Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-10-24

AoO 11OuSe AaIlU OlllS were ulSCUSSoQ.
TIE resolution in relation to the purchase by
the Government Of prisou-node goods was
withdrawn. in the Senate on the 10th. The
resolution authorizing the Finance Committee
to continue its hearings on the Tariff bill was
adopted. The Committee on Indian Affairs
was authorized to continue during the re
cess. In the House nothing Of Importance
was done.
=. DOMESTIC.
The American Society Of Mechanical
Engineers in session ON the 10th at Stan
ton, Pa, elected Henry r. Town, of Siam
ford, Pa, president.
AT Mahomet, Ill.,, on the 10th Charles
Rowe, aged seventeen years, fatally shot
his father, James Rowe, q grocer, because
the latter had accused him Of stealing
cigars.
Hoo cholera was on the 10th making
serious ravages in the stock o. farmers in
the vicinity of Lima, o.
FOUR men were killed on the 10th in q
eoal-mine near Cannelton, Ind, by fall of
coal.
THE brig Francis A. Barstow, Captain
Macomber, arrived at New Bedford, Mass,
on the 10th from two years. whaling
voyage in the Atlantic Ocean with 2S5
barrelsref sperm oil on board, and haying
sent home during the voyage 5d5iparfels Of
sperm oil. = s'''~' +
ALARaE barn owned by J: Mccarthy at
North Easton, Mass, was burned on the
leth' and seventeen horses persisted in the
flames. I'll -!
The warehouses of the standard Oil
Company, together with twenty two thou
sand barrels of oil. were destroyed by fire
at Duluth, Mimi, on the 10th. Loss, $3.50,
0OO
By an accident on the Lehig h Valley
railroad on the 18th near Mauch Chunk,
Pa, six laborers were killed and twenty.
seven seriously iajured. y =.
The first Of the ten worlds champion
ship gaines between thu New York and
St. Louis clubs was played in New York
on the 10th and resulted as follows: New
York. 2; st. Louis, L.. 49,. ,..
LEWIS EDWARDS, a negro hotel porter
who killed Robert Smith, hotel proprie!
tor, was taken from: the Jail at Jessup;
Ca, on the 18th by % mob and shot to
death. -'@s : = = : >
THE Cameron celliery at Shamokin. Pa,
was burned on the 10th Loss, 500, 900.
One thousand men were: thrown out OF
work !. = >**: ~ r,
JIM. LANE. q well known lumberman Of
Grand Rapids, Mich, failed on the 10th for
$4,000 = -
CHARLES c. MARSH & Co., New York
brokers, failed on the 18th FOR: sl19, 500
A FORTUNE-TELLBR named Jeanette Will.
Jams while Intoxicated on The 10th set fire
to Ter clothes and was burned to death al
Denve' Col.
CHICAGO North side strikers and hood.
lums attacked the drivers and contractors
Of two Halsted street cars on the 10Th and
barely gave the passengers time to allght
Iefore they smashed every window in the
cars W tn wooden paving blocks; ,.,.
ADozES women Of Thomps Son, D. T.,
who made raid on the saloons Of that
place, spilline the liquor on the, ground,
were arrested on the 10Th and taken to
Grand Forks.
NOAH WILLIAMS Ida County Bank was
sold on the 10th to the First National
Bank of Ida Grove, Ia. for about 5000 QUO.
ONE Of the historic buildings Of the Bap-
tist community at Ephrata, Pa, erected
one hundred and fifty years ago, was de-
stroyed by fire on the 10Th. ~, .sz.>e-. 49,,
The twenty-frst annual convention OF
the Conductors Life Insurance Associa,
tionsof the United States assent led Of
Kansas City, Mo-. on the 17th.5#/=$ =:
THE post-ofdce at North Haverhill, N IL;
was robbed by burglars on the 18th and
the two safes were rifed and the building
set on fire. ~. ss,'': -
The COMMANDMENTS Chief Of the Loyal
Legion Of the United States at Its fourth
annual meeting at Phi ladelphia on the 18th
elected ex-President Rutherford b: Hayes
Commander-in-C Chief.
THE second of the worlds base. ball
championship games between New York
and the st. Louis Browns was played in
New York on the 18th. Score: St. Louis,
3; New York, O. ..-sa:' ~ !, ~: =.
The annual worlds conference of the
Seventh: Day Adventist church opened in
Minneapolis, Mimi, on the nth. ''*@'@ ~:
The annual report on the 18th Of the In
dian Government Training School at Car
llsle Pa, showed that there were 637t In
dian boys and girls at the school, and the
Apache Indians constituted the largest
element Of any one tribe.
JOHNNY GUTEBuR, q thirteen year old
boy of Milf psburg, Pa, attempted suicide
on the 18th because his mother whipped
him. -. Z ..... =. -4F''s- ~: d
The house Of G. r. Smith, at F,aeld,
Wis, was destroyed by fire ON the 17th,
and hts two little chill ren, who; were atone
In the building, persisted in the flames. 4
JIM. CHASD1ER g. CO., lwholesaleE jewel
.ersiat Cleveland, O., failed on the 18th. "A
j At Philadelphia on the 18th the General
Executive Board Knights Of Labo4 acted
ION Tnomas B. Barry's resignation by r.
jecting IL and xpalling him ss!s
MATT BURNS attacked John Yaltersswith
q red hot iron paddle in the Valley iron
mill at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 18th, burning
him fatally. 4,4, .p r.. Is
BIZ an explosion. Of fire works Of the
17ih at q political meeting in Fort Why're
Ind, r. T. Smith and Lorenzo Bouas
fatally injured ss
THE potato crop vas on the 18th sad to
bean average one in New En- gland, below
The average in New York {, and q short scfor
- the West. The average price was sixty
cents ler bushel.' - e.