Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-10-16
Epit0me of the Week,
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
DOMESTIC.

INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
DOMESTIC.
FIRE on the night OF the 5th burned the
restaurant OF r. E. Lott, at Winona, Miss,
and four men persisted in the flames.
THREE men were killed and another fatal
ly injured on the 7th by the explosion of a
steam thrashing machine at st Thomas
Oak
At Barton, O., on the 7th John Devault
Jr., shot Miss Lulu Williamson, slightly
wOunding her, and then killed himself.
jealousy was the cause.
THE Oliver Brothers machine shops at
Pittsburgh Pa, were burned on the It'll
Loss, $500. 900
REPORTS of the Tth from Mason City, Ia,
say that a prairie fire nearly destroyed the
town of Estherville. A number of farm
residences were burned, but citizens turned
out and by their support the town was
saved.
FRosTs were reported on tho 7th from
Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana, In
juring small crops
Sweeney, aged eighteen years, and Annie
Roach, aged sixteen years, took poison. No
cause was known
The first rain of the season fell on the
It'll in Northern and Central California.
JAMES DEAN, a farmer, OF Frankfort
township MIMI, shot and killed his eight
year-old son on the eth by accident. The
boy was somnambulist and wandered into
shed, and the father took him for a thief
AT Princeton, Ind, George Beloat was
on the 7th found guilty OF numbering Henry
Trlbble several weeks ago and his punish
ment fixed at life Imprisonment.
FIRE in the Bates House at IuClianapo-
lis, Ind, on the 18th caused loss OF S35, 600
and great fright to the two hundred guests.
No one was seriously injured.
AN unknown incendiary ON the Tth set
fire to the barn on John Sawlniller's farm
near Lima, O., and ten horses, three COWS
and quantity of grain were destroyed
with the building.
AT Wolcottville, Ind, on the eth Mr.
Drlscou shot his wife, who was acting as
dining-room girl in hotel at that place.
and then killed himself. She would re-
cover
bachelor living near Burton City, O., was
thrown from his horse while driving cattle
on the 7th and had his neck broken.
BETWEEN Leaksville and Palatine Miss
Willie Lott, the mail rider, was held up by
two masked men on the 7th, who possessed
themselves of the mail pouch
The two little sons of J. W. Shelton liv-
ing near Carlton. Ore. were playing with
an old pistol on the 7th which happened TO
be loaded, and one of the boys was shot
dead
A SLIGHT shock of earthquake was felt in
Cornwall, Eng. on the 1th No damage was
done.
GEORGE T. RICE, an aeronaut connected
with circus was drowned on the It'll at
Mount Vernon, Ind He made an ascension
and in descending over the river became
entangled in the ropes and could not ex-
hicate himself
The engineer and fireman of the steamer
of the Norfolk & Southern railway were
wrestling and fell overheard on the Sth at
Raleigh, N. c., and before the steamer
could be stopped both were drowned
FIVE more bodies were found on the Sth
at Johnstown, Pa, and it was expected
that many more would be recovered
FoE contempt of court Allen O. Myers,
of the Cincinnati Enquirer. was on the 9Th
at Columbus, O., sentenced to fifteen days
in Jail and to pay fine of $3.50.
HERMAN & HOFFMAN, OF Sigel, Ind, were
robbed of their entire stock of iewelry and
fancy goods by burglars early on the luorn-
ing of the 6th
A REMARKABLE dinner party was given on
the Sth by the sisters in charge OF Belts
Hospital at Cincinnati. Twenty-six of the
inmates sat down to the table Fifteen
were over sixty years of age, eight over
seventy, one eighty three, another eighty
seven, and at the head of tho table sat Mrs
Elizabeth Schulten just one hundred and
four years old.
THE wholesale grocery establishment of
William Edwards & Co., in Cleveland, o.,
was damaged by fire on thu Sth to the ex-
tent of s125, 900.
THE seventeenth annual congress for the
advancement of women convened at Den
yer, Col, on the Sth, Julia Ward Howe pre-
siding
ALABoRER named Devault found $40 600
IN bank notes while digging in Lincoln
Park, near Red Bank, N. j., on the Sth. It
was conjectured that the notes were buried
by bank robber named Sherman twenty
five years ago.
The performance of Lord ChumIev',
was abruptly terminated at New York
5heater on the evening of the 9Th by the
sudden death in bis dressing room OF Mr.
Charles B. Bishop, one of the leading actors
ROBERT BERRIERs killed his mother-in-
law, Mrs Waller, near Lexington, N. c., on
the 9Th to get possession of his child, and
then fled with it.
WHILE visiting gas we'll on the 9Th near
Jerome, Ind. several persons were badly
burned and one was instantly killed by the
falling over of the pipe through which the
gas escaped.
GREAT excitement existed at Mexico, Mo-,
on the 9Th over an organized attempt made
to burn the principal resident portion of
the town. No less than four incendiary
fires occurred within space of six hours.
OVER two thousand tons of raisins had on
the 9Th been shipped East from Fresno,
Cal this season.
IT was stated on the 9Th that many acres
Of celery in the vicinity of Kalamazoo,
Mich, had been destroyed by the hard frost
Of the last few nights.
A DISASTROUS fire broke out in the Frank
lin warehouse at Rocky Mount Va. on the
9Th, and nearly all the business portion of
the town was destroyed
The ffty-eighth annual convention of
the Indiana State Baptist Association CON-
menced On the 9Th at South Bend.
The Omaha (Neh) Republican was sold
on the Sth to J. G. Wilcox, Of the Dispatch
The papers would be consolidated, and
morning and evening editions would be is
sued
DPWARDS Of sixteen thousand Kniohta