Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-09-18
Epitome Of the Week,

Epitome Of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
DOMESTIC. 81
HENRY CHURoHwARD's barn at Dover Con-
ter, Mimi. was burned on the 10th, and two
Of his children persisted in the flames
The eighth annual National encampment
Of the Sons of Veterans was formally
opene at Paterson, N. j., on the 10th by
Commander in Chief Abbott. - 49,.
NEAR Loudon, N. H., on the 10th Joel s.
Ordway, aged eighty years, was robbed OF
50, 500 by two confidence men at the point
of a revolver. .
HENRY STARR shot and killed his mother
Mt Decatur, ILL.,, early on the morning of
the 10th. mistaking her for burglar.
ADvICEs Of the 10TH from Charleston
Miss, say that seven negroes had been
killed there within forty Eight hours, in
GLIDING George Allen, the Le Flore County
incendiary, who was hanged The total
number of killed up to date was estimated
at one hundred.
A BAND of regulators on the 10th muir
dered Rosem ond Cormier and his daughter
Rosalie, aged fifteen years, near Lafavette,
La, because they disregarded an order to
leave the place.
THE steamer Theodore Weems valued
az 600, was destroyed by fire on the
10th while laying at her wharf in Baiti-
more, Md
A STORM OF great severity was sweeping
along the Atlantic coast on the 10Th. At
Coney Island and West Brighton hundreds
of pavilions had been destroyed, causing a
loss of $3.50 900, and the beautiful surround
1npS 0f the hiCr .hnta1S or
haitian beaches had been made scene of
desolation, From Bay Head to Barnegat
City the damage, both by wind and wave,
had been unprecedented in the history of
the coast 1t was also reported that sew
eral lives had been lost by the wrecking of
vessels.
In a steeple-chase at Albany, n Y, on
the 10th the famous horse Bourke Cochran
fell at the water jump, breaking both fore
legs below the knee, and had to be shot,
thus ending the career of what was once
the best steeple-chaser in the country.
A SHOCK of earthquake was felt at
Wilkesbarre, Pa, and surrounding towns
on the evening OF the 10th At about the
same time five acres OF the Delaware 4
Hudson mine at Plymouth caved in, but no
one was hurt
CHRISTOPHER, Ollie and George, three
young sons of c. c. Baker, were drowned
on the 10th in Tuolomne river near Mo-
desto Cal
The stage from Oroville, Cal to Quincy
was stopped by q highwayman seven mil IS
east of the former place on the 10th and
an express box was taken aud two pas
sengers were relieved OF their possessions.
FIVE men belonging to The United States
monitor Passa1c were drowned on the 10th
by the capsizing of boat off Sandy Point,
Md
An offer by an English syndicate of So
co., 900 for the Thomas Iron Company's
works at Hokendaugua, Pa. was accepted
On the 18th.
THE National Conference of Charities
opened at San Francisco on the nth.
The body OF Miss Anna Mead, the Bing-
hamton young woman who committed sui
eide at Niagara Falls on the 5th, came to the
surface on the Canadian side of the whirl-
pool on the 18th and was secured
The one hundredth anniversary of the
opening of the United States Treasury De-
partment at Washington occurred on the
nth.
AT Bakers Station, Ind, William Brill
was put off a train ON the Itch for not pay
ing his fare, whereupon he shot and killed
the conductor, James Lemon.
LIZ oOOi Ii LA Cllo tiClAIUt VI tNcW 1OIh
continued with undated vigor on the 18th.
Several wrecks were reported along the
coast, and accounts of damage at seaside
resorts c. ntinued to come in Ocean
steamships were arriving all right. At
Lewes, Del, many ships were reported
wrecked and over TO, ty lives were known
to have been lost. Ocean City. Maryland 8
leading summer resort, and Atlantic City.
h. j.. were wrecked.
THE coal miners in Eastern Tennessee
were out on strike on the 18th for higher
wages, and many families were in want
THIEF on the 11th robbed the trunk of
q young Louisa County Va.) woman who
was about to be married, of $4,000, OF which
sum $3.50 had been given her by her
aflanced 10 keep until the wedding day
The report on the 18th of the Wagner
Palace Car Company for the quarter ended
June 80 showed gross earnings in sixteen
States and in Canada of s77U4, 796; expenses
paid, s;45,418 -. -.>.-.
REPORTS OF the 18th from all portions Of
Northern, Northeastern and Northwestern
Texas were to the effect that great damage
had been done to property and crops by
foods
FRANKLIN STACK (white) and David
Boone (black'. both murderers, were taken
from jail by mob a, Morganton, n c., on
the 18th and hanged
AT Oakland, Cal, boiler in sash, door
and blind factory exploded on the Itch, de-
moiishing the engine-house and killing
four men. Several others were severely
injured.
In the Wyoming valley in Pennsylvania
on the 18th half mils OF ground juss out
side the town. OF Plymouth settled over a
coal mine. Several mules were in the
mine at the time and all were killed. The
miners sc'ped. ..-..
WILLIAM BnowN. Of Heth township, Ind
was taken from his bed on the night OF the
llth by White Caps, tied to a tree in bis
yard and given fifty lashes on the bare
back III the presence of his family:
In Yellowstone Park, Colorado, the
geysers and boiling springs were on the
18th reported to be in furious state of
activity. including the wells that were sup
posed to be extinct Scientists elaine that
this outburst had some connection with
the great STORM prevailing on the Atlantic
coast " az - &
MRS. MARGARET A. DLLABD of Easton.
Pa, whose husband was murdered ecent-
~. confessed ON the II tn that her paramour.