Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-11-27

pitone Of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
@ DOMESTIC. ..s.4.
On the 10th twenty seven men were
placed on trial at Topeka, Kan, for the
murder Of the sheriff Of Stevens County
year ago. or: H.
NRs. WILLIAM NILSSON, of Hamilton,
HI. succeeded ON the 10th In finding q
sister tor whom she had been searching
thirty years.
JAKE BUzzARD, q notorious outlaw,
died ON the 10th in the Eastern pentten-
tiary in Philadelphia.
TIE citizens Of Somerset, Ind, were
startled on the 10th when the fires in
their natural gas stoves went out. In
vestigation showed that the gas in the
we'll which supplied the town had given
out completely. e.
T. ID. NUTrING, the Oldest instructor
at the Illinois Institution for the Blind
at Jacksonville, was killed on the 19th
while assisting in unloading straw from
wagon.
In speech closing the session of the
Knights Of Labor at Atlanta, Ca, on
the aoth Nh. Powderly said tho organi-
ration was in better shape than ever be-
fore and the outlook was the brightest
possible.
Ar Kansas City butting match be-
tween two powerful negroes occurred
on the 3Oth. The fight was to q finish
and both contestants were terribly bat
tered about the head when tho combat
ended.
The wholesale furnishing goods firm
Of A. 10th 4 Sons, of st. Louis, failed
ON the 30th for $s35. 900.
MRS. NELLIE BENIN, of Denver, COL,
shot herself on the Goth, owing to pow
erty, and her husband, B. I. Benn, on
seeing his wife's condition, stabbed him.
self
AT the close of the Prison Reform
convention on the Goth at Nashville,
Tenn, Rutherford 3. Hayes was re-
elected president.
ELAEB SHARKEY, the boy who muir
dered his mother, who was to have been
hanged on the Goth at Emin, Pa, was
granted new trial shortly before the
hour Of execution.
TIE twenty-seventh triennial convo-
cation OF the general grand chapter of
Royal Arch Masons of the United States
met at Atlanta. Ga. ON the Goth.
THE centennial celebration of the rat
ifcataon by North Carolina of the Fed
eral constitution began at Fayetteville
on the 9oth.
ADv1cEs Of the Goth from Lisbon to .
diplomatic attache in Paris said that the
revolution In Brazil caused great excite
ment in Portugal. The agitation was
evident and there were fears Of re-
publican uprising.
BURGLARS blew open the safe of
Brown & Hargeman, at Clinton, Ala,
ON tho goth and secured over s., 900 in
cash. ] aa.@-.= :, Z
JOHN SAGE was indicted on the Goth at
Marion, Ind. for the murder, nine years
ago, OF Harry Cunningham. q two-year-
old boy, whose existence was barrier
to the marriage Of Sage to Mrs. Cunning
ham.
THREE miners were killed and four
others badly injured in the Buffalo mine
at Negaunee, Mich, on the Goth by
fall of ground
A FIRE on the Goth at Baldwinsville,
N Y, destroyed the Seneca Hotel and
the buildings adjoining. Loss about
$3.50, 600. The guests at the hotel had
a narrow escape.
WHILE temporarily insane on the Doth
Mrs Nathaniel Straney, of Pulaski,
Mich, took poison and forced her eight
een-yearold daughter to do the same,
and both died.
On the 10Th two farmers, J. h. Koontz
and Julius Klary, living near Paola
Kan, were finishing work ON cyclone
cellar when the roof fell in, crushing
both to death.
WnL1Ah LEWIS livery barn at Coun-
Gil Bluffs, Ia, was burned on the Goth
and twenty-three horses were cremated.
In Louisville, KY, on the Goth Michael
). I1erney, an employe of the Standard
Oil Company, was given $25, 900 for per-
sonal injuries.
The testimony offered by the defense
in the Cronin trial in Chicago on tho
Goth was directed mainly to strengthen
ing the ahbi for O'Sullivan, the iceman.
The chief witnesses were Mrs. Thomas
Whsleh and her sister, Miss Kate Nc
COfmick, both of whom testified that
OSullivan was at home on: the night of
May 4. Mat Danahy and William Cough.
lin also testified that Martin Burke was
in the formers saloon from 1890 to mid
night on the night Of May 4.
s. A w1xD-sroRM on the 21st at New
Berne, N. c., wrecked large factory,
and two men were killed and eight
others were badly injured
THE iron firm of Long & Co., of Pitts
burgh, Pa, failed on the 21st for $780,,
600. s~
. GENERAL w. S. RosEcRANs, Register
of the Treasury, in his annual report
on the 21st shows that during the year
81. 500 bonds, amounting to $10s, 1914, $50,
we're issued, and IS, $40 bonds, represent
ing $231, s11, $50, were Cancelled. The
total amount OF bonds outstanding was
S762, 428, 812, of which amount only &lO,-.
1850, or 1885 per cent, were held
abroad. ~
Ar Washington, ILL.,, five men were