Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-09-19
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DOMESTIC.
THR amount of the embezzlemept of
Joseph Breed, the suicided assistant cash.
ier of the Hartford Comm National Bank,
was on the 18th found to be SOS, 500 He
lost the money in private stock operations
REPORTS Of the 18th from Mississippi
stated that owing to excessive wet weather
the cotton was rotting in the fields, and
the crop was likely to prove failure.
NEW York was on the 18th flooded with
counterfeit five dollar and one dollar silver
certificates. The quantity of these bills
circulated led to the belief that an expert
gang of counterfeiters were at work.
By an unprecedented rise in the river
Augusta, Ga, was on the 18th experiencing
the worst food ever known there The wa
ter in the streets was over five feet deep,
and all business was suspended, boats be-
ing the only means OF navigation. The
loss would reach 81, 600, 900.
THE Grand Council of the Improved Or
der of Red Men, benevolent organization
with membership of eighty two thou
sand, convened in annual session in Chi
cago on the 18th. Thirty three States were
represented
WHILE resisting arrest on the nth at
Auskogee, Ind, Dan Barnot, a noted des.
perado, was riddled with buckshot by
Marshal Tyson and posse
In several Virginia counties wind and
rain storm on the 18th did great damage to
the corn, cotton and peanut crop.
CAPTAIN ANDREWS, who was trying to
cross the Atlantic in the Dark Secret, a
twelve-foot dory. abandoned his boat in
mid-ocean and arrived in New York on
the 18th in the Norwegian bark Nora.
AN express train on the Southern Pa
cifio railroad was stopped by three rob-
bers on the 18th at Parker's Mills, A. T.,
but they secured no booty
JOHN KITCHENS, of Dawson, Ga, nearly
seventy years old, was kicked to death on
the 18th in fight with his son Perry.
THE convention Of the National Protec-
tive Association of Spirit Distillers of the
United States met in New York on the
l1th..
A LARGE part Of the business district of
Huntington, n. Y, was burned on tho 18th,
causing a loss Of 100000.
F.: TwESTY-E1GHT new cases and four deaths
was the yellow fever record at Jackson
vile, Fla, for the twenty four hours ended
on the 18th. Total cases to date, 743; total
deaths, 100.
"A PRE- on the 18th at Potoka, Ind, de-
stroyed the best portion Of the village.
The Liquor-Dealers' National Protective
Association, in session in New York on the
18th, elected j. NJ. Atherton, of Kentucky,
president.
, MRS THOMAS MYERS and daughter. aged
twenty years, were run down in the East
port (Me.) harbor on the 18th by a schooner
and both were drowned. y
In his address at the Grand Army en-
campment at Columbus, Ga, ON the 18th
Commander in Chief Rea said the total
membership of the order was 36l, 362, a
gain of IS, $50 during the last year. Dur
ing the year 4, 4B comrades died. There
was expended in charity <215, 972.
A NEW and dangerous counterfeit stand
ard silver dollar was in circulation in New
York on the 18th. a
AN incendiary fire on the 18th at juno
tion City, Kan, did damage to the extent
Of $l25, 900. Two young men lost their
lives.
THE loss of life by the freshet at Au-
gusta, Ga, was on the 18th placed at
twelve.
THE California Dried Fruit Association
was formed on the 10Th ut San Francisco
by many Of the largest fruit-growers Of
the State. .
HEAVY frosts were reported. in many
parts of Wisconsin on the 18th, freezing
cranberries and damaging the corn and to-
bacco crops.
The outbreak of yellow fever at Decatur,
Ala, had on the 18th caused the greatest
excitement among the people, who were
leaving the town in large numbers.
AT Princeton, Ind. on the 18th Sylvester
Gruhb shot and mortally wounded Miss
Downey because she had declined his
escort to tho fair at that place. A. seas
j.. B. BuLKELY, of Millerton, Pa, was
driving with his wife and two children on
the 18th when his horses became fright.
ened and ran away. Mrs. Bulkely and the
children were killed and Mr.. Bulkely was
fatally injured.
AT the 6. A. r. encampment in Colum-
bus, O., on the 18th William Warner, OF
Kansas City, was elected COMMANDMENTS
Chief, and Milwaukee was chosen IS the
place for the next annual gathering.
By the upsetting Of boat on the 18th
en- the Hudson river at Hastings, n. Y,
five persons were drowned.
FoBEsT fires in Northern Michigan had
not been checked on the 18th. West OF
Standish two families were surrounded by
the flames and persisted. The properly
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