Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-08-28

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by Washout on the Duluth railroad, and
three men were killed.
HE fourth annual exposition at Mtnne-
apols was opened on the 2lst with an Inn
posing street parade and formal ceremonies
at the exposition building,
IN wreck in the Lake Shore yard at
Erie, Pa, on the I'D an oil tank exploded.
and property valued ut $4,000 was de-
stroyed and two men were fatally burned.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT Fl. G. DAVIS of
Nevada, fell do in bis garden at Carson
on the I'D from heart disease. His family
was visiting in the East
AT al influential gathering Of American
publioists In Saratoga, N, Y, on the 22d u
Natlonal league was organized for the
protection OF American institutions, with
John Jay. OF New York, as president
AN epidemic OF tiux was raging in
charleston, w. Va. or the 23d, over fifty
deaths, mostly children, having occurred
NEAR Oneida, N. Y, Edward Knowles
shot and killed. Miss Maud Mortsl on the
esd. The murder was the outcome Of a
love affair.
THE town Of Middlebury, Ind, narrowly
escaped destruction from on incendiary fire
on the 2sd.
HE State OF New Hampshire was on the
:sssd pronounced out Of debt
". t. DENNY. the absoon6iug assistant
postmaster OF Boonville Ind, was arrested
at Kansas City, Mo-, on the 2sd He con-
fessed to having emb>zzled 5000.
SPECIAL. reports on the ED from all the
seed-leat tobacoo-growing sections of the
United States indicated fair Weld Of
average quality.
EMANUEL Brooks of Shawneetown, ILL.,.
shot and killed his wife on the 90 and then
shot himself and jumped into tho Ohio riv-
| er and was drowned
FIVE men were fatally burned on the 22d
by an explosion OF tire damp in a colliery
near Scranton, Pa,
The first train over the now Knoxville
Cumberland-Gap & Louisville railway was
thrown from the track on the 23l near
Knoxville, Tenn. and Judge Andrews
Sheriff Reeder and s. T. Powers were
killed and forty other prominent men
were seriously injured.
| MONTGOMERY (Ala.) cotton circular OF
the I'D stated that this years crop prom
lsed to DO the largest over produced in the
! United States
| JAMES SWEET was arrested On the 22d at
| Kansas City, Mo-, on a warrant sworn out
| by the sheriff of Green County, N Y, the
charge being the embezzlement OF $4,000.
| TIE bluegrass palace at Creston, Ia, was
formally opened and dedicated by Cover
nor Larrabee on the 22d
Two SONS of Captain W. p KAISER aged
ten and twelve years. wers drowned on the
22d at Greenheld's Ferry, Mo-, while bathing.
BUD RENAUD, manager OF the Sullivan
KlEain pr ze-tight was found guilty on
the 22d and fined $500 at Pu-vis, Miss, for
participation in that affair.
THE laying OF the cornerstone of the
monument dedicated to thu memory OF ths
Indiana soldiers and sailors who fought in
the late war was successfully performed at
Indianapolis on the 22d, President Har-
rison assisting in the ceremonies.
WORD was rec lived at the Treasury De-
partmcnt in Washington on the 2.d OF tho
discovery OF a counterfeit twc-dol!ar silver
certificate which had just made it's appear
! ance in the West.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
The Constitutional conventions of North
Dakota and Montana finished their work on
| the 18th and adjourned m,,e di.
TIE one hundred and third anniversary
of the birth of David Crockett was cele-
brated on the 10Th ut his birthplace, Strong
Springs Tenn.
The New Hampshire Legislature adj
journed sins die on the 18th
WILLIAM TEAW, vlce-president of the
Pennsylvania Railway Company, died in
Paris on the 18th, aged seventy-ous years
He was prominen5 rail. oader and philan-
thrOpist, whose wealth was COmpuled at
So, OOO GEO.
COLONEL JOHN H. WILSON was on the
18th appointed Superintendent of the
United States Military Academy at West
Point n. Y.
JAMES LAIRD died at his home in Hast
ings Neb, on the 18th, ag forty yea 8.
He served in the Army of the Potomac
during the war, and was elected to the
Forty-eighth and Forty ninth Congresses
and was Reelected to the Fiitieth Con-
gress as Republican.
| JOHN c. BROWN, who was Governor Of
Tennessee for four years from 1879, died
on the 18th at Red Berlin Springs, Tenn,
! aged sixty-two years.
| Rev. ABRAHAM MARTIN, the oldest Mennon-
! tie minister in this country. died ON the
10Th near Beartown, Pa, aged ntnety-one
years.
| Hon. CHARLES W. C11sBEE, secretary of
the National Republican conventions OF
1881. 1854 and 1883. and Reading Clerk OF
the National House of Representatives for
! six years, died at his home at Cassopolis,
Mich, the on 10Th, aged fiftv-six years.
~O0AOGNs
per 4man of Ohio, died on he 18th at the
Ford hospital in New York from consump-
| ton.
! The New York Democratic State Com
| mittee on the Goth called a State conven-
, ton to be held at Syracuse October /.
| JUDGE HENRY G. WHITMAN, distinguished
for his legal attainments and we'll known
/! throughout Ohio and the East, died ut Gin
cinnati on the 10Th.
ROBERT MARVEL, aged etghty-fve years,
died at his home in Indian. polls, Ind, on
the Goth after fast OF sixty seven days,
| the longest on record.
! MOSES FOWLER, president of tho Fowler
National Bank of LAFAYETTE. Ind and one
OF the weaithiest men in Indiana, died on
the 9th, aged seventy-four years.
TIE venerable General Francis E. Spin
ner, ex-Treasurer OF the United States was
on the 18th said to be hopelessly i'll at his
home In Pablo Beach, Fla The trouble is
cancer on his face, caused by wearing I'm
Uniting air OF eyeglasses.
! HORACE 6EAvER. editor OF the 30 ton In
vestigator for the past tifty-one years, died
in that city on the 21st, aged seventy-nin
| veara