Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-22
Epit0me of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
DOMESTIC,

DOMESTIC.
The two hundred and tiftleth anniversary
of the settlement of Newport, r. L, was OBJ
served in that city ON the 18th.
AT Dedham, Mass, on the 1lth ]. F.
Harnett by standing hop, skip and jump
OF thirty-seven feet and one-half inch beat
the record He also cleared forty feet with
three jumps, beating the worlds record
AT dance on the 18th near Portsmouth
O., Hurry Nichols shot and killed Wilson
and Amos Cooper, brothers, who had forced
q quarrel upon him after having been
warned to desist
AT Cincinnati on the 18th Moritz Blanc, a
workman in Dahrs fireworks manufactory,
shot and killed his wife and seven-year-oi
daughter and then killed himself. jealousy
was supposed to have been the cause
Tue exchanges at twenty-six leading
clearing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 18th aggregated
81, los, 6Sl $751; against $S4S, lag, l4S the pre-
vious week As compared with the cor
responding week of ISIS the increase
amounted to 1873
OVER three hundred colored persons were
baptized in the James river near Rich
mond, Va, on the 18th. This was the first
result of the unprecedented revival that
had been going on there for three weeks in
the colored churches.
TROUBLE which had been brewing for
several days between the whites and
blacks OF Gretna, La, eliminated on the
18th in the wounding OF four negroes and
the burning OF the negro fire companys en-
gine-house, the negro Baptist church and
four small houses occupied by negroes
PROF. ST. CLAIR, the aeronaut in attempt
ing to give his 'leap from the Clouds at
Houston, Tex, on the 18th lost his grip on
the parachute and fell three hundred feet
to the earth. Nearly every bone in his body
was broken.
WHILE insane on the 18th George loomis,
of Osceola, Wis, killed his wife by cutting
her throat and then killed himself
EDWARD HARTsHoRN and Amos Turley
We're killed and four other nen were badly
hurt by the explosion OF a boiler on the 18th
at saw-mill near Payne, O.
THE United States Supreme Court on the
18th affirmed the validity of the law ex
Guiding Chinese laborers, known as the
Scott Exclusion act.
GEORGE WARD, an engineer at Memphis.
Tenn, shot and killed his wife on the 18th
because she refused to live with him, and
then killed himself
FRED MEDLEY, proprietor of the Pueblo
House at Denver, Col, While drunk on the
18th shot and killed his wife because she
refused to give him money to purchase
beer
AT Springfield, Mass, ON the 18th ROYAL
3. Sturtevant mistook his brother-in-law.
James B. Smith, for burglar, and shot him
dead
Their: appears to be an epidemic of
rabies among the dogs throughout the
country. Numerous cases were reported
on the 18th from Kentucky, West Virginia,
Indiana and other sections.
L. CORNWALL, ieweler at Sedalia. Col.
was robbed on the 18th of 49,, 900 worth of
jewelry by clerk named Strauss, who, in
his employers absence, packed up the goods
and LETT town.
In collision by runaway on the 18th
at Grafton, D. T., Miss Johanna Goodman
son was killed a::d foar men were wounded
The new c !;t''~.t;;, Theater at San Fran
cisco was ore:s:: on the 18th by Booth and
Barrett.
TIE Gear, phenomenal three-ycar-old
colt, died of pneumonia on the 18th at
Council Bluffs, Ia. The Gar was the prop
erty Of Theodore Winters, OF Sacramento,
Cal, and was valued at S25 ,00O
WIND wrecked. a new building on the 13th
work on the structure twelve were killed
by falling timbers
. c. W. HATCH the Boston insurance man,
accused of killing his uncle at Burlington,
Col, was acquitted by jury on the 18th
The younger son Of E. Ellis OF Westport,
Wis. was instantly killed on the 18th by his
older brother. aged thirteen years. who
shot the child's head off with a shotgun
with which he was playing.
AT Richmond, Ind, on the 18th Dick
Sinex, local tough, in fight with John
Bristow, wandering soldier, bit the lat
ter's nose off. It was an unprovoked as
sault
The United States Supreme Court on the
18th awarded the executors of the will of
Myra Clark Gaines the sum of $576, 600.
This decision ended one of the most famous
cases on record, which had been in the
courts since 1884.
IT was decided in New York on the 18th to
erect a monument in city hall square to the
memory of Horace Greeley.
The United States Supreme Court adj
journed on the 18th until October next.
THERE was heavy fall of snow in Mime
sofa and Dakota on the 18th.
The strike of the seven thousand railroad
coal miners of the Pittsburgh district
which began TWO weeks ago, was seCGleO
on the 18th.
E. H. PLATr and John Allen, the former
a riding instructor and the latter hotel
keeper, started from New York on the 18th
TO ride to San Francisco on horseback.
TIE annual conference of the Hotel
Mems Mutual Benefit Association of the
United States was held in Chicago on the
18th. M. S. Gibson, of Portland, Ore, was
chosen president for the ensuing year.
NEAR Henryvllle, Ind, two freight trains
coIlided on the 14Uh and both engines and
thirty cars were wrecked No one was in
iured
The Supreme Lodge of the Knights OF
Honor met in sixteenth annual session on
the 18th at indianapolis. The secretarys
report showed a total membership OF 127,-
900, divided among 1850 lodges, which paid
$3,2lO, 900 death benefits last year.
SAMUEL CUNE1NGHAM, bachelor Of Ga
lena, Ill, seventy years OF age, was on the
14th sued for $10,0 900 for breach OF promise
by Mrs. Louise Lebram a widow OF three
score and ten.
MRS. c. F. NYGREN, Of Star Lake, Mimi,
dislocated her jaw on the 14th while yawn-
ing, and was obliged to ride twenty three
miles to have it set
TIE famous trott1ng horse Joe Hooker
killed himself at Parkersburg, W. Va, on
the 14th by running away and cutting his