Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-03-20

Epit0me of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
CONGRESSIONAL.
q. s. SENATE IN SPECIAL SESSION,
PRESIDENT HARRISON sent the following
nominations to the Senate on the 18th: Thorn
Is w. Palmer. OF Michigan, to be Minister to
spain; John F. Swift, of California, to Japan;
John D. Washburn, of Massachusetts, to
Switzerland; George T.chenor, OF Illinois, to
be Assistant Secretary OF the Treasury. The
nominations were referred to the appropriate
mittees.
ON the 12th President Harrison sent the
following nominations to the Senate: Arthur
@. Millette, to be Governor of Dakota; George
8. Batcheller, OF New York, to be Assistant
Secretary OF the Treasury; Albert G. Porter,
OF Indiana, to be Minister to Italy; John A.
Enander, Of Illinois, to be Minister to Dem
mark. The nominations made on the previous
day were confirmed.
NOMINATIONS were received by the Senate
from the President as follows on the 18th;
Eugene Schuyler, of New York, to be AS
sistant Secretary OF State; Walker Blaine OF
Maine, to be Examiner of Claims for the De-
partment OF State; Cyrus Bussey of New
York, to be Assistant Secretary of the In
terror. Tho nominations made on the pre-
Vious day were confirmed.
NOMINATIONS were sent to the Senate on
the 14th by President Harrison as follows:
James S. Clarkson. of Iowa, to be FIRST AS
to be Governor of Arizona. A number OF post
masterships were filled, the Indianapolis
office going to William Wallace. The nominal
ton OF Mr.. Clarkson was Immediately con-
frmed, after which tho Senate adjourned to
the 18th.
DOMESTIC.
FRARK BENNETT, a notorious counterfeiter.
was arrested near Dubuque, Ia, on the 18th.
AT Valparaiso, Ind, on the 18th five
Hquor-sellers were fined $13O each for in
fraction of the law.
FINAL experiments were made on the 18th
by the New York State authorities to satisfy
themselves as to the best means of execut-
Ing condemned criminals by electricity
H. NJ ADAMS, a colored deputy, shot and
fatally wounded Sam Patterson (colore0 at
Kansas City, Mo-, on the 18th Adams was
placed in Jail, and during the day was visited
by ten women, each one claiming to be his
wife
FOURTEEN business buildings at La
Grange Ind, were burned on the 18th.
CAPTAIN F. W. DAWSON, editor of the
Charleston Is co. News and Courier, was
shot dead on the 18th by DR.. T. B. Mellow,
whom the editor had chided for immoral
practices
Tom KELLY, Of Owasso, Mich, shot and
Instantly killed his brother-1n-law Stanley
Graham on the 18th, as the result of stand
ing feud
"BoYCoTT the saloons" was the advice
given by the leaders to the striking weavers
at big mass meeting in Fall River, Mass,
on the 18th
The Postal Telegraph Company was on
the 18th placing poles for two new copper
telegraph wires from Chicago to St. Joseph,
Mo-, along the line of the Stickney road
THE village of McClellandtown, Pa. was
terrorized on the night of the 18th by
part Of armed masked robbers, who en-
tered number Of houses, and after tortur-
ing the inmates until they gave up what
ever money was in their possession ran
sacked the houses and in some cases burned
them
At the meeting on the 18th of the Ropes
Gold and Silver Mining Company at Ish-
peming, Mich, the directors reported
good production and surplus in the
treasury.
LIZZIE JOINS, Of Lima, O., took strych-
nine on the 18th because George Elsten, to
whom she was engaged, married another
girl
TIE Pittsburgh Il Western Express, op-
Grated over the lines of the Pittsburgh &
Western road, was sold on the 18th to the
Wells-Fargo Express Company.
NEARLY the entire village of North Branch,
Mimi, was destroyed by fire on the 18th
PHILIP PAUL, the chief of police of Re-
nova, Pa, was shot dead on the 18th while
conveying prisoner to Jail. His assassin
escaped
MOVES & FISH, boot and shoe jobbers in
New York, failed on the 18th for $4,000.
JOHN GUSHING was blown out of sight on
the 18th at Lima, o., by the explosion of an
underground trap at the Standard oil re-
tnery.
NEARLY two hundred saloon-keepers in
Washington were arrested on the 18th for
selling liquor on Sunday, and were fined
twenty dollars each.
"CURLY Billy" the terror of the pine re-
gions of Minnesota, was shot and killed on
the 18th at Rum River camp by Charles E.
Hayden. The shooting was In sef-defense.
A BILL passed the Nebraska Legislature
on the 18th authorizing the Governor to
pardon two ten-year conv1cts on each Fourth
of July.
The tow-boat Kangaroo capsized on the
18th at spottsville, KY, and George In
gram, the owner, and Ed Simmons, the
cook, were drowned.
A GANG of nine freight train robbers was
captured on the 18th near Ph1llipsburg, Pa.
A FIRE on the 18th at Denver, Col. de-
stroyed the King block, causing loss of
100000
The annual encampment of the Indiana
department. OF the G. A. R. opened at In
dianapolis on the 18th. Reports showed
the organization in a furnishing condition,
over $1,000 having been expended for relief
during the year
Mrs HENRY BURKET, wealthy and
prominent society lady Of Marttnsburg, Pa,
committed suicide on the 18th by shooting
herself through the heart Brooding over
1ll-health was the cause
HOWARD JENNINGS, a wealthy farmer,
aged sixty years, committed suicide on the
18th by hanging himself In his barn near
Lexington, Ind. Cause unknown.
The Ice in the Mississippi at Davenport,
Ia, moved out on the 18th, and the ferry
boat was making regular trips.
A NEST of boilers exploded In the st.
Nicholas colliery near Mahoney City, Pa,
on the 18th severely iniurinp several ner.