Mower County transcript., 1889-11-06

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f. VIcE-P ) PREsID E IDENT McAIuLLIN, Of the
Chicago y Alton railway, denied on the
s0th ult. the reported consolidation 81
his road with the Union Pacific, =.
uNE OF the boilers of the 3ellaire blast
furnace at Rellaire, O., exploded on the
seth ult., causing damage to the extent
of $500, 900.
IN railway wreck on the S0th ult. noar
Thaxton's, Va, a passenger was killed,
rs we'll as the engineers and hremen o1
both trains, and a number of passengers
we're wounded.
The Supreme Court of Indiana rem
dered decision on the 3Oth ult. np-
holding the law passed By the last Leg
islature fixing the liquor license IN
towns and cities at SaTO,
The chief witness in the C;ronin MUIR
der case in Chicago on the 30th ult. was
Captain Thomas f. O'Connor, q member
OF Camp 20, who described in detail the
appointment Of the secret committee by
Senior Guardian Beggs to Investigate
the charges that the executive commit
tee Tor triangle) had squandered the
funds and that there were British spies
in the camp.
WILLIAM TEoFroRp. rich old farmer
of Grafton, Ind, was swindled out of
900 on the gold brick trick on the
! S0th ult.
Hoe cholera prevailed to an alarming
extent on the 30th ult around Freeport,
| ILL.,, farmers in some sections having
lost nearly all their hogs.
HARVEY D. WILSON, wealthy Kan
! sas City contractor and builder. commit
| ted suicide on the sOth ult. by shooting
himself through the head.
OFFICERS left Niles, Mich. on the 3Oth
ult. with woman calling herself Mrs.
Monroe and her daughter, Mrs. Davis.
1t was said that the aged dame was the
infamous Mrs. Bender, whose family
years ago committed many murders in
1labette County, Kan. Mrs Davis, the
| daughter, was also thought to be the
notorious Kate Bender
W.. p. HATFIELD, furniture sales
! man in Chicago, was u witness in the
Cronin trial on the S1st ult. He de-
scribed the purchase of trunk and vari-
GUS articles of furniture from him bv u
man giving his name as j. B. Simonds,
| and afterwards identified the goods
taken from the Carlson cottage and the
bloody trunk found on Evanston avenue,
after the murder of DIR. Cronin, as the
ones ''Simonds' had bought,
JOHN S. BELL, Chief of the Secret
Service, in his annual report on the s1st
ult. reports 4S0 arrests for counterfeiting
or passing counterfeit money during the
year ended June 80 last. Out of 1866
foreigners arrested Sc were Italians
During the year $4.7,0Sl of counterfeit
and raised notes were captured.
Miss EMMA SpIEGENliALrEH, a popu-
lar and well-known society lady of jeff
ersonville, Ind, dropped dead at the
breakfast table on the S1st ult.
The report on the 31st ult. of the Gov
ernment Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing showed that during the year there
we're printed United States notes, gold
and silver certificates, bonds and bank
notes with a face value of s615, ,7s9, 800.
i REPORTS of the s1st ult from Harlan
Courthouse, KY, stated that Judge
Lewis and his party had overtaken the
Howard gang and killed six of them.
Judge Lewis was determined to break
up the gang. which had been terror to
Eastern Kentucky for twenty-five years.
The four-year-old child Of Joseph Barr,
of Plymouth, Ind, set its clothing aAre
while playing around stove on the :1st
ult. and was burned to death.
TIE Chicago. Santa Fe & California
train was derailed near Carrollton. Mo-,
on the 31st ult., and two persons were
fatally and five slightly injured.
THE switchmen's strike at Memphis,
Tenn, was declared off on the 31st ult.
s;BI.AcK BART" the Michigan high
wayman on trial at Besscmer, pleaded
insanity on the 3lst ult. as his defense.
TIE Tradesmcn's Bank Of Conshohoc1-
en-, Pa, was taken charge Of by the bank
examiner on the 31st ult. The cashier,
William H. Crcsson, was missing, and
there was said to be shortage OF 350, 900
in his accounts.
RIVAL religious factions Protcatant
having a hot time on the 3lst ult. and
a riot was feared The Governor had
sent a detachment of troops to the town
to prevent bloodshed.
Four shipwreclxed captain; arrived in
New York ON the 31st ult. on the steam
ship Niagara. They were all wrecked
within one hundred miles of each other,
and all during the hurricane of Septem-
ber.
MAYOR GRANT, of New York, signed
an ordinance on the 31st ult. prohibit
ing the playing Of street bands, organs
or other musical instruments in the
streets.
WHILE working on the dome of the
new courthouse at Evansville. Ind, on
the 31st ult. Adolph Rice and Louis
Heck were thrown to the ground, dis
tance Of seventy feet. by the break ing
Of a bracket and killed.
WHILE insane from hunger in tene-
ment house at New York on the 31st ult.
Mrs. Mary Baron attempted to kill her
mother and her children. but was pre-
vented by the arrival of friends.
THE cotton crop Of the territory trib-
utary to Memphis, Tenn, which usually
produces One-fifth of the total crop Of
the South, was on the 31st ult said to be
short twenty-seven per cent.