Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-03-28


country about u mile south OF Fulton, N
Y. on the 22d. wreoking several houses
and doing other damage No lives were
lost, but several persons were injured.
FURTHER investigation OF the treatment
of Arkansas convicts In the Coal Hill mines
revealed ON the 22d brutalities even more
horrible than ut first reported Warden
Scott whipped seventy-tive men IN one
night till all were bleeding, the men had
gone without shoes all winter and one had
been murdered
AT Milford, Mich, the Pettibone Touring
mills were burned on the 22d Loss, 1922
OOO
A FREIGHT train went down an embank-
ment on the 22d near Portland, Ore, kill
ing ono MN and injuring ten others Two
carloads Of cattle We're killed
A DAM at Quickstream, Mass, collapsed
on the god, causing two bad washouts ON
the New York 4 New England railroad, be-
sides destroying three highway bridges
The loss Was $75, 200!
FREIGHT train was wrecked on the 22d
at Barre, Pa, and three men were killed
and three injured
AS A RESULT OF the liquor prosecutions at
Concord, N. H., every saloon closed ON the
22d, the proprietors refusing absolutely to
make any sales
THREE boys. sons of George Walker, Rob-
ert Wood and Edward McCully, were
drowned on the 22d in the Delaware river
near Chester, Pa, by the capsizing of a
boat
r. F. BUsH's yacht Coronet, which won
the ocean yacht-race with the Dauntless
last spring, left New York on the 22d for
tour around the world. The crew consists
OF the master and forty men, and Mr.. Bush
and family will iNiu tina ty af N01
cisco.
IT was estimated on the 22d that the
strike OF the engineers on the Burlington
road had cost the Brotherhood to date over
100000, and the railway company over
81, OOO,OOO
The William H. Schmid5 Sash T. Door
Company's factory at Milwaukee was
burned on the 22d Loss, 100000
The food at Millburg, Mass. necessltated
a removal of prisoners from the Jail on the
22d, where the water was six feet deep
Some of the citizens had narrow escapes in
getting out of their houses The central
portion of the town of Uxbridge was also
flooded.
AT Milwaukee on tho 22d Thomas Brown,
an inmate of the Soldiers Home, aged
sixty years, was found near the grounds
frozen to death.
ALL railways in Northern Michigan were
blockaded by snow on the 22d, and in some
towns the thermometer registered twenty
tive degrees below Zero
IT was estimated on the 22d that over
forty tn ousand dollars in counterfeit five
dollar silver certificates had been put in
circulation in Chicago in the past few days
In the lard investigation before the Ma
tional House Agricultural Committee on
the 23d W. G. Bart!e, an ex-pork- packer of
St Louis, stated that he had been in the
business for forty years, ana knew that
cholera-infected hogs were cut up and put
upon the market as good meat
DURING the seven days ended on the 23d
there were 2l2 business failures in the
United States, against 2O2 the previous
seven days
The union plasterers at Buffalo n Y,
struck on the 23d for nine hours work
with ten hours pay:
JAMES SEARCH was knocked down at the
Lake Erie depot in Lima, O., on the 23d,
robbed of So, 500 and seriously injured
The burglar escaped.
The switchmen along the line of the Bur
lington system quit work on the 23d in
order to help the engineers and fremen of
that line
THOMAS BROWN, a new Burlington en-
gineer in passing crowd of strikers and
their sympathizers on the 23d at S.: Joseph,
Mo-, was struck on the head with some
blunt instrument by some one in the crowd
and fatally injured
In New York on the 23d Henry Bergh,
nephew of the lately deceased founder of
the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals. was unanimously elected presi-
dent OF the ETY.
PASSENGER ira MS on the Pittsburgh 4
Lake Erie road came in collision near Wam-
pun, Pa, on the 23d, and two men were
killed and nine other persons were serious
~ wounded
IT was discovered on the 23d that H. F.
Royce, the treasurer OF savings bank in
Willimantic Conn, had appropriated the
funds to the amount Of $15O,OOO
In the tally sheet forgery case at Column
bus, O., the jury disagreed on the 23d,
after having been out four days, and was
discharged. The ballot stood at ten to two
for conviction.
AT the State convention of organized la
Dor in Montgomery, Ala, on the 23d COM
mittee was appointed to call a convention,
if it should become advisable to nominate
a State ticket, not later than June l. A
prohibition resolution was defeated.
The pension claim of Cyphert P. Gillette,
of What Cheer, Ia, was allowed by the
Pension Department at Washington on the
23d The amount Gillette will receive is
about 81 900 in arrears and q monthly
pension OF %72 This was said to be tho
largest sum ever Paid to q private soldier
as pension.
PERSONAL AND..POElTlCkl.
TEE Democrats of the Nm eteenrh Illinois
district on the Goth renominated R w.
ToWnshend for CONGRESSMAN
MINNESOTA Republicans will meet In st.
Paul May Ii to elect delegates to the Ma
tional convention in Chicago.
The West Virginia Democratic State con-
vention will be held at Huntington August
Is to nominate State ticket
THE President on the Goth nominated
Strother NJ S.ockslager, of Indiana, to be
Commissioner OF tae General Land Office,
and Thomas J. Anderson, of Iowa, to be