Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-11-20
Epitome Of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
DOMESTIC.

ooMEoTlo.
TIE twelfth annual exhibit Of the
American fat stock show opened in the
Exposition building in Chicago on the
18th. =.
Ar the Cronin trial on the 18th Mrs.
Paulina Hoertel swore that on the night
of May she saw buggy drawn by a
white horse drive up to the Carlson cot
tage and q man resembling DIR. Cronin
alight and enter the house. ..zs
DANIEL CARMICHAEL, one Of the best
known business men of Amsterdam, N,
Y, was arrested on the 18th on the
charge of forgeries amounting to 500, 900.
THREE of the four breweries located
in Kansas City, NO., were on the 18th
sold to an English syndicate. >...'S,
INSANE jealousy on the 18th led Orville
A. Ross, Congregational minister, to
kill his wife, his young son and himself
on ranch near Stockton, Cal.
ADv1cEs of the 12th say that in fight
between the French Eversole factions in
Perry County, KY, four men were
killed.
The total disbursements Of the Pay
master-General of the army during the
last fiscal year were $14, TS6,821.
J. r. PRocToR's big tobacco shed at
franklin, Tenn, was burned on the 18th,
and three tramps persisted in the flames
EIGHT inches of snow fell on the 12th
throughout the northern and central
parts of Wisconsin.
The Knights of Labor met in their
National convention on the 18th at At
lanta, Ga.
THE Lake View police arrested man
on the 18th whom they believe to be j.
B. Simonds, the man who bought the
furniture for the Carlson cottage where
DIR. Cronin was murdered.
THE National convention in Chicago
OF the WOman's Christian Temperance
Union ended on the 12th. The Iowa
delegation withdrew from the conven-
ton on account of its partisan attitude.
The association of American agri-
cultural colleges and experimental sta
lions began a three days session at
Washington on the 18th.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, was flooded with
counterfeit bills on the 18th.
SIX THOUSAND miners on the Monon.
gahela (Pa.) river decided on the 18th
to strike for an advance of wages.
The annual report of the Superin-
tendent OF the Railway Mail Service,
issued on the 18th, shows an increase of
6,66s miles over last year. During the
past year there were 1913 railroad acct
dents, in which ten clerks were killed
and ls5 injured. The total cost of the
service during the year exclusive of
salaries was S213, 271.6O, and the salaries
amounted to S5,249, $685. As. There were
4,99s clerks employed.
AT Marshwood, Mich, James McDon-
aid fatally shot Duncan Beveridge and
his wife and sister-in-law on the 1sth
A dispute over land caused the crime.
In Chicago on the 18th a National
Building and Loan League was organ
lied with NJ. D. Miller, of St. Paul, as
president.
In quarrel on the 18th over blan-
ket on the Blue Mountain range in Col
orado three Indians were killed.
The Capitol Hotel at Dallas, Tex,
valued at S5OO,00O, was destroyed by an
incendiary fire on the 18th, and seventy
five inmates lost all their clothing. Two
men persisted in the flames.
The Catholic University of America,
at Washington, was dedicated on the
18th.
In Chicago on the 18th Mrs. J. Ellen
Foster, of Iowa, and other ladies, took
steps to organize non-partisan Wom-
ans Christian Temperance Union.
The silver convention in session on
the 18th at Denver, Col, adopted reso-
luton recommending that Congress pro-
vide for the coinage of at least s., OOO,-
600 of silver each month.
WILLIAM 81. FURsMAN, a real-estate
broker at Pontiac, H., was on the 18th
charged with forgeries aggregating
100000. He had left for parts un-
known. .-.s-, -
JOSEPH M. HILLMAN was hanged on
the 18th at Woodbury., N. j., for the
murder of Herman Seidelman, peddler,
in March last. ,,~
THE prosecution rested its case in the
Cronin murder trial in Chicago on the
18th, and an adjournment was taken I'M
til the 10th.
WILLIAM F. JOHNSON & Co., dealers
in feathers and hides at Boston, failed
on the 18th for $$44e, 1873. -. T..
THE, National Grange patrons of Hus-
bandry) convened at Sacramento, CAL,
on the 18th, delegates being present
from nearly all States of the Union.
GOVERNOR BEAVER, of Pennsylvania,
on the 18th appointed William Livsey
to be State Treasurer for the unexpired
term Of the late William B. Hart.
THE Hoke family, of St. Louis, were
on the 18th reported to have fallen heir
to $45, 600, 600 by the death of a relative
at Birmingham, Eng.
JUST forty-two days after the morning
Of October 3, when the special train
bearing the international American ex-
cursion party pulled out of Washington,
the same train, headed by the locome-
tive which had drawn it nearly 1000
miles, rolled into the Capital city ON the
18th, having completed the most extern
sive trip ever undertaken by one train.
A LONE highwayman held up the Coos
Bay stage on the 18th near Roseburg,
Ore, and cut open and rified the letters
and registered pouches.
A LARGE vein Of silver ore was dis
a d., IL