Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-12
Epit0me of the Week.
DOMESTIC.

great destruction OF property and tho loss
OF several lives. Along tho line of the
Potomac river the damage was the greatest
and the Chesapeake and Ohio canal was
probably damaged beyond repair
BELOW will be found the percentage of
the baseball clubs IN the National League
for the week ended on the 1st: Boston,
Cleveland. .567; Chicago, 4SS; Pittsburgh,
400; Indianapolis 555; Washington, go
American Association: St Louis, 500;
Brooklyn, 500; Cincinnati, ISL; Athletic,
$50; Kansas City, .5l2; Baltimore, 1856; Co.
lumbus, 800; Louisville .266. Western Asso-
citation: St. Paul. .S2l; Omaha .655; Sioux
City, 1888; Denver, .429; Minneapolis, .429;
Des Moines, 401; St. Joseph, 1888; Milwau-
kee, $50.
SUPERINTENDENT MURRAY of the New York
police, instructed his officers on the 1st to
rigidly enforce the law against boys under
sixteen smoking in the streets
THREE boys were drowned at Columbus,
O.. on the LIST while attempting to cross the
Olentangy river in wagon.
The statement OF the public debt issued
on the LIST showed the total debt to be
81, 655, 663, PAS; cash in Treasury, SIS, 1869;
debt less cash in Treasury, 81, 092, 902, 55l.
Decrease during May, $500, ST. De-
crease since June 80 1858, s6122, 6S22, 100.
DURING flood ON the 1st at Williams
port, Pa, bridge gave away and twenty
tive persons were drowned
J. Il. CUNNINGHAM postmaster at Coffeys-
burg, Mo-, was missing on the 1st, and so
was 1900 in Government and other peo-
pies money.
In Western New York the whole section
OF country between Elmira, Clean, Aries
Vile, Hornellsville, Anderson and Painted
Cd i,,vn 11-inc no
serious loss OF life and the destruction of
millions of dollars worth of property.
Four THOUSAND immigrants arrived in
New York on the list from Europe.
IN Washington on the LIST high water
turned several streets into lakes aud did
damage to the extent of 81 100000.
The principal portion OF the village of
Lynxville, Wis, was destroyed by fire on
the I'd
LAWRENCE MURRAY, aged forty-six years,
and his mother, aged seventy-two years,
residing seven miles west of Linden, Mich,
were founl murdered in their own house
on the LIST. The whole affair was shrouded
In mystery
GOVERNOR WARREN issued a proclamation
on the Sd calling for an election to be held
throughout Wyoming the second Monday
of July, 1889, for delegates to the consti-
the first Monday in September for the pur-
pose of framing constitution for the State
of Wyoming
HENRY HAIGHwARD, who had been doing
rushing business swindling old soldiers
throughout Michigan, was sentenced on the
Sd at Detroit to three years in the Iowa
reformatory.
The loss of the schooner Houston in
gale eight miles off Milwaukee was report
ed ON the Sd, and the captain, his wife, two
children and thirteen men were lost.
The officials of the Philadelphia g. Read
ing Railroad Company estimated their loss
on the Sd at S25O, 600 in bridges and wash
outs along the Upper Susquehanna in the
recent freshet
DR.. HARRY q we 4 young dentist at
Terre Haute, Id, VS. found dead on the
sidewalk near his home on the Sd He had
left his home few hours before, intending
to take train for Chicago, where he ex-
pected to open an office.
The report on the Sd of the Board of Rail-
road Assessors OF Kansas showed the total
mileage of roads in the State to be $3.50 90
and the total assessed value of all railroad
property to be s57, AS, 1873 SO.
NELL S. BROWN, Jr., reading clerk Of the
lower house of Congress, was killed on the
Sd at Nashville, Tenn, by being run over
by train.
JOSEPH ARNOLD, a wealthy farmer living
near Springfield ILL.,, was shot and instant
ly killed by his wife on the Sd during
quarrel.
The inquest into the death of DR.. Cronin
was commenced by Coroner Hertz in Chi
cago on the Sd. One of the witnesses was
the murdered mans brother, who settled
all doubts as to the identity OF the remains.
Two SPANS OF the Long Bridge at Wash
ington were carried away on the Sd by
the rise in the Potomac
DISPATCHES of the Sd from points along
the Upper Potomac, Shenandoah and
MOnocacy rivers showed that a number of
lives had been lost and millions or dollars
worth Of property destroyed at Harpers
Ferry Point of Rocks, Williamsport Md
Martinsburg, W. Va, and other points
throughout that section by the recent high
water.
Up to the 4th nothing had developed to
lower the terrible estimate put upon the
number of fatalities resulting from the re-
cent flood at Johnstown Pa. Through the
agency of a bureau of registration, embrac-
ing twenty eight different Offices, syste-
matte effort was being made to reach the
most accurate figures possible regard
ing the fatalities in Johnstown, Cam
bria, Morrellyille, Kernville, Cone
maugh and other places devastated by
the flood. Mr.. McConnaghy, who had
charge of the work OF registration, was of
the opinion that the number OF people who
persisted was considerably over ten thou
sand, while Acknowledgement Hastings
maintained that the death list would not
exceed eight thousand Nearly two thou
sand men were employed in different parts
OF the valley clearing away ruins and ex-
Treating the dead, and thus far thirty-two
hundred bodies had been found. Money
and clothing for the destitute was flowing
in from all portions of the country.
THE corn in the bottoms about Jefferson
vile, Ind, was on the 4th being washed out
by the overlooking river
PAT COLLINS, who murdered Jesse Tur-
ner in January, 1883, broke Jail at Lincoln,
Kan, on the 18th, but he was pursued and
captured by citizens who took him to the
railroad bridge and hanged him.
The mayor of Williamsport, Pa. reported
to Governor Beaver on the 4th that thou
sands of people in that city were homeless
and in want, the flood having carried away
their dwellings and property.
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