Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-08-01
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Six residents of San Pablo, Cal, were
drowned of Santa Catalina Island on the
4th by the swapping of boat
AT Cincinnati on the oath the shoe factory
of Krippendorf, Dittman & Co. was de-
stroyed by fire, causing loss Of $4,000.
AT St Louis on the Oath the Iron Mold
ers' Union Of North America elected P.
Fitzpatrick of Cincinnati, president for
the ensuing year.
AN eighteen-year-old boy at Niagara
Falls, N. Y, robbed his father of 81, 900 on
the Oath and skipped to Canada
Mrs. JOHN s. MARTIN, of Chicago, died
on the oath from hydrophobia, caused by
the bite of a little dog.
The National Grand Lodge, United
Brothers of Friendship, the largest or
ganization of colored men in America,
met in annual session at st. Louis on the
HA1L-sToRMs did considerabl damage to
crops in portions of Iowa and Michigan on
the 24th.
SELwYNN TAYLOR, of Pittsburgh, Pa,
prominent mining engineer and coal ex-
pert, said on the 9th he thought natural
gas was giving out, and that in two years
more the supply would be exhausted.
In quarrel on the oath at Abingdon,
Va, John Grayson and Lillburn Trigg were
fatally shot, and the mother of Trigg died
from the shock caused by her sons death.
SEVEN HUNDRED representatives Of or
ganized bodies of locomotive engineers and
dremen and switchmen met in convention
on the oath at st. Joseph, NO., to consider
their common interests in general and the
20" strike in particular:
DURING q rain storm at Princeton, Ind,
at ten o'clock on the night of the Oath a
rainbow was distinctly seen.
By the accidental discharge of a gun on
the oath near Versailles Ky., Richard
Aiken, aged thirty FIVE years, had both
eyes blown out.
The subscription fund raised in New
York to reimburse o. M. Hartt, who SUI
fered by the bakers boycott, amounted to
q. 500 on the oath.
On the oath Acting Secretary Of the
Treasury Thompson sent communication
to the House of Representatives giving in
formation of Canadian discrimination
against American vessels passing through
Canadian canals. 49,.
AN express package containing 80, 900
was stolen on the 18th from one Of the
steamers running between Portland, Ore,
and Astoria.
Four saloon-keepers at Trenton, N. J.,
were sent to jail for SIX months each on the
18th for selling liquor on Sunday.
The joint meeting at st. Joseph, No., Of
the four brotherhoods Of locomotive ena
gineers, dremen, switohmen and brake,
men was concluded on the 25th. The con-.
tinuance Of the 20" strike was indorsed,,
and also the plan for federation Of thas
four organizations. !"
TIE international Bible convention met
a. Asbury Park, N. J., on the 2Sth. Faith
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other subjects were discussed.
A GANG Of nineteen tramps who had
been terrorizing farmers and robbing
freight cars in Northeastern Ohio wore
captured by company Of militia on the
18th in the woods near Ashtabula.
The Congressional committee appointed
to look into the emigration affairs Of the
country held its first session in New York
City on the 25th, examining the agents Of
several steamship lines.
A SEVERE earthquake shock was felt at
Tucson, A. T., on the 25th. Many adobe
walls were cracked. The shock was also
felt at Tombstone and Prescott. 49, IL
On the 18th exrSecretary of the Interior
Columbus Delano, now eighty years old,
drove q burglar out of his house at Mount
Vernon, O., at the point of a revolver.
CHARLES MIRANDA, q brakeman on the
Cincinnati IL Muskingum Valley railway,
fen from freight train near Bremen on
the 18th and was killed.. This made the
seventh son killed in that family by the
railroads. .j..se5. ~
HAIL fell to the depth of Ave inches in
Virginia on the 25th, In some places COM
pletely destroying growing crops and gar
dens. -...
THE grand jury in Chicago on the 26th
indicted the Anarchist dynamite c0nspir-
ators, Hronek, Chopek, Chleboun and
Sevic. ..r .~-..s. ,.-.,.,.
AT Maynard, O., ON the 18th boarding
house owned by William Presser was de-
stroyed by fire, and Presser, aged forty
five years, his son Willie, aged seven years,
and John Morgan, aged fourteen years,
were burned to death.
THREE boys named O'Brien, Sutton and
Haynes were drowned in the Missouri
river at Omaha on. the 18th while bathing.
A DAUGHTER of Dolph Miles, c0lored
man living at Yazoo City, Miss, fatally
poisoned her father and three brothers on
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