Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-10-16

years, killed her six-Weeks-old child and
herself with carbolic acid at her home In
Chicago on the Sth. Insanity was the
cause.
TAYLOR Il LOVES hydraulic cotton COM
presses, six cotton sheds and 4, 500 bales of
cotton were burned at Savannah, Ga, on
the 9th. Loss, $4,000.
THE beaumont Hospital and Medical
College in st. Louis was destroyed by fire
on the 9th.
ROBERT BRANToN shot his wife fatally and
killed himself in drunken Jealous fit at
Salt Lake City on the 9th.
SENIOR CAAMANo, the new Minister from
Ecuador, was presented to President Har-
rison ON the 9th by Secretary Blaine. The
new Minister Is an ex-Presldent OF Ecuador
AN appeal for ald--fuel, food and cloth
ing-was made ON tn 70 9th in behalf of the
people of Stevens Coun ty, Kan, where
four successive failures OF crops had left
the farming population without means OF
support.
A FIRE on the 9th at the Michigan State
prison at Jackson destroyed the library
schoolroom aud a large amount OF boot and
shoe stock.
The grand encampment of Knights
Templar in Washington on the 9th dis
posed of the controversy between the Iowa
Knights and Grand Master Roome. sustain
ing the latter and consuming the Iowa
Knights for their attitude. They were
then restored to friendship, Mount YER
non was visited, where the Illinois Com
mandery held service over tho grave Of
Washington. A reception was given ut the
White House by the President
The magnificent $500, 900 residence of Mr..
Glenn Studebaker, at South Bend, Ind, was
oil, or fonx
the morning of the 9th. There was only
so, 600 insurance on the building. Mrs
Studebaker was dangerously burned.
W. A. ROBINSON 4 Co., oil dealers OF Prov
idence, R. l., failed on the 9th for $500, OO0
AN alarming epidemic Of typhoid fever
prevailed on the 9th at Aurora w. Va, the
entire neighborhoOd for miles around being
infected.
AT Auburn, n y, Judge Davy decided on
the 9th that the electrical execution law
was constitutional, and remanded Kummler
to the custody OF Warden Durston, of
Auburn prison, for execution.
JOHN E1sENBERci, a Baltimore wife beater,
was given thirteen lashes ut the Jail whip
ping post on the 9th
The annual report on the 9th of the West
ern Union for the year ended June 50
showed profits of $6,2l3 OIL; surplus, S.
6ll ,4Ol, an increase in profits over last year
OF 81, lao, 400.
The monument erected by the State of
Vermont In memory of the Green Noun
tain boys who fell in battle was dedicated
at Gettysburg, Pa ON the 9th
REMARKABLY cold weather prevailed on
the 9th in Arizona, and the mountains east
of Tucson were covered with snow.
The fire department OF Pasadena, CAL,
~of, 70 49, E,,oi ,,k 1o. ,.1~,
9th, and three children lost their lives in
the burning building
NATURAL gas was becoming scarce on the
9th in the Ohio valley, and the majority of
the largest manufacturers att Pittsburgh
were gradually resuming the use of coal.
NEAR St Anne, Ill.,, on the 9th was found
the steel chest OF the safe in the Exchange
Bank OF that place, which was carried off by
robbers on the night of October l. Itscon-
tents, 81 600 in cash, were found intact
SEVERAL cases of yellow fever were re-
ported on the 10th at Key West, but the re-
port said there was no danger that the dis
ease would spread.
DURING the nine months ended October
there were Sill miles of new railroads
built in the United States.
The Woman's Congress in session on the
10th at Denver, Col, reelected Julia Ward
Howe, OF Rhode Island, as president
SAMUEL J. CREsswELL, a wealthy iron
manufacturer at Philadelphia, died in q
dentists office on the 10th from the effects
of oxide gas taken to relieve pain while
having two teeth extracted.
IT was reported on the 10th that at least
500, 600 pounds of tobacco in Fleming Coun-
ty, Ky, had been entirely destroyed by
the frOsts of the past few nights.
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than ever before known at Rockford, Ill,
and nearly all of the twenty or thirty fac
tories taere depending upon water power
had been compelled to shut down.
LABoRERs at Ticonderoga, n Y, on the
10Th unearthed coffin bearing, according
to the inscription, the remains OF Lord
Howe, who was killed in the battle of
Ticonderoga July 8, 1855.
The Department of Agriculture at Wash
ington reported on the 10th the general
per centage of the condition of corn at 9l.7.
against $40 month ago; potatoes, no,
against S6.S last October; buckwheat, 90,
against 90. last year; tobacco, SO7 against
ST. in 1888.
THE Knights Templar at Washington on
the 10th elected j. P. s. Goblin, of Pennsyl-
vania, Grand Master, and Hugh McCurdy,
of Michigan, Deputy Grand Master of the
encampment. The next conclave of the
Knights will be held at Denver, COL
The Fertilizer factory of G. Ober Sons &
Co., at Locust Point Md, was burned on
the 10th. Loss, $200, 600.
WILLIAM MOORE, negro train hand on
the Savannah, Florida & Western road, was
taken from the train at Jesup Ga, on the
10th by posse Of men and lynched. His
only ofense was throwing stone tho day
before at citizen.
The large livery barn of Oxby Bros. at
Corwith, Ia, was burned on the 10th, and
six horses, including 81 500 stallion, were
roasted in the flames.
CHARLES TANNERY and Mrs. Russy were
deliberately killed on the 10th near La
Grange, Pa, by Eugene shippy, a notorious
horse-thief
AT Cincinnati on the 10th valuable mail
pouch weighing 30 pounds, was stolen
from a truck in the Grand Central depot.
dragged off about hundred yards and it's
contents rified.
MRS. j. W. WATKINS, widow, committed
suicide at Charlottesville, Ind, on the 10th
by throwing herself in front of train.
THE annual congress of the National
Prison Association convenes at Nashville
Tenn, November 16
The Carnival Association of st. Paul have