Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-12-19
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
NOAH TAYLOR (cOlOred) was taken from
Jail at Harrisonburg, La, on the 18th and
hanged by mob for the murder of r. N
Steagall
WILLIAM M. JACOBS was fined fifty dol
lars at Boyertown. Pa, on the 11th for
throwing lighted cigars into the mouth OF
Texas pony he was trying to break.
The annual convention Of the American
Federation Of Labor met in St Louis on
the 18th, President Gompers presiding.
The dwelling occupied by ]. K. King
an family at Corkville, Tex, was burned
to the ground on the 18th, and the charred
remains of Mr.. King, his wife and six chill
dren were found in the ruins. They were
supposed to have been murdered and the
house set on fire.
TIE Columbus (Q) Star & Lumber Com
pany failed on the 18th for 500, 1000
A MARYLAND State steamer, which was
engaged in protecting oyster-fishing rights
against private depredations in Chesa-
peake Bay, Dir ed upon and sunk two pi-
ratical oyster dredges on the 18th
CHARLES F. HENDERSON, q veterinary
surgeon, was sentenced 1T Taylorville, ILL.,,
on the 18th to twenty-eight years in the
penitentiary for torturing forty or fifty
horses with sulphurlc acid and croten oil,
in order that his services would be neces-
sary to cure them.
AT Auburn, N. Y. on the 18th Street
Superintendent Wallace, who discharged
an old soldier, violating g. A. r. law,
was convicted and fined one hundred dol
lars.
FRANCIS AsBuR1 HAWKINS, who MUIR
dered his mother year ago because she
objected to his marrying, was hanged on
the 18th at Riverhead. N. Y.
The National Sabbath Reform Assocla-
ton, whose members believe in the observ-
ance Of the Fourth Commandment, CON-
mencel its first annual meeting on the 18th
in Washington.
SEVERAL convicts in prison at Nashville,
Tenn, were discovered making counter
felt money on the 18th.
KID" NELSON, the fifteen. year-old me-
gro desperate who killed Officer Balcomb
at Hast ngs, Neb.. on the night of August
s, was on the 18th sentenced to imprison-
ment for life.
ALONG the New England coast storm
OF wind and rain amounting to almost a
hurricane prevailed on the 18th.
AT Columbus, Tex, and vicinity rain
had up to the 18th been falling for two
months, and live stock was dying on ac-
count Of the weather. = ~
The American war ships Galena and
Yantic sa led from New York for Haytl on
the 18th.
The seventy second anniversary Of the
admission of Indiana into the Union was
appropriately celebrated on the 18th by
the HOOsier schools.
ABOUT two hundred refugees entered
Jacksonville, Fla, on the 18th. Bulletins
were discontinued, as there had been no
new cases Of fever for seven days. =
A REMARKABLE religious revival was In
pro gress on the 18th at Cementville, Ind,
co nducted by Elder Matthews. of the
Christian Church. Almost the entire pop.
ulation had professed religion.
UP to the 18th nearly one hundred Con-
suls in Europe had answered the questions
sent out by the Ford immigration Commit
tee, the replies agreeing that the United
States was getting the scum Of the popula-
ton of Europe. ...~.s, --y.-.,',..... ...
DURING . gale In Jersey City, N. J., on
the 18th four large brick buildings were
blown down, causing great loss. +s, bz
WILLIAM THOMAS, sentenced in 1881 to
seventeen years. imprisonment for the
murder of Mr.. Allen, Of Sandwich, H.,
was pardoned by Governor Oglesby on
the 18th, his innocence having been pretty
clearly established. 80 e-s~sz
THREE soldiers of the Eleventh United
States Infantry were drowned on the 18th
In Lake Ontario, near Sacketts Harbor,
N. Y, by the upsetting Of their boat while
engaged IN net-f shing. 90 81 E&4s
MISS LEWIS, aged eighteen years, and
Miss Bynum, aged twenty years, were
killed by the cars on the 18th while walk
ig on the track near Alexander, N. q.
AT Ithaca N. Y, on tho 18th E. s. New
ins, of Orange. N. j., student. and Mag
gle Sullivan, ? teacher, broke through
the ice while skating and were drowned
THE bursting Of q water pipe on the 18th
in Cleveland. O.. did damage to the extent
ened and fled fram their homes. ss83
ON the night Of the 18Th the Datlv Econ
ta1 Posi- printing ofacea at Portsmouth, N. ~,
was entered by unknown men and ali the