Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-11-28


we're bsad injured and also suffered the
soas OF their purses,
#SPuRgGEoN PERRY, aged eighty-nine
pears, At one time possessed of fortune
estimsa ted ut 81, 900 900. accumulated in the
patesS lined ciue business, was on the 22d
sent to the Brooklyn IN. ~ poor-house at
his lawn request. .-? :
TfaE publication of the twenty second
vol tune of the tenth census report, which
sats issued On the a2d, completed the most
elaborate work of the kind ever undertaken
in the world The cost was over sc, DOC, 600.
EKRY TAYLOR (colored) was lynched on
the ed in st. Helena Parish, La, for Grim.
inal assault on a Dung girl.
UNITED STATES TREASURER HYATT in
his annual report on the 22d says the net
revenue for the year ended June 30 was
1919, 266. 074; expenditures, $267, 1901. AS
compared with 1857 the revenues were
$685., 797 greater and tho expenditures
s7,3S7 less. Silver dollars coined during
ing the year, 49,, 4S4 ,673, making the total
coinage $3.50, 424, 100. g..
LEVI MEEKER, his wife and their eight
year-old daughter were killed near Well
ington, Kan, on the 22d while attempting
to drive across the tracks of the Southern
Kansas railway.
A MAN, his wife and three children who
arrived at Denver. COL, on the ED
claimed to have been buncoed out of $1O,-
600 in New York.
JAMES PHlLBECK, o farmer of Cleveland
County, N. c., was called to the door of
his house and shot dead on the 22d by an
unknown man, who entered the house,
shot Philbeck's wife and robbed the house.
MORMON missionaries in Alabama
claimed on the 22d that ten thousand con-
verts wer being added to Mormonism an
nually, and that the Territories of Ari:
IONA, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming we're
being rapidly colonized by their people,
Mr.. BARRY stated in Indianapolis on the
22d that he would form new labor organ
ization. Within the last few days he had
received numbers Of letters from Knights
all over the country pledging him support
A FIRE on the 22d in public school at
Long Island City, N. Y, caused a panic
among the nine hundred children, who
rushed pell NELL from the building. None
were fatally hurt, though scores were
badly bruised.
ADAM BERKEs, a man who was whipped
recently at Sardinia, O., by the White
Caps, went crazy on the 22d and was a raw
ing maniac.
The breaking of natural gas main on
the 23d near Pittsburgh, Pa, caused a
shutdown of the mills and factories on
the south side of that city.
The Vermont House Of Representatives
on the 23d refused the Pitkin license bill a
third read ng by vote of 149 to 81.
Mrs. MARY DoRAN, of Columbus, o., who
murdered her husband last July by pour
ing carholic acid in his mouth, was on the
23d acquitted on the ground of insanity.
The total value of merchandise exported
from the United States for the year ended
October 81, 1888. was $724, sos. 230 and the
imports S707, ISL, 1913. The figures for the
previous year were: Exports, $67S, 422 $50;
imports, s722, ZIG, $780,
The greater part of the business district
of Eureka Springs, Ark, was burned on
the 23d, the loss reaching 100000
ALBERT SHULTz, aged fifteen years, of
nephew on the 23d He snapped his gun
at him. thinking it was unloaded.
The earth's surface for an area of half a
mile square between mines near Wilkes
barre, Pa, caved in on the esd to an
lost, but the bursting Of water mains
flooded the mines.
JAMES E. BEDELL, the real-estate clerk of
a New York law firm who swindled his
employers and their clients out of 1854 600,
was on the 23d sentenced to twenty-five
years and four months in State prison.
The Jenney Electric Light Company's
plant at Fort Wayne, Ind, was entirely
destroyed by fire on the 23d. Loss, $3.50, OOO
AT the annual meeting of the General
Assembly of the Knights of Labor on the
23d at Indianapolis T. V. Powderly was re-
elected general master workman.
Mr.. RICHARDSON, principal owner Of the
street railway lines in Brooklyn, N. Y,
gave notice on the 23d that hereafter only
American citizens, native or naturalized,
would be employed on his lines.
DURING October last 40, 365 immigrants
arrived in this country, against a, 1866 in
October, 1887. Germany furnished 10, 1866;
England and Wales, 7,477; Ireland, 5, $50;
Sweden and Norway, 1850; Italy, ass,
and Scotland, 1904.
THERE were 296 business failures in the
United States during the seven days ended
on the 23d, against 237 the previous seven
days.
GEORGE W. M1LL1KEN was hanged on the
23d at Shawneetown, ILL.,, for wife murder,
and John Holiness (colored) was executed
at Marion, Ala, for the murder of his par
amour, Celia Johnston.
CASHIER BARKER Of the Argentine (Kan.)
Bank was robbed of $1,000 on street car
in Kansas City on the 23d. He had just
drawn the money from bank
THE house of Carl Woebbeking, near
Waterloo Ia, was burned on the 23d, and
two of his little children were suffocated
by smoke.
AUGUST SCHNEIDER, who arrived in New
York City on the 23d, said he had walked
all the way from Chicago, leaving there
September 20 last
HENRY JONES, of Petersburg, Va, while
drunk on the 23d went to sleep on the
porch of his residence, and when found by
friends was frozen to death.
DUR1N the twenty four hours ended on
the 23d there were b new cases Of yellow
fever at Jacksonville. Fla, and 2 deaths
from the disease. Total cases to date,
1865; total deaths. 4O7.
MOSES SMITH, a miner at Brazil, Ind,
aged sixty years, and without family,
was on the 23d informed that he had fallen
heir to fortune Of 500, 900 by the death
of relative in Wales.
MRS. LETUzRA EPPEL, of Rochester, N.
Y, aged seventy-nine years, was burned
to death on the 23d by her clothing catch
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