Mower County transcript., 1889-11-06
Epitolne Of the Week,
INTERESTING NEWS coMrtL,,,1oD
DOMESTIC.

facturer3 on the 2Sth advanced the price
of glass five per cent. for the second
time this fall.
& Ar Denver on tho 3Sth p. Nj. Arthur
was reelected Grand Chief of the Broth
hood of Locomotive Engineers.
Ar Salem, Ala, Ben Taylor, con-
tractor, and four of his wOrkmen were
fatally injured on the SSth by the col
lapse of veranda on which they were
standing.
THE principal witness in the Cronin
case in Chicago on the 2Sth was Mrs. Il.
7. CSnlSlin, who testified to the manner
in which DR.. Cronin was enticed from
his Office on the night of May 4. Her
description of the man who drove him
away Tailed closely with that given by
Liyeryman Dinan and Napier Moreland,
his hestler, of the stranger for whom
Dan CouGhlan hired the white horse.
THE eighth game of the worlds series
for the baseball championship between
the New YorlSs and Brooklyns took place
at Brooklyn on the aSth and resulted in
a victory for the New Yorks by score
of 16 to T.
OLIVER GARRISON, aged seventy nine
years, q prominent citizen of st. Louis,
committed suicide on the 3Sth with a
revolver. Ill health was the cause.
JOHN BooTH. aged twenty-four years.
was smothered to death on the 2Sth in
his fathers elevator at Shabbona Grove.
Ill.
TWENTY persons who assisted in
lynching murderer recently at Lex
lngton, N. c., were arrested on the 3Sth
by order of Governor Fowle and lodged
in Jail.
SIMON HARNET, an engineer, and
James Moyies, fireman, were killed on
the 39th by the explosion of mine
boiler at Archibald. Pa.
A TEAM of horses which John Wood
was driving backed off bridge near
Shelbyville, Ind, on the 29th, and Wood
and his wife were fatally injured.
FOREST fires were doing great dam
age on the 2eth in the vicinity of Fari-
bault, Mimi.
THOMAS c. McCAvsLASD, founder of
the town of McCausland, Ia. was fa-
tally shot by burglars carly on the
morning of the Goth.
OVER seven inches of damp snow fell
On the 29th at Denver, Col, and several
roofs were crushed by is weight.
The Jumbo gas we'll at Somerset, Ind,
which supplied the town with fuel, gave
out On the 10Th, leaving the citizens fire.
less.
IT was announced on the goth that the
Chicago 6; Alton railway had been alb
sorbed by the Union Pacific
THE body of Walrath, the ballonist,
who was lost in Otsego IN. " lake
September "a, was found on the 29th.
Mr.. MARVIN, chairman Of the relief
committee for the Dakota sufferers,
stated in St. Paul on the goth that he
felt convinced from information re-
ceiVed that there were nearly twenty
thousand families, representing a total of
upwards of one hundred thousand peo-
PIG, who were destitute in the Dakotas
Tu: house of c. G. Easterday, at Mas
sena. Ia, was burned on the 29th, and
his three small children perished in the
flames.
THE fertilizer building Of Armour &
Co.'S establishment at Kansas City was
destroyed by fire on the 29th. Loss,
$4,000. A negro perished in the flames.
THREE men were instantly killed on
the goth at Scranton, Pa. by the explo-
sion of a locomotive boiler.
JOHN CHILDEEs and Harry Norman
fought duel with pistols on the 29th
at Helena, Ark, and both were killed.
SEVERAL Camp 90 witnesses were on
the stand On the goth in the Cronin mur-
der case and testified very unwillingly.
Mrs. Dinan corroborated her husbands
story about the white horse
NICK ScHAEFFER was convicted on the
goth at Topeka, Kan, under the prohib-
itory law, of selling hard cider. This was
the first conviction for that offcnse found
in the State.
HEsroN & ERBES, wool dealers in
Philadelphia, failed on the 29th for
$s50,000.
THE New York baseball team won
the worlds championship on the 29th in
New York by defeating the Brooklyns
by q score of to 2. 1t was the ninth
game of the series, New York scoring
six victories.
A FEEIGuT and passenger train col
lided on the goth at Glendale. Ia, and
Engineer Pullen and Ansel elliott were
killed and fourteen persons were in
jured. Part Of the passenger train and
most OF The freight train was burn ed.
II WAS announced on the 29th that
Krupp, the famous German gun manu-
facturer, would. establish gun works
near Pittsburgh, Pa. sse.@s <s..
TIE sale Of the Pillsbury and Wash
burn mills at Minneapolis to an English
syndicate for $5,250,OOO was definitely
announced on the Goth. -.
EDWARD S. EBERT, aged ninety years,
a paralytic, fell into FIRE at Shinnston,
W. Va, on the goth and was fatally
burned. Mr. Ebert claimed that in 1918
he built the first house ever erected by
white men on the site OF the city Of Chi
cago. a.
ATT Ia Porte, Ind. Mrs. William Eel
ton, while insane, locked herself in q
barn OH the 3Oth ult. and fired the build
ing. She was fatally burned.
A COMPANY was organized at Phila-
delphia on the 3oth ult. for the con-
struction Of thirty twin. screw 4seagoing
torpedo boats. DIR. Gatling, of gun
fame, was selected to take charge Of the