Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-02-20
AN organized band of barn burners was on
the lAth operating in Maryland and Penn

defeated in Nevada at the recent election bv
sou votes.
Mr. CHARLES G. WAsHBURN, of Worcester,
Mass, of the Washburn l. Moen Manufact-
uring Company, stated on the 1Ath that the
alleged French patent Of Louis Janin did
not void the Glidden barb-wire patent.
FATHER DouGHERrY, of the St Louis Cath
olic diocese, renowned priesthood on the
18th and said he would locate at Chicago as
q practicing physician.
MARY POWERS, thlrteen-year- old girl at
Laporte, Ind, was on the 18th sentenced ia
five years In the State reformatory for the
murder OF her infant brother, to whom she
administered arsenic
TIE National Association of Builders
closed itsSthird annual convention at Phila-
delphia on the 1Ath. Edward E. Scribner,
of st. Paul, was elected president.
IT was announced ON the 18th that the bic
brewery of Frank Fehrs, at Louisville, had
been sold to an English syndicate for
| 81, 600, 600.
HE fifth annual assembly of the Florida
Chautauqua opened on the 14th at Defunick
Springs The session will continue five
| weeks.
CHARLES W. GABE1, Of Reading. Pa shot
his wife and afterward attempted suicide on
the 14th during family quarrel.
HALF-BREEDs at St. John, D. r., on the
18th resisted the attempt to collect taxes
from them, and the sheriff had called out
the militia. Bloodshed was feared
| L. b. BARRY, the labor agitator, claimed
on the 18th that his new brotherhood CON-
prised ninety-six assemblies, and more were
being organized
| HE entire sopohmore class of Lafayette
college, at Easton, Pa, was suspended on
| "a y, hvv% 1oE oo So
! AT Cape Vincent, N. Y, the opera-house
was destroyed and several other buildings
| were badly damaged by fire on the 18th.
THERE were 2S9 business failures in the
| United States during the seven days ended
on the 18th, against 265 the previous seven
days.
The Grand Lake Coal Company at Pitts
burgh, Pa, failed on the 18th for $23O,OOU
The Union Stock Yards at Nashville, Tenn.
', and part of the Traders West End Hotel
| were destroyed by fire on the tn
Two TRAIN men were killed by the ex-
| plosion of locomotive boiler on the 18th at
| Norristown, Pa.
| FIRE broke out in Chippewa Falls (Wis)
business block on the l. tn, and before the
flames could be subdued property to the
value of $lOO, 600 was in ashes
JOHN LEE was hanged at Alexandria, Mimi.
on the 18th for the murder of Charles
| Cheline. Martin Moe, who was expected to
die with him, had his sentence committed to
imprisonment for life.
ored>, and two other negro women were
murdered by unknown men near Mount
Olive. N. c., on the 15th
A FIRE on the 18th in the cracker factory
Of Louis Fox at Fort Wayne, Ind, caused a
loss of 100000
EXCITEMENT was high at Purcell, I. T., on
the 18th over the discovery Of old placer
mines rich with gold two miles east of Pur-
| cell, in the Choctaw nation.
| JOHN SAGE, charged with aiding and abet-
ting the murder of Harry Albert Cunning
ham, aged two years, was sentenced at
Marion, Ind, on the 10Th to life imprison-
| ment
| TIE Keeney House at Pike. N. Y, was
! burned on the 18th, and Jennie Mack, a
domestic, and her little niece persisted in
| the flames
IT was said on the tn that gold bearing
quartz had been discovered in paying guam
titles on the north shore of Lake Superior,
| go miles from Duluth, Mimi.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
The President on the 18th nominated
0NAoA ~. ooOSCAoOu, VI 111uOlS uO" dSS1SUduU
! Postmaster-General, to be Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court of the District of
Columbia, and Norman J. Colman, of Mis-
/ souri,, to be Secretary of Agriculture.
| COLONEL HENRY J. HUNT retired), Gov
ernor of the Soldiers Home in the District
of Columbia, died on the 18th in his sixty
ninth year.
| In a municipal election on the 18th at
| Ogden, o. T., the Gentiles were successful,
| beating the Mormons for the first time in
the history of the city.
GOVERNOR SAWYER on the 18th appointed
! Gilman Marston OF Exeter, as United States
Senator for New Hampshire for the interim
between March ; and June 10, when the Leg
islature will elect Senator
REV. G. L. DEMEREsT d. D., secretary of
! the general convention Of the Un1versalists
of the United States, and wife celebrated
. their golden wedding on the 18th at Man.
chester N H.
, MRS. EuN1cE P. HELMS, of Lydonville, N
Y, died on the 18th aged few months over
one hundred years Up to v vim few
weeks Of her death Mrs. Helms .Aioyed the
best of health
GOVERNOR B1GGs, of Delaware, on the 18th
appointed Mrs Ella F. Brown. of New York
City, Commissioner Of Deeds. She now
holds that Office from thirty -four OF the
forty six States and Territories
SIDNEY BARTLETT, LII. D., of Boston, cele-
brated his ninetieth birthday on the 18th
He is still an active member of the bar and
his practice is said to be worth $lOO, goo q
/ year.
! The galleries of the National House of
Representatives were thronged at noon on
the 18th with visitors who watched with in
terest the proceedings attendant upon the
official count of the electoral vote for Presi-
dent and Vice-President. Senator Ingalls,
presided After the certificates from each
State had been announced the presiding off,
Ger declared Benjamin Harrison, of Indiana,
the next President and Levi P. Morton, of
New York, the next Vice-President of the
United States
ABNER PRUGH, born in Frederick County,
Nd, died at Dayton, o., on the 18TH at the
age of one hundred years.
COLONEL RUTH GOSHEN, Barnnm's giant,
died in New York on the 18th of dropsy. He
weighed about 63l pounds
WILLIAM E. LovETr, a millionaire capital
ist landowner and old time tobacco manu-
facturer of Detroit, Mich, died on the 18th,
aged sixty years.
GEORGE HILL the biggest man In Rhode