Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-02-06

THREE deaths from small pox occurred
On the 31st ult. at the Onondaga Count
poor-house near Syracuse, N. Y, y
fourteen persons were down with tt Hno
ease. Ac ols-
Tnn striking street-car employ
York made numerous violent 4 cs .. New
lions on the slst ult., but uemonstra-
succeeded in running MUIR ne ~e &C COMPANIES
The officers Of tue G anne e, IT, Mntua,
Life Insurance 6owp 1s ssa,aS st. M Hart
ford on the s1s> W. <haS the loss b ", the re-.
cent de1alca> >dop OK Joseph A. Moore. their
a als >As agent would not exceed the
~ FIRST na4mes-s5OO 600.
~ 4 ArkafzsRs Leg stature on the 3lst
y passed. "a hill authorizing the Governor
% offer = reward Of $1,000 for the arrest
and convection Of the murderer or MUIR
derers OF John NJ. Clayton at Plummer-
Vile.
The report of the Commissioner of Pat
ents sent to Congress- on the Slst ult
showed that paten's were issued during
the year to the number of 20, 42O, Of which
1886 were to foreign inventors.
The Nebraska Legislature on the 31st
ult voted to submit the question of pro-
hibition or high license to the people of
the State.
AT Olathe, Kan, Mrs. Lucy Ferguson,
seventy-tive years old, was on the 3Ist
nit convicted Of numbering her husband
and the death sentence pronounced. A
motion for new trial was ovcrruled She
is the mother of six children.
The stables Of the celebrated Mount
Hope farm near North Attleboro, Mass,
were burned or the 3lst ult, and twenty
five imported cattle were cremated.
TWENTY THOUSAND mechanics at Pitts.
burgh, Pa, decided on the 3lst ult to with
draw from the Knights of Labor.
A FIRE on the 31st ult. in tour-story
fat building in New York City caused a
loss of 5000, OOO
The engine house and breaker of one of
the Reading Company's largest colleries
at Ashland, Pa, was burned on the 31st
ult., throwing five hundred employees out
of work.
The President TRANSMIT tied to Congress
on the lst additional correspondence re-
lifting to the Samoan affair, which showed
that the German Government had ex-
empted foreigners from the operations of
martial law and ordered the German Con
sui to relinquish his command Of the ad-
ministration of the islands.
The Board of Indian Commits ioners in
their annu Il report on the 1t asked that
the apprs priation for educational work
among the Indians be increased to 81, OOO,-
600 tor the first year, s. 00o 900 for the
second and 81 600 600 for the third. year.
The statement of the public debt issued
on the 1st showed the total debt to be
81, 6S5, 30S, O59; cash in Treasury, $64, 936,
943; debt less cash in the Treasury, ST.
l2l, S45,972 Decrease during Janu Try, S12,-
2l6,2S5 Decrease since June 80, 1888, s43, :
73S, $685.
The Graniteville IS. c. Manufacturing
Company's warehouse, containing 2.346
bales of cotton, was burned on the 1st.
Loss. 800, 600; insurance, $4,000
The coke workers in the Connelsville
pay region struck on the 1st for an in
crease of wages, about eight thousand
men being affected.
SIX boys, ranging from ten to sixteen
years of age, broke through the ice while
skating near Paterson, N. j.. on the 1st,
and three of them were drowned.
The mail packet Bowling Green. plying
between Bowling Green and Evansville,
Ind, W 8 burned on the 1st near Rock
port KY.
The Reading Coal & Iron Company on
the 1st shut down all but twenty Of it's
fifty collieries.
The business portion of the town Of
Carbon, Ind, was destroyed by fire on the
LIST.
THERE were 1872 business failures in the
United States during the seven days end
ed on the 1st, against 33l the previous
seven days.
The jackson Memorial Association of
Lexington, Va, on the LIST ordered a bronze
statue of "Stonewall' Jackson to cost
O,000. It will be completed in three
years.
WHITE CAPS were on the 1st terrifying
the residents of Norfolk, Va.
WHAT would probably prove to be the
worst fire that Buffalo. N. Y. had ever ex-
perience |, both in extent and financial
loss, was raging at four o'clock on the
morning of the I'd Many business blocks
had been destroyed, two largo hotels
swept away, and the flames were still
raging, with tierce wind blowing.
RE1NA VICTORIA, the brood mare recently
sold at auction, bringing 1880. the high
est price ever pa d for brood mare at
public auction, died near Terre Haute,
Ind, on the LIST.
Mr.. g. G. MANDr, editor of the Mount
Horeb (Wis.) Sun, a Prohibition paper.
was shot and m rtally wounded in his
own house on the LIST by an unknown mis-
creant, who made his escape.
town, N.Y., was burned on the LIST, caus-
ing loss of SIS GOO. George Thompson,
chief OF the fire department, was instantly
killed, and Teddy Smith Was fatally hui
by the falling falls.
IT was announced on the list that Mrs.
Laueque, living near Father Point, Cam,
had fallen heir to $1,000, QUO left by her son
who recently died in Illinois. where he
had been living under the name OF
Lavack. Mrs LaueQue was the only heir.
A YEAR ago at Lincoln, Eeb., colored
man named Warwick had barber of that
city arrested under the Civil Rights DILL
for refusing to shave him The case was
appealel to the Supreme Court, VIII oh
handed down a decision on the LIST in War.
Wick's favor.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
The Maine Legislature in joint conven-
ton on The 28th elected George L. Beal OF
Norway, State Treasurer, by vote of liz
to 3.
i. B. PosEr (Rep) was on the Goth
elected to Congress from the First Indiana
district to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of General Hovey.
IT was stated in Washington on the 29th
that President-elect Harrison ha decided
to make the following Cabinet appoint.
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