Mower County transcript., 1889-11-13
Epitome of the Week,

Epitome Of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION,
DOMESTIC.
1HrKTEEN buildings at Luther, Mich,
we're burned on the3d.
EDWARD o. LEACH, director Of the
mint, in his annual report on the I'd says
hecoinage during the year was in value
IS follows: Gold, a5,54s,91o; silver dol
lars, $Ss, 79S, $50; subsidiary silver. $7al,-
$50; minor coins, $9o6,47 total, $780,
H5,927 a.s
A SHARP shock of earthquake was felt
1T St. Louis few minutes before two
o'clock on the morning of the I'd. Tall
buildings were shaken and their in
mates profoundly frightened, but there
was no damage. Oscillations were also
perceptible at Jacksonville and Cairo, Ill.
JOSEPH H. Brown, a wholesale grocer
1t Fort Worth, Tex, failed on the I'd
for SS1U.000.
MARTIN BURKE was identified by three
new witnesses at the Cronin trial on the
ID as being the man who, under the
name of ''Frank Williams" rented and
occupied last spring the Carlson cottage
where DR.. Cronin was murdered.
SHERIFF REYNOLDS, w. A. Holmes
and Eugene Middleton while taking
eight Apache Indians and one Mexican
to the Yuma penitentiary on the I'd were
shot dead ty their prisoners near River
side, A. T.
AT Key West, Fla, Del Pino
Brothers cigar factory, containing over
a million cigars, besides a large quanti-
ty of Havana tobacco, was completely
consumed by fire on the Sd. Loss,
s1s6,0o0.
PRESIDENT HARRISON at $40 O'Clock
on the afternoon of the I'd issued
a proclamation admitting North Da-
kota and South Dakota as States
in the Union. This was the first in
stance in the history of the National
Government of twin States entering the
Union at the same moment.
A TRAIN on the Santa Fe road went
down an embankment on the Sd near
Brownwood, Tex, and eighteen passen-
gers were injured, five fatally.
ARTHUR L. THOMAS, the Governor of
Utah Territory, in his annual report on
the 4th estimates the population of the
Territory at 100000. which is an in
crease of nearly $4,000 since 1880. Dur
ing the last nine years the foreign-born
population has been increased by Nor
mon immigration by 16,O94. The aggre-
gate assessed valuation of property of
the incorporated cities and towns in
Utah for the year 1889 is $50, ,596, 400.
Speaking of the GENTLE strength in the
Territory the Governor says the time
may come when the Genti,es will be in
the majority, but it will be many years
hence.
JAMES GALLON, aged nineteen years,
engaged with other boys in a persim-
mon-eating contest at Seymour, Ind, on
the 4th and won, but died in convulsions,
the result of congestion of the stomach.
= EARLY on the morning of the 4th
Haggai Westbrook, farmer living in
Vergennes township. Mich, whom finan-
cial troubles had rendered insane,
crushed the skulls of his sleeping wife
and three small children, and also at
tempted to kill his son, but the latter
wrenched the weapon from the infuriated
man. Westbrook then cut his own
throat and died almost instantly.
Ar Muskegon, Mich, the lumber and
docks of P. P. Leonard and the North
Muskegon Single Company were de-
stroyed by fire on the 4th. Loss, $685.
0OO -, -
NJ. SELIa & Co., jobbers of notions at
Philadelphia, failed on the 4th for 800,
600.
THE National Maritime exhibition at
Boston was formally opened on the 4th.
ADv1cEs OF the 4th say that Henry
Miller, Charles Jolly and Joe Martin
perished in the recent blizzard near Fol-
SOM, n. NJ .'.*
MOLTEN iron broke through the stack
Of furnace at Lebanon, Pa, ON the 4th,
overwhelming eight laborers, five of
whom were burned to death, while the
others were severly injured. = {. F,
ABABN on the Grand View stud farm
near franklin, Tenn, was burned on
the 4th, and several brood mares perished
in the flames.
EDWARD SPELLMAN, district officer of
the Clan-ns-Gael, was the principal wit
ness on the 4th in the Cronin case, but
his testimony was disappointment to
the State, as he refused to indorse state
ments he had made before the grand
jury relative to Dan Coughlin's story
about DR.. Cronin's death. Justice Ma
honey testified to the contlatt Yef pro
fessional services between. :O!SallHei
and Or. Cronin: 4 =: :. = s : = :
TIE discovery Tas m.de' At .Streator,
H., ON the 4th that Joe M,dG had KiIed
his cousin, Hattie Lee, and then taken
his own life. The cause was the refusal
Of the girl to marry him. 4 s$z Il .=5<@
AT Shelbyville, Ind, sixteen-year.
old boy named Simpson was arrested on
the 4th charged with stealing $1,000 in
gold from DR.. Noble, Of Greenwood,
Simpsons employer. .-...s.zssssas. 1.
i MIS-. THOMAS HoMAN, aged fifty
yeats, hanged herself on the 4th in a
fit of insanity at Milford, Ind.
On the 4th Charleston, s. c., held an
Earthquake festival" The city was
elaborately decorated. .s r
w. b. HART, Third Auditor, in his
ANIMAL renOrt on the eth IN tha Score.