Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-07-10

THE business district of Durango, Col,
also three churches and part OF the resi-
dence section, were burned ON the LIST,
causing loss of $500, 600, with light insur-
ance. The fire was supposed to have been
set by incendiaries.
-FOUR business blocks were burned at
HALEY, l. T., on the I'd. The loss was esti-
mated at $500, 900. -, ~
JUDGE PHILLIPS, of the United States
District Court ut Kansas City, decided on
the "a that negotiable paper might be in
dorsed by telegraph, and that the indorser
would be held.
WHILE watching the approach of storm
at Lockrort, N. Y, on the I'd Lizzie Hawkes.,
aged sixteen years and Mary Hawkes.
aged eight years, were struck by lightning
and killed.
Two BOYS named Corbett and Bennett
while herd1ng COWS near Dubuque, Ia, on
the'2d were killed by lightning.
HEAVY rains on the 2d at Richmond, Va,
caused Shockoe creek to rise far above it's
banks and overflow. Several blocks of
streets, forty or fifty stores and cellars
were Inundated and damage done to the
amount of $4,000. One negro was
drowned
ARLEY NORRIS son of Mrs Maggie Morris,
Of Decatur, ILL.,, had both eyes put out and
his face horribly burned on the I'd while
firing OH crackers near CUP of powder
; JOSEPH Q. MAcK1N, convicted Of perjury
In connection with ballot-box frauds In
Chicago, was on the I'd pardoned by Gov
ernor Fifer. His tive-year. term would have
expired in August
wATERspOvrr hrOEo ovor Altoona d
on the I'd, doing great damage.
AN oil-tank near Johnson's station, Pa.
was struck by lightning on the I'd, and
twenty-six Thousand barrels of oil were
burned.
BY the explosion on the I'd of the steam
bleachers in the Lyons paper-mill at Gin
ton, Ia, two men, Alexander Hart and
Thomas McBride, were killed
THREE masked men forced an entrance
into the house Of DR.. l. T. Smith, at Pleas.
ant Unity. Pa, early on the morning OF the
I'd, and after beating the doctor into insen-
sibiity secured between $500 and $500 and
fed
NEAR Thaxton's, Va, a train on the Nor
folk l. Western road was wrecked by a
washout on the I'd, and it was reported that
several cars were burned and that twenty
five persons lost their lives. Many were
also injured.
EGL1NToN FRANCIS, a prominent insur-
ance man of Philadelphia. dropped dead Of
heart disease on the I'd in Cincinnati.
AT Terre Haute, Ind Molie Ray aud Nav
Parker, inmates of the same disreptuable
house, killed themselves with poison on
the I'd. Neither knew of the others pur-
pose.
AT Ligonler, Ind, while Cashier Wester-
field Of Myers bank was at dinner on the
I'd thieves entered the building and secured
several hundred dollars
The Secretary Of the Treasury at WASH
ington on the I'd issued warrants in paw
ment of $3.50 0OO on account of pensions,
being the first payment on this account for
the new fiscal year.
TIE grand stand at the race track in
Oklahoma, Ind T., collapsed on the 4th, in
juring more than one hundred persons,
many fatally, and one was killed outright
The towns of Cushing and Freeport, in
Maine celebrated tho centennial of their
incorporation on the 4th.
TRAIN on the Chesapeake l. Ohio rail-
way was wrecked by slide in cut near
Ona. W. Va, on the 18th, and George W.
Walsh, the oldest engineer on the road, and
his fireman were killed
sEvENTY-FIvE people were seriously
poisoned at Adatr, Ia, on the 4th by eating
1ce-cream which was made in vessels that
had not been properly cleaned Several
would die and all were suffering badly.
Four young people were drowned on the
18th by the upsetting of boat at the picnic
Of the Arch Street Methodist Church Of Al
legheny City at Forest Grove, Pa
The National Musical convention opened
in Philadelphia on the sd, with delegates
present from all parts Of the United States
and England
The coinage executed at the United
States minis during June amounted to
1854, 765 pieces, representinf 81, nc, Alb 40
in value. There were 49, 495 gold pieces,
of 81, 392, 095 in value, and 3,514,4 silver
pieces, OF So, 2S9, 203. so in value.
The business portion of Jonesburg, Mo-.
was de stroyed by fire on the Sd
AT Jersey City Heights, N. j., Herman
Probst, an American Express driver, fatally
shot his mother on the Sd and then sent q
bullet through his own brain
THE double execution of the negroes
Prince Fleming and Richard Jordon, for
the murder of the negro John Taylor was
witnessed by large throng of people at
New Orleans, La, on the Sd.
A COMPANY of Indian children, consisting
of seventeen girls and four boys, left Wa
bash, Ind, for the Far West on the Sd, hav-
ing completed their course of study at
Whites Indiana Institute near Wabash.
NEAR Magador, o., David s. Wise was
struck by lightning on the Sd and instantly
killed The sun was shining at the time
and the bolt came from very small cloud.
Four negroes were arrested at st. Louis
on the Sd for the killing of seven white
men in an election riot at Marion, Miss, in
November, 1881.
The Mobile Insurance Company at Mo-
bile, Ala, maco an assignment on the Sd
to d. R. Burgess and Elliott Toxey. 1t was
the last of eighteen life insurance compa-
MES started in the South about 1870
INDEPENDENCE DAY was generally cole
brated throughout the country on the 4th
President Harrison passed the day as the
guest of Henry c. Bowen at Woodstock,
Conn.
A FLOOD in the vicinity of Fort WORTH
Tex, had on the 18th done damage to the
extent of 81, 00o, GOO, and several persons had
been drowned.
THE large Falk, Jung Borchert brewery
in Milwaukee, with fifty two thousand bar
rels of beer in stock, was burned on the 4th
Loss, $3.50, OOO; insurance, $4,000!
Cholera morbus In its worst form had
'made it's appearance at YOUNGSTOWN, Pa, on
the 18th. There were over one hundred
ca1aa among tho workman oud Gouorol