Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-08-15


murderer in the history Of the country.
AN entire business block at Chattanooga,
Tenn, was destroyed by fire on the 9th,
causing loss Of over 81, 900, 900 Five men
were killed by falling wall.
ELECTRIC wires crossed the telephone
wires ut Dayton, o., on the 9th and de-
stroyed the telephone service throughout
the city. ..sg. - .as s.4ss
HERR Mosr testified before the immigra-
tion Investigating committee In New York
on the 9th. He said there were two million
Anarchist sympathizers in the United
States, most Of whom were Germans
The sloop Flora B., of Pennsville, Dell,
capsized In . heavy blow on the 9th near
New Castle and Ave women from Penns-
vile, who were in the cabin, were drowned
The police Of Wilkesbarre Pa, on the
9th discovered regularly organized band
OF dynamiters IN that city.
THREE men committed suicide in Chi
cago on the 9th, owing to excessive liquor
drinking.
For the second time in three years
Litchfeld, Conn.,, suffered the loss Of q
large portion Of her business blocks on the
9th. III
AT the concluding session Of the National
Bar Association at Cleveland. O., on the
elected president.
years OF age, made insane by smoking
cigarettes, was placed in the asylum ut st.
Joseph, NO., on the 9th.
A WIND and hail-storm swept across tho
country north OF Anderson, Ind, on the
9TH, laying waste strip = mile wide. A
large amount of young stock was killed.
MATTHEW BYRNEs, who recently jumped
from the Brooklyn bridge, was on the 9th
sentenced to four months Imprisonment
for violating bridge ordinance
The steamer City of New York, with
James G. Blaine on board, arrived in New
York at six o'clock on the morning Of the
10th Va.
DURING the seven days ended on the 10th
there We're 1S6 business failures in the
United States, against $50 the previous
seven days.
The annual report on the 10th of the
Postmaster-General showed deficiency
for railway transportation of s562, 49,.
In accordance with a petition from
citizens the name of the town of High
wood, ILL.,, was on the 10th changed to
Fort Sheridan. III
JAMES G. BLAINE arrived in New York
on the morning of the 10th. His steamer,
tine by q thousand friends on board the
Starin, which steamer he Immediately
boarded. President Bartlett, of the New
York City Republican Club, in behalf of
the many clubs represented, delivered an
address of welcome, to which Mr.. Blaine
responded, and other welcoming ad-
dresses followed. Mr.. Blaine-who is de-
scribed as picture of rudy health-was
driven to his hotel, where other addresses
awaited him. In the evening he addressed
an immense mass-meeting of working-nen
gathered to give him greeting. The grand
parade took place on the previous evening,
forty thousand men being in line.
AN epidemic of an unknown nature was
prevailing on the 10th in the home and
neighborhood of Philip Seltner, of Buoy
rus. o. Five of his family were very low,
and three neighbors who went IN to nurse
them had died and others were very i'll.
ADv1cEs of the 10th say that ten persons
lost their lives in the recent fire at Chatta-
nooga, Tenn.
HUGH NJ. BROOKS, also known as Max
well, who murdered his friend Charles
Arthur Preller in St. Louis on April 6,
1885, and placed his body in trunk, was
hanged on the 10th. Henry Landgraf, who
murdered his sweetheart, Annie Fisch, in
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THE reduced immigrant rates ordered by
the trunk lines executive committee on
the basis of five dollars from New York
to Chicago went into effect on the 10TH
The Department of Agriculture at Wash.
ington on the 10th reported general slight
improvement and high condition of corn in
all States, heavy crops being assured.
RESIDENTS of Jacksonville, Fla, were
on the 10th evacuating the city in large
mum bers because of the yellow-fever scare.
Other cities in the South were taking quar-
anti ne measures.
Cha RLEs HENRY R1EDEL was hanged on
the 10th at Newcastle, Del for the murder
of his wife and child in September last.
AMOS MILLER (colored), who assaulted
Mrs. Scott two months ago, was taken from
the courtroom at Franklin, Tenn, on the
10th by fifty armed men and hanged.
A PENNSYLVANIA syndicate on the 10th
closed deal for 110, 600 acres of coal lands
in Las Animas and Huerfano counties,
COL, for 81, 5OO, 600 The land was owned
by nine hundred claimants. -..
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND IN the 10th vetoed
nine private pension Bills, all Of which
originated in the House. .:-
The cotton crop Of the Southern States
was in good condition on the 10th, but the
O0V0lOpu0uU WdS l6G01 tudu UoUdl.
A FIRE on the 10th at Memphis, Tenn,
caused q loss to business houses Of $780,
600.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
HUGH CASTOR, aged one hundred and five
years and one month, died at his home in
Lewis County, W. Va, on the 7th
sixth Iowa district Republicans in con-
vention on the 7th at Ottumwa nominated
Mayor John F. Lally. Of that place, for
Congress-. -... IL, .. s.... 80. !.
MRS. Harley, of Washington, died In a
dentists chair from nervous shock ON the
18th after having seven teeth extracted.
MRS. JOSEPH B. SWIFT, the renowned
hospital nurse and soldiers friend, died on
the 9TH at Chelsea, Mass, aged about fifty
five years. .s.. ....... i
G. W. HASTINGS was nominated for Con-
gress on the 9TH by the Democrats Of the
Second district Of Nebraska. ..-...-. .,.' i.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were made
as follows on the 9Th: Iowa, Second dis
trict, P. w. McManus (Rep.); Arkansas,
Second district, c. r. Breckenridge DENY
renominated; Kentucky, Eighth district,
James B. McCreary (Dem.) renominated;
Michigan, Sixth district, w. w. Root