Mower County transcript., 1889-03-13

oeA VAAS
at st. Paul. Minn., fell from window Of
the Ryan Hotel and was fatally injured
REMARKABLE rich vein of silver ore was
struck on tho 9th near Aspen, Col
A NUMBER of farmers in Brule County,
South Dakota, had begun seeding on the
7th.
1T was announced ON the 7th that all the
employees of the Metropolitan street car
stables at Kansas City escaped from the re-
| cent fire, and no lives were lost, as at first
reported.
AARON LuDw1N, milk peddler, and
Charles Wardeld, a colored barber, of Har-
r1sburg, Pa, committed suicide on the 7th.
WHITE CAPS were on the 7th operating at
Huntingburg, Ind One man had been Sc
| verely whipped and others had been
| warned
J. P. MAcGARRAHAN, a well-known Jour-
nalist, dropped dead on the 7th of heart dis
| ease In q New York restaurant, where he
had gone for breakfast, He was forty three
years old.
JAMES SUTTON, of Lower Hayden, Pa.
committed suicide on the 7th because his
school teacher, Annie Egan, refused his at
tentions.
| FARANTA's THEATER at New Orleans was
| destroyed by fire on tho 7th. The Muldoon
Picnic Company lost It's entire wardrobe
and the Forepaugh Band lost all their uni
forms and Instruments
AT Rushv1lle, Ind on the 7th Perry Ben
nett, aged eighty years, fatally wounded
his wife, aged seventy years, with hatchet,
and then attempted to kill his daughters
Bennett was hard character.
CARROLL COUNTY, Ca, was on the 7th in
the midst of a religious revival under the
preaching of Jimmie Cook, ten years old
| Ho o1oiO,S To hove 1o1 to
in vision
AT Ireland, Ind, on the 7th Joseph Ser
wersheim was taken from his house and
given thirty lashes by White Caps for refus-
ing warning to go to work
| JUDsoN BELL and Lee Watson, noted des-
peradoes, were mortally wounded on the
| 1th While making an attack on the camp Of
| some railroad contractors near Cumber-
land Gap, Ky.
The colt Mascot, of the L. j. Ross Cali
fornia stables was sold in New York ON the
7th for $26,0 900.
The Minnesota House on the 7th, by a
vote of 50 to 50, refused to submit to a vote
OF the people prohibition amendment.
! MICHAEJ. PEBBLES and his wife and two
children were found murdered in bed in
their home on Duck creek, near Paducah,
Ky, on the 7th. Robbery was the cause of
| the crime.
APAssENGER train ran into ditch on the
7th near Coshocton O., a dozen persons be-
| ing hurt but none fatally
DURING the seven days ended on the 9th
there were 22l business failures in the
| United States, against 2i3 the previous
seven days. The total failures in the United
States from January l to date was 2,94S
| against 2,495 in 1885,
! REPORTS of the Sth from the towns through
the northern and western portions of Mary
| land gave accounts of a severe earthquake
| shock. At Westminster a number of wOm-
en- were badly frightened and rushed panic
! stricken from their houses.
THE elghteen-year-old wife of Charles
Honald was found dead on the floor of her
| home at Elkhart, Ind, on the Sth. Foul play
was suspected.
SUSPENSION of payment was announced
on the Sth by the Bufford Sons Lithographic
| Company of Boston, whose liabilities were
estimated at 100000.
| SAMUEL GAsK1Ns (colored) was hanged on
the Sth at Camden, S. c., for the murder of
Betsey Clark, a colored girl.
The Camden Point Female Orphan Asy-
lum at Platte City, Mo-, was destroyed by
fire on the Sth, but all the inmates escaped.
A. W. BUsBY, Appointment citizen of Gate
|
known assassin on the Sth while sitting at his
freside.
| L. O. DEsFARGEs g. Co., of New Orleans,
| who lost number of coal barges in the
storm of August last, assigned on the 9Th,
! with liabilities of $144,0OO.
! OFFICIALS of the Government on the 8th
arrested in Conway County, Ark, Martin
Thorp and William Garner, leaders Of the
most extensive gang Of counterfeiters in
the Southwest An immense sum of bogus
money, comprising s., $40 and $50 imita-
| tion gold pieces was also secured
The business portion Of Slater, No., was
destroyed by fire on the Sth.
| JOHN HUNTINGTON, of Cleveland, O., one
of the original members of the Standard Oil
Company, conveyed by deed Of trust to a
board of seven citizens on the Sth $20O,O 700
worth of gilt-edged six per cent. stock, the
interest Of which is to be used for charitable
purposes.
JOHN PEEK's stables on the Florence stock
! farm near Three Rivers, Mich, were burned
on the Sth, together with nine fnely-bred
| horses.
| WILLIAM GEssLER, of Fostoria, o., glass
| worker, in a fit of jealousy on the Sth shot
| and killed his wife and then took his own
life.
THOMAS c. COOPER, wholesaler of flour
and provisions at, Albany, N. Y, failed on
the Sth for 100000
A FIRE on the 9Th at Louisville, Ky, de-
stroyed three business buildings, causing a
loss of $435,OO0.
ANNIE ROCHE committed suicide by hang
ing on the Sth at Ida Mimi She was in
love with Lee, recently hanged for murder.
EARTHQUAKE shocks were.felt on the even
ing of the 8th in Reading, Harrisburg, Car
Isle and Gettysburg in Pennsylvania
Crockery and windows were ratified violent
ly, but no damage was done.
DENNIS MCCARTHY, an idle fellow of Port
land, Conn, was whipped by White Caps on
the 9Th until he promised to stop beating his
wife and give her proper support.
AT the convention of Railroad State Com
missioners in Washington on the sth it was
stated that over 600 active, strong men
were either killed or manned for Life during
the year 1888 while coupling cars.
The best part of the village of Wabash,
Neb., was swept away by flames ON the sth.
The farmers near Still Pond, Nd, were
on the 9th losing grent many cattle by
cerebro spinal meningitis, which was prev
alent there
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.