Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-26
Epit0me of the Week,
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
DOMESTIC.

18th siened bill that was opposed by all
the saloon-keepers in tho State. The bill
prohibits the use of pianos, organs or any
musical instruments in saloons. Il also
prohibits the use of cards, dice, billiard
:ables, pool tables, bowling alleys and box
ing gloves.
THE heaviest rainfall for years occurred
On the 18th ut Watertown, D. T. Cellars
were Hooded and much damage was done
to merchandise
THE Chicago, Milwaukee 4 St Paul Rail-
road Company recorded a mortgage in Chi
cago on the 18th for $l5O, COX, 900 to the
United States Trust Company of New York
The mortgage was executed for the pur-
pose of taking up all indebtedness of the
road and for improvements to be made.
"A TERRIBLY destructive storm passed
through Peru, Ind, on the 18th, doing many
thousands of dollars worth OF damage
throughout the city and country.
COMBINATION train run by the Tennes-
see Coal, Iron & Railroad Company for the
accommodation of its workmen was thrown
from the track on the 18th near Birmine-
ham, Ala, and two men were killed and
nearly one hundred others were injured.
TEST was made on the 18th on the
Raleigh CASTOR railroad of process in
vented for telegraphing from a moving
bA'AiA. IucSSdSeS were received Wl1le the
train was running at the rate of thirty miles
al hour.
The Massachusetts militia rifle team un-
der command of Major James P Frost. left
TOR Liverpool on the 18th to compete with
tho English volunteer ritlemen on their
own ground
AT Wllkesbarre, Pa, on the 18th the
Pennsylvania, Lehigh & Eastern Railroad
company was organized, with Samuel F.
tlerson as president
THE remains OF John Sewer, the first
Governor Of Tennessee, were exhumed
from near Montgomery, Ala, on the 18th,
ana were reinforced at Knoxville, Tenn.
They had been buried seventy -four years.
VERY destructive bug about the size of
a pin head made its appearance on grain
IN indiana on the 18th, and farmers feared
they would lose most of their crops
IHE Supreme Lodge, Ancient Order of
united Workmen, convened at Omaha on
the 18th, delegates being present from all
over the United States and Canada.
A DECISION rendered on the 18th bv the
ONO Supreme Court forbids the social club
scheme adopted by many to evade the local
option law
ANTONIO R1coM1o, released from prison
III New York on the 18th. where he served
a term for having stabbed his wife. re-
turned home and crushed her skull with a
Hat-ron, killing her. He was arrested
HE Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph Company
on the 18th conveyed to the Western Union
Telegraph Company all its right, title and
interest in and to all its telegraph lines
and property of every nature and de-
scription.
THREE young men, ". Fl. Sullivan, Harry
Husner and William Wood, capsized in a
gale While sailing on the lake at Salt Lake
City on the 18th, and all were drowned.
LoNG-coNTINUED rains had on the 18th
badly damaged wheat, corn and tobacco in
the Evansville (Ind) district. It was said
that the wheat was ready for the sickle but
could not be cut.
AN attempt WIS made on the 18th near
Urbana lrkl-, to Wcacl: the cyclone express
ON the Cincinnati, Wabash l. Michigan rail-
way pile of ties and other matter was
placed on the track and the engine struck
the mass but did not leave the track
HE New York Central freight depot at
Buffalo, N. Y, was burned on the 10Th.
HARDY HAMILTON was hanged on the 10Th
at Home, Ga, for the murder of Chinaman
1T was estimated on the 10Th that the
flood loss in Williamsport Pa, would reach
$4,000 00O
THE bell of the new cruiser Charleston
contains $50 in silver ten-cent pieces con-
tributed by the thousand workmen en-
ployed in her construction at San Fran
cisco
TIE Narrow Gauge railroad shops at
Osceola, Ia, were burned on the 10Th, to-
gether with several locomotives.
The checker tournament in Chicago be-
tween Reed OF Chicago, and Barker, of
Boston, for the championship of America
r1tH 70 In +1@
with victory for Reed, the score stand
mg: Reed, 9 games; Barker, Z; drawn, "a.
Mr.. AND MRS JOHN LEAv1TT were arrested
on the 18th charged with the recent muir
der of their two daughters near Gresham,
Neb
Mrs. CHARLOTTE ALLEN, aged seventy
years, living near Washington, Ind, CON
fessed on the 10Th that in November, 1885,
she murdered her husband whose body
was found tied to tree With his throat
cut from ear to ear. A quarrel over PROP
erty caused the deed.
TWENTY buildings at Nashville, Ark were
destroyed by fire on the 10Th
NEAR Steubenville, O., mail train on the
Panhandle road was wrecked on the 10Th
and two postal clerks were killed, the con-
ductor and q brakeman were fatally hurt
and half dozen other persons were in
jured.
THIEVES broke into the post office at Way
cross, Ga, early on the morning of the 10Th
and robbed the safe OF 81, 100 and number
of registered mail pouches
MARTIN l}UEEE, arrested recently in Win
nipeg as On accomplish in the murder of
Or. Cronin. was indicted for willful murder
On the 10Th by the grand jury in Chicago
Two CloCTAW Indians named Tuba and
Jumping Frog, who had several hundred
dollars in their possession, were found
murdered on the 10Th in the woods Of Sugar
Loaf Mountain in Indian Territory.
The thirteenth annual National camp of
the Patriotic Order Sons Of America be-
gan it's session in Washington on the 10TH
NETT1E CoLBURN, a thirteen-year-old
girl OF Elkhart, Ind, committed suicide on
the 18th by taking morphine Sensitiveness
about her personal appearance caused the
act
Two BROTHERS named Douglass and two
brothers named Pearman, whose ages
range from nine to ffteenye years, murdered
a boy named Snyder, aged thirteen years,
in Vermillion County, Ind, on the 10Th and
threw his body into creek They had a
grudge against Snyder.
JONATHAN SKEENE, the sixteen-year-
youth who shot and killed Prof H. L.
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