Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-04-10

chicago avenue Cnurcn, Chicago, on the
9TH. The meetings would continue from
thirty to sixty days, according to the in
terest manifested 49,.
AMANDA OF suicide is prevalent at Pitts
burgh, Pa During the six days ended on
the 4th nine attempts at self-destruction
were made, and six of them were sue
cessful
FISH In the White river near Columbus,
Ind, were on the 18th said to be dying by
thousands, They t1oated ON top of the
water and lined the banks, and poultry
which pecked at them soon died
THE United States Marshals who attompt-
ed to make evictions from Des Moiues river
lands near Fort Dodge, Ia, on the 4th were
met with armed resistance and driven from
the field
Downs & FINCH, of New York, shirt man
ufacturers, failed on the 5th for $5oO,0Oo
DURING the seven days ended on the 5th
there were 222 business failures in the
United States, against 2l0 the previous seven
days.
REPORTS to the Indiana Board of Agri-
culture on the 5th from all over the State
Indicated that the growing wheat was in
splendid condition.
The discovery OF rich placer diggings in
tho Bear Paw mountains, fifty miles north
of Fort Benton, NJ. T., was reported on the
5th
ISAAC RICH 4 Co., the oldest fish dealers
1t Boston, failed on tho 9th for $2UO, 900,
PRESIDENT HARRISON on the 5th issued a
| centennial proclamation Recommending
that on Tuesday, April 80, at the hour OF
nine o'clock in the morning, the people of
tie entire country repair to their respect
i've places OF Divine worship to implore the
favor 0f tbott No DS
prosperity and peace may abide with us as
people, and that His hand may lead us
in the paths of righteousness and good
deeds"
Six business blocks at Attica, O., were de-
stroyed by fire on the 5th
AT Frankfort, Ind, on the 5th William
Pray shot and killed his wife and then
killed himself Domestic troubles caused
the deed.
AT Trenton, N. j., on the 9Th Maggie
Mitchell, the actress, was granted divorce
from her husband, Henry T. Paddock.
JOHN WoIFINBARGER, who murdered
Sheriff Greenbe, was taken from Jail at
Rutledge, Tenn, by masked men and
hanged to a Tree on the 9TH.
AT Winamac, Ind, on the 5th six men
were sentenced to year each in the peni-
Tertiary for robbing freight cars
NEAR Crescent Bay, Ore, Mrs. Thompson,
while fleeing with her husband and babe
from a wind-storm on the 5th, was killed by
falling tree
DURING the past three months there were
in the United States 100 industrial strikes,
involving 36,73l employees, as compared
with 1870 strikes and Il, 1852 employees in the
first three months OF 1SS, and 262 strikes and
120, 2l9 strikers in 1887.
FRANK SoRBER, of Wilkesbarre, Pa, while
riding on the 9Th. was fatally injured by a
horse leaping into his wagon from behind
inflicting injuries from which Sorber died
shortly afterward
TIE ticket office in the Wabash railway
depot at Wabash, Ind, was broken into and
robbed of its contents on the 9TH
MUCH trouble was feared in Iowa on the
9Th over attempts to evict settlers on the
Smell and Litchfeld lands. The settlers
had armed themselves with Winchester
rifles and announced their determination to
stay
BETTE GoRMAN, q two-year- child of
Lima O., was scalded to death on the 9Th
by her older sister, who accidentally upset
a bot of boiling water on her face and
breast.
AT Fordyce, Ark, on the 5th the sheriff
OF Titus County, Tex, arrested Frank Shulze,
a young man, on a charge OF having in De-
cember last murdered J. W. King, his wife
and six children, and then burned their
dwelling.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
CAPTAIN HENRY WILSON, United States
Navy, was placed on the retired list on
the ID
ALEXANDER McCuE, ex-Assistant United
States Treasurer Of the United States, died
in Brooklyn on the I'd from a stroke Of
apoplexy, aged sixty-three years.
a TICKET composed entirely of ladies' was
on the I'd placed in the field at Cottonwood
Falls, Kan, by the "bum'' element of the
town as an insult to those who were leaders
in all good work. The better class of citi
Zens at once voted for them, and the result
was that Mrs Minnie D. Morgan was
elected mayor, and a full board of alder
men, composed of the most prominent
ladies in the town, will aid her in admins
tering affairs
The Democrats of st. Louis elected E. A.
Noonan mayor on the I'd. but the Repub-
icans gained control of the city govern
ment, except it's municipal board
DEWITT G. CREG1ER Dem } was elected
mayor of Chicago ON the I'd over John A.
Roche, the Republican nominee.
The Florida Legislature convened on the
I'd at Tallahassee.
The Tennessee Legislature on the I'd
passed bill providing for the Australian
system of voting. A registration bill, which
applies to every city and village in the
State, was also passed.
EDWIN BOOTH, the famous tragedian, was
stricken with paralysis at Rochester, N Y,
on the Sd, and it was feared by his profess
sional associates that the world-renowned
actor had played for the last time.
W. 0. BRADLEY, of Kentucky, on the Sd
refused the Corean mission, to which he
was nominated by the President, saying
that his business interests would not per-
NIT him to exile himself to such distant
land.
MRS. MARGARET SARGENT, daughter of DR..
Oliver Wendell Holmes, died at her fathers
home in Boston on the 18th.
Rev. DIX. EDWARD BEEcHER, brother of
of the late Henry Ward Beecher, who was
recently injured in Brooklyn by the cars,
suffered amputation of his left foot on the
4th He is eighty five years old
JAMES A. VosE, OF Maine, was on the 4th
appointed to his old place as appointment
clerk OF the Post office Department. at Wash
ington.
GOVERNOR STEVENSON, of Idaho, on the
4th issued call for constitutional con-
vention at Boise City July 4 on assurances