Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-07-24
Epit0me of the Week.


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INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
DOMESTIC.
A CLoUD-BURsT on the 18th near Balti-
more, Md, swept away five road bridges,
and two men were drowned.
A BRITISH syndicate was reported on the
18th to have bought the H. H. Warner Safe
Remedy business at Rochester, N. Y, and
elsewhere for S., 0OO
THE Washington weather crop bulletin
for the week ended on the 18th said the
weather during the week had been gen.
orally favorable to all growing crops
throughout the corn and wheat region.
MUCH damage was done on the 18th near
Evansville, Ind, by heavy rains. Growing
crops were injured and in some places i'm
mense oat and tobacco fields were COM
pletely submerged and the crops entirely
ruined
A DISASTROUS cloud-burst occurred on
the 18th near Robinson, Neb. The flood
swept down Soldier Greek valley, carving
all before 1T and woodchopper named
Duncan was drowned, also three Of his chill
dren
GOVERNOR BEAVER of Pennsylvania said
on the 18th that about s., 5OO, OOO had been
expended and directed to be expended in
relieving the YOUNGSTOWN sufferers and abat-
ing nuisances in that vicinity, leaving in his
hands about 900 for distribution.
TERRIFIC hail. rain and wind-storm
passed over Plattsburg, N. Y, Burlington
Vt, and other places along Lake Cham
plain on the 18th. Telephone and tele-
graph wires were Frustrated, trees were
blown down and many windows were
broken by hailstones In the country the
farmers lost heavily on grain and fruit
EDWARD STANWooD, OF Boston, editor OF
YOUTHS Companion. was on the 18th ap-
pointed by Census Superintendent Porter
as agent to collect STATISTICS of cotton man
ufactures
AN unusually heavy rain-storm prevailed
on the 18th throughout the Lebanan (Pa)
valley. number Of creeks overlooked
their banks. hundreds of fields were sub
merged, and the crops which had been cut
and left lying in the fields were washed
away.
AS A result Of the recent electi ON which
terminated In favor OF annexation Mayor
Oregier issued the requisite proclamation
on the 18th declaring Hyde Park, the town
of Lake. Lake View, Cicero and Jefferson
annexed to the city of Chicago
ON the farm of Joshua Warfield, near
Florence, Nd. three horses were killed and
eight men stunned by stroke of lightning
on the 18th.
Mrs. TERRY and her daughter, aged
thirteen years, living at Salt Lake City.
were fatally burned on tho 18th by an e3r
plesion of kerosene
ADy1cEs of the 18th from Iowa say that a
recent wind and hajl-storm in the vicinity
of Davenport did great damage to growing
crops, and many outbuildings were un-
rooted and trees leveled
TON CoNDER, who murdered Jack Riley
near Troy, Tenn. in September last, was
hanged on the 18th at Nashville
MAUP1N, the leader of the Keya Paha
County cattle "rustlers," was lynched BY
vigilantes on the 18th at Spring View, Neb
WILLIAM B1cKLE, Philip Hearst and the
son OF the latter were carsized from boat
in the Ohio river at Portsmouth, O., on the
18th and drowned
Mrs. EArENHovER and child were brutally
murdered on the 18th by J Ohm Gilman near
Goquille City, Ore d s,iA:: the absence OF
MIR. Eatenhoyer. Ap L ;.,nhovers were
tenants of Gilman, who wanted them to
leave, which they refused to do until their
lease expired
THE French brewery, one of the largest
In Indiana, owned by Centlivre & Co., and
situated one mile north of Fort Wayne, was
burned On the lGth. Loss $500, 600.
JOSE ADRIAN OnrEz, Mexican, was
hanged on the 10th at Antonto, Col, for
the murder of a miner named O. f. Leduc
last March On the scatfold Ortez confessed
to having committed the crime
By the explosion OF freight engine on
the Union Pacific railroad near Topeka,
Kan, on the 10th Engineer H. T. Seacord
and Firemen James Dutton were fatally in
jured
AN armed mob attacked Deputy Cham
bers near Waynesboro, Tenn, on the 10Th,
took prisoner from him named Brown,
who was under arrest for murder, and
lynched him.
The fishing schooner Edith Emery, Cap
tain Patrick Sullivan, arrived in Boston on
the 10th with only three of her crew of
nineteen men, the others having been lost
IN gale while fishing from small boats
JOHN E. BURTON. OF Elkhorn, Wis known
as the Gogebic Iron King, failed on the 10th
for $500, 600.
The National Educational Association be-
gan its annual session in Nashville, Tenn,
On the 18th, with about 4, 500 delegates in
attendance
ADD1E and Kate Gordon and Myrtle
Cranky, ranging in age from eleven to four-
teen years, were drowned in the river near
EaOla, Nan, On Inc lOCn, Wnllo DaCllnS.
JUDGE HORROR on the 10Th denied tho
third application Of John F. Beggs the
senior guardian of Camp 20, under indiot-
ment for the murder of Dr. Cronin, in Chi
cago for writ of habeas corpus
MICHAEL BoLAK was hanged on the 18th
at Belvidere. N. j., for the murder of
Michael Bollinshire at Oxford, N. j., Sep
TENDER &c, 1855 Bolak declared his inno-
cence to the last
THREE workmen were fatally and fifteen
slightly injured on the 10th by the falling
of a derrick at the railroad bridge near
New London Conn
On the 10Th two brothers named Heller,
doing business in st. Louis as foreign bank
ers, left for parJs unknown. taking with
them about $4,000 belonging to poor for
eigners.
CHARTER was fled at Topeka, Kan, on
the 10th for the Nebraska, Kansas g. South
western Railway Company, with head
quarters at Hutchinson, Kan. The capital
stock is 81, 25o,GO0
In Jersey City, N. j., Mrs. Mary Brady was
on the 10th convicted of being q common
scold. This was the first conviction in the
State for this offense. The ancient pun
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