Mower County transcript., 1889-03-13

was ordered that the President be notified OF
Mr.. Ingalls, election President pro tem.,
and the Senate thereupon adjourned until the
llth
DOMESTIC.
A STATEMENT submitted to the House of
Representatives before final adjournment
on the 4th showed that the appropriation
bills passed during the session amounted to
a total OF S2Sl, SIS, ,695, divided as follows:
Agriculture, sl,669, TO; army, s24, SOC, l15;
diplomatic and consular, 81, ,9So, ,025; District
OF Columbia, $5,6S7, ,406; forthcation, 81, ,2O5,-
5A; Indian, S., ,O35, 724; Legislative, ETC., $40
S4e, e,555; military academy, $902, 766; navy,
$2l ,6923lO; pension, ISL, 75S, 200; post-ottice,
se66o5 3H; sundry civil, 50, 2777 3S4l miscel-
1aneous acts testimated) So, 500, 600; de-
ficiency, SIG, ,+25, $50.
The number Of immigrants landed at New
York during the six months ended February
2S was as follows: September, 1883, 90 U23:
October, 1869; November, 1909; Deccm-
ber, 1888; January, 1885, 7,4sl; February,
1868; total, lO7,6SO; showing a decrease of
u ,522 as compared with the corresponding
months year ago
PRESIDENT HARRISON held his first recep-
ton at the White House on the 5th, and for
several hours streams of callers were re-
ceived and shaken by the hand The scene
was gay one, the crowd comprising civil
ians, soldiers bands, ETC.
JOHN u. ROCKEFELLER on the 5th gave to
the American Baptist Education Society
100000. The sum was to be paid in monthly
1nstallments of $lO,O 600.
PREPARATIONS are on foot for grand dis
play OF American corn at the Paris Expo
sltlon. \ corn palace will be included in
the display.
A COMMITTEE of the Rhode Island House
OF Representatives on the 5th reported in
favor of repeating the prohibitory amend
ment
CLARK GALLAGHER, a prominent farmer
living near Waverly, Ind, committed sui
eide on the 5th. He was insane.
J. E. ROBINSON, deputy postmaster of
Dalby Springs, Ark, was lynched by mob
on the 5th for a criminal assault upon an
eight-year- old girl
The Reading Iron Works of Reading, Pa,
who operated blast furnaces, forges and
machine shops, and rolling, Sheet tube and
pipe mills, suspended payments on the 5th
with liabilities of about Il ,0OO, ,OOO The con-
Germ employed over twenty-five hundred
hands.
SETTLERS at Springfield, COL, who had
been for year troubled by the depredations
of ''rustlers," captured and hanged three of
the gang on the 9TH.
FIVE men lost their lives and eighty mules
and twenty three street-cars were de-
stroyed by fire on the 9th in Kansas City
which ruined the stables of the Memopoli-
tan Street Railway Company.
HARLAN TURNER and J. W. McVeigh, two
wel-known and highly respected citizens of
Butler, Mo-, fought duel on the 9th with
pistols, the latter being fatally wounded
The will of James Flood was filed on the
9Th at the county seat of San Mateo County,
in California The amount of his estate was
s17,O0O,O00
The Farmers Union Mercantile Company
of Liyermore, Cal, assigned on the 9th with
liabilities estimated at $l45 600; assets un-
known.
The Michigan Legislature passed joint
resolution on the 9th amending the consti-
tuition to fix the Governors salary at 81, 600,
instead of 81 1000 as it is at present
AUGUST Z1sKA, aged sixty years, killed
himself on the 9th at Clinton, Ia, because
bis daughter had bought an expensive
dress.
THREE of the principal breweries Of Roch-
ester, N Y, were sold on the 9Th to an En-
glish syndicate for SO, ,000, ,O00-fve per cent
Of the purchase money being paid.
THREE farmers living near Knox, Ind.
were arrested on the 9th for systematically
robbing freight cars They had been car
rying on their operations for some time.
GEORGE W. ROBINSON, of Norwalk, O., sold
his Florida lumber interest on the 9th to q
European syndicate for $25O,OOO.
JOSEPH McHENRY, of Lima. O., was back
of drift on the 9th setting trap and
Joseph Lewis took his hat for q rat and shot
him dead
THREE iron mills in the vicinity of Read
ing, Pa, shut down on the 9th because of
the recent failure of the Reading Iron Com
panY.
The Willets Manufacturing Company of
Trenton, N. j., owners of the largest pottery
In the country, failed on the 9th for $500. goo.
The Mahoning National Life Association
Of Columbus, O., doing an insurance busi-
ness on the mutual assessment plan, failed
ON the 9th, with assets of $4,000 cash and
$2l 600 in notes and accounts. The risks
outstanding amounted to $1O.0OO,O0O
FIFTEEN cottages were burned on the 9th
In New Orleans
NEAR Delafeld, Wis, on the 9th Mrs. Ann
Dr1scoll, aged ffty-fve years, while insane
decapitated her sleeping husband with an
axe
DUKE McLACHLAN, young blacksmith
aged twenty-five years, and Cora Carnahan.
the thirteen-year- old daughter of che pro-
prietor Of the Detamore House at Paw Paw,
ILL.,, eloped on the Sd, and at farmhouse
In Earlville on the 9th McLachlan shot the
girl dead and then killed himself.
The display of fireworks at Washington,
deferred from the 4th until the evening of
the 9th, were said to have been the finest
eyer seen in that city. A set piece repre-
senting Harrison and Morton was so perfect
that the portraits could be recognized at the
distance Of mile. ~.--ss .-..s..- a- -
CHARLES B1NKLEY, a farmer living near
Van Vert O., shot his brother in the face
On the 9th and tore out both his eyes with
. shotgun which he didn't know was
loaded