Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-12
The building Of the Michigan Furniture
Company near Oakland Cal, was burned
on the 4th. Loss 800 ONO .1'

Company near Oakland, Cal, was burned
on the 4th. Loss, 500, 900. r"*
A CYCLONE swept through Lamar County,
Tex, on the 4th, doing great damage to
crops, level1ng fences, unrooting houses and
barns and 1njuring u number Of people.
The cyclone struck the southern section OF
the county and moved in an easterly direc-
ton. sweeping every thing before it.
THE council between representatives of
the Sioux Indians and the Government Com
miss1oners relative TO the proposed sale Of
certain portion of tho Sioux reservation
for settlement was opened at Rosebud
Agency, South Dakota, on the 4th
WHILE services We're being held on the
4th in tho Free Methodist Church near POM
eroy, o., an attempt was made to blow up
the building with powder, but it missed
fire. At least one hundred persons would
have been killed had the powder been
ignited.
DoHERrY 4 WADswoRrH's silk mill at
Paterson, N. j., was destroyed by fire on
the Ath. Loss, $l0O0N
ADvICEs OF the 9Th from Johnstown Pa,
say that conservative men were of the opin-
ion that the number of people destroyed in
the flood would reach from $4,000 to Is, 600.
This Wow was based on many fragments Of
evidence obtained from over 100 citizens,
found. The registration of survivors still
continued The total registration to date
was Ii, 600 out of total estimated popula-
ton of the torrent-swept district of from
s., 600 to 10000. Two hundred and forty-slx
more bodies had been found, Of which the
majority We're identified This swelled the
list to 3, Is bodies 1t was estimated that
the number OF orphans in the COnemaugh
valley would DO about 500
The Bank of Omaha, Neb, incorpOrated
about a year ago, closed it's doors on the
9Th. Liabilities between 100000 and $70,-
600; assets nominal.
IT was reported on the 5th that Mr.. A.
Swan Brown, of New York, a merchant
we'll known in the dry-goods trade, had
gone to London to attempt to arrange q
syndicate for the purchase of the leading
dry-goods stores of New York and other
| leading American cities.
The enumeration of Indiana school chill
dren showed on the 9Th that there was
71O, 720 in the State, which indicated total
population of 1868, Cos The apportion-
ment of school funds is $l.35 per capita
an increase OF four cents over last year
ALL the evidence in the DR.. Cronin in
quest in Chicago on the 9Th was directed
! toward establishing the fact that the de-
ceased was firmly impressed with the idea
that his life was endangered through the
Vaccinations OF Alexander Sullivan the
well-Anown ex-president of the Irish Land
League.
AT Jacksonville, Fla, early on the morn
ing of the 9Th fire destroyed about sixty
| wooden buildings, for the most part occu-
pied by colored people. The loss was esti-
; mated at 500, OOU
AT Silver City, Col, Colonel F. c. Jobst,
the Michigan Central agent and an opera.
tor named Burrell were killed on the 9Th
by robbers who secured about $500
The Nebraska State school census showed
on the 9TH school population of 1858
which gives total population to the State
OF about 900, OO0.
The St. James Hotel at Stevens Point,
Wis, was destroyed by fire on the 5th, and
q young man and two girls persisted in the
flames.
ABOUT nine o'clock on the night of the
9Th very perceptible shock OF earthquake
was felt at Nashville, Tenn.
POSTMASTER GENERAL WANAMAKER sent
outa circular to postmasters on the 5th call
ing on them to inform him as to the extent
! OF the business transacted at their Offices on
| Sunday. The information was desired with
| view to decreasing, if possible, the amount
of Sabbath work performed by post-office
employees
The annual parade of the Sunday-school
Union OF Brooklyn, n Y, took place on
the 5th, sixty thousand children being in
! line
The United States Brewers Association
met in twenty-ninth annual session on the
5th at Niagara Falls, N. Y resolution
that 10000 be appropriated for the benefit
of the sufferers Of the Johnstown disaster
was heartily carried
AT Biloxi, Miss, an incendiary fire on the
; 9Th destroyed twenty-five buildings caus-
ing a loss of 100000.
The annual convention of the American
| Bankers Association will be held at Kansas
City, Mo-, September 1921.
! Lon BARRETT notorious horse thief and
general crook. was arrested ON the 9th at
Terre Haute, Ind, for passing counterfeit
money.
JOHN AND HENRY G1LLY, miners, were
killed on the 9Th by the fall OF coal roof in
mine near Wilkesbarre, Pa.
! FIVE THOUSAND men were engaged on the
| 9th in the work of cleaning away debris and
searching for bodies at Johnstown, Pa The
Indications were that the estimate of Il, 600
to l., 5000 would not exceed the actual num-
! Der of lives lost when all was known. The
! militia was in possession OF the town and
us approaches, ana s1ght-seers and curiOs1-
ty seekers were debarred from entering.
Good order prevailed and the homeless and
destitute were being cared for as amply as
possible.
The Secretary of War decided on the 9Th
to purchase for the new site for Fort Omaha
tract of $40 acres of land about eight
miles from Omaha
Rev. THOMAS F. DAVIES, for twenty-one
years pastor of St. Peters Church in Phila-
delphia, was on the 9th elected Episcopal
Bishop of Michigan.
J. H. BENJAMIN, editor of the Deland,
(Fla.j News. shot and instantly killed
Captain J. W. Douglas at New Smyrna on
the 9th. The shooting was the result of an
old feud
EDDIE FISHER. aged thirteen years. whose
mother and five sisters and brothers per-
ished in the flood, committed suicide at
Johnstown on the 9th by jumping from the
top of a building
WHILE insane on the 9Th Mrs. Quigley, the
wife of well-to-do farmer living near
Peotone, ILL.,, gave her two children a dose
Of though on Rats and took some her.
self.
KARL HAHNMANN, farmer living near
ctr led bic 10 IL,