Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-10-17
DOMESTIC.

SHoENEMAS & Co.'s packing house and
butterine mandatory in Chicago was
burned on the Sth. Loss, 100000
The earthquake in South Carolina was
followed in Colleton County by fourteen
months of drouth- At the expiration of
that time a rainy season set in and for the
fifty days ended on the Sth there
were only two when it did not rain.
WILLIAM LAHEY escaped from Auburn
On. " prison on the sth by digging hole
through four feet Of solid masonry CON-
posing the roof Of his cell and then saving
through the root proper.
FIRE in New York livery stable on
the 9th burned boy and twenty. seven
horses to death.
The j. l. Clark Carriage Company of
Oshkosh, Wis, failed on the 9th for $780,
600.
& DURING the twenty -four hours ended on
the 9th there were SO new cases of yellow
fever at Jacksonville, Fla, and deaths
from the disease. Total cases to date, 1919;
total Deaths $780,
4 A GREAT freshet prevailed on the 9th near
Fairfield, Me-. and the mills had lost guam
titles of lumber and railroads were washed
out.
ELEVEN horses and twenty five tons of
hay were burned on the 9th in a barn be.
longing to Edward Root near Waterloo, Ia.
Dr. WILLIAM PEPPER, of Philadelphia,
who attended General Sheridan during
his last sickness, was asked to present his
bill, but he refused on the 9th to charge
for his services.
GOLD was discovered on the 9th in the
principal street of Helena, NJ. T..
A FURIOUS snow storm was raging on
the 9th in portions of New Hampshire and
Vermont.
THE business portion of Lakeside village,
Wis, was burned on the 9th.
AN incendiary fire on the 9th at Moscow,
l. T., destroyed property valued at $40, 900.
Gamblers who had been ordered to leave
the town were believed to have started the
fire.
WILLIAM B. SMITH, cashier of the Erie
freight house at Mansfield, O., fed on the
9th with 1000 of the company's money.
l. K. NORTH, Of Independence. Kan, in
. quarrel on the 9th shot and killed Rev.
G. W. Pickett. Methodist minister.
MICHAEL GoRMAN, who killed Charles
Johnson in Brooklyn, N. Y, on July 4,
1855, and was sentenced to Sing Sing for
life, was released on the 9th on a pardon
granted by Governor Hill. German had
been in prison thtrty-two years.
BIZ the derailing Of a freight train at
y A4 pdEdA0O, xuu.s OH tH0 IVCU Os0uS myers
was fatally hurt ... =.
MRS. KATHERINE K1Ron was fatally gored
by bull on the 10th at Petersburg, Va
JAMES B. CAUNcE, book-keeper of the
Dolphin Silk Company in Paterson, N. j.,
was on the 10th discovered to be short
& 1000 in his accounts
PAUL NORTH, eight years old, was killed
by Wabash train at Des Moines, La, on
the 10th. 80 =
The Presbyterian Church at Mount Au.
burn, Cincinnati, burned on the 10th, caus-
ing loss of $4,000.
A TRAIN returning from an excursion at
Hazelton, Pa, was wrecked near Penn Ha-
ven on the evening of the 10th. The ex-
act number of the victims was not known,
but it is reported that from twenty five to
eighty persons had been killed.
OWING to wind and rain, the caterpillar
and the ball worm, the condition of the cot
ton crop WAS reported on the 10th to have
declined from 1913 to 1879! B ss (
MARY GRIFFIN, aged fifty five, died OF
voluntary starvation on the 10th in the
slms-h house at Meriden, Conn She took
y nothing but water for fifty five days.
DURING the year ended June 30 last the
Western Union Telegraph Company earned
q 40. III, 165, while its expenses, not includ-
ing the dividend, interest and sinking
fund account, were 81, SAC, 592. II. a.a @
NEAR Montpelier, Ind, as Joseph Cloud,
! farmer, was driving to town on the 10th
his team took fright and ran away and he
~ vas thrown out and killed. @a
AT a display of fireworks in Quincy, ILL.,,
on the evening Of the 10th the grand stand
llled with five thousand people collapsed,
injuring several hundred people, some
fatally.
DURISG the twepty-four hours ended on
4 the 10th there were 63 new cases of yellow
fever at Jacksonville, Fla, and 8 deaths
4 from the disease. Total cases to date
,Ss2; total Deaths 800.
s5 HERMAN AND FREDERICK 'DERRING, twin
brothers. nine years Of age. travelling