Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-11-28
Epitome Of the W eek.
INTERESTING NEWS co { N ALTON 81,
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
RAILROADS in North Carolina made an
increase in earnings during the past year
of thirty eight per cent.
GEORGE w, LEEsER, cf Pottsviile, PA.
was sandbagged and robbed of sa. 500 on
The goth at Cincinnati @
Tue Grand Lodge OF Odd Fellows o. sIlli-
nois in session on the Goth at Springfield
elected II. c. Feltman, of Salem, Grand
Patriarch.
The National Cattle-Growers' Associa-
ton held its fourth annual convention in
Chicago on the Goth, and recommended the
enactment of laws by Congress regulating
traffic in cattle and meat.
THE report on the Goth of the Com
mandant of the United States Marine
Corps showed that on October there were
1850 en- listed men in the corps.
THREE men were convicted on the Goth
at Freehold, N. j., of malicious mischief
n trying to drive James j. Mcintyre, an
aged colored man, out of town, and were
sentenced to imprisonment
Two OF gang of connterfeiters operat-
ing near Warren, Pa, were arrested on the
10th, and a large amount of spurious money
was confiscated.
The house of Jack Gregg, at Bowling
Green, KY, was burned on the goth, and
all the family, consisting of five persons,
persisted except Gregg, who was away on
business.
The twentieth annual meeting of the
National Woman's Suffrage Association
commenced at Cincinnati on the Goth
JAKE and Joe Tobler (colored) were exc
:uted on the 21st at Wichita, Kan, for the
Killing of James Cass and John Goody-
<untz in the Indian Territory on August
Is, 1885,
A SATISFACTORY test was made on the
s1st of telephone line between Boston
md Chicago.
AT the convention Of the Knights of
labor in Indianapolis Ind, on the 21st
resolution was adopted to appoint a COM
mittee to investigate the methods Of the
general officers of the order.
UN1oNTowN Pa.) advices of the 2lst say
chat the plant and property OF the Cornell
Coke & Iron Company had been sold to the
u c. Prick Company for several millions
81 dollars. The property includes nine
thousand acres of coal lands, eighteen
hundred coke ovens and many miles of
railroad track.
Mrs. WATERS fell from the West Vir-
ylnia Central railroad bridge into the
liver at Silas Ferry on the 2lst. She was
who had plunged in after her, was
drowned. The couple had only been mar
lied one day.
IT was reported on the 21st that the new
cruiser Atlanta, now preparing for sea at
New York, would be sent for cruise
around the world by way of the Pacific.
The cruise would probably last three or
four years.
The Home Savings Bank of Norfolk, Va,
suspended on the 21st The directors
stated that the depositors, most of whom
were colored, would lose little if any
thing:
AT Bloomington, Ind, on the 21st Will
lam Norman, who was whipped by the
White Caps, brough: suit for $4,000, nam
ing eleven defendants.
The Grand Lodge of Odd-Fellows of In
diana convened in annual session. at In
dianapolis on the DIST. Secretary Foster
stated that the charitable expenditures
during the year were $50, 3S3. 6S. The order
has an active membership OF 49, $50. The
expenses, including relief, amounted to
s126,241.4 40.
The Supreme Court of Nebraska decided
on the 21st that when usurious interest has
been paid by the borrower Of note he can
recover double the amount Of interest so
paid.
ROBERT HELLEsTY, of Bivinsville, KY,
who had bet his farm and stock on Cleve-
land being elected President committed
suicide on the 21st.
W. II. CREED, proprietor of the Manila
wagon works near Shelbyville, Ind, fed
on the 21st, taking with him 81, $40 belong
ing to cred tors.
A sHoAL, supposed to have been caused
by an earthquake, was discovered in the
Pacific Ocean near Farrellone Island on the
21st.
SEVEN counterfeiters who were operat-
.ng freely in the vicinity of Erie, Pa,
were arrested on the 21st by secret-serv-
ice officers.
The Secretary of the Treasury at Wash
ington or. the 21st made ruling that here
after merchants who are selected as reap
prisng officers must be citizens of the
United States
0. F. ADAMS, city treasurer of Macon,
Ga, was reported $40, 900 short in his &C
connts on the 21st and was suspended from
office.
The fourth annual convention of the Ma
tional Editorial Association was held in
San Antonio, Tex, on the 2lst, delegates
being present from almost every State in
the Union.
MASKED men on Jne SIsI enLereQ Lne Oe-
pot of the Louisville & Nashville road at
London, KY, rided the cash drawer,
robbed the night operator and stole mail
pouch.
The Danville Va) tobacco exposition
opened on the 21st and was largely at
tended Over eighteen hundred samples
of tobacco were on exhibition.
AT the meeting of the National Base Ball
League in New York on the 21st Cleveland
was unanimously elected to take the place
of Detroit.
HENRY JONES (colored) and his wife
went to church supper at Livingstone,
Ala, on the ed, leaving their three chill
dren locked up in the house Upon their
return they found the house in ashes and
the children burned to a crisp.
MATTHEW BAKER, wealthy farmer re-
siding near Venice, O., hanged himself in
his barn on the I'D. Baker had mania
for travelling, and had been in almost
every city and town in the United States.
THE State Bank at Valparaiso, Neb.,
failed on the ED fer sou, 900, and it was
reported that the proprietors, F. Scoville
and G. A. Crafts, had fed.
T. II. THOMAS was killed and Edward J.
Cohen fatally wounded in quarrel over
poker game at CoVingtOn, Ga, on the