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

west and Northwest were on tho Slsu ult.
generally regarded as encouraging.
A FIEE on the 3lst ult. ut st. Paul Park,
Mimi, destroyed the st. Paul knitting
works, causing loss Of $4,000.
MAY AND NELLIE Motley, aged twenty
one and nineteen years, were drowned on the
31st ult in ths Missouri river ut Kansas
City by tho capsizing of boat
w. IL MOORE, cashier and general man
ager OF the Bank Of Socorro, N. NJ. fed to
Mexico on the 31st ult., and tho bank had
closed its doors.
Anv1cEs of the slst ult say that the re-
cent tornado which swept over the Penn
sylvania OIL regions caused q loss of 81 ,0OO,-
OOO Hundreds of houses were unroofed or
blown down. The tornado travelled at the
rate of seventy miles an hour, and was &C.
companied by waterspouts and terrific
whirlwinds.
WHILE making soft-soap on the 3lst ult.
near Springfield, NO., Jessie Waldron fell
into the fire and was burned to death.
MRS. ANNA MCCLAFFERTY was accident
ally shot and killed on the 8lst ult by her
son Hugh, aged eighteen years, at York
town, Pa The boy was ''fooling" with
pistol.
AN explosion on tho raft boat Inverness
on the Slst ult. near Quincy, ILL.,, caused
the death of five men.
DAVID A. COLBERT, a young man, acct
dentally shot and killed his bride of two
weeks at their home in Chicago on the S1st
ult. They were fooling with pistol.
The Methodist General conference, closed
its session at New York on the 31st ult.
A SEVERE wind-storm passed over sew
eral counties in Virginia ON the 31st ult.,
demolishing barns and fences and uproot-
ing trees.
THERE was rejoicing along the line of the
Louisville Southern railroad on the 3lst ult.
over its opening for general traffic.
The hospital Of the University Of Penn
sylv ania, at Philadelphia, was burned on
the S1st ult. Many specimens and models
were lost.
The steamer Fulton was blown up on the
31st ult by the explosion of her boiler at
Pass Loutre, La, and Edward Perkins,
the pilot, and Captain Biddle were killed.
AT noon on the LIST the charter making
Ithaca the twenty ninth city in the State
of New York went into operation.
AT the session in Pittsburgh on the 1st of
the Reformed Presbyterian Synod Of the
United States a resolution was adopted
deprecating the publication of Sunday
newspapers, and instructing the presby-
teries to prosecute by proper discipline all
members who advertise in the same.
THERE were 1856 business failures in the
United States during the seven days ended
on the LIST, against 2l3 the previous seven
days. The total of failures in the United
States from January I to date is ASST.
against 4514 in 1887.
Two BOILERS in the Eureka iron works
at Wyandotte, Mich, exploded on the 1st,
wrecking the building and killing three
men.
HEAVY frosts were reported on the 1st
from East Tawas and Tustin, Mich, as
having damaged vines, clover and fruit,
and severe hail-storm from Springfield.
NO., that injured all crops and ruined some
wheat and corn fields.
FIRE on the 1st in the lumber yards at
Gull river, near Brainerd, MIMI, consumed
over fourteen million feet of lumber.
FIVE men were probably fatally scalded
on the 1st by the explosion of the boiler on
the raft-boat Evansville, near Winona,
MINI.
The public-debt statement on the 1st
showed the total debt to be 81, 706, 400, 413;
cash in treasury, 81, zoe, 217; debt less
cash in treasury, 8, 16O, O14,15O Decrease
during May, s1,6lS.690 Decrease since
June 80, 1887, so, A., ST..
ANDREW GRANDsTAFF, q young despera-
do, was arrested on the LIST for the recent
murder Of Reuben Drake and his wife and
two grandchildren near Viroqua, Wis,
and confessed the crime. and soon after
ward was taken from Jail by mob and
hanged to tree.
r. r. WILSON, cashier of the Pittsburgh,
Cincinnati & st. Louis freight department
at Columbus, O., absconded on the LIST with
about S, 600 belonging to the company.
BIZ collision of trains on the lst near
Waverly, N. Y, two men were killed and
three others were fatally injured.
A HEAVY funnelshaped cloud passed
southeast of Springfield, Mo-, on the 1st,
and great damage was reported to crops
and buildings
Mrs. AMERICA RAwsoN, of Chicago, the
wife Of the banker, s. w. Rawson, and
complainant in the notorious divorce suit,
entered Judge Jamieson's courtroom on
the LIST and fired five shots at H. c. Whit
ney, her husbands attorney. Two of the
bullets hit the lawyer, but he was not
seriously injured.