Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-10-31


1924 ga during the same period Last year
u TRAINS began running on the 25th
through the Wickes tunnel on the Montana
Central railroad. The tunnel Is sixty-two
feet long and cost 81, 500, 600.
AFAMlLY Of eight BOhemians at Mime
apolis, Mimi, were poisoned on tho 25th by
Rough on Rats while eating wedding
supper in honor Of George Martin and his
bride, two of tho victims. All might die.
TIM grand jury at Provo, Utah, returned
two hundred and thirty four indictments
on the 25th, principally for adultery and
other otfenses growing out Of the practice
Of polygamy.
The will Of tho late John Wentworth, OF
Chicago, was probated on the 25th. His
real and personal property was valued at
q, 500 900, the bulk Of which was left to
his daughter.
DURING the twenty four hours ended on
the a5th there were II new cases OF yellow
fever at Jacksonville, Fla, and . deaths
from the disease. Total cases to date,
s, 974; total deaths. SS9.
IT was discovered on the 18th that j. A.
Swan, late treasurer Of Knox County,
Tenn, was 81, 900 short in his accounts
games between New York
st. Louis on the 25th. Score: New York,
II; st. Louis, 8 This gives the champion
ship to the New York players.
DANIEL HAND, of New Haven, Conn.,, on
the 25th gave to the American Missionary
of New York, as trustee, the
sum of 81, 600, O0O to be expended for the
of INDECENT, worthy colored
people of the South. " y
AT the meeting of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers at Richmond, Va,
on the 25th p. NJ. Arthur was elected
chief. So
A GENERAL snow-storm prevailed
throughout Central Dakota on the 25th.
WOLVES and coyotes were doing great
damage in the northern part of Montana
Territory on the 25th. Several hundred
sheep and other stock had been killed by
them.
ALVIN SCHERMERHoRN, aged seventy
eight years, was burned to death in his
home at Fall River, Mass, on the 25th by
the explosion Of q lamp
UP to the 25th it had rained continuous
ly for four weeks at New Philadelphia,
O., ana vicinity, and fears were expressed
that the corn and potato crops would be
ruined.
THE commissioners OF the District Of
Columbia decided on the 25th to honor the
memory of General Sheridan by naming q
new street intersection Sheridan circle.
THE Brotherhood Of Railroad Brakemen
in session on the 25th at Columbus, O.,
elected w. G: Edens, OF Bucyrus, O., first
vice-grand master.
DEMENTED by grief over the death Of
his wife Paymastor Douglas Hoxsey, of
the United States navy, committed suicide
on the 25th at his home at Haledon, N. J.
THE three-year-old daughter of August
kettle of boiling apple-butter on the 25th
and was fatally burned.
A BASE metal bar purporting to be gold
was received at the Philadelphia mint ON
the 25th from the West. A bar of gold of
the same size would be worth $35. O0O.
Mrs. MIRA BEALs was on the Goth award
ed verdict of $780, 600 against DR.. Angus
tin Thompson, of Lowell, Mass, for hav
ing alienated her husbands affections
A TRAIN on the Kentucky Central road
jumped the track near Paris, KY, on the
Goth. and the engineer and two other por
sons were fatally injured.
Mrs. JAMES DITwoRTH and Henry Pond
were killed and Mr.. Larken fatally in
jured by train at West Liberty, Ia, on
the Goth. They were driving across the
track in buggy.
BENJAMIN CARTER was hanged on the
Goth at Rawlins, Wy. T., for the murder Of
John Jeffry October T. 1886; Ephraim
Mayes was executed at Edgefeld, S. c.,
for the murder of q deaf mute year
ago, and Hugh Blackman (colored) was
hanged at Toledo, Ark, for killing q negro.
THE packing house of Platt & Co., at
Baltimore, Nd, was burned on the Goth,
and John Jones, the Waterman, was con
sumed.
DURING the seven days ended on the 26th
there were 2OS business failures in the
United States, against 1875 the previous
seven DAYS. The total failures in the
United States from January to date are
SOFA, against 7,7l5 in 1887.
The peanut trust, with headquarters at
Norfolk, Va, and controlling ninety per
cent. of the country's product, was dis
solved On the Goth.
THE mother of Thomas F. Dalton was
arrested at st. Louis on the Goth for having
caused his death. after quarrel. by pour
lug oil over his clothing and setting him
on fire. She was drunk at the time the
crime was committed.
NEAR Mount Gilead, O., on the 28th the
house of David Sellers, a wealthy farmer,
was fired by robbers after they had muir
dered Sellers and his wife.
TIE doors of Wilkes Bank at Doug.
lass, Kan, were closed on the 18th. Liza
bilities, &65. 900; assets, $40, 900. ~.
COUNTY JUDGE JOHN GooD1N received
wounds from which he died and Dan
Boliu was instantly killed In row at q
circus at Barbourvtlle, KY, on the o6th. 49,
DURING the twenty-four hours ended on
the 26th there were q new cases Of yellow
fever at Jacksonville, Fla, and deaths
from the disease. Total cases to date,
8;997; total deaths, 81. :" !
Mrs. HENRIETTA SPIEL, aged seventy
FIVE years, and Mrs. Martha Beckett, aged
sixty-hve years, inmates Of the German
Home for tho Aged at Baltimore, Nd,
were suffocated by gas on the 18th.
WHILE walking on the track on the 26th
at Glen Onoko, Pa, DR.. Robert Leonard,
associate judge Of Carbon County, was run
over by train and killed. s.z
MISS MAIZE MOUNT, aged twenty-one
years, of Connersville, Ind, pupil in q
music school at Cincinnati. committed
suicide on the 26th by cutting her throat.
No cause was known. -