Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-22

were blown down,
HAIL ana Wlnd-storm on tho 18th did
great damage In the vicinity of Norfolk and
Portsmouth, Va. The vineyards and Or
chards suffered severely, vines and trees
being cut terribly and the fruit destroyed
swain or hve or six miles broad was cut
through Norfolk and Nansamond counties
by the storm. Barns were blown down by
the wind and many horses and cattle were
killed The losses were placed at $1,000
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A GALE on the 14th at Lumberton, N. c.,
unroofed many small houses and utterly
obliterated the crops 49,
Ar a sale Of trottlng stock in Cleveland
O., on the 14th Suisun, bay mare, was
bought by John Madden, of Lexington, Ky,
for $1,000. ~ - -
A s1x-DAY walk in San Francisco was
ended on the 18th, James Albert, the win
ner, making 5SS miles; Gurrero, second, 535
miles,
In family quarrel on the 18th at Marion
Ind, Charles Hupe, aged seventy-two
years, shot his daughter law, fatally
wounding her. He was arrested.
The bill prohibiting the Importation of
dressed beef from other States was reject
ed in the New York Legislature on the 18TH
GEORGE w. RICHARDS, superintendent OF
the Santa Fe mines at Carthage, N. NJ, was
murdered by two Mexicans on the 18th and
robbed of $1,000 which he had just received
to pay the miners.
The next meeting of tho National Ed
ltorial Association will be held In Detroit,
Mich, August 1870.
A VALUABLE tin mine was discovered on
the 18th twenty miles from Topeka, Kan.
THE Wabash railway was sold in Chicago
on the 18th by order of Judge Graham to a
committee representing majority of the
bondholders for $l5, 500, CO.,
The celebration of the seyenty-fifth ami
versary of the American Baptist Missionary
Union was begun in Boston on the 18th.
The union has constituency of nearly
7Oo,0 600 church members, and is the largest
missionary society in the world
In q fit Of insanity on the 18th John
Schroeder. a German saloon-keeper at In
dianapolis, murdered his wife with a razor
and then killed himself.
GENERAL ADNA ANDERSON of Sing Sing.
N. Y, aged sixty years, and one OF the best
known railway men in the country COM
mitted suicide on the 18th at Philadelphia
by shooting himself in his room at hotel
The cause for the deed was unknown.
A BL1ND1NG snow-storm prevailed all over
Northern Wisconsin and Michigan on the
18th
JOHN HOWELL, sixty-one years old, a no.
torious crook and horse-thief from Noble
County, Ind, whom a vigilance committee
came near hanging at one time, completed
a seven-years' sentence in prison on the
18th, but was again arrested for some old
offense.
ABOUT five hundred dollars in counterfeit
ten-dollar bills were circulated in Rush
vile, Ind, on the 18th by two strangers
They travelled in buggy, and left town be-
fore their game was discovered.
S. j. COLEMAN, of Greensburg, Pa, lately
received White Cap notices. On the 18th his
barn was fired and the throat OF valuable
horse cut.
PECULIAR accident happened on the
10Th at Pana, ILL.,, by which Thomas Grogan
lost his life. A strong gust of wind blew
an empty coal oil barrel into the Springside
mine, where several men were at work It
fell two hundred and twenty feet, striking
Grogan on the head and killing him in
stantly.
THE Ohio Sons of Veterans at Cincinnati
on the 18th elected William T. Bundy
Colonel. He is son of eX-Congressman
H. S. Bundy
Mass, was destroyed by fire on the 10th,
and the company filing an engagement at
the time lost Sill 900 in costumes scenery,
etc.
JAMES DORIAN, OF Maltby. Pa, killed his
wife with an axe on the 10th and then took
his own life. Domestic trouble was the
cause.
SEvENTEEN-yEAR locusts had made their
appearance on the 10th in Middle Tennes-
see, and grave fears were entertained for
the safety of vegetation.
IT was reported on the 18th that star fish
were making heavy depredations on the
oyster beds in Long Island Sound
The Methodist Episcopal bishops Of the
United States commenced their semi-an-
nual meeting at Delaware, O., on the 10Th.
IT was reported at Duluth, Mimi on the
10th that the Sarnia Line steamer United
Empire had been burned The boat was
valued at 100000.
ADv1CEs of the 10th report the loss at sea
off Cape Blanco of the iron side-wheel
steamer Alaskan, of the Oregon Railway &
Navigation Company, and the loss OF five
of the crew. The steamer was valued at
$780,
Two THOUSAND employees of the National
Tube Works Company at McKeesport, Pa,
struck on the 10th for ten per cent adj
vance in wages.
AT Loveland, O., on the 10th Robert Day,
a young farmer, while drunk shot and
killed his aged father, fatally shot his
divorced wife, and then set fire to the place.
Day was arrested
EIGHT men were injured, three probably
fatally, in an accident to work train ear
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 10Th
IT was reported on the 10Th that So eme
was being perfected for long-distance tele-
phoning which contemplated the connec-
ton by telephone of st. Paul, Minneapolis,
Omaha, St. Louis and Kansas City with each
other, and with the East through Chicago.
AT the State council in Lynchburg, Va,
on the 10Th of the Protestant Episcopal
church it was voted to exclude the colored
people from place in it's councils.
STEWART BROTHERS. packing house at
Council Bluffs, a., was burned on the 10Th.
Loss, 100000.
JOSEPH PELz, who keeps restaurant at
Horton, Kan, was taken from his home by
two hundred men, on the 10Th and given
seventy-fve lashes on his bare back for
brutally beating his step-daughter.
The one hundred and first annual session
Of the general assembly OF the Presbyterian
church was begun in New York City on the
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