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

post-Ofices established in the United States
was 1854; number discontinued, 1912:
number of fourth-class postmasters ap-
pointed during the year, II, 852; number of
Presidential postmasters appointed during
the year, 4S6. Total number of Presiden-
tial post Offices, 2,503, an increase during
the year of 1865
The National Department of Agriculture
at Washington reported on the 10th that
the crop conditions of the country greatly
improved within the past month.
SEvENEIGHTHs of the town of Suisun,
Cal, was destroyed by fire on the 10th.
Loss, $500, 600
The large training stable of William Roe,
at Danville, Ky, was burned on the 10th,
and thirty three head of fine trotters were
consumed.
The bodies of man and woman who had
been murdered were found in the Ohio
river near Louisville, KY, on the 10th.
ELIAS FRANKLIN, the Kentucky farmer
who slew James Brent because of the lat
ter's intimacy with his wife, committed
suicide on the 10th.
In addition to the previous arrest Of six
men accused of conspiracy to commit MUIR
der and destroy property of the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy railroad, Chairman
Hoge, of the Grievance Committee of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and
Chairman Murphy, of the Grievance Com
mittee Of the Locomotive Firemen's Broth
erhood, were arrested in Chicago on the
10th, accused of being participants in the
same conspiracy.
An illfeeling existing between the two
families eliminated in Miss Hattie De-
baum, aged eighteen years, being shot and
killed by her aunt, Mrs. Mary Junkins, at
Tecun1seh, Ind, on the 10th.
THE New London e. Northern Railroad
Company's repair and machine shops at
New London, Conn, were destroyed by fire
on the 10th. Loss heavy.
AT Old Orchard, Me-, on her1Oth Thomas
Riley, an American, and P. F. Mack, an
Australian, swan five miles for the Amer
lean championship. Riley won by 30 Sec
onds in hour and 26 minutes.
Ten business houses at Deming, N. NJ,
were destroyed by fire on the 10th.
MRS. ELIZABETH SIMON, of Douglas, W.
T., on the 10th shot and killed William
Bowling, who was attempting to assault
Mrs. Simons' young daughter
EDWARD A. DEAcoNs, a vagrant, who
last August murdered Mrs. Ada Stone at
East Rochester, because she refused to
give him food, was hanged at Rochester,
N. Y, on the 10th.
UP to the 10Th over $500 bills had been
introduced in the United States Senate
this session. In the two sessions of the
Forty ninth Congress there were only
3,35S, and that was more than the Senate
had ever produced in any previous Con-
gress.
MRS. RosANNA DETER, aged sixty-tw
years, committed suicide on the 10th at
Canton, O., by hanging herself with a
clothes line. III health prompted the act
THE sixteenth annual convention of the
National Association of Union ex-Prison-
ers Of War has been called to meet at In
dianapolis September 10.
The weather in the Northwest on the
18th was hot At Minneapolis the Their
mometer marked 100; at Fort Sully, 1O4;
and at Huron, D. T., 1922
ARTHUR WHITE, confidential clerk of
Banker Charles NJ Klttredge, Of Denver,
was missing on the 18th, and was supposed
to have carried of $4,000. ~ H..
A PHILADELPHIA company on the 18th
struck what was thought to be the biggest
gas we'll in the world at Canonsburg, Pa.
STEPHEN FREEMAN (colored), convicted
Of criminally assaulting white woman,
was hanged on the 18th at Wilmington,
N. .tJ|
A HEAVY hail-storm on the 18th near
North Manchester, Ind, damaged all the
crops and peNed g number Of hogs to
death
NEAR Manor, Pa, Henry Harkinson end
Conn Newman were caught under 8 falling
iron girder and killed on the'l1th.