Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-19

ROSS soHooNovEH, u wealthy farmer liv.
ing near Aewanee, ILL.,, was swindled out OF
$5,o0o on the 18th by two mon who pre-
tended that they wanted to buy a farm.
ADV1cEs OF the 18th from shepherdstown
w. va, say that great restitution existed
IN that nelghborhood among the canal boat
men on account Of the recent flood.
AT Holyoke, Mass, one Of the canal banks
gave way on the 18th, undermining the
foundations OF the Cabot mills, which
collapsed, causing a loss of 100000.
IT was said on the 18th that Rev. M Alley
OF Phillips, Wis.,, had invented an apparatus
for burning water
The special grand jury mpaneled in Chi.
cago to act upon the verdict Of the COR
oner's jury in the Cronin murder case began
taking testimony on the 18TH
! SETH MURRAY, a farmer aged fifty-fiye
years, living near Vinoennes, Ind, and
having i've or six children, became Jealous
OF his wife on the 18th and shot her and
then killed himself
WHILE crossing the railway track at
Louisville, o., on the loth Lawrence and
Edward StIeh, business men, and two
Catholic orphans named Seifert whom the
Strebs had adopted, We're struck by an ex-
press train and all instantly killed
The Bank Of Wahpeton, D. r., closed it's
| doors on the 18th.
MINE cave-in on tho 18th at Wilkesbar-
re- Pa, made cracks in some Of the prin-
cipal buildings and caused gas to escape in
great volumes. The men and boys In the
mine underneath the city narrowly escaped.
The loss to property owners was placed ut
$500, OOO
The work OF restoring order in Johnstown
passed into the hands of the Pennsylvania
| t0fn off oio 10 &lr>
General Hastings in charge The report OF
| the registration bureau showed nearly thir-
! teen Thousand persons yet unaccounted for
The New York State Sunday-School Asso-
citation in session on the 18th at Albany re-
ported 7,193 Sunday schools in the State.
! ,212 teachers and officers $40 AIS scholars,
| and s.? S922S conversions in the Tear.
COLE YOUNGER, the desperate, reported
drowned in Wyoming, was in the State
prison at Saltwater, Minn., on the 18th with
his two brothers.
AT their meeting in milwaukee, on the
18th the NIillers' National Association
elected +. L. Greenleaf, of Minneapolis
president.
The Massachusetts, Legislature on the
18th passed bill making it a penal otfense
to dock horses tails.
FIRE on the 18th at Grinnell, Ia, de-
stroyed torty-one buildings, causing a loss
OF from $l5o,0O0 to SOC, coo, partly insured.
REPORTS of the 18th from Minnesota were
to the effect that forest fires were doing
much damage. At Ely from twelve to
fifteen buildings had been DESTROYED
The steamer City of Pekin which arrived
in San Francisco on the 18th from Hong
hong brought news of the burning of the
city OF Luchow and ten thousand peonle
said IN RI oir
FOREST fires were sweeping south and
west OF Superior, Wis, on the 18TH, and up
to date over $500, 900 worth of pine had
been destroyed.
The Michigan monuments on the BATTLE
field at Gettysburg, Pa, were dedicated on
the 18TH.
JAMES DEAy1N and Charles Tennyson
were lynched at Corydon. Ind, on the 18th
by two hundred masked men, for robbine
the residence of James LIE May and serious
ly shooting him.
AN armed mob attacked the Jail at Hunts
vile, Tenn, ON the 18th and secured Z, R.
Reynolds and Thomas J. Lloyd and hanged
them to the limb of a tree. Their crime was
the killing of Mrs. J. Harness and her son.
W. B. ROBERTS, Governor Hovey's private
secretary who was sent to Brazil, Ind. to
investigate the condition of the Clay County
miners, said on the 18th that there were
thousands of people in the mining district
who were destitute and near the verge of
starvation. and many of the families had
eaten nothing but bread and water for
weeks
The twentieth annual reunion of the
Army OF the Potomac was held on the 18th
at Orange, N. j.
AT Louisville, KY, on the 18th Mrs. Cath
crime Boyle, aged sixty-five, and her chill
dren, Nora, aged twenty-five, Frank, aged
thirty, and William, aged twenty-three
years, were all declared insane and sent to
an asylum.
LIE general opinion among well-posted
people at Johnstown, Pa, on the 18th was
that the loss Of life in the flood would be
between 8, 900 and 4, 600. The total OF bodies
recovered to date was 1890
The Chippewa Indians at Mile Laos lake
in Minnesota commenced killing and driv-
ing out the white settlers on the night of
the 18th, and six whites were killed and
others wounded All were inoffensive
Swedes.
PATRICK A. WARD, sixty-two years old
and the most prominent Irishman in In
dianapolis, Ind, committed suicide on the
18th. Dependency was the cause.
NATIONAL convention met in Detroit
MlCu Oh Cne l0Cn OF ulVlne nealeIS About
sixty delegates were present and each man
and woman declared that he and she was
sick unto death and that faith made them
free.
W. B. BROOKS & Son miners and shippers
of coal at Columbus, O., failed on the 18th
for $l50,OO0
WHILE drunk on the 18th at Cayuga, ILL.,,
Joseph. Nenne struck his wife, causing her
to fall and sustain injuries that proved fatal
two hours later.
BoSAFAc1o MARTINEZ, one of the most
noted desperadoes on the Mexican border
and Mexican revolutonist leader was
arrested on the 18th at Rio Grande City, Tex
MAJOR WYMAN W. STALEY, Of lansing
Major Of the First Regiment, Michigan Ma
tional Guards, was killed by Chicago &
Grand Trunk trail. on the 18th three miles
west of Lansing.
AT delegate convention of railroad
miners Of Western Pennsylvania on the 18th
in Pittsburgh committee was appointed to
draft resolutions demanding that tho coal
operators discontinue their stores
In a collision OF trains ON the 18th near
Havre de Grace, Nd, two cars loaded with
provisions for the Johnstown sufferers were
wrecked