Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-11-07
Epito1ne Of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.

EplCOMo OF the week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
DOMESTIC.
MRS 4EoRGE WAUGH, OF Harrisburg, N.
Y, accidentally shot aud killed her six
year-old daughter while trying to take
away pistol which tho child had found
on the 18th and was playing with -'@r
OF wheat there was in sight in tho coun-
try on the 29th IS, 40, GIG bushels and
Of corn. II, 164,63l Since tue last report
wheat increased 5N, &c bushels and corn
decreased 50 $50 bushels. 3> r:
THE tug A. w. Lawrence exploded her
boiler on the 3Oth ult. while cruising in the
lake off North Point, near Milwaukee, kill
lug four men.
NATURAL gas explosion on the 3Oth
alt. in Schulther's tannery at Lima, o.,
partially wrecked the building and killed
three men.
THE case of General Adam Badeau
against tho widow Of General u. $. Grant,
for $4,000 for services on the Generals
memoirs, was discontinued on the SOth
ult.
PATRICK McDERMorr, of st. Louis, u
wood-sawyer, interfered i'll quarrel be-
tween Henry Lange. river contractor,
and his wife, on the Both ult., and LANCE
shot and killed him. LANCE was arrested.
PETROLEUM was discovered ON the 30th
nit. in an artesian we'll being sunk in a
tannery at Harrisouburg, Va.
LORD SACKvILLE WEST the British Min
lister at Washington, was on the Both ult.
notified by Secretary Bayard that as
representative of England he was not &C
ceptablc to the United States Government.
DURING the progress of business in the
criminal courtroom at Kansas City on the
:Dth ult Jack +. Fleming Il deputy mar
shall, drew his revolver and shot himself
dead
HENRY F. ALBERs, lumber and coal
merchant at Buffalo, N. Y, fled to Canada
on the 3Oth ult., leaving his creditors to
realize on $50, 600 worth of forged CONNER
cial paper.
J. A. MoAFFEs and Thomas Slaven en-,
gagged in fight in the latter's saloon at
indianapolis ON the 3Oth ult., and both
were fatally wounded.
AT Louisville, KY, Harry Smart was
found guilty on the 3Oyh ult of the MUIR
der of Meisner Green and Belle Ward,
who We're found floating in the river with
their threats cut. four months ago, and
was sentenced to Imprisonment for life.
The bullion product of Leadville Col,
was on the 30th ult. estimated at s., O0O, 900
less than last year.
By the fall of an elevator in store at
St Louis on the Both ult. Major William
O'keefe and two other men were fatally
hurt
Ow1Na to tho failure Of crops the people
in Mead County, Kan. were on the 3Oth
ult. said to be suffering for food and cloth
lug, and it was said that threefourths of
the residents would starve unless aid could
be procured.
WHILE Dolly Phillips, aged twenty
years, was watching a political parade at
Terre Haute, Ind. on the 30th ult. man
walked up to her and exclaiming, There,
take that" shot her dead The murderer,
whose name was said to be Galloway, es-
capped.
The four men who were arrested in Chi
cago on the charge of having placed dyna.
mite on the North Side street railway
tracks during the recent strike, with de-
structive intent, were discharged on the
3Oth ult, the evidence being insufficient to
hold them.
Nh. BARNARD, of the Lick Observatory
III San Francisco, announced on the 31st
ut. the discovery of another comet-the
second discovered by him within two
months.
DURING the twenty four hours ended on
the 3lst ult there were 20 new cases Of
yellow fever at Jacksonville Fla, and
death from the disease. Total cases to
date. 4 1856: total deaths, 354
KATIE KENNEDY, the sixty-third victim
Of the recent Mud Run railway disaster,
died at Scranton, Pa, on the 31st ult.
BUILDING in San Francisco occupied
by several lumber companies was burned
on the 3lst ult. causing a loss of 500, OO0
ROBBERS held up Mexican Central ex-
press train sixty miles below Ell Paso, Tex,
on the 31st ult.. forcing the engineer and
fireman to leave the engine and uncouple
the passenger. cars and then secured about
$2,OOO from the express car.
MRS STRIEBEL, of Wichita, Kan, was
fata ~ burned on the 3lst uit. and her five
year-old child was burned to death by
their cloth ng catching fire from burning
brush-pile
AT Rinesyille, Ca. William Harrison, in
1T of jealousy on the 31st ult., killed his
niece and fatally wounded his sister.
WHILE testing fire-escape on the 31st
ult at Pittsburgh, Pa, three boys were
killed By the breaking. of rope which
caused them to fall distance of seventy
feet
JOSEPH DICKENHoF, aged seventy years,
was assaulted by highwaymen at Akron,
O.. on the evening of the 31st ult. and
robbed of $500 which he carried in u
valise
ADvIoEs of the 31st ult. say that gang
Of negroes in Mercer County, ". Va, way
laid four white travellers and shot and
killed two OF them and robbed them OF
1900. The other two escaped.
A LARGE number OF unopened registered
packages were stolen from the post-off1ce
at Topeka, Kan, on the 3lst ult. All the
clerks were decoyed from the building by
fire alarm.
GEORGE l.. WALLACE, noted vocalist,
committed suicide at Troy. N. Y, on the
31st ult. sending bullet through his
brain.
SOLOMON BRUBAKER. a German living
near Washington, Kan, murdered his
mother, Mrs. Samuel M. Merky, ON the 31st
ult. and then cut his throat. 81
The infant child of John Oldham was
accidentally burned to death near Logans.
port, Ind, on the 3lst ult.
CrSrfHNArf Southern fratin 1uaS