Mower County transcript., 1889-10-30
Epitonle of the Week.
INTERESTING. NEWS COMPILATION
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THE exchanges al the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the week
ended on the 10Th aggregated $l,olS,-
sS, ssl against $l,a47, or, ,Oos the previous
week. AS compared with the correspond
ing weak OF lSSS the increase amounted to
lis e.,
FRANK J. BOWMAN, a lawyer who had Tor
years been famous in St Louis, Chicago,
Washington and New York was shot and
Instantly killed on the 2lst by B. M
Chambers, ut Ferguson, near St. Louis.
The killing was the result of long unset
tied controversy.
ITwas reported on the 2lst that in Nelson,
Walsh and Ramsey counties, in North Da-
kota, there were not less than sixteen hun
dred families who were nearly or entirely
destitute of the necessaries Of life, owing
to the crop failures.
GOVERNOR WolFRET, of Arizona in his
annual report on the 21st urged that Con-
gress re-enact the law disfranchising all
polygamists in the Territory which was
repealed during the term OF his prede-
cessor. He said there were 5000 Mormons
in Arizona The total taxable property of
the Territory was given at sec, So, ,692 and
the total indebtedness at $751;, ,000
REMARKABLY cold weather prevailed in
Arizona on the slst, and the mountains
east OF Tucson were covered with SNOW
AT Springfield, ILL.,, on the 2lst Fred De-
wares, q young boy, committed suicide by
shooting He had been punished by his
father for some misdeed, and objected to
the treatment
The steamship Brooklyn which sailed
from Darien, Ga, October l2 for Brooklyn
was on the e1st given up as lost with all on
board, eighteen persons.
REPORT on the 21st from Columbus. O.,
was to the effect that Governor Foraker
was very ill., and that it would be some
time before he would be able to resume
campaign work.
AT Larabee, Pa. a fire on the 21st de-
stroyed J. J. Newman's saw-mill and three
million feet Of lumber
REPORTS of ths 21st from various points
m Wisconsin were to the effect that forest
hres were doing much damage. Every
thing was dry and the fire spread rapidly.
SEVERAL acres of ground over the Queen
and South Buffalo mines near Negaunee
Mich caved in on the 21st, and in places
there were chasms several hundred feet in
extent
kEy. GEORGE ". LEE (colored1 lectured
m Washington on the 2lst on Southern
Outragos." and advised the negroes to
strike back when they were assaulted.
GREAT excitement prevailed on the 2lst
at Warrington. ". Va, over the discovery
OF an oil we'll which flowed one thousand
barrels day, and property was changing
hands atdabulous prices
THE switchmen of the Louisville &
Nashville and the Mackey system OF rail-
ways b gun strike at Evansville, Ind, on
the 2lst for advanced wages, and all freight
traffic was blocked
GovEBNoR GEORGE L. SHoUP, of Idaho, in
his annual report on the Y1st gives the i'm
portant provisions of the constitution
which Will be submitted to the people on
November 5. Idaho, he states, claims all
essential qualifications for Statehood. The
population of the Territory is 113,7T.
Poiygamy is not at the present time openly
practiced, and under the new constitution
it will be entirely prohibited
SECRETARY OF WAR PHoCTOR said on the
I'D that the Government was experiment.
ing with the smckeless powder
OUT OF sixteen bodies reinterred on the
ed at JohnstOwn, Pa, only one was iden-
tifed
TIE Adventists of Virginia were in ses-
sion all day On the ed at Screamersyille
awaiting the coming o. the Lord, the
widest excitement prevailing, but retired
to their homes about midnight when salts
fed that the world was to exist little
while longer
AT Wichita, Kan, an electric sGreet-car
was struck by locomotive on the 22d and
hurled sixty feet and nearly twen enty pas
sengers were injured.
1T became known on the ed that the
mob who recently lynched Robert Berrier
In South Carolina prayed for and sung
psalms and hymns with him for three hours
before they strung him up.
The second biennial conference of the
Young Women's Christian Association of
the United States and Canada began it's
session at Baltimore on the 22d
The twelfth Juror in the Cronin cas-, in
Chicago was found on the :,2d in the person
of Benjamin f. Clarke. a real-estate man,
and the final panel was at once sworn in
An adjournment was taken for one day.
and the trial would begin on the morning
of the oath.
THE house of Mr. Clark, charcoal burn
er, south of Des Moines. Ia, was burned on
the 22d, and two children perished in the
flames.
REPORTS of the 22d from Michigan were
to the effect that owing to the continued
drought forest fires were starting in every
direction. Farmers were obliged to haul
water for miles to water their stock and
fall wheat was rotttng in the ground.
The third game of the worlds series for
the baseball championship between the
New Yorks and Brooklyns took place at
New York on the 22d and resulted in a vic
tory for the Brooklyns by a score Of y to Z.
The body of Antonio Meucci, the friend
and associate of Garibaldi, was reduced to
dust by incineration on the 22d on Staten
Island, N Y. r. . =
GEORGE W. SHIRLEY, proprietor Of the
Merchants Hotel at spencer, Ind, was
hanged in efigy to tree on the public
square on the 22d. His offense was re-
marrying before his wife had been dead
two weeks
TIE annual session of the Seventh Day
Adventist conference commenced at Battle
Creek, Mich, on the 22d, and was at
tended by delegates from twenty
States and Territories and from Canada.
THE residence OF ex-Mayor Ballard, of
Lexington, No., was burned on the 222d, and
Mrs. Ballard perished in the flames.
The annual report on the 22d of Gov
ernor Warren, OF Wyoming, states that the
Territory covers nearly 100000 square
miles, that the population has increased
from less than 10000 in 1870 to about 1OO, coo
now, and that the citizeus are anxious for
Statehood The assessed valuation of tax
able property lis over $33 100000 and the