Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-04-24

| 1HE Iactory OF the Buffalo IN. W Door,
Sash 4 Blind Company, was destroyed by
fire on the 18th. Loss, 100000.
GEORGE KRAMER and Charles Heidke, two
| Oklahoma boomers, quarreled at Kiowa,
Kan, on the 18th over the right to a certain
claim, and during the fracas both were
killed. fight also occurred between cat
tlemen and boomers west Of Oklahoma
City, and four men lost their lives
AT Butler, Pa, Mrs, James Field shot and
killed her husband on the 18th. The shoot
ing was in self-defense
The eighteenth annual meeting of the
Woman's Baptist Foreign Missionary Society
of the West was opened on the 18th at
Cleveland, o. Delegates were present from
eight States and Territories
DIR. ABE ROBERTSON, OF Patrick County.
Va, while fighting the forest fires in that
county on the 18th was overcome by smoke
and burned to death. Over fifty farmers
were burned out by the flames
A FIERCE rain and w1nd-stoum passed over
Sumner County, Kan, ON the 18th, doing
great damage to crops and property
Several houses at Wellington were un-
rooted and others were blown down, and a
Mr.. Hacker was killed.
AT Jersey City, N. j., on the 18th Patrick
McAtamney, switchman, jumped before
old boy, but he was run over and killed.
FIVE men were drowned on the 18th near
cambridge, Ga, by the capsizing of 4 boat.
The acting Comptroller of the Currency
on the 18th authorized the First National
Bank of Hannibal, No., to commence bust
ness.
y. Q. MARSH, Of New Haven, Conn.,, was
on the 18th reelected president of the Ma
tional Academy Of Science, In session at
Washington.
A FIRE on the 18th at Tarentum, Pa, de.
stroyed the operation and several other
buildings
FEL1CE V1ART, aged seventy-two years, a
professional beggar, died in New Orleans
on the 18th of debility and neglect in an old
shanty where she had lived twenty years,
She was supposed to be very poor, but the
coroner in inspecting the circumstances of
her death discovered hidden around her
shanuy $SS,5OO.
REV. DR.. BROWN, president of Wesleyan
Female College at Cincinnati. and sixty
years OF age, settled a dispute on the 18th
with his music-reacher, an Italian aged thir-
ty-fve years, by giving the latter gentle
man a thrashing
EDGAR KING, son of Joseph King,
wealthy farmer near Montgomery, Mass,
murdered his father on the 18th, set fire to
the house and then killed himself. He was
supposed to have been insane.
The steamer Everett, raft boat belong-
ing to the Burlington (Ia) Lumber Com
pany, was sunk at the head of Otter island
On the 18th, and Ave OF the sixteen persons
on board were drowned.
WHILE playing near burning brush heap
on the 18th ut Upton, NO., Charlie Hayes.
two years, were fatally burned by their
clothing catching FIRE.
IT was stated on the 18th that floods had
ruined the potato, pea and bean crops in
portions of Virginia
TIE business part of Cheney, W. T., was
almost destroyed by an incendiary fire on
the 18th
FREDERICK BRoDER1CK and Chester COL
Inns were arrested on the 18th at Rondout.
N. Y, for making and circulating counter
felt coin bag containing about seventy
i've dollars in bogus nickels together with
dimes, ETC., was captured.
A w1ND-sToRM on the 18th at Isabel. Kan.
destroyed five houses and ruined crops.
A BAG containing $4,000 in gold dis
appeared on the 18th from the Northern
Pacific Express Office at Brainerd, Mimi,
and officials and clerks were completely in
the dark as to It's whereabouts
A MAn-PoUCH containing valuable reg
1stered letters for the Cleveland office was
stolen from a Michigan Southern train in
Chicago on the 18th.
REPORTS of the 18th from all parts of the
country indicated that the peach crop this
season would be the largest ever known,
that the crop of fruit generally would be
good, and that the yield of vegetables would
be enormous.
THE Steubenville (O) iron and steel
works, which started about one week ago,
were stopped on the 18th by strike. Five
hundred men were out
The ladies of the Chicago Free Kinder
garten Association gave an informal recep-
ton at St Pauls Universalist Church on
the 18th, it being the one hundred and
seventh anniversary of the birth of the
founder of the kindergarten system
Frederick W. A. Froebel
A VESSEL went ashore on the 18th near
life-s saving station No. 81, near Norfolk, Va,
and all on board were drowned before any
assistance could reach them.
JOHN HosTETTER, wealthy farmer aged
seventy years, residing near Campbells-
town, Pa, committed suicide on the 18th by
hanging himself in his barn.
AT Jacksonville, Fla, on the 18th Isaac
Jones (colored) broke nearly every bone in
the body Of his four-year-old child with an
iron bar and then beat his wife to death
He claimed to be subject to fits, and that he
had one at the time.
CHARLES RICE, living near Franklin, Pa,
sought relief from asthma on the 18th by
rubbing kerosene on his breast While
thus engaged the can exploded, burning the
house and fatally injuring Rice.
MRS. HENRY BENNEHoFF, seventy-Ave
years old, was assaulted by tramp on the
18th near Tifin, O., and so badly injured
that she died In short time
The old Carroll homestead at Knoxville,
Md, was burned on the 18th. The tract
upon which the old mansion house stood
was taken up in 1927 by the father of
Charles Carroll of Carrollton, and en-
braced fifteen thousand acres.
ABRAM W. MARSHALL, one of the most
prominent citizens of Petersburg, Va, shot
himself dead on the 18th in the presence of
his wife. Financial trouble caused the deed.
A LARGE barn on the farm of Richard Da-
wilson, near Charlottesville, Ind, was
burned on the 18th with it's contents, includ-
ing six horses and number of cattle.
JOHN H. SWIFT was hanged ON the 18th at
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