Mower County transcript., 1889-10-23
Epit0me of the Week.

Epitome of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
DOMESTIC.
MRS LOUISA ERNST, y highly respectable
German lady OF St Louis, while Tempo
rarily insane on the 18th attempted suicide
BY jumping from . tower OF the st Louis
bridge into the river, q distance of one hum
dred feet, but she was taken from the
water uniniured.
HARRY VAN ABsDAIl, Of Lincoln, Ky.,
who stole the same horse nine times and
sold it eight times, was on tho 18th sent to
prison for five years
destroyed eighteen million feet Of lumber
Ial loss, s1750O0 B. E Cartwright was tho
principal loser
Tn St James Hotel ut Rico, Col, was
burned on the 18th and three mon psrished
IN the f1amea
LARGE quantities Of hay and humber wero
destroyed BY forest aros on tho 18th In the
vicinity Of Saltwater, MINI.
Az Heinlein's sorghum mills q Buoyrus
q, early on tho morning OF the 18th three
men wese killed by the bursting Of boiler
caused BY tho pumping In of cold water
1aIough mistake Of an engineer.
RRoBTs from Gallatzln, Pa, on tho 14th
are to the effect that many children were
dying of diphtheriA Many parents have
boon rendered ohlldless.
TH8 manager Of tho Hotel Delmon1oo at
Kansas City, Mo-. II. T. Martin, disappeared
Gn the 18th. leaving q shortage In hts 40
counts Of several thousand dollarA
n was discovered ON tho 18th that tho
grave of Ralph Waldo Emerson in Sleepy
Hollow Cemetery As Concord, Nasa had
hoeo desecrated by.unknown persons who
Intended removing part Of the remains,
but vere frightened away before they
could accomplish their purpose.
! Ra1RsoN H CHAABzR1A1N, a once PROM
fnent citizen OF Sholbyville, Mich, hanged
himself on the l4th At tho Kalamazoo in
sane asylum Six years ago no drowned
his little daughter.
MINI men and three women (all eolored)
we're arrested on the 14th at Charlotte, N.
G, charged with robberies extending over
several months. Losses traceable to the
gang amounted to nearly 100000 Burg
larry In North Carolina 10 capital otfedso
CHIEF ARTHUR Of tho Locomotive
Brotherhood, said at Kansas City on tho
18th that If the engineers voted for Feder-
alton with other organizations they must
hook out for new chief
An assignment was made on the 18th at
Philadelphia by Clark l. Keon, manufactur-
ers of worsteds> with very heavy liabilities,
principally due to banks and yaru men
IT was stated ON tho 18th that the gross
earnings of the Atchlson road for the
month OF August were @2, 492, 451, the net
increase over the corresponding month in
1858 being S265, ,S97.
OK the night of tho 14th, at New York,
1rh Lucy Eddy, aged twenty, quarreled
with her husband, young carpenter, took
carbollo acid, and died In twenty minutes.
In the interval between taking the poison
and her death, the black hair Of the victim
turned white.
OK the Jerome Park N W track on the
14th Come-to-Taw, ono Of Sam Bryants
crack racers was sold to tho Hough Broth
e1s for @l0, 100
TIE regular grand jury at Chicago on the
14th returned four additional indictments
In the jury b1tb1ng case, three against men
formerly indicted, and the fourth against
John Graham, a clerk In Lawyer A 8
T1ude's Office, who was arrested on the
night of the l4th
In a shooting afray which took place at
Nicholson, Miss, on the 18th Dr. W. NJ Tett,
OF that city, and F. c. Collins, of Larey,
were killed and Quitnan Perton severely
wounded The quarrel arose over q law
suit
: TERRIFIC storms were raging all along
the Massachusetts, coast on the 18th, and re-
p~ts from Chatham, Vineyard Haven, Nam
tucket and Bos on gave accounts of loss of
life and vessels wrecked
THs officers and executive boards of the
Knights of Labor and the American Fed
Grafton of Labor convened at Philadelphia
on the 18th to consider the eight-hour
question.
TIE Mercer Electric Street railway of
Omaha was purchased ON the 18th BY the
Consolidated Street Railway Company for
s., 5,Oc0,00O. The purchase gives the Consol-
1dated company monopoly Of all street.
Car lines in the CITY, aggregating seventy
two miles
On the 18th the Fuermann Brewing Com
pany, of Watertown, Wis, sold out to an
English syndicate for $5Oo,o0o.
a. D. GREGG was sentenced ut Kansas
City, Mo-, on che 18th to five years for horse
stealing he was at one time private SEQ
rotary to General Sheridan.
AT Emlnence, KY, on tho evening of the
18th the wheels of a train cut four toes from
the left foot of Secretary OF State G: w.
Adams, who narrowly escaped being
crushed to death
JOHN HANKS, Of Hillsboro, ILL.,, while
walling ffty-foot we'll on the 18th, was
buried by a oave-in. His body had not been
recovered.
AT Council Bluffs, Ia, on the 18th Thom-
as Brooks was found guilty of numbering
Frank De Goode last March The jury
recommended imprisonment for nfe
Upon charge Of defrauding the Govern
nens. United States officers on the 18th
seized tho distillery of Freiburg g. Work
um at Lynchburg, o. The amount of whis-
ky seized Is more than a million gallons
WHILE drunk at Pittsburgh on the night
Of the 18th J. NJ Deeley threw his five year
old boy into the river, the fall being forty
i've feet. The child was rescued, but could
not recover
WHILE boring we'll on his farm near sa-
lem, Oak, on the 18th Mat Douglass struck
, vein of natural gas at depth of 1872 feet
An enterprtsing citizen of Salem offered
Douglass 5000 for his farm, which offer
was refused.
At st Louis on the night of the 18th Paul
Mcbride, son Of a prominent criminal law
yer, shot and killed Frank LOTUS in
saloon, The killing was said tn have haen