Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-01-18
DOMESTIC.

JOHN ARENSDORF, 1ne acquitted chief de-
PENDANT in the famous Haddock murder
case, left Sioux City, La. on the 9th to be-
come resident Of Milwaukee, Wis
JOHN CUNNINGHAM, a farmer of Delphi,
Ind. committed suicide On the 9th by
Jumping from the top Of his house He had
killed horse-thief the year before, and this
act preyed on his mind
EIGHT business buildings at Monroe, Ia,
were destroyed by fire on the 10Th, causing
heavy loss.to many occupants.
EIGHT armed men stopped aMexican Gen.
tral passenger train on the 10th, three hun
bred miles south of Ell Paso, Tex, and
robbed the express car
ABHoKBN switch-rod wrecked the Port
land express train near Haverhill, Mass, on
the 10th, two cars telescoping, and fall
ing water-tank crushing the roof Of an
other. Nine persons were killed instantly
Ind more than fifty were wounded, some
fatally.
THLE[AN G. JUSTICE, who was hanged No.
vember 10 last at Gainesville, Ga, was on
she 1O.h said to be alive and we'll in his
mountain home. 1t was stated that life
was not extinct when he was cut down, and
that be was quickly resuscitated.
TIE Bent County courthouse at Los
Animas Col. was destroyed by fire on the
10th and all the records were burned
MRs OTIS FULLER, of Milford. Ind, was
accidentally shot and killed on the 10th by
her husband, who was cleaning his re-
vOlver
The Wisconsin Supreme Court on the 10th
affirmed the sentence of the Milwaukee
court condemnlng Paul Grottkau, the An
archist, to imprisonment for one year for
rio ,Ous talk.
r,yryYv or f1,o 49, Tod
street bridge. Chicago, occupied by several
business firms was destroyed by fire on
the 10th, causing loss of 100000
The Julian Hotel at Goshen, Ind, was
destroyed by fire on tho night of the 1Oth
Guests to the number of thirty or forty es-
capped in their night-clothes, and 1t was
feared several others persisted in the flames
The almsheuse and an adjoining dwelling
located in East Village, Conn, were burned
to the ground On the 10th, and three per-
sons perished in the flames
MISS CAMPBELL was On the 10th awarded
$45. 600 damages by the jury in her breach
of-promise suit against Charles Arbuckle,
Of New York, tho millionaire coffee mer-
chant
LEW OWENS, capitalist, of Chattanooga,
Tenn. was fatally shot on the 10th by J.
D! Barnes in q dispute over business
matter
II was stated on the 10th that nearly all
the steel-rail mills of the country were
closed, owing to tho struggle with railway
managers, who had refused TO purchase I'M
til the price Yves reduced to thirty dollars
per ton.
PROF.. VAUGHN. Of Michigan. In expert
menting, developed on the 18th case Of
typhoid fever in a. cat
In a railway accident on. the 18th near
Coolidge, N M, eleven persons were in
jured, three fatally.
In portions of Minnesota the thermometer
ranged from.28 to 4S degrees below zero
On the 18th, 40 to 81 below in Dakota, and
32oto a. below in Wisconsin.
at Home Park, Miss, two men and woman
were fatally shot
TEE law prohibiting Sunday baseball
playing in Tennessee was declared consti-
butional by the Supreme Court on the 11th.
THB great strike of the Reading Railway
COmpany's coal minersstll continued on the
18th, with No signs of a compromise No
coal was being mined
Tn barns of the Merlden Conn Horse
Railroad Company were burned on the
18th, and eighty horses persisted In the
Games
liz was stated on the 18th that syndicate
Of Sootchmen had by system Of fraudu-
lent prescriptions secured sixty-four thou
sand acres Of valuable redwood timber land
ct Eureka Gal
In the case of Rev. Thomas P. Ryan, the
Methodist minister who was murdered in