Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-01-04

A ROW of twelve stores at Bohemian, M
T., We're destroyed by fire on the 2oth. =
The post-othce at Msssillon, O., was en-
tered by burglars on the 2Sth, and valuable
mail matter, some stamps and money carried
off,
A PASSENGER car on the Toledo, Ann
Arbor 4 North Michigan road was upset at
Alma, Mich, by bad frog on the 28th, and
six persons We're fatally injured
The will OF tho late Mrs Charlotte An
gusta Aston, fled at New York on the 28th,
bequeaths $3.50, 900 for religious, charita-
BILE and educational purposes The bulk of
her estate goes TO her husband.
CHARLES F. HAYWOOD, of New York, owner
of the Babcock fire extirgu!sher patent, said
on the 2Sth that the man who recently died
in a California almshouse was not The in
ventor of the extingulsher. Charles F. Bah
cock, Boston chemist, he said, invented
the extinguisher and he is still alive and
wealthy.
HUNGARIAN and Russian miners employed
In the iron mines ut Hibernia N j., en-
gagged In a raca riot on the 2Sth, with the
result Of badly injuring large number of
the men.
The heaviest gale in years prevailed at
Coney Island, N Y. on the 2Sth, and many
small build ngs were swept out to sea.
FIRE on the 28oh in the Enterprise rice
M II at New Orleans caused a loss of $780,
OOO
GOVERNMENT officers at Vernal, q. r., on
the 28th captured two of five train robbers
whoritied a mail Car near Grand junction,
Col, last October:
THE thermometer ranged from to Is
degrees below zero in Iowa on the 2Slh,
+ rom 4 to 10 below in Illinois, from to
10 below in Wisconsin, from 10 to "a below
in Nebraska, from Z to Is below in Kansas,
and from to II be>>w in Minnesota
SEVEN HUNDRED cSal-handlers at Port
Richmond, Pa, struck on the 2Sth, and the
Knights of Labor had ordered another
strike of Reading railway employees, but it
| was thought the order would not be gener-
ally needed. 1t was estimated that eight
hundred employees Of the road had lost
their positions because of the previous
strike.
The Adventists of Battle Greek, Mich,
fully persuaded that the end of the world
is close at hand. were describing jewe ry
and making other preparations on the 2Sth.
At meeting S., 600 was raised to establish
miss onS
OWING to the continuance of low water
! in the Ohio river Louisville and other towns
were suffering on the 2Sth from lack of
coal, and the price had risen one hundred
p er cent.
Fox the first time in the history Of that
section a man froze to death on the ooh
near Austin, Tex.
ABOUT thirteen thousand miles of new
railway track were laid in the United States
during 1887, surprising the record Of all
preceding years
ONE-TH1RD of the employees of H K
Porter 4 Co., locomotive manuf ,cturers at
Pittsburgh, Pa, were suspended on the
goth, owing to a lack of orders.
ELISHA MUsDEN, of Lex ngton, Ky, while
going to Saluda on the 29th With team
drove over Cliff $50 feet in height and
csc ped uninjured.
AUSTIN CoEB1N, president of the Reading
Railroad Company, addressed a letter to
employees on the 29rh notifying them that
the corporation would not submit to dicta-
ton from Knights of Labor or other organ
izations, and that PLACES that were left in
obedience to orders of such societies would
be filled by new men, who would not be
discharged to make room for repentant
strikers. The strike was considered at an
end, and trains were running as usual
JOHN JENNINGS, a former -four merchant
of Pittsburgh, Pa, was lynched by miners
in the Black Hills on the 29. b for Jumping"
q claim.
A FIRE on the Doth at Houma, La, de-
stroyed one hundred buildings and twenty
stores
The losses to the iron works of the coun-
try by fire during the year 1887 were esti-
mated on the goth at x4 .3S1 900, against
$3, ALI, 800 IN 1885
The Lathrop Memorial building at Al
bany, N. Y, erected by Mrs. Leland Stan
ford, OF s IN Fran cisco. as home for work
lnp-WOmnn'S oh ,16ran 6oHicaGa6
the Doth
A PANHANDLE fire. ght train, with twenty
four loaded clrs, ran into an open switch
near Bowerston, O., on the Goth, and was
completely wrecked, the cars catching fire
and burning up.
The will OF the late William Hilton, of
Bos on, fled on the ooh. gives $500, 900
to co leges, religious societies and charities
TIE Western Society of Naturaiists was
formed on the 20 at Indianapolis, TO in
clude naturalists by profession from Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin
and Minnesota.
. PATRICK OBR1EN, of Iowa, having $14,-
600 on his person, was picked up by Off
GERS in Cincinnati early on the morning OF
the OCH almost frozen to death. He had
been on debauch.
FREDERICK, Md, was visited on the Doth
by a most violent wind-storm, and num-
Der Of houses were unroofed and large trees
were uprooted
A LANDSLIDE on the Goth on the Queen
& Crescent railroad near Livingston, Ala,
wrecked a passenger train and seriously in
jured sixteen persons.
In some portions of Minnesota the ther-
mometer marked 40 degrees below zero on
the 29Jh, and at DEBORAH, Ia, it was 38 be-
low.
Judge Hoffman rendered a decision in the
United States District Court at San Fran
cisco on the 29oh in which the right of the
Chinese to import opium was sustained.
JAMES BRICKLEY won bet at Newport.
KY, on the 29th by drinking seven glasses
OF whisky and two of eggnog in five min
utes, but died soon afterwards.
COMMISSIONER CARROLL D. WRIGHT SUBJ
m1tted to the Secretary of the Interior
at Washington on the ooh the third an
nual report of the Bureau of Labor, which
relates entirely to strikes and lock-outs for
the six years ended December 81, 1886.
During that period there were 8 9O3
strikes, involving 1915 1924 employees, and