Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-04-17

THE United Htates Consul General ut Rio
de Janeiro reported to tho Secretary OF
State on the 18th that yellow fever was
prevalent there to an alarminp>extent
HENRY Roam, farmer uvinganear Mount
Vernon, Ind, was called to the door of his
| house on the 1lth and fatally shot by Joseph
Maynard, neighbor with whom he was at
variance. ~ ~
ABEL LODGE, the village and township
treasurer OF New Lisbon, O., was on the
18th discovered to be Sc, 600 short in his ao-
| counts
The New York Yacht Club on the 18th ao-
cepted the Earl OF Dunraven's challenge to
! race next fall for the Americas Gun.
A MAN named Hurlbut charged with NAL
treating his invalid wife, was whipped
nearly to death on the 18th by u crowd of
women at Allegan, Mich.
BILLINGS 4 EATON, wholesale leather
dealers at Boston, failed on the 18th for
$7UO, 600
The storehouse and contents Of the Chel-
sea Cordage Company at Boston was burned
on the 18th, causing loss of $4,000.
EDGAR SWAN, ex-cashler Of the First Ma
tional Bank Of Lynn, Mass, was sentenced
on the 18th to five years In Jail for the en-
bezzlement Of $3S, 600.
MOST OF the street-car employees of Min
neapolis went on strike on the 18th as a re-
suit of the companies announcing a reduc-
ton OF wages
The house of w. p. Wood, a carpenter
living in Robin County, Ga, was burned ON
the 18th, and his entire family, consisting of
a wife and five children, perished Mr.
Wood was away from home.
JOHN G. WHITTIER, the poet wrote let
ter on the 18th protesting, In the name of
| humanity and Christianity, against the en-
forced idleness OF convicts in prisons, which.
he said, could only result in filling the pen
| itent1aries with maniacs
AT St. Louis, Mo-, on the 18th Judge
Thayer decided that stealing papers from
the top OF a mail box was no more an Of
| ense against the mail laws than taking q
package from the steps of the post-oftce.
The village of Cannonsburg, Mich, was
almost entirely destroyed by fire on the
18th.
The evicGons of Des Moines river land
settlers in Iowa were stopped on the 18th
by court order, pending an investigation
instituted by the Secretary of the Interior.
BUCHANAN \ LYEIL's jute mills at Brook
]yn, N Y, were burned ON the 18th, the loss
reaching 100000.
The dead bodies Of Wilhelmina Seiderick
and Jacob Schaler were found in the form
er's farmhouse near Bramin Hill, Kan, on
the 18th. It was thought to have been q
| case OF murder and suicide
THREE children of Sebastian Meridian.
| Bavarian farmer at St. Joseph, Mimi, were
poisoned on the 18th by eating wild parsnip
roots which their father had plowed up,
and all died in a few hours
THE stable of Macarthur Bros contractors
at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich, was DESTROYED by
fire on the 18th and seventeen mules burned.
SAMUEL W. MYERS, business manager for
the Booth Packing Company at Indianapo-
lis, was on the 18th said to be $4,000 short
in his accounts. He had fed
FOREST fires had on the 18th destroyed
many acres of fine pine timber land be-
tween Pittston and Wilkesbarre, Pa
HENRY DAMA1oN, aged twenty-five years,
of scituate, Mass, died from hydrophobia
on the 18th.
The cargo of the steamer Gillian was
burned on the 18th at New Orleans, causing
loss of 500 OOO
A HEAVY thunder, wind and hail storm
visited portions of Eastern Ohio and Mary
land on the 18th, doing great damage John
Wetzeu and two horses were struck by
lightning and killed at Elk Garden, Md.
MEREDITH STANLEY, an athlete, jumped
from the high bridge on the Cincinnati
Southern road into the Kentucky river on
the 18th, the distance being 2S5 feet. When
taken from the water blood oozed from his
mouth, but he soon recovered. The bridge,
with one exception, is the highest in the
world
The Minneapolis (Nlinn) street-car strike
extended to ST. Paul on the 18th, all the
men in the latter city except those or the
cable line going out.
HE total value Of exports of beef and
hog products from the United States for the
month OF March was IS, 1875 ,LGS and for the
five months ended March 81, SAL 81, rs
The British steamer Wylo, which arrived
at Hampton Roads, Va, on the 18th, ex-
perienced a very rough voyage, having
drifted several days at the mercy of the
waves.
CENSUS completed on the 18th gave
Baltimore Md, population of five hun
dred thousand
DURING the seven days ended on the 18th
there were 1856 business failures in the
United States, against al the previous seven
days The total Of failures in the United
States from January to date was 1878,
against g. 1862 in 1888
PRINCE LAW, a negro living on planta-
ton near Savannah, Ga, killed his four
year-old child on the 18th as sacrifice to
the devil
MRS. ROSE, of Wilkesbarre, Pa attempted
to light fire On the 18th with kerosene
oil, and was burned to DEATH
Mrs. BECKY KING, an invalid living near
Shelbyville, Ind, was burned to death in
her bed on the 18th
In Chicago on the 18th Augusta Schue,
aged forty-fve years, and Axel Friedstrom,
both committed suicide by shooting. No
cause was assigned for either act
Mrs. GALLARY, of Chicago while trying
on the 18th to take a revolver from the
hand OF her elcven-year- old son, Edward,
accidentally put her finger on the trigger
and the gun was discharged, killing the boy
almost Immediately. The mother was near
ly distracted
Mr.. BEDDISGER a prairie fire victim, died
in Valley township, d. r., on the 18th, max
ing the sixth death in Hyde County from
prairie fires.
The moonshiners' stronghold at Carrs
creek, near Hindman, KY, was taken by
United States officers on the 18th, five IL
]tcit cistilleries were destroyed and five
men were captured.
ADv1cEs Of the 18th say that in a recent
gale and rain-storm ut Portsmouth, N. c..
high water drowned many CATTLE sheep and
hogs. The water rose many feet in the
houses and there was great destruction of