Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-12-05
II OF Indiana. This organi zation Is the resuit
Of what has been termed the revolt against


declared unconstitutional the newspaper
law OF libel enacted in 1885
ERNEST WUNscH, q button manufactures
OF Newark, N. j., committed suicide on
Il he 2Sth from despondency over the elope-.
ment Of his wife with son of Hon. Joseph
Chamberlain, NJ. P. 58$ 81
BANDS Of Russian and Italian miners
fought on the 28th in the streets Of Mount
( armel, Pa, number on both sides being
stabbed, three fatally. HI
I. EARLY on the morning Of the Goth ult q
band OF armed men stormed and broke into
the jail ut Wytheville, Va, and rescued
Wayman Sutton, sentenced to be hanged
the next day for murder.
AT Ozark, Ark, on the Goth ult John
w. Watson. planter, gave his sick wife
a dose Of carbolio acid bv mistake, and she
died after an hour OF agony.
A DRUNKEN r OF on the s9th ult. In the
negro quarter Of Savannah, Ga, caused
the killing OF one man and injuries to some
other persons. black and white.
THREE men hitched q hand-ca to a
freight train on the 2sth at Tifln. o. The
car was wrecked and all the men were
killed. .........
GEORGE CoBB, school teacher near
Nevada, Mo-, outraged and murdered Ella
Wray, aged twenty-one years, on the 2Sth,
and after being arrested Cobb committed
suicide with poison to escape lynching
LOCKOUT in New York and New Jer-
sey breweries took place on the 2Sth, and
| no union men would hereafter be en-
ployed.
ALFRED WILDER, young man, was ar
rested at Olean, N. Y, on the 2Sth for
making and passing counterfeit niclzels.
A LODGE of Good Templars was formed
on the 2Sth at the Tuscarora Reservation
near Lockrort, N. Y, with thirty.s x
charter members. TIL was the first time
that temperance lodge of this character
had been formed among the Indians.
THERE were 264 business failures in the
| United States during the seven days ended
on the 3Oth ult., against 25S the previous
seven days. The total ia lures in the
United States siuce January to date is
9,166, against 8, 739 in 1857.
In the Ttusville (Pa.) oil distri ct eighty
three new wells were opened during No
vember.
ALL the coal mines on the Monongahela
pa river shut down on the 3Oth ult. for
an indefinite period. The cause was be-
cause there was too much coal in Cincin-
! natl, Lou sville and other river markets.
Over six thousand miners were thrown out
of employment
! DURING the twenty -four hours ended on
the 30th ult. there were new cases of yell
low fever at Jacksonville. Fla, and no
deaths from the disease Total cases to
date, 1859; total deaths, 4OS.
| The McClary Manufacturing Company's
building, the largest stove and tin-work-
ing establishment in Ontario, was COM
pletely destroyed by fire on the 3Oth ult.
Loss, 500, OO0.
| JAMES WooD (colored) was hanged on
the 3Oth ult at Aiken, S. c., for tne MUIR
der of another negro. and John Henry
Myers was hanged at Placerville, CAL, for
the murder of John Lowell, a ranchman,
last March
WHITE CAPS at Sardinia, O., on the
night of the Sofa ult. whipped Mrs. Annie
Jester and her grown daughter.
! A FIRE was di covered on the 3Oth ult. in
No. shaft Of the Calumet and Hecla cop
per mine at Calumet, Mich. ALI but eight
OF the miners escaped, and these, mostly
Cornishmen, persisted. Indications point
ed to the fact that the fire was of incen-
diary origin.
The log cut at Minneapolis Mimi mills
for the season ended on the 3Oth ult. was
33S. 0OO. 900 feet.
| THOMAS B, BAKER, of the new Baker
Theater in Chicago, made an assignment
on the 9Oth ult to w. w. Charles, with Ii
abilities of $15O, 900!
| TRAINS arriving in Kansas City on the
Both ult. from the west were fifteen hours
late, being delayed by severe storm of
snow which extended over the entire
western and southern portion of Kansas.
THE annual report on the 30th ult. of the
Interstate Commerce Commission esti.
mated the railroad mileage Of the country
on June 30, 1888, at 152, ISL miles, of which
2,3l2 were completed within the preceding
six months.
AN explosion of dynamite on the Goth
ult, on the Kentucky Midland railway
near Lexington killed four men and dan.
gerously injured several others.
A LARGE vein of coal was discovered on
the Both ult. on the farm Of John T. Davis,
near Chamberlain, D. T. 4.
AT Glasgow, No., on the Both ult. Mrs.
Emma Jackson, aged twenty years, at
tempted to whip her brother, aged fourteen
years, because he refused to bring her q
bucket of water. The youth Immediately
procured a gun and shot her dead.
WILL SCHR1EBER, aged twenty-five years,
teller of the First National Bank Of Co.
lumbus, Ind, fed to Canada on the 3Oth
ult. with IS, 500 of the banks funds.
w. L. WILLIAMS, a star route mail car.
rier, was shot dead from ambush near
Moulton, Ala, on the Both ult. and the
mail-pouch cut open and robbed. Regis
tered packages taken contained about $500
TIE treasurer OF Sphinx County, D. T.,
was on the Both ult. said to be short in his
accounts to the extent of 100000 His
whereabouts were unknown.
! PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
SENATOR QUAY said in Washington on
the 18th that the Republicans would have
a majority of nine in the next House of
Representatives. He did not believe the
Governors Of States would give certih-
Gates of election to any one not entitled to
the same. :5~-=,~ss. /.
The official canvass on the 18th of the
electoral vote OF Florida gives Cleveland
80. 561; Harrison, 26, $50; Fisk, 400; Cleve-
lands plurality over Harrison, II, 904.
| The official canvass on the 9th Of the
vote for President In Indiana at the recent
election shows the following result: Re
publican, 263 381; Democratic, 6l,Ol3;
Prohibition, 9,Ss1; United Labor, 1904
Republican plurality, 2348.
THE official canvass on the 9th Of the
vote Of New jersey gives Cleveland 151,-
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