Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-12-11

stroyed the grocery house Of Murray 3
Berger, causing q loss OF $1O0, 900.
w. w. SMITH, a we'll -to-do farmer liv-.
ing near Pratt, Kan, was assassinated.
while Smelling corn IN his barn on the
4th by some unknown person.
The annual report Of Secretary Of the
Treasury Window was sent to Congress
on the 4th. It says the ordinary rev.
enues from all sources for the fiscal year
ended June 80, 1880, were $685., $50, O58. 81,
and the expenditures were 1881, 900, 615.5
The revenues for the fiscal year 1900
were estimated at 1855, 600, 900, and the
expenditures at $a9s, 900, 900, leaving 4
surplus of 800, 600, 900; revenues for 1891,
$685., 900, 900; expendi tures, 5000, 271, 4O4.
During the fiscal year 1889 there
was applied to the redemption
of the public debt 800, 979, 4a7. The
cash balance in the Treasury was ST., :
4S4, 04aa.s IS, Bonds had been redeemed
to the extent Of $50, 46b, ass. 40, leaving
the available cash on hand Noyem Der I,
1880, $45, S35, 76a. 40. The amount esti-
mated for pensions for the year 1889 was
$40, s12, 400, and the estimates for the
same purpose submitted for 1891 are
$9S, 5S7, 352
A FIRE on the 4th at Pullman, ILL.,, de-
stroyed 800, 900 worth of car lumber be-
longing to the Pullman Company.
THE annual report of Attorney G en-
eral Miller on the 5th showed that DUR
ing the year ., as7 civil suits and IA, 5ss
criminal prosecutions We're terminated,
and there were pending 2, $50 OF the for
mer and 1872 of the latter class. Mr..
Miller recommended that provision be
made for United States penitentiary
and a United States reformatory, the
latter for the confinement of the milder
class Of criminals.
EDWARD SlLcorT, cashier Of Sergeant
alarms Leedom, of the House of Rep
resentatives at Washington, absconded
on the 9Th, carrying with him about
$4,000 of the money with which he was
entrusted.
HARRY CARLTON was hanged at the
Tombs prison in New York on the 5th
for the murder of Policeman Brennan.
October IS, 1888. ~
The Monongahela House at Pitts
burgh, Pa, one of the oldest and best
known hotels in the country, was dam
aged by fire on the 5th to the extent OF
500, 900.
In a fight in Robson County, N. c.,
on the 5th between negroes Jack Hunt,
Jim Collier and julius Embra were
killed.
The Miner House at East Tawas,
Mich, was partially destroyed by fire
on the 5th. Two charred bodies we're
found in the ruins and five men were
injured in fighting the flames. -
AT Youngstown. O., on the sch w. w.
Nivison confessed to robbing the United
States Express of $500 five years ago.
A sad feature of the case is that his
chief clerk was driven insane over be-
ing suspected Of the crime.
The Union Bank of New York CITY
went into voluntary assignment on the
9Th, with assets of $246, 500. rs and liza
tiles of 1856, OS2. SO.
The boiler of Calhoun's gin at Colfax,
La, exploded on the 5th, killing six
men and two women and wounding
many others-an negroes. s,%s0@
In the Jail at Florence. A. T., three
Apache Indians, sentenced to be hanged
for murder, strangled themselves in
their cells on the 5th.-
AT Washington on the 5th the Wool
Growers Association of the United
States adopted a constitution and re-
elected Columbus Delano, of Ohio. as
president.
A. c. MELLETTE, Governor of South Da-
kota, who arrived at Yankton on the 5th
from Minor County, reported that there
were fully three thousand persons in
the county who were in absolute want.
A sAw-MILL boiler exploded on the
5th at Marion, Ind, killing William Du-
mas and fatally injuring eight other
workmen.
DURING the seven days ended on the
United States, against 247 the previous
week. For the corresponding week in
1888 the number was 395.
The mutilated bodies Of three negroes
were found on the 9Th in deserted cab
in near Oakdale, Tenn.
JOHN D. LONG, Ex-Governor of Massa-
chussets, was on the 9th chosen presi-
dent of the National G. A. r. encamp-
ment to be held at Boston next summer.
NATHANIEL J. NILES, JR., ex-presi-
dent of the Tradesman's National Bank
of New York City, was indicted on Che
9th for letting house for immoral pur-
poses. ...
The forgeries and populations of w.
II. Fursman, the absconding real-estate
dealer and broker, of Pontiac, ILL.,,
would, it was said on the 9Th, reach
5000, 900. It was believed that he had
gone to South America. qeH* sss#sS
Mrs. KNUDsoN and Miss Lee were
killed by coal gas in Chicago on the 9th.
JOHN THEODORE WILD was hanged at
Brooklyn, n. Y, on the 9th for the muir
der of Lyman S. Weeks in March, 1887.
Wild claimed his innocence to the last.
FIVE steamships landed 1,492 immi-
grants in New York City on the 9Th, and
during the period from January to Oc-
tober $4,000 Germans emigrated to
America
AT st. Louis on the 9th the Farmers
and Laborers' Union and the Knights
of Labor formed an alliance.
FRED DRAKE, q young man employed
at the State House in Springfield, Ill,
fell down an elevator shaft on the 9th