Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-08-07


ernor was rendered, showing that Governor
Beaver had received total OF s., 594, 4l4,46
and that OF this $50, 396. 60 had been paid
out, leaving in his hands ~, 554, OlIs6.
A BOAT containing three young ladies'
Miss Lizzie Farrell, Miss Anna McCabe and
IS Alice McGillan-was swept over the
falls in the Menominee river at Norway,
Mich, on the 3lst ult, and all were drowned
The steamer City OF Paris which arrived
Mt New York on the Slst ut made the run
between Queenstown and Sandy Hook
lightship in five days twenty three hours
and ten minutes, beating all previous REQ
orGs.
The journeymen plumbers and gas and
steam filters unions OF the United States
and Canada in session at Brooklyn, N. Y,
on the Slst ult. voted to leave the Knights
Of Labor and establish an independent Or
ganization, This will taxa thirty thousand
members from the Knights of Labor
The great pacing stallion Sir Thornton,
valued at $4,000, died in his stall at the
Joliet any race-track OH tho 3lst ult,
The threo Omaha (Ncb.) breweries owned
by Metz Krug Co., We're sold on the Slst
ult, to an English syndicate Tho price
paid for the thee was stated to be
81, 800, 600.
STELLA HOWARD, q bind and insane deaf
. mute, was taken to police headquarters at
Dc5l oft, Mich on the 3lst ulU., having
walked all the way from Scranton, Pa, IN
search OF an aunt
A STICK Of dynamite was fed into a thresh-
ing machine near Anderson, Ind on the
sst ult., and thu machine was blown to
pieces and throo men and four horses were
killed.
The Connecticut Rubber Company Of
| i,1, S,sl
100000
One of the heaviest earthquake shocks it
had known in many years visited San
Francisco on the 3lst ult, but did no DAM
age.
CHARLES D1LGER and Henry Smart were
hanged at Louisville, Ky, on the 3lst ult.
| for murder The former killed Officers
Jones and Rosenberger in August 1885, and
the latter took the life OF his mistress,
Belle Ward, July 5, 1885,
| A PASSENGER train on the Cincinnati.
Hamilton 4 Dayton road collided with a
freight train on tho 3lst ult near Oxford,
! o., and five persons were killed and over
twenty injured, some fatally.
MANY h rises in the vicinity Of Peru, Ind,
were on the 5lst ult afflicted with
CHAMBERS.
The statement OF the public debt issued
on the LIST showed the total debt to be
! 81 SAG, TT, 800; cash in Treasury, s65. S57 900;
Increase during July, sl,Ol7,3ll Increase
since June 50, 1885, $l,nl7,3ll.
IT was discovered on the LIST that the
Bank of Wheeling, ". Va, had been feeced
out of $50, 0O0 by two employees, George Hen
mig and Harry Seabald, the latter son of
the president of the bank
| MARION d. NEWMAN, who was recently
sentenced to two and half years in the
penitentiary at Washington for obtaining
! money under false pretenses, received
telegram on the lst that he had fallen heir
to s.10O, 900 by the death of an uncle in San
| Francisco
A TRUST was formed on the 1st at Mobile,
Ala, to control the manufacture and sale
OF artificial ice in the Southern States
| SECOND flowing we'll was struck on tho
| 1st near Terre Haute, Ind, giving promise
| OF a great petroleum and natural gas field
| MISS MAY WALDRoN, an actress, ended a
| fast in Chicago on the LIST to reduce her
! weight She did not eat any solid food for
exactly thirty days, and her weight was di-
minished from 195 pounds to 135-two
pounds each day
! TIE street railway stables at Richmond,
| Va, were struck by lightning and destroyed
on the lst, and sixty mules and horses wore
| burned uD
WILLIAM GAsK1Ss (coiored) was hanged
on the LIST at Deland, Fla, for the murder
Of his wife about a year ago.
! A CLOUD BURST on the LIST at Watkins
| Glen, near Watkins, N Y, nearly made a
complete wreck of that famous locality
| The town was flooded and bridges were
carried away.
The low grounds in the vicinity of Ga
lena, Ill, were visited by frost on the
night of the 1st which did considerable
damage to growing vegetables Corn suf-
fered in most exposed places.
The Dow liquor-tax reports for the first
half OF 1880 which were received by the
Auditor Of State of Ohio On the 1st, showed
9Go2 saloons in the State an increase OF rs.
INDICATIONS OF gold in paying quantities
We're discovered on the lst on the farm OF
W. H. Dickson, near Arrow Rock, Mo. The
gold was deposited in q bed OF rock.
! A NATIONAL monument in honor of the
Pilgrim Fathers was dedicated on the 1st at
Plymouth, Mass The corner. stone OF the
monument was laid August l, 1879. Com
pleted, it has cost over 100000, collected
from all parts of the country It is of solid
granite throughout.
| ACTING SECRETARY BATCHELLER decided
on the 1st that the Chinese servants on the
United States steamship Alert, now en-
route for San Francisco from Honolulu, are
laborers within the meaning of the Chinese
exclusion act, and they will not be allowed
to land in the United States.
GOVERNOR FORAKER, OF Ohio, on the LIST
sent letter to Mayor Mosby, OF Cincinnati,
advising him to tolerate no defiance OF the
law on the part OF the saloon keepers
| HENRY F. ROYCE, OK treasurer Of the
Willimantic Savings Bank at Willimantic,
| Conn, was arrHsted on the 1st on a charge
of stealing s., GEO from the institution.
| ELEVEN business houses at Peruville,
Mich, were destroyed by fire on the LIST.
AT Carthage, N. Y. on the LIST Fred Parr,
an engineer, shot his wife and himself,
both dying instantly. Domestic trouble
was the cause.
". F. JOHNSON g. Co., leather dealers ut
Boston, failed on the LIST, with liabilities of
s25o,0OO.
MRS. HENRIETTA SMELL, widow Of the
late Amos J. Smell of Chicago. on the LIST
renewed her offer OF a $4,000 reward for
! the arrest and detention of William B. Tas-
colt. the supposed murderer of her hus-
| band. The reward will hold good for a