Mower County transcript., 1889-07-31

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Kniffin, OF Lake Mahopac, N Y, to fatally
shoot his wife on the 9th and then to kill
himself.
| FOUR tinsmiths who arrived ut New York
from Germany under contract to work for
a milwaukee, timer were sont back to Ger
many on the 24th
| CHINATOWN, suburb Of Sacramento, Cal,
was destroyed by fire on the 2lth.
| IHE minneapolis directory, which was
Issued on the 3!th, contained 50, 900 names,
from which 1t was estimated that the pop
ulation OF the CITY was aS5oNO
THE first bale OF new cotton arrived in
Austin, Tex, on the 4th The cotton crop
of Texas this year was estimated at two
million bales, and tho corn crop would De
enormous.
GEORGE LEWIS, negro living near Bel.
den, Tex, was lynohed on tho :4th for poi
soning the we'll OF William Shaw
| LEONARD II. GEoEsnEck, OF Lansingburg,
N. y, was on the 9th appointed an exam
! iner OF Natl onal banks, vice Benjamin. S
w. Clark, resigned
Mrs. Lawyer, wife Of Bishop Lawyer,
who had lately been adjudged insane,
hanged herself on the Gath at Huntsville,
| Mo-
ACCORDING to the latest statistics care
fully compiled by the board OF inquiry, tho
number OF lives lost in the devastated dis
trlct Of Johnstown, Pa, was on the 2lth
placed ut about SIX thousand
| AT Trenton, La.. two negroes Joe Cook
and Sol Dorsey, engaged in a scuttie on the
24th, and becoming angry they both drew
| pistols and fired and both were killed
! OWING to an overflow OF Shuganinga
! creek hundreds OF houses in Topeka, Kan,
We're on the 2ith under water as fur as the
first story, whilo tho suburbs known as
Walnut Grove, Parkdale and Oakland
thickly populated by the laboring classos
| were all under water.
| The glass factory and works of Ball Bros
at Buffalo. N. Y. were burned on the oath
and several adjacent cottages were badly
damaged. Loss 100000.
By the collapse of a vein in tho Central
mine at Hyde Park, Pa, on the 9th houses
and gardens were damaged and the resi-
! dents badly frightened The ground was
traversed by tissures from few inches to
foot in width.
24th near Ephrata, Pa. while trying to
wreck a freight train on the Reading l.
Columbia railroad.
The owners OF the schooner Kate Wins
low were fined $40 80 by the customs OIL
Ger at Cleveland, o., on the 9th for en-
playing two Canadian mates.
AT the West Side Driving Park in Chicago
on the 24th the celebrated horse Long
Chance stumbled and fell at hurdle.
breaking his neck
A PARTY of explorers on the 25th un-
earthed number OF human skeletons
buried in Chalk Bluff, ten miles east of
Yankton, D. r., on the Nebraska side,
Fifty skulls and two hundred headless
skeletons were found which local physicians
pronounced to be the remains OF white
people, children and adults Indications
were that they had been buried forty or
fifty years
CABLE message Of the 18th from the
European Union OF Astronomers an
nounced the discovery OF a blight comet
in the southern heavens by P.of Davidson,
OF Queensland
The troubles of tho Times Newspaper
Company in Chicago eliminated on the
18th in the retirement of Mr.. James J.
West. He not only resigned from the edit
olship OF the paper but surrendered also
his entire interest ID the property.
AT Anoka, Mimi, the most terrific thun-
der and rain-storm for years occurred on
the 9th Three wooden buildings were
washed into the river. Much damage was
reported from the country by the wind,
which appeared in the form of cyclone
The net earnings of the Union Pacific
railroad for SIX months ended June 30, 1850,
were $+.77o, ,03l, a decrease OF Sl91,355 for
the same period a year ego
Two MEN were arrested on the 18th for
assisting in the lynching Of James Averill
and Emma Watson, cattle thieves. at
sweetwater, Wy. T., and were bound over
for trial in the sum of 5000 each.
@. G. TALCorT, assistant engineer of the
United States navy, committed suicide on
board the Atlanta on the 18th by shooting
himself with pistol
MARTIN OLSON. OF Eau Claire, Wis, who
left his wife twelve years ago, was found
by her on the 9th at Duluth Mimi, where
he had been living with another woman.
THE dry-soods firm of Lewis Brothers g.
Co., OF Philadelphia, failed on the 25th for
"a, ,0OO,0 ,00O. 1t was thought the assignment
would only be temporary.
J. FITZPATRICK broke the worlds record
in Boston on the 18th in a running high
jump b7 three-quarters of an inch He
jumped feet EN inches.
AN English syndicate had on the 25th
purchased five of the six breweries in
Paterson, N. j., for an aggregate of <2,3So,-
90, the owners to retain q one-third in
terest in the concerns
A TORNADO two hundred feet wide passed
half mile west Of Prague, Mimi, on the
25th One house was dashed to pieces,
five railroad cars, wheat laden, were thrown
twenty feet from the track and crops in
the path Of the storm were utterly demol-
ished. No lives were lost
NEWS received ct Parkersburg, W. Va, on
the 25th from the recent flood in the Kan
awha valley gave sad story of wreck and
ruin. Every store from the head to the
mouth of the forks was gone or ruined.
Houses. fences and crops were washed
away and several lives were lost. Couriers
from Tygart reported long list Of houses
and property, bridges and culverts gone.
The loss in Lee, Tygart, Slate and Steele
counties would reach 500 900.
THE Saloon Keepers Association of Gin
cinnati met on the 2 tn and a limited num-
ber of them agreed to defy the law by keep.
ing open on Sunday, tho association agree
ing to stand by them financially in the
courts
A BARREL of whisky exploded on the 25th
at the home OF Peter Rollins (colored> near
Summit Miss, causing the death of his
daughter and morCally wounding his son.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
MRS MARY ROBINS, aged ninety years,
died ON the Dist at Sharon, Pa. She was