Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-04-10

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adopted expressing sorrow ut the death of
John Bright, the English statesman. The Vice
President announced that he would be COM
PEELED to vacate the chair for the remainder OF
the session, aud Senator Ingalls, was chosen
President pro tom. At $40 p. m. tho Senate
adjourned sine die.
DOMESTIC.
PRESIDENT HARRISON on the evening of
the I'd gave special reception in honor Of
Prince and Princess Takehaits, of Japan.
AT San Francisco on the I'd CUSTOM house
officers seized :, 224 boxes of opium, valued
at SIS, sos, which had been Struggled.
DURING heavy thunder storm on the I'd
at Gonzales, Tex, a flock of wild geese were
struck by lightning and seventy eight OF
them We're killed.
The total amount of coinage of the United
States minis for the month of March was
$4,59S, 405.
The village of Mount Pleasant, N. T.. was
destroyed by prairie fire on the 2d Over
one hundred families We're made homeless
and utterly destitute.
GENERAL H. X. MCCONNELL, one of the
most prominent attorneys of Usage City,
Kan, committed suicide on the I'd by
shooting.
AT a mass-meeting of general railway
passenger agents on the I'd in Cincinnati a
motion to abolish secontl-class fares was de-
feated
The oyster-dredging season at Baltimore
closed on the I'd. About nine million bushels
of oysters were received there during the
season
NEAR Rapid City, D. T., prairie fire did
great damage on the I'd, and a young lady
was burned to death.
IN wreck on the Northern Pacific road
near Missoula, NJ. T., on the I'd three men
were killed
THIEVES broke into the State House at
New Haven, Conn, on the I'd and carried
away the sword of Admiral Foote, held by
the society as a relic 1t is presentation
sword studded with jewels and precious
stones valued at S., co.,
HEAVY snOW-stOrm prevailed in portions
of Dakota on the 2d
A BIG landslide occurred at Pittsburgh,
Pa, on the I'd, covering the Baltimore 4
Ohio railroad track and carrying away
nearly half of Bluff street
The State Department at Washington was
on the I'd officially informed that Sir Julian
Pauncefote, the new British Minister to the
United States, would sail for New York
April 13
JOHN E. HUDSON was on the I'd elected
president of the American Bell Telephne
Company.
The whole country around Blunt, D. T.,
was being devastated by prairie fires on the
Sd. One farmer had lost five hundred sheep,
cattle and hogs, and many farmers were
homeless
A FIRE On the Sd among business buildings
on South Canal street, Chicago, did damage
to the extent Of s2o0,OoJ.
BURGLARS blew open the safe of the First
National Bank at Plymouth, O., on the Sd,
but got only 81 coo for their trouble.
AN entire block of fourteen buildings at
Nelson, Neb., was burned on the Sd, caus-
ing loss of $4,000.
REPORTS of the Sd from Des Moines, Ia,
were to the effect that the city was infested
with bugs, who made life burden to
the fire and police departments.
The American Meat Company, with q
capital Of $2,000,000, was incorporated at
Philadelphia on the Sd. The company
would run its own ranches, slaughter
houses, etc., and had acquired valuable
properties in Indian Territory, New Mexico
and Texas.
The Secretary of State at Washington re-
oeived telegraphic information on the Sd
from Consul Allen at Kingston, Jamaica, of
the sale to an American syndicate of the
entire railway system of that island
A w1ED-sToRM passed over the town of
Chipley, Fla, on the Sd, tearing up trees,
demolishing chin1neys and completely de-
stroying the Methodist church and other
buildings. One man was killed
LEoLA, the county seat of Mcpherson
County, D. T., was completely destroyed by
aprairie fire on the Sd.
JOHN DEBURNER and Thomas Datson of
Auburn, W. Va, fought and killed each
other with axes on the Sd.
THE lumber district Of the city of Hanni-
bal, NO., was totally destroyed by fire on
the 3D.
AN attempt was made at Louisville, O., on
the Sd to wreck an express train on the Fort
Wayne & Chicago railroad.
WILLIAM HEAGENKopF, night editor of the
Milwaukee Sentinel, while on his way to
lunch on the night of the Sd broke an artery
In his left leg and bled to death in few
minutes
The house Of Abner Bascomb, at Marietta.
Ga, was burned on the Sd, and Bascom's
young son and two girls were cremated.
FORTY houses were unroofed at Balti-
more, Md, On the Sd by winds Storm and
$4,000 damage done to other property.
: AT Somrrset Ky, W. w. Wells, superin-
tendent of the Cincinnati Southern division
of the Queen and Crescent system, died
Buduenly In dis car on the 4th
: FINANCIAL embarrassment caused Jacob
Hernung, New Alband lind J, brewer, to
commit suicide on the 9Th by shooting
In collision on the Decatur (Ala) d.
vision Of the Louisville & Nashville road on
the 4th three men were killed and many
persons wounded.
SEVERAL members of gang of fire bugs
which had been destroying property in
Brooklyn, N. Y, and fleeing insurance
companies, were arrested on the 4th
IT was announced On the 9Th that prairie
ares had completely wiped out three towns
In South Dakota, and that hundreds of
farm-houses had been destroyed, also
barns, with all their contents, and many
persons were homeless and entirely desti-
tute. The losses were placed at 81, COO, COO
Il MARTIN ROLAND (colored), awaiting
trial for the murder Of white man named
Courts, was taken from the Jail at Abing-
don, Va, on the 4th by mob and hanged.
COLONEL RICHARD LONG, prominent
business man Of Chicago, was run over and
fatally injured by train at Allegheny City,
Pa, on the 4th.