Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-09-04

1T was announced on the s7,tn that the
great Bears Nest gold mime In Alaska, re-
! GENTLY purchased by the Duke of Suther-
land and a syndicate OF English capitalists
at cost OF nearly 81, 0O0, OOO, had turned
out to be perfectly worthless.
The National Editorial Association met In
annual session on the 9th in Detroit
! IhE business meeting OF tho twenty
| third annual National euoAmpment OF tho
Grand Army or the Republic was called to
order ut Milwaukee at 1915 on the morning
OF the 2Sth, and Commander In Chief War;
ner READ his address. At the evening $685.
sion General Russell A. Alger, OF Mich gan,
was elected Commander in Chief; Colonel
A. G. Weissert Of Milwaukee, Senior Vice.
Commander, and John f. Lovett, of New
Jerse: Junior Vice-Commander 1t was
decided to hold the next encampment at
| Boston The total membership OF the G.
| A. II. was said to be 49,, sos and the deaths
during the past year were $685.
The twelfth annual convention Of the
American Bar Association was opened in
Chicago on the 2Sth.
| AT Newport, R. l., on tho eSth II. W. Slo-
| cum won the amateur tennis championship
| OF America for 1889.
WHILE tearing down an old house on the
| 2Sth at St Augustine, Fla, one of the work
mon unearthed fifty two Spanish coins
| which had been buried in the CELLAR. The
| latest date on any OF the coins was 1876
and several antedated 1862
| CLoUD-BuRsTs had on the 18th occasioned
| much damage to property in Richmond
| County, N c., and it was feared that many
! lives had been lost.
| REPRESENTATIVES, OF SIX great coal produc-
ing companies met at New York on the 2Sth
and decided to restrict the coal production
for September to three million tons, de-
| spending month last year.
1T was reported on the 2Sth that the wine
! product of California this year would be
about twelve million gallons and the ban
| dy output would reach one million gal
Ions
AT Monmouth, ILL.,, the stables Of the
Richardson Hotel were burned on the 29Jh,
| and eight horses persisted
The ship William McGilvery, of Sears
| port, Me-, was burned at sea on the 18th
Loss about $10O,OOO.
! A NJ. Forsyth and q Mrs. Killer. who had
been living together at Barnestown, Neb,
as man and wife, were tarred and feathered
| by the citizens OF that place on the 2Sth
| The steamer City Of Paris which reached
| New York on the 18th again broke the
record, her time for the voyage being five
days. nineteen hours and eighteen M nutes.
AFTER being shut down for sixteen years
the Ironton pig-iron works, located few
miles north of Buffalo, n y, were started
| up on the 2SJh
| AT Bradenburg. Ky., on the 18th County
Judge Pulliam, who recently shot and
1 u GN
teen years imprisonment
AT Cedar Rapids, Ia, on the aSth c. W.
| Williams was offered $loV. OoO for his famous
colt Axtell, but refused to cell tho trotter.
The annual reunion of the We cram Sig-
! nal Corps was held at Milwaukee on The
2Sth and elected Governor j. A. Foraker, of
Ohio. president
FARMER named Robinson was arrested
on the 2S5h near St. Joseph NO., for di <pos-
ing OF counterfeit money He confessed
| that he was one OF gang employed by the
counterfeltcrs whose den was recently
raided near Dayton, o., and he sa d that
fifty thousand dollars in t.n-dollar coun-
terfeit bills had been dis ributed among
the gang around ST. Joe.
AT the business meeting of the Grand
Army of the Republic encampment ut Mil
waukee on the 18th DR.. Horace P Porter
OF Kansas was chosen Surgeon General, W.
| H. Childers, of Kentucky, Chaplain, and T.
| J. Lovett of New Jersey, Junior Vice-Oom
| mander. A resolution was passed recog-
! nizing the Sons OF Veterans as an aux:lia Y
! of the Grand Army of the Republic. A
resolution was also adopted approrliauing
81 900 yearly for the care and main tel nance
OF the cottage OF Mount McGresor in which
| General Grant died In the evening the
naval hottio r,1o I'll
| by two hundred thousand persona
W. f. SELEMENr, general delivery Gle h
| in the st Paul post-office, was arrested GU
the Goth for robbing the mails OF large
amounts
IHE entire western portion of the bust
| ness section Of Dansville, Mich, was burned
| en- the 18th.
! In Chicago on the 10Th Judge Mcconnell
| granted Woodruff, one or the Crunin muir
der suspects, separate trial, but ruled
that the other five prisoners. Coughlin,
Beggs, Burke, O'Sullivan and Kunze, must
be tried together.
The business portion Of the historic VII
lage of Sacketts Harbor. N Y, was de-
stroyed by fire on the s9th.
THERE we're twenty five cases Of typhoid
fever in the hospitals at Johnstown, Pa,
on the Goth.
IHE Stage IRON 6l0Well, WnlCn arrived at
! Reno, New, on the Doth, was stopped by a
hghwayman and robbed OF Wells, Fargo g.
Co. 8 treasure box. The robber escaped
; The amount taken was not known.
The entire business portion of the village
! of Big Rock, ILL, was swept away by fire on
the 29th.
AT sopris, Co.., Mrs. James Danochy and
her eigh. -year-oid daughter were fatally
burned on the Goth by trying to start fire
with Kerosene oil This made fifteen ii. "a
lost in the State during the past month by
exploding kerosene cans.
AT the New Hampshire State fair at Man,
chester on the 29sh Miss Addie Brook and
! Mr. James F. Boyd were married In a bal
loon and took wedding trip among the
clouds.
The Citizens Bank OF Prairie City. Ia,
failed on the s9th for 100000 1t was
| thought the Liabilities would be paid in
| full, and that the bank would soon resume
| business.
! THE statement was authorized on tho 9th
| by II. Il. War err of Roche ster, N. Y, thas
he had agreed to sell his immense business
for 81, O00, 900 to British syndicate The
sala includes the Warner Dr0nriatarv mad .