Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-19
Epit0me of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
CYCLONE swept through Arkansas City
Ark, on the Sth, wrecking the Methodist
and Baptist churches and ten stores anc
residences Two persons were killed.
Mrs. DENNIS CARROLL and her little cir
and Mrs. Edmund Thomas were drowned
in the river at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 9th
by the upsetuing OF boat
In Brazil, Spencer, Charlottesville, Colum.
bus, Seymour and other Indiana towns
high water had dcne great damage on the
9th.
JAMES T. LEMAY, a wealthy farmer living
several miles northeast Of Condor, Ind
entered his house.
THE saloons and theaters In Cincinnati
were closed on the 9th and no ball-playing
was allowed
CHARLES i. BALL, cashier at the United
States Express Company's Office at Wash
mgton, was arrested on the 9th for en-
bezzling $4,000.
THE United States steamer Bear sailed
from San Francisco on the 10th for Point
Barrow, Alaska, with supplies and materi-
ais for a relief station to be established
there.
SIX men were killed on the 10th in the
Gaylord mines at Nilkesbarre, Pa, by fall
of coal All were married and leave fami-
lies.
THE work of clearing up the site of
Johnstown, Pa, was progressing slowly on
the 10th. 1t had been decided by Governor
Beaver that the State would assume control
OF the work. The bodies OF victims were
still being found. The Cambria Iron Works
had partially resumed operations the
First National Bank had re-opened and
several stores We're ready for trade. A
proclamation had been issued calling on
the citizens not to leave their homes but to
start rebuilding at once, as aid might Ike ex-
pected from the general relief fund
A FURIOUS gale OF wind in Lewis and
Jefferson counties, n. y, did considerable
damage on the 10th. At Port Leyden houses
and trees uprooted.
DESPERATE. heavily armed, rode into
Carthage, Mo-, on the 10th, announced his
purpose OF capturing the town, and opened
ire Unfortunately on the citizens After
emptying his weapons without effect he was
captured
AT Cincinnati on the 10th Michael Cronin.
aiaporer, while drunk threw a teacup at
his wife. The missile missed Mrs Cronin
but killed thirteen months old child
THERE were five cases of sunstroke in
New York City and q like number in Brook
Ign On the 10TH
OTTO LEUTH, sixteen years old, of Cleve
land, o., confessed on the 10th to the kill
ing OF Maggie Thompson, an eight-year-old
child who was found dead in the Leuth
cellar some days ago.
ADTIcEs of the 10th say that Renoya, Pa,
was greatly in need Of money. a large por-
ton of the town having been DESTROYED by
She food, and the people being too destitute
to rebuild without aid
HARRY STEVENS and Charlie Clemens
small boys, undertook to rehearse border
drama On the 10th at Cincinnati, and both
were fatally wounded by the careless hand
ling of their revolvers.
AN engine and car went through a bridge
on the 10TH near Petersburg, Pa, killing
Engineer Port and Fireman Hoffright
In February last Henry Dieckman, of st
Louis, went to Canada, being defaulter to
the amount of about $4,000, which he had
lost in speculation. Through the devoted
labor of his wife Dieckmans creditors had
turn to St. Louis
Durnberger, river boatmen, quarreled over
woman on the 10th, and both were killed
LEH1GH VALLEY train was thrown down
an embankment on the 10th near Sugar
Notch, Pa, causing serious injuries to six
teen passengers, some Of whom might not
recover.
rev. CHARLES HUDSON, who mysteriously
disappeared from Dorchester, Mass, April
9, was found on the 10th in San Francisco in
demented condition.
WILLIAM c. W1NGATE and family, of Yer
saiues, Ind, were poisoned with wiIted
lettuce on the 10th, and Mrs. Wingate had
died and the rest were in dangerous con-
dition.
The Edison electric light companies were
on the 18th consolidated under the name OF
the Edison General Electric Company. The
capital is s12,oO0.0oo.
THREE drunken men jumped off q Balti-
more & Ohio freight train on the 18th near
Suter, Pa, just as an empty engine passed
in the other direction, and all were killed
The arrest was announced on the 18th of
Uric Dulac, chief of a band of outlaws who
had been terror to the towns and villages
on the ine-Canadian border.
AT Charlottesville, Ind, recently Will
lam Fering received seventy five dollars in
greenbacks as pension money, and bis wife
hid it in an unused stove. On the 10th
Fering built fire in the stove, and the
money went up in smoke.
AT Dalton, Ca, on the 18th s. E. Fields,
State Senator, was shot and killed by his
stepson, Dennis Taylor, whom he attempt
ed to chastise
STORM of wind and rain on the 1th
in New York City and Brooklyn did consid-
cradle damage, and three persons were
killed by lightning:
AN unsuccessful attempt was made on the
eth to wreck and rob passenger train on
the Louisville & Nashville road near Falk-
yille Ala
A THUNDERSTORM in New England on the
18th caused heavy damage, especially in
New Hampshire towns. Roads were washed
out, wires leveled and houses wrecked by
lightning.
MORE cheerful and hopeful feeling pre-
vailed at Johnstown, Pa, on the 18th. The
work all over the valley was being pushed
with vigor. The channel of the river above
the stone bridge was being fast cleared, and
while comparatively little impression had
been made on the great mass OF debris near
the bridge, the results along the channel
we're very marked.
]. D. HAGGERTY, a witness at the Cronin
inquest in Chicago, swore on the 18th that
Alexander Sullivan told him in 1885 that
Dr. Cronin was traitor to the Irish cause
and should be exterminated. The jury