Mower County transcript., 1888-11-14
Epitome of the Week,
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
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DOMESTIC.
In fit of jealousy on the 5th Allen Tay-
lor (colored) killed his wife at Nashville,
Tenn, and then took his own life.
SAMUEL RAY was on the 5th sentenced at
New York to two years aud four months
Imprisonment for illegal registration.
NEAR Trinidad, Col, on the 9Th two
miners were killed by natural gas explo-
sion in the Starkville coal mine. The
mine was badly wrecked.
1T was SAID on the 5th that the Wheeling
& Lake Ere, the Dayton, Fort Wayne Il
Chicago and the Cincinnati, Hamilton &
Dayton railways would be consolidated.
BUCK T. TRExLER, of Charlottesville,
Tenn. gen eral merchants, failed on the
bth for 100000 -
COUNTERFEIT twenty-flve.c cent pieces of
the issue of 1877 were in circulation at
Upton. Ind, on the 9Th. A large number
eral of the merchants had been heavily
victimized
The orders directing the United States
steamship Kearsarge to proceed to Hayti
to protect American interests were coun-
demanded on the 5th. e. Il - ~ z.
AT Long Island City, N. Y, on the 5th
Joseph Kugler, aged ffty-hve years. a
milkman, was trampled to death by party
of seven hOrsemen, one OF whom threat
ened to shoot persons who attempted to
rescue Kugler.
THOMAS P LITTLE, aged sixty. five years,
of Altoona, Pa, died on the 5th of heart
disease. He was bachelor and lived a
miser's life. Bonds and money to the
amount of $50, 900 were found concealed in
his trunk.
The post Office at Higganton, Conn, was
robbed for the sixth time within q few
years on the 9Th The thieves secured
about $3.50 W orth Of booty.
THE annual report ON the 5th Of the
Auditor of State showed that the total
municipal Indebtedness of Kansas was
81, 1O7, ,64690. Leavenworth led with S.
O69, 33339 49,
The National horse show was formally
opened in Madison Square Garden in New
York on the 5th.
The fishing schooner Goldsmith Maid,
with thirty thousand pounds Of fresh fish,
was run into and sunk in Boston harbor
on the 9Th, and Peter Landry and Howard
Monroe were drowned.
A LARGE portion of the town of Wycliffe,
Ky., was destroyed by fire on the morning
of the 9Th.
A FIRE which started in the city hall
building at Haverhill, Mass, on the 9th
destroyed several business houses, causing
q loss Of over $780, 600.
In answer to an inquiry from the
United States Consul at Havre respecting
the. right OF certain Chinese sailors
shipped from the United States on Amer
ican vessels and paid of and discharged
abroad to reship and return to the United
States the Secretary of the Treasury said
<1>4H hot <A4
turn.
himself in Chicago river on the 9th while
insane. and his wife was also drowned
while endeavoring to save him.
CAPTAIN HEALY, of the revenue cutter
Bear, on the 9th stated at New Bedford,
Mass, that he gave no credence to the re-
port that a number of whaling vessels had
been caught in the ice in Arctic waters.
CATHERINE SOxs, aged eighty-e eight
years, Barbara Arnold. aged forty two
years, and Lydia Fetrow, inmates Of the
county almshouse at York, Pa, were suit
focated by gas in their room on the 9th.
A POLITICAL riot occurred in Portsmouth.
Va, on the 7th between whites and blacks,
during which three white men and one
oolored man were fatally shot.
THREE murderers, Robert Clanton, T. T.
Wilmington and jackson Emerson, made
their cape from the Jail at Fulton, NO.,
on the 7th.
A DESPERATE duel occurred on the 7th
in the town of Livingston, KY, over poll
tics, in which five men were killed and the
sixth mortally wounded.
WILLIAM MARSHALL. prominent Cass
County Ind.) farmer, was instantly killed
on the eth while blasting stumps with
dynamite
ARCHIBALD PELoN, of Grayling, Mich,
was lynched on the 7th by masked men
for brutally assaulting an aged widow and
young married lady.
A TRAIN on the Savannah e. Western
road containing 125 passengers bound for
the Macon fair was wrecked near Ella
vile, Ga, on the 7th, and six persons were
killed.
DURING the twenty four hours ended on
the 9TH there were "a new cases Of yellow
fever at Jacksonville. Fla, and 8 deaths
from the disease. Total cases to date,
1876; total deaths, 370
MRS. GEORGE HIRsH. of Navarro County,
Tex, on the 7th gave birth to six chill
dren. The mother and children were doing
well. There were four boys and two girls.
Mrs. Hirsh is twenty-seven years old
A FRENcHMAN who was sent to the Bal
C1mOre (Md) work mousse on Cne Itn
claimed to have walked every step Of the
way from Texas to that city.
AN order was issued at Washington on
the 7th directing the resumption of the
sunrise guns at the various army posts
throughout the country, and the daily
raising and lowering of the colors. z--
A BLAZE on the 7th in the warehouse at
tached to Moran & Healy's packing house
in the Chicago stock yards did damage to
the extent of Sc, O,O9O.
HENRY MEN1x, who lives in the Jack
sonvllle district Telfair County, Ga, was
ninety nine years old on the 9TH. He had
never taken dose of medicine, and had
not missed eating meal on account OF
sickness in sixty years.
JAMES G. HUTCH1soN, OF Crawfords-
Vile, Ind, hanged himself on the 6th on
account of financial trouble.
DURING the twenty-four hours ended on
the 9Th there were 25 new cases of yellow
fever at Jacksonville, Fla, and deaths
from the disease. Total cases to date,
4,4Ol; total deaths, 373
In Cincinnati on the Sth an unknown
man attempted to chloroform and abduct
Mrs. j. P. Kelly, but fed when she Sue
ceeded in giving an alarm.
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