Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-12-05
Epit0me of the Week,
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
DOMESTIC.

loss of life. The fishing schooner Edward
Newton went to pieces on the Massachu.
sets coast and fifteen of her crew were
drowned. At various points snow fell to
considerable depth, seriously interfering
with railroad travel Thirteen coal barges
were sunk in New York bay. but no lives
were lost as far as known. Five seamen
were drowned off Nantasket Beach, Mass
At Long Branch, N. J., many cottages
were carr ed out to sea
In q drunken ARRAY on the 26th at Wan,
Ind. T., four Cherokee Indians were killed
and another was shot through the hand
Two MEN were killed and three injured
in collision on the Goth between passenger
trains near Hustled, COL, and TIRES cars
were burned
The bootblacks Of Indianapolis inaugu-
rated strike on the Goth to put the price
Of shine up to ten cents.
"DOCK" HAGGERTY was unloading glycer.
Inc at Pleasantly lie, Pa, on the Goth when
1t exploded by some means and Haggerty
was blown to atoms. Parts of his two
horses were found in nelghboring trees,
and piece Of the wagon was found half
mile away.
AT Centerville, Pa, on the 26th three
men were killed and one badly injured by
boiler explosion.
NEAH oE0AAA. 1uu Ou tu0 SOtu ION w ar
rem and John R. Berry, miners, were killed
by falling slate.
A KEa Of powder exploded in George
Palmer's store at Scrufftown Pa, on the
Goth, fatally injuring him, killing a ten
year.old daughter and wounding three
other persons
A COTTON mill with q capacity of ten
thousand yards day. and employing two
hundred men, was started at Des Moines.
Ia, on the 26th, and as it was the first in
the State the event was celebrated by
speeches and other ceremonies
REPORTS on the 26th from Rochester and
Albany, N. Y, and st. John, N B., say
that vessels had been frozen in and navi-
cation was closed up.
The st. Louis, Quincy, Omaha & Sioux
City railroad was incorporated on the 26th,
with capital stock OF $l3, OOO OOO
TWENTY miles west of Chattanooga,
Tenn, a deposit Of rich lubricating oil
was found on the 26th at depth of one
thousand feet.
TIE store of the Canton tO.) Co opera
tive Clothing Company was closed on the
26th on executions aggregating $685.
The liabilities were $4,000!
The corner stone of the new courthouse
at Evansville, Ind, to cost $500, OOO, was
laid on the 9th with masonic ceremonies.
The true SQUIRE of the Mississippi river
has, it was alleged on the 9th, been dis
covered by persons living at Sank Center
MINI, who say the Father of Waters
flows from two small creek-fed lakes
whose waters are emptied into Lake
Glazier, recently discovered by Captain
Willard Glazier.
JOHN WOODS, aged sixty-fv years, and
his bed-ridden sister NJ ry, aged sixty one
years, were burned to death in Brooklyn,
N. Y, on the 9th by the destruction Of
their house by fire.
A STATEMENT prepared at the Pension
Bureau in Washington on the 9th showed
that Of the Is 600 estimated cases under the
act Of June Z, 1888, allowing widows ar
rears OF pension from the date of their
husbands death, H. SOP had been allowed
and settled
The new church of the First Congrega-
tional Society at Northampton, Mass, was
ruined by fire. on the 9th. 1t cost SIS, 600.
ADv1cEs of the 9th say that the steamer
Allentown went to pieces in the recent
storm on the coast near Cohassetts, Mass,
and eighteen lives were lost. The losses
caused by the storm at Atlantic City, N.
j.. were greater than had been experienced
since the incorporation of that CITY,
FRANK TRAVIS, a bartender, committed
ooANAOo Ou VIC SStA dt oIoAOy ll0, 1uu De-
cause he had been discharged for drunk
enness.
AT Morrelton, Ark, on the 9th City
Marshal Bentley was accidentally shot and
killed by his brother, Sheriff Bentley, who
was examining pistol
THE City Council Of Reading, Pa, on
the 9th passed an ordinance making it
unlawful for contractors to employ any
but citizens of the United States on NUM-
cipal work.
For the first time in one hundred and
twelve days there were no new cases of
yellow fever reported at Jacksonville,
Fla, on the 9th. Towns all around were
raising the quarantine and trains were
again running.
JEwET DARGENToN, proprietor of
boarding house at Amesbury, NJ 1885,, shot
his wife on the 9th and then killed him
self. Jealousy prompted the act.
In the trial in Chicago on the 9th of
Hronek, the Anarchist, informer Chleboun
testified that Hronek confe sed to him
that he tried to throw b NIB under Presi-
dent Cleveland's carriage in the procession
last year and that he threw the Haymarket
bomb
CHARLES E. STANLEY, treasurer of the
Cleveland Gas mpany, was on the 9th
charged with defalcations amounting to
over $50. OOO
BANKERS at Milwaukee on the 9th re-
ported counterfeit five-dollar silver certifi-
Gates in circulation. They are of the
series of 1886, and bear a blurred picture
OF Grant, which is the principal defect of
the bill, aside from the paper not having q
silk fiber. ~ " .t
A BOILER explosion on the 9th at Raj
ston's saw-mill at Adams Corners, Pa,
killed three men. A...
The canning house Of Mc(saw Bros, near
Spesutra Island, Nd, was destroyed by
fire on the nth. Loss, 100000
THE sale to New England synd cate of
thirty-six thousand acres Of mining land in
Alabama was announced on the 9th. The
price obtained was nearly q, 100000.
ALBERT L. WALLACE, Of Sandusky, o.,
acc. dentally dropped two sticks Of dyna-
mite in his Office on the 10Th ult., demol-
fishing the building and causing his own
death. "a g y
FIFTEEN business houses at Durant,
Mis-, were burned on the Goth ult.
THE Woodsdale (Kan.) State Bank sus-
pended payment on the 29th
AT sp5keryille. Ind, Elias jackson on
the Doth ult mortally shot Curtis JellisOn