Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-04-24
Epitome of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
DOMESTIC.

Grain Elevator Company, and we'll know
business man, hanged himself in his place
OF business on the 18TH Unfortunate spec
ulations were responsible for the act
HENRY D. WEIGH, of Philadelphia, was OF
the 18th elected president of the Alleghen,
Valley railroad, to succeed tho late JOIN
Scott
JOHN CLARK shot his wife on the 14th a
Haverh1I, Mass, and then killed himself
by swallowing laudanum. No cause wa
known.
NEAR Ravenna, O., on the 18th Chauncey
Taylor was fatally injured and his wife was
killed at a railway crossing
IN the Missouri Court OF Appeals on the
10Th Judge Ellison rendered a decision that
baseball playing on Sunday is illegal
GEORGE s HASKELL, dealer in seeds a,
Rockford, ILL.,, failed on the 18th for $1OO, GOO
NINE of rock-salt, which was said to be
as transparent as glass, was struck at King.
man, Kan, on the 18th, at depth of ST
feet
AN assignment was made at Norristown.
Pa, on the 10Th by the Conshohocken Worst
ed Company, which operated three mills,
and had monthly payroll Of about $685.
600
FRAME stable at Louisville, KY, owned
by James Miller, colored hickman, was
burned on the 18th, and Miller and his col
Ored driver, Felix Williams, and four horses
persisted in the flames.
No TIDINGs whatever were received at
New York on the 18th as to the fate of, the
steamer Danmark and the seven hundred
persons who were aboard of her when she
sailed
PETER McGoFF, of Elmwood, Neb.. was
found dead on the 18th lying across the
grave of his wife. Mrs. McGoff was buried
three days before, and her husband in a
respondent mood took poison.
JOHN BARRETT, aged seventy -four wears.
living on a farm fifteen miles northeast of
Fort Wayne, Ind, beat his wife to death on
the 18th with poker during quarrel
ADNCEs of the 18th say that forest fires
in Patrick County, Va, destroyed over one
hundred houses, and five men and many
horses cattle and hogs persisted in the
flamea
. AT Minneapolis on the 18th President
Charles F. Hatch, of the Wisconsin, Mime
sofa Pacific railway, and P. F. Lockwood
2 Well known real-estate dealer, committed
suicide.
AN unknown Italian laborer met with a
terrible death in the sandstone quarry at
Marquette, Mich, on the 18TH A large
stone rolled slowly on to him, pinning his
feet and passing gradually over the whole
length of his body, crushing him fiat from
feet to head.
On the 10Th Assistant United States Treas
urer Roberts assumed charge of the sub
treasHCy in New York and the sixteen ex-
pert counters from Washington began
counting the $27 ZOO, 600 in the vaults. It
would take them three weeks to do the
work
EDWARD LUTz, a farmer near Canton, O. :,
fell into kettle of boiling sap on the 18th
and was fatally scalded
MRS. HANNAH BATTERsBY, said to be the
largest woman in the world, died on the
18th at her home in frankfort, Pa. aged
fortyseven years A few years ago she
married John Battersby, Giving skele-
ton" and when married weighed 6SS
pounds At the time of her death she
weigh he'd 800 pounds.
MEMORIAL services were held on the 18th
at Springfield, Ill, commemorating the
twenty-fourth anniversary of Abraham
Lincoln's death. Flags were at haf-mast
on many buildings and bells were tolled.
The floral offerings were profuse, and in
cluded handsome pillow from Mrs. Har-
rison. wife of the President.
The pilot boat Enoch Turley was on the
the Delaware breakwater. Ten men, resi-
dents of Philadelphia, were on board and
lost their lives.
MISS MINNIE ANDREWS, white girl of
eighteen years, was married in Lincoln,
NeD, on the 18th to Chinaman named
John Tong.
Ex-Governor JOHN S. PuLsBURY, of
Minneapolis, on the 10Th presented to the
Minnesota State University, of which he is
regent, the sum of $500
JOSEPH P. STEWART (colored), who had
spent twenty nine years of his life in
prison at Trenton, N. j., was given his free
dom on the 10th.
In struggle with his son for loaded gun
on the 10Th at their farm near Kearney
Neb., W. II. Pettitt, aged seventy-two
years, was killed by the weapon being dis
charged
AN epidemic of suicide struck Chicago on
the 10Th, no less than five persons taking
their own lives. Sickness and despondency
We're the causes.
IT was reported on the 10Th that the
Standard Oil Company contemplated chang
Ing it's base of operations from the Penn
sylvan1a fields to those of Ohio.
DORA WEBSTER, aged sixteen years, of
Fletcher, O., was shot and killed on the 10th
by her cousin, Joseph Heath, with re-
volver which he thought to be empty.
MRS. JOSIE GURLEY was found guilty by Z
jury in Chicago on the 10th of kidnapping
little Annie Redmond, and the jury fixed
her punishment at five years in the peni-
Tertiary.
A FIRE on the 10th at Muir, Mich, de-
stroyed twenty seven buildings.
CENTERvnLE, R. L, was almost entirely
destroyed by fire on the 10th.
WHILE excavating at Duluth, Mimi, on
the 10th for new Masonic temple a blast
fred revealed vein of copper ore of great
richness.
WITH a capital of 100000, the Beet
Sugar Company was incorporated ON the
10Th at San Francisco.
Two MEN entered the State Bank at Min
neapois at noon on the 10Th, covered the
Two employees who were present with re-
volvers, filed valise with money and fed
After brief chase the robbers were capt
nred and lodged in JAIL
EMANCIPATION DAY was celebrated on the
10th by the colored people of the District of
Columbia by parade Of military and civic
associations.
FIRE on the 10Th at Lynchburg. Va, de-
stkoyed the tobacco warehouse of J. w.
Ch1lds, together with a large quantity of
leaf and manufactured tobacco stored
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