Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-12-26


large quantity IT other counterfeting
paraphernalia, During the year only two
cennterfeit notes made their appearance,
both being silver certificates
The fourth annual meeting of the M
tional Indian Defense Association was held
ID Washington on the 18th, and Rev. Alex
ander Kent was reelected president.
AT mass meeting Of Germ IN Evangel-
lists In New York on the 18th q crusade
was inaugurated against the power OF the
Roman CAthoic church In the United
States.
AWIND-sToRM on the 18th unroofed near
" every house In Emporia, Va, and in
surry County burns, fences and chimneys
were blown down and trees uprooted. In
South Carolina thousands Of dollars worth
OF property was destroyed IN the Cumber.
land Valley.
TnE residence Of Charles White, at
Aaughville, Ind, was wreck ed on the 10th
BY an ext losion Of natural gas, and Mrs.
White was fatally injured. .@%
NANcr, wife Of David Harris, q German
farmer residing near Brazil, Ind, gave
birth to three buy babies on the 10th. The
mother is but fifteen years old. -.
SAMUEL SMITH and man who refused
to give his name were arrested at New
point, Ind, on the 10Th for passing counter
felt money. They attempted to throw
away over one hundred dollars Of the stuff
WILLIAM TONES, deputy postmaster at
Hampton, Ia, disappeared on the 10th,
eaying shortage Of fifteen hundred dol
lars in his accounts. r. =
THE watermelon growers Of South Caro-
Ina and several other Southern States
formed q trust on the 18th.
THE steamer Trave, which left New
York on the 10Th for Europe, took out
81. OOO, 900 in specie. -.'
THE White Caps on tho 10th tore down
the saloon OF John Messamore at Rawson,
O., pouring the liquor into the gutter. .
MRs. MYERS, wife of DR.. Myers, OF
Stevens Point. Wis, shot herself with
fatal effect on the 10Th. Family, disagree
ments fused her suicide. sShe was twenty
years old
A FIRE on the 10th at Russell. Kan, de.
stroyed number OF business houses.
TIE State Geologist said on the 18th
that the natural gas area OF Indiana was
165 miles long and sixty five miles wide.
and contained 3S1 paying wells The ag
gregate flow of gas was 600 Co., 900 feet
There wore seventy.n ne manufactures
employing flfty-eight hundred men.
THERE was severe earthquake shock
in Washington aud Warren counties N
| r, OF the 10th.
THREE man were drowned on the 18th
by the collapse OF q bridge over the Mer
rimac river near HOokset, N. H.
THOMAS MCCONNELL, a schooLteacher al
Andale, Kan, became engaged in an alter
cation with his pupils on the 10Th and was
struck with poker and fatally injured.
john BLADDoN. Of Augusta, Ga. acci.
dentally shot and killed his twelve-year-
old daughter Maggie on the 10th while
handling an old army rifle which he sup
posed was unloaded.
AN extensive religious revival was going
on among the colored people Of Jefferson.
vile, Iud., on the 18th, conducted by g
white lad, seventeen years old, named
Harvey Smith.
AN armed posse on the 10th overlook
four OF the negro partic pants in the re-
cent tragedy at Wahalak, Miss, aud shot
one dead and hanged the other three.
THE house OF Martin Requa, near Hunt
lngton, w. Va, W destroyed by fire on
the 18TH aud two OF his children and his
mother persisted in the flames.
JOHN MEYERS DoREMus. who in TT 81
anger murdered his son last June for IN.
terfering to protect his mothar from the
N. J., on the 10Th.
CHARLES r. MAYER, of Baltimore, was or
the 18th elected president Of the Baltimore
&c Ohio railroad.
GEORGE W. DAVIS, OF Marietta, Ind,
| whose daughter Lille was abducted and
ruined by William L. Gregory, theindicted
White Cap, shot Gregory dead on the 10Th,
THE Calumet & Hecia min fire in Mich
| igen was pronounced extinguished by the
| officials on the Goth. after having burned
! just month. H.
THREE masked men on the Goth robbed
L. II, Cutler, Cincinnati cattle buyer, Of
| 81, 600 near Winchester, O. .
| AT Wilmington, DEL, William J. Cal
! houn, convicted of Grimm ally assaulting &
| young woman was sentenced on the 2Oth
| to be hanged on the ed Of March next.
| SoLos &. JENKINS, awaiting trial fol
murder, hanged himself in the New Ha
| ven Comm jail on the Goth. leaving {
| written confess on Of his crime.
EDWARD MEARE, aged fifteen years, and
| Charles Piatt, aged sixteen years, sons Of
prominent Columbus (nd farmers, were
arrested on the Goth for horse.stealing
IN row on the goth at Monktown, Tex,
Floyd and Lawson Todd (brothers) were
| killed and man named Choate fatally
WOunQeu.
An epidemic was reported On the 20tt
| among the horses on the ranches of the
Lower Yellowstone in Dakota, which was
! killing many valuable animals. 1t affected
the glands Of the throat
WHILE Mrs Moore & widow, was absent
from her home in indianapolis on the 10th
the house was burned, and her two chill
dren, aged two and four years, who were
locked up in the building. persisted In the
| flames. w.. @et2E r
THREE boys at Providence r. T., were
drowned on the Goth by breaking through
the ice while skating III ~. 4
U1PHTHER1A prevailed on the 10th o.
Uuionyille, Mica, to such an alarming ex.
tent that children under eighteen years OF
age were not allowed upon the streets.
THE old Doty tavern in Canton, Mass,
was burned on the goth. The building
! was noted stopping place in Revolution
! airy times. Both Washington and Lafay
| cite dined there. 4 g.t
| The pupils Of the high school and the
grammar school at Shelbyville, ILL.,, on thu
Goth struck for longer vacation than tht
| BIO ard W. willing to grant
ON the Goth F. E. and w. j. Murphy, sons
| OF Francis Murphy, conc uded their tom
perance meetings at Ia Porte, Ind, owe,
| three thousand persons having signed thl