Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-08-22

ProPr1"tlon Dill was passed, but all efforts e
transass any other business were defeated be
cause OF the lack Of = quorum. e'x.s,ss~
BEE. was passed in the Senate OF. the 11tb
prohibiting the mailing OF obscene or libelou,
matter In transparent envelopes. 1t was
agreed to vote on the fisheries treaty. next
Tuesday. Adjourned to the Goth =. In the
House flibustering tactics on u proposition tc
assign certain days for the consideration OF
general pension legislation and to take up the
General Deficiency bill consumed most of the
session.. ~ !.
DOMESTIC.
PRoF. EDWARD L. FRENCH the registrar
and Instructor of physical and natural
science at Wells College in Aurora, N. Y,
was on the 14th charged with having de
frauded the college out of $4,000.
A FIRE in the business district Of Peoria
ILL.,, on the 18th did 500, 900 damage.
Two THOUSAND people had left st. Au-
gustine, Fla, on the 18th owing to the vel
low-fever scare. A rigid quarantine was
being enforced in all Southern cities
The two children of G. D. McCarkie were
burned to death on the 18th in fire that
destroyed his cottage at the Mount Tabor
Methodist camp-meeting grounds, near
Newark, N. J. -ss-s:s 7S-..-
IRISH immigrants testified before the
Congressional Investigation Committee in
New York on the 18th that they were in
duced to come to this country by vessel
agents who told fabulous tales of the
money that could be earned here.
ONE of the most terrific storms known
on Mount Washington, N. H., in years,
ragged on the 14th, the hurricane attaining
avelocity of nearly one hundred miles an
hour and the temperature being very low
IT was announced on the 14th that a new
line of steamships would be established
between New York and England via I'm
aqua in the West Indies
NINETEEN carloads of Illinois people
went to Indianapolis on the 18th and shook
hands with General Harrison.
AYERS, an aeEonaut, who assembled in a
natural gas balloon at Anderson, Ind,
alighted safely on the 14th near Wilkin-
son, twenty miles from the starting point.
BREADsTUFF exports during July last
aggregated in value H.SS1, 794, against
Sl5, 759, 219 for same month last year, and
for the seven months ended July 81 past
81, 49,, s72 against 500, 4ls,O4S during the
corresponding seven months of 1887
IHE seventh annual encampment of the
Sons Of Veterans, U. S. A., convened at
Wheeling, W. Va. on the 18th. The order
has gained twelve thousand members dur
ing the past year. -
WINTHROP, Me-, was visited by two Sc
we're shocks of earthquake on the 18th, last
ing about thirty seconds.
MAJoR-GENEKAL SCHoFIELD on the 18th
Issued general order announcing that he
had as sumed command of the army.
HAMPTON, N. h, was two hundred and
fifty years old on the 18th, and there was
demonstration by the citizens in comment
Grafton Of the event.
son were lynched by party of outlaws in
the southwestern part of Apache County,
A. T., on the 18th. The affair grew out of
the recent war between the sheep and
cattle raiser5.
HEALTH officers at Buffalo, N. Y, on the
18th stopped public funeral, it having
come to their knowledge that the death re-
suited from small pox.
The great brick-makers' strike in Chi
cago collapsed on the 18th, owing to union
men at work refusing longer to support
the strikers.
SAMPLES Of gold from the Vermillion
mine at sunbury, Mich, assayed S25, 600 to
e., 900 ton at Sault Ste Marie on the 18th.
WEAvERs in the inen-m mill at Fall River
Mass, went on q strike on the 18th, and
two thousand looms were idle. -
SAMUEL N1sHAM, aged thirteen years, of
Camden, Pa, who was bitten by dog July
4, dia5 ON the 18th inst Of hydrophobia.
- JAMES JOKES and Joseph Rosenberg,
Louisville policemen, attempted on the 10Th
to arrest Charles digger, a desperate who
was beating his mistress, when digger
fought them with knife, stabbing both
fatally.
TIE National convention of Insurance
Commissioners in session on the 10Th at
Madison, Wis, elected o. F. Tyler, of Con
1ecticut, president.
NINE persons were injured in collision
on the 10Th on the Illinois Central railroad
at South Lawn, a Chicago suburb
CHIEF MEscoTr, Of the Kickapoos, his
squaw and five children were killed by
lightning on the 18th in his cabin on the
reservation near Netawaka, Kan. p.
ADoLPH HARTMAN. a German clerk at
Navasink, N. j., tried to shoot Mrs Hayes,
his mother in-law, on the 10th, and then
killed his wife and himself. Jealousy was
the cause.
LEADING heavy hardware jobbers of the
West met in Chicago on the 10th and organ
lied a National union of heavy hardware
jobbers, the object being to oppose the for
nation Of trusts, combinations and syndi.
Gates as connected with the business j. j.
Parkhurst, of Chicago, was elected presi
dent. d.
The Supreme Court Of Wyoming Terri
Fitory on the 10Th decided that woman
suffrage in the Territory was unconstitu
tional r..
FREDERICK Won OBERKAMrF, the Chicago
mailbox robber, said on the 10Th that there
was an international band Of mail thieves
IN existence, and one Charles Edwards was
implicated at the head and front Of the
gang.
ADv1cEs Of the 10Th from Jacksonville
showed that the yellow fever epidemic hae
been checked in that city, but the pani.
which resulted throughout the South hai
not subsidized. .g.sE..+s.s.Ss5s
The steamers Geiser and Thingvalla Of
the Thingvalla transatlantic line collided
in fog Of Sable Island on the 18th inst
and one hundred and nineteen persona
were drowned The Geiser sank in avt
minutes after the accident. Some Of the
passengers and crew escaped to the Thing
valla, which was also badly injured ant
threakened to 80 Down, when the steamer
Wieland came TO the rescue. The Wielanl
arrived Is the port Of New York with IT,