Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-15
Epitome of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
DOMESTIC,

years ago.
BY the capsizing of a boat on the 4th In
Braxton County, W. Va, the family of P. B.
Harr, consisting of himself wife and two
children. were drowned.
One MILLION feet OF logs, an entire lumber
camp and logging outfit and 5000 worth
tof driving supplies were burned on the 9th
near Moroa. Mimi.
THIRTY small dwellings in New Orleans
PIN the square bounded by julia Locust,
Cypress and Magnolia streets were de-
Istroyed by fire on the 9th.
THE entire business portion Of Waldron,
Mich, was burned on the q
The St. Vincent OrphaGth. tlum, three
miles east OF Vincennes, Ind. was burned
on the 9th Fortunately none of the one
hundred and five homeless and parentless
boys were injured.
Hon. EDWARD s. ToEEY was on the 9th
reelected at Boston as president of the
American Peace Society,"
The centennial of the Introduction of the
first piano into the United States by John
Jacob Astor was celebrated in New York on
the 9th
On the 9th Assistant Attorney General
Shields decided that appointments to serv-
ice under the Census act were not within
the civil-service rules.
CLARA GRAHAM a beautiful girl of eight
cen years, was convicted in the criminal
court at Kansas City on the 9th of horse
stealing, and sentenced to two years i'm
prisonment She is the only woman ever
convicted in Missouri of DEMONSTRATING.
FoUR THOUSAND miners returned to work
on the 9th at Brazil, Ind, the differences
with their employers having been adjusted
The building trades strike at Pittsburgh,
pa which
was settled on the 9th in favor of tie en-
ployes, and work would be resumed at once
LINCOLN CURTIS, chief salesman in the
wholesale boot and shoe house of Congdon
& Aylsworth at Providence, R. l., was ar
rested on the 9th on a charge of embezzling
$12, 600 of the firms money
The jury in the case of Irving Latimer.
on trial at Jackson, Mich, for the murder
OF his mother January 81 last, returned
verdict on the 9th of murder in the first de-
gree
MAUD JAMESON, ten-year- girl living
at Lima o., set fire on the 9th to the barn
of James Hawer, with whom she was Gv-
ing, burning it and all it's contents, includ-
ing three horses.
NEAR Mount Sterling, Ky, Bert Curtis, a
farmers son, aged eighteen years, died on
the 9th of hydrophobia- He was bitten
few days before by dog.
GREAT suffering was reported on the 9th
among the miners in the Scranton (Pa coal
region. But few of the mines were in
operation and the men could not get work
enough to provide them with the necessi-
ties OF life
The horses anu carriages used by Mr.:
Cleveland while President were sold at
auction On the 9th in Washington, the en-
tire outfit rea1zfn3 90 Q43 81
AN election at Lafayette, La, on the 9Th
was prevents d by white regulators, armed
with rifles, who refused to permit negro
citizens to cast their ballots. The sheriff
ordered the polls closed and reported to
the Governor.
OF fifty three persons who started in a
six days pedestrian contest at New York on
the morning of the 9th over half had
dropped out before noon, among them be-
ing Dan O'Leary, who completed only
twelve miles,
AT Hungarian christening on the 9Th at
Philipsburg, Pa, one man, Joseph Teeser,
was instantly killed and others were Sc
verely wounded Seven persons had been
arrested.
AN operation performed some time ago
at Richmond upon the eyes of Mrs. Sydney
Smith Lee mother of Governor Lee, of Vir-
sight was restored on the 9th.
AT St. Joseph, Mo-, Floren Beck, aged ten
years, was frightened to death on the 9th by
runaway team.
OKLAHOMA boomers were hocking into
Pierre, D. T., on the 9th, waiting for the
opening OF the Sioux reservation.
A CYCLONE on the 7th in Stafford County,
Ran, injured twenty-five persons five
fatally wrecked several houses, and wagons
and plOWs were carried for hundreds of
yards and horses were picked up and
whirled through the air. Over one hun
dred persons were made homeless and des-
titute
AN incendiary fire on the 7th at Peoria,
Ill, destroyed the packing-house Of Will
lam Reynolds and spread to Zell, Schwa-
hacker & Co. distillery sheds, which were
burned, together with eighty cattle.
A BOY named Bates who was bitten a
month ago at Mid dlebury, Ind, by dog,
died on the 18th in terrible agony from n.y.
drophobia.
THREE masked burglars entered Frazer &
McDonalds bank at Forest City, Mo-, on the
7th compelled the cashier to give them the
contents Of the safe, $4,000, and then made
their escape.
AT Pittsburgh, Pa, two young ladies,
Margaret Don wan and Margaret O'Brien,
were struck by an engine while walking on
a railway track on the 18th and both were
killed
CONTRACTOR J. E. MCCORMICK disappeared
from Tacoma, W. T., on the 18th with about
$50, 600 secured from friends.
ONE man was killed and seven others
were badly injured by premature explo-
sion Of dynamite near Ashland, Pa, on
the 9TH
FOREST fires were raging on the 18th in
Northern Michigan, where there had been
no rain for several months. The fires ex-
tended through several countless and much
valuable timber had been destroyed and
more was threatened.
THE stables of Captain Moore, near Gym
thiana, KY, were burned on the 7th consum-
ing fifteen valuable horses One of them,
Van Wilkes, was valued at $4,000, and a
colt was valued at $4,000.
THREE alternating current electric
dynamos, 20 be placed in the penitentiaries
at Sing Sing, Auburn and Clinton, to be
used for the killing of condemned GRIM
inals were purchased on the 9TH by the
State of New York.
The residence of Watson Bownes, at
Westchester N Y, was destroyed by fire
early on the morning Of the 7th, and Mr.
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