Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-03-07
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forced the express messenger to open his
safe, securing between $4,000 and $lO.-
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sAN FRANo1sco and towns In Northern
California were shaken by an e. earthquake
on the Goth ult, the inhabitants Of some
places rushing from their houses in alarm
AT Kansas City on the 10Th ult the roof
of the nearly completed Midland Hotel COL
lapsed, burying score of men in the ruins
Frank Edison was killed and a dozen 9TH
ers We're badly wounded
THOMAS FoRsYTHE, who confessed that he
had murdered County Treasurer Hill by
cutting Off his head, and that he had
robbed him of Sc, 600, was taken from Jail
| at Carthage, Tex, on the Goth ult and
lynched
The Fusion City Council ut Salt Lake City
was sworn in on the Doth ut The four
| GENTLE councilmen who took their seats
were the first GENTLE members who ever
sat In the council chamber
AT Salamanca, N Y q fire ON the Goth
ult. destroyed the opera house, the post
Office and other business buildings, causing
a heavy loss
JOHN A. BEA1. a boy thirteen years old,
began life sentence ut Columbus O., on
the Doth ult. for the brutal murder Of his
mother eight months ago.
The will OF Mrs Jason Downer, of Milwau-
kee, was probated on the Doth ult Among
other things it provides for a home for
superannuated Presbyterian ministers
Her total estate was about 5000, OOO
JOHN W. DAWSON, a farmer living near In
! dianapolis, Ind, aged seventy-six years,
| married his seventh wife on the LIST.
OVER three hundred Milwaukee ship car
penters struck on the LIST because the em
lv,l11 bow
for nine hours work.
through bridge on the LIST at Hondo, Tex,
and three men were killed.
ADv1cEs of the 1st say that four negroes
were drowned near Aberdeen, Miss, by the
| upsetting of a canoe.
The Manistee (Mich SILT h Lumber Com
pany failed on the LIST for 81 ,OCO, 600
The assets were said to be over that amount
POTTER & STYA1ER's immense furniture
factory in New York City was destroyed by
hre on the lst Loss, 81 600, 600
A NATIONAL convention of veterans Of the
war was commenced in Washington on the
LIST, its object being to secure the passage
of a bill by Congress giving to every vol
unteer soldier of the war u pension at the
rate OF one cent per month for each day of
his service.
~ FIRE On Guo 1SG u6SUEOyou Tie 00Glro
business portion of Suffers Greek, Cal
The building at Hartford, Conn, occu-
pied by the Evening Post and the Connecticut
Cathode, was burned on the 1st
For the third time in three years the wife
of James McElmore, living at Texarkana,
Tex, gave birth on the LIST to triplets All
were alive and doing we'll
OSCAR +. BECKwTrH aged seventy-eight
years. who murdered Simon Vanderc0ok in
1882, and who had been six times sem
fenced to death, was hanged in Hudson,
N. Y, on the LIST.
JUDGE GRESHAM on the LIST refused a writ
of error in the Indianapolis Qnd.) tally
sheet frauds, for which Sim Coy was SEN
fenced to be imprisoned for eighteen
months and pay fine Of 800 and W. F.
Bernhamer for one year and to pay fine
of 81, 900.
The worst snow-storm Of the season was
raging on the LIST in Minnesota, and all the
railways were blocked
ALL the railways in the upper peninsular
of Michigan were blockaded on the I'd by
one of the severest snow storms ever known
there.
AT Goldsmith's mine, VAUDEVILLE, NJ r.,
three miners were killed on the I'd by fall
ing down shaft q distance of two hundred
feet.
ADv1cEs of the I'd say that hundreds of
Hungarians were leaving Connellsville, Pa,
and adjoining coke regions for their native
land Scarcity of work was the Cause
DIR. MCGLYNN was on the I'd granted
permanent injunction at New York restrain
ing Henry George and his followers from
incorporating the anti-Poverty socle'y.
FIRE in Hampton, Va, on the I'd de-
stroyed the house of Thomas Jones (col-
ored), and two small children persisted in
the flames
AT Clinton, Ia, Mrs Frank Brown and
her babe were fatally burned on the I'd by
their clothing taking fire from an exploded
kerosene lamp
NEWTON, Kan, was swept by a cyclone on
the I'd, many buildings being destroyed or
partly wrecked A man was killed and two
women severely wounded. The financial
loss was placed at $50, 600 Great damage
was also done in the surrounding country.
EMMA LANCE, sixteen-y ear-old Chicago
girl, committed suicide with poison on the
I'd because her mother punished her.
AT prayer meeting in the First Presby-
terrain Church in Detroit on the evening Of
the I'd Rev. Dr. c. NJ. Waldron, a venerable
and retired pastor, dropped dead while
making prayer
DURING the seven days ended on the I'd
there were 2UZ business failures IN the
United States against 1873 the previous
seven days
The paper stock of Barnes Brothers, at
Detroit, Mich, Was destroyed by fire on the
I'd, and also the two tive-story brick build
ings they occupied I otal loss $3.50, 600.
A STATEMENT on the I'd shows that the
reduction of the public debt during Feb
ruary amounted to $7,756, $685. and since
June 80, or the first seven months of the
current fiscal year, aggregated $76, 974,-
O22. The net cash in the Treasury was
$92, 987. 796, or $7,5OO,OOO more than
the previous month.
SEVERAL barges and canal-boats loaded
with hay were burned at their wharf in
Brooklyn on the "a. Loss 100000
The Secretary of the Treasury at Wash
ington was advised on the I'd of an organ
lied movement for the emigration of Ger
man convicts to this country, and imme-
diately took steps to guard against the land
ing of all such passengers
POSTMASTER MCLEOD, of Palmyra, NO.,
found $500 short in his accounts recently,
committed suicide on the "a.
DURING February there was q net de-
crease of ST., O43, 1888 in the circulation