Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-06-06
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
JAMES MCLAUGHLIN e. Son, wooden man
ufacturers at Skaneateles Falls, N. Y,
failed on the 18th for over $500
THREE children were swept away by the
swollen flood of Solomon creek in Kansas
on the 28th and were drowned
THOMAS WAGGoNER, of Jackson, ILL.,,
charged with accepting election brides last
fall, was on the 2Sth found guilty, ordered
to be disfranchised for five years, confined
in the county Jail tor ninety days, and to
pay the costs Of prosecution. This was the
first case under the new law.
GOVERNOR MARTIN, of Kansas, on the
29th pardoned A. NJ. Campbell, who had
served fourteen years Of twenty years.
sentence for criminal assault on his own
daughter, recent investigations proving
that he was innocent, and that his daughter
had been melted by her mother to prefer
the charge.
ORDERS wers issued on the 18th for the
discharge Of all men whose services could
be dispensed with on the Pennsylvania
railway east of Pittsburgh and Erie.
About five thousand persons would be laid
Of.
The six Methodist Bishops-elect, Drs.
Vincent, Fitzgerald, Goodsell, Joyce, New
man and Missionary Bishop Thoburn, were
SOAoOIAotoO Ii Nc" OTA On LOc SJGQ.
NEWS was received on the 18th of the
murder, a few miles from Osceola, Ark, of
Mrs. Stokes Allen, widow, and her two
children, a boy and girl.
IT was discovered on the 29th that the
band of Apache Indians which has been
committing depredations and murders in
Sonora during the last two years is led by
two Americans, named Red Murphy and
West.
The First National Bank, the Curtin
Opera-House and several business build
ings were burned on the Goth at Bellefonte,
Pa. Loss, $500,
The hearing in New York in the A. T.
Stewart will case developed the fact on the
18th that after the testator's death his
widow spent nearly 81, SOC, 900 for legacies,
Gratuities, annuities, charities and gifts to
relatives.
L AT the annual meeting in New York on
the 18th of the National Civil-Service
Reform League George William Curtis
read an address on "The Reason and the
Result of Civil Service Reform"
THREE deputy sheriffs were fatally shot
on the 30th ult. during an attempt to arrest
gang Of rivermen at Musick's Ferry, Mo.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS was reelected
president Of the Civil Service League at
oAAO AACOOAA6 LII AVG" 4OIh OA Cuc OUGu ulG.
Resolutions were adopted censuring Presi-
dent Cleveland for disregarding civil-serv-
ice rules.
A FATAL shooting ARRAY occurred on the
Both ult. at Holdodge, Neb., resulting in
the death Of Will Kurfes, bartender, and
A. j. Wenquest, farmer.
The United States Brewers Association
began its twenty eighth annual convention
in st. Paul on the Goth ult.
THREE men were crushed, two Of them
fatally, by lumber ''crib' weighing forty
thousand pounds, at La Crosse, Wis, on the
30th ult
The residence of Mrs. Lee Jerome, at
Wichita Kan, was entered by burglars on
the Goth ult and SIC, 900 worth of diamonds
and other jewelry were carried off,
THE Wallingford (Conn.) Wheel Com
pany's shop was struck by lightning on the
3Oth ult. Loss, $4,000
DISPATCHES of the 30th ult say that Colo
RADIO had been blessed by an extraordinary
rainfall, the greatest ever known in the
State, and its effect had been to stimulate
vegetation to remarkable degree.
DECORATION DAY was generally observed
in all parts Of the country on the 3Oth ult.
In New York City President Cleveland re-
viewed the parade.
ult. at Georgetown, Brown County, Ind,
over the finding of gold IN large quantities,
and Of the finest quality, on the farm of
William H. Arwine
A ROW-BOAT containing six men was cap
sized in the river at Fall River, Mass, on
the Both ult and three of them were
drowned
DURING the four days ended on the 3Oth
nlt. John Winters, Chicago carpenter
lost four of his children from diphtheria.
BLOCK OF buildings at Selma, Cal, was
burned on the 31st ult. Loss 800, 1000.
HENRY WEAVER, who last December
killed Miles West, was executed on the 31st
ult. in Early County, Georgia.
The General Synod of the Reformed Pres
byterian church adopted resolution at
Pittsburgh on the 31st ult. that the consti-
ton OF the United Statey is virtual agree
ment or compact to administer the Govern
ment without reference to Christ or Chris
tian religion.
SPRING wheat prospects throughout the