Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-07-10
Epit0me of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
DOMESTIC,

DOMESTIC.
CIloUD-BURST occurred over Akron, q. =,
IN the 2Sth ult and two inches OF water
ell in an hour. The cellars of several
business blocks were badly flooded, and the
damage to property was estimated at
10000
SANFORD JoHNsoNBAUaH, of Monticello,
nd, was in the act Of using pltchfork on
he 18th ult when his twelve-year old
laughter ran around the corner Ct the barn
md dashed upon the prongs of the fork.
One OF the prongs pierced her eye into the
,rain and she died before the instrument OF
ieath could be withdrawn.
BELOW will be found the percentage Of
The baseball clubs In the National League
:or the week ended on the 29th ult: Bos-
ION. .69S; Cleveland, $50; New York, GOA;
Philadelphia, $40; Chicago, .452; Pittsburgh,
4S1; indianapolis, $50; Washington, .276.
Athletic, 6S6; Brooklyn, .596; Baltimore,
56l; Cincinnati, $50; Kansas City, .446;
Columbus, .4OS; Louisville, l66 Western
Associations: Omaha, 7OS; St Paul, .6S7;
Sioux City, $50; Minneapolis, 4S9; Dem
yer, 400; Des Moines, 43l; St Joseph, $40;
Mi waukee. 1906
TWELVE steers strung along wire fence
at Baxter Springs Kan, were struck by
lightning on the Goth ult and killed.
THE Academy of Music, the Oldest place Of
amusement in Cleveland, O., was destroyed
by fire ON the S0th ult.
MRS. MORRIS RUBEEs and her infant were
found dead in bed ON the SOth ult. at AL
bany, N. Y. The cause of death was mys-
terY
The exchanges at twenty six leading
clearing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 2Sth ult aggregated
81, l24, S99 &c., against 81, ia 6Sl. 1877 the pre-
vious week AS compared with the cor
responding week of 1888 the increase
amounted to 315.
The Common Council of the city Of
Joliet, I'LL, passed an ordinance on the Goth
nit. that all owners of public billiard halls
must pay license of 5000.
ADy1cEs of the Goth ult from all parts Of
the Northwest indicated that there would
be considerably less than an average yield
Of wheat this season, owing to dry weather
AFTER delay OF twenty eight years the
trial at Mount Vernon, KY, of J. Logan
Sigman for murder committed at the be-
ginning of the war ended on the Goth ult
in an acquittal
The Cincinnati Police Commissioners on
u
mand to the chief of police for his failure to
close the saloons on Sunday
The special grand jury in the Oron1n
murder case in Chicago returned indict-
ments for conspiracy and murder against
the following persons on the 29th ult: John
f. Beggs lawyer and senior guardian of
Camp 20; Dan Coughlin, ex-detective;
Patrick O'Sullivan, ice-man; Martin Burke
laborer; F. ]. Woodruff, alias Black, the
horse-thief; Patrick Cooney, alias the
Fox bricklayer: John Kunze, laborer
DR. Mellow, who murdered Editor Daw-
son at Charleston, S. c., was acquitted by
q jury on the goth ult.
PRESIDENT HARRISON on the goth ult. is
sued an order prohibiting the sale of liquor
on the camp grounds OF the National Guards
at their coming annual encampment.
TIE limited express train on the Boston
d Albany road was ditched near New Haven
Conn, on the Goth ult, and three persons
were killed and several others We're badly
injured
AS THE result of an election on the goth
ult the towns of Lake and Jefferson, the
village and township of Hyde Park, the city
of Lake View and a small strip of Cicero
were annexed to the city of Chicago thus
giving that city a population of l, 100000,
and placing it secondi in the list of American
cities as to population, with an area of ITO
square miles
The reports on the goth ult to the
Illinois State Board of Agriculture showed
heavy damage to the corn plant throughout
the State by excess of rain
AN Indian (name unknown) who crimi-
nally assaulted Mrs. Frank Glassman at Bed
ford, Ia, was taken from Jail by mob on
the 9th ult. and hanged
THE Postmaster-Genera decided on the
29th ult to do away with the two-cent
green postage stamp.
AN English syndicate was on the Goth ult.
said to be buying Massachusetts, shoe fac
tories
THE steamer sovia which sailed for Europe
from New York on the 29th ult carried $50
school-teachers bound for the Paris ex-
position
THE statement of the public debt issued
on the list showed the total debt to be
81 81 401, SOL cash in Treasury, $7l, 484, O42;
debt less cash in Treasury, 81, ore, GAG, 621.
Decrease during June, SIG go, 929 De-
crease since June 80. 1883, $50, 39S,O35.
THE plant of the Reading (Pa) iron
works, which failed four months ago, was
sold on the LIST to William P Bard, repre-
senting the Philadelphia g. Reading rail-
road, for $3.50, 500, subject to a mortgage of
$500, OOO
THE receipts of the Government from all
sources during the fiscal year closed June
30 aggregated 1888, sol ,675. against 379, 266, =
Ola for the preceding year The ordinary
expenses were $153, 734, 1877, against 1874,
640, 442 during the preceding year. The
pension charge was ;67,977,6s2, or about
S8,0O0,00O more than for the previous year.
The surplus revenue for the year will
amount to Sl06, o0O, 900, against Sl19,612, 116
the previous year.
NEARLY twenty five hundred coal-miners
OF the first and second pools on the Monon-
gahela river went on q strike on the LIST for
three cents per bushel.
The total number of failures in the United
States during the past six months. as report
&c by Bradstreets, was 5,9l8; assets, $52,-
N3,940; liabilities, s67, 411.n1, against 664
failures in the first half of 1885,
The official majority given against pro-
hibition in Pennsylvania was on the LIST
stated to be 1885, OF.
JOHN KUNZE, who was indicted BIZ the
grand jury for the murder OF Dr. Cronin in
Chicago, was arrested on the LIST and placed
In jail.
A NUMBER of cattle and hogs ON the farm
of Henry Daley, near Marion, Ind, were
attacked with hydrophobia on the LIST and
had to be killed They were bitten by q
6nry novoro1 1ouo hot