Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-03-07
DOMESTIC.

HE annual encampment of the G. A. R,
Department of Nebraska, commenced at
Lincoln on the 2Srh ult
GOVERNOR GREEN, of New jersey, on the
2Sth ult vetoed the Local Option High
License bill
AT Clinton, Ky. Sam Price, white man
who killed the sheriff, and Bill Reamus
(colored), who shot farmer named jack
son, were taken out of Jail on the 2Sth ult
by about fifty men and lynched
The motion for q new trial in the Coy
Bernhamer election conspiracy cases was
denied by Justice Harlan on the 2Sth ult.
at Indianapolis, and the convicted men
would have to go to prison.
HORACE MURRAY was convicted on the
28th ult at Kalamazoo, Mich, of assaulting
the nine-year- daughter of his uncle,
and was sentenced to fifty years in the
Jackson penitentiary.
A NEGRO cabin at Spanish Camp, Tex, was
set on fire on the 2Sth ult by whites and
the occupants were deliberately shot down
as they ran out of the burning house. Five
were killed and one severely wounded,
while two were burned to death in the
cabin. Another negro was caught and
hanged to tree. The butchery was the
outcome of suit for the possession of land
recently decided in favor of the negroes
JOHN PRINCE, an old bachelor who lived
alone on q farm five miles from Washing
ton, Ind. fell in the fire in a fit on the 2Sth
ult and was burned to death.
ZEPH DAVIS young 1nulatto who brutally
murdered Maggie Gaughan, q white girl,
aged fifteen years, in Chicago few days
ago, was captured on the 28th ult. and con-
fessed his guilt. He killed the girl because
she repealed bis criminal advances
The Union Square Iheater at New York
was totally destroyed by fire on the 2Sth
ult, and the Morton House adjoining was
badly damaged Six fremen were severely
injured. Total loss $3.50, 1000
The first death at the Iowa Soldiers
Home at Marshalltown occurred on the
28th ult, John Peck, aged fifty six years,
passing quietly away
THE law enacted by the last Legislature of
Wisconsin, permitting drunkards to be SEN
fenced TO the inebriate asylum, was on the
28th ult. declared invalid by the State Su-
preme Court
The monthly statement of the Reading
railroad, issued on the 28th ult, shows
decrease In the net earnings for January of
1922, 600 over the same month in 1887,
caused by the strike.
MRS HEAroN NANCE, aged thirty-ive
years, guest at the Leland Hotel in Chica-
90, committed suicide on the 29th ult by
shooting: No cause was known for the
deed
AS result of recent fires at Buffalo, N
Y. the local board of underwriters on the
29th ult raised the rates twenty per cent,
taking effect at once.
The strike of engineers on the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy road still prevailed on
the 29Ch ult, and only few passenger trains
were running.
THERE was big breach in the strike in
the Lehigh (Pa-) region on the Goth ult., and
many assemblies K of L. had notified the
strikers to return to work The Lehigh &
Wilkesbarre Coal Company had ordered
the mules back to the company's mines and
in short time twenty thousand strikers
would be at work
HENRY D. R1EPPE, proprietor of the Ma
tional Hotel at Rutherford, N. j., was noti-
fed by lawyers in Berlin on the Goth ult
that he had fallen heir to an estate valued
at$l, 100000
WILLIAM KELLY and James Wynn lost their
lives on the Doth ult by being buried in
sewer excavation at Kansas City. Both leave
families
The safe of Mogle Gilbrath, jewellers. ct
Greensburg, Kan, was blown open on the
Goth ult and robbed of So, 700 in watches,
jewelry and money.
THREE robbers stopped a train on the
Doth ult. on the St Louis, Arkansas d
Texas railway near Pine Bluffs, Ark, and