Mower County transcript., 1888-10-10

cases to date 2,s96; total deaths, 40.
THE National Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union will hold its fifteenth an
nual meeting In the Metropolitan Opera
House, New York City, from October 10 to
2S inclusive. Miss Frances r. Willard,
president Of the society, will deliver the
ANIMAL address, and General Clinton B.
Fisk, Mrs. Mary T. Burt, Mrs Mary A.
Livermore, Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson, Mrs.
Mary q, Hunt and others will speak, and
Miss Elizabeth w. Greenwood, of Brook
lyn, will preach the annual sermon.
A PASSENGER train on the New York
Central railroad jumped the track on the
Sd and crashed through the depot at Ba-
tavia, N. Y, but no one was lost
COUNTERFEIT foreign cigar stamps were
discovered on the Sd in Chicago, and coun-
terfeit bills were also being circulated.
The stage coach running to Cosa- GDande
from Florence, A T., was stopped at Dry
Lake on the Sd and robbed Of the Wells
Fargo treasure-box &..h
MRS MARY L. GARRETT was sentenced
at Medina, O., on the 4th to hang January
"a, 1889, for numbering two imbecile step
daughters.
Ar their convention ON the 4th in Colum-
bus, O., the American Beekeepers elected
DR.. A. B. Mason, of Avondale. O., as pres
ident.
AT Des Moines, la, In the State
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
convention on the 4th Mra J. Ellen Foster
was reelected president.
EDDY & STREET, dealers in cotton yarns
at Providence, r. l., failed on the 4th for
$l0O, 900. @~a
The American Bankers Association at
it's meeting at Cincinnati on the 4th
elected Charles Morton, Of St. Louis, pres
ident
NINETEEN business houses at Pleasant
Vile, Ia, were burned ON the 4th.
The American Board Of Commissioners
for Foreign Missions in session on the 4th
Storrs, of Brooklyn, as president.
THE Union carriage works at Trenton
N. j., Ftzgibbons g. Crisp, owners, were
burned on the 4th. Loss, 100000.
On the 4th Chicago & Atlantic work
train having on board about sixty Italians
was run into by another train near Ham
mond, Ind, and thirty five of the laborers
were injured
JOHN SPAIN and George Le Blanche
were on the 4th sentenced to the peniten-
tiary in Buffalo, N. Y, for SIX months
each for aiding and abetting female
prize-hght.
WIDESPREAD destitution was on the 4th
SAID to prevail among the residents of
Ramsey County, D. t., owing to the de-
struction of crops by frosts, and appeals
for aid were made.
DURING the twenty-four hours ended on
the 4th there were u new cases of yellow
fever at Jacksonville, Fla, and death
from the disease. Total cases to date,
2,971; total deaths, 271.
j. B. QU1NN's dry-goods house at Little
Rock, Ark, was Quilted by fire on the 4th
The loss on stock and building was $780,
600, and the insurance about 100000
BIZ the capsizing Of a canoe on the 4th in
the Wicomico river, near Mount Vernon,
Nd, Mrs. Kemmerman, of Dorchester
County, and three children were drowned.
The twelfth annual Congress of the
American Secular Union began in Pitts
burgh, Pa, on the 5th-
DURING the twenty-four hours ended on
the 5th there were 81 new cases of yellow
fever at Jacksonville, Fla, and 6 deaths
total deaths, 81. .-s. -
- a NAN man named Hickman, OF Boston,
Col, shot and Killed J. P. Booth on the
5th in quarrel over woman, and was
lynched an hour afterward.
PHILIP PALEDoN1, an Italian who mur-
dered his brother in cold blood on the
evening of June q, 1887, was hanged on
the 5th at Bridgeport, Conn.
The conductors, drivers and gripmen of
the North Chicago Street Railroad Com
pany struck on the 5th for shorter hours
and increased pay.
The Mormon semi-annual conference
opened at Salt Lake on the 5th, Apostle
Lorenzo Snow presiding In all their
speeches the apostles and elders insisted
upon polygamy.
A PECULIAR disease was prevalent on the
5th among horses near La Porte, Ind,
horses being seized with trembling fits be-
fore death. The cause for the disease was
unknown.
DURING the seven days ended on the 5th
there were 211 business failures in the
United States, against 220 the previous
seven days
A TEAM of four race-h horses attached to a
Roman chariot dashed into crowd of
sight seers at the Kutztown (Pa) fair
grounds on the 5th and several people were
more less injured. %
A TERRIFIC explosion of accumulated gas
occurred on the 5th in the new water
works tunnel at Cleveland, O., and five
men were horribly burned and were taken
out in dying condition.
IT was announced on the 5th that there
would only be one-half rice crop in South
Carolina this season.
A LoNG-D1srANCE telephone communica-
ton was successfully accomplished on the
5th between Portland, Me-, and Philadel-
phia, via Boston. Providence and New
York.
JOHN DIETRICH, Of Cincinnati, shot and
killed himself on the 5th because two
young women whom he had asked to
marry him had each refused him.
THE disappearance of W. H. Ingham
from New York on the 5th brought to light
speculative swindling scheme of his by
which thousands Of people had been robbed
in the aggregate of $1OO, 600.
MRS. LOUISE A. MOORE, aged thirty two
years, committed suicide at Oakfield, N.
Y, on the 5th by shooting. Domestic
troubles prompted tho deed. #
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
ROGER Q. MILLS was renominated for
Congress on the 1st by the Democrats Of
! the Ninth Texas district *s@+ :5s
THE town elections throughout Connecti-
cut on the 1st showed slight Republican