Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-07-18

which pittSHn,~h 10 on the border were
on the nth almost without parallel in that
portion of the country. re rushing waters
had wiped out property worth probably
over $4,000, 900, and there had been loss Of
life rs we'll Millions Of feet q lumber,
scores Of coal craft, fences, barns and
buildings Of every description had been
destroyed, and hundreds of people had
been driven from their homes. ~ IL.
A FIRE on the 18th at Alpena, Mich.
originating in q sawdust pile at II. r.
Morse's mill, rendered fifteen hundred
people homeless In few hours and de-
stroyed two hundred houses. Loss, $780,
600. 1888. .> - -....
The livery stable of H. C. Springer &
Brother, at Buffalo, N. Y, was burned on
the 18th, and two men and twenty horses
persisted in the flames. ~,
JOHN ZAoHAR, the young Racine (Wis.)
farmer, who abstained from food for fifty
three days, broke his long fast on the nth
and said he would try to eat and live. The
cause OF his attempt to starve himself was
| q quarrel with his father.
THE stables Of the Wichita (Kan.) City
Railway Company were burned on the 18th,
one man and forty mules perishing in tho
flames.
HAMILTON STAPLES (colored) twas lynched
on the 18th near Atlanta, Tex, for assault
ing the seventeen-year old daughter of
Hardy Mccoy, q wealthy planter:
MRS. JENNIE WALTON was burned to
death on the 18th at Louisville, Ky., by
the explosion of coal-oil stove. She was
twenty-eight years old, and leaves hus-
band and one child.
The Governor Of Missouri on the 18th
refused to commute the sentence of Hugh
NJ. Brooks, the murderer of Arthur Preller,
but granted him respite until August 10.
tographers' Association on the 18th elected
H. McMichael, of Buffalo, N Y, Presi-
dent.
KELLY, ROPER & RILEY, wholesale gro
GERS at Memphis, Tenn, failed on the 18th
for S10S,0O0.
Snow to the depth of foot fell on Mount
Washington, N. H., on the 10TH
The waters that had been sweeping the
valley OF the Monongahela and the valleys
OF It's tributaries for sixty hours were fall
ing into their natural channels on the 18th.
The losses entailed by the food would not
fall short of $4,000, 900, a large proportion
ofwhich fell upon the people of the coun-
ties Of Monongalia, Marion, Taylor, Har-
rison, Lewis, Barbour, Upshur and Ran
dolph, in West Virginia, and the counties
of Allegheny, Washington Westmoreland,
Fayette and Greene, in Pennsylvania.
j. B. CHARPENT1ER, a notary public of
New Orleans, Ia, disappeared on the 18th,
taking with him between $4,000 and $5O,-
700 Of money belonging to creditors.
In Chicago on the 10Th the temperature
fell from 90 to 6S in five minutes, one of the
most remarkable changes ever known in
that CITY,
CYCLONE swept over Eastern New York
and New England on the 18th. The great
est havoc in Massachusetts was done in
Waltham, Cambridge, Watertown, Ded-
ham, Brighton and Winthrop: Between
Pittsfeld and Albany, N. Y, clear path
was swept, three paper mills and many
houses being leveled
ADvICEs of the 18th say that many ves-
sells had been driven ashore and sunk on
the Atlantic coast during the recent ter
rife storm.
MR.. NJ MoRR1ssEY, young attorney of
Syracuse, n Y, disappeared on the 18th,
having, it was said, embezzled $35, 600 from
the trust estate of Mary E. Brinckerhoff
EIGHT persons were killed and twenty
i've injured by passenger train on the
Virginia Midland railway breaking through
trestle on the 18th, near Orange Court
House, Va.
The principal county officers (all col
ored) at Marion, Tenn, were escorted to
trains by white men on the 18th, given
tickets and warned never to return.
CROP reports on the 18th from the North
west gave indications of good yield and
prosperous season for the farmers.
G. M. RIDER was hanged on the 18th at
Marshall, Mo-, for the murder of r. P. Tai
liant two years ago.
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as the result of the recent floods in West
Virginia. Fully five hundred persons were
completely destitute of the necessaries of
life.
Mrs JAMES CRUsAN and her nine-year-
old daughter were struck and killed by
Pennsylvania railroad train on the 18th at
Latrobe, Pa.
The examination Of the alleged dyna
miters, arrested at the instance of the Bur-
lington railroad, was begun in Chicago on
the 18th, and some very startling testimony
was brought out Witnesses swore that
they sold dynamite to Bowles, and Inform.
er Kelly declared that he had seen the
deadly stuff in Chairman Hoge's room at
the hotel. ::$
DURING the seven days ended on the 18th
there were $50 business failures in the
United States, against 149 the previous
seven days. The total Of failures in the
United States from January to date is
$50, against 1889 in 1887. ,~
| ARAP1D rise Of the Wabash to eighteen
feet flooded hundreds of acres of bottom
land near Terre Haute Ind, on the 18th,
and destroyed over half the corn crop
| The Orphans Home at South Wabash,
Ind, was destroyed by fire on the 18th.
| The children escaped and the contents Of
| the building were also saved.
THE National Council of the National Ed
| vocational Association met at San Fran
cisco on the 13th President J. L. Pickard,
Of Iowa City, Ia, presiding.
WILLIAM HALL, farmer living in Cher
olkee County, Ala, who had been tried
three times for the killing of his wife
twenty three years ago, was acquitted on
! the 18th.
The Latin & Rand powder works at
| Cressona, Pa, exploded on the 18th, killing
| George Gilman, Charles Reed and Henry
! Bernich.
MISS LENA WETz1G, aged twenty years.
daughter of a wealthy farmer near Bloom
ington, ILL.,, was thrown against barb
! wire fence on the 18th, and her entire face
was torn off, with her lower jaw and tongue
and left hanging on the fence.