Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-01-08

year 1889 was So, 562, 1853.
IHE number of persons who commit
ted suicide in the United States during
the year 1889 was AGA, against l, 4s7 in
1883. VI this number 1908 were males
and Ss1 females. The total number of
murders committed was 1857, against
2, 1874 in 1883.
In Mitchell County, s. c., Monroe
Garland killed three men on the s1st
ult. and wounded twelve in revenge for
the death OF his brother, who was killed
Christmas Day.
The total losses by fire in the United
States during 1889 was $143, 902, 670,
against 800, 900, 900 in 1883
Two PASSENGER trains on the Pam
Handle road collided near Kokomo.
Ind, on the S1st ult., and three train
men were fatally injured and four
others were seriously hurt,
Four boys between the ages of six
and eight years were buried by falling
sand bank on the 31st ult. at Jackson,
Tenn, and all four were dead when
taken out.
EAST and West Dallas, Tex, we're
merged into one city on the 31st ult. by
an act OF the Legislature, with q popu-
lation of over 60, 900.
The Liberty silk works in New York
were burned on the LIST, causing loss
Of $225,Ooo.
c. E. L1BBY's livery stable at Port
land, Me-, was burned on the LIST, and
twenty horses were cremated.
A STORM at st. Louis on the I'd blew
down an electric light wire. A dog and
a horse that touched it were instantly
killed, and three or four persons who
came slightly in contact with it were
knocked insensible.
AN ordinance was passed on the I'd at
Frankfort, KY, prohibiting the sale of
cigarettes within the corporation limits.
The people of Missionary Ridge,
Tenn, were on the I'd enjoying fresh
ripe Strawberries grown in their gardens
and ripened during the late spell of
warm weather.
In Kansas during 1889 the sugar man.
ufactured from sorghum aggregated
1898, 275 pounds, against sos, 274 pounds
in 1888.
AT Philadelphia on the I'd some un-
known person cut the Threats of Sarah
Kelly and Ann Kelly, aged respectively
eighty-one and seventy-nine years, who
lived alone in little frame house. Rob
berry was the motive.
A FIRE on the ID in the shops Of the
| Edison Electric Illuminating Company
| at New York caused a loss of 500. 900.
NEAR Chillicothe, No., William
Hughes and John Runkle were killed
on the I'd by the explosion of boiler.
AT Washington, Del, in the superior
court, a verdict for $4,000, 100 was rem
dered on the I'd in favor of Elizabeth R.
McComb against the Southern Railroad
Association.
w. l.. SCOTT's colliery near Mount
Carmel, Pa, suspended operations on
the I'd, throwing one thousand miners
out of work.
HENRY HOLMES, negro desperate
who shot a citizen of Bossier parish,
Louisiana, was lynched ON the I'd.
The iron firm of Curtis e. Co., at
Roland, Pa, failed on the I'd for $780,
600. The firm was established in 1910.
REPORTS of statistics of Locomotive
building for 1889 show slight falling
off from the product of 1888. Reports
from about half the car-building COM
panies show a decline of 20 per cent,
from the product of 1883.
OTro LEUTH, aged seventeen years,
was sentenced at Cleveland, O., on the
I'd to be hanged at Columbus, April Is.
for the murder of Maggie Thompson, a
little girl.
The statement of the public debt is
sued on the I'd showed the total debt
to be $3.50, 569, o53; cash in the Treas
| ury, $50, 595, 142; debt less cash in Treas
ury, $1,052, 952,911 Decrease during
December, So, 1884, S3. Decrease since
June 80, 1889, $23,663,71
A QUICKSILVER mine that assayed
from SIS to 60 per cent. of mercury was
discovered on the 9th near Tacoma,
! Wash.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Mrs. ELIZABETH PRICE, of Normal,
ILL.,, celebrated her ninety-ninth birth
day on the Doth. She was in good health.
Mrs. VICTORIA SCHILL1NG, the mill
! ionaire Morisini's hayward child who
eloped with Schilling, her fathers
coachman some years ago, was on the
2Sth dying of consumption at her faith
er's home in New York.
MRS. ROBERT TYLER died in Montgom-
cry, Ala, on the Goth, aged seventy-four
years. She was the wife of Robert w.
Ter, eldest son of President Tyler,
and presided as 'lady of the White
House" during the first three years of
President Tyler's administration.
The wife of General Longstreet died
on the 3Oth ult at her home in Gaines
Vile, Ga.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON, grandson of
the first Secretary of the Treasury, died
on the Both ult. at Irvington-on-the-Hud-
son in his seventy-ninth year.
The Kentucky Legislature met at
Frankfort on the 3Oth ult. Governor
Buckner in his message showed the de-
falcation of Treasurer Tate to be $174,-
094. At the Democratic caucus J. C. S.
Blackburn was renominated for United
States Senator.
WILLIAM WARREN BOY1NGToN, the
father of Chicago architecture, cole
brated his golden wedding anniversary