Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-12-04

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Rock1land, Ne, George Clough. q young
man, shot Mrs. u. id. Ludwig and her
niece, Eva Wooster, and later killed
hi II 9 yard near his fathers
house.
The chief OF police at Parsons, Pa
while drunk, was recently killed by q
train. His widow on the 27th secured
an award Of 81, 800 from tho saloon
keeper who sold her husband his last
drink.
ADv1CEs Of the 27th say that thirty
Mexican herders and i've American cow
boys persisted in the recent Colorado
blizzard. @.5# M ..5.5 h. ii |.|8
The Governor Of South Carolina in
his annual message to the Legislature
on the 27th recommended separate ac-
comm0dations on railroads for whites
and blacks. s2# 3 B b 5...z
TERRIFIC storms prevailed on the 27th
In Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and
West Virginia. All the low ground was
under water and the swollen streams,
aided by phenominally high tides, had
done an enormous amount Of damage to
buildings, bridges. roads and orchards.
THE bark Germania went ashore in
gale on the 27th of West End, Long
Branch, and ten of the crew, including
Captain Windhorst, were drowned. The
storm along the Atlantic coast was one
OF the severest in the memory OF the old
mariners, and many other wrecks were
reported, with the loss Of several lives.
ANDREW BANKS, prominent citizen
of Baltimore County, Md, failed on the
a7th, owing $3.50, 600. .#= ss=
THE town Of Wesley, Ia, was nearly
destroyed by fire on the 27th.
POLLARD & Moss, of New York, pub
fishers, failed on the 2Tth for $10O, 900. )
THE monument erected at Pittsburgh,
Pa, to the memory Of Thomas A. Arm
strong by the members of the labor or
CARNATIONS of the country was unvailed
on the ssth.
REV. ERDMAN DELoRME, minister of
the German Reformed church, COM
mitted suicide at Huntington, Ind, on
the 2Sth while insane by shooting him
self. =.
A FIRE in Boston on the morning of
the 2Sth burned over two acres in the
section where were massed the largo
wholesale dry and fancy goods estab-
lishments, and some twenty large gran
lite and brick blocks were destroyed.
These with their contents involved
loss of $5,0o0,0o0. Six persons were
missing.
WHILE handling a revolver on the
2sth Josephine Welsh, of West Eliza
beth, Pa, shot and instantly killed her
lover, Charles Weite. They were soon
to have been married.
A TRAIN ran into washout on the
2Sth at Caredo, O., and three men were
killed. z-
THE annual report on the s7th of the
General Superintendent of the Life
Saving Service showed that at the close
of the fiscal year there were 225 stations.
During the year the number of disasters
was 5sS; value of property involved, &c.
416, IT'S; value of property saved $685.
40; number of persons saved 3, 426; num-
Der of persons, lost, AZ; number of per-
sons succored, 7S7.
AT Springfield, N. Y, Mr.. and Mrs.
Mead were fatally wounded on the ssth
by burglars. 49,
AT Osgood, Ind, ]. Dobson was MUIR
dered on the 2sth by A. Bishop, his IA
ther-in-law, for mistreating his wife and
following her to her fathers house,
where she had been induced to return.
A POSSE of deputy marshals on the
ssth arrested nine men at Berwin and
Ardmore, Ind. T., for the recent Santa
Fe train robbery.
The loss by the recent great conflagra-
ton at Boston was on the goth ult esti-
mated at $4,000, 600. Four firemen were
believed to have lost their lives.
PAT GOLDEN and c. Baldwin, miners,
attempted to pick out an unexploded
blast on the 29th ult. near Silverton,
COL, and were blown to pieces.
A, CYCLONE passed over a portion OF
Buford County, N. c., on the 10th ult.,
and houses were blown down and trees
torn up by the roots. The residence Of
a farmer near Washington was blown
down and the entire family, consisting
of father, mother and four children was
killed. A factory near Washington was
also blown down and two people killed,
while dozen others received bad in
iuries. ,. i
ONE of the mills of the Hartford Car
pet Company at Thompsonville, Conn.,,
was burned on the Goth 'ult. Loss,
$3.50, 1000. 49,. %. ..~ "a
DURING the seven days ended on the
29th ult. there were 249 business failures
IN the United States, against 277 the
previous week. For the corresponding
week in 1888 the number was 233.
LEYRER's bakery at Keyport, N. j.,
was burned on the Goth ult., and Jacob
Leyrer was burned to death and his
wife and son were badly burned.
In his report on the Goth ult. for the
fiscal year Third Assistant Postmaster
General Hazen shows that the total cost
Of the service for the year was 1858, $751;
ST., or s7,60s, $50 in excess of the rev.
enue. The revenue exceeded that OF
the previous year by So, 49,, 1898.
THE firm of Stern & Stern, OF New
York, wholesale jewellers, failed on the
Goth u1t. for 5000, 600. .., ~.
COMMODORE J.. g. WALKER in his an
nual report on the 20th ult. recommends
ed that the enlistment of aliens in the
navy be discouraged. ..
Two MEN, Frank Gallagher and Joseph