Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-10-31
Epitome Of the Week.

Epitome Of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
DOMESTIC.
Two ATTEMPTS were made ON tho 23d
near Mexico, NO., to wreck Chicago and
Alton passenger trains.
GEORGE JOHNSON and George Akin were
instantly killed on the pa by falling
derrick at Mitchelps stove works at
Ellettsville, Ind.
The public schools of Athens, O., were
slosed on the sd on account of the prev
slence Of dip htheria.
SPINAL-MENlNGIrIs was spreading to an
alarming extent on the sd among horses
at New Bedford, Mass. ats-
THE forty-second annual election OF tho
American Missionary Association was
opened in Providence, r. l., on the ssd.
Mrs JULIA THERKLEs and her daughter
were burned to death in fire which con-
sumed their homo at Lexington, Mo-, on
the 23d.
THE annual report Of tho Commissioner
of Labor, Carroll ID. Wright issued on
the 2sd, was devoted mainly to statistics
in regard to the social, sanitary and
In shops and factories.
The house OF Joseph Whitaker (colored),
at Blackshear, Ca, was burned ON the sd,
and his four children. who were alone in
the building, persisted IN the flames.
IT was stated on tho Esd that terrible
suffering prevailed among the Polish Jews
in the vicinity of Devils Lake, ID. T., and
unless food and clothing were sent there
without delay starvation and death would
visit many homes.
THOMAS AxwORrHY, city treasurer OF
Cleveland. O., was on the ed said to have
Hed with $500 600 Of the city's funds. He
was supposed to be in Europe.
GEORGE GORDON, a tramp who had regis
tered illegally at New York, was sentenced
On the Esd to Sing Sing prison for two and
one. half years.
Two HUNTERS named Dutchie and
Adams, who had been shooting elk and
deer for their hides in the vicinity of
Snake River, COL. after being warned to
desist, were lynched on the S3d by the set
tiers
BEFORE the National w. Z. T. U. at New
York on the sd Mrs. Angie F. Newman
spoke on the condition of Mormon women
In Utah. She told of two sisters. sixteen
and fourteen years old, with babes in their
;
and cited the case Of a man, who, besides
his regular spouse, had married his
mother, his grandmother, his daughter
and his granddaughter, all of whom were
oow living.
By the explosion Of q boiler ON the 23d
On the Reading railroad at Glen Carbon,
Pa, Conductor John Gonloff and Brakeman
John Colman were killed.
THE skeleton of Union soldier was
found on the 23d under the flooring of the
hotel kitchen at Dinwiddie Court House,
Va. Close to the skeleton was musket
and canteen.
The recent threatened rise of the Next
can element at Rio Grande City, which
caused so much anxiety, eliminated on the
sd in the arrest of twenty ono of the riot
erS.
j. ROBERTS RAMBo, ex-register Of wills
ut Norristown, Pa, was on the 23d said to
DO defaulter to the extent Of $4,000.
A FIRE on the 23d at Calhoun, Ga, re-
suited in the loss Of nine stores, besides
the Times newspaper office
In a fit of jealousy on the oath John
Shelter, of Cincinnati, murdered his wife
and then killed himself.
JUDGE WHITE, Of Kansas City, on the
24sh sent two witnesses to Jail for two
q
third ten dollars.
In fight on the Oath with circus EN-
ployes at Mount Vernon, KY, three men
we're fatally injured.
JonN HALL, Of Nebraska City, Neb.,
while drunk on the Oath quarreled with his
wife, who shot and fatally wounded him.
GREAT numbers of sheep on the Mon
tana ranges had on the oath been destroyed
by wolves.
TEE residence and furniture store Of
Charles Nigabower, in lion, N. Y, was
burned on the oath, and Mr.. Nigabower
knd daughter, aged twelve persisted IN
she flames
AT the Treasury Department in Wash
1ngtou the statement on the oath Of appro.
priations for the fiscal year ending June
30, 1890, aggregated &94, 22O, $50. Those for
the current year aggregated $94, 73S, 1856.
The Adelphia Theater in Chicago, an
ancient landmark, was destroyed by fire
on the oath.
Tx mail pouch from Boston which ar.
rived in Chicago on the Ath over the
Michigan Southern railroad was robbed OF
all the hrstclas mail matter it contained.
The stolen package consisted Of registered
letters.
PRANK HILL, J. B. Strathbnrn and Will
LAM fOStor were 18I8lly injured ON Tue
34th at Kansas City, NO., by being crushed
ander hay press.
The raisin pack in California this year
vas Oh the oath eatimated at between
1.ase, 900 and l, $50, 900 twenty pound boxes,
an increase of $4,000 boxes over last year.
THREE persons were fatally injured on
the 24th by falling scahold at the French
spring works in Pittsburgh, Pa
The stables of A. r. Rutan, an under
tsker at Paterson, N. J., were burned on
the oath, and twenty-seven horses were
esemated.
THE seventh ball game of the series for
the worlds championship was played on
the oath at st. Louis and resulted: st.
Louis, Z; New York, S.
FOREST fires were raging on the 24th in
Santa Cruz, Alameda and San Joaquin
counties, Cal, and great damage had been
done to the fruit ranches and wheat.
The ravages Of hog cholera still con-
tinued in Hancock County, O., on the oath,
and swine were dying by the hundreds
each day. In Portage township alone over
six thousand hogs had fallen victims to
the disease.
An organization to be known as the
British-America National Association
was effected at Chicago on the oath, W. tn