Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-03-20

nAa 3AAAoAAo stA DaIk agnes BARRON, DOunQ
1rom Nassau to baltimore, was driven ashore
on inc virginia coast on the 14th, and six
out OF her crew OF ten were drowned =
A BILL making the use OF obscene. vulpar
or protane language a misdemeanor, and
1nfl1cting fine for each and every offense.
was introduced In the House at Springfield.
ILL.,, on the l4th. -
FIVE men were killed and eleven injured
on the 18th by the explosion of a boiler in
the West Point boiler works Of Monroe l.
Sons at Pittsburgh, Pa.
A FIRE on the 18th at Newman. Ga de-
stroyed the principal business square.
AT Marlboro, Mass, on the 18th Walter
and William White, aged eight and sixteen
years, saturated a box of powder with kero-
sene and applied match to it, causing an
explosion by which both were fatally in
jured.
1T was learned on the 18th that George O,
Hayden, who died In apparently destitute
circumstances recently In st. Louis, had
$50, COO in a bank in that city.
FIRE on the 14th in one of the smelters
of the Anaconda Mining Company at Butte,
NJ. T., caused a loss of II, 0O0, 600, with no
insurance.
THE total values Of the exports of beef and
hog products from the United States during
the month OF February last were ~, 49,, 422,
against $6, 523,SS7 In February, 1855. The
values Of dairy products were: February.
1889, 1888, 42l; February, 1888, $274, 606.
The youngest couple ever married in West
Virginia were made man and wife on the
14th at Keyser. Their names are Chloe Po-
land, aged thirteen years. and Joe Snow.
aged fourteen years. They had been lovers
for four years, and received parental con-
sent to marry.
MAYOR BRoAToH, Of Omaha, Neb, on the
18th Issued an order for the strict enforce
ment of the Sunday saloon closing law.
The law had never been enforced.
MAGRUDER FLETCHER (colored). who GRIM
1nally assaulted Mrs. Obadiah MacCready.
was taken from the Jail at Tasley, Va, on
the 14th by mob and lynched.
VIRGIL JACKSON was hanged on the 18th
at Utica, n. Y, for the murder OF Norton
Metcalf on the Goth of January, 1885,
WHILE burning leaves on the 14th in a
yard at Paris, Tenn, Miss Matte Hobbs &C
cldentally set fire to her dress and was
burned to death.
In hotel at Atlanta, Ca, on the 18th @.
Il. Hamilton, railway man, cut his wife's
throat, alleging that she had been untrue to
him.
KELLY Bros warehouse at Greenville, s.
O., with twelve thousand bales of cotton,
was burned on the 18th.
JAMES LAFFERTY, stock-dealer of Wyom-
ing County. w. Va, was waylaid, killed and
robbed of 81 600 on the 18th near Rockville
creek
The six miners recently entombed in the
Black Diamond colliery near Mount Car
mel, Pa, were rescued alive and we'll on
the 18th.
JOHN M. Stout a well-known bicycle
rider, dropped from his wheel on the 18th
near Mount Sterling, ILL.,, and died almost
instantly. His death was caused by over
exertion.
In Washington on the 18th James s Clark
son received his commission and immedi-
ately took the prescribed oath and entered
upon his duties as Frst-Assistant Postmas
ter-General
GANG of counterfeiters in New York
City who for several weeks past had been
successfully putting spurious silver dollars
in circulation was arrested on the 18TH
The Illinois Supreme Court on the 18th
denied the claim of Messrs, Fielder, Schwab
and Neebe, the imprisoned Chicago Anarch-
lists, that their sentence was illegal
The South Birmingham (Ala) Coal 4 Coke
Company was organized ON the 18th with
capital of 81 GOO, 600. 1t owns three thou
sand acres of land near Birmingham, and
will build at once one hundred coke ovens
and a furnace.
WILLIE GREEN, Anderson Mitchell and
Daniel Jones, all colored, were hanged on
the 18th at Arkadelphia, Ark, for the muir
der of negro preacher named Arthur
Horton, May q, 1855.
AT Italian Canyon, New, on the 18th
Samuel Rumble shot and killed his father
in-law, George Hosking, and his wife, his
law, aged fifteen, and then killed
himself. Family trouble caused the crime.
The discovery of new oil wells at East
Titusville, Pa, the home of the famous
''grrsshopper wells' Of old, had on the 18th
caused great excitement. and every foot of
the land within a mile Of the little SETTLE
ment had been gobbled up by Spectators
DURING the seven days ended on the 18th
there were 1875 business failures in the
United States, against 221 the previous
seven days. The total failures in the United
States from January l to date was 3, 143,
against 1898 In 1888
WILLIAM BUFFALO (colored), and only six
years OF age, was arrested on the 18th at
Norfolk, Va, for the murder of Riddick
Harrison, ten years old, also colored.
TEE house of William Flowers, at Hollow
Rock, Tenn, was burned early on the
morning of the 18th, and Flowers, his wife
and two children persisted in the flames
The Tennessee Legislature on the 18th
passed bill transferring the Hermitage,
the old home of President Andrew jackson
at Nashville, to the Confederate Veterans
Association for twenty-five years.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
TIE Indiana Legislature adjourned sine
die on the 1Ish. 1t was found after adjourn
ment that several bills passed over the Gov
ernors veto were defective, and would
therefore fail to become laws.
THE Rhode Island Democrats in conven-
ton on the 18th at Providence nominated
John W. Davis for Governor.
The Massachusetts Legislature on the
18th defeated the Woman's Municipal SUI
frage bill
MICHAEL KRoEaER died on the 18th in
Manchester, Wis, at the home of one of his
sons, aged one hundred and fifteen years.
In the Minnesota Legislature on the 18th
bill to abolish capital punishment was de-
feated
JOHN A. CAMPBELL, ex-Justice OF the Su-
preme Court of the United States, and as
s1stant Confederate secretary Of war, died
at bis home in Baltimore on the 18th, aged
seventy eight years.
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