Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-08-07

Tho Territory, and were liable to spread to
great extent
at Hagerstown, Md, on the 10th c. A.
Herbert was given forty lashes on his bare
back for cruelty beating his wife with his
siSts.
WHIIE crossing this White river in wagon
on the ::'th ut Rockford, Ark, Mrs. Snod-
grass and her two children, aged nine and
six years, respectively, were drowned
FOREST fires near Santa Barbara Cal,
had on the S9th burned twelve dwellings,
besides Il number OF barns and large
quantity of hay. A number Of horses and
c;.tte also persisted.
On the 18th one hundred and sixty-four
saloon keepers were arrested in Cincinnati
Cor violating the Sunday law and held for
trial.
TERRIFIC thunderstorm, accompanied
with shower OF hail-stones, occurred near
Springfield, NO.. on the S9th The fruit
crop was badly damaged, fifteen hundred
bushels Of apples being knocked to the
ground on one farm.
TERRIFIC storm of wind and rain on the
10Th near Boston, Mass, uprooted orchards
plowed furrow fifteen feet wide long
distance, and threw water out OF the Chico
pcc river fifty feet high
TEXAS fever was on the GOTH causing
many deaths among cattle in Indian Terri
tory.
JOHN EMa1oNs, of Gaylord, Kan, was CIV
en- Il coat OF tar and feathers on the 10th
by masked men for brutaliy beating his
wife
FIRE in coal mine near Birmingham,
IA on the Goth caused the death OF two
men and thirty mules from suffocation
AT Fayetteville, Ark, the most terrible
q at f., n r1S>> o$o,, l,
cd on the 10Th SIX houses were struck
by lightning and burned and many barns
with theiS contents were also burned The
crops along the river were general v de-
stroyed. and the loss to the farmers would
be many thousands of dollars.
TIE Gazette journal building at Hast
ings, Neb., was burned on the Goth Loss,
$5u,OvV
IT was said on the 29yh that wholesale
fruit merchants of New York would COM
bine to form trust for the control OF the
Florida orange crop.
JOIN STRIcKER. aged seventy-five years,
was arrested on the Goth near Steubenvile
o.. charged with hanging his children by
the thumbs and beating them vita hick-
cry ramrod.
JUDGE FIELD of the Circuit Court of Kan
sas City in a decision on the .9th declared
the statute allowing religious associations
to be incorporated unconstitutional
AN iucendiary fire on the 18th ut Wichita,
Kan, DESTROYED the buildings occupied by
the Cannon Fruit Commission Company and
the Wichita Wholesale Grocery Company.
Loss sl10. 600
IT was said Oh the 10Th that the fear of
general war in Europe was the reason why
SO much foreign capital was at the present
time seeking investment in this country
JOHN l. SULL1vAN's total receipts from
the recent fight with kilrain were :24,6Oo
CLovD-BURsT on the Goth flooded the
country between Seaford and Deimar, IN
Maryland. causing great damage
AT Hermanville Miss early on the morn
ing OF the ;;oth ult Edward Griffin shot and
Instantly killed h, fltl.:. j. w. Griffin,
whom he mistoo!1 for :, !,>;,S.;:c
TIE entire plant but ldlngs, machinery
and stock-of the Arms Pockt-book Manu-.
featuring Company at South Deerfeld,
Mass, wa burned on the 3)th ult, not
even the books being saved
ROBERT CRAIG, a prominent citizen of
Charlottesville, Ind. committed suicide on
the 3)th ut. by hanging
The firm of Z. & A. H. Batcheller, one of
the largest boot and shoe houses in Boston,
failed on the 18th ult for sl,2 00N
4 LACE number OF counterfeit silver
dollars in circulation at Kansas City were
on the 30th ult. traced to the notorious
Jack Bellies gang. Belle had disap-
pcared.
CYCL,NE struck Ellis Corners, Ulster
County, r. T., GA the j0th ult., destroying {.
large amount OF property and tnjuring q
number of persons.
AT Edgerton, Wis. on the 30th ult. Jasa-
bella Kayson, lady eighty years old, was
found in her room with her neck broken
A chest III the room had been broken open
and small! amount Of money was missing
ROBERT MARVEL, the Pike township lind }
octogenarian, whose peculiar case is at
tracing so much attention from physicians,
turned the forty-seventh day of his fast on
the 18th ult and appeared to be as strong
rs a week ago
A RAIN-sToRM on the 3)th ult. in New
Jersey did great damage in the city Of
Newark. In South Orange several build
ings, including the post-office. were carried
away. In Orange valley the water was up
to the second-story windows and much
damage was done to the numerous hat fac
tories there. Bloomfield and Mon, clair
also reported great destruction of property.
In Plainfield the loss was very great, two
or three square miles of thickly settled ter
ritory being submerged
VERY violent storm passed over New
Madrid, Mo, and vicinity on the Both ult.,
doing great damage to the cotton and corn
crops. Warehouses; at Iiptonville and Lu-
zelle Landing were also blown down.
Il RAINFALL on the 3)th ult at Duck Hill,
Miss, and vicinity caused all the largo
streams to overflow their banks, and thou
sands of acres OF cotton and corn were sub
merged and fences and bridges washed
away.
A FIRE started by sports,nen several days
ago in Ko-Name canyon, Colorado, had
spread on the 9th ult until it covered an
area of ten miles square, the entire face OF
the Grizzly and No-Name mountains being
one mass Of fire.
IT was reported on the Both ult that the
Standard Oil Company had bought all the
te-lead companies in the United States.
the estimated sum paid being $6),OOO,0O0.
DURING rain storm and high wind on
the 3Jth ult at Concord, N. H.. the arsenal
and five houses were unroofed and several
destroyed. An elm tree one hundred and
twenty five years old was torn up by the
roots and blown across Main street
MIN: persons at Burlington, Wis, were
poisoned on the tn ult by dried beet
which had been shipped to local dealers by