Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-12-12
DOMESTIC.

H A LADLE of molten steel was overturned
in mill at Pittsburgh, Pa. on the 4th,
and i've employees were horribly burned,
three of them fatally.
~ THE annual report on the 4th Of General
Arson McCook, Secretary Of the United
States Senate, showed expenses for the
q year as follows: For salaries and mileage
!. Of Senators, 1884,, 1877; for salaries Of OIL
n GERS, ETC., 1888 674; for contingent expen-
SEES, s157, FOL; total, 1890, 53a
SIMON We'll, q member of a prominent
firm of traders at Evansville, Ind, de-
camped on the 18th with about $15, 0OO,
which he was alleged to have defrauded
Kentucky farmers out of.
TIE Secretary Of War issued general
order on the 18th directing that when not
prevented by &C i've service all the avail
able infantry, cavalry and light art lery
{ of the army shall devote part of each
summer to practice marches, encamp-
ments, maneuvers and other field opera
tons.
#s Ar Gainesville, Fla, on the 4th the
Board of Health declared the yellow fever
epidemic ended. Traffic was resumed, and
the first passenger train arrived in the
afternoon.
EXCITEMENT prevailed on the 4th in the
neighborhood of Felicity, Clermont Coun
FL Gys " OWING To HI euOTt 10 uTlV0 COlOT0U
children from the schools.
HoRsE-THIEvEs on the 4th stole a number
Of valuable horses from farmers living
near Lima, o.
A FIRE in the lumber district of Muske-
gon, Mich, on the 4th caused loss of
$780, 200.
NINE men were arrested on the 4th at
Eckerly, Ind, charged with connection
with "White Cap' raids =. ID
The Treasury Department monthly state
ment on the 4th Of changes in circulation
during November past placed the total Cir
culation of the country on December at
81 1905 15O.456. T =. -s1r
u NEAR Lexington. Ga, on the 4th COL
'ored woman locked her three children in
the house and went out visiting, and while
she was gone the children set fire to the
house and were burned to death. q"
JOHN II. WALSH rendered his resignation
AZ Superintendent of the Treasury at
Washington on the 18th. r...
The stage from Mend0ciDo, Cal. to In
grams was stopped on the 5th by robber.
who secured the express box and two mail
sacks e. ... ~a..: N.~
The mines at Nesquehoming, Pa, were
s. flooded on the 5th, causing great damage,
and Philip Stevens and William Pitcher
were drowned. 90" 7
&. CANoScHEr, Governor Sp-ague's man
& sion at Narragansett Pier, r. l., was sold
on the 5th for $500, 600. 1t would be used
Z for hotel.
SMALLPOX appeared on the 5th among
4 the soldiers at Brownsville, Tex
Fred LoHR, six-year-old boy of Poplar
= Grove, ILL.,, was set upon by q vicious ram
on the 5th and killed.
H JAMES BARKER, marshal OF Center Point,
T~n<1 f7So1 %h~
! oh from the effects Of an overdose of
q patent medic ne.
WILLIAM LADUE and two friends, of
Toledo, O., were recently thrown into the
& river from skiff which was upset. La
4 dues friends were drowned, but he was
B picked up after long exposure, whicE re-
suited in severe sickness, from which he
4 recovered on the 5th with b hair turned
from Jet black to snow Waite.
FIVE acres of sawed lumber in the yards
4 Of Woods, jerks & Co., at Cleveland, o.,
Il were destroyed by an incendiary fire on
r the 9Th.
CONDUCToR JAMES KENNEDY was killed
g and three other men were fatally injured
& In collision on the 5th on the Lake Shore
road near Youngstown, O.
THE Philadelphia & Reading Railway
Company on the 5th reduced the working
{ hours Of its twenty five thousand employees
from ten to eight. Wages would be pro-
s port onately cut down
AN engine collided with street-car in
4 Detroit on the 9Th, demolishing the car and
injuring ten persons, five Of whom would
B probably die.
LAKE navigation closed on the 5th. Dur
u ing tie year forty-e ght boats were lost,
s valued at $3.50 400 In 1897 seventy boats,
valued at s777, 100, were lost. The number
Of lives lost was 16, against 116 the previ-
! Gus year