Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-09-26

The boiler OF Mohamilton's saw-mill
near Blair, Neb., exploded on the 10th, kill.
Ing Fireman Henry Alexander and En-:
gtneer Henry Morrell and inluring others.
The First Presbyterian Church ut New
Brunswick, N. j., was burned on the 10th.
Loss, tS5, 600; insurance, &8l, 900. .59
The Society Of the Army Of the Cum.
berlnnd In session on the goth in'Chicago
elected General w. s. Rosecrans president
and adjourned to meet in Chattanooga,
Tenn, next year.
ADvIoEs of the Goth say that the total
salmon pack in Alaska was seven thou.
sand cases. The winter was setting in at
Silver Bow basin, and mining operations
had been suspended A free gold deposit,
fifteen feet in width, had been developed
| at Berner bay
ESTIMATES on the aOth from thirteen
western States, representing seventy.
| seven per cent. Of the crop, indicated the
total production Of 2,0l5, OOO, 600 bushels OF
corn this season, or $50, 100000 bushels
more than the 1887 crop
MRS. JOHN CLICK, aged eighty years,
Who lived at Peru, Ind, was burned to
death on the Goth, her clo6hing catching
fire from a pipe she was smoking NJ
A NUMBER of cases Of yellow fever do.
veloped on the 10th at Decatur, Ala, caus
ing the widest excitement Stores were
being closed and the people were fleeing
from the town. Three cases were Officially
reported at jackson. Miss.
DURING the twenty-four hours ended on
the 10th there were 13l new cases of vel.
low fever at Jacksonville, Fla, and Il
deaths. Total cases to date, 1,464; total
deaths, 1856
IT was reported from Trinidad, COL, on
the Goth that an organized band of thieves
had stolen several hundred cattle from the
Panhandle ranges and shipped them to
St Joe, NO., where they were sold
IT was stated ON the Goth that the circu-
lar Offering SO, 900 reward for the arrest of
Tascott, the murderer of Amos ]. Smell,
in Chicago, would be printed in all Ian
guages and sent to all parts Of the world.
The United TypothetaB in session on the
10th in New York elected Andrew McNally,
of Chicago, president. -. 81. ~ =,
The rolling mills at South Chicago start
ed up on the Goth, after being shut down q
month. and eighteen hundred men were at
work again. 3
A PHILADELPHIA firm on the Goth con-
tracted to build fifty locomotive engines
for the railroads of the Argentine Repub-
lie.
HENRY F. HARDING stole ST 900 from two
banks in New York on the Goth, in broad
daylight, but he was finally captured and
the money recovered.
In quarrel on the Goth over the rent of
q house between two farmers living, near
Muncie, Ind, Jackson Hunter shot at Mr..
Fleming, missing him, but killing his son.
JAMES BEDELL, real estate clerk for the
law trim of Shipman, Barlow, Larocque &
Choate, OF New York, was on the Goth
discovered to have been carrying on sys-
tenn OF. swindling for five years, during
which time he had raised 1864 600 ON forged
bonds, mortgages, ETC..
OWING to the yellow fever scare La
Grange. Tenn, quarantined against the
world on the goth.
HE American Surgical Association in
session at Washington on the Goth elected
DR.. D. W. Cheever, of Boston, as president
MRS. WILLIAM B. MURPHY was found
dead on her husbands grave at Kansas
City, No., on the Dist, having committed
suicide,
AT Hawthorne, Wis, on the night of the
21st a gang of Italian railroad laborers
murdered their foreman, c. F. Hubbard.
The cause of the trouble was not known
CHARLES STREaGE, a mill employee in
Wausau, Wis, fell upon a rotary saw on
the 21st and was cut in two.
AT Crystal Falls, Mich, Frank Morence
was fatally stabbed in the back on the 2lst,
and the murderer, stranger, escaped
DURING the twenty four hours ended on
the 21st there were 118 new cases Of yellow
fever at Jacksonville, Fla, and IA deaths.
Total cases to date. 1928; total deaths, 1885,
UNKNOWN meo entered pay-car of the
Lake Shore road at Buffalo on the night of
the Goth, administered ether to the occu-
pants, and decamped with $4,000.
On the Fleetwood Park track, at Phila-
delphia on. the 21st, the famous PAGER John
ston went a half mile in one minute and
half second. beating all previous records
for that distance
DURING the seven days ended on the 21st
there were 229 business failures in the
United States, against 217 the previous
seven days.
HENRY BAUER, of Center, Wis, while
cutting corn with mower on the 21st fell
in front of the knife, was cut on the leg,
and bled 10 death.
JAMES E. BEDELL, clerk of New York
law firm, was arrested in that city on the
21st charged with swindling clients Of the
firm out Of about $500, OOO
The Sovereign Grand Lodge Of the Inde-
pendent Order Of Odd Fellows, in annual
session at Los Angeles, CAL, voted on the
21st to hold it's next years session at Co.
lumbus, o. # y,
A CYCLONE passed over Mammoth
Springs, Fulton County, Ark, on the Dist
doing considerable damage to crops Sew
era upeople were injured.
THROUGH an operators carelessness two
Baltimore & Ohio freight trains collided
near Belleville, o., on the 21st, doing dam
age to the amount Of $50 600
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. "ss
]. L. CURTIS, of New York City, candi-
date of the National American party for
the Presidency, issued his letter Of accept
ance on the 18th. He said the party was
forced into being by the evils Of unlimited
floods of bad immigrants q foreigner
should not vote until twenty one years q
citizen: that none but the American flag
should be known to our people, and that
none but Americans should fill the public
Offices Of the country.
Rev. DIR. TRAvELL1, founder of the
kindergarten system Of education in Amer