Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-02-27

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AT Austin, Tex, on the Goth Ed Reeves
the noted train-robber, was sentenced to
the penitentiary for life.
The Supreme Court of Michigan on tho
Goth decided that the so-called social clubs
OF the State, where liquor is dispensed to the
members, must take out licenses as retail
liquor dealers or disband
GoTTHoID MEEKERT, of Mount Healthy,
o., suicided on the Goth by jumping into a
spring and freezing to death. The we'll was
so narrow and the water so shallow that it
was impossible for him to drown, so he re-
manned and froze to death.
THE centennial celebration of George
town University was held on the Goth at
Washington.
The special report on the Goth of the Com
missioner OF Labor relating to marriages
and divorces in the United States for the
twenty years from 1867 to 1886, inclusive,
showed that the number of divorces granted
as reported from ninety six per cent of the
counties in the United States, was 1928, I'll.
or this number 2l6,7 were granted to
wives and Ill ,9SS to husbands.
AT Epson, Wis, on the goth Joseph Bro
gam a drunken laborer, cut the throats Of
his wife and two little boys, aged five and
seven years, respectively, with a razor, and
then slew himself with the same weapon.
NATURAL gas was struck at Lewisport Kv.
on the 10th at depth of Ais feet 1t burned
with bright flame and had steady flow
| A vein of very strong salt water was also
tapped.
WHILE Harry Brown, John Williams and a
third man, whose name was unknown, were
| crossing the Kanawha river at Rush Run,
w. Va, on the Goth the boat was overturned
and all were drowned
THE American Consul atSeoul telegraphed
on the Goth that famine prevailed in the
southern portion of Corea and that many
people were starving.
WILLIAM AUSTIN, who was sentenced at
La Porte, Ind, on the Goth to five years in
the penitentiary for assaulting little girl,
sold his wife recently to a Michigan City
man for five dollars.
IT was reported on the 21st that near
Atkin, Mimi, timber wolves attacked two
white children while returning from school
and killed and devoured them
The Wagon and Carriage Manufacturers
| Association of the United States at a meet
| ing in Pittsburgh on the 2lst unanimously
| decided to advance prices.
d. D. SMITH, a negro who had been Undue
| ing hands to leave the vicinity of Artesia,
| Miss, for Arkansas, was hanged on the 2lst
| by unknown persons.
CATHOLIC pilgrims, numbering one hun
| dred, in charge of Father Vissani, sailed
from New York on the 2lst on the steamer
! Wieland for a tour of the Holy Land
FURIOUS gale prevailed throughout a
large portion of Dakota on the 2lst, the
wind reaching a velocity Of sixty miles an
| hour
The anthracite coal companies of Penn
sylvania decided on the 2lst to restrict pro-
| n inn IHvo 1~cf,>o
| week
| NEWS was received at Boston on the 2lst
OF serious engagement in Hayti on Feb
ruary 9, in which from two hundred to
three hundred of Hippolytes soldiers were
killed an his army completely routed
G. F. CLARK, a Chicago druggist, was
shot and instantly killed in his store by un-
known parties at eleven o'clock on the
night of the 2lst
! NATURAL gas was discovered on the Dist
on the farm Of James Guild, three miles
west of Medaryville, Ind
NEAR Romney, W. Va, on the 21st Oscar
Evans, contractor, killed Jacob Kirby and
| mortally shot A. L. Hoke, both men having
assaulted him.
THE Board of Police of Boston announced
on the 2lst that it would grant only 100
liquor licenses for the year beginning May /
next, as against 1900 granted last year.
Hotel licenses were placed at $500, and
| bar-rooms at 81 600.
TIM and Pete Barrett, who killed the
street-car driver, Toilets on, in Minneapolis
year ago, were on the 21st sentenced to
be hanged on March % at the MINNEAPOLIS
Jail.
TIE United States man-of-war Mononga-
hela sailed from Mare Island, Cal, on the
| 2lst for Samoa
SUMMARY on the 21st of the results of
the recent Hartford Conn hotel horror
gave the following figures: In building at
time of explosion, ~; killed, %; injured,
10; escaped, 10.
GEORGE DUNAwAY. of Rutherford County,
Tenn, on the 2lst murdered his uncle,
fatally shot his aunt, and then cruelty beat
his cousin, whom he had been counting.
The heaviest snow storm on record in
that region prevailed on the 2lst at Column
bia S. c.
The President on the 22d appr we'd the
bill to admit as States of the Union Wash
ington Montana, North Dakota and Nouth
Dakota
GEORGE DUNNAwAY had been paying at
tention to Miss Melissa Dunnaway d.ughter
OF his uncle and aunt, at Lascassas, Tenn,
The parents of the girl objected to his adj
vances, and on the 22d Dunnaway went to
the house and shot both husband and wife,
killing them.
A FIRE on the 22d at Topeka, Kan, de-
stroyed the G. W. Crane Publishing Com
pany's building, causing loss of s25O,0OO.
EDWARD Brown, aged twenty EIGHT
years, and Alfred Mailman, aged eighteen
years, both residing at Coplay Pa, were
killed by an engine on the ed while walk
ing on the railway track
MISS MINNIE MARsEALEs, of Norwalk, O..
died in a dentists chair on the 3d. She
had taken chloroform preparatory to hav-
ing teeth drawn and it caused her heart to
cease beating.
Ten buildings at A legany, N. Y, were de-
stroyed by fire on the 22d
Rev JAMES GIBSON, prominent Baptist
minister Of York County, s. c., was drowned
on the ED while attempting to ford q
stream.
JAMES NJ LANE, treasurer Of Pickaway
County. O., was missing on the 22d, and an
examination of his books by his bondsmen
showed an apparent shortage of $4,000 in
his accounts.
AT indianapolis on the 22d Governor
Hovey was chosen president of new vet
eran society to be known az 1.-THE Society of
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