Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-07-04

37th, and also about seventy loaded freight
cars. LOSS, 5000, 900. $
Four mon were killed and six injured ON
the 9th by train falling through bridge
near Tensas, Ala.
TEN THOUSAND acres of growing corn in
Central Illinois, near Tuscola, were flooded
by the heavy rain of the a7th. and part OF
that city was submerged, fifteen families
being compelled to move.
& CHARLES DECKLHR, a farmer aged fifty
five years, living at Buena VISTA ILL.,, shot
his wife dead on the 9th and then killed
himself. Family troubles were the cause.
Nine children were left orphans. .,
THE Government buildings ard the en-
tire supplies of tho quartermaster's and
commissary department at Fort Apache, A.
T.. were burned on the 9th. Loss, $lO0, 900
WALLACE MITOHELI, of Syracuse, Kan,
was hung to a telegraph pole on the 9th
by an angry crowd for having killed Oscar
johnson, a lad of.thirteen years.
DURING q storm on the 97th at Culbert-
son, Neb., two farmers named Foster and
Startzman were struck by lightning and
instantly killed.
"A FLYING ball Of fire, supposed to be an
electric bolt, descended in East Twenty
fifth street, New York, on the 9th. No.
body was injured.
A wlND-sToRM In Southwest Georgia on
the 9th wrecked many houses and blew
down miles of fences.
Mrs. ROBINSON, the celebrated poisoner
Of Somerville, Mass, was on the 2Sth
sentenced to be hanged in the Cambridge
Jail November IT,
By the explosion Of boiler on the 2Sth
in mill near Vandalia, ILL.,, Samuel King
and Daniel Logue were killed.
In . quarrel over game Of cards on the
2Sth aeHarlan, KY, Marion Stewart shot
and killed his wife and his brother John.
IT was reported on the 2Sth that gold had
been discovered along Bean Blossom creek
in Brown County, Ind, and farmers in
hundreds were deserving their rural pur-
suits to wash the sand for the precious
metal.
Two MEN killed and half dozen others
seriously injured was the result of riot on
the 2Sth between members Of tho Mormon
congregation at Bowman Ridge, w. Va.
MINERS in the San Pedro IN. NJ. region
were jubilant on the 2Sth over the discov-
cry Of ore which ran Sis to the ton in clear
silver
CHUBB MCCARTHY, the murderer Of
Michael Dorsey, was taken from Jail by a
mob at Minneapolis, Kan, on the 2Sth and
uauSeu. his naO0 Jour lynCQl08S In
Kansas in twenty-f four hours.
Four indictments were returned on the
2Sth at Frankfort, KY, against James W.
Tate, late State Treasurer, for embezzle-
ment, the total amount set out being $4O4,-
OS5 IS.
The explosion Of a boiler on the 2Sth in
saw-min near Jasper, Ark, destroyed
the building and killed two men.
In fight on the 2Sth near Black Springs,
Ark, between revenue officers and illicit
distillers, three distilleries were destroyed
and Revenue Officer Trammell was killed
MARY WYNKooP (colored), aged eighty
years, was burned to death at Newburg,
N. Y, on the 2Sth by sparks from q pipe
she was smoking setting fire to her cloth
ing.
By the fall of scaffolding on the 2sth on
new building at Kansas City, Mo-, three
bricklayers were killed.
The new home for Confederate soldiers
at Baltimore was opened on the 2Sth.
LOUISA GAMBAcH, aged eighteen years,
and Louisa Diemer, aged sixteen years,
living in the town of Freedom, ILL.,, were
drowned on the 2Sth while attempting to
ford a swollen stream.