Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-04-11
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
SIXTEEN young ladies graduated from the
Women's Medical College in Chicago on
the Sd
The Chicago Baseball Club ON the Sd
sold GARRISON, the famous pitcher, to the
Boston club, for $1O,O OO
JOHN I. STONE, manager at Philadelphia
of branch of the Pennsylvania School
Supply Company, was arrested on the Sd,
charged with embezzling $50, 600
THREE men were murdered in cold blood
in Chicago on the 3d-Noy Nj Ding, China
man, Eli D. Kreigh and Daniel BRAZIL.
W. W. HAzELTNE. prominent young
lawyer Of Stevens Point, Wis, was shot
dead on the Sd by John D. Curran- An old
grudge caused the deed
The Jail at Friar's Point, Miss. was set on
fire by one of its inmates on the Sd, and
five prisoners persisted in the flames
The great railway strike in Chicago was
Burlington freight being declared off, and
the engineers and switchmen on the va
rious lines involved announced their inten-
ton to resume work.
BURGLARS at Marlborough, Mass, entered
the residence of Father McKenna, the par
ish priest, on the Sd and robbed his safe of
over ST. 900
ADAM VOLkOvITCH was hanged on the Sd
at Wlkesbarre, Pa, for the murder and
robbery of Stanislaus Bioski last August
MRS PETER BURKE, widow, was shot
and instantly killed on the Sd at Norway,
Mich, by Patrick Wade, because she re-
TIE Comptroller of the Currency on the
Sd author. zed the National Exchange Bank
of Kansas City, Mo-. to begin business, with
{. capital OF $3.50, OOO
DURING the month OF March 2S,945
steerage passengers arrived at New York,
against 81. 100 for the same time last year.
CHARLES W. BARRY, noted forger, was
captured in Pittsburgh, Pa, on the Sd. and
it was said his arrest prevented swindle
on at least one hundred banks
The strikers on all the railroads center
ing in Chicago except the Burlington re-
turned to work on the 4th.
The strikers Of the Edgar Thompson steel
works at Braddochs, Pa refused on the
18th to accept the cooperative proposals OF
Mr.: Carnagie, and that gentleman ordered
that the entire plant be closed until Jan
uary 1 next This decision throws five
thousand men out of employment
ABOUT one thousand men who had been
idle several months decided on the 18th to
go to work again at the Reading (Pa.) iron
works at reduction of zig per cent in
wages
SASH and blind factory, an organ fac
tory, an cleo ric light works and undertake
ing ware-rooms at Potsdam. N. Y, were
burned on the 4th. Loss, 800, 600.
AT Jackson. Mich, on the 4th Edward
Hogan, an aeronaut, dropped from a bal
loon at an elevation of two miles with
parachute and landed safely
SEVERE wind-storm struck Faribault,
Mimi, on the 4th, doing much damage to
church roofs and steeples, unroOfng sew
eral business blocks. leveling telegraph
poles, etc The total loss was about $780,
600
LUTHER SHAFFER, aged twenty-five years.
was hanged on the 18th at Lock Haven. Pa,
for the murder of Isaiah Colby and his wife
last August
J. HOWE while drunk on the 18th at Fort
Collins, Col, killed his wife and kicked her
body into the street Soon afterward he
was cap; ured by mob and hanged
CHARLES BAssETT was killed on the 4th at
Phoen x, A. T., by the dirt roof of an adobe
house falling in and smothering him. He
leaves $3.50, 900 and no known relatives
Rev. ARTHUR S1MMs, the pastor of
nouncel on the 4th that he would renounce
ment OF pastors to churches regardless of
the wishes of either.
The business portion of Vassar, Mich,
was almost destroyed by fire ON the 9Th
KATIE DOYLE and Mary McClain, supposed
to be from Mount Pleasant, Pa, blew out the
gas in a room in the Grand Hotel in Beaver
Falls. Pl.. on the 9Th. and were sutfOcated
MAYOR ROCHE. of Chicago, issued an order
on the 5lh that after May l no licenses will
be issued to saloons within two hundred
feet of churches and schools, and that all
saloons must close at midnight
The steamer General D. H. Rucker, en-
route to St Louis with valuable cargo,
burned to the waters edge on the 9Th at
Point Pleasant, Mo.
AT Sleeths, Ind, a wind-storm wrecked
several houses on the 5th, and a freight
train was blown from the track.
JAMES PARSONS and his daughter, Mrs.
Yankee. of Centerville, Mich, were struck
by lightning and instantly killed on the
9Th.
The celebration to commemorate the
one hundredth anniversary of the first set
Element of the territory northwest of the
Ohio river, from which were carved the
States of Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan
and Wisconsin, commenced at Marietta, O..
on the 9th.
A PASSENGER train on the Chicago, Mil
waukee & St. Paul road jumped the track
on the 9th while crossing bridge near
New Hampton, Ia, and three coaches