Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-10-03
DOMESTIC.

GOVERNOR Ross, of Texas, on the 25th
ordered the entire Ranger force of the
State and number of militia companies
to Rio Grande City to put down q mob of
Mexicans that had taken possession of the
town.
The monument to the Confederate dead
buried at Staunton, Va, was unvailed on
the 25th in the presence of five thousand
persons
NEAR Denver, Col, three Mexicans were
murdered on the 25th by tramps.
COUNTERFEIT silver dollars and half
dollars were numerous in Nebraska City,
Neb., and vicinity on the 25th.
JOHN N LEMON, aged sixty five years, of
Allegheny City, Pa, got into the hands of
two buuko men on the 25th, and they
robbed him of $4,000
HE Finance Committee of the United
States Senate received the Tariff bill from
the subcommittee on the 25th. It provides
for cutting down the revenue to the extent
Of about $4,000, 0OQ Several days would
be occupied in its consideration
Frost, the first of the season, was re-
ported on the 25th at Rome, Ga, at points
near Montgomery, Ala, and at Birming-
ham, Ala, and on the mountains near
Chattan ooga, Tenn
The Pennsylvania Board of Pardons at
Harrisburg Oh the 25th granted a pardon
to Milton Weston, of Chicago, serving
five years. term in the Western Peniten-
tiary for contributory murder.
A PASSENGER rate war was being waged
on the 18th by east bound roads out of St.
Louis
Up to the 25th the total number of tons
of anthracite coal mined in this country
T this year was 26, 70O, 1892, against "a, 662, ia
tons for the same period of 1887.
On the 18th one hundred and fifty Nor
mons arrived at New York and Immediate
~ left for Utah.
AN incendiary fire on the 18th at Wabar
sha, Mimi, destroyed business property
valued at $4,000.
A FIRE on the 26th destroyed business
buildings valued at 500, at Canton
D. T.
By the upsetting of boat on the Goth in
the river near Glasgow, Mo-, James Hollo-
way, C. B. Brown and Mr. Dehham were
drowned
A VIOLENT wind and rain-storm was
raging on the 26th along the whole New
England coast Telegraph wires were
down in all directions, and damage to
property would be large.
The National convention of American
Mechanics in session on the 26th at New
Brunswick, N. j., elected w. o. Staples,
of Connecticut, National Commander.
MRS. MARY GARRETT, of Medina, O., was
on the 26th found guilty Of the murder of
her two imbecile step-daughters.
NATHANIEL L1BBEY. aged ninety three
years, and q pensioner of the war of 1912,
died at Warren, n H., on the 18th.
The Western district of Lamoure Coun-
ty and the southern end western parts of
Stuttsman County, III Dakota, were swept
by prairie fire on the 18th, resulting in
crushing losses to farmers. Thousands of
acres of wheat and hay were burned over
and farm houses and outbuildings were de-
stroyed.
" EPHRA1M SMELLS, of New York, manu.
facturer and original introducer of
Rough on Rats" suspended on the 18th
owing to losses through injudicious ex-
penses. ~
J. w. BROWN. convicted of bigamy at
Detroit, Mich, seven Of his alleged thirty
Z three wives having testified against him,
was on the 26th sentenced to seven years
and six months imprisonment ,-
TwENTY-oNE little girls ranging in age
from nine to fourteen years, who recently
arrived in New York with Mormon elders
by Collector Magone to be sent back to
Europe.
BILL WHITLEY, q notorious Texas des-
pc RADIO and train robber, was on the 18th
shot dead in Floresville, Tex, by United
States Marshal Rankin.
THE lumber yard, planning mill and store
OF Oliver Loukey, at Verdi, New, were
Z bur ned on the 18th at a loss of S1O0 600.
A SLIGHT shock of earthquake was felt
in Albany, N. Y, on the 18th. No damage
was DONE r..
A GAS well with q capacity estimated at
nine million feet daily was drilled in at
Sweetzer. Ind, on the 26tb. This made
twenty-five natural gas wells drilled in
Grant County without failure
BUFFALO, N. Y, was visited by severe
Y wind and hail-storm on the 9th which did
considerable damage
SYLVESTER KENDALL of 9reenburg, Ind,
became insane on the 9th from seeing his
little daughter burned to death.
FoRGERIEs to the extent of $4,000 on
d the gratuity fund Of the New York Pro-
! duce Exchange were discovered on the
. 9th. The attorney, w. r. Foster, was
charged with the crime.