Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-12-25

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on the 18th accidentally discharged the
piece, killing his young sister and seri-
ously wounding his mother.
AT Trinadad, Col, the United States
livery stable was burned on the 18th
and forty horses were cremated.
The committee of the United States
Senate on. the Worlds Fair decided on
the 18th to begin on January s the hear
ing OF claims Of various cities who want
the big show.
BIZ an accident on the 18th on the
Denver & Rio Grande road near Walsen-
burg, Col, William Gleyer (engineer)
and Thomas Baker (fireman) were killed
and the cattle in seven cars were
crushed to death. ~
DURING thunderstorm on the 18th
at Jasper, Mo-, two young sons Of George
Cashell were killed by lightning.
LEADING colored men in convention
on the 18th at Richmond, Va, petitioned
Congress to pass a general election law
thae would guarantee them better
right of suffrage than they now enjoy.
The iron-clad prohibition bill in North
Dakota passed both houses of the Legis-
lature on the 18th by big majority.
The bill will go into effect July /.
The barn of James Fl. Wilson, a
wealthy farmer of Barr township, Ind,
was burned by tramps on the 18th, and
six horses and several head of cattle and
hogs were cremated.
THE State debt of Pennsylvania was
reduced 1881, $3.50 in the year ended No
vember 80 last.
JOHN HULL and John Graham, men,
bers of charivari party at Lopez ISL
and, WASH, were shot dead by Wash
ington Phillips on the 18th.
REPRESENTATIVES of nearly every
county in South Dakota met at Water
town on the 18th and adopted resolu-
tions denying that restitution existed
anywhere in the State.
PATRICK HUNT was hanged on the 18th
at Paris, KY, for the murder of James
Aimee on February "a last.
MEAD, VAN BoKKELEN & Co., of Chi
cago, dealers in California fruits, failed
on the 18th for $3.50, ZOO.
FIVE children on their way home from
school near Fort Recovery, o., on the
18th were bitten by mad dog, and
each had developed symptoms of hydro
| phobia.
ELLIOTT f. SHEPARD on the 18th do
mated $40, 900 to the New York Grant
monument fund. Up to date the fund
amounted to $4,000.
A FIRE at Indianapolis, Ind, on the
10th completely destroyed the Indian
| apolis wheel works, causing loss of
| 100000.
CH1EF-oF-PoL1cE HUBBARD of Chicago
! on the 10th removed five officers and de-
tectives on account of their connection
| with the Cronin murder case.
| AN assignment was made on the 10Th
by the Laramie (Wy. IT, Plains Land &,
Cattle Company, whose property was
said to be worth $126,11
CAPTAIN GEORGE B. LEAv1Tr, master
of whaling ship, on the 10th brought
to Portland, Me-, news of the alleged
miles north of Alaska.
IT was reported in New York on the
10Th that the steamboat City of Kings
ton had been lost at sea with all hands,
fortytwo in number.
A FIRE in the Commercial Printing
Co.'s establishment at St. Louis on the
10th caused loss of $3.50, 1000.
AT the Tilden school in Detroit on the
10th the dress of girl named Jennie
Lancashire caught fire and she was
burned to death, and eight other girls
were badly burned in trying to save
their companion.
AN organization was effected at
Springfield, ILL.,, ON the 18th to be known
as the Interstate Live Stock Sanitary
Association, and T. C. Jones, of Ohio,
was elected president. The object is for
the suppression and prevention of the
spread of infective and contagious dis
eases.
BoYNroN & Co., dealers in cloaks at
New York, failed on the 10Th for
500, 900.
D1PHTHER1A in it's most malignant
form was epidemic at Rockford, ILL.,, on
the 10Th, over two hundred cases being
reported, and many persons were 1eav-
ing the city.
STATISTICS on the 10Th showed the
wealth of the United States to be SOL
459, 00O, 900 exclusive of public property,
an increase of $1S,662, 600, 900 in the
past nine years. The property owned
by Americans abroad was valued at 49,
O93, 0O0, 900.
THE cut of Michigan lumber-mills for
the season was on the 10th estimated at
1928, 600, 900 feet.
A CYLINDER burst on the 10Th in the
American powder mills at South Acton,
Mass, killing Charles II. Sanders and
Joseph Hurd.
On charge of fraud on the Govern
ment the distilleries, stock and personal
property of the Fresno (Cal.) Vineyard
Company, valued at $4,000 were seized
on the 10Th by revenue officers.
Mrs. ANDREW RICHARDSON, of Sey-
mour, Ind, left her seventeen-months-
old child alone on the 10Th for a short
time, and when she returned the child
was lying in an open Fireplace dead.
In Norfolk, Ia, two farmers named
Holman and Gill ended longtime
feud on the 10Th by killing each other.
"Doc'' JONES, negro barber, was
taken from the Jail at Owensboro, KY,
on the 10Th and lynched for the murder