Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-29
Epit0me of the Week.

Epitome of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
DOMESTIC.
DURING the seven days ended on the 18th
the Treasury Department at Washington
disbursed $ll $50, 600 on account Of pensions,
thereby exhausting the appropriation for
the current fiscal year, amounting to $751;
75O,OOO
Below will be found the percentage of
the baseball clubs IN the National League
for the week ended on the Sth:Boston,
1856; Philadelphia, .6S4; New York, $50;
Chicago, .5ss; Cleveland, AIS; Pittsburgh,
400; indianapolis, $50; Washington, 1885,
sas City, .6l5; Brooklyn, .5SS; Cincinnati,
ASH; Baltimore, $50; Athletic, AIS; Column
bus 1888; Louisville, $50. Western Asso-
citation: St. Paul. .SSS; Omaha, .666; Sioux
City, .5SS; Denver, 500; Minneapolis, .47S;
St Joseph .4S7; Des Moines, Sl3; Milwau-
kee, 200.
ALL the saloons in Fort Wayne, Ind, wero
closed on the 18th, and for the first time in
over quarter of century not drink was
obtainable under any pretense. Cigar stores
and drug stores were also closed
A SEVERE earthquake shock was felt at
San Francisco early on the morning OF the
10Th The shock was general, and in the
Joaquin valley chimneys were thrown down.
The War Department at Washington was
notified ON the 18th Of the capture OF two
OF the bandits who took part in the attack
upon Paymaster Wham in Arizona.
VoLNEY T. MALLoTT, OF Indianapolis, was
on the 18th appointed receiver Of the Chi
carO & Atlantic railway
BY the upsettlng Of a boat on the 10th at
Vicksburg, Miss, nine negroes were
drowned
THE barns of the Trenton IN. j. Horse
Car Company were burned on the 10th.
causing a loss OF 500 600.
SEVENTEEN men fell from burning
bridge over Stone river In Tennessee on
the 18th, dropping fifty feet to the water,
and three were killed and eight dangerous
ly injured.
The schooner Merrick was run down and
sunk by the steamer r. P. Ranney on the
18th on Lake Huron, near Pressure Isle, and
five of the crew were drowned
The United States mail stage running be-
tween Bastrop, La, and Monroe was stopped
and robbed on the Goth by two white men
who carried off all the mail
A FIRE on the Goth at Pearlineton. Miss
Favre Lumber Company, causing a loss of
$l50OOO
AT Boston on the Goth the American Bap
fist Publication Society began its sixty-fifth
annual meeting
APPROPRIATE ceremonies We're held in
Girard College at Philadelphia on the 10th
by the Alumni Association the occasion be-
ing the one hundred and thirty-ninth ami
versary of the birth of Stephen Girard
JOE THOMPSON, a negro imprisoned at
WickitIe, Ky, for assaulting little girl,
was taken from the Jail by a mob on the
10th and hanged to tree
F. NJ DEACON, OF Sheldon, Ia, was robbed
on sleeping car On the night of the 10Th
OF 81, which he had placed under his
pillow.
AT Baltimore. Md, on the Goth the pas
senger steamer Johns Hopkins, of the Mer-
chants and Miners Transportation Com
pany, was totally destroyed by fire. Loss,
$aSO,COO
DONALD MCDONALD, sergeant in the
United States or:clv at Preside, Cal, On the
sOth shot AMI Killed Ethel Anderson, a
young wonlau with whom he was living
and then killed himself. Cause, jealousy
HE Neversink, smaller yacht than ever
crossed the Atlantic, left Boston on the Goth
for Paris by way of Havre with three men
on board
In quarrel with another woman on the
Goth at Hot Springs, Ark, Mrs. Eva Fergu-
son, formerly of Columbus, Ind, killed her
antagonist with knife.
Two FREIGHT trains collided on the Doth on
the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore
railway, near Northeast, Md and ten cars
were wrecked, causing heavy loss.
{. w. MARTIN, a farmer at WAYNE. I'LL.
II 1>1,. So
Goth struck vein of natural gas which
burned for hours.
THE railroad and coal companies at
Scranton, Pa, ordered resum ption of
work in their collieries on the 9th The
order gives work to nearly eight Thousand
persons who have been idle seven months
: CYCLONE swept through the Lacka-
wanna valley in Pennsylvania on the Goth,
and many houses were wrecked, fences
blown down, barns demolished and whole
orchards ruined No loss of life was re-
ported.
TWENTY officers and four hundred and
fifty sailors from the wrecked war vessels
Vandalia and Trenton reached San Fran
cisco on the 2Cth from Apia, Samoa.
"STEvE" BRoD1E, who not long ago
achieved notoriety by leaping from Brook
lyn bridge, jumped over the falls at Passaic,
n D., on Ine 2OL1, distance or lO0 feet, and
sustained no injury.
WILLIAM M DERBY, cashier of the Mutual
District Messenger Company of Boston, was
arrested on the Goth for defrauding the
company out of $4,000
REPORT that John D. Rockefeller had
offered to endow the proposed Baptist Uni
versity at Chicago to the amount of $780,
600 was confirmed at the office of that gen
tleman in New York on the Goth.
ARTHUR FRAZIER, an Ohio canal-boaS cap
tain. while on a visit on the Goth to Edward
Howe and wife near Hawkins, Summit
County, accepted an offer to wrestle with
Mrs. Howe, who threw him on his back on
lounge, rupturing an artery, from which
he died in a few moments
JOHN NEAL and Timothy Raradon, quarry
men at st. Paul. Ind, were killed on the
2lst by the premature explosion of blast.
By the bursting Of boiler on the 21st in
Bradfords brick works at Charleston, w.
Va, Clarence Stolmaker, Thomas Wesley
and Brad Rains were fatally injured.
The Secretary Of the Treasury on the 2lst
received a conscience contribution from
resident of Washington in the form OF four
teen two-cent stamps.