Mower County transcript., 1889-01-30

Wore stoppeu ON the SSd as the result OF an
| order ty Indian Commissioner Oberly to
Agent Gregory. -. @
A NEGRO named George Brewin gton on.
the 2Sd entered the house of Miss Charity
McAllister, an estimable white lady, at
Raleigh, N. c., and ATTEMPTED to make an
assault upon her, but relative named Nc
Allister discovered the flend and shot him
dead
JAMES A. MOORE, leading citizen OF In
dianarolis, lnd., and for sixteen years
agent for the Connecticut Mutual Life In
surance company, was on the gath dis
covered to be defaulter to the extent OF
$500, ,OlN'
The twenty-f fifth anniversary of the
adoption Of the Connecticut constitution
was celebrated on the gath at Hartford.
A COMPANY of United States troops drove
over SIX hundred families OF "boomers''
out of the Oklahoma country on the Oath.
The Norwegian bark Alt, Captain Bach,
which sailed from Demerara October 81
for Philadelphia with q cargo Of sugar.
was' with her crew Of eleven men, given
up on the Oath as lost.
A WOMAN was attacked on the Oath in
Omaha, Neb., by man who said he was
'Jack the Ripper" Her screams brought
two men to her aid. when her assailant
| ran.
WHILE Martin Houseman, of Elkhart,
Ind, was building a fire on the 24th can,
OF gasoline which he was using exploded.
and he and his wife were probably fatally
| burned.
The Ohio Legislature on the oath passed
bill providing that after January l.,
| 1880, all criminals in Ohio sentenced to
death shall be executed by electricity at
| the Ohio penitentiary.
L. L. KIBBEE, sheriff of Boyd County.
KY, was on the Oath said to be $l4 600
short In his accounts. He had left for
| parts unknown.
| ADv1CEs of the Gath say that in riot
between the Pocahontas and Elkhorn min
ers in the West Virginia coal regions five
white mon and two negroes were killed
and several others wer' wounded.
HENRY OvERToN killed Thomas Swern-
| ing at Memphis, Tenn, on the Oath in a
| quarrel over the ownership Of Ian term
Ihey were sWltchmen on the Kansas City
| road
CHARLIE YOUNG, fifteen years old, was
killed on the Oath at Duranu, ILL.,. by the
accidental discharge of a pistol in the
hands of a playmate.
! The Glasgow Iron Company on the oath
closed down its steel plant near Pottstown.
Pa, and discharged its employees, nearly
two hundred and fifty in number.
! CH1EF-oF-PoL1CE BRACKRTT, of Minneap-
oils, Minn., formally announced on the 24th
that there would be no more 'glove con-
tests or prize fights in that city during
his administration.
| CLARKE STANLEY, young farmer near
shelbourne, Ind, was chasing COW on
the 24th when he fell on stick which he
carried in his hand and was killed.
MRS. ELENoRE RICHTER, proprietress
OF the LenOx, one of the most fashionable
apartment houses in Cleveland, O., fell
! down the elevator shaft on the 9th and
was killed.
A FIRE on the Gath in the business Dor
| tion of Jackson, Miss, caused great dam
| age.
WILLIAM c. SMITH, aged thirty-two
years, teller in the Office of the city
| treasurer of Providence, r. l., committed
| suicide on the Oath by shooting himself
His cash shortage was 81, 500
GOVERNOR BEAVER, of PENNSYLVANIA.
chief marshal of the coming inaugural
parade, had information on the 24th that
the grand parade. Thers would be 10000
composing marching clubs, 20, 600 civilians
and more than 13, 600 troops.
THERE were 331 business failures in the
United States during the seven days end
ed on the 25th, against 359 the previous
seven days. The total failures in the
United States from January to date was
!, 1872, against 1,172 in 1885,
WHILE fooling with pistol supposed to
be unloaded on the 25th Peter j. Campbell,
prominent Baltimore (Md.) politician,
shot and killed Edward Gordon, bar
tender.
The Park Place, Centralia, and all the
Lehigh and individual colleries around
Shenandoah. Pa, shut down on the 25th,
| owing to their markets being overstocked
with coal. About four thousand men were
idle.
EXECUTIONS took place as follows on
the 25th: Charles McGi1l, at Cameron,
Tex, for the murder of Willie Leonard: ::
Richard Smith, Choctaw Indian, at Fort
Smith, Ark, for the assassination of
Thomas Prindle; John Yancey (coored),
at Yanceyville N. c., for the murder Of
Bob Oliver; James Seams (colored), at
Eutaw, Ala, for the murder of Deputy
Sheriff Autroy: Edward Fry, at Marietta,
Ca, for killing his wife.
CATTLE were dying all over the ranges
in South Florida on the 25th from starva-
tion, the fat lands where they usually feed
being nearly all submerged by continuous
rains.
BY the explosion Of a saw-mill boiler on
the 25th at Tar Hollow, near Chillicothe,
O., George and James Dearth were killed
and John W. Arlidge and Ebenezer Star
ling were fatally injured.
SEVEN street-car lines in Brooklyn were
tied up by the men on the 25th because the
company refused to comply with their de-
mand for two dollars day.
MRS. R. F. LAT1MER, a wealthy widow
at Jackson, Mich, was mysteriously mur-
dered in her residence early on the morn
ing Of the 25th, being shot twice. Nothing
| was taken from the house. and the motive
of the murd erer was unknown.
EIGHT HUNDRED girls employed by the
! feather manufacturers of New York struck
Or the 25th beca1se the firms receded from
their agreement to pay the wages de-
| manded by the Workingwomen's Union.
A LARGE quantity of counterfeit silver
| dollars were afoat in Reading, Pa, on the
25th. They were we'll executed.
AN attempt was made on the 25th to
wreck passenger train on the Union Pa
citic road near Wilson, Kan.
The largest lump of coal ever talaen
from the mines OF the Consolidated Coal
Company at Danville, ILL.,, was removed
on the 25th. 1t weighed thirty seven hum