Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-04-18
DOMESTIC.


In quarrel on the 10Th at ON aha, Neh,
German named Damke killed his wife
and fatally inj ured his daughter-in-law
ALL the bridges in Dakota County. Mimi
had been washed away by freshets on the
10th, and in the towns of Waseca Shake
pee and "aterville much damage had also
been done
A BOILER exploded at Fink's saw-mill at
Baldwin, I'LL on the 10Th, killing four men,
MRS LUCY LESTER. of Frederick, one of
the wealthiest ard most prominent ladies
in Maryland, committed suicide on the 10th
BY hanging: Domestic troubles were the
cause
GEORGE K. AMOUR and his fifteen-year-old
son were burned to death in their house
near Cedar G.p, No., on the 10Th
HE Leader and Sunday Dispatch offices in
Blnghamton, N Y, were destroyed by fire
on the 10th, the total loss being $75, OOO
DAMAGES to the amount of $40, 900 were
on the 10th awarded E. A Lewis in his libel
suit against the News and Herald of Jack
sonville, Fla
A MOVEMENT was begun in New York on
the 10Th 20 send to France a statue of
George Washington as present from the
women of America
COMPANY with capital of 81 600, 600
to manufacture aerial ships was organized
in Jersey City, N. j., on the 10th.
In Union County, s. c., a girl of eleven
years and boy of niue quarreled on the
10th, and the boy plunged the blade OF his
pocket-knife into her heart, killing her in
stantly:
FIRE on the 10th did great damage in
the business part of Austin, Miss
In a fight on the 10th between striking
railroad hands and new employees of the
Powell V LEY Railroad Company at Cum
berland Gap, Tenn, five men were killed
and twelve others were wounded.
A CYCLONE passed over the southwestern
part OF Washington County, Ill, on the
10th, demoiishing houses, barns and
fences
The authorities of Castle Garden, New
York, dec ded on the 10th to send back to
Italy twelve boys who were sent over in
destituj e c rcumstances.
The Kootenai Indians in Montana were
committing depredations on the 10th, and
the Governor had been asked for troops
In an interview in Chicago on the 10th
with Chief Arthur, of the Locomotive
brotherhood of Engineers, he said the
strike on the Burlington road would not be
declared of, and said the engineers were
willing to wait for five years, if need be,
with the conviction that the Burlington
road could not be successfully run and
equipped without drawing on the Brother
hood for engineers
Ar ATCHIsoN, Kan, the last brewery in
the State to hold out against the Pro-
hibition law was closed on the 18th by the
nited s ates Marshal
AQUARTRR of the business section of Fair
field, Neb, was burned on the 18th
The feud between the Banks and Monroes
broke out afresh on the 18th in Writ Coun-
ty, W. Va, and in tn. fracas three of the
Monroe family were killed.
THB employing brewers of Chicago and
Milwaukee decided on the 18th to ignore
the Brewers and Masters Union as an Or
ganization and hereafter to make contracts
with their workmen as individuals only.
A. l. BECKER, a wealthy saw and -four
mill owner at Crandall, Ind, was caught
by the shafting OF his mill on the 18th and
crushed to death.
AT the annual session at the G. A. r. De-
partment of Iowa, Oh tho 18th in Cedar
Rapids it was shown that the organization
In the State had IL, 646 members, gain Of
$40 during the past year.
In all probability the Oldest pony in the
United States, if not in the world, died on
the 18th at Chill, Ind from old age She
was owned'by MI. Harrison Gilbert and was
6fty-one years old.
THE barley crop in a number Of Ohio and
Indiana counties was reported ruined on
the 18th by the winter and farms were be-
ing plowed under Clover and winter
wheat were also injured
The walls OF burned building at Pitts
burgh, Pa, collapsed on the 18th, crushing
an adjoining house, killing a servant girl
and wounding several persons, some IA
tally.
HIGH water in Minnesota was still doing
great damage on the 18th. At Hastings,
Red Wing Montevtdeo, Wabasha, Cannon
Falls and Jordon families had been driven
from their homes, bridges were gone and
railways washed out, causing suspension of
travel.
SAMUEL BRowER, of Wabash, Ind, injured
the bones of his hands some months ago
while practicing on horizontal bar, and
on the 18th both of his hands had to be
amputated to save his life -n..
JOHN DoDsoN died on the 18th at Mount
Vernon, ILL.,, his being the twenty third
death resulting from the cyclone which oc-
Cured there some time ago.
FORTY saloon-keepers at Lincoln, Neb.
had on tho 18th taken out licences and the