Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-04-25
DOMESTIC.


g1st, on the 17th fatally shot Virgil Bar
mum, his brother-in-law, during family
quarrel
JAMES ARBAN and daughter, living near
st Louis. were killed by Missouri Pacific
engine while driving across the track on
the 18th
NJ. WALTER, sheriff of Sphinx County, D.
T.. was killed by lightning at Watertown
on the l7th.
The druggists in Iowa cities on the 18th
resolved not to take out liquor permits I'M
der the new law, and the drugstores will
hereafter be "dry:"
The New York Assembly on the 18th
passed, by q vote of So to s, the bill which
substitutes electricity for hanging
The Detroit Butchers Protective AssOcia-
ton on the 18th declared war on Chicago
dressed beef
HEAVY snow-storm prevailed on tho 18th
in Northern Michigan, and the straits were
Eolidly blocked with ice
TWENTY families at Alma, Wis, were on
the 18th driven from their homes by high
water. The loss to property was estimated
at $50, OO0
A SYNDICATE Of a dozen Chicago capital
lists on the 18th purchased the street rail-
way at Indianapolis. Ind for 81, 600, 600
In the Chippewa (Wia) valley the snow
was three feet deep on the 18th.
The barn of NJ. J. Cole, near Hebron, Wis.
was burned on the 18th, and tifty-two head
OF cattle persisted in the flames
ALL the Burlington switchmen In the
yards at Kansas City quit work on the 18th
discharged employee
on Cook County Qll) cattle ON the 18th
MOSES FRALEY, the "bear" grain operator
at St Louis, closed his deals on the 18th,
losing about 100000
Ar sale in New York on the 18th Of
American silks, manufactured by the
Phoenix Manufacturing Company of Pater-
son. N J., over three Thousand pieces were
disposed OF
HE village of Fremont, Wis.,, was under
water on the 18th, all the stores were
closed, the goods having been removed out
of danger, and many families were residing
in the upper story Of their dwellings,
FIVE intoxicated Indians were drowned
on the 18th at Trempealeau, Wis, while
attempting to drag their canoes across q
raft of logs
TWELVE stores and buildings were burned
at Braddock, Pa. on the 18th, and fifty
people were rendered homeless
The losses to lumbermon by the foods in
Wisconsin and Minnesota were on the 18th
estimated at $25O,OOO
AT Nebraska City. Neb., Joseph NJ Brown,
an engineer who had taken the place of
one of the strikers, was attacked and fatally
dubbed by three unknown men on the 18th.
AN incendiary fire ON the 18th partly de-
stroyed the stables of Senator Stanford at
Palo Alto, CAL. and several valuable racing
horses were burned to death or permanent
ly injured Loss, 100000
IT was announced on the 18th that an
organized gang of counterfeiters was flood
ing Eastern Tennessee with bogus gold and
silver pieces
The white Caps" fogged Bob Broom
field, James Sellers and Mrs Wilson at En-
glish, Ind, on the 18th. the charge against
them being that they had been guilty of
immoral conduct
IHE twenty first woman who claims to
have been married to Mr.. W. J. Brown, of
Detroit, made her complaint against him
on the 18th
The switchmen in the Chicago yards of
the Northwestern railway struck on the
18th because the company discharged two
yardmastera
RUSSELL P HoYT, for twenty years Sec
Rotary and treasurer of the Mercantile
Benefit Association of New York, disap-
ptareu Oh Gue LOUD, ana dis accounts were
said to be 500, 600 short
CITIZENS of Lexington, Mass, on the 10Th
celebrated the one hundred and thirteenth
anniversary of the first battle of the revo
1utionary war.
Four HUNDRED brewers at Cincinnati
struck on the 10th because of the discharge
of several union men.
MISS BERTHA EvARD, school-teacher near
Fort Wayne, Ind, was burned to death on
the 10Th by her clothes taking fire from the
stove.
The entire business portion of Monmouth
Center, Me-, was destroyed by fire on the
10Th
ISAAC KIRKPATRICK and his wife, both
colored, living near Gallatin, Tenn, were
1aken from their house on the 10Th by q
mob. and the woman was hanged and the
man was shot to death They were sus-
pecte of arson
The jury In the suit of David s. Fother-
tngham against the Adams Express Com
pany for false imprisonment, on trial at st.
Louis found verdict on the 10th for
Fothe1ingham, awarding him damages Of
SIC, 600 ~ ~
. FROM reports received on the 10th by the
northeastern MNler 1t estimated that the
.shortage in the winter wheat yield, as'oom-