Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-08-28
Epitome of the Week,
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION
DOMESTIC.


CHARLES WEPLEY and Eddie Stuart, ageC
fourteen and sixteen years, respectively
were drowned on the 18th while bathing in
the Ohio river five miles below Evansville
Ind
A TENENIENT-RoUsE on West Seventh
street, New York City, was burned on the
18th, and nine people lost their lives and
three were seriously injured.
The Pennsylvania from Company of Lan-
caster, Pa, resumed work on the 10Th after
eighteen weeks idleness.
THE reported robbery at Terre Haute
Ind. of a mailbag containing $1,000 was
on the 10Th said to be false
A STATEMENT issued on the 18th BY the
acknowledgements Department. at Washing
ton showed that 2,397 distilleries were run.
ming and their product was nearly fifty
thousand gallons a day in excess Of last
year.
TEXAS fever had Oh the 10th broken on,
among the cattle III several localities nea,
Greonsburg, Pa, and they were dying a,
an alarming rate.
In five ,unties in Arkansas worms were
on the 10Th doing great damage to the cot.
ton crop.
THE forest fires in Montana were checked
ON the 10Th by heavy rains
AN immense deposit Of ice was found on
the 18th in Pine creek canyon, l. T. It
probably dates from the glacial period.
Capitalists were considering the feasibility
Of mining the ice for commercial purposes,
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company was
ON the 18th arranging to establish among
Its employees pension system, the FIRST Of
the kind in the United States
ABOUT one hundred persons We're poi
soned by eating ice-cream a. picnic near
West St Paul, Mimi, on the 10Th, and many
were seriously i'll.
Tue walls OF a brewery at Fort Wayne.
Ind, fell On the 10th, fatally injuring three
men.
JOSEPH and David Nicely, convicted of
numbering Farmer Umberger after robbing
him of $500, were refused new trial at
Somerset, Pa, on the 10th and sentenced
to be hanged
AN attempt was made near Rome City.
Ind, on the Goth to wreck a passenger
train on the Grand Rapids 4 Indiana road.
GILMAN H SPILLMAN died on the Goth at
Mddletown, Mass, of hydrophobia
EARLY on the morning of the Goth dam
at the top of the hill above Duluth, Mimi.
burst In consequence of heavy rain, and
the business portion of the town was flooded
FIRE en- the 10Th in the lumber yard OF
b. ~. Godkin, near Tonawanda, n Y, &C.
stroyed about {, $50, 600 feet OF lumber
IT was announced on the Goth that the
wife OF Mike Mcdonald, the noted Chicago
politician. had eloped with a Catholic priest
named Joseph Moysant. The guilty pair
were supposed to have gone to Europe
The United States Treasury reports on
the 10Th showed that only ~, 900, 600 of the
the 5e3}4 OlO, 0OC standard silver dollars coined
remained in the treasury unrepresented by
silver certificates. National bank notes
were being retired at the rate Of about
three million dollars per month, and silver
certificates issued at nearly the same rate.
A WATERFRONT ON the Goth at Grants
burg, Wis, and vicinity, swept away many
bridges, culverts and dams
TIE citizens of Titusyille, Pa. on the
Goth celebrated the thirtieth anniversary
Of the discovery of the first oil we'll in that
State.
AEsoN PENEoD, fourteen years old, was
fined 500 on the Both at Eureka Springs,
Ark, for numbering his uncle
MRS w. A. COCHRAN, of Shelbyville, ILL.,,
OH the Goth sold the right to her recently
patented DISTINGUISHING machine to a De-
catur (lll.) firm for several Thousand dol
lars cash and the promise of a royalty on
all machines sold
At Jacksonville, ILL.,, Alexander Cunning
ham, who claimed he was a coachman for
Sir Walter Scott and we'll remembered the
great poet, died on the Goth at the age of
ninety years.
GANG of counterfeiters was thought to
be working through North Dakota on the
Goth, as large quantity Of bogus silver dol
lars had been put in circulation at Grand
Forks
IT was reported on the Doth that the vic
4ms of the recent disastrous floods in
Tucker, Tygart and other creek valleys in
West Virginia were houseless and homeless,
and but for the charity of their netghbors,
the hill farmers their sufferings would be
terrible. There were miles Of desolate
territory with scarcely house left stand
ing and not vestige OF crops.
Joseph Brooker his wife and two children
arrived in Titusyille Pa. on the 10th, hav-
ing walked all the way from Kansas. They
bad been unfortunate there, and were on
their way back to Elmira, N. Y, where
they formerly lived.
TIE 100000 appropriated to clean the
streets and cellars OF Johnstown, Pa, was
exhausted on the 21st, and unless there
was more money forthcoming the work
would have to be suspended DR.. Lee was
of the opinion that there were hundreds of
bodies still buried in the cellars of houses.
AN immense crowd gathered at the dock
in New York On the Dist to witness the big
racers Teutonic of the White Star line City
Of New York of the Inman line, Saale of
the North German Lloyd, and City of Rome
of the Anchor ine set out on their trip to
Queenstown.
The British bark Onaway. which sailed
from Philadelphia June for Bilboa with a
crew of fifteen men and 14, 234 gallons of
crude petroleum, was on the 21st given up
as lost
LYMAN F.. W1sNER, the wealthiest and one
of the most prominent citizens of Hardin
County. La was accidentally shot and killed
by his only son George on the 21st while
hunting.
TIE largest sale of tobacco ever made at
auction in one day in the United States and
probably in the world was made at Louis
vile, KY, on the 21st The total number
of hogsheads sold was 1,O02. This amounts
to about 1,500. COZ pounds, worth in the
hogshead over 100000.
SAMUEL AYERS, an Adventist living in
Worcester, Mass, predicted on the 2lst the
end OF the world on the night OF October Z,
1859.
NEARLY the entire business portion of
Sonoma, CAL. was destroyed by fire on the
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TIE Wauregan Wooden Company OF
Providence, r, I, operating several mills,