Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-03-28
DOMESTIC.

The New York Legislature on the goth
passed bill providing that veteran soldiers
are not to be discharged by city govern
ments without cause.
STORM. ice and high water damages were
reported from various points in the West
on the 10th. In portions of Dakota and
Minnesota the heaviest snowfall of the
winter prevailed, and in Western Kansas
and Nebraska heavy storms of sleet and
snow had damaged fruit and livestock:
CYRUS GBBLE, superintendent of the Vul-
ture mine, and a man named Johnson were
robbed of $1,000 and killed at Niger
Wells, COL, on the Goth.
JOHN WALKER. seventy-four years old and
tired of life, shot himself to death in Rich
mond, Ind, on the Goth
The post-oftice at Radford Ill, was
burned on the 10Th, all the funds and SUD-
plies being lost
The to al exports from this country of
dairy products for the ten months ended
Fehru Try %, 1887, were $9,342, O4O while
the exports OF the corresponding period in
1888 were $50, 113, III.
MANOR HEWITT, of New York, in COM
munication on the Goth to the Board of
Aldermen defends his action in refusing to
allow the Irish flag to be rails I'd on the city
hall on 81. Patrick's day on the ground that
mitted 10 float from any pubic building in
this country. He said tnat foreigners who
come to this country to live should remem-
Der that they thereby become Americans
and cease to be foreigners
The only visible sign remaining on the
2Oth of the great Burlington strike was the
retention Of their headquarters in Chicago
10y the Brotherhood The contest itself was
declared to be over, despite the rumors OF
combination OF switchmen and brakemen
to help the engineers and fremen. The
boycott on Burlington freight, which was
the great stroke relied upon by the engi-
neers to win their demands, had been COM
pleiely raised.
HE experts examining the accounts OF
Richard H. Greenwood, treasurer of
Daviess County, Ind. found on the goth
that Greenwood was short $14, 1853
RESOLUTIONS denunclatory of The Mills
Tariff bill were adopted by the Central
Texas livestock Association on the Doth
The Statistician of the Agricultural De-
partme nt at Washington on the Goth esti-
mated the stock of wheat in farmers hands
at the present time at 1872, 600, 900 bush
els, against 122, 900, 900 bushels at the
same time last year.
HEAVY wind and rain-storm in the Pitts
burgh Pa.) district on the Dist leveled tel
egraph poles and did other damage
AFTER three weeks unsuccessful strike
Tor nine hours work for ten hours pay
the Milwaukee ship carpen ters and calkers
gave up the fight on the 21st and resumed
work
TERRIBLE cyclone visited Georgia and
Bast Tennessee on the night of the Goth,
causing immense destruction to property
and much loss Of life. The storm formed
in the vicinity OF Calhoun, Ga, and pur-
sued a northeasterly direction through
North Georgia and into and beyond East
Tennessee The tornado in places cleared
the ground completely of grass. and for
est of timber was mown as with great
ecythe
THB Emigration Board in New York on
the 21st reported the total number OF pas
sengers landed in that city the past year as
45O.S45.
Turing q storm at Washington on the
zlst lightning struck the Capitol the fash
being especially vivid in the Senate cham
Der.
OK the 21st two New York pilot boats,
with fourteen men, were reported as lost
JAMES sApP. of Goodland, Ind, was ar
rest ID on the 21st in Logansport charged
with passing So, 900 in counterfeit money.
ONE OF the tiercest gales ever experienced
ragged on the 21st at Wheeling, W. Va. Sew
eral houses were unroofed, ind many per-
sons were blown off their feet on the street
Cold weather, with one of the severest
storms of the season, was reported on the
21st from Wisconsin, Minnesota and Da-
k0ta
GREAT floods prevailed ON the 21st on
the Upper ssouri in Montana. The coun-
try in the vicinity OF Wo.f Point was one
vast sea, farms being unler four feet of
water.
A SEVERE rain storm, accompanied by
violent winds, prevailed throughout West
ern Massachusetts on the 21st, inundating