Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-09-18

HE two hundred and fifty fourth ami
versary OF the settlement OF Concord, N.
! Il, was celebrated on the 18th Wilton, N.
i d., founded one hundred and fifty years
ago. also celebrated.
IHH National Association of Colored Bap-
lists met IN Indianapolis, Ind. on the 18th.
Some Of the delegates were assaulted by a
mob at Boxley, Ga. while en- route. Reso-
buttons We're adopted denounoing South
resolving to lay complaints before the
President and Governors of Southern
States and ask for Investigations.
| JAMES DERREIit,, an employe in the rolling
mill at F1ndlay, @. was killed on the 18th
by piece OF red-hot iron which struck him
on one leg ana ran upward until 1t came to
his back, Over three feet, OF the iron passed
through him. @#.
| Mr.. PATTERSON, the superintendent Of
the Runover mine ut Daggart, Cal, was
knocked off his horse aud robbed of 81, 600
| in gold coin on tive l2th by a man named
Parry Dodson. The thief was pursued by
Patterson, shot dead and the money re-
! covered, - |
THE Sons OF Veterans at their National
encampmept at Paterson, N. j., on the 18th
/ elected Charles +. Griffen, OF Indiana, Com
mander-in- Chief, to succeed General Alb
bolt. s
AT meeting Of the Bell telephone d.
rectors In Boston on the 18th it was voted
! that the capital stock be increased from
| $iu,00h,O00 to $l2, 500, OOO
AT Buffalo, n. Y, on the 18th Dr. Bartlett
! concluded his six days shooting, having
broken in that time 81, OFT glass balls, beat
ing DR.. c rivers record by over 1000 Bart.
| lett also broke 500 balls in fourteen min
utes and broke ten in eight seconds
A BAND of White Caps or regulators
burned negro church on the 18th at Post
Oak, Jasper County, Miss The negroes
were charged with conspiracy against the
| whites
In the Tucker divorce ease in Chicago on
the 18th decree was granted in just ten
minutes after tho first notice was fled
This was the speediest divorce trial on rec
ord.
GLASS case of rare and valuable coins
belonging to Mrs. A. P. Reynolds was stolen
from the floral hall at the Montgomery
County und.) fair on the 18th The col
lection was valued at S., OOO
DAN1El COATES, aged seventy eight years,
was kicked to death by his horse on the
18th near New Providence, Ind.
THE people of Dexter. Mo-, were on the
18th preparing to hunt from the county
who had imported four negroes to work on
his farm. The people of the county had
for years refused to allow negroes to re-
side there.
IT was definitely ascertained on the 18th
| that over forty sailors were drowned off
Lewes, Del, in the great storm, and scores
OF ships were making hard ba tie for life
| there. The storm was subsiding in the
neighborhood of Atlantic City, NJ, and
reports of the great damage to property in
that vicinity continued to come in
L. B. KING. OF Hebron, Neb.. bought a
round-trip ticket to Blount, D. T., and
while there he died. His body was on the
18th sent to Hebron on the return coupon
OF his ticket.
PALACE built entirely of coal taken
from Sangamon County veins, and unique
In architecture, was dedicated at the coun-
ty fair in Springfield, ILL.,, on the 18th
De. GRIFFIN, wealthy physician of
Cleveland, Tenn. was OH the 18th sentenced
to ten years in the penitentiary for assault
ing twelve-year-oldc child
Two LADIES were licensed to preach by
the United Brethren conference at Arrow
smith, ILL on the 18th, the first in the his
tory Of the church.
At Homer. Ill.,, ON the 18th two men
named Penney and Kisslnger were arrested
for making and passing counterfeit silver
dollars.
IT was announced on the 18th that an
average Of two bodies a day continued to
be found in the debris and rivers at Johns
town Pa
PAIR of three-oard m0nte-men swindled
Fred Fleim, a farmer living near Ottawa,
ILL.,, out of 5000 on the 18th
THERE were 10 business failures in the
United States during the seven days ended
on the 18th, against ia the previous seven
days.
F. W. GEsswE1N, millionaire tool manu-
facturer of Brooklyn, N. Y. was shot dead
| in his office ON the 18th by Christian Deyhle,
aged sixty years, whom he had beaten in
patent lawsuit.
JUDGE BLoDGETT. Of Chicago. ON the 18th
declared unconstitutional the Minnesota
law prohibiting the importation Of Chicago
! dressed beef into the State
GAUDAUR and Teemsr contested a scull-
ing race at McKeesport, "a, On the 18th
for $1,000 side, the former apparently
| winning. Tee,ner insisted that Hamm,
Gaudaurs trainer, purpously fouled him to
prevent him from winning the race.
TEE condition Of the miners in Spring
Valley, ILL.,, was on the 18th said to be de-
plorable. The miners families were in a
| state of starvation.
MRS GEORGE H. DUNsPoRD, wife of: q
leading citizen OF Beading, Pa, died on the
18th from the effects OF swallowing two
! false teeth which went down her throat
while she was laughing.
DURING a war OF words on the 18th Mil
lard Jones, a druggist OF Clayton, Ind IA
tally stabbed Rev: Smith, of the Baptist
church of Danville, Ind
A LOT of drunken miners fought with
knives at Bramwell, W. Va, ON the 18th, and
Dan Lambert and Tom Kadle were literary
cut TO pieces and three of their compan-
! ions were fatally injured
| The Central Pacific railroad bridge at Up
per Cascades, in the Sierra Nevada Mount
aims, was destroyed by forest fires on the
18th. and one milo of snow-shet(s were also
destroyed.
! Ar the meeting Of the National Associa-
| zion, Of Fire Engineers at Kansas City on
the 18th George y. Hale, OF that city, was
elected president ..f 90. T..
FOREST fires in tho vicinity OF Bangor,
Me-. were doing much damage ON the 18th
Country roads were impossible on account
Of the heat The cities Of Fredericton and
:, Moncton, N, B., were surrounded by flames
/ The business portion OF Dandy, N. y, was
burned on the 18th.
| THE great storm on the Atlantic coast was
/ still raring on the 18th but it was Thought