Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-07-24

Cue lIGn. Inc lOWlands were all inundated,
and crops were entirely destroyed. The
damage to the cotton crops alone in that
vicinity was estimated at half million
dollars.
WHILE endeavoring on the 18th to recover
watch which had fallen into cesspool at
Lincoln, Neb four men were overcome by
gas and foul air and were killed.
The Russ House and stables at Fresno.
Cal, were burned on the 18th and number
of horses persisted. Loss, $4,000.
Two RUNAWAY coal "gondolas" loaded
with one hundred thousand pounds Of coal
crashed into passenger train on the 18th
near Shamokln, Pa, causing the death of
two percons and mortally wounding four
Others while over fifty received various
| injuries
I'HE extensive car shops Of the Eel River
division OF the Wabash road, located ut
Butler, Ind, were almost entirely de-
stroyed by fire on the 18th, throwing over
one hundred men out of employment
Loss, $l00,O00
The report that Legitime had found 1t
necessary to enlist female troops was de-
MED by Captain O'Br1eu, of the steamer
Caroline Miller, which arrived at Now York
from Hayti On the 18th.
HARTMANN PLAAG, who had been twice
arrested, tried and convicted for the muir
der OF John Koldiz, his father in-law. was
fatally beaten by unknown parties at Pc
oria, Ill, on the 18TH
! LOUIS CLABRADo. while pursuing his
fourteen-year- old daughter on the 18th,
who was clipping near Waterford, N. j.,
with Michael Yinopoli, was shot by the
lover, who in turn was battered to death by
Clabrado's friends.
In the woods of Multnomah County, Ore.
and in Southern Washington Territory for
est fires had on the Itch done damage to
the extent OF O million dollars
Four children of Joseph Hunter, a
planter living near Star City, Ark, W ere
fatally poisoned on the 18th by eating food
In which arnica had been placed. The
criminal and the motive were unknown
JOHN ELK1Ns, farmer living in Elk
township, Clayton County, Ia. and his wife
were found murdered In their bed arly on
the morning of the 17th An eleven-year-
old son was suspected of the crime
SPECIMENS of the first paper money ever
issued in Siam were received by the Secre-
tary of State at Washingt n ON the 18th.
Its issue was sanctioned by the King.
The business portion of Shell Rock, Ia :,
was destroyed by fire on the 18th.
DURING performance OF Bristols circus
on the 18th at Milford, Mass, several tiers
of seats fell and thirteen hundred persons
went down, many of whom were bruised
and few seriously hurt
AT Brewton, Ala, q man named Castor
committed suicide on the nth by throwing
himself upon circular saw. Dlsappoint-
ment in love was the cause.
A PASSENGER train on the Cairo l. Vim
cennes road went down an embankment on
the 18th near Mt Carmel, Ill, and fifteen
persons were seriously injured
A FIRE on the 18th at Columbus, @. which
started in the building of the German
Furniture Company, caused loss of $780,
OO0
FIFTEEN men visited John s. Schmidt,
farmer living two miles from Sibley I'LL,
on the 18th aud administered to him ter
rible whipping with switches for drunken
ness and wife-beating.
AT the session Of the National Education
all Association at Nashville. Tenn, on the
18th James H Garfield, of Kansas, was
chosen president for the ensuing year
The Rhode Island Legislature on the 18th
passed bill making the license fees for
wholesale liquor dealers from $500 to s., 900,
anu for retailers 500 in Providence, and
grading down to 500 in other towns ac
cording to population.
CAPTAIN DANIEL APPLETON was unani-
mously elected Colonel of the famous
Seventh New York Regiment on the 18th,
vice Colonel Emmons Clark resigned.
MORE than seven hundred employees In
the silk mills at Paterson, N. j., went out
on the 18th, refusing to accept a reduction
of ten per cent.
Ten dwellings were consumed by fire at
Corinna, Me-, on the 18th
ANITA and Merriam Boggs, maiden sisters,
living in Jackson County, Va, committed
suicide on the 18th by taking arsenic They
left letter, signed jointly saying that
there was nothing in life for old maids, and
that they were tired Of it.
ISRAEL lands, eighty years of age, and
one Of tho most prominent and wealthy
citizens Of st. Joseph, No., was swindled
out of 5000 in st. Louis on the 18th by
bunko men.
THREE men were killed and FIVE others
seriously injured in boiler explosion on
the 18th at the R. B. Stone Lumber Com
pany's saw-mi1l in Chicago
Mrs. JOHN MCGREGoR drowned her two
children in stream near Youngstown, o.,
on the 18th, and then took her own life in
the same manner while temporarily in
sane Her husband was away from home
In Lansing, Mich, on the 18th William
McKellops, millionaire of Perry, Mich,
and president Of the First National Bank of
Corunna was swinded out OF about $1,000
by the ancient gold-brick scheme.
W. B. TATE a wealthy Tennessee bach
elor, distributed $2O, 0OO on the 18th among
forty one-legged and one-armed Confeder-
ate soldiers of East Tennessee.
o. P. CHENEY's stables at Columbus, O.,
were struck by lightning and burned on
the 18th, together with five valuable horses
CAPTAIN ABBOTT with a posse Of secret
service men raided the United States Hotel
near Dayton. O., on the 1Sth and secured
two carpet-sacks of spurious ten-dollar
bills
IT was announced on the 18th that there
was a shortage in the wheat crop of Da-
kota of from twenty to thirty million
bushels, and In many counties there had
been an almost total failure.
AT Lebanon, Ind, on the 18th John Glenn,
a twelve year boy, playfully pointed a
supposed empty gun at Lewis Smith. The
gun exploded and Smith received fatal
wound.
The managers of the recent Sullivan
Mlrain fight, Referee Fitzpatrick, Bud
Renaud and others, we're arrested on the
18th and gave bail to appear at the next
term OF court