Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-03-27

GORDON & WARNER's livery stable at New
! port, Neb., was burned on the f21st, and J.
B. Gordon, who was asleep In the office,
was burned to death, as were also eight
horses. T. sal. H.
LAKE ERIE was open for navigation on the
2lst E25 ~ ~
AT National City, Cal, on the s1st the
aged widow of Cyrus W. Field fell and
broke shoulder-blade, and was not ex-
pected to survive.
AT meeting OF farmers held on the 21st
ut Anderson, Ind, it was decided to boycott
the binding trust Irvine.
THREE women and two bows were ar
rested on the Dist at York, Pa, charged
with the responsibility Of recent series of
fires in that locality.
Four houses at Atlantic City, N j., were
wrecked ON the 2lst by high water, and
other damage to property was done.
ROBERT CRAVEN, OF Philadelphia, treasurer
OF the Philadelphia, Wilmington Il Baltimore
Railroad Company, was on the 21st said to
be $40, coo short in his accounts.
ROBERT S1aEL son of General Franz
Sigel, who pleaded guilty to forging pen
sion checks, was sentenced by Judge Ben
edict in New York on the 21st to six years
Imprisonment at hard labor in the Erie
County penitentiary.
A PASSENGER train on the Atlantic h Pa
cido railroad was robbed on the 2lst at
Canon Dlablo, A. T., by four masked men.
The Wells-Fargo express car was ritled, but
the amount secured was not known.
PoHMAN BROTHERS. stable in st. Louis
was destroyed by fire on the 2lst and fifty
horses were burned to death. The stable Of
J. II. Manor was also burned with ten
horses
THOMAS HAaGERrY and William Nicholas
were killed on the 2lst by an explosion In
Mantle Company near Lakewood, N. J.
The shock of the explosion was felt for
twenty miles.
A WEEK ago Charles Nier, of Scranton.
Pa, ran a needle into his foot. Surgeons
sought in vain for it On the 2lst Nier was
taken to the plant Of an electric railway, his
foot held near one of the dynamos, and in
fifteen minutes the needle was drawn out
A LIVE stock and meat inspection bill was
signed by the Governor of Colorado on the
slst. 1t practically prohibits the importa-
ton OF meats from Chicago and other East
ern packing houses.
SIX more dealers in Pittsburgh, Pa, we're
on the Dist fined 800 each for selling oleo-
margarine shipped from Chicago.
NEARLY three hundred boomers were
driven out of Oklahoma on the 2lst nv
United States troops
A BILL making it a misdemeanor to use
pastors on election tickets was killed in the
Wisconsin Assembly on the 2lst.
BARNun1's Hotel, at Baltimore, Md. which
was founded in 1926, and which Charles
Dickens said was the best hosiery in Amer
ica is soon to be closed.
HE March statistical report of the De-
partment Of Agriculture gave on the 21st
the result of its investigation of the aver
age weight of wheat by States The general
average was 56.5 pounds, the lowest aver
age OF six years.
ANDREW STRoUPE, farmer living near
Atwood, Ind, while burning brush on the
ia was stricken with apoplexy, fell into
the fire and was burned to crisp
The large and valuable German ship J. W.
Wendt, carrying general cargo, was ashore
on the 22d near Barnegat, N. J.. and would
prove total loss
LEWIS Liable, the man who recently cut
his wife to pieces at Patterson, N. j., said
on the 22d that he committed the deed in
fit of jealousy and that he wanted to hang
as soon as possible.
WESLEY CORNELL, a prominent and we'll
TODD farmer of Deer Creek township, Ind ,
committed suicide on the 22d.
MAJOR BROWN. of the Kanawha Valley
railroad, estimated on the 22d that 12,OOO,-
goo would be spent on railroads in West
Virginia in the next eighteen months.
BENJAMIN MOORE was killed by hail
stones on the ed in the storm that swept
over New Hanover County, N. @.
DURING the seven days ended on the 22d
there were 249 business failures in the
United States, against 1875 the previous seven
days.
ADv1cEs of tho 22d say that unusually
high tides and heavy seas had wrought sad
havoc along the New Jersey coast, and the
damage to property would amount to hun
dreds of thousands Of dollars
TIMOTHY AND PETER BARRETT, two BROTH
ers, were hanged at Minneapolis on the 22d
for the murder of man named Tolefsen q
sreet-car driver, on the night of July 26,
1887.
The courthouse and city hall at Dover.
N H., were destroyed by fire on the 22d
AT Cincinnati on the 92d Patrick Trainor.
a worthless fellow who for some time past
had allowed his wife to support his six chill
dren and himself, ran red-hot poker
through the woman's cheek into her mouth
Physicians said she could not recover. Her
offense was that wher asked why dinner
was not ready she responded that there was
no food in the house.
MONROE WILKINSON was hanged on the 22d
at scottville, KY, for the murder Of Berry
Manion, both colored, on the 22d Of Septem-
Der last
TIE Pennsylvania Coat Company informed
their two thousand miners as they were
leaving work near ScSanton on the 22d that
a "shut-down" had been decided upon, to
take place at once.
JOSIAH AND ELIZABETH PORTS, who were
found guilty of murder in the first degree
in killing Miss Taucett at Carltn, New, were
on the ed sentenced to death by hanging.
This was the first case in the history of Ne
vada where the death penalty was ever pro-
nounced on q woman.
DURING the four days ended on the 22d OF
the ackey-Carmony horse sale at Cam
bridge City, Ind, 3O4 animals were sold OF q
total price & 80, 500.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
DR. WILLIAM GARRARD, tho first manu-
facturer of tool-steel in the United States,
Ill IL IL