Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-01-23

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English woman, rose from tho dinner
table on the Nth and shot herself dead.
H. F. VotaHr, former cashier of the
Farmers and Mechanics' Bank Of Pitts.
burgh, Pa, which failed n september
with liabilities of $3.50, was arrested
on the 18th on tho Charge of embezzling
$1,000
& koRGE HACKER, an In annapolis An
archist who stabbed his employer, james
Bruce, because the latter expressed graf
hcation at tho election of General Har-
rlson, was sentenced on the 18th to four
teen years in the penitentiary.
AT the death on the nth Of William
Keane, st. Louis newsboy, it was dis-
covered that he had amused fortune of
$le, o5O, the largest portion Of which was
invested in bonds and securities.
THE one hundre. and eighty-th I'd ami
versary OF Benjamin Frankl.n's natal day
was fttingly observed In various places
on the 18th by typographical soc cites.
ADAM BERKE1.s, OF Hillsboro, O., brought
suit on the 18th for $40, 0 % damages against
sixteen citizens Of Brown County for an
assault committed upon him in their capao-
ity as white Cans"
JAMES p. NEARY cashier Of the Mutual
Union Telegraph Company of Boston, was
arrested on the 17tn, cha ged with embez
cling 80 900 Of the company's money:
GEORGE MEADows, The negro wAo was
recently lynohed at Pratt Mines, Ala, as
the assailant of Mr,. Kellmer, was on the
18th found to have been innocent Of the
crime for which he died. The real culprit
was confined in jail.
MAN named Beecher, living near the
Buck Shoals silver mines in Indiana. Was
carele sly handling can of blasting
powder on the 18th when it exploded,
blowing aN ay half his head and one hand
A VALUABLE vein of lead was struck on
the 18th half mile north of Mineral
Point, Wis.
AT Poteau, I. T., two men named Webb
and Harris shot each other to death on the
18th, and Il bystan ler who witnessed tho
fight was fatally wounded.
The Department. Of State at Washington
Was informed on tho 18th that the Jap
ane Government had abolished the OK
port duty on drugs, woven goods, timber,
cereals. spirits, beasts, fuel, etc.
CAPTAIN ROBERT MILLS, one Of the
oyster pirates at Bait M ire, Md, was Son.
fenced on the 18th to one years imprison.
ment and 800 hne.
The British bark Sibel which left New
York June IS for B lngor with cargo +
oil, wa, on the 18th given up for lost. She
c rried u crew of twenty men.
The thermometer in Dakota and Mime
sofa ranged from AZ to Is degrees below
zero on the lSth-the first very Guild weather
In that region this winter.
CHARLES AUSTIN, for twenty years book
keeper for Bussey 4 Mcleod, stove foun.
drymen at Troy, N. Y, disappeared on the
18th. taking with him 10, 900 or more of
the firms money.
JOHN STORMS, who was bitten by pct
| spaniel at Elizabeth. N. j., ten days ago,
died on the 18th OF hydrophobia
DESN1E couture and Joseph Noel we're
blown t atoms on the 18Th. at Sherbrook
Que while trying to thaw out stick Of
dynamite.
THERE were 1853 business failures in the
United States during the seven days end
ed on the 18th. against 1877 the prevou
seven days. The total failures in tn,
United States from January l to date Was
9S1. aga nst 913 in 1888.
THE G rbin and Excelsior collier IS at
Shamckin, Pa, employing fifteen hundred
persons. suspended operations indefinitely
on the 18th owing to the dullness of the
coal trade caused by unreasonable
weather.
ALL, the cigar in forty factories
in New York Git, over one thou sand in
number, struck on the 18th against re-
duction in wages
In a collision between two freight trains
on the 18th on the New YORK, Pcunsyl-
vania & Ohio railroad at Kent, O., both
engines andsten r, of merchandise >7ere
wrecked and Engineer Washner, of Gill
ion, o., wa killed.
A MAN named Ridenour, after being
| twice cow cted and sen1e ce to death,
VI on his third trial on the 18Th at Win
chester, Va, was acquitted.
BRADY HANSON fell one hundred feet
down mine shaft near Helena, NJ r., on
the 18th, and the only injury he received
Was a cut on the bridge of his nose.
THE collections OF intern i revenue in
| the United States for the first six month
of the fiscal year en- led Jun 80. 1889, were
s63, 3l2. 565, an increase 5jS9I ,ver 70
c responding period of the previous year.
On account OF poverty Edward j. An.
derson. a lawyer at N W York, commit
ted suicide on the 18Th.
THE report OF q smallpox epidemic in
Denver Col, was positively denied on
the 18th by the authorlt es Of that city
MICHAEL LoFTUs, miner at Heana, M
T., had bot Of his arms blown off on the
18th by an ex .'losion of giant powder.
1nE two sons of Calvin Wilkins OF
Lima, o., were terribly burned by natural
gas on the 18Th. The Younger would die
and the elder was disfigured for life.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
CORNELIUS DoSAnUE, a well-known Irish
| patriot, died in his home at Buffalo, N. Y ,
on the IS h VIII lie the funeral services over
the remains Of his wife were being con-
Quoted in the church.
CHARLES F. HENDERSON Rep) was re-
elected on the 18th by the Nebraska: Leg
islature to represent the State as United
States Senator.
4. o. WoLcoTr 'Rep.) WIS on the 18th
elected by the Colorado Legislature to
succeed III, mas NJ. Bowen as United
states SENATOR
ANTHONY H1ee1Ns (Rep.,was on the 18th
electe United States Senator by the Della
ware Legislature.
The M chigan Legislature on tho 18th