Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-05-02

81 Louis, where they had been suffocated
BY foul air while cleaning the place
The City Council of Delphos, Kan, on the
18th passed an ordinance closing all bill
lard and pool-rooma This was direct 70
suit of the woman's suffrage movement
DANIEL THOMAS barn ut Lodd Tenn,
was destroyed by an incendiary on tho
10Th. and four horses were burned
AT Philadelphia on the Goth Mr.. and Mira
Ernest Eiohfeld, IN aged couple, hung
themselves In their dwelling No cause was
known.
WHILE the officers and book keepers Of
tho Bank Of Amigo, Wis, were Mt dinner
on the 26th burglars entered the bank and
took Sc, 900 from the safe.
CENTRAL CITY. D! T., q place of one thou
sand inhabitants, was destroyed by tire
early on the morning of the Goth. Not q
store or shop was left standing, 100 build
ings were burned and fifty families were
left homeless
The dwelling house of Louis Stromans.
near Springfield, s O., was burned early on
the morning of the 2Bth, and four of Stro-
mans children, two boys and two girls,
persisted in the flames
Two EMPTY coal trains on tho Reading
road collided on the Goth at WOODBURY.
Station. N. s., seventy-hve cars being
u
killed.
On tho Goth two families by the name of
Nett, six persons in oil, were arrested ut
Evansville, Ind, on the charge OF shop
lifting, and several wagon loads Of goods
were found at their homes.
GEORGE MCCLELLAN DUNBAR was hanged
In the jail at Woodbury., N. j., ON the 10Th
for the murder Of his mother-in- law in No.
vember last
A CYCLONE struck the town of Pratt, Kan,
on the 26th, demolishing several houses,
and Mrs William Fisher was fatally injured
and others were fatally bruised by flying
timbers
AN immense forest fire was raging at Big
Nose, N. Y, on the Goth, along the line Of
the New York Central railroad, and was
rapidly licking up trees and shrubbery
HEAVY frost on the 10Th in the vicinity
of Norfolk, Va, damaged early fruits and
vegetables from 100000 to $3.50, 900,
and near Staunton frosts had killed the
pear, plum and damson crops and greatly
damaged the peach crop.
An explosion OF gasoline took place at
Topeka, Kan. on the "a tn in the residence
of D. A Campbell, causing the total de-
named Annie Evans ana her charge, q six
y H.
were burned to death in the ruins
DURING the seven days ended on the 9th
there were 1913 business failures in the
United States, against ISL the previous
seven days
ARRANGEMENTS were completed on the
9th for uniform rate of postage between
the United States and Canada of one cent
per ounce on all merchandise. including
grain, seed, cuttings bulbs, scions ind
gratis; and one cent per two ounces of
printed matter now known as third-class
matter in the domestic mails OF this coun-
try.
The last OF the claims against the Toledo,
Peoria & Western railway for the Chats
worth (Iu wreck last year was settled on
the 275h. The entire amount footed up to
about $500, 600, and was all settled with
out any suits being pushed for trial
PHILIP KRoGENBERG, while drunk, jumped
from the roof of a five-story building on the
9th in Harlem, N. y. and was killed
EXECUTIONS took place as follows on the
9th: Jack Crow. George Moss and Owen
D. Hill (all colored) at Fort Smith, Ark, for
crimes committed in the Indian Territory;
John B. Biscos (colored) at Leonardtown.
Nd for the murder of Captain r. p Divon;
Jack Prater (colored) at Columbia, s c.,
for killing Andrew Jackson, and Jasper
Davis at Columbia, s. c., for numbering his
wife,
LACK of support compelled the suspen-
sion of the Alarm on the 9th, tie Anarchist
sheet formerly edited by A. R Parsons in
Chicago.
The sixty-eighth anniversary Of the birth
of the late General Grant was commence
rated ON the 9th in many places through
out the country.
BURT REEVES, an old citizen of Monroe
Comfy, Ind accidentally fell into heap OF
burning brush on the 9th and Was suffo-
Gated
NEAR OFallon, No., on the 9th h. Klees-
chulto killed his wife, from whom he had
been separated for two years, injured one
| of his young sons fatally and another Sc
r.ously, and then killed himself.
ARCH SToLT, farmer, committed suicide
near Richmond KY, on the 27ih by taking
rough on rats" and his brother William,
seeing the corpse, took the remainder of
the poison and died in short time.
ABOUT twenty survivors of the great Sui
tana explosion, which occurred on April
26, 1865, near Memphis, Tenn, whereby
seventeen hundred Union soldiers lost their
| lives, held reunion at Hiilsdale, Mich, on
| the 9th.
| A PASSENGER train on the Burlington &
Missouri road went through bridge on the
9th at Alma, Neb., killing two persons
and injuring seven Others The mail and
: express-cars. with their contents, were
| burned.
| The floor of q crowded hall at school
exhibition IN Rushsylvania, O., gave way
on the 9th, killing four persons and injur.
ing many Others.
GEORGE NEwBY, Mary Wilson and her sis.
! ter Emily were drowned on the 9th by the
upsetting of boat in Ogden canyon, neal
Salt Lake City.
Personal AND POLITICAL.
The Democrats of the Sixteenth district
of Illinois on the oath nominated George
w. Fi,hian for Congressman, and in the
| Tenth district General Post (Rep) was
unanimously renominated
The Georgia State Prohibition conven-
ton, known as Sam S1nall's convention
met in Atlanta on the Oath and elected
delegates to the National convention in
structed to vote for Clinton B. Nske fol
President.
IHE Florida Republicans met in STATE
convention on the Oath at Palatka ant
| chose delegates to the National convention