Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-04-03

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! fessed their guilt on the scatfold. In
! AN order was issued at Washington on the
9th by the Postmaster General placing the
railway mail service under tho supervision
of First Assistant Postmaster General
Clarkson. ~-@.' .+ss
| EXPERIMENTS were being made on the 2Tth
at the Homestead steel works Of Carnegie,
Phipps 4 Co., with the Redman-T lford In
vention for manufacturing steel, which, as
alleged, was likely to revolutionize the
process in the near future
! OVER thirty seven acres OF land were Sc
cured on the 2Sth at Kansas City at cost of
$1,750, GOO, upon which it was proposed to
erect magnificent union depot, to be util-
lied by FIVE roads.
! CONSTABLE MONTAGUE, of Elmore, COL.
was killed on the sSth by three cowboys
whom he tried to arrest for disturbing the
quiet Of the town.
A Two-YEAR-oLD daughter of Simon
Floyd, living near Catlin, ILL.,, was burned
to death on the 2sth, her clothing catching
| fire from a cooking stove
HEBREW orphans homo was dedicated
on the sSth at Atlanta, Ga,
THE livery stables OF Thomson & Swiger.
! In Jacksonville, ILL.,, were burned to the
ground on the 2Sth, and fifty head of horses
aud mules persisted in the flames
A NUMBER of counterfeit silver dollars
and the dies used for making them were
discovered buried near Winamac, Ind. on
the 2Sth. The counterfeits had been circu-
lated extensively in that section lately.
AT East Pembroke, N. Y, nine deaths had
occurred on the 2St b in the families of Rev
Samuel Calkins, his son Bradley and Dea-
con Smith, caused by poisonous gases aris-
| Ing from mass of decaying vegetable mat
ter in the cellar of the Calkins house
The house of Elder E. s. Greene ut Spring.
field, Mass, was burned to the ground on
the 18th, and Ida Greene, aged fourteen
years, grand daughter of Mr. Greene, was
! burned to DEATH
Four Americans left Ell Paso, Tex, on the
2Sth, went to Juarez, Mex, became drunk
and disorderly, and, resisting arrest, shot
and killed two policemen. They escaped to
the American side
MASKED men took three accused cattle
thieves, Gannow, Babcock and Remus, from
their homes at Ainsworth, Neb, on the 2Sth
across the line into the reservation and de-
1vered them to band of Indians, who
killed them ALL
THE cases of twenty-five persons indicted
for election-law violations were dismissed
on the 2Sth at indianapolis, Ind, for want
of proof against them
The City of New Baltimore arrived in De-
troit on. the 2Sth from St Clair, being the
first boat OF the season. The earliest pas
sage ever made through the straits previous
to this was March ii, 1879
EIGHTEEN OF the business houses and one
dwelling at Ashton, Ill, were burned to the
ground on the 2Sth.
HE notorious Nine. Howe, of Woman's
Bank fame in Boston, who was arrested
three months ago on complaint Of some of
her victims, was discharged on the 2sth.
SEVERAL distinct shocks of earthquake
were felt on the 2Sth at Buckeystown and
Jefferson and along the Monocacy river In
the vicinity of Frederick County, Md.
AT Accomac Courthouse, Va, on tho
Goth ult. Mrs. Virginia Taylor was found
guilty OF poisoning her husband, and was
sentenced to five years in the penitentiary.
PRAIRIE fires were raging on the goth
ult in the Huron 3D. t.; district, and
many farmers had lost every thing. The
wind was blowing forty miles an hour.
F. F. BAKER, capitalist, was arrested on
the 10Th ult. at Spokane Falls, W. T., on the
charge Of having seven living wives
THE warehouse of E. W. Blatchford. in
Chicago, was destroyed by fire on the Goth
ult., causing ; loss of 3OO,OOU.
The Standard Oil Company on the Goth
ult. purchased the entire Grafton oil field
near Pittsburgh, Pa The field is an extern
sive one.
The Mississippi & Tennessee and the ILL.,
nois Central railroads were consolidated on
the Goth ult
The Spanish-American Commercial Union
was organized by merchants OF New York
on the 10th ult., the object being to promote
trade between the United States and South
America
IT was stated at Washington on the Goth ult
that the German Government had made a
formal request for the arrest of Correspond
ent Klein and his return to Apia, in order
that he may be tried before the American
Consul there for alleged murderous assault
The schooner James H. Gordon, which
arrived at Baltimore on the goth ult from
Charleston, encountered large school OF
whales near Cape Henry.
JED PR1TCHETT (colored) was hanged on
the goth ult at Danville, Va, for an assault
upon little white girl The prisoner
fought like a tiger and refused to stand on
the trap. The trap was finally sprung and
Pritchett was pushed off the scaffold to his
doom. The services of four deputies were
required to execute him.
ON the morning of the Goth ult an un
known Well-ureSSeu man entered the Office
of President Moffatt, of the First National
Bank ofDenver, Col. and pulling revolver
from his pocket told Mr.. Moffatt that he
must have $2l, 600 or he would kill him and
then blow up the institution with bottle
Of nitro glycerine, which he pulled from his
pocket Thus menaced Mr.. Moffatt i'll ed
out a check and had it cashed, and the un-
known, taking the money, backed out to
the front door, raised his hat to his victim
and disappeared
DURING the seven days ended on the Goth
ult there were 240 business failures in the
United States, against 249 the previous seven
days.
A FIRE on the Goth ult. at Bloomingburgh.
N. Y, destroyed the barn and out-buildings
on the farm of n G. Horton with contents,
including four horses and fifty two head of
CATTLE
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
CHARLES R CUTLER, who was Lieutenant
Governor Of New York in 1872, died at War
rem, R. L, on the 18th, aged sixty-seven
years.
J. R. NEAL, member of Congress from the
Third Tennessee district in the Fiftieth
Congress, died on the 18th at Rhea Springs,
after an illness of two mOnths