Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-12-26
DOMESTIC.

n. NJ, say that over two hundred deaths
from diphtherla had occurred in that vi
4 cinlty in the past two weeks, and the
1 SIN all pox had caused much addit. onal
alarm.
s BIZ the explosion Of metal on the 18th q
+ furnace at the Edgar Thomson steel works
In Pittsburgh, Pa, was wrecked and three
workmen were fatally burned.
TIKI twenty first annual meeting OF the
Freedmen's Aid and Southern Education
Society was opened at Columbus, o., on
the Eth.
CHIEF. Forspaugh's giant elephant, was
cholsed to death at Philadelphia on the
h7th by order OF the manager OF the show
The elephant had become unmanageable.
TIE California National Bank OF San
Francisco suspended pay ments on the 18th,
caused by the unfortunate loans made by
the cszMaz, G a Ramsdon.
THE visible supply of wheat and corn in
the United States on the 18th was re-
& spectively, 37,213 $50 and {, 1871, 43S bushels.
FRANK WALcoTr, suspected as being the
Z sEnformern who caused the expulsion
from Oberlin (O.) College Of a number Of
students on charges Of gambling and
carousing, was tarred and feathered on the
18th by masked men.
A THREE STORY frame building In pro-
Tenn, was blown down By a squall Of wind
on the nth and ten men went down in the
/ ruins, ali being injured.
EDWARD BONNER shot and killed his
mistress, Nellie Kent, in Chicago on the
18th and then killed himself. Jealousy was
the cause.
4 NEGRO riot occurred on the nth at
I Wahalak, Miss, it, winch FIVE white men
were killed and six were wounded.
REPoHvs Of Oh finds Of gold in the
s Harqua-Hula mountains In Arizona were
made on the 17th.
SuLLY's HOTEL at Long Island City, N.
! r. was burned on the 18th by an incen.
diary tire, the ten guests having a narrow
escape.
y The Mohawk valley in New York was
flooded on the 18th, factories were stopped
and travel was impeded The ice, on
which ice dealers had stakea their winter
Il claims had broken up and gone out.
FRANK T. SwEEy1E. chief Of the town OF
\ Lake (IlL) fire department, cut his throat
on the 18th while temporarily insane. He
was fifty-two Years cid. r-s-. .-
81 ERLAND s. PARKER, sentenced October
E Is, 1872, from Erie County, N. Y, for muir
Y der in the serond degree, to life impris on.
Il ment at Auburn prison, was pardoned on
the 18th by Governor Hill
# A NEGRO who shot and fatally wounded
Captain Dnnnavant or the 18th near Chat
4 tanooga, Tenn, wa caught and lynched,
a FIRE on the 18th at Iron Noun tain,
b Mich, burned the business portion Of the
A town before it was controlled. p. -.
Il FIRE on the 18th at Manchester. Kan.
destroyed the school building, post office
&aEd several business houses. @
THR cornerstone CT the Good Samaritan
Z hospital for colored people at Charlotte.
8. IN. c.. was laid on the 18th. gs - ass5 W.
THRxn men, named Johnson, Oaks and
& Dockey, were drowns1 on the 18th while
i crossing from Iroquois, Ont, TO the Amer
lean side Of the river. IN
VIZ CLAY KELLY, aged five years, was In
I stantly killed by a grip car n Kansas City
/ en- the 18th, His mother was III, and the
a shock of the news threw her into convnl-
sions, from the effects OF which she died
THE finances Of InIiana were on the.lsth
h said to be in bad way, and the State
n Treasurer announced that the Legislature
would have TO borrow about 81, 0OO 900 IL
meet expenses during the next two years.
MEMORIAL services in honor OF General
Sheridan were held at Boston on the 18th
under the auspices Of this city, General F.
"a. Walker delivering the eulogy. y
.as88 BECAUSE his wife had threatened to leave
him after frsguentquarrels Stephen Mead
OF Cain, Neo., killed her on the lsth and
then killed himself, leaving Their foul
s small children orphans. Z:
s$sZ MAHuFAcTUKRRs Of induratsd iber goods
4 sln Loekport, N T., ami Portland. Me.
& formed e trssst on the 18th, with capita
4 Atock OF 1900 O0a
Nv PAaTHsB supposed TO have escapet