Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-05-28

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ex-President Garfield was opened at
Cleveland on the slst In order to quiet
forever the rumofs about the body not
being In the casket, and the body was
found to be In = good state of preserves
ton.
Ar Doylestown, Pa, on the ssd J. M.
Shellenberger, who recently embexzlod
large amount and forged checks
amounting In all to $500, 0O0 was sem
fenced to twenty-five years imprlson.
ment "
EIzo ALLEN, confidential clerk at
Kansas City Of the Austin Investment
Company, flod to Canada on the aad with
$780, 900 Of the concerns money.
The Bank Of Middle, Tennessee ut
Lebanon, Tenn, failed on the 92d for
$40, 600, with assets Of $85, 1000
AT Nashville, Tenn, on the 22d DR..
w. Il. Briggs was elected president Of
the American Medical Association.
A FURIOUS wind-storm struck Ham,
mond, Ind, on the cad, shattering
windows, unrooflng houses, tearing
down awnings and filling the streets
with debris.
THE General Synod Of the Reformed
Presbyterian Church began its session
on the ssd at Pittsburgh, Pa.
On tho a2d Robbins circus train was
wrecked near Epping, N. H., causing
heavy loss to the owner.
CLARENCE F. JEwErr, president of the
Jewett Publishing Comply of Boston,
disappeared on the 92d. It was said
that his crooked transactions in the
overissue of stock would reach $75. 900.
THE largo freight house of the New
York Central railroad ut Albany, N. Y,
was burned with its contents on the
9ad. Loss, $l75,0oo ~se No. H.
A LARGE portion of Milford, Utah..
comprising some Of the largest build
ings in town, was burned on the 3ad. '
AT st. Louis on the 22d the Grand
Lodge of Odd Fellows Of the State OF
Missouri voted to expol all membe of
the order who are saloon-keepers.
BY the upsetting of boat on the 9sd
ut Providence, r. l., Mrs. Della Manned
and Miss Mamie Huling were drowned,
Mrs. Huling, who was also in the boat,
escaped by olinging to her dog, which
swan with her to shore.
THE strike Of the 5000 employees Of
the National tube works at McKees-
port, Pa, ended on the Esd, the men
resumin work at the old rates.
THERE were 239 business failures in
the United States during the seven days
ended on the asd, against 2la the pre-
vious seven days
In the vicinity of Billings, Mont,
three severe shocks Of earthquake were
felt on tho Esd, houses being shaken
and some OF them being cracked from
top to bottom.
THE Supreme Court of the United
States decided on the 23d against Kemm-
Ter, the Buffalo IN: W murderer, un-
der sentence Of death by electricity.
The court maintained that there was no
evidence to show that death by electric.
ity was cruel.
The first barley of the season in Cali
fornia was harvested at Tulare on the
Esd and yielded twenty-one centals to
the acre. The first wheat was harvested
May l8. the earliest ever known in that
State.
A MONUMENT to the memory OF Rhode
1oA6IlU SOAOAOES ouU S0AlOES "6S UouAe
Gated on the 23d ut Newport.
DURING quarrel on the Esd Patrick
Malloy, living near Hamilton, O., shot
and killed his son George and then took
his own life.
AT San Francisco on the Esd 1850
seal skins, seized by the United States
Government from illegal sealers, were
sold, 1874, 956 being realized and turned
over to the Government
THE Owego National Bank at Owego,
N. Y, closed its doors on the 23d after
posting notice that ''depositors need
have no fear"
THE heaviest rain and electrical
storm known in years passed over
large section OF Western Pennsylvania
on the 2Sd, doing great damage to prop
erty and resulting in the loss of several
lives
THE collections of internal revenue
for the first ten months of the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1890, were $114,"
545, 276, or ~, 724, 354 more than the col
lections for the corresponding period
last year. ...
THE United States Supreme Court on
the 23d adjourned until the next term,
beginning the second Monday in Octo-
Der.
Rev. FATHER s. NJ. A. BARRETT, the
veteran pastor Of st. Stephens Church
in Chicago, was shot and fatally
wounded on the 23d BY crazy horse
sheer named Patrick Ready.
The Iowa Indians on the 23d slgnifled
their willingness to sell their lands to
the Government at $1.25 an acre, retain
ing sixty acres for each member of the
tribe = : j IL <t1%+ :; 80 J
THE American Baptist Missionary
Union held its sixty-sixth annual con-
vention on the 23d in Emmanuel Baptist
Church in Chicago. The treasurer's re-
report showed receipts of $3.50, 527, and
liabilities of 1857, 400. Rev. G.. w.
Northrup, of Illinois, was reelected
president.
AT Salineville, O., George Patterson
and his wife and their two children
were killed by lightning on the 23d
while standing under q tree: -
T. j. MCMAHON, farmer living near
Green Isle, MINI, fatally shot his wife
and then himself on the 23d. Domestic
trouble was the cause. I5*'1 >'*-,@