Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-08-08

on the 1st at Dallas, Tex, to prosecute
gamblers and Sunday liquor dealers.
j. GooDIN, treasurer Of Rawlins County,
Kan, disappeared on the LIST, leaving his
accounts $4,000 short.
THREE HUNDRED italian emigrants who
were unable to obtain work sailed from
New York on the lst for their native land.
SEVEN deaths occurred in Kansas City,
Mo-, on the 1st as q result OF the excessive
heat. y ~ i ..-.r-&
GEORGE HARRIS, fourteen years old, while
1ooling with . gun on the lst at Cincinnati
shot and killed his eleven-year-o old sister.
AT Cannon, Tex, on the 1st Rev. g. Har.
rison, Methodist minister. killed his SON.
in-law, Ben Perviu, and then killed him.
self. on account Of family trouble
The story to the effect that Findlay, O.,
was In danger Of being blown up by sub
serranean explosion Of natural gas in tho
not distant future was discredited by geol-
ogists in Washington on the 1st, who de-
clared that such catastrophe was impos-
sibe. 49,
The public-debt statement issued on the
LIST showed the total debt to be $1,727, 7O8. :
5S4; cash In treasury, 800, S49, 6S5; debt
less cash in treasury, q, 16l, 447,S5S. De-
crease during July, q, 1s7, 29&
A FIRE on the LIST at Suffolk, Va, de-
stroyed large part of the business Dor
ton of the town and many houses, causing
Q loss Of e400,OO
JOHN kIRKMAN, aged sixty-five years,
president Of the American National Bank
OF Nashville, Tenn, was killed in q runa-
way accident on the 1st
The eighteenth annual convention Of the
Catholic Total Abstinence Union of Ameri-
CO met In Boston on the 1st
w. H. HANDLEY, who in September last
killed J. B. Woman, deputy-sherin was
taken from Jail at Carthage, Tenn, on the
LIST by mob and hanged.
A FIRE on the LIST in the extensive estab-
lishment Of the Little & Croft Lumber
Company at Evansville, Ind, caused a loss
of 500, COO
TEN THOUSAND negroes took part in an
emancipation celebration in Helena, Ark,
on the I'd.
DURING heavy rain storm on the I'd at
Seymour, Ind, a large number of fish of an
unknown species fell, some of them four
inches in length.
SIX persons in Omaha, Neb, died on the
I'd from the excessive heat.
CHARLES MILLION, weather prophet.
drowned himself in the North river at New
York on the I'd because his predictions
failed
WILLIAM A. SMITH, an old and trusted
employee OF the Commercial National Bank
at Philadelphia, was arrested on the I'd on
the charge of embezzling $1,000
EMANUEL JAMES, shot and mortally
wounded his brother John at Jennings
burg, Ky., on the I'd in quarrel over some
sheep.
NAY PATTON, young woman, shot her
paramour, Charles DeKnight, and then
suicided in a hotel room at Pittsburgh.
Pa, on the I'd. No cause for the deed was
known.
CHARLES, alias "Blinkey'' Morgan, the
principal figure in the Ravenna rescue
and the murder Of Detective Hulligan, Of
Cleveland, O., was executed at Columbus,
O., at an early hour on the morning Of the
DURING the seven months ended on the
LIST z, 352 more immigrants landed at Castle
Garden, New York, than in the CORE
spending seven months of last year. The
July arrivals were q 600 or 1926 more
than for July, 1881.
A TERRIFIC wind and rain-storm on the
I'd did great damage to crops in the vioin-
1ty OF st. Cloud and Sank Rapids, MINI.
In the former place twenty-one houses
were struck by lightning and two children
were killed, and in the latter many streets
were flooded and houses could only be
reached by boats.
DURING terrific storm in Chicago on the
I'd lightning fred stables at the Stock
Yards, and twenty horses persisted in the
flames. Many buildings were also struck
by lightning, aud two persons were killed,
ALL cases against the Boston & Prov
idence Railroad Company arising out Of
the Bussey bridge accident over q year
ago had been settled on the I'd without
trial at total cost of about 81, 100000.
The Governor Of Indiana on the I'd di.
rected the Attorney General to visit the
counties of Crawford and Perry, and do all
that he could to bring the participants in
"White Cap" outrages to justice.
AT Mt. Carroll, ILL.,, the thermometer in
dicated ITO degrees in the shade on the I'd,
and in other portions of the State extreme
hot weather was reported.
ELMER E. JENKIN, Of Abilene, Kan. ar
rived In Boston on the I'd, having traversed
the whole distance 1.-TWO thousand miles)
on his bicycle. He left Abilene May 1d
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Mrs. NANCY FAeER1Y, living with her
daughter in Wolfboro, N H., celebrated
the 28th.
CoNaREssMAN RANDALL was removed
from Washington on the 28th to his coun-
try home at Wayne Station, Pa
THOMAS CARNEY, who was the war Gov
ernor Of Kansas, died suddenly on the 2Sth
at his home in Leavenworth Of apoplexy,
aged sixty-four years. He was Governor
from 1862 to 1854, and twice United States
senator.
The Executive Committee of the Ma
tional Labor party have issued call for q
convention to meet in Chicago Sep.em-
Der II.
BARLEY CAMPBELL. the we'll known
playwright, died ut the Middletown IN.
~ insane asylum on the Both ult., aged
forty five years.
A. II. SH1PMAN, the inventor of the
shipman oil engine, died at Geneva, N. Y,
on the 3Oth ult., of consumption.
THOMAS R. CORNWALL, superintendent of
the Chicago Stock Yards, died on the s0th
ult, aged forty nine years.
The Republicans made the following
Congressional denominations on the 31st