Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-08-21

burlington Missouri, near Teoumseh
where nearly twenty miles Of track must
be rebuilt No houses were washed away
~ the falling OF wall In Chicago on the
1Ath one man was killed and two others
seriously injured E Il
| INDICTMENTS We're found on the 18th al
Purvis. Miss, against John L. Sullivan and
Jake Kilra1n and eight others connected
with the fight
-FOUR more bod1es-two women and two
chlldren-Were unearthed at Johnstown,
Pa, on the 14th. 1t was expected that
more CHASTITY tnds would be made during
the next few days, until oil the excavations
were made. ~ Z
The boiler Of a Neutrality-suspicious. ex-
ploded on the 14th eighteen miles south
west of Aberdeen, D. T., and caused the in
slant death OF three men and iniurine Sc
verely several others. A team OF horses
We're also blown some distance and killed.
The cause was the rotten condition Of the
boiler, which had been in use five wears. a
FIRE at No. - Warren street New York
City, on the morning of the 14th caused a
loss OF $6O, GOO t& #ts
THREE OF the overland settlers were ar
rested at Fort Dodge, Ia, on the 14th. They
were charged with trespass, they having
returned to the farms from which they
We're evicted and gathered in the hay CROP.
Ex-JUDGE DAVID s. TERRY was shot and
killed by Deputy United States Marshal
David Maggie on the 14th at Lathrop, Cal
Justice Stephen J, Field, of the United
Stated supreme Court, and Deputy United
States Marshal Maggie were sitting in the
depot dining-room at breakfast when
Judge Terry came In, walked over and
| slapped Justice Field in tho face. Marshal
Nasle fired two shots at Terry, one of tho
bullets going through his heart and the
other through the floor. He never spoke
after being shot The assault on Justice
Field was provoked by Judge Terry being
committed to Jail for contempt of court in
the celebrated Sharon-H Hill divorce case,
Justice Field presiding over the court at
the time
TWELVE persons were seriously injured
on the 14th by the breaking through a tres
tie OF passenger'tra1 on the Evansville
4 Terre Haute railway twelve miles north
of Mount Vernon, Ind
| On the 14th the Monon route granted a
| one cent a mile rate to veterans desiring to
| attend the G. A. r. encampment at Mil
waukee, that being the first railroad to
make that reduction
SEVERAL Thousand acres were on the 18th
ablaze in Montana. The timber north and
south of Miles City, it was thought, wa:
struck by lightning, starting the fire. A
body of men had gone out to fight the
| flames
TWENTY persons were reported killed on
| the l4th i'll the district adjacent to Kansas
City, Mo-, by the storm wkich passed over
that section on the night of the 18th -,
On the 14th the trustees of E. and A. H.
Bachelor & Co., Boston's bankrupt leather
firm which failed recently. issued state
ment placing the liabilities at 81 ,3oO, 900.
The assets were sufficient to pay fifty cents
on the dollar
BIG company was formed on the 18th
for the purpose of boring for natural gas
inside of Butfalo's IN w. city limits.
BRIDGE builders at Cleveland, O., contem-
plated on the 18th investing Sc, OOO, 600 in
rolling mills for the manufacture of iron
beams as foundrymen charged such ex-
orbitant prices.
WASHINGTON advices of the 18th state
that owing to the light offerings of bonds
the Treasury surplus amounted to $40, 500
goo, being the highest point reached since
last October. -
The inquest over the remains of Judge
Terry, who was shot by Deputy United
States Marshal Maggie while in the act of
committing an assault on Chief-Justice
Field, of the United States Supreme Court,
was held at Stockton, Cal, on the 18th
The jury found that Judge Terry came to
his death from q wound inflicted by David
Maggie, and recommended that he be held
in custody and tried for murder Mrs
Terry swore out warrant charging JUS
tice Field and Deputy Marshal Maggie with
the murder, and an officer was on his way
to effect the arrest of the venerable jurist
who was holding court in San Francisco.
WILLIAM JONES, for twenty years an en-
ploye Of L b. Butler & Co., of Philadelphia
disappeared on the 18TH leaving shortage
in his accounts OF $4,000
The Treasury Department at Washington
issued an order on the 18th prohibiting the
reuse of casks and barrels by distillers.
The order does not apply to breweries
FRANK WELLER, Federal officer, was
killed in Holmes County, Fla, on the 18th
viii attempting to arrest moonshiners
In view of prospective advance in coke
and freight rates Bessemer pig-iron adj
vanced one dollar per ton in Pittsburgh
Pa, on the 18th, and trade is more encour-
aging than for some months.
The North Dakota constitutional conven-
ton on the 18th unanimously adopted a res
o ution favoring the holding of the Worlds
Fair In Chicago in 1892.
AT the Keokuk Na) races on the 18th
Satellite trotted six miles in 16:53s4, break
ing all previous records for the distance.
THE works of the American Machine Com
pany at Findlay, O., were on the 18th
placed in the hands of a receiver. The as
sets are 49, 0Oo and the liabilities 5000
A BIG demonstration was held by Dr.
Cronin sympathizers on the 18th at Chel-
tenham beach, Chicago, ten Thousand to
fifteen thousand persons attending. On
the same day anti-Cronin sympathizers held
a meeting at Ogden's grove, Chicago at
which about seven thousand persons at
tended
Snow fell on the 18th in the vicinity of
Greensburg, Pa.
]. F. joy, of Detroit, and W. g. SCOTT, of
Erie, arrived in Chicago on the 18th to con-
fer with Governor F1fer and the arbitration
committee with view to the settlement
of the strike in the ooal-fields Of Illinois.
IT was generally believed in Washington
on the 18th that an extra session of Con-
gress would be held.
AMERICAN foresters on the 18th at Minne-
apolis, Mimi, decided to Withdraw from
the English order, and form an independ-
emit order of their own. 1t was brought
about by the English high court insisting
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