Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-04-03
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
CONGRESSIONAL,


On the SSth the appointment of Senators Cu..
scm and Gibson rs Regents OF the Smithsonian
institute, to fill vacancies. Several nomina.
hons OF minor Importance were received from
she President Murat Halstead's nomination
Tor Minister to Germany was rejected by a vote
u 81 nays to 10 yeas. motion to reconsider
vas carried.
NOMINATIONS were sent to the Senate on
The goth ult. by President Harrison as follows
Robert Adams, Jr., of Pennsylvania Ministe,
10 Brazil: Lansing B. M1sener, of California,
Minister to the Central American States; Will.
Am L. Scruggs, OF Georgia. Minister to Vene.
zuela; William o. Bradley, of Kentucky, Min.
ster to Corea; George L. Shoup, OF Idaho, to
be Governor OF Idaho; George Chandler, OF
Kansas. to be First Assistant Secretary of the
interior. The nomination OF Murat Halstead
rs Minister to Berlin was discussed, but no &C.
ION was taken.
DOMESTIC.
WILLIAM CL1NcHMAN, aged fifteen years,
behevmg revolver to be empty, shot and
fatally wounded Birdie Lucas at st. Paul on
the 18th.
Ex-MAYoR HEWITT, of New York CITY. as
aociated with number of capitalists on the
18th purchased q controlling interest in the
Tennessee Coal Iron e. Railway Company
near Nashville, Tenn.
OWING to domestic troubles Melvin G.
Garlitz shot his wife dead on the Goth at
Cumberland. Md
A LARGE shoe-factory in Brooklyn, N. Y.
vas destroyed by fire on the 18th, causing a
boss of 100000 Many of the one hundred
employees were obliged to jump from the
wmdo"a and twenty-five were badly in
jured
TIE Michigan House on the Goth, by a
unanimous standing vote, passed a resolu-
t5on increasing the Governors salary to
81, 900 year.
f. CUMMINGS & Co., leather dealers of
Boston, failed on the 26th for $500. 600.
CHARLES j. BEATTIE, Chicago lawyer,
was on the Goth fined $500 and sentenced to
one years imprisonment by Judge jamie
son for contempt Of court in giving client
fraudulent decree of divorce.
The great warehouse in Chicago owned
BY William R. Manierre was DESTROYED by
fire early on the morning of the 26th Loss,
$500 600; insurance, about $500, GEO.
APAssENGER train on the Lake Shore road
when near Goshen, Ind, on the Goth struck
buggy containing Robert McCaffery, aged
twenty years, Of Goshen, and Miss Della
Love, aged eighteen years, of Elkhart.
When the train was stopped both were
found on the pilot of the engine dead
RICHARD B. RICHARD, railroad clerk at
OAASAAAS~oA1 o4ASO
wife on the Goth as she was walking on the
street. No cause for the deed was assigned
Four men employed in Pittsburgh mill
we're splashed on the 26th with molten
metal which they were pouring into mold
and terribly scalded
TIE Governor of Tennessee on the 18th
signed the bill making women eligible to
the office of county superintendent Of edu-
eation.
AT Columbus Grove, o., on the Goth Miss
Laura Michael shot and fatally wounded
Miss Lou Getterman. Jealousy was the
cause of the shooting
JOIN RosENBARGER, a farmer, shot dead
Andrew Castaline in row over a trivial
matter near Creighton, Neb., on the Goth,
then burned his own house to the ground
and shot himself dead.
In Au-Saints' Cathedral at Milwaukee.
Wis, on the Goth Rev: DR.. Cyrus F. Knight
vas consecrated Episcopal Bishop of Wis
consin, to succeed the late Bishop Welles
AT New York on the Goth Alderman
Charles Goetz, Charles NJ Jackson, Morris
lsaacs, Edward Butler and Charles Smith
we're arrested on indictments charging them
with violating the election laws
AT a railroad crossing at La Crosse, Wis.
on the 9th Mrs. William Drake was instant
y killed by switch engine and her hus-
band was fatally injured.
PRAIRIE fires were raging on the 9th in
Stearns County, MINI. The high wind had
carried the flames into the woods, and much
damage was being done.
A THREE-YEAR-oLD daughter of Barney
Huffman, of Circleville, O., was burned to
death on the 9th, her clothes catching fire
from bonfire in the street.
EIGHT business houses at Havana, ILL.,.
we're burned on the 9th.
NICHOLAS MEAD,sa waiter in the Revere
House at Boston, shot Mrs Samuel Tuck and
her boy on the 9th and then killed himself
THE United States Consul at Colon re-
ported on the 9th that work along the Pan
anna canal had entirely ceased
A FIRE on the 9th at Scranton, Pa, de-
stroyed the y-goods stock of Clelland,
Simpson Taylor, valued at $500, 600!
HARRY PAINE, ten-year-old boy Of
Roanoke, Va, was killed on the 9th by a
ball bat in the hands of a young colored
companion.
A CHURCH and five business buildings
we're destroyed by fire at West Haven,
Conn.,, on the 9th.
PRESIDENT HARRISON on the 9th issued q
proclamation opening the Oklahoma lands
to settlement on April a.
THE foundry and machine shops of Nc
1ntosh & Hemphill, at Pittsburgh Pa, were
burned on the 27th. Loss, $1OO, OOO
The House Committee on Education of
the Missouri Legislature reported adversely
on the 9th all bills providing for compul-
sorry education.
SpEERY & Co., of San Francisco, donated
fifty tons Of flour to the sufferers in China
from famine, and it formed part of the cargo
Of the City of Pekin which sailed from the
Golden gate on the 9th.
The strike Of the ten thousand weayers
ut Fall River, Mass, came to an end on the
9th, the strikers returning to work at the
old wages.
ANNOUNCEMENT was made on the 9th In
Philadelphia that Kelley had secured the
missing link" to his motor" and that a
private exhibition would be given in a few
days. a 4
Mrs. DAVID Macarthur blew out her
brains on the 9th near Whitefern, Tenn,
with shotgun. She placed the muzzle Of
the gun at the back Of her head, held the
barrel with her hand, and pulled the trigger
with her toe.