Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-09-11

I DURING aeNspute on the 4th over q decis-
Ion IN ball game ut Darlington, G, the
umpire William Z. Marshall, Of Wadesboro,
was killed by Leon Dargan, the seventeen
year-old son Of Congressman Dargan.
REPORTS Of the 4th from North Dakota
and portions Of Minnesota stated that q
terrific electrical and wind-storm had done
great damage.
The Chicago exposition opened on the
4th for Its seventeenth season
IHE convention for the Improvement Of
, the Western waterways opened the first
Of its Ohio valley meetings at Cincinnati on
| the 4th.
GEORGE $. WILLIAMS and James n. Clark,
counterfe1ters, were arrested at Alexander,
Ky, on the 4th and a large number OF coun-
| terfeit silver dollars and much material
| were also captured
AT Cincinnati on the 4th George Dilhof, q
young man, died while under the influence
| OF chloroform administered by physicians
for the purpose OF making surgical opera
ton. 1., -<,-@
WARREN PowaRs, a negro, was lynched
at East Point, Ga, on the 4th He had as
saulted young white girl and was taken
from the jail by masked force.
COTTON planters in the South were
alarmed on the 9TH over the continued
rainy weather.
Rev. M. j. LAyELI4E, of New York, was
elected president OF the Catholic Young
Mems National Union which closed it's ses-
sions on the 4th ut Providence, RI
Two FORWARD coaches on the vestibule
train caught fire on the 4th between Phila-
delphia and Harrisburgh, Pa, by the wear
ing off OF the rubber casting on the steel
plates
The largest bar of gold ever cast in the
world was turned out at the Helena I'M r.
assay office on the 4th 1t weighed five hun
dred pounds and was worth $lOO,OOO
AT the races in Sheepshead Bay, N Y, on
the 4th ". L, Scott's colt Chaos won $55. OOO
the richest prize ever run for In this coun-
try.
The twentieth annual convention of the
National Insurance Commissioners met In
Denver, Col, on the 4th
MRS. CHARLES CRocKER's latest gift to
San Francisco-a home for girls out of en-
ployment-was opened on the 4th.
THREE buildings in different parts OF
Kansas City, Mo-, were destroyed by In
cendiary'ires on the 4th.
A. c. sTA1EY, president of the staley
Wooden Mills Company at South Bend, Ind,
was fatally poisoned ON the 4th by NOR
phine given him by druggist for quinine.
Ten cars were wrecked, brakeman
killed and several persons injured near
Enterprise, o., On the 5th by a collision on
the Chicago & Atlantic road
AN unknown woman. supposed to be
from Brooklyn, N. Y, committed suicide at
Niagara Falls on tho 5th by jumping into
the water above the falls and going over
the cataract
WILLIAM BoNNETT and Miss Carrie Ernest.
OF Baltimore, were killed by an express
train near Perrymans, Md, on the 5th.
JOHN MCCLELLAN was on the 5th dying at
Jetfersonville, Ind. from the effects of q
mosquito bite. His right side was para
lyzed and he was IN frequent commissions.
SEVERAL acres of anthracite coal in the
Delaware 4 Hudson Canal >Company's
colliery No. at Olyphant, Pa, were on the
9TH burning nearly two hundred feet below
the surface OF the earth.
The old Log College celebration under
the auspices OF the Philadelphia Presbytery,
was commenced on the old Tennent farm
at Hartsv1lle, Bucks County, Pa, on the
5th President and Mrs Harrison, Gov
ern0r Beaver and Postmaster-G General Wan
amaker were in attendance. The celebra-
ton really commemorative of the found
ing of the Presbyterian church in the
United States. The Log College was found
in 174S sprung Princeton College
In fit of jealousy on the 5th at Mont
pe1ier, VT, Sherman Caswell killed George
Gould, who had been married but twenty
four hours.
DAVID D. LLOYD, member Of the New
York Tribune st Fl, and well-known author
and dramatist, fell dead in the streets of
Weehawken N j., on the 5th.
AT Union Hill, N. j.. on the 5th John
Schlaepier, about thirty years old, shot and
killed his brother Jacob and then shot
himself. The murderer was insane
FIRE on the 5th in the lumber yard of
Laird, Norton & Co., at Winona, Mimi.
caused loss of $3l4,OoO.
IT was reported on the 5th that as re-
suit OF the race war in LIZ Flore County,
Miss, twenty-five negroes had been killed.
The groes threatened to burn every
house in LIE Flore County, and all were be-
ing closely guarded
WILLIAM SMITH, of Pittsburgh, Pa, on
the 5th shot and killed his wife as she lay
asleep in her bed. and then lying down be-
side her fired three shots into his own body,
but they were not fata.
CoLLER1Es around Wilkesbarre, Pa were
on the 5th forced to suspend work on &C.
count of a disease which had disabled many
of the horses ana mules.
ALBERT F. CHLDs, OF Ohio. was on the 9Th
appointed chief clerk OF the Census Office
at Washington.
jim STEA MES, religious fanatic of Had
ley, N. Y, began to fast on the 5th with the
avowed purpose of ending his life.
AN offer of 100000 for the franchise of
the New York Baseball Club was refused
on the 5th by President Day.
The 5th was thu sixth day Of the Cronin
muir er trial in Chicago, and not juryman
had be On secured.
DR.. DAVID TILroN Brown a wealthy re-
tired farmer, and at one time an expert In
insanity cases. hanged himself in g barn
near Batavia, ILL.,, on the 9Th while insane.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
MRS PHOEBE HODGES, who had been hv-
ing on Big Island, a few miles below Bur-
lngton, Ia, died ON the 3lst ult ut the ago
OF one hundred and eight years