Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-06-20
DOMESTIC.

ACCORDING to a census finished on the
18th Baltimore has 4l6, sos inhabitants, of
which 81, 500 are colored.
A FIRE in tenement house in New York
en- the 10th resulted in the death of one
man and the burning or wounding of a
dozen persons.
MRS. SARAH JANE WHEELING, of Phila-
delphia, confessed on the 18th that she had
poisoned her two children and that she
furnished her husband with the poison
with which, she declared, he took his own
life on account Of dependency caused by
poverty.
THE National organization of the Colored
Young Mems Christian Association was
completed at Louisville, Ky, on the 18th,
Charles l. Morris, of that city, being
chosen president.
FIVE HUNDRED cowboys of the Chicka-
saw nation were in state of rebellion on
the 18th over the payment of cattle tax,
and the Government troops at Fort Reno
were preparing to take the field.
PETER ALT, a hotel proprietor at Balti-
more, Nd, was shot to death by his fifteen
year-old son on the 18TH. The killing was
the outcome of family quarrel
ANDREW HOWARD, cash boy aged four
teen years, confessed on the 18th to starting
the great fire in Buffalo, N. Y, February l,
by which $1,000, 900 worth Of property was
destroyed. He said he did it because he
was angry with floor-walker.
FRANK DONOVAN, aged ten years, was
shot and killed on the 18th at Oswego, N.
Y, by Lewis Clark, aged thirteen years,
while playing with gun.
The twelfth annual convention of the
Mlllers' National Association was opened
at Buffalo, N Y, on the 18th.
Two YOUNG men, John Tinke and Henry
Prayer, the first clerk and the second
only known by a card in his pocket. COM
mitted suicide at Cincinnati on the 18th by
shooting themselves.
A HEAVY seizure of opium was made by
r the United States customs authorities at
st Louis on the 18th.
HE negroes in the Chickasaw nation
were on the 18th said to be planning gen.
~eSal exodus to Oklahoma to engage in farm
ing.
The sixth annual meeting of the Ameri-
can Seed Association was begun in Chicago
on the 18th.
stroyed the establishments of the In
dianapolis Veneer Company, D. E. Stone
& Co., fancy cabinetware, and NJ J. o.
good & Co., lumber. Total loss, s1OO, 900.
SEVEN men were buried at Menominee,
Wis, on the 18th by the caving of clay
bank in a brickyard, and two were killed,
two fatally injured and the others seriously
hurt.
NINETEEN persons were poisoned on the
18th at Kasota, Mimi, from eating cheese,
but all would probably recover.
THIRTEEN hogs were struck by lightning
and killed on the 18th at Whitewater, Wis.,
THE Auditorium hall in Chicago in which
the Republican National convention takes
place will hold about nine thousand people.
Up to the 18th there had been in the neigh
lions for tickets.
THE thermometer registered 1o2 in the
shade at Nebraska City, Neb., on the 18th,
and there were several cases of sun-stroke.
A MONUMENT to General Thomas j.
C'StonewalP') Jackson was unvailed in
Charlottesville, Va, on the 18th.
The date of the G. A. r. National en-
campment at Columbus, O., has been fixed
for September ~.
JOHN McCULLUcH, of St. Louis, broom
maker, shot his wife on the 18th and then
walked block and sent a bullet through
his own head.
The foods in Minnesota had on the 18th
done damage to the extent of $500, 900. The
st. Louis river for thirty miles was a rag
ing torrent and presented wonderful
scene as it plunged through the Dalles.
A LARGE portion of the village of Green
up, ILL.,, was destroyed by fire on the 18th.
THE recently published statistics of the
Chicago Union Stock Yards Company and
Of the Chicago Board of Trade show that
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad
is again leading all other lines in the num-
Der of cars of live stock and grain brought
to that market. This fact indicates the
rapidity with which the road must have re-
covered from it's recent labor troubles and
furnishes additional evidence q the Ell
Gent manner in which the management
:. handled the recent strikes Of employees on
its lines. Evidently, from a business
standpoint, the road is in able hands.
ROUGH named George Taylor shot and
fatally wounded Belle Brown in Indianap-
oils on the 18th and then put bullet
through his heart. 9.
On the 18th one hundred and fifty Nor
mon immigrants arrived in New York, and
Immediately left for Utah. .@.@y,..gs "a s@-srs =
II. NJ DUBLEDAY, of South Royalton, VT,
was on the 18th victimized to the extent of
5000 by the gold brick swindlers. The
parties escaped to Canada. 81 ..a
ISAAC BRONSON and wife, Of Pokeville,
Conn.,, were found dead in their farm