Mower County transcript., 1889-10-02
Epit0me of the Week,
NEWS COMPILATION.
DOMESTIC.


DOMESTIC.
AT the meeting in Columbus. O., on the
21st of the Sovereign Grand Lodge l. O. O.
F. 1t was decided that persons engaged
in the sale of liquor could not hold mem.
bership in the order.
JACOB KUyKENDALI, a farmer of ROssville,
Kan, became suddenly insane on the Esd
and fatally shot his wife,
DISEASE resembling dysentery was rag
ing on the Esd at Meadowville, w. Va.
Twelve persons had died and many more
were sick
suance of President Lincoln's emanclpa-
ton proclamation was duly celebrated at
Springfield, Ill.,, on the 23d
FIFTEEN pedestrians started on tho Esd in
asiN-day go-as- you please walk at New Ha-
ven. Conn.
FLAMES on the esd in tho lumber yard of
Buckley 4 Douglas at Manistee, Mich.
caused a loss Of $125,00o
DISPATCHES OF the 2Sd from Mount Wash
sngton New Hampshire) say that on the
summit snow was eighteen inches deep, and
shat on that date the sun was shining for
the first time in q month.
W. NJ. Miller and Henry Schug were
drowned on the Esd near Menasha, Wis.
The Corn Palace festival at Sioux City,
Ia, opened on the esd
THE Illinois State fair opened at Peoria
on the Esd with fine exhibits in all depart
ments.
At Erie, Pa party of thirty young peo-
pie went into the country ON the Esd for a
picnic On their return the driver was
drunk and drove the party down an en-
hankment forty feet high, and all were bad
" hurt, two fatally.
The New Mexico Constitutional conven-
don closed its labors at Santa Fe on the
eSd committee was appointed to pre-
pare an address to the people and also one
30 Congress urging upon them the neces-
sity for the admission of New Mexico as a
State
CLARKE HoRNDER (colored) was on the
Esd sentenced at Marshall, Mo-, to ninety
nine years in the penitentiary for assault
ing twelve-year-old colored girl named
Emma Hincher
TIE silver dollars in the Treasury against
which certificates could be issued were on
the 2sd reduced to 5000, 900; silver certifi-
Gates in circulation were ss75, ,OOO, 900; silver
dollars in circulation, &C, ,OOO, OOO
The publishing firm of Belford, Clarke &
Co., of Chicago, failed on the 23d for $780,
oOO
burst, passed over Jacksonville, Fla, on
the Esd, flooding the streets and bursting
the sewers. No lives were lost
THE police commissioners OF Kansas CITY.
Mo-, on the Esd ordered the police to sup
press the Salvation Army because of the
numerous disturbances at the arn1y's head
quarters,
TORNADO swept over Pablo Beach, Fla.
on the Esd, wrecking Murray Hall, big
hotel, and other structures A horse and
wagon were carried two hundred feet. and
freight car was blown sixty feet boy
aged thirteen years was killed.
NATIONAL Silver convention was on the
2Sd called to meet in St. Louis on Tuesday.
November 26.
The great stallion race for the Balch
stake OF $40, 900 was trotted on the 23d on
the Beacon Park track in Boston before
fifteen thousand persons. Nelson being the
victor
LIGHTNING struck the house of Tyler
Spaulding at Pleasant Hill, Mimi, on the
25d. and four -year-old child was killed,
Mrs Spaulding was fatally injured and her
husband was stunned
TEE public schools at Marion, Ind, were
closed on the 23d owing to The prevalence
of diphtheria
AN explosion of gas occurred on the 23d
in coal mine near Dayton, Tenn, nine
men being badly burned
MRS. ]. G.. ANDERSON (colored}, of Carl
ton. O.. mother of sixteen children, eloped
on the 9th with white man named Evans,
who leaves wife.
The immigrants arriving in the United
States for the eight months ended August
81 last Except from Canada and Mexico,
numbered 30J, ,564, against 392, ,942 during the
same period in 1885
EDwAED WALMuTH, an aeronaut, who
made an ascent at Oooperstown, N. Y, on
the 24th, and when apparently mile high,
and over Usage lake, half mile from shore
dropped into the water. His body had not
been recovered
THR new Hotel Princeton at Buena Vista,
Col, was destroyed by FIRE on the 24th
Loss. s2Oo.0OO.
JULIUS L. BAILEY, convicted in Kansas
six years ago of killing his father, was re-
leased from the penitentiary on the Oath by
Governor Humphrey, his innocence of the
crime having been established
AT Knoxville, Tenn, Western Gilbert,
seventeen years old, was on the 24th SEN
fenced to be hanged November II for kill
ing companion.
The New York Graphic daily pictorial
paper, suspended publication on the 24th.
The Government printing Office at Wash
ington completed On the Oath the immense
work of printing the testimony in the sew
enteen contested-election cases which will
come up for settlement before the Fifty
6rst Congress.
A HEAVY freight engine crashed into q
stationary Rock Island suburban train at
South Engiewood, near Chicago, on the
evening OF the 24th, and five passengers
were killed and several Others were severe
ly injured, two fatally.
NEAR Frederick, No., two children, aged
six and nine years. attempted to start fire
with coal oil On the Gath. when the can ex
2loded and the children were burned to
death
MRS. NosMAN 7. ORMsBY, of Chicago,
fatally shot herself On the evening of the
25d after quarrel with her husband. The
aext morning Mr.. Ormsby, on being told
chat his wife could not recover, killed HIM
self with 8 shotgun.
THE new directory of the city of Johns
town, Pa, issued On the 24th, showed that
the number Of deaths by the flood was
55NN.
The Baltimore Sugar Company, rival of
Claus Spreckels, was organized on the Mth
with capital Of i ,0U0,0
TfIIETEEN yiOIatOrs of the Edmnnds law