Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-02-01

* LIE thlrU W1ntof Corn1VA OF U00 Guy Oh Il
ST Paul opened on the 25th.
The great firm Of Gregg b Co, manu-
facturers OF agricultural implements Mt
Ithaca IN Y, assigned on the 25th,
The wheat held In Northwestern farmers
hands on the Doth was estimated at thir-
teen million bushels surplus beyond seed.
DISPATCHES Of the 25th say that Browns
Valley, Mimi, had not had railroad train
for four weeks, and there was no sugar, |
coffee or kerosene In the place and butvery |
little coal Families were living together |
to husband supplies
ISAAC N. STANLEY, ex-paying teller of the
National Bank Of Commerce of Cleveland,
O., who emhezzled 800, 600 Of it's funds
was on the 25th sentenced to five years
imprisonment 20. @a&
An accident on a lumber hallway on the
25th near Otsego Lake, Mich, resulted In
severely wounded - -, !. S .54t ~
IT being announced that the striking en-
ployes OF the Louisville Courier Journal pro-
posed starting an opposition paper, the pro-
prietor of the Courier-JoNyndl offered the
free use of the Associated Press dispatches
to the strikers for six months. -.
Ten tons of Texas cotton seed were
shipped from Galveston, Tex, on the 26th
to Zanzibar, Africa, where otton-growing
will be tried.
An explosion of dynamite on the 26th at
the Carbon Limestone Company's quarrias,
ten miles from Youngstown, O., killed three
men.
G. G! BRADLEY, vagrant, was on the 26th
| sold under the law, for term of six months
| to William MoClanahan, of Milan. Mo- for
thirty Ave cents
REPORTS OF the 26th from New England,
New York and Pennsylvania stated that
severe storm was raging. The snow was
piled into mountainous drifts, and travel
on country roads was impossible Passen-
ger trans were snow-bound. Along the
coast fierce gale was raging, and many
vessels were reported in great peril.
IT was alleged on the 26th that half tho
citizens Of cambridge, O., had been involved
| in coal thefta
IT was announced on the 26th that the
Milwaukee brewery employees had complied
with the demands OF their employers that
| they should withdraw from tbs Knights of
Labor:
THREE masked men entered tho house of
Henry Merritt, an old woodsman, near
Huntingdon. Pa, ON the Doth, and tortured
him until he was unconscious, when they
secured 81. 500 he had hid under the floor
I and left
M. PR1BY1., wholesale dealer in guns
and cutlery in Chicago, failed on the 26th
for 100000
DURING Decemberlast %, 321 immigrants
arrived in this country, against 21 , l78 in
December, 1886. During the year 1887
immigration to this country amounted to
sos, 281, against 1886, 631 in 1886.
On the Goth two workmen named Nc
Dermott and Fowler fell to the bottom Of
the hot-air oven Of the Floodwood furnace
In% hnHr IN
THE total values of the imports of mer-
chandise for the twelve months ended De-
cember 81, 1887, were sos, 307. 81.
against $663, 400, lS9 for the same time In
1885 The values of exports for the same
periods were $715, 800, 953 and $713, 404, :
O21 respectively.
INCOMING steamers at New York on the
Goth reported very severe weather on the
Atlantic
WHILE boring for coal on tho Goth near
Carmi. Ill.,, oil was struck at a depth of
], l21 feet which was gushing to the sur
face at the rate of over fifty barrels an
hour.
MRS GEORGE LAsHER, of Columbus, O.,
committed suicide on the 26th by saturat-
ing her clothes with kerosene and setting
fire to them She was insane
Two MINES OF the Reading Pa) Company
, were worked on the Goth, having about
two hundred men employed All the other
mines belonging to the company were SOL
idly closed down
The fine passenger depot Of the New York
Central road at Niagara Falls was destroyed
by fire on the Goth. ..l
In Northern New York the sncw-storm
was increasing on the 9th, and the freight
blockade on the New York Central and Hud-
son River lines was the heaviest evel
known. The thermometer was IL below
zero, and the snow was packed so closely
that it was impossible to remove it
DURING the seven days ended on thu
., 9th there were 268 business failures in the
, Un ted States, against 276 the previoul
seven days
A sTRzrr-cAR cable train became I'M
manageable on the 9th at St Paul, Mimi.
and when descending hill the cars sho
. downward at great speed, ran on the trac]
: and were smashed to pieces Three per
. sons were fatally injured and fourteen wer'
l badly hurt
TIE Indiana Soldiers Monument Com
: mission on the 9th selected the design o
Bruno schmil: z, Berlin artist The monu
:; ment will be $50 feet high, made of Indian
}, stone and bronze. and will cost $500, 600
An explosion Of gas on the 9th in q ndn
=; at Plymouth, Pa killed one man and fatal
Z " burned four othera
= HENRY PRErRE was burned to death In hi
barn at Tyler, Mimi. on the 9th. and te
horses, seventeen cattle and twenty hog
: were also cremated. ~. ID. ~
e The balance Of trade with the world fo
u the year 1887 was in favor of tho Unite
g States to the amount of SO, 513.6N
Q c. B. HITCHCOCK and wife were foun
murdered on the 9th on their farm in La
Angeles County, Cal Robbery was the me
l. tive.
n IT was estimated in Philadelphia on th
e: 9th that the effect of the high-lioense Law
70 fixing the fee at $500, would be to reduce tn
70 number of saloons from six thousand
thirteen hundred
n The San Francisco Bridge Company
which assigned recently, with liabilities {
) $500. 600, resumed business on the 9th.
u As THE outcome of quarrel which o.
CURED six years ago G. P. Maysey, one I
J. the best-known men in Western Arkansa
"a was shot and killed on the 9th in Gslde
.e City by Oscar Coulter. .... 9sl:a& -
IL Four railway employees were killed 9
T. the 9Th near Holyoke, Mass by an engtr
3 dashing into them while they were shove