Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-12-04

Epit0nle Of the w eek.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
DOMESTIC.
In the two weeks ended on the 25th
over one thousand hogs had died Of
cholera near Seymour. Ind, and many
more were affected. =
!. IsADoR ii. SuLTzBAcH, retail cloth
ing dealer at Philadelphia, failed on the
25th for $4,000.
THE report on the 25th Of Mr.. Lacey,
the Comptroller of the Currency, showed
that there were in existence $3.50 Ma
tional banks, the largest number since
the Inauguration OF the system. The
aggregate capital was $500, ia, s65. The
amount of circulation outstanding was
$20s, 66a, 7S9, Of which $1Sa, 1888, SS4 was
secured by United States bonds, and the
remainder, ST., 1873, 1896, was represented
by the deposit of lawful money in the
Treasury. Within the year forty-one
banks went into voluntary liquidation
and only two failed.
WELLINGTON HART, of North Smith
field, and r. A. Smith, of Mohegan, we'll
known Rhode Island farmers, each over
sixty years of age, drove into a pond on
the 25th and were drowned.
A CYCLONE swept through Beaufort
County, S. c., on the 25th, causing tor
rib1e destruction. At Campbell's Creek
several houses were blown down, and
Dick Phillips (colored) and his five chill
dren were killed and several other per-
sons were badly hurt
A FIRE ON the 25th at Edwardsyille,
ILL.,, destroyed Kehlor Brothers. mill,
elevator and warehouse and other build
ings. Loss, 100000.
AT Manti, Utah, on the 25th Parlane
McFarlane shot and killed F. G. Han
sen and w. G. Golding. The trouble
arose over game of pool.
AT Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 25th the
Pennsylvania Wool-growers' Assooia-
tion passed resolutions against any mod
itication of the tariff.
ARGUMENTS in the matter of admitting
Mormons to citizenship were finished at
Salt Lake City on the 25th, and the court
reserved its decision.
HErTE BUTLER (colored) seventy-six
years old, OF Indianapolis, Ind, was
burned to death on the 26th, her clothes
cathing fire from a pipe she was smok-
ing.
Two MEN were killed and another
fatally injured by the explosion of a
boiler on the 28th at the steel works at
Duquesne, Pa.
Mcleod & ANDERSON, tobacco ware
housemen at Louisville, KY, failed on
the Goth for 100000
A STEAMER which left Port-au- Prince
November 20 and arrived at New York
on the Goth reported that five thousand
Haytians had risen in revolt against
President Hippolyte.
A FIRE on the Goth at Leechburg, Pa,
destroyed twenty-five buildings. Loss,
500, 1000.
On a wager Of ten dollars dublin
Dan" ate eight and one-half pies on the
26th at Pontiac, H., in eighteen min
utes, and Patsey Riley ate thirty hard
boiled eggs in fifteen minutes.
+ SIX horses were cremated in Knorr g.
Weisenberger's ivery-stable at St.
Louis on the Goth.
AN express train on the Topeka &
Santa Fe road was held up and robbed
of $4,000 by fifteen masked men on the
night of the Goth at Berwyne, Ind. r.
The last of the North Pacific whaling
fleet arrived in San Francisco on the
Goth. The catch this year was the
poorest in ten years, and comprised
$4,000 barrels of oil and PIT, 900 pounds
Of bone.
TIE steamer Santiago, valued at $780,
900, was burned off Nantucket, Mass,
on the 18th. No lives were lost.
a. j. GERsrEL, a Peoria (1ll.) tobacco
dealer, was on the Goth charged with
defrauding creditors out of $40, 900. He
had fed.
THOMAS DAVIDSON, wealthy farmer,
aged seventy-five years, who lived alone
at a farm near Arcola, Ind, was found
dead in his stable ON the 28th. He was
murdered. ~" az
ADvICEs Of the 26th say that Hans
Jacob Olson, Of Preston, Wis, a trouble
some character. was taken from his
home by masked men and lynched be-
cause he refused to leave town.
The Citizens State Bank of York,
Neb., suspended ON the 26th.
THE National Silver convention met
at st. Louis on the 26th with $50 dele
gates present from all parts of the coun-
try.
PHILIP HOFFMAN, an aged citizen re-
siding in Ohio Falls, Ind, was choked
to death onsthe Goth on piece Object
steak he was trying to masticate. r
THE efforts of the prosecution in the
Cronin trial in Chicago on the Goth were
directed toward breaking down the
alibis Of .Beggs, Burke and o Sullivan.
A number of witnesses testified in con-
tradiction Of statements made by pre-
yious witnesses for the defense
A FRENCH milliner OF New York City
vas on the 26th made to pay 81, 900
fine for having imported French won
an to work in her shop.
In Jersey City, N. j., Grand Army Of
the Republic posts were on the 2sth
raising funds to secure National flags
for the twenty-one public,schools Of the
city. @~ -
~ pEOTRACTED rains and hnoda had an