Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-08

subsidized on the I'd, it was thought that the
local government was sufficiently strong to
preserve peace, and General Merritt had
returned with his command to Leaven-
worth, Kan.
WHILE A. Shearer was driving In the vii
lage OF Adrian, O., on the I'd his team ran
away, fatally iniuring him and killing his
daughter, who was with him.
A TERRIFIC cyclone struck Warsaw, N. c.,
on the I'd, and many small houses were
blown away almost bodily and large houses
were torn up SO that they were not habit
able. Several persons were seriously hurt
by flying timbers. Strawberries were the
principal article Of early production there,
and hundreds Of acres were ruined
j. H. WILLIS, an old and wealthy farmer,
was found dead in his field near Peters,
burg, Ind, on the I'd. It was believed he
was foully dealt with.
REPORTS OF the I'd from many point; in
Illinois and Indiana stated that a heavy
frost had done great damage to fruit. es-
pecially peaches, which promised so we'll.
Vegetables were badly injured, while much
of the young corn was bitten off level with
the ground
IHE total number of immigrants passing
Chicago for the West in April, including
men, women and children, was 4, 967.
The famous trottlng mare Fugue, valued
at 81, 600, died on the I'd at the Washing
ton Park track in Chicago. She was owned
by Major H. c. Mcdowell. of Lexington, Ky.
AT darlington, KY, Louis Morton shot
and fatally wounded Lizzie Hayes and then
killed himself on the ed lovers quarrel
was the cause.
In Chicago on the I'd three large steel
companies We're consolidated, with cap
ital of 81 0OO,0OO
DURING the seven days ended on the Sd
there were Isl business failures in the
United States, against 81 the previous seven
days. The total OF failures in the United
States January to date was 4,S06, against
$500 in 1885,
FIRE on the Sd in Leroy, N Y, de-
stroyed W. D. Matthews & Co. s malt-house
and contents. Loss, $500 900.
PRESIDENT HARRISON issued proclama-
ton on the Sd throwing open the Fort
Sisseton military reservation in Dakota for
settlement.
AT Pridesburg crossing, near Philadel-
phia, Pa, coach containing eleven men
was struck by a train on the I'd, and two Of
the occupants were killed and the others
We're badly wounded, three probably ia
tally.
a loss of 100000.
The State Institute for Feeble minded at
Frankfort, Ky, was burned on the Sd, but
the inmates were all rescued without acct
dent
GOLD to the amount of $780, 600 was Or
dered at New York on the Sd for shipment
to Europe
AT Emporia. Kan, on the Sd the Repub-
licans of the Fourth district nominated
Harrison Kelley for Congress, to succeed
Thomas T. Ryan, appointed Minister to
Mexico
BUNDY's HOTEL and stables in New Castle,
Ind, We're burned on the Sd, with several
horses and valuable vehicles
In New York on the Sd George Francis
Train passed his fourteenth day of total alb
stinence from food and drink excepting
water and little weak lemonade He SAYS
great pestilence is soon coming and he
will be able to meet it better by reducing
his weight.
WALKER HARRIS and Robert Williams
tcolored) were hanged on the Sd at EN-
peria, Va, for murder.
A MERCHANT named Welwick, of Blair.
La, shot his wife and two children on the
Sd, set fire to his residence and burned the
bodies of his victims with it and then shot
himself. No cause was known for the deed
THERE were sixty one strikes, involving
IL, 1913 strikers, reported to Bradstreets dur
ing April last, against 123 strikes with 10000
strikers in April, 1883. Since January ],
1889, there were reported 22l strikes and
As, !2i strikers, against 313 strikes and 81, go
strikers during the same four months of
1888. and 1913 strikes and 1896 strikers in
1887.
COMMISSIONER TANNER, of the Pension
Office at Washington stated ON the Sd that
the number Of ex-soldiers who were draw
ing pensions for total blindness at the rate
of $12 per month was SIS.
SEVERAL copies of an intlammatory secret
circular recalling the Haymarket tragedy
in Chicago on the 4th of May, 1885, and ex-
tolling the deeds Of the Anarchists, were
found by the police on the Sd.
The house OF Mr. and Mrs Charles Will
Jams at Abingdon, Md, was burned on the
Sd, and their four children, whose ages
ranged from six to fifteen years, persisted
in the flames.
THREE children of family named Silvery,
at Ashtabula, o., were left alone in the
house on the Sd, when the building took
fire and the little ones persisted in the
flames
JOHN BARKER, a substantial farmer living
near Keokuk, Ia, was swindled out of
$4,000 on the Sd by three confidence men
who purported to be land buyers.
The Supreme Court of Nebraska decided
on the Sd that the holder of a mortgage on
growing corn could not recover after the
corn had been harvested and sold.
Four fine residences in Springfield, No.,
were burned on the 3D., and an infant child
Of J. M Kinney was burned to death in one
of the houses
The miners of the Pittsburgh (Pa.) dis
trict on the Sd issued an address to the rail-
road coal operators in which they demanded
yearly rate OF seventy four cents per ton
Mrs. JOSEPHINE K1ssELL shot herself on
the Sd at her home in Houghville, Ind. She
had been married but year, but quarrels
with her husband had been frequent
The first general observance OF Arbor
Day in the public schools of New York State
took place on the 3D.
FRANK SHERER, OF Youngstown, O., COM
mitted suicide by hanging on the Sd be-
cause he could not pay his rent
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
WILLARD PERKINS, formerly exhibited
under the name OF Billy Bates, the Penn
sylvania Giant, and weighing 453 pounds,
died on the 27th at Waterbury, Conn.