Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-07-17

THE ninth annual conclave of the Knights
! OF the Patriarchal Circle was opened In
Chicago on the 10th,
JOHN NELLY was hanged on the 10th at
Canandaigua, N. Y, for the murder of
Eleanor OShea, at Geneva, November 6,
1855
ADv1cEs of the 10th say that in the recent
freshet ut Johnstown, N. Y, eight persons
lost their lives and ten were missing, and
buildings along the banks OF Cayadutta
creek were swept away. In Gloversvllle,
two miles distant, the streets were flooded
and several houses We're wrecked The
general belief was that tho flood was caused
by a cloud burst near Johnstown.
In a trial on the 10th at Cleveland, O.. W.
j. Gvrdon's black gelding Guy trotted a
mile in 2:l1A, lowering his record one
quarter of a second.
NEAR Turmoil HILL Ca, on the morning
of the 10th Martin Love (oolored) ATTEMPTED
an assault on Miss Addie Rogers a white
girl He was caught later in the day and
| lyncAed by masked mob.
I'IIE rumors on the 10th that Jake Kilrain
had died on the train which was CARRYING
| him to his home in Baltimore were I'M
founded. He was sick and sore, however,
| and evidently suffered severely Sullivan
and his party lied from Now Orleans by
special train to escape arrest
| PASSENGER train on the Central YER
mont railroad was d!tched on the 10th by a
washout near Brandon, Vt, and a dozen
| passengers were injured, none of them
seriously.
MAYOR MosBY, of Cincinnati, issued q
proclamation on the 10th declaring his in
tention to strictly enforca the Sunday law,
The police would be instructed to arrest all
BARRIERS, cigar and newsdealers whose
places We're found open The street-car
lines would also be stopped and all kind OF
labor prevented
The expenditures up to the 10th for re-
lief in the Conemaueh valley, Johnstown
and vicinity, aggregated 81, 100000. This
Included disbursements Of the State in the
abatement OF nuisances and the payment
of the military detailed to staff and police
duty. The number OF persons to DO fed
had varied from maximum of 81, $50 to a
present commissary roll OF 1000.
ArMlRAL GuERARD1 advised the State De-
partment at Washington on tho 10th that
comparative quiet reigned in Hayti Legi-
time continued to hold Port-au- Prince
while Hippolyte remained camped with his
army on the outskirts OF the CITY, No fight
ing OF any consequence had taken place
since Admiral GherardIs arrival
MRS MoLL1E CoRv1N, of Shelbyvllle, Ind. ,
| who was recently divorced from her eighth
husband, was probably fatally wounded on
the 10th by Ratchet in the hands OF
Charles Sutler, a rejected sutton whom she
refused to make her ninth husband
JACOB GARL1rcH, an old farmer living
near Shelbyville, Ind, blew his brains out
on the 18th on account of quarreling with
his son.
GEORGE LAW, wealthy young man of
New York, was swindled out OF 80, 600 on
the 18th at Long Branch, N. j., by gamblers.
FELIX kEYEs (colored) was taken from
jail at Lafayette, La, on the 18th by mob
and lynched for the murder OF his wife.
The steamer Crystal City struck snag at
the mouth of Saline river, sixty miles be-
low St Louis on the 18th and sank The
passengers were saved.
JOSEPH NJ MOODY, living near Ainsley,
Neb., shot and killed both his wife and him
self on the 18th. The latter had left him on
account of ill-treatment and was living
with her brother
IT rained at Johnstown, N Y, on the 18th
and the water in Cayadutta creek rose to
such height that the search for bodies
lost in the recent freshet there had to be
temporarily abandoned. 1t was known that
the number of lost was five, and several
were still missing The total loss by the
flood was estimated at $500, OOO
New YORK on the 18th transferred $780,
600 and Philadelphia s5CO, 600 to the Cone
lnaugh (Pa) Flood Commission
UPON arrival at Nashville, Tenn, on the
18th Sullivan, the pugilist, and his hacker,
Johnson, were arrested on instructions
from the Governor Of Mississippi, but few
hours later were released on a writ of
habeas corpus and continued their tourney
northward.
ORE, which was believed to be rich in
silver, was discovered on the tn near the
county house in Warren County, N Y, by
Mr.. John Nutting.
MRS H. H. OLNEY was burned to death
on the 18th in her house at Clay Center,
Kan. She had already rescued her two
children and went back for some household
goods, when she was Overpowered by the
heat.
: A SHOCK of earthquake lasting three sec
onds was felt at Charleston, s. O., on the
evening of the 18th. the movement being
accompanied by slight noise
AT Long Meadow, Mass, Pelatiah Ely,
eighty:four years old, was married on tho
18th to his house-keeper, aged ffty-fve
years, within twenty-five days OF the death
of his former wife.
GEORGE WHITMoRE, accompanied by Ada
Knapp, went from Rochester to Buffalo,
N. y, on the 18th to be married. William
Wolf and Charles Boyle were also of the
party. Whitmore had drawn 81, 100 from
bank, and Ada persuaded him to give
her all but $25. Then, when Whitmore
went to get minister, she skipped with
Wolf and Boyle.
FRANK PHILLIPS one Of the Hatield-Mc-
Coy gang, for whose capture large re-
ward is offered, put in an appearance at
Grundy, Va. on the 18th, where he at
tackled and killed an attorney by the name
of Keiser, and then Phillips escaped to the
mountains.
AT the convention OF the National Con-
fectioners' Association in New York on the
18th Jacob Buss, Of Cincinnati, was elected
president
The Indiana State Board of Education on
the 18th awarded the contract for furnish
ing books to the public scools throughout
the State to the Indiana School, Book Com
pany of Indianapolis
WILLIAM WEDDINGToN (colored) was
hanged on the 18th at Charlotte, N c., for
the murder of Policeman John Pierce, of
Monroe, May 5, 1885, The eight-year- old
son of Pierce witnessed the hanging of his
fathers slayer.