Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-05-09
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ing session twenty seven pension bills were
passed
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The public-debt statement on the LIST
showed the total debt to be 81, 7O6 1913 a376;
cash in treasury, sl1O,2244, $3.50; debt less
cash in treasury, 81, ISL co., S55. Decrease
during April, S, 22335 800. Decrease since
June 80, 1887, s97, 795, 1871.
NEAR Alliance, O., Peter Whitefeather,
retired farmer, aged sixty-fve years, was
killed by a horses kick on the 1st
LEWIS W. MCGLAuFL1N, heavy San
Francisco grain dealer, failed on the list for
500, 0OO with the Bank of Nevada as his
largest creditor.
OF $50 applicants for liquor licenses at
Philadelphia on the 1st $50 were refused
licenses.
A PETITION to Governor Oglesby for the
pardon of Anarchists Fielder, Schwab and
Neebe was in circulation in Chicago on the
1st.
DURING the forty-eight hours ended at
noon on the 1st nearly ten thousand immi-
grants were landed at Castle Garden, New
York
HE general conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church began in New York on
the LIST, Bishop Bowman presiding.
jim HARRIS (colored) who assaulted Mrs.
Simmons at Vicksburg, Miss, was lynched
on the 1st.
In Pittsburgh, Pa, 59 out of ~ saloons
closed up on the LIST, when the Brooks
Liquor law went into effect.
WILLIAM G. DUTTENHoFER, tax-collector
of Columbia borough, Pa, was on the 1st
adjudged defaulter in the sum of &, OOO
AT jackson, Miss, on the 1st General
Wir Adams, the postmaster, and John
Ns<Sv of =
fought duel in the street, both being
killed.
TWENTY houses were burned on the 1st
at Trenton, Ky.
The great strike of the engineers and fire.
men Of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
railroad system, which was inaugurated
February 26, was on the 1st said to have
been officially declared lost.
The surface buildings of the Eclipse
mine at Little Cottonwood, U. T., were
burned on the I'd. Loss, 100000.
The total log-cut Of the Duluth (Minn.)
district during the past season was 270, OOO,-
OO0 feet
A FIRE on the I'd destroyed Conrad Zieg-
ler's slaughter-house and fifty head of cat
tie at Allegheny City, Pa.
The address of the Methodist Bishops,
read at the general conference in New
York on the I'd, showed that in four years
$4,000 souls had been brought into the
church and the membership increased from
1862 4 to 1908, 99S5. The Bishops are op-
posed to high license and in favor of total
prohibition of the liquor traffic.
GENERAL MARTIN BEEN, prominent Chi
cago lawyer, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself on the I'd at Stanton, Neb..
where he was visiting Family troubles
were the cause.
AT Helena, NJ. T., on the 2l John T. Rand
killed his wife and child and himself.
Two CHILDREN of Farmer Henry Rincho,
near Canton, O., were burned to death on
the I'd.
GEORGE MARTIN, miner, who shot and
killed Deputy Marshal Kelly at Warrior,
Ala, was lynched by a mob on the I'd.
SIX consecutive days of rain were report
ed on the I'd from Mason City and other
Iowa points.
The little hamlet of Mcintyre, Pa, was
wiped out by fire on the 3D.
IT was reported on the I'd that mail
pouch on the Northern Central road had
been robbed near Baltimore of $4,000 in
registered letters.
A STORM Of wind on the Sd demolished a
two-story store building at Tacoma, Ia,
burying in the debris and killing farmer
Leonard Wilson. Several houses were un-
rooted.
ALLAN q. MEYERS was convicted on the
Sd at Columbus, O., of contempt of court in
publishing Objectionable articles during the
tally-sheet forgery cases, and was fined
600 and sentenced to three months i'm
prisonment
THEODORE F. DWIGHT, Librarian of the
State Department at Washington, rendered
his resignation on the Sd, and it was &C.
cepted.
THE first convention of the National
Pure Food Association was held in New
York on the Sd.
The strike of the Edgar Thomson steel
works at Braddock, Pa, was declared off
by the Knights of Labor on the Sd, the men
resuming work at the old rates.
GENERAL JOHN M. SCoF1ELD was on the
ID elected Commander of the New York
State Commandry Of the Loyal Legion.
The Second National Bank at Xenia, O.,
closed its doors ON the Sd, owing to the
failure of Hoover & Allison, merchants.
The Chamber of Commerce of New York
on the Sd held its one hundred and twenti-
eth annual meeting.
A FIRE on the Sd in the yards of the Chip
pewa Lumber Company at Chippewa Lake.
Mich, destroyed ten million feet of lumber.
Loss, $4,000; insurance, 100000!
# Columbus, O., on the Sd George Ter
wfiger and George Whitaker were in
stantly killed and Simeon Coleman fatally
hurt by the falling of the wall of new
brick building.
THD Iowa State Pharmaceutical Assooiar