Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-08-21
Epit0me Of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.

UplCOlll6 OI Cn6 week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
&c., DOMESTIC.
SALOON KEEPERS to the number Of one
hundred and eight were arrested In New
York City on the 18th for violation of the
sxcise law. ~
THE third and last day of the regatta held
1T Pullman, ILL.,, under the auspices of the
Valley Mississippi Association took place on
The 10th. The winners of the various
events were as follows: Junior single, D. W.
Shea, Boston; Junior doubles, Dorsey and
Nelson, st. Paul; senior four-oared, Alta
iantas, New York; senior single, D. Dona-
hue, Hamilton, Ont senior pairs, Standish
and Lyon, Detroit; senior doubles, Pilkin-
ION and Maggie, New York; six-oared barge,
Westerns, St. Louis.
THE eleventh anniver airy OF the found
ing of the Independent Order OF Foresters
was celebrated all over the country on
the 10th.
1T was stated on the 10th that an English
syndicate had offered Mr., P. D. Armour,
me blg pork-packer of Chicago q bonus of
s5,0OO, OC0 for the sale OF his business
AN earthquake was reported in the Adj
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sarth move was from west to east, and
Forests were swayed as by mighty wind.
MAss-MEETINGs were held in Grand Forks
and other places in Dakota Territory on the
10th protesting against locating the capital
permanently at Bismarck, it being claimed
that corporate and money power was back
Of the effort
HE visible supply OF grain as reported
by the New York Produce Exchange on the
10th was: Wheat, Is, ST., 69S bushels, an IN
crease OF 6Ss, Isl bushels; corn 6,93S 425
bushels, a decrease of 49, 946 bushels; oats.
40OS,754 bushels. an increase of 2S4. 600
Bushels
DR., W. H MYERS, desiring to test the
Brown-Sequard elixir of life, treated Mr..
Michael Kenney, OF Columbia City, Ind, on
the 18th, who was unable to walk without
crutches, and In less than an hour the pa
tlent was skipping about almost wild with
JOY.
The trial of John L. Sullivan and others
for fighting in Mississippi was begun on the
18th at Purvis, Miss
EBEN s ALLEN. the defaulting New
York railroad president, was indicted by
the grand jury in New York City on the
lStn Tor forgery in the first degree and ut
tering forged paper.
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poet, was fully identified on the 18th in
Chicago by Mr.: and Mrs. Carlson as the
Frank Williams" who rented the cottage
in which DR.. Cronin was assassinated
Twenty live Thousand persons attended
Clan-na-Gael demonstration in Philadel-
phia on the same day and five Thousand
dollars were raised for the prosecution of
the assassins.
BROWN COUNTY, Kan, was visited by an
unusually heavy hail and thunderstorm on
the night of the 18th. A laborer on a farm
near H1awatha was struck by lightning and
killed
MAINE reports stated on the 18th that
there was great revival in ship-building
there. Over thirty ship-yards were in opera
ton, employing from thirteen hundred to
fifteen hundred men.
WASHINGTON adyices of the 18th state
that Postmaster General Wanamaker had
consented to the rate of one cent a word
for telegraphic dispatches until regular
rate was fixed The action was taken
to facilitate communication between COL
lectOrs and others The above rate was
prevailing until July l last, when the Post
master-General ordered it reduced to one
mill. and the company refused to transmit
sheir messages
At Indianapolis, Ind. on the 18th Judge
Walter @ Gresham peremptorily set aside
an order made last week appointing a re-
ceiver for the indianapolis, Decatur &
Western railroad, on the ground that suffi-
cient cause for the appointment had not
been shown.
GALENA, Ill. lead miners were on the 18th
anxiously awaiting news from Washington.
Should lead be admitted duty free the min
ing industry in this region would practically
be thing of the past.
IT was decided in convention on the 18th
at Helena that that city should remain the
capital of Montana until 1892, when it would
be submitted to a vote of the people,
REPORTS from Bay View, Mich, on the
18th state that Rev. DR.. Bayliss' (who was
reported dead on the 11th) condition is
very unfavOrable. The reverend gentle.
man is the editor of the Western Christian
Advocate.
At raid made by the Milwaukee police
On the 18th at dog-fght, several men
jumped from window: One man was
killed, and several badly injured
A COMPANY with capital of $5 OOO. 100
was incorporated on the 18th at Springfield,
ILL. by leading Chicagoans for the purpose
of securing the Worlds Fair In 1892
DR.. BRowN-6EQuARD's ''elskir of life"
found a victim on the 18th at Paris, Ky.
An old negro was inoculated with the fluid,
and soon after died in terrible agony. It
was thought he died of blood poisoning.
The neighbors were so incensed that the
doctor was obliged to leave town
GOVERNOR FORAKER on the 18th declined
to issue warrant for the extradition of
Richard Carroll. general superintendent of
the Queen e. Crescent road, wanted by
Governor Lowry. of Mississippi, as an alder
in the Dullivan- Kilrain prize fight.
AssIsTANr SECRETARY T1cHENoR left
Washington on the 18th for Lura Springs.
Va He was very i'll with rheumatism, and
lad gone away for the benefit of his health.
IT was decided on the 18th by the Iowa
g. A. r. that they would attend in body
the encampment at Milwaukee to be held
the latter part of this month.
OVER five hundred houses were sub
merged and two thousand people rendered
homeless at Lincoln, Neb., on the 18th by
food, and the Burlington & Missouri River
railroad is washed out in many places.
Several persons were reported missing.
DICKINSON COLLEGE, of Ocean Grove,
n j., celebrated its 106th anniversary on
the 18th.
R1oH deposits of gold bearing sand have
been found along Beanbl0ssOm creek in