Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-06-13
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
A FAIR to raise funds for the Grant mon
ument was inaGgurated in New York on
the 4th.
WHILE crossing the Elkhorn river in a
fat-boat on the 5th at Wisner, Neb., Lena,
Anna and Otto Mathis, aged sixteen,
eleven and five years respectively, and
Frank Marx were drowned.
The British bark Balaklava arrived at
San Francisco on the 5th from London
after remarkably long voyage of one year
and seventy-four days: Her misfortunes
were many, and during the trip twelve
sailors were washed overheard and
drowned.
THE thirteenth annual convention of the
Amalgamated Association Of Iron and Steel
Workers began at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the
5th, with two thousand delegates present.
SEvENTEEN-YEAR locusts appeared in
swarms on the 5th at Clinton, la.
FOURTEEN HUNDRED bales of cotton,
owned by Jones, Robertson & Co., of
Columbia, s c., were burned on the 5th.
The Masonic Grand Lodge of Iowa
opened its forty fifth annual convention
on the 9Th at Cedar Rapids.
By the explosion of steam engine ON
the 9Th in St. Paul four men yvaro killed
and three others were seriously injured
TAANANY HALL and Tony Pastors The
alter in New York, both in the same build
ing, were entirely destroyed by fire on the
the relics treasured for years by Tammany
were consumed.
A sAw-M1LL boiler in Dennison, ILL.,, ex-
ploded on the 9th, killing three men.
A FIRE consumed 5000, 900 worth of prop
erty in the extensive lumber district of
Burlington, VT, on the 9Th.
1T was announced on the 9Th that Gov
ernor Hill would call an extra session of
the New York Legislature to provide for
the maintenance of the prisons. Over
81 10000 was needed.
GEORGE c. HERK1dER, knit-goods manu-
facturer of Fairchild, Wis, shot his wife
and then himself on the 9Th. Domestic
troubles caused the shooting.
JOHN MURPHY, son Of Francis Murphy,
the temperance lecturer, eloped on the 9th
with Lucy Richardson, the daughter of
Lawrence Richardson, a wealthy Louis
vile (Ky.) manufacturer, and the clippers
were married.
TIE second floor of the hotel being con-
structed by the Land & River Improve
ment Company at Superior, Wis, gave
way on the 9Th, fatally injuring three men.
during heavy thunderstorm on the 9th.
after being terrified to Inconsistencies by
the thunder.
NJ. L. L1CHENsTE1N, late secretary and
treasurer of a Building & Loan Associa-
ton in Wilmington, Del, was on the 9th
found to be 1913, 600 short IN his accounts.
BLACK tongue was raging on the 9Th
among horses in Hancock County, O., and
people were badly frightened, as the dis
ease is contagious.
NEARLY the entire business portion Of
L4ingsburg, Mich, was destroyed by fire
early on the morning of the 18th.
THE Mountain House at Manitou Springs,
COL, was destroyed by fire on the 9TH.
Landlord Thornton had placed 81, 600 in
greenbacks in his desk the day before, and
they were burned.
AT Boston on the 9TH Thomas Rowlands,
jealous Of his wife, shot her, causing in
slant death, and then killed himself.
AUSTIN FIELDS e Co., wholesale shoe
dealers in Philadelphia, failed on the 18th
for $3.50. 900.
GOLD was discovered on the 7th at a
depth Of sixteen feet on the farm of George
Beyl near Jacksonville, Ind.
EXAMINATION of the accounts of Colonel
w. II. Webster, treasurer of Merrick
County, Neb., resulted on the 9TH in the
discovery of shortage of $685. 600.
DURING terrific thunder storm in Yer
mont on the 9TH a number of buildings were
struck by lightning and destroyed, among
the number being the old Town Hall in
Westminster which was built in ITO.
THOMAS A. EDISON was experimenting in
New York on the 18th upon new electric
flying machine which he had been commits
stoned by the Spanish Government to make
for war purposes
DURING severe shower on the 9TH at
Keene, N. B., lightning struck the farm
house Of Stephen Clemens. destroying the
house, barn, eight head of cattle and sew
eral horses.
EXETER, N. H., celebrated her 25Oth an
niversary on the 18th, and hundreds of the
former residents and many distinguished
men of the State were present.
DEPUTY SHERIFF ALvERD had fight with
the Sonora train robbers on the 9TH near
Nogales, A. T., while trying to arrest
them, and killed two of them and mortslly
wounded the third.
For exacting an exorbitant and illegal
fee from widow for whom he procured z
pension John L. Taylor, Chicago attor-
ncy, was on the sth held in 1890 bail for
trial in the United States Court.