Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-01-02

THE passenger steamer Silver Star, of
BAR Harhor, Me- struck on hidden wreck
on the 25th and sunk in TIVE We fathoms
Of water The captain and crew Of eight
men escaped with the clothes they wore
THE Chesapeake 4 Ohio railroad bridge
at Cinclnnati was formally opened on the
&Sth 49,.
SEVEN acres In the business district of
Marblehead, Mass, were burned over on
the 2bth, causing q loss Of $500, 900 Twelve
years ago the same locality was destroyed
by fire.
Ar Cincinnati Ga the 18th AL Bandle, q
LEGAL shot, beat Captain a. Fl. Rogardus
IN contest for one hundred live birds,
killing tho entire one hundred, to Captain
Bogardus' ninety.tlve.
AT Augusta, Ga, seven Young boys were
badly, If not fatally, burned while firing a
toy cannon ON the 25vn.
II was announced on the 25th that there
was no truth in the report recently tele-
grarhea ever the country that the village
II Asrmansville, Mich, had been wiped
ous by ire.
The residents Of Winonu, Mimi, cole
hrntea Christmas with a steamboat excur-
aion on the river. The thermometer reg
issered thirty degrees above zorro.
ADylcEs Of tne 25tl from Wahalak,
Miss, stated that three more Of tho
negroes Implicated in the late race troubles
had been captured.
FouR men were killed and two fatally
wounded on the 2Sth at Denver Col, by
the dropping of the cable-car track under
which they were excavating.
}. ". EA>pT's tobacco factory ut South
Boston, Va, was burned on the 18th, caus-
ing heavy loss.
IN NJ nuesota aud Dakota elevators there
on tho 26th 1885, 900 bushels OF wheat,
against 81. S5l 900 bushels q year ago
THREE mem were fatally Injured in =
tap mill" explosion at Wheeling, ". Va,
on the con.
Two LADIES named Smith were drowned
on the Goth at Hillsyille, Pa, by tho cap
sizing of boat.
At Washington on the 10Th tho remains
Of General John A. Logan were taken FROM
the vault In which they were placed two
years ago ana carried to the mortuary
chapel, erected by his widow in the ceme.
terry Of the Sold ers' Home, which will be
their final resting place.
RENDERED insane by grief over the
death of his wife, which occurred two
months ogo ex Judge Robert A John ,ton,
aged nfty-tiye years, committed suicide
by shooting in his home at Avondale, o.,
OF. the Goth.
LEON DEAN found Derevilio Rover max
ing love to his {Dean's! wife at Old ines,
Mo-, on tho Goth and killed him with Nh
axe.
". F. MoRsE's banking house at Clarks,
Neb., closed :ts doors Oh the 2Gth with
$50. 900 liabilities and no assets, and the
Sherman County Bank at Loupo City,
Neb., also made an asst gnment.
AN attempt W. made on the 26th to
bUrn the nlce Of the Tacoma Ledger at
Tacoma, W. 7. The paper had been MAX
ing fight on the gamblers.
JOHN PEABODY, JR., aged twenty-eight
years, teller in the Merchants & Mechan-
iI:a' Bank at Columbus, Ga., committed
suicide on the 2Sth His accounts were re
ported as correct
Ok the 18th George and Peter Matcello
{brotheTs), during g drunken quarrel at
Leisenring, Pa, threw their landlady,
Mrs. Dubosh, down stairs, break ng her
neck.
DURING the eleven months ended No
ven Der 80 last 49S 583 immigrants arrived
in this country. being about II 600 more
than dur ny the same period in 1857.
SIX persons under Indictment for lar
ceny escaped from the county Jail at La
fayette, Ind, On the 26th by making rope
Of mattress coverings.
THE total value Of exports from the
United st tes during the twelve months
ended November 50 was 1919 235. l47. The
va ]ue Of the imports for the same time
was :7l6, 344 40
ADvICEs of tho 26th say that in riot at
Lamar Miss, two whites and five le~
groes were killed.
FI"RcE snow storms rnged in Iowa on
the Goth, many railways being tlockaded.
The same state Of affairs was also report
I'd from Minnesota
MAYOR HEWITT, of New York, in con-
versatile Il on the Goth said ti,at his ex-
renses in the recent election wero 40 O0O
A HALL at York, Pa, collapsed Oh the
goth during an entertainment, burying
three hundred persons in the I'll rs, and a
large number were seriously injured.
WHITE CAPS visited Dr. john ParkhilL,
a le:ding physician Of Ilopedalo, O., on
the 26th and gave him q terrible thrash
ing. His chore boy had got drunk on
cider and the White Caps accused the doc
tor tfNrugging the lat
IRON manufacturers al Philadelphia
compI aimed on the 2Gth that there was no
| money in their business, and they feared
! that some Of their number would be
! obliged to shut down unless the price Of
! iron was raised.
! The Secretary OF the Interior on the 27th
F., rendere dcci i IN which restores to the
! pubic domain over tn rty-four Thousand
acres Of land in Oregon VIII oh had wrong
! y been cert fled ns swamp land.
A FIRE on the 9th almost wiped out the
! town Of Auburn, D. T..
! CONGRESSMAN MAGiNSEss, Of Mankato NJ
! r., said il Chicago on the 27th that Mon
/ tana "a a great big Territory, rch in re,
! s&:1.1:es:: .wi!t:' population Of over twt
! b; n:irs1' sho!saad, and the pet pie arc
| tired Of living Under colonial form OF
sofern tae;A ::yheH ',sant Statehood, re
&is5lesy Of its:poiisiq::;.'::'
- A SMALL 'vessel no larger than n sail
| boat arrived at Washington after a voy
| aye of nearly eix Thousand miles. The
vessel WAS built by its commander, Cap
t In Slocum IN Rio Janeiro, Brazil, tt
| convey himself, wife and two Children Il
America, and left Rio Janeiro on July q
/ last
Samuel, HEDGE, stock dealer living a,
Jeffers' nville, Ind, was robbel OF 500 or
| the 9th by burglars.
| PATRICK KENNY and William Green, vi
| New YoI X, and Timothy Cassidy, of Brook
! lyn, were arrested On the 9th by Unitec
! States officers while engaged in making
] counterfeit silver dollars.