Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-04-17
Epit0me of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.

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INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
DOMESTIC.
The State ot Wisconsin was on the Sth by
direction of President Harrison transferred
from the Military Department Of the East
to the Department of Dakota
AT Port Jefferson, l. l., on the 9th Lewis
Conklin (colored), aged forty-five years,
was murdered by his wife during quarrel.
FIRE destroyed Arkwright's cotton fac
tory at Savannah, Ga, Oh the 9th. Loss,
100000
F1RE-BUGs at Columbus, Ind, on the 9th
destroyed seven barns and stables with
their contents.
MEMORIAL exercises in honor Of the late
General P. u Sheridan were held by the
New York Legislature on the 9th at Albany.
AFTER shut down of weeks duration,
the Monongahela river coal works near
Pittsburgh, Pa, resumed work on the 9th,
giving employment to six thousand men.
r. F. ScHoE book-keeper of the First Ma
tional Bank OF Evansville, Ind, committed
suicide on the 9th by hanging. Unsuccess-
full speculation was said to have been the
cause.
LOSS Of 800, 600 was caused at Louis
Vile, Ky., on the 9th by the destruction Of
the Louisville Bridge & Iron Company's
shops
MISS MAGGIE MAY, prominent society
lady of Cannellton, Ind. was found dead in
bed on the 9th.
CAPTAIN Couch, the Oklahoma leader,
stated at Winfield, Kan, on the 9th that
about everybody without authority to re-
main had been driven out by the troops.
Two MEN employed in calking vat at
the mineral bath house at Port Huron.
Mich, were overcome by gas on the 9th and
killed
The report on the 9th Of the State Board
of Agriculture of Massachusetts, noted the
great growth of the butter business in the
State, and spoke particularly of the devel-
opment OF the cooperative system, twenty
six such institutions having made during
the year two million pounds
ADv1CEs of the 9th say that the recent
storm which ragged in Baltimore swept over
the lower Chesapeake bay, causing great
disaster to shipping. Over dozen seamen
lost their lives and thirty or forty vessels
We're wrecked
Two STRANGERS visited Daniel Keller's
residence near Shamokin, Pa, on the 9th,
and robbed him of 81, ITO
The infant daughter OF George W. Sheck-
els, farmer near Shelbyville Ind, set her
clothes on fire On the 9th and was burned
to death. Her mother was fatally burned
while trying to extingulsh the flames.
THOMAS ANGUS, seventy years old, a shoe
maker OF Norwalk, O., was convicted on
the 9th of hiring boys to commit burglaries
Several other indictments were hanging
over him.
CONSTABLE ALBERT RE1MER, who was
taken to Jail in Chicago on the 9th on a
charge of embezzlement, was found dead
in his cell an hour after his incarceration
He poisoned himself
THREE masked men on the 9th entered the
house OF Lewis Patterson, a wealthy farmer
living near Centerville, Pa, and demanded
his gold On being told that he had none
they tortured him by holding his feet and
his face to the stove, and after securing $43
and gold watch they left
TREASURER GEORGE F. KREwoLF, of Hoyt
& Thomas, partners in various plays, disap-
peared from Boston on the 9th, leaving a
shortage of 5000
The Missouri River, North Platte & Den
yer Railroad Company was incorporated at
Lincoln, Neb., on the 9th Buffalo Bill'
was one of the incorporators.
A PRIVATE car containing party of seven
Boston people returning from a tour of
California was wrecked in a collision on the
Santa Fe road near Joliet Ill, on the 10th
and Miss Winslow, Henry Hartt, Harry, the
porter, and Smith, the cook, were instantly
killed, and the others were dangerously
wounded.
Miss Bessie Rockefeller was married a short
time ago to Charles A. Strong, son of Rev
DR.. A. H. Strong, president of the Rochester
Theological Seminary, her father, John D.
Rockefeller made her present of 81 ,OOO,-
Co.,
ST. PETERS Catholic Church at Mansfield.
O., was destroyed by fire on the 9th Loss
$6O,OOO
WILLIAM J. IRVING, Jr., twenty years old
and married, was arrested on the 10th at
Hartford, Conn, charged with the embezzle-
ment OF sc, 900 from the Hammond Dressed
Beef Company, for which he was local man
ager.
JERRY SULLIVAN, aged seventeen years,
was steamed to death on the 10th in large
keir at the print works at Dover, N. H.
MOUNTAIN fires were raging on the 10th
near Edgemont Md, and great damage had
been done.
THE National convention Of the Sons of
Veterans held in Albany, N. Y, on the 10th,
decided to consolidate the post" and
camp" systems
The police judge and sheriff at Leaven-
worth, Kan, received letters on the 10th
signed white Caps warning them to ex-
tend no leniency to persons accused of vio
lating the prohibitory laws.
IT was reported on the 10th from the
lumber woods Of Upper Michigan that over
one billion logs were banked and ready to
be tioated to the mills, but could not be
moved owing to the lack of water in the
streams.
The propeller Oswego left Buffalo on the
10th for Chicago. This was the first de-
parture OF the season from that port
FARMER" McCLAUGHREY, one of the
Cook County ILL boodlers, was released
from the penitentiary on the 10th, his SEN
tence of two years having been reduced one
month by the Governor. He went direct to
his home at Paos.
ALMOST the entire business portion of
Camden, small town in Jay County, Ind,
was destroyed b, fire on the 10TH
CAPTAIN STURBs, OF the American schooner
Buchanan, which arrived in New York on
the 10th, reported that he was chased and
fred upon by Dominican man-of- war on
March 81 The American flag was flying at
the schooner's peak at the time. The Buck
nam soon distanced the steamer and the
latter gave up the chase.
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