Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-08
Epit0me of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
A FIRE on the 9th at Jonesboro, Ark,
destroyed over forty houses, causing loss
Of $l50,OOO
A COUNTERFEIT ten-dollar bill, United
States note OF the series of 1885, letter G,
was in circulation in St. Louis on the 9th.
POSTMASTER GENERAL WANAMAKER issued
an order on the 9th that the buildings
OF his department should be closed Sunday
In future and there should be- no Sunday
work performed.
The Boston 4 Maine railroad managers on
the Goth ult ordered heads of departments
to allow no work on Sunday except to run
regular trains
FROM two to four inches of snow fell In
the upper peninsula of Michigan on the Goth
ult
Mrs. SUSAN BINKLEY, Sged seventy-nine
years, was burned to death on the 10Th ult
at Aenia O.. by her clothes catching fire
from the CRATE.
PATRICK McG1NN1s was hanged on the
Goth ult. at Oregon City, Ore, for the muir
der of Sheriff Robert Lockwood July s last
In the Federal Court at Fort Smith, Ark,
on the 9th ult Judge Parker sentenced
Jack Spaniard, Frank Capell, William
Walker, Joe Martin and Elsie James to hang
Wednesday, July II next, for murder.
Four men We're drowned on the goth ult
at Portland, Ore, by the upsetting OF a
boat on the Columbia river.
BARRY STEE1F, an aeronaut. made an as
cension on the Goth ult at Boonville, Ind :,
and when at the height of three hundred
feet the balloon burst. Streif fell with
frightful rapidlty, and was fatally injured
The Windsor Theater in Chicago was de-
stroyed by fire on the Soth ult.
The centennial celebration in New York
City on the Soth ult. was grand and i'm
posing one This continent had never
seen its like before. In the great parade
nearly every State and Territory was repre-
sented In the evening the Metropolitan
Opera-House was the scene of probably the
greatest banquet ever held within the rec
objection of man. On the evening of the
Goth the great ball took place.
In Chicago the centennial celebration on
the 3oth ult was very enthusiastic Serv-
ices We're held in all the churches and
schools, and in the evening there was q
grand display of fireworks. In the crush
to see the latter scores OF persons We're in
jred, some fatally. In other Western cities
the day was also httingly observed
L. W. JOHNSON and \. L. Pease, middle
aged men and apparently farmers, blew
out the gas in Chicago hotel on the night
of the 10Th ult. and were found dead the
next morning.
THROUGHOUT the entire country on the
Soth ult. the centennial Of the inauguration
OF George Washington as the first President
OF the United States was fttingly observed
The statement of the public debt issued
on the lst showed the total debt to be
s1,672 O5l COZ; cash in Treasury, 81, 6n, $50;
debt less cash in Treasury, 81, l0l, GO, 4oS
Decrease during April, s13,o7S. :64 De-
crease since June 80, 1888, s63, 979,22S
AT Hartwell, O., on the 1st Mrs Proes-
man, wife Of the ticket agent of the Bee
Line road, was sand-bagged in the station
and robbed of $50.
The Indiana State Medical Society, hav-
ing membership of thirteen hundred ply
sicians, met in annual convention on the 1st
at Indianapolis.
A STRIKE Of builders, affecting five thou
sand men, was inaugurated at Pittsburgh
on the LIST for an advance OF twenty-five
cents day.
The schooner Shiloh, which carried
crew of fourteen men, and which left
Gloucester, Mass, March 25, on fishing
trip was on the LIST given up as lost
WHILE handling revolver on the 1st in
the law Office of William Scott, at Peoria,
Ill, Miss Jessie Benning fatally shot her
self
The feature of the third and last day OF
the New. York centennial celebration was
mammoth civic and Industrial parade on
the 1st President Harrison reviewed the
procession from a stand in Madison square
He left for Washington in the afternoon.
CORNELIUS VAN Corr, New Yorks new
postmaster, ssumed control of the Office on
the 1st
The twenty -seventh anniversary of Gen.
eral Buffers occupation of New Orleans
was observed by the Butler Club in Boston
on the LIST.
News reached San Antonio, Tex, on the
LIST of desperate fighting at Gunajuata
Mex. i'll which thirty soldiers and police
men and two hundred rioters were killed
The trouble arose from the imprisonment
of five Jesuit priests who had been deliver
ing seditious sermons.
L. F. COOPER, a travelling agent for a
piano warehouse. was robbed on the LIST in
hotel at Cleveland, O., of 5000 in cur
rency which he had in his coat pocket
JOSEPH EVANS and Bartholomew Curry,
of Lowell, Mass, were fatally injured on
the LIST by having a barn which they were
moving fall on them.
WHITE CAPS demolished the saloon of
John Messmore at Rawson, O., on the LIST.
JOSEPH LUTON and Andrew Lawson,
both farmers, accidentally drove into a
deep creek on the 1st near Manchester
Conn, and were drowned
WILLIAM L1sTMAN's mill and two million
feet of lumber were burned at La Crosse,
Wis, on the LIST. Loss $20O,OOO.
COLONEL SEXTON assumed the duties of
postmaster of Chicago on the 1st
DURING row among negroes on the 1st
at Kansas City, No., Annie Edwards had her
throat cut and James LEVEL was fatally cut
near the heart
The Erie canal was formally opened on
the LIST.
EARTHQUAKE shocks were distinctly felt
on the 1st at Union City, Tenn.
PATRICK R1TcHFoRD, Michael Finn and
Patrick Reagan (n1iners) were crushed to
death on the LIST in the Hyde Park colliery
near Wilkesbarre, Pa, by the falling of a
portion of the mine roof.
THREE THOUSAND miners quit work on the
I'd at Brazil, Ind, because of reduction in
wages
ABOUT four hundred journeymen bakers
struck on the I'd at Newark, N. j., for
shorter hours.
JACOB BLESSING committed suicide on the
I'd by jumping over Niagara falls. Disap-