Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-08-14
Epitome Of the Week.
NEWS COMPILATION.

EpltOme OF the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
DOMESTIC. 5.s ~
THE visible supply of grain, as reported
by the New York Produce Exchange,
August 5: Wheat, IL, ISL, 96T bushels, an in
crease of 55S,OSS bushels; corn, 6,9SS,S5l
bushels decrease of 1884, 7U9 bushels; oats,
3,74, 754 bushels. decrease OF 53S009
bushels . p. >-sf >.
A WAGON containing family of five per-
sons-father mother and three small chill
dren-was blown into creek during q
storm ON the 9TH at MITCHELL Ind, and all
persisted ~@%#
REPORTS from Standing Rock, D. T., on
the 5th arc to the effect that the necessary
number of signatures have been secured
from the Indians, and the Sioux reserva-
ton will be opened. & 49, 1851
A CYCLONE passed south of Cedar Water,
Sedgwlck County, Kan, on the ath demol-
ishing two houses and killing several head
OF cattle. The corn crop was damaged to
the extent of $4,000. H..
On the 9Th fire destroyed the ice ma
chinery of Lackman's brewery at Cincin-
natl, o., and seriously damaged the Ice
house and wagon-sheds. Loss, 0,O00;
fully insured.
A TIDAL wave on the 5th washed Archie
and Joseph Cockburn and Chris Sylvester
from rock on which they had been fish
ing, about ten miles south of San Fran
cisco, and all three We're drowned =
JAKE KnRA1N was on the 5th arrested by
order of Governor Lowry of Mississippi, at
Norfolk Va, and would be taken to Missis-
sippi for trial. John L. Sullivan, after be-
ing in jail all night, was released on bail
on the 9Th and would repair to Purvis, Miss,
to give bond for his appearance on August
IL
j. s. HOWELL the noted murderer of Mrs
Hall and her three children, was sentenced
on the 9Th at Linneus, Mo-, to be hanged
November Is, 1882 A motion for a new
trial was denied
IT was reported from New York State On
the 9th that the hop crops has been almost
if not quite, ruined by blight. In many To-
calities the crops would not pay for the
picking.
The discovery of oil in Bedford County
Pa, on the 5th is believed to prove the ex-
istence there Of oil fields Of unparalleled
richness
A HEAVY electrical storm and tornado
passed over Kansas City on the 9th, demol-
ishlHg chimneys and out-bui!dings, and
rain fell in torrents, deluging the streets
and delaying traffic.
REPORTS to the Illinois State Board of
Agric allure on the 51h make the aggregate
yield OF winter and spring wheat in the
State for 1889 about 81, o0o, 900 bushels
AT Madison, lnd. on the 9Th George
Schlick shot and killed Richard Sisco.
schlick had quarreled with Siscos brother,
avoH F1NIi pS@Ao 1-sI =
him. The night before William Johnson
Thinking he had killed her, he killed him.
self.
AT the meeting of the executive COM
mittee OF the National Editorial Associa-
tion in New York on the 9th it was decided
to hold the next session at Detroit, Mich
Topics OF practical Importance to members
of the profession would be discussed.
DICK" TATE, the defaulting Treasurer of
Kentucky, was said On the 9th to have been
arrested at Scottsborough, Ala
GEORGE STEVENS, son of the president of
the First National B'9S OF Niles, Mich
was shot and killed Il if.., Il l. T., on the
9th BY DR.. Town,:e;, ;-.a L1vo.:or OF Chi
cago lawyer.
THE committee OF arbitration appointed
to settle the differences between the mine
owners and striking employees at Streator
ILL, were on the 9th unable to come to an
agreement A conference would be held
between them to try and settle their diff
ferences.
A SERIOUS wreck occurred near Weston,
Neb.. on the 9th by the breaking through a
bridge of train on the Omaha & Repub-
lican Valley branch of the Union Pacific
Two lives were lost, and several seriously,
if not fatally, injured.
CINCINNATI saloon-keepers, through their
lawyer, on the 9th asked the court for a
continuance OF their cases, they promising
that they in the future would respect the
law and keep their places closed on Sunday
LYMAN J. GAGE and J. E. Williams, two Of
the arbitrators to whom were referred the
differences existing between the Illinois
Coal Run Company and it's miners, united
On the 7Jh in finding 72L cents per ton to
be the best and highest price for mining
coal that the Cool Run Company could pay
to it's miners.
THE Centredale cotton mill at Provi-
dence. r. L, was Quilted by FIRE on the
morning of the 7th. Loss, 81, O0); insur-
aEce, $4,000.
J. FRANK COLON, one of the best-known
lawyers in Minneapolis, confessed on the
18th to forging the name of John T. Blais-
dell, a pioneer millionaire OF Minneapolis,
to notes and papers valued at $227!OOO 1t
was said that Collom's father and several
fniends would come to his assistance, and
that the case would probably be settled
without coming into court
A COMMITTEE of Milwaukeeans on the 9th
waited on the railway authorities asking
them to reconsider their refusal of grant,
ing one-cent rate to the encamnment of
the G. A. r. to be held in that city. The
railway officials refused to alter their
former decision.
SEVERAL persons were said to have been
ipiured by an explosion OF fireworks ut
Kensington Gardens, St Louis, on the 9TH,
where the ''Siege OF Sebastopol" was being
produced a-s
A VEIN of gas was struck at Toledo. o.,
on the 7th which yielded 10000, 0D feet per
day .v.. --.:
SENATOR KENNEDY, Of Wisconsin, Martin
Burke's lthe Cronin suspect) attorney. in
stituted habeas corpus proceedings on the
7th at Chicago, Judge Baker issued an
order for writ as prayed for, returnable
at noon the next day
AN attachment was placed on the River
side hill at Providence, r. L. on the 7th in
favor of the National Revere Bank, OF Bos-
ton. for ~, 900
A DESTRUCTIVE fire broke out at Fort
Wayne, Ind, on the 18th, destroying the