Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-26

IHE steamer City OF Cleveland went
ashore on the north shore Of Lake Su-
perlor ON the 10th, causinga loss OF $ls5, 900.
CONRAD bAuMAN, Of Carbon, Ind, killed
his wife on the 10Th and then shot himself
dead The cause was jealousy.
THE hrst new wheat of tho season ar-
rived at Baltimore on the Goth from Vir-
ginia and sold at $l.5O a bushel.
THREE HUNDRED AND FoRTY-F1yE Mormon
proselytes, under the guidance of Elders
Ellis and Anderson, arrived In New York on
the 10Th from Europe and left immediately
for Utah.
II was said on the Goth that Boston syn
dictate was about to purchase the Magdalen
| Islands IN the Gulf of St Lawrence for
$5oO,o0. 1t proposed to start large fishing
works there and make it second Glouces-
ter.
ALVIN PARK, a widower aged forty-one
years, murdered fourteen year-old Girl
named Llttlefield on the Goth at West
Mystic, Conn.,, because she refused to
marry him.
II. H. Roof, of Fort Wayne, Ind, was on
the 10th elected president Of the National
Travellers Protective Association.
The Comptroller OF the Currency on the
Goth authorized the Schuester National
Bank of St, Joseph, NO., to begin business
| " ACAA q S<bpAoteA VI SooO,OUO
AN insect called the green nudge had
made It's appearance on the Goth on wheat
in the vicinity of Columbus, Ind, and was
proving very destructive to the grain.
DETECTIVE COLLINS, who was sent nom
Chicago to Winnipeg to identify the man
there under arrest US one of the murder
ers of Dr.. Cronin, identified the prisoner as
Martin Burke on the Goth
| ROBERT How1CK and Benjamin Klinger
! two of the wealuhiest and most prominent
farmers in Mercer County, O., were in
stantly killed by lightning on the Goth near
| Hopeweu.
ANDREW GRIMES (colored) was hanged on
the 10th at Mays Landing, n j., for the
| murder Of John Martin. mate of a schooner.
THREE murders occurred in Putnam
County, W. Va, on the Goth James D.
| PAUL. was killed by a man whose daughter
he had seiuced. John Moore killed a
neighbor, Henry Bradley, and Doc Law
renee, miner, killed Tom Stevens. a fel-
! low miner.
The Baptist church at Stelton, N. j., the
third oldest in the United States, cele-
brated its two hundredth anniversary on
| the Goth.
The General stannard monument was un-
vailed on the Goth at Burlington, Vt
SIXTEEN bodies were found on the Goth at
| Johnstown, Pa, and Immediately buried.
train conslstin" OF eighteen freight cars,
| loaded with provisions OF all kinds, arrived
from Caldron. Neb
CHARLES RANDoLAH UNcLEs. the first
negro to be ordained in the Catholic church
was ordained by Cardinal Gibbons at Dalti-
more on the 2lsy.
AT Santa Barbara, Cal, on the 2lst J. B,
Henderson, while drunk, shot his landlady
and then suicided by shooting himself in
the month
HE village of Out otoa A. T., was almost
| entirely wiped out by fire on the 3lst.
IHlRTY-TWO bodies were taken from tho
| Wreckage at Johnstown, Pa, on the 2lst
the largest number found FOR several DAYS.
Six OF those recovered belonged to one
family and were found in one foundation
near their former home. Besides these
several parts of human bodies were found,
JAMES RILEY was sentenced in New York
City on the 2lst to three years in the peni-
Tertiary for stealing ten cents from James
McGlory. The theft took place on the
street.
FRANK MILLER, an eleven ycar-old bov of
Long Island City, N. Y, died on the q st of
hydrophobia. He was bitten nne weeks
ago by a rabbi dog
ing at Franklin, ky., burned about $50, 0CO
in greenbacks and Government bonds on
the 2lst to prevent their falling into the
hands OF his wife, from whom he had sep
arated, and his dissolute son.
ADv1CEs of the 2lst say that the house of
Mr. Emerson, near Clinton, Ark, was
hooded during recent storm, and Mrs
Emerson and seven children were drowned.
Dir. Emerson and two children escaped.
The Supreme Lodge A. O. u W. in ses
sion on the 2lst at Omaha elected William
R. Graham. of Cedar Falls, Ia, Supreme
Master Workman.
HEYER Bros. fireworks establishment at
Boston was burned on the 2lst, and five
persons persisted in thes flames. The loss
on building and stock was 100000
A CYCLONE swept the country near AL
bany, Mo-, on the 21st, and three persons
were killed and three others were fatally
injured Many buildings were destroyed
ANDY CALDWELL (colored>, an escaped
lunatic. was taken from the charge Of an
asylum guard by a mob on the 2lst near
Rockton, s. c.. and shot. He had assaulted
a white woman.
The prevalence of the grain plant louise
on wheat in Southern Illinois was on the
2lst causing great uneasiness among the
farmers, who feared the loss of most OF
their crops.
THERE were 1875 business failures in the
United States during the seven days ended
on the 2lst against 226 the previous seven
days
MANY Thousand acres of wheat and other
grain in SOuthe astern Kansas were on the
2lst submerged by the Neosho river. The
damage to crops in Neosho County alone
was estimated at over $5OO0oO
The remains of family of five immi
grants were found in Fergus County, M. e.
on the 2lst% Every thing by which the
bodies might be identified was DESTROYED.
WILLIAM E. HOWARD was sentenced at
New York on the 2ist to nine years and
eight months Imprisonment at Sing Sing
for completely in the Electric Sugar Rein
ing Company frauds.
The Versailles Conn., Wooden Company,
manufacturer OF woolens failed on the 81
with liabilities Of S165, GOO and nominal as
sets of $4,000.
THOUSANDS of miners in the Braidwood
(II.) coal regions were on the 2lst said to
be on the verge of starvation, owing to an
extended lockout
SEVENTEEN st. Louis politicians, including
city officials, were indicted on the 21st for
crooked work at the recent election.