Mower County transcript., 1889-07-31
Epit0me of the Week.


INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
DOMESTIC.
The Dodge 4 Olcott chemical works at
Jersey City, N. j., were burned ON the 3Jth.
Loss. $33O,O
RICHARD HYATT, aged thirty seven years,
the largest landowner in Southern In
diana, died on the 22d near Washington,
Ind, from the effect OF stroke He
owned fourteen thousand acres Of rich val
ley land.
The National Editorial Association will
hold it's fifth annual session in Detroit on
August 81, sS, ~ and 80
STEPHEN BnBY was drowned in White
river at Anderson, Ind, on the 22d in the
presence OF his wife and two hundred
neighbors He was dragging the river for
tho bodies of Charles Hosier and Scott Todd,
two boys recently drowned.
A sEA-LIoN eleven feet in length was
captured on the 22d in Lake Winnebago,
Wis 1t escaped from circus two years
ago and had frightened many people since
that time.
JUDGE JOHN CLARK, one OF the most noted
Judges in Georgia, attempted to Jump from
q a:noving train at Smithville on the 2od,
when he was thrown under the wheels
and his head almost entirely severed from
his body.
JOHN ROSE, the most prominent citizen of
Clay City, Ky, and the wealthiest man in
Powell County, was assassinated from am
bush on the I'D.
NEAR Sweetwater, Wy. T.. on the 22d Jim
Averill and Kate Maxwell, known as the
"Cattle Queen" who lived with him as his
wife were hanged by ranchmen, who ao-
cused their victims of cattle stealing.
TEREE boys, sons of prominent citizens
OF Mahanoy City and Shenandoah, Pa,
while driving across the tracks of the Read
Ing railroad near Mahanoy City on the ssd
were struck by an engine, and one was
killed and the other two fatally injured
DAN MALoNs (colored), was taken from
the officers at Covington. Ga, on the 32d by
masked men and hanged for attempting an
assault on a white woman
s 5. CARTWRIGHT. aged sixty years. res
,dent OF Topeka, Kan, who had been liv-
ing IN a garret for years and dining at
lunch counters. died on the 22d, leaving to
his relatives fortune of $3.50, ,OOO
IHE discovery was made ON the 22d that
farm directly west OF Topeka, Kan, con-
6ained q fine bed of terra Gotta clay. Beds
in New Jersey and Ohio have previously
Furnished all the terra Gotta works with
clay
FARMERS living near Columbus Ind.
have OF late been troubled by petty thefts.
TN the 22d gang of vagrants was arrested
tn whose possession all the stolen property
was found
IT was announced on the 2od that Mrs
Hattie Gibson Heron, q missionary, wife OF
Rev. David Heron, late of Jonesboro, Tenn,
was under sentence of death in Corea for
teaching the doctrines of Christianity Mrs.
Heron preached the Gospel as we'll az her
husband
THREE surveyors-Frank NJ Brown. Hen
~ c. Richards and Peter Hasborough-were
drowned on the 22d while running the
rapids of the Colorado river near Marble
canyon
ADv1cEs of the 22d say that tho steamer
Lorenzo D. Baker was burned while on her
way from Jamaica to Boston. The passen-
gers and crew numbered twenty seven, of
whom all but,two were saved
GOVERNOR LAEEAH!:E, of Iowa, on the 22d
issued proclaim :li,n Of In, il reward of
$40 for the ;lrcs5 al: 60 ly;ciion OF the
nlurderers Of John and Hattie Elkini, OF
Clayton County
tbs Vanderbilts on the 23d secured con-
troll of the Chesapeake & Ohio railway
Three large grain elevators and their con-
ooAAVo, OC1OuSAuS W H. he1ly, L.. SoCIO"-
bridge 4 Co. and Henry Hover, at Blue
Hill, Neb., were burned on the 22d
F. T. Brown, banker, who disappeared
from Wichita, Kan, last January, and who
was supposed to have been murdered, re-
turned home insane On the 23d He could
give no account Of himself
COLONEL ROGER j. PAG1, prominent
lawyer, and editor of the Times-Register at
Marion. n. c., was shot and instantly killed
On thet23d by some unknown person.
IN Colorado on the 23d great damage was
done to crops by heavy rain-storm
FIRE on the 25d at Little York. Ill, de-
stroyed seven out of the ten stores in the
village.
MRS MARY BRADY, who enjoys the dis
tinction of being the only woman in New
Jersey ever convicted of being a common
scold, was on the 23d fined twenty-five dol
Lars and warned to keep civil tongue in
her heal
ROBERT MARVEL, the Pike township Ind.)
octogenarian, had Oh the 23d reached his
fortieth day of abstainment from food and
drink
THE statement that Mrs. Heron, formerly
of Jonesboro, Tenn. wife of an American
missionary, had been sentenced to death in
Corea for preaching Christianity, was de-
MED On the 23d
JOHN L. SULLIVAN came into possession of
$4,000 in New York on the 23d- 1t was the
stake money in the recent fight
IT was announced on the 23d that there
were nearly six Thousand destitute miners
at Brazil, Ind, and vicinity:
PITTSBURGH steel manufacturers on the
23d disc'aimed all intention of selling out to
English capitalists. They do not think En-
glshmen care to invest 800, 00O, 600 for the
privilege of controlling Americas iron in
dustries
GEORGE MCTH, on trial before the Cincin-
natl (O) police court on the :Sd for selling
ice-cream on Sunday, pleaded guilty, and
the court accepted the plea as demurrer
and discharged the prisoner, stating that
the sale OF ice cream was not regarded as
luxury, but as necessity
SECRETARY NOBLE issued an order on the
$50 directing DR.. George Ewing and H. L.
Bruce, of the Board of Pension Appeals,
and Judge Frank L. Campbell, Of the AS
sistant Attorney Generals office, commit
tee to investigate all reratings of pensions
made during the last twelve months.
THE total production OF pig iron In the
United States in the first six months of
1889 amounted to q, lC7, 500 net tons OF 1000
pounds, against 9. 6S6, ,6N net tons the pre-
vious six months.