Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-29

oAo was sa1u 20 be the first woman ever
given such authority. ~.+ 1928
A SEVERE hail-storm passed through the
trucking region Of Princess Ann County,
va, ON the alst, doing great damage to
crops
MRS CARRIE VERNON, of Lima, O., was
burned to death on the 2lst while filling q
gasoline stove.
IN tho Presbyterian General Assembly at
New YORK on the 2lst report was made
recommending that $S75, 900 be appropri-
ated this year tor home missionary work.
IHE cornerstone OF the new Michigan
Masonic Home ut Reeds lake, four miles
from Grand Rapids, was laid with imposing
ceremonies on the 2lst The homo will
cost SIZE, 900
In a quarrel on the slst over twenty-five
cents worth of soap at Auburn, KY, Har-
rlet Ann Currants killed Amanda Harding.
MISS CARRIE N1cKLAUs, of Madison, Ind.
aged thirty years, drowned herself in CTS
tern at the home of her sister in Indian
apolls OH the 2lst She was Respondent
owing to poor health
AT Elizabeth, n. j., on the 2lst Ambrose
Van Tassel fell dead while funeral services
were being conducted over the remains of
his wife.
AT Phoenixville, Pa, Lafayette Pennard
was on the 2lst recovering from trance of
two days duration, during which time it
WAS thought that he was dead, and all
preparations for his funeral were made.
MINNIE MOSES negro woman convicted
of highway robbery in Alabama, was on the
:s9d sentenced to be hanged June 49,
A GENERAL reduction OF ten per cent in
wages was made on the 22d by the She
mango Valley (Pa.) furnace operators. The
cut affects two thousand men.
The Governor OF Michigan on the S2d
issued proclamation prohibiting the i'm
portation of Texas cattle into the State un-
til November next
FIVE men were fatally burned on the o2d
by an explosion of gas in the basement OF
| the Van Ness House at Boston.
THREE young women - Flora Sewers
Rocky Lacy and Rebecca McIntOsh-were
bitten by mad dog ON the ED at Musco-
gee, l. T.
MISS ELSIE FOWLER, an eighteen-year- old
girl of Hopkinsville, KY, fearing her lover
would desert her, committed suicide on the
! I'D, shooting herself through the heart.
AT meeting in indianapolis on the 2od
OF the Grand Lodge OF Odd-Fellows it was
shown that there were 554 lodges in the
State, with total membership OF 80, $780,
HE mysterious disappearance of Dr. P.
| H. Crouin, of Chicago, on Saturday night
May 4, was cleared up On the 22d, his dead
| body being discovered by a gang of labor
ers in catch basin at the northeast corner
OF Ffty-ninth street and Evanston avenue,
Lake View. There were six deadly wounds
on the head, including three skull tract
ures Twenty-Five Of Dr. Cronin's friends
identified the body, which was badly de-
composed
The annual examination at the Govern
1vN1S C-l
Pa, took place at that institution on the
22d The graduating class consisted OF
| fourteen Indian pupils
Two THOUSAND acres Of wheat caught fire
on the 22d near Santa Monica, CAL and the
entire tract was destroyed
Two SLICK strangers managed to pass
$500 in counterfeit money in two hours on
the I'D On the merchants of Nashville, Ind
MRS. FRANK DODGE, OF Wellsville, N Y,
killed herself with paris green on the I'd
because her husband refused to live with
her.
IMMENSE damage was done to crops
throughout Eau Claire County, Wis, by
hard frost on the night of the Dist. Ice
formed, and potatoes, corn, strawberry
plants and other garden crops were de-
! stroyed everywhere.
The jury in the Carter divorce case, which
had been on trial in Judge Jamieson's court
in Chicago for over five weeks, returned
verdict for the defendant on the ed
JOHN HUMPHREYS, a miner at Plym outh,
Pa, was notified on the 23d that he had
fallen heir to sSo,O0O by the death Of his
aunt in Australia.
AT Rockville, Ind, on the 23d David s.
Watson was sentenced to the penitentiary
for life for the murder of John Hudson at
Judson on September e.
The Ripley marble mills at Center Rut-
land, Vt, were totally destroyed by fire on
the Esd Loss 100000
AT Alliance, O., Daniel Collins, aged
seventy-fve years, made desperate by cruel
acts of his wife and her brother, hanged
himself in an orchard on the 23d
DICK HAYES, who murdered his wife and
children at Birmingham, Ala. a year ago,
was sentenced by Judge Green on the 2Sd
to be hanged July IL.
THREE brothers named Read and their
wives celebrated their golden weddings on
the 2}d at the old homestead near Scotts-
vile, KY. 1t was probably the most re-
markable event of the kind in the history
of the world
FOREST fires were doing great damage on
the 23d near Plaquemine, La
The passenger station, freight-houses and
wharves OF the Housatonic railroad at Will
sons Point, Conn. were burned on the 23d,
causing a loss of $780, coo.
AT West Pittston, Pa, on the 2Sd Frank
Compton, gardener, cut his wife's throat
and his own. Jealousy caused the crime.
On the Chicago 4 Atlantic road near Ger
many station, Ind, a freight train ran into
drove OF cattle punched on a trestle on
the 23d, and dozen of the animals were
killed
ADv1cEs of the a3d from Tacoma, w. T.,
say one Robert Shields secured Judgment
from the United States Supreme Court for
$22, 0Oo,OO0 for his rights to land partly oc-
cupiN by the city of Omaha, Neb, and
which was acquired by him twenty or thirty
years ago and Jumped" by the Omaha
Town Site Company.
The residence of Rev: F. c. Clarke, near
Virginia Beach, Va, was burned early on
the morning of the 23d, and he, his two
daughters and son and a niece visiting him
were consumed by the flames His wife
and two children escaped. The fire was of
incendiary origin.
WHILE working a cut ON the 23d on the
Shawnee g. Muskingham Valley railroad
near GAINESVILLE, o., a petrifed human hand
was found sixty-fva feet below the surface