Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-11-27

1Ju0ley, QotA observation-disclosures OF rem
sions, on the 2lst formed 3 co-partner-
ship In Washington in the pensions and
claims business.
FIVE men were drowned of Empire
City, Ore, on the slst by tho wreoking
Of the tug Fearless,
EDwARD CUNNINGHAM, q veal thy resi-
dent of Milton, Mass, was shot and
fatally wounded on the alst by three
Italians who were trespassing on his
estate.
FIFTY-NrNE cotton dealers at New Or
leans on the 21st estimated this years
crop With an average estimate OF $780,
600 bales.
Ar Albuquerque, N. NJ, Pedro Lopez
was acquitted on the 91st Of the murder
Of Frank Chase, Notwithstanding no i'd
mitted that he killed the man and
robbed the body.
DAVID E. DAY, of Buffalo, N. Y, was
elected General Grand High Priest of
the general grand chapter Of Royal Arch
Masons in Atlanta, Ca, on tho s1st.
NEAR New Bedford, Mass, a SQUARE
rugged vessel was wrecked on the 21st
and all on board persisted. One body
was washed ashore.
A BARN belonging to Christian kim
mick at Scottsburg, Ind, was burned on
the a1st, and seven horses and flye cows
persisted.
The Lawrence Bank at Pittsburgh,
Pa, an institution incorporated under
the State laws, suspended on the s1st
with liabilities of 500, 900.
SHERMAN AUBREY, o supplemented
youth, confessed at Elizabethtown, KY,
on the 31st that for fifty cents and an
old watch he murdered his cousin, Ira
Aubrey, whose body was found recently.
The young man said that tho STEP
mother Of his victim induced him to
commit the murder.
In York County, Me-, large sales of So
called Jamaica ginger aroused tho sus-
picion of the Prohibitionists, and the
discovery was made on the a1st that
the stuff contained q large amount Of al
cOhol. Sellers Of the compound would
be prosecuted.
Mrs. JOHN MALONE, of Lincoln, Neb..
was fatally burned on the sd by the
explosion Of q gasoline stove.
The Glasgow Iron Company of Potts
town, Pa, on the sd voluntarily in
creased the wages of its puddlers twenty
five cents q ton.
THE will of J. Warren Merrill, who
recently died at Cambridge, Mass, be-
queaths to Baptist missions, charities
and associations, $4,000.
Al the Woman's Indian National Mis-
sionary convention which closed at New
ark, n. j., on the 32d, resolution favor
ing the same educational opportunities
for Indians as for white children was
approved.
AT Center Point, Ia, John Hendrick-
son fatally shot his wife and blew off
his own head with a shotgun on the 29d
Domestic trouble was the cause.
AT Braddock, Pa, On explosion of
natural gas on the 22d wrecked q two
story brick dwelling, fatally injuring
two persons and seriously wounding six
others. ...
DUNNO the seven days ended on tho
ed there were 277 business failures in the
United States, against 267 the previous
week For the corresponding week in
1888 the number was 296. The total of
failures in the United States from JAN
uary to date is 10, 1O7, against $500 in
1888.
In New York City ON the I'D Thomas
Morgan, Patrick McDermott, o. Katerba
and Ella McNamara committed suicide
for various causes.
THE Sherman Oil Company OF Lima,
O., one of the largest independent com
panies in the Ohio field, sold out on the
ed to the Standard Oil Company for
$1,000
The Tradesmen's National Bank of
Conshohocken; Pa, which failed recent
ly, resumed business on the ed.
The schooner c. y. Church, which left
Baltimore October 10 with 1924 tons of
coal for Boston, was on the 22d given up
for lost. Captain J. T. Gallagher was
accompanied by his wife and child.
NEAR Catasauqua, Pa, William Boyd
and Frank Burger were killed on the
22d by premature explosion of blast
in stone quarry.
GOVERNOR TAYLOR, of Tennessee, on
the ed pardoned two of the five Bar
nards sentenced to be hanged in Han
cock County, and the sentences of tho
others were committed to five years. i'm
prisonment.
ARABID dog was killed on the ed at
Marion, Ind, who in the past six days
had bitten ten persons. .... =.
FA1EBANKs e Co.'s general store and
stock at st. Johnsbury, VT, were dam
aged by fire on the e2d to tho extent Of
500, 900.
WALTER F. Prey, half.idiot, killed
the three-year-old son. of Philip, Fisher
on the ed at. Weymouth, Mass, by:
burying him alive in yard. ~
ATEBE1F1c snow-storm ragged on the
ed in the neighborhood of Missoula,
Mont. Railroad traffic was blocked and
four serious wrecks were reported on the
Northern Pacific. &c..
EXPORTS from the United States for
the year ended October, 1880, were $685.:
46S, 1853, against S87s, 42s,s44 in 1883; and
imports s765, 413, TIT, against S722, 979, 245
in 1883. .-.. &
STEPHEN PETTUs, q prominent New
York business man, was shot and killed
ON the ed in Fulton street by Hannah
q woman about thirty
years of age. She claimed pettus had