Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-09-11
Epitome of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
PAUL q: BRANCH, u prominent attorney,
and Frank J. Dudley, business man, were
killed in a runaway accident ON the 1st ut
Evansville. Ind Both were drunk
IT was said on the 3lst ult that the ex-
periments which had been conducted Urn.
der the direction of the Kansas State Board
OF Agriculture in silk culture had been
highly satisfactory.
LABOR DAY was generally observed
throughout the country on the I'd.
JIM DYER, one Of the most notorious
desperadoes in Indian Territory, was shot
and mortally wounded on the I'd ut the
mouth OF Allen bayou by John MoHenry,
The Ohio State fair opened at Columbus
On the 2d with the largest number Of
entries in live stock, farm products, ma
chinery and fine arts ever before made in
its history.
WILLIAM H. HoAe1AND, aged twenty
seven years, of Newark, N. j., who was
bitten by cur dog three weeks ago, died
of hydrOphobia on the I'd.
SENSATION was caused at Lenox, Ia, on
the I'd by the closing of L. s. Brookes'
bank No one knew the condition of the
bank
LEE F. WILSON, member of the Legislature
from Shelby County, Ind, was arrested on
the I'd, charged with violating the pension
laws
The post Office building at Lawrence,
Ala, was burned on the I'd by white citi-
gems who were indignant at the appoint
ment of colored postmaster.
A BIG Industrial boom was begun on the
I'd in the schuylkill (Pa) valley rollin =
mills. with advanced wages for the en-
ployes
In the United States Circuit Court at St.
Louis on the I'd Judge Thayer decided that
che counterfeiting OF union cigar labels
could not be prevented, nor the parties
punished for SO doing
The War Department at Washington on
the I'd ordered the abandonment OF the
military posts at Fort Laramie, Wv. T.,
Fort Hayes, Kan. and Fort Lyon, Col
ADv1cEs of the I'd from Monticello, KY,
say that young negro who had assaulted
his employee daughter was caught in the
woods by posse, tied to. stake and
burned to death.
HE town of Barker, NJ. T., was almost
totally destroyed Dy fire on tho I'd and a
man named Ellis, his wife and four chill
dren and three other men persisted in the
flames.
The will of Millionaire Thaw, of Pitts
bnrgh, Pa. made public on the I'd, be-
queaths $lSo,oo0 to Presbyterian Boards.
$lC0,ON to the Western University of Penn
sylvania, IS, CSC to the American Board and
100000 to hospitals in Pittsburgh. The
remainder of the property goes to the
widow and children.
SAMUEL c. SHowALTER, aged sixty-nine
years, died at Dayton, O., ON the I'd from
the effects of the ''elxir OF life" admin
lstered in the hope of relieving him of
rheumatism.
The statement of the public de BIT issued
S45. S26, 1853; cash in Treasury, $40, 4S9, $40:
debt less cash in Treasury, sl,OsS, 74O 6s5
Increase during August, sc, 076 69a, In
crease since June 80 1888, 81, O94,O O4
NEAR Greensburg, Pa, Mrs. William GIVES
was fatally shot on the I'd by her father,
John Jones. an old man sixty-five wears of
age, who was intoxicated and fiourishing a
revolver
MRS. GEORGE COOKS, of Little Sandusky,
u, died on the Sd OF what physicians pro-
nounced to be genuine Asiatic cholera
AN incendiary fire on the Sd at Ukiah.
Cal, destroyed the Palace Hotel, the Wells
Fargo express Office. Western Union tele-
graph Office, Reeds Theater and the Odd
Fellows Hall
BURGLARS entered the post-office at Mo-
line, I'LL, early on the morning of the Sd
and stole about SO, 100 in cash and stamps.
A CONVENTION to frame constitution for
New Mexico met at Santa Fe on the I'd,
HE Miami Company's elevator at Day.
ton, O., with a lot of hay and thirty-fiye
thousand bushels of oats, was burned on
the I'd
WELLS, FARGO & Co. received informa-
tion on the I'd that two OF their stages had
been robbed-one at Bodie and the other
at Forest Hi l, Cal. In both cases the high
waymen secured the treasure-boxes.
The second International fair at Buffalo,
N. Y, was opened on the Sd
AT Malod City. U. T.. two young men,
Abraham Likes and Jude Springs. fought
a duel On the Sd over young woman. and
both were killed
BOTH whites and blacks in Bibb County,
Ala, were arming themselves on the Sd,
and race war was imminent
TIE towns of Yarmouth and Sandwich.
Mass, on the I'd celebrated the two hun
dred and fftieth anniversary OF their incor-
poration.
In the Elliston and Ten Mile region in
Montana snow fell on the Sd to depth of
six inches materially aiding in quenching
the forest fires which had been raging for a
month.
l.. L. Al OOuhAfR, OA u1uSSIdfc O. 70, u
'bear" operator in Wall street, New York,
failed on the Sd with liabilities OF 100000
Ten ice-houses near La Porte, Ind con-
tanning 15O. $50 tons of ice, the property of
the John Hill Ice Company. was destroyed
by fire on the Sd
WILLIAM JOHNSON. of Denver Col, aged
twenty-th three years, in a fit of jealousy on
the I'd shot and killed Jennie Schroek, his
sweetheart. and then killed himself
On the Virginia Midland raj road on the
Sd the caboose attached to freight train
left the track near Accotink. Va. and rolled
down an embankment killing T. A. Rainey
and Ashton Ratney, brothers, and we'll
known cattle drovers. of Warrenton, Va.
Conductor Faulkner was seriously injured
IT was stated On the Sd that the leading
piano and organ manufacturers of the
country were forming trust
FORTY carloads of sealskins, the entire
catch OF the Alaska Fur Company for the
last year, passed over the Union Pacific
road on the I'd. bound for England
THE American Social Science Association
began it's twenty-fourth annual meeting on
the Sd at Saratoga Springs, N. Y.
AILERToN, the famous trotter, went lame
On the Sd in race on the fair grounds at
Des Moines, La.
ALL the shoe shops save one at North