Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-11-07

The total colnage executed ut the mints.
during tho month Of October was 9, OO8 $50
pieces, representing value Of Is, 81 $50.
OF these pieces l33, $50 wsre gold, repre-
sonting S2,O0S $50, s, SOC. 900 were silver, OF
the value Of s., $50 900, and $3.50, 900 were
minor coins, Of tho value OF S33, zoo.
The sales OF loaf tobacco In the Danville
(Va,) market during October amounted to
l, 1oo3, SAB pounds.
JAMES LoNGoNET-I, a bartender at Dem
YER, Col, who shot and killed A. o. Case
ON the 1st, thinking his victim was tortur-
ing him,
A DESTRUCTIVE prairl dre occurred on
the lst near Gary, u. +.
DURING tho twentv.fOut hours ended on
the 1st there were So now cases of yellow
fever at Jacksonville Fla, and 3 deaths
from tho disease. Total cases to date,
4,2l2; total deaths, :sG.
A CYCLONE on tho 1st at Laporte, Ia,
destroyed several buildings and unroofed.
many others, causing u loss of over S76, 900.
In the surrounding country great damage
was also done. No lives were lost
FROM the opening of tho Washington
monument in Washington on the Sth OF
October last to the 1st inst 7,4S3 persons
had been carried up in the elevator And
1854 had walked up, liking total of
., S36 who assembled the shaft.
n FIRE on the lst at Bowling Green, O..
destroyed u hotel, two printing offices and
twenty other buildings.
AMANDA MONTGOMERY and Gus Will
Jams. lovers, were walking on tho railroad
track at Greensburg: Pa, on the evening
of the 1st, and in stopping of one track to
avoid train they We're run down by an
other train ana both were killed.
L. herman, a New York banker, disap-
peared on the 1st with SO, 900 belonging to
depositors,
WILLIAM Cooke, Of Providence, f. l.,
aged seventy ears and wealthy, hanged
himself on the lst. Insomnia was the
cause Of the suicide. .E::.
ANDREW JOHNSON, cripple living near
Red Hill. KY, while digging in the ground
on the lst unearthed a copper kettle filled
with gold and silver coin worth over So, COO
TIE students Of Dickinson College ut
Carlisle, Pa, had conflict with the fire.
men on the 1st because they started a
large halloween bonfire, and several were
fatally injured on both sides.
The seventh annual convention of tho
Woman's Homo Missionary Society was
opened at Boston on tho lst Mrs II. B.
Hayes, president, reading hor annual re-
port.
JENKINS, HUTCHINSON & Co., dealers in
notions and white goods ut Baltimore,
Md, failed on the lst for 800 900.
AT Lima, o., on the 1st Henry Ertlay,
aged sixty years, for thirty-tive years sta
ton baggage-master Of the Pennsylvania
railroad, committed suicide by taking
poison.
j. II. ALLEN, owner Of the American
ship Rridgewater, demanded on the 1st
100000 for alleged wrongful detention of
his vessel at tho port of Nova Scotia.
The President issued proclamation on
the 1st designating Thursday, November
- next, as day of Thanksgiving and
prayer throughout the United States.
AN explosion Of hot metal on the LIST at
the Sable iron-works Of Zug 4 Co. in
Pittsburgh, Pa, killed one man and fatal
ly injured two others.
The statement of the public debt issued
on the lst showed the total debt to be ST.
1O3, 457, 32224; cash in Treasury, $74 49l, $50;
debt less cash in Treasury, $l,l37, 900 036.
Decrease during October, 81, 5S56l9. De-
crease since June 3d. 1888, s2S 2294 60
The works of the Columbus Bridge Com
pany at Columbus. o., were burned on the
1st, causing heavy loss.
THE Northwestern Military Academy
and the private residence of H. G. Salnp-
son at Highland Park, a Chicago suburb,
were destroyed by fire on the 1st, the total
loss reaching 100000.
DURING the seven days ended on the I'd
there were 2s5 business failures in the
United States, against 2OS the previous
seven days.
MRS. FRANK A. De GRoor, Of Worcester,
Mass, on the I'd gave birth to four girl
babies all living:
TWELVE large ice-houses at Toledo, O.,
owned by the Elevator, Coal & Ice Com
pany, were burned on the ~.
HERBERT L. CRICHETT, financial clerk
for Boston real estate firm, disappeared
on the I'd, taking with him S25, 900 belong
ing to his employers.
FIVE persons lost their lives on the I'd in
prairie fires in jackson township, MINI.
Br a decision of Judge Brewer at To-
peka, Kan, on the FL that land in Allen
County belonged to a railroad, over five
thousand settlers, many of whom had oc
cupied the land for ten or fifteen years
and had made extensive improvements,
would be compelled to give up possession.
IN quarrel over. settlem ent OF &C.
counts on the I'd at Yoakum, Tex. Fayette
Berry and John Hawks shot and killed
each other.
GEORGE II. VANDERBILT, of New York,
on the I'd purchased one thousand acres of
mountain lands near &sheville, N. c.,
where he would build large Industrial
institute for the free education of poor
whi te children, who would be taught how
to work in wood and metals and thus be-
come skilled mechanics.
FURTHER advices of the "a say that in
the recent cyclone in Iowa the NJ. t.
Church and b., c. r. Il N. depot at Mt.
Auburn were blown down and an elevator
and man was killed by flying
timbers.
BERNARD NAUGHroN, of Boston, was on
the "a awarded "a, 900 damages for the loss
of q leg in an accident at the coal wharf
of William White. B..
IT was reported on the I'd that large
of miners had quietly Withdrawn
from the Knights Of Labor.
THOMAS SAVERS. a colored highwayman
who murdered and robbed two peddlers in
Mercer County, W. Va, was caught and
lynched on the I'd.
FIVE men were killed and q number of
others were seriously injured on the I'd
by an explosion of the boiler of a thresh-
ing machine near Reading, Pa. &
JAMES BELL, Ben Russell and George W.
Ts.,:A u<~l 1rS lat "nv~