Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-03-27
DOMESTIC,


A HEAVY rain storm on the 10th submerged
sportion of Dayton, Tenn, drowning sew
eral negroes, and great damage was done to
buildings, live stock and growing crops
The wife of James Crane, a druggist at
Clinton, Ind, shot herself dead on the 18th
She had been grieving over her husbands
financial losses
HOUSE near Days Mills, Mass, was
burned on the 18th, and Mrs Russell, aged
seventy nine years, and two daughters of a
neighbor named Truehart, aged five and
nineteen years, persisted in the flames
JOSEPH RHODES and his mother, while at
tempting to cross the Ohio river in a boat
on the 10th at Pomeroy, O., were carried
under feet OF barges and drowned
SMITH Bros mill, salt block and docks
near Bay City, Mich, with two million feet
of lumber, were burned on the 10Th. Loss,
$4,000
The collections of internal revenue for the
first eight months of the fiscal year ending
Junt 81, 1889, were SIS, So, 211, an increase
OF s2,6o3, IA over the collections for the cor
responding period of the last fiscal year.
FIERCE fires were raging on the 10Th on
the Blue mountains in the vicinity of Beth
lehem, Pa, and hundreds of acres of wood
land and valuable crops had been destroyed.
The Woonsocket Rubber Company on the
18th purchased the entire Buffum's island es-
tate of eighty acres in Woonsocket, R. L, on
which to erect the largest rubber boot and
shoe factory in the world
RUMOEs from Oklahoma on the 10Th were
to the effect that the soldiers were firing
upon the boomers and that serious trouble
was feared
A BILL was passed by the Michigan House
on the 10th prohibiting the sale of liquor in
any place of amusement or any adjacent
room by vote of 81 to 13
In a special order from army headquar-
tiers Major General Schofield announced on
the 18th that he would be marshal of the
military parade at New York on April 80, in
honor of the centennial of the Inauguration
of President Washington
The annual report on the 10Th of the Chi
cago, Burlington & Quincy road showed q
deficit of 81, 331 ,425 in the finances of the
company. The directors charged it mainly
to the late strike
THIEVES broke into the Carondolet South
St. Louis, post-ofice early on the morning
OF the Goth and stole $4,000
IT was announced on the Goth that Abram
s. Hewitt and Edward Cooper, proprietors
Of the New Jersey Steel and Iron works at
Trenton, N. j., would move their works to
Chattanooga. Tenn They employ thirteen
hundred men, paying them 81 ,0O0, GOO yearly
In wages.
HESS BROTHERS furniture factory at To-
rOnto, the largest in the Dominion, was de-
stroyed by fire on the Doth Loss, $125, OOO
THE eleven collieries operated by the L.
high & Wilkesbarre Company near Wilk IS
barre, Pa, which had been idle since Feb
ruary %, resumed work on the 10Th, giving
employment to nearly six thousand men
and boys.
In quarrel about rent on the Goth at To-
peka, Kan, Gust Werner, a merchant tailor,
shot and killed John Spehdloye and then
killed himself
The United States Consul General at
Shanghai informed the State Department at
Washington on the Goth, at the request of
the Shanghai Committee of the North China
Relief Fund, of the distress existing over a
large area of China Thousands were
starving and dying from exposure in North
ern China and aid was requested
WILLIAM TURNER, of Chicago, lost his
wife and child from diphtheria on the 18th,
swallowing carbolic acid.
NEW counterfeit dollar, made of brass
with thin coating of silver electro plate,
made it's appearance in Chicago on the 10th,
and very inferior counterfeit half and quar-
ter dollars were also discovered in circula-
don.
McGAR1GLE G1DDENs, boy of sixteen
years, shot and killed his father, John Gid
1ens at Greenyille Tex, on the Goth, In a
quarrel about pis OIL
THOMAS MCCORMICK, of Dayton, O., arose
IN the morning of the 10th, built fire, and
rs his wife did not respond to his call he in
7estigated and discovered that she had
been lying at his side dead for several
louis from heart failure.
FOURTEEN men at Kempton, Ind, were
badly burned on the 2Oth by the explosion
If gas from a gas-weu which they were
1rilling:
DAVID BARKEY, a boy at Milton township,
D., who had a severe attack of hydrophobia,
vas recovering on the 10th. Physicians and
scientists were writing to know what treat
ment the boy received. .E. 1881
BUYER for one of the largest Kansas
City MOI dressed beef houses said on the
10Th that any hostile legislation to that in
lustry would be resented by boycotting the
State enacting such law.
JOHN HANBACK,, sailor, testified at Balti-
more on the 10th that Captain Beauchamp,
master Of an oyster vessel, offered him two
dollars per week extra II ne would throw
Y0rtIIasa hands overheard E5s s#E