Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-08-29

tributed to the use OF beer drawn through
pipes and "soft" drinks from bottles
rinsel with shot.
IT was discovered in New York on the
9Sd that registered package containing
$4,000 hal been stolen while in transit
from Portland, Ore, to the Chemical Ma
tiona.. Bank Of New York.
By storm on the 3Sd in Muskingum
County, O., bridges and culverts wore
washed away aud crops sustained consid-
cradle injury.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND on the sd sent q
message to both houses of Congress ask
Ing for legislation authorizing him to issue
proclamation forbidding the transporta.
ton of foreign goods in bond across the
United States in retaliation for discrimi-
nations against American fishermen by
Canadians. ,
THREE murders were committed on the
sd ut Pineville, KY. George Carron and q
railway boss got in quarrel and fatally
snot each other, and two Italian laborers
Quarreled about woman and one stabbed
the other to death.
/ NEAR Monticello, Ga, ON the sd, at re-
ligious association meeting, fight oc
CURED between the Tyler and Malone fam
lilies. Thirty shots were fred, and James
Malone and Sam Tyler were instantly
killed, Ed Tyler mortally wounded and sew
eral others severely injured.
HORACE CHRIsTLER, farmer living near
Topeka, KAN, was murdered on the 23d by
neighbor, John Carter, over trouble aris-
ing from their joint possession of a corn
planter.
h. H. MARSHALL, postmaster at st. Clair,
fa., disappeared on the ed. His accounts
were Il, 900 short
tire on the sd, and when the firemen
turned water on the immense revolving
bleach in the heating room an explosion re-.
suited and ten tons of boiler debris were
hurled into the crowd of spectators, kill
ing fourteen persons outright, fatally in
juring seven and wounding many more.
FIVE HUNDRED witnesses who were
taken to Greenville, s. c., to testify against
the 'moonshiners" were said to be in q
starving condition on the sd, the United
States Court being short of funds to paw
them fees
DURING the seven days ended on the Gath
there were ISL business failures in the
United States, against Isl the previous
seven days.
A MILE swimming race for tho amateu
championship of the United States for
women took place at New York on the 24th.
and was won by Miss Daisy Blankley, aged
twelve years.
A FIRE on the 9th at Clinton, Ind, dea
stroyed dozen business houses.
ELEVEN head of horses, together with
Mark Leberman's house and barn, were
burned on the Gath at Wilmington, Del.
Six new cases of yellow fever were re-
ported on the oath at Jacksonville, Fla,
and two deaths.
AT colored religious meeting on the
Gath at Carter's Wharf, Va, three persons
were struck by lightning and killed.
a HEAVY shock Of earthquake occurred
at Stevenson. Ala, on the oath, alarming
the colored residents so that nearly all Of
them rushed into the streets.
A TON of powder in the drying house of
the Grant Powder Company, near West
Berkeley, CAL, exploded on the oath, kill ng
two white men aud three Cinnamon.
Two SISTERS, Belle and Jessie Ferguson,
of st. Paul, MINI, severely horsewhipped
and dubbed J. NJ. Hawthorne, young
attorney, on the Oath because he made I'M
pleasant remarks about them.
LOUIS COHEN, Nogales a. T) mer-
chant, was murdered by thieves on the
9th, who carried of one thousand dollars.
JACOB MOxTER a prominent dealer in
pianos In st. Louis, sat down to one of his
piano on the Oath, played the "Dead
March," and then blew his brains out.
Business trouble caused the rash act
BLACK measles of most virulent type
prevailed on the Gath among the negroes
on the rice plantations on the Santee river.
near Columbia, 8. c. Fifty deaths had
occurred, and the disease had become cpl
demic, creating panic.
NATHANIEL H. L1rH, JR., deputy collector
of the port of Ogdensburg, N. Y; William
j. Cummisky, janitor of the Government
building, and John w. Stone, prominent
attorney of that city, were arrested on the
24th on charge of stealing and disposing
of smuggled opium.
DR.. j. W. LEWIS, of Hartford, Conn,
was on the oath elected president of the
American MICROSCOPES Society at Cleve-
land.
OBERcAxpF, the Chicago mail-box rob.
Der, was on the oath held for trial in 8, 900
bail
NEW YORK coal agents on the 24th in
creased the price of coal from twenty five
to fifty cents ton, according to distance
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
BRIGADIER-GENERALA BsALoM BAIRD, In
spectorGeneral of the army, was on the
goth placed on the retired list, and Colonel
Roger Jones was appointed to succeed him
with the rank Of Brigadier- General.
SAMUEL MORSE, aged one hundred and
four years, died on the 10th at Portland,
Me.
ROBERT NJ. HARDLE1 was renominated
for Congress on the 10th by Seventh Penn
sylvania district Republicans.
A CoLoRED woman named Mrs. Phoebe
Clark died in Detroit, Mich, on the 10th,
aged one hundred and three years. She
was native Of Delaware and born in
slavery.
ADAM FOSTER, aged ninety-o years,
and William Collins, aged seventy seven
years, both pioneers Of Grant County, Ind,
died on the Goth.
SECOND Alabama district Democrats on
the 21st nominated Congressman e. A.