Mower County transcript., 1889-10-02

THE jury In the Ives case at New York
failed to agree and were discharged on the
@5th. They stood ten for conviction and
! two for aoquittal
MR. AND Mrs. GALE and Miss Gleason
were killed by the cars near Greeley, Col.
on the 25th. -
THE twenty-second annual reunion OF
the Society OF the Army OF the Tennessee
commenced at Cincinnati ON the 25th.
THE Hebrews OF the country on the 25th
began the celebration of the 5,65Oth jewish
New Year.
The American Bankers Association met
in annual convention at Kansas City, Mo-
on the s5th with one Thousand delegates in
attendance.
HEAVY storm prevailed along the New
Jersey coast on the 25th and the surf was
high The wind was blowing on shore,
and much damage would undoubtedly be
done ut high tile
The Columbia Hotel at Cape May, N. J.,
was burned on the 18th. Loss, 100000 1t
was a new building.
1T was announced ON the 25th that the
Minneapolis lumber out this year would be
@ANO,00O feet, against 49, 900 feet a
| year ago.
| |AA "AAOuus AAiSS, 0Ol 1uIC0ll, u negro
who had assaulted tifteen-year-old white
girl, was taken from Jail on the 18th and
hanged to u railway trest!e.
| NEAR Buckattuna, Miss, early on the morn
ing Of the 25th q Mobile & Ohio train was
stopped by three bandits, who robbed the
express and mail cars, getting about IS, ,0U0
In money and anumber Of registered pack
! ages. The robbers overlooked 10000 of
Government funds en- route for Florida
! In addition to the bond frauds of over
81, ,WO, 900 in Louisiana. crookedness in an
other direction was discovered on the 25th
in the reissue of State warrants that had
been paid.
SIX men who had served five years in
prison ut Scottsd b, Pa, were on the 25th
| discharged, their innocence Of the crime
having been established.
DEPUTY SHERIFF RHODES and Constable
Welterson were shot and instantly killed at
Warren, Tex, on the 25th while attempt
ing to arrest John Bell, cattle-thief
ALL divisions of tho Pennsylvania rail-
road east of Pittsburgh and Erie showed on
| the a5th an increase in nat earnings for the
past eig hit months over the same period in
1855 of $45S,0I5. The divisions west OF Pitts
| burgh and Erie showed a gain of 1891, ,S25
! over the corresponding time Last year.
AT a meeting Of the Society of the Army
of the Tennessee at Cincinnati on the Goth
General w. T. Sherman was Reelected presi-
dent.
GANG of counterfeiters was on the o6th
circulating spurious dollars ON the North
side in Chicago.
SEVEN men were horribly burned bv
molten metal at the Edgar Thompson steel
works in Braddock. Pa, on the Goth One
| had died and three others were fatally in
jured
IT was announced on the Goth that over
81 .OoO, 0O0 worth of pasturage and timber
was destroyed by the recent forest fires in
California The fires spread over one hum
dred miles north and south and ton to
eighteen miles east and west
The contract for furnishing postage
stamps for the next four years was on the
26th let to the American B,nk-Note Com
pany of New York, the present contractors.
Don CossAcK, one of the most noted stock
horses in the West, died on tho 10Th at tho
State fair grounds at Peoria, Ill. He was
owned by Mr.. Arthur Cation, of Chicago,
and was valued at s25,0OO AL Here, an
other stallion. valued at $40, ,0U0, died on the
same day.
MAYOR CRHGJER, of Chicago on the Goth
revoked the licenses OF thirteen saloons
for not keeping their blinds closed on Sun
day.
PAGENsr1cHBR & Co., of New York, the
largest exporters of petroleum in the
country, failed on the e65h for 3o0OO0
AT the session OF the American Bankers
Association in Kansas City on the Goth
President Parsons and Vice President
Michael were re-olected
WILLIAM IRWIN and young Pole were
suffocated by black damp in a mine at
Mahoney Plane. Pa, ON the 2Gth
A BRISK snow-storm prevailed in North
ern and Western Wisconsin on the 26th
The temperature was low.
WILLIAM j. COLLINS, a Chicago teamster,
killed james Cosgrove. another teamster,
on the Goth for calling him liar
ALFRED BARNETT was killed by Alien
Pettus on the S65h near Columbus, s G., in
a quarrel over Car1ie Black, a Young
woman, and when Miss Black heard of the
murder she committed suicide by taking
poison.
THREE men were killed and several others
injured by an explosion ut Latin e. Rands
powder mill at Cressona. Pa. on the 9th
FARMER HORNBERGER. of Mohrsvillo, Pa.
went to New York and paid $500 for queer
greenbacks. H. exp essed the bundle to
his address at home. and on opening it on
tuS .OtA AOAuN S1"uASV auO Guy.
Ar Aurora, Ill. on the 2Gth Mrs Wilkie,
seventy years old was burned to death,
her clothing having ignited from lighted
pipe which she had dropped in her lap.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
MARTIN KELLOGG. the Oldest es'd.nt of
Huron County and probably OF Northern
Ohio. celebrated his one hundred and third
birthday on tho Dist at Norfolk
Ex-SURGEoa GENERAL JOSEPH BEALR. with
relative rank Of Commodore in the United
States navy, died on the 24th In Philadel-
phia, aged seventy five years.
GENERAL LEWIS PFRR1NE,
who died on the 24th at Trenton, N. j., was
the oldest officer Of that rank in service in
the United States, his commission dating
from 1875
Dr. JAMES P. KENDALL, Of Pennsylvania,
Director OF the Mint resigned on the 24Jh.
and Edward O. Leeoh, computer in the Of
fee, it was understood. would be his sue
cessOr
Rev. FATHER ROLES. rector of st. Marys
Catholic Church in Chicago, was found
dead in his chair At his home on the 25th
The Republicans Of Massachusetts, met in
State convention at Boston ON the 18th. j,