Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-06-27

SD In the House the Naval Appropriation
bill was passed and the Sundry Civil Appro-
priation bill was further debated. At the even
ing session thirty-seven private pension bills
were passed.
DOMESTIC.
The town of Dubois, Pa, was almost
wiped out Of existence on the 18th by fire.
Nearly three hundred houses were in ruins
and four thousand people are homeless.
SEVERAL cases of sunstroke occurred in
New York City on the 18th.
A FIRE on the 18th at Danbury, Conn.,,
burned over twenty acres, destroying q
number of business blocks and lumber
yards. Loss, S125,OOO.
WILLIAM NORTON and j. Lanson were
drowned in the Mississippi river at Gin
ton, Ia, on the 18th. Norton was drowning,
when Lanson jumped in to save him.
JOHN CAMERON and Charles Anderson
We're drowned in Portage locks, near Lake
Levilier, Mich, on the 18th by the capsiz-
ing of boat
CAPTAIN WILLIAM A. ANDREWS started at
six O'Clock on the evening of the 18th from
Point OF Pines, near Boston. on voyage
to Queenstown in his fourteen foot dory.
Twenty thousand people saw him off, He
crossed safely ten years ago in similar
boat.
WASHINGTON Ives (colored), who recent
ly attempted to outrage white woman,
was lynched on the 18th near Natchez,
Miss.
SEVEN coke works in the Connellsville
(Pa.) region shut down on the 18th on &C.
count of strike of the employees. Two
thousand men were thrown out Of work.
The Sparta House at Wakefield, Mich,
owned by Edward Bowler, was burned on
the 18th, and his two little boys persisted
in the flames
MAGGIE WELLS, eleven years old, arrived
in Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 18th from York
shire, England, having made the trip unac-
companied by any one. Her father fastened
u tag to her dress, bearing the address Of
her uncle in that city, and by this means
she arrived safely.
A WOMAN giving the name OF Mary Aulis,
wearing mems clothes, was arrested in St.
Louis on the 18th with man named John
Orrick. Under pressure the woman said
Orrick had murdered her husband and
stepson at Gad's Hill, NO., and she had
eloped with him.
ROBERT II. PICKFoRD, printer, attempt
ed to swim the Mississippi at Fort Madison,
Ia, Oh the 18th on wager, but was
drowned in the attempt.
SAVAGE, Sons & Co., San Francisco foun-
ders, failed On the 18th for 100000
The sixth annual convention of the Com
mercial Travellers Protective Association
of the United States commenced at Mime
apolis on the 10Th. The presidents report
showed the membership to be eighteen
thousand
The Champion grain-drill works of Gere,
Platt & johnson, at Owego, N. Y, were
burned on the 10Th. Loss, 800, 900.
OIL was struck on the 10Th in large guam
titles on the farm Of Thomas Montgomery
in West Deer township, Allegheny County,
Pa.
For advising Richard T. Scott, teller Of
the Manhattan Bank, to steal all he could
and skip to Canada, John R. Dunn, New
York lawyer, was on the 18th sentenced to
nine years and eight months in State
prison
TIE boarding house at the Banner mine,
near Idaho City, l. T. was burned on the
18th, and two men, Mike Mccullough and
Con Bumgarten, persisted in the flames.
FURTHER advices of the 10Th say that the
loss entailed by the recent fire in Dubois,
Pa, would reach s., 0O0, 600. Hundreds of
families were destitute and were camped
on the fair grounds.
The annual convention of the Patriotic
Order Sons of America convened at Read
ing, Pa, on the 10Th. Twenty-four States
and ten Territories were represented.
AT Lima, o., Oh the 18th Louis New
bright, aged eight years, was killed in the
street by vicious COW.
A WHOLE family living in Elizaville, Ind. ,
were poisoned on the Goth by drinking lem
onade in which a child had put paris green.
All but one child would recover.
MRS. JOSEPHINE MARcK, of Pittsburgh,
Pa, fatally poisoned herself and her two
little children on the Goth. Domestic
trouble was the supposed cause
EXPRESS AGENT HUBER, of injury, Pa,
was arr ested on the Goth for stealing S29,
600 from the Adams Express Company in
1885, All but 1000 of the money was
found in Huber's house.
THREE men were suf5ocated in New York
City on the Goth by the caving in of Ceep
trench in which they were working.
AN open switch on the st. Paul road,
near Milwaukee, ditched three cars on the
Goth, one Of which was loaded with horses
and eighteen Of the animals were killed.
JOHN DECKER, aged fifty years, a dele
gate to the National Republican conven-
ton from Cincinnati, was overcome by the
heat in Chicago on the Goth and died in 9
short time. =.
A SEVERE wind and rain storm visited
Grand Rapids, Wis, on the 20th, unroofine
houses, demolishing fences, trees and small
buildings.
AT the Pennsylvania railroad locomotive
hops in Altoona on the Goth a locomotive
weighing 10000 pounds was built in six
teen hours and fifty-five minutes, and
turned out ready for use, thus lowering
the record, which had previously been
twenty-four hours ~ e.
THREE men boarded a passenger train or
the Wabash road on the 10Th at Peru, Ind.
robbed several persons of their money anG
jewelry, and jumped from the train while