Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-05-16
DOMESTIC

DOMESTIC
A STRIKE was begun On the Sth Ut the
Pratt mines, at Birmingham, Ala One
thousand men were out.
WILLIAM SHOWERS, aged seventy years,
who was under sentence of death in the Jail
at Lebanon, Pa, for the murder of his two
grandchildren, made his escape on the Sth.
Mrs. WILLIAM WEBB and her babe were
burned to death on the Sth by the explosion
of q lamp at their residence at Fort Edward
N. Y.
Miss NORA HAYwoRTH, of Logansport
Ind, WAS fatally burned on the Sth by her
clothes catching fire at stove
The cut worm was appearing in great
numbers in the Ohio valley on the 9Th,
causing farmers serious apprehensions.
AT Gresham, Pa, on the Sth three burg
lars entered the house of Mrs. Mary
Reynolds, who was alone, but she defended
herself with a Ratchet so eTectually that
she killed one of the trio and put the others
to flight
The powder-house of the Colby mine at
Bessemer Mich, blew up on the Sth, killing
two men and fatally wounding five.
ROBERT G. HALL and David Vincent were
hanged in Philadelphia on the Sth for muir
der.
The High License bill passed by the New
York Legislature was vetoed by Governor
Hill on the 9th.
PORTIONS of Northern Ohio were swept
by a cyclone on the 9th, farm buildings be-
orchards leveled. No loss of life was re-
ported.
The memorial services in respect of the
late Roscoe Conkling arranged for by the
New York Legislature took place in Al
bany on the 9th, and eulogy Of the dis
tinguished statesman was delivered by
Robert G. Ingersoll.
A FIRE on the 9th on Catoctin mountain,
near Middletown, Nd, destroyed much
valuable timber.
THE Mississippi river was still rising on
the 9th, causing serious damage and great
alarm at Dubuque, Ia., and other points
The Galena river had flooded part of Ga
lena, Ill.,
The Illinois Supreme Court on the 9th
denied hearing in the cases of the Chi
cago "boodlers," Messrs. Van Pelt, Ochs,
Leyden and Wasserman, and they would
have to serve out their sentences of two
years each in the penitentiary.
The old employees of the Reading Pa)
railroad who struck and were discharged
issued a circular on the 9th asking for help,
saying that they were in extreme want.
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Dealers assembled in annual session on the
9th at Davenport, Ia, elected J. P. Smith,
Of Fowler, Ind, as president.
PHILADELPHIA advices of the 9th say that
the operation of transplanting rabbits
eye to human being had been successfully
performed in that city by DR.. Fox, and the
patient, Mrs. Shick, could see quite well
again.
CAss1Us D1CKERsoN, young farmer near
Seymour, Ind, while riding through tim
Der lot during q thunder storm on the 9Th
was struck by falling tree, which killed
both himself and his horse. +,4s
THE seventy-second annual meeting Of
the American Bible Society was held on
the 10th in New York. The cash receipts
for general purposes during the year
amounted to $557, $40 and disbursements
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ENocH MCMAHON, a wealthy farmer of
Madison County, Ind, and his hired man,
Mr.. Treat, were burned to death in their
beds early on the morning of the 10TH Fire
caught from the stove.
AT the session Of the Supreme Lodge
Knights Of Honor at Cleveland, O., on the
10th l. A. Gratz, of Tennessee, was elected
Supreme Dictator.
Ed BARRETT was burned to death on the
10th at Henry Grove, Tex, in a fire that de-
stroyed twelve dwellings.
THE dam at Hamlin, Mich, went out with
the food on the 10th, and two million feet
of logs in Hamlin lake went into Lake
Michigan, carrying with them seventeen
homes along the stream.
The house in which General Grant was
born at Point Pleasant, o., will be taken to
the Cincinnati Centennial Exposition for
one hundred days. ~. t.,.s.'. .,
CASHIER II. F. ROYCE, Of the Willimantic
Conn., Savings Institute, was arrested on
the 10th on the charge of embezzling $685.
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AN explosion Of natural gas in st. Paups
Episcopal Cathedral at Buffalo, N. Y, on
the 10th caused fire which speedily de-
stroyed the building. The loss was about
$4,000. Several other explosions also oc.
CURED, creating panic. .l i-F.G,...
OFFICIALS in Chicago Of the Burlington
4 Quincy railway stated on the 10th that
the recent strike of engineers on their road
oostthe company about q, 600. 600. 81 = Z
In quarrel on the 10th at Caldwell Tex,
Ben B. Hunt, Q prominent saloon keeper,