Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-15

Churchill, of Iowa, and Mr. and Mrs. J. D. By T..
deJt were thrown from their wagon on tho
9TH, and Mr.. Burdett was killed and t. ~ two
women fatally hurt, while Mr.. c. ourchill
sustained but slight mi uries.
News reached the Brookly-, navv-vord
on the 18th that the steel cr ,1sers Cbico~o
Boston, Atlanta and Yor' 6town were to be-
fitted out as flying e.duadron and sent on
cruise around the World
In New York on. the 18th the stockholders
OF the New Ycfk Equitable Fire Insurance
Company resolved to wind up the affairs of
tho corporation and so out of business.
NEARLY the entire village OF Elba. Mimi.
was swept away by fire on the 7th.
"A PECUL1AR-LooKING black cloud that
lowered over Jamestown, D. T., on the 18th
broke over one Of the principal streets and
dropped shower of frogs
PETER H. KENT, cashier of the Burlington
freight office at Kansas City, NO., was on
the 18th detected in an attempt to embezzle
$4,000.
The new suspension bridge at Magyar
Falls to replace the one carried away by a
cyclone last winter was opened for travel
on the eth. The structure is 800 feet long,
II feet wide and 1877 feet above water.
SWITCH engine on the Michigan Central
railroad struck street-car on the Sth in
Kalamazoo, Mich, killing six women and
injuring four other persons
AT Philadelphia on the Sth the twenty
eighth international convention Of the
Young Mems Christian Association was
opened by General O. 0. Howard, OF New
York.
IHE business portion of North Judson,
Ind, was burned on the Sth.
IT,
Clark daughters of well-to-do citizens of
Lincoln, Neb., decamped on the Sth with a
party OF gypsies consisting OF two men and
one woman
The main building of the Lutheran Or
phans' Home at Zelienople, Pa, was burned
ON the Sth
HE ninth annual convention of the Amer
lean Library Association met at st. Louis on
the Sth.
CuT-woRMs were on the Sth said to be
ravaging the cotton fields Of Southern
Arkansas.
NEAR Sibley, Ia, Mrs. Carrie Furrell was
mysteriously murdered on the Sth whilc
returning to her home from her parents
house.
Mrs. CATHERINE HARK1Ns, of Hollidays
burg. Pa, was burned to death on the Sth
by her clothes taking fire from a lamp, and
in attempting to extinguish the flames her
husband was fatally burned.
RAIN fell over the largest portion of Wis
consin on the Sth, extinguishing the forest
fires and saving the burning crops and
grass of the farmers
SEVENTY houses in Moreland, O Chicago
suburb, were destroyed by fire on the Sth,
rendering seventy five families homeless
The steamship City OF Paris reached
Sandy Hook on the Sth, having covered the
distance from Queenstown in five days,
twenty three hours and seven minutes,
lowering all previous records She also
made the longest run recorded for single
day-511 miles.
Mrs. JAMES EARLY was burned to death
on the Sth and her aged husband fatally in
jured by lamp explosion at Altoona, Pa.
FOREST fires in Michigan had on the Sth
destroyed the villages of Bruce's Crossing
and O'Brien and partly wiped out Spald-
ing, Sullivan and Stambaugh The flames
reached the Vulcan mines near Norway, de-
stroying twenty dwellings. Hundreds of
persons were homeless.
MISS ANNIE NANcII, of Du Quoin, ILL.,,
died on the Sth of starvation. Several
weeks ago her mother was adjudged insane
and sent to an asylum Miss Vancil de-
mother was released. She lived seventy
five days, the last thirty of which she tasted
absolutely nothing.
IN the Shawangunk mountains and in the
Catskills, in the highlands below Newburg,
n. Y, and on the Fishkill mountains forest
fires were doing great damage on the Sth.
A BLUNDER by atelegraph operator caused
a collision on the Sth at Glen Mary, Tenn,
between freight and passenger train, and
fireman was killed and four other en-
ployes were fatally wounded.
Mrs. MARY BRENTLINE, of Lima O., was
dragged to death on the Sth by a COW she
was leading to water.
IT was reported on the Sth that lot OF
Sioux Indians were on the w;,r-path in
Montana
AT Findlay, o., on the 9th the Bellaire
goblet works were destroyed by fire. Loss,
$115, 900; insurance, $4,000.
FIFTEEN mOonshiners were arrested on
the 9th in Mcdowell and Wyoming coun-
ties, W. Va.
The business part of the village of Dan
ville Vt, was wiped out by fire in one hour
on the 9th, only the bank and hotel escap-
ing.
AT Providence, R. l., Samuel w. Pearce,
member of the Board of Trade, passed
away on the 9th. After the assassination of
President Lincoln Mr.. Pearce and his sis
ter, who were travelling to Newberne, N.
c., were arrested, as they bore striking
resemblance to j. Wilkes Booth and Mrs.
Surratt and narrowly escaped being shot.
GOVERNOR FRANCIS, OF Missouri, on the
9th signed the bill which prohibits all deal
ing in grain options unless the parties deal
ing in such opti ons actually hold the grain.
IT was reported on the 9th that miles Of
forests were on fire in the Homestead dis
trict in Michigan, that refugees were seek
ing safety In swanps, bitches and cellars,
and that many persons were missing.
Mr. A. NJ. Cox, of Duluth, Mimi, gave
his employees notice on the 9th that he
would raise the wages of the married en-
ployes in his broom factory, and that the
single men would not be wanted after June
1. If they were married by that time they
would be retained at increased wages.
AT New York on the 9th the seventy
third annual meeting OF the American
Bible Society was held. The cash receipts
during the year were $499, $685. and the dis
bursements, $555, 9S9.
TIL E business district of Shrub Oak n Y,
was swept away by flames on the 9th
AT colliery near Mi ddleport, Pa, on the
9th q cage containing ten miners was