Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-07-17

EIGHTEEN gIOcers in Cincinnati on the
9th offered their customers three per cent.
discount if they would hereafter carry
home their purchases
Mr. LUDWIG, who had the key, the only
thing remaining of the German Lutheran
church at Johnstown, Pa, died on the 7th
of grief at the loss of his three sons and
one daughter
HARVESTING was completed in Kentucky
on he Sth with fair yield Of wheat; corn
was reported as excellent and tobacco i'm
proved.
GOVERNOR B1GGs, one of the largest
peach growers of Delaware, on the Sth es-
tmated this years crop in that State at
about one million baskets
The steamer Haytien Republic supposed
to have been lost in the Pacific Ocean.
Seached San Francisco on the Sth
Two HUNDRED delegates to the twelfth
annual convention of American Flint G lass
Workers met in Bellaire, O. on the Sth.
IHE Government training school at Car
isle, Pa, on the Sth sent one hundred and
seventy young Indians to their tribes in
the Northwest Most of them were gradu-
ates, and all had been carefully trained in
useful work
r. D. JOHNSON, we'll. TODD citizen of
Palouse City, W. T., killed himself his
wife and son and seyen-year- old daughter
on the Sth. He left note stating that he
did not want to live in this sinful world
and could not leave it without his family.
TIE Lake View and Linkville stage was
robbed near Keno Springs, Ore, on the Sth
by two masked men.
koNsBERG, village near Watertown, D.
T., was visited by storm on the Sth which
more or less injured every building In 1t,
and several residences were entirely de-
sroyed
A SHOCK OF earthquake was plainly felt at
Pennington, Me-, on the Sth, lasting half a
minute. Dishes were ratified upon the
shelves and light articles were knocked
about. but no damage was done.
JOSEPH MCDONALD, wealthy sawmin
man, OF Akron, o., disappeared mysterious
~ in August, 1855, and his skeleton was
found in swamp near that city on the Sth.
He had a large sum of money with him
when he disappeared.
AN attempt to blow up with powder the
barracks Of the Salvation Army in Indian
apolis, Ind, was made ON the Sth, but
proved unsuccessful
The eighth National convention of the
Chris Ian Endeavor Association commenced
on the Sth in Philadelphia with ten thou
sand members in attendance.
SECRETARY DAVIES, of the board of in
quiry at Johnstown, Pa, made a compiIa-
ton Of the property losses reported and
estimated in the great food which the
board confirmed on the Sth. The total loss
was placed at $685., lii
SULLIVAN and Kilrain fought seyenty-6ve
rounds at Richburg, Miss, on the Sth, Suli-
van being the winner.
A PHOTOGRAPH of a mysterious aerial CITY.
taken by Prof. Richard D. Willoughbv in
Alaska from an arctic mirage, was re-
ceived at San Francisco on the Sth
WHILE bathing at Manhattan Beach on
the Sth F. C. Leeper, wealthy member of
the New York Bicycle Club, was drowned
In Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 9th Richard
Lewis, plasterer, fatally shot Mrs Elmira
Moseby and her sister, Emeline Myers, and
then committing suicide. The parties were
all colored- Lewis boarded with Mrs.
Moseby and, it was thought wanted to
marry her, and shot her because she re-
fused.
On Ju'y Gustav Napia, living at Hough-
ton, Mich. was taken sick and went to see
friend. The friend took him to barn and
then went on SPREE forgetting the sick
man. Napia lay unattended until the sth,
when he died Of starvation
The superior court OF Council Bluffs, Ia,
On the 9th decided that BARRIERS must close
their shops on Sunday.
AT Blackmar, Mich, Charles Blackmar,
while drunk, fatally shot his mother, sew
enty-f years old, on the Sth grandson
OF the woman seized the gun and dis
charged its contents into Charles breast,
intlicting a fatal wound
SIX officials of the Cleveland, Canton &
Southern railroad were arrested at Canton,
O., on the 9th by detectives, charged with
systematically robbing the company.
AT Basco, Ill, Mrs. Henry X. Gronewald,
the wife Of German farmer, became in
sane on the 9th and nearly killed her two
children with an axe.
HENRY BLAKE and Michael Frowley, Of
Susquehanna, Pa, were fatally injured on
the 9th by falling fifty feet into the river
from bluff.
BY an accident on the 9th on the Penn
sylyania road near Wilmerding station two
boys and a man were killed and thirteen
cars were demolished
JACOB MORRIS, of Atlanta Ca, died on
The 9th Of palpitation of the heart brought
on by excessive laughter.
ADv1cES of the 9th say that a heavy rain
storm at Johnstown, N. Y, had caused the
Cayadutta creek to become raging tor
rent. which soon burst its bounds, and two
dams gave way, being unable to stand the
enormous pressure. Several factories
along the banks were swept away, and
many buildings and outhouses were carried
off. The Fonda, Johnstown & Gloversville
road lost seven or eight bridges.
HEAVY rains throughout Kansas had on
the 9th put the corn crop beyond danger
from hot winds in the future.
In Leavenworth, Kan, on the 9th William
Parish shot Mrs George B. Callahan dead
because she refused to marry him, and
then took his own life
MRS. REUBEN RYAN, living near Upton,
Ind, gave birth on the 9th to female
child having double head The Child was
otherwise perfectly formed. 1t had four
eyes, two foreheads, two mouths and two
noses.
DAN JEWELL, a painter at Henderson, KY,
was shot and killed on the 9th by George
W. Chapman during quarrel over the pos
session of a fifteen-cent box of paint
GOVERNOR BEAVER and the State Board of
Relief Commission decided on the 9th to
distribute $5OO,00 among the sufferers in
Johnstown, Pa The money would be paid
to the needy survivors in checks, and would
be the first installment of the 81 ,5OO, 600
contributed for the relief of the people
which was being held by the Governor
By the premature explosion of blast on
the 10th in a stone quarry near North Yer