Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-01-09

mated at 6,OoO, 900 TONS and 81 Besseme1
steel rails at Il $50, O)O tons ss
M. SEALLER, y leading merchant at SOM
erville, Tenn, failed on the 3lst for 800,
COO p .aa = y ll.5 I'H
| THE steamer Sallie. loaded with cotton,
was burned on the Mississippi river oppo-
| site Trenton on the 31st ult
| A FIRE on the 3lst ult. at Decatur, Ala,
destroyed eleven new buildings in Lafay-
cite square. Mr.. Wood was fatally and
Mr.. Rice seriously burned.
THE steamer Natchez one of tho finest
river boats in the South, struck a reef on
the 1st near Lake Providence, La, and
sunk in nine feet Of water. She was val
| ne at SIS, 600, and was a total loss.
HENRY q. sT1cKNEY left Boston on the
LIST, taking with HIM about $4,000 of the
money OF the Chelsea Salt Company. for
which he was book keeper
The farmers of Franklin County, Mass,
were greatly excited on the lst over the
discovery Of gold among the Bucklaud
hills.
In fight on the 1st near Augusta, Ga,
among Louis Black, James Brown and
Sam Fielding and the laster's son all were
pIoUdOty laCallE 1nJureQ.
CHARLES SWIFT and Jacob Reislock,
pupils at the Institute for Deaf and Dumb
at Columbus, o., were drowned on the LIST
BY the breaking of ice on pond.
THE output Of gold and silver in the
mines of Colorado during 1883 was &c.,
OIL, SAG. of which IA. O25. 62S was silver.
IN quarrel on the I'd as to the owner
ship of thirty cents Dan Daily, Kansas
City tMo.) bartender, shot and killed Jo-
seph Long, switchman.
DlPHTHER1A was ep demio on the 3D. at
Springfield, Mass, and the schools had
been closed.
By an explosion of dynamite on tho I'd
near Sumneyt,wn. Pa, two young men
named Erb and Schecker were blown to
eces.
THE residence of William Gerald at Tore
Haute, Ind, was burned on the I'd, and his
wife and little boy were suffocAted
THE competition of artists in designs for
the Grant monument closed at Now York
on the 2d. The fund for tho monument
amounted to $500
TIE Soldier,' Home at Albany, N. Y,
had LOCI inmates on the ID. For 1883 the
cost OF purchased rationS was 1914 cents a
day and cost of clothing 1852 man.
The statement Of the public debt issued
on the 2 showed the total debt to be ST.
6S5, 363 Ell; cash in Treasury, s6O,6s6, 264; ;
debt less ca h in Treasury. 81, lA, O63, 25S
Decrease during December, Il, AZ. $685. De-
crease since June 80 1883, $31, 522, 1913
HUNDREDS OF school children at Pekin,
ILL.,, were suffering with measles on the 2d,
and the health officers had ordered the
schools closed.
THE Richardson Drug Company of St.
Louis, one of tho largest concerns of the
kind America, trans ferred it's orders to
rival concern on the 2d and permanently
retired from business after thirty one
years of existence.
NEARLY the entire business portion of
Altoona, ILL.,, was destroyed by fire on the
3D.
AT school-house near Marysville, Mo-,
10y named Brady was cutting an apple
on the "a wi h a pocket-knife when Dale
Robinson ran against him in play, driving
the knife through Brady's heart and kill
ing him instantly.
The dead body of John r. Martin, of
Washington, Mo-, one of the most widely
known Republican p liticians in the State,
was found on the iron Mountain tracks in
St Lou 8 on the I'd. He had been robbed
OF gold watch and all his m ,ney.
JOHN HKoNEK, previously found guilty
IN Chicago Of having dynamite bombs in
his possession, was on the Q sentenced to
twelve years in the penitentiary by Judge
Collins
EGYPTIAN HALL of the PHILADELPHIA
Masonic Hall, said to be the finest of the
kind in the world, was formally opened on
the I'd.
The total tonnage of the Erie canal in
1883 was 4,942, 948, a decrease from that of
1887 of 6l0 S57 tons.
GOVERNOR MARTIN, of Kansas. issued the
New Years gift Of pardon to FIVE prison.
ers in the State penitentiary
ALL the dies used at the United States
mint in Phi lade phia during the year 1855,
between eight and nine hundred in num-
Der, were destroyed on the 2 By heating
them to a white heat and hammering tbs en-
with sledges.
MAURICE THOMPSON, State Geologist of
Indiana, rendered his resignation en- the
Sd.
The Lincoln pulp mill at ST. GATHERINGS,
Ont, was burned on the Sd, John Boyle
perishing in the flames.
ROBERT ELDER, aged twcnty-eight years,
was hanged on the Sd at Nays Landing,
n. j., for the murder of his father, who
was sixty years of age, on August last
DURING the year 1888 eleven vessels be-
longing in Philadelphia were wrecked on
the ocean, causing loss of one hundred
and eighteen lives and $3.50, 900 in money
AT Lebanon, |. T., on the Sd John Herd,
ten years old. accidentally shot and killed
James Bash, twelve years Of age
THE young wife Of DR.. J. E. Mott, of Full
ton, KY, accidentally shot herself on the
Sd while handling revolver.
CASE ARNOLD, a lab ,rer at Crawfords-
vile, Ind, accomplished the remarkable
feat on the Sd of eating xty two raw eggs
at the Peoples Theater without stopping.
After the exhibition Arnoh adjourned to
a restaurant and INDUCED in hearty meal.
HENRY WERNER, wholesale dealer in
hides at New York, failed on the Sd with
liabilit es of $50. 0)O and assets of $3.50 600.
COLONEL JOHN ASHFORD, of Clinton, N.
c., was fatally injured and his two sons
and negro instantly killed on the Sd by
the explosion of boiler in hoop factory
of which he was proprietor
TIE report Of the Indiana Mine In
spector, which was filed with the Governor
on the 81, showed the output of coal in the
State in 1885 was 3, 14O $40 tons. which was