Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-07-03
Epit0me of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.

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INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
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The French steamer La Bourgogne,
which arrived ut New York on the ed, on
June 20, in latitude IS, longitude 81,
passed the largest iceberg ever reported.
1t was estimated to be 16l feet high by 97j
feet long.
AT Schenectady, N, Y, Miss Mary Hughes,
aged twenty-five years, hanged herself on
the 9th. Sho had suffered long time
from headaches
The careleSsness of a servant In lighting
ker sene stove caused the death at Kan
sas City, Mo-, on the 9th Of Mrs Martin and
her five-year- old boy.
The superintendent Of police of Indian
apolis resolved on the 2+th to prosecute the
saloon-keepers who sell or give beer to
children
The Vanderbilt Hotel at Syracuse, N. Y,
was partly destroyed by fire on che 24th,
causing loss of about $9O, 0OO A dozen
guests narrowly escaped with their lives.
AT q meeting on the 9th of the Associa-
ton of Editors of American Medical Jour
nails, held at Newport, r. l., J. NJ Love- OF
St Louis, was elected president.
The two hundredth and tiftieth anniver-
sary of the establishment of the first pub
lie school in the United States supported
by direct tax on the people, the honor
of which is claimed by Dorchester, Muss
was celebrated on the Ed.
TUE works of the Manhattan Brass Com
pany at New York were destroyed by fire on
the 24th. Loss, $500, 900.
Two YOUNG men and two young ladies,
whose names had not been learned, were
drowned on the Esd in the Schuylkill at
Paramount Park, Philadelphia, their row.
boat being carried over the dam.
SARAH J. MAcK1N, soldiers widow of
YOUNGSTOWN. Pa, who lost all her earthly
possessions by the flood, was on the oath
awarded a pension and back pay amount
ing to S., 96S.
FIRE on the 9th at Johnstown, Pa, de-
stroyed twenty five houses that had es-
capped the flood, but small amount OF the
furniture being saved Colonel j. l.
Spangler, in charge of the comnissary de-
partment, presented his weekly report to
Acknowledgement Hastings The report
showed that 3, 900 people were still being
daily fed by the State.
The store of Elzea Nixon, a druggist OF
Elizabethtown, Ind, who had been accused
OF selling liquor without a license, was
blown up with dynamite on the 2Ath
HE bureau of prosecution in the Crontn
case in Chicago, embracing the States At
torney, the superintendent of police and
the detectives in the employ of the Cro1hn
committee, was on the 24th directing it's
entire efforts to the discovery of new evil
dence showing that the conspiracy to muir
der the doctor was concocted in Camp 20 Of
the United Brotherhood and was executed
by its members, who are popularity known
as Clan-naGaels
g. ". NORWOOD, a railroad contractor
was murdered on the oath near Cumberland
Gap, KY, by couple of Italians. The MUIR
derers were arrested, but were lynched be-
fore they could be lodged in Jail
AT Highlands, N. j., on the Oath Neil Bur-
CESS, the actor, was severely burned by an
explosion of gasoline. His life was saved
by the heroic efforts of his wife.
The total earnings of Michigan railroads
from January to May were s24, IA, 61S OS,
an increase over the same period of 1858 OF
S629 $500.
JOHN MCDONALD. of Waterbury. Conn,
on the 9th recover Ell lis eyesight of which
he had been deprived for more than thirty
years.
NEAR Woodstock, Va. William r. Ham
killed his wife on the 9th, believing her
to be untrue to him, and then committed
suicide.
HUNGARIANs working in a brickyard at
Jones Point, n. T., quarreled with a col
ored workman on the 9th and at last tried
to drown him. The result was riot of
races, in which four Hungarians were ia
tally shot
AT Telluride, Co.. on the Oath three men
entered the San Migeul Valley Bank and
compelled the book-keeper, who was alone,
to give them several thousand dollars. They
then left the town with the sheriff's posse
in pursuit.
J. G. MELLAT, eighty-fve years old, living
at Monmouth, ILL.,. committed suicide on
the 18th by throwing himself in front of a
passenger train Of the Chicago, Burlington
& Quincy railroad
FRANKLIN WILLS, chairman Of the Michi-
gan State Board of Agriculture, reported
on the 9th that the wheat feds were alive
with ''midge,' whose operations on the
plant would, at least have tendency to
shrink the kernel.
The Pioneer tannery at Benicia CAL,
owned by Mckay & Chisholm, was burned
on the 25th Loss, s200000.
Tom VOOLFOLK on trial at Atlanta, Ga. :,
for the murder Of nine members of his
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fenced to be hanged August TO-
GEORGE MCCAIN, who was awaiting trial
for the murder of his wife at Philadelphia,
hanged himself on the 18th In his CELL
EUGENE EMERY, aged forty years, muir
dered Cora Grimes, thirteen years old near
Medina, N Y, on the 18th because she re-
fused to marry him.
THE American Institute of Homeopathy in
session on the 18th at Minneapolis declared
itself opposed to the indiscriminate use Of
alcohol in medicine.
MRS. SARAH JANE WHEELING, who was
convicted OF poisoning her husband and
two children, was hanged at Philadelphia
Oh he 18th She met her fate without ex-
hibiting trace of fear.
The fortieth annual meeting of the
American Medical Association was held at
Newport, r. l., on the 18th.
The executive committee of the Clan-na-
Gael issued an address from Chicago on the
18th protesting against the attempt to make
that organization appear responsible for
the murder of DR.. Cronin.
SOLICITOR HEPBURN, of the Treasury De-
partment gave an opinion on the 25th that
there was nothing in the law to prohibit the
landing OF Chinese laborers who desire
merely to pass through the United States in
transit
The New York Supreme Court decided on