her bed with spinal trouble.
the 9TH in an oil still in Findlay, q.
ANNA MAY MOORE, of Antwerp, N. r.,
shot herself dead on the 9TH because re-
proved by her parents for some trifing
/ misconduct. ~
TYPHOID fever was epidemic in and near
Tifin, O., on the 7th. One man had lost
his wife, mother and two daughters, and
another daughter was dying. 5
THERE were 3O5 business failures in the
United States during the seven days ended
| on the 9TH, against 264 the previous seven
| days.
JAMES HANNAH was arrested on the 7th
| at Taunton, Mass, charged with being the
imitator of the London Whitechapel fend,
| who has attempted to kill several women
| at that place.
The United States Government on the
7th entered suits against various corpora
! lions and individuals of Eureka, New, for
| amounts aggregating SO, 900, 900 for cut
ng wood from un surveyed Government
lands. r. .--4z r ~ e
SOME seventy Kansas sportsmen were
| arrested on the 7th in the Indian Territory
by United States scouts for trespassing.
! AFTER working for fourteen years in q
! drug store at Columbus, O.. Thomas w.
| K.rksey He'd himsel on the 7th for fear
! he was losing his mind by the close con-
| tinement He was twenty nine years old.
! henry V. TUCKER, wealthy farmer
! residing near MIDI. etown, Conn.,, was
robbed on the It'll Of tin safety-box con-
| tanning $4,000 which he had locked in a
| closet in his house ~.
THE American Forestry Congress In Sos
sion on the 9TH at Atlanta, Ga, elected
Governor Beaver, of Pennsylvania, presl-
/ dent. 4 - r-. 4. ,..T&
SAM Pn1FER and Adolphus Wheeler,
colored murderers, were executed on the
9TH at Yorkville, s. G. Both confessed
their crimes on the gallows and acknowl-
edged the justice of the sentence.
THREE moonshiners, John, William and
Joseph Payne, were captured on the It'll at
Cedar Creek, W. Va, by a large posse Of
revenue officers and deputies.
The will of Rebecca 3. Robertson, adj
m tied to probate in New York on the
9TH. gives $500 600 to establish home to
!, enable poor families to have brief SUM
mer outing free of charge. r s4
| The joint convention Of miners at Co
lumbus, o., developed into the National
Progressive Union of Miners and Mine La
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