Mower County transcript., 1890-11-12

COLONEL THOMAS B. PRICE, president
OF the Gazette Printing Company Of
Sedalia, Mo-, and one Of tho best.known
men In Missouri, was shot and mortally
wounded during . political discussion
by Judge John Higgins. of the Pettis
! County court Both men were en- route
to their homes on . Missouri Pacific
| train. T.
THE Croton aquoduct in New York Is
now practically completed and in use.
The supply is s,000,0O gallons Of
water per day. -
AMONG paroles granted by the peni-
tentiary managers at Columbus. O.,
were those of Fred H. Braggins, the
Cleveland editor sent ur for eight years
for forgery, and John B. Simons,
! treasurer OF Drake County, con voted Of
embezElement and sentenced for six
years.
Two woRKMEN were instantly killed
and third badly hurt by q falling
pier under railroad track upon which
they were at work at Doylestown. Pa.
WHILE temporarily insane Mrs. Jo-
seph Lamprecht OF Philadelphia, killed
her infant child, fatally cut the throat
OF her 6-year-old daughter Mary and
then fatally stabbed herself.
A FIRE at Owensboro, Ky, destroyed
many business buildings, including the
Messenger newspaper Office. Win H.
Hahn jumped from the third-story
window of the Rudd House and was
killed.
The cooper shop of tho Philadel phia
Cooperage Company, tue soap factory
and spice mill OF P. c. Thompson and .
large storage warehouse belonging to
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at
Philadelphia were burned, causing a
loss Of $ls5, 600.
S1GNoR SUccI, the faster, began fast
of forty-dve days in New York on the
9th.
The statue to the memory Of William
Denning, manufacturer of tho cannon
used by the Americans in the war OF the
revolution, was unvailed at Newville,
Pa.
w. B. CoTrRELL, the notorious Cedar
Keys (Fla) desperate, was shot and
killed by Chief Of Police Gerald at
Montgomery, Ala.
GOVERNOR HUMPHREY, of Kansas,
granted an unconditional pardon to
William Baldwin, who was under death
sentence for numbering his sister Mary
in Atchison July s, 1885. Baldwin was
believed to be innocent
EMIL WUELFRoDr. OF Terre Haute,
who found employment in beating his
wife, was thrashed by women with raw
hides in one of the streets of that city.
NEARLY forty buildings, including
the entire business portion OF Truckee,
Cal., were destroyed by an incendiary
fire.
BLACK diph liberia was prevailing in an
epidemic form in Cygnet, O.. and the
schools were all closed and business was
practically suspended.
HENRY HUMPHnEY died in New York
from an epileptic fit caused by hard
drinking. Ten years ago he inherited
fortune of 800, 900 and he had scarce
ly drawn sober breath since.
AT a meeting in Philadelphia for the
relief of the suffering in ireland at
which Messrs. O'Brien and Dillon made
speeches Postmaster John Fields, who
tion list which footed up Sl2, sS5.
ABOUT sixty crusaders assaulted the
saloon of Andy Spaulding at Freeman.
NO., and knocked in the heads Of all
liquor barrels Freeman is a local
option town and the raid was generally
approved.
TRAIN wreckers ditched a passenger
train on the Missouri Pacific road near
Otterville, No., and the engineer and
four postal clerks were badly injured.
Robbery was the object
A HEAVY volume of business through
out the country was reported. with the
monetary situation substantially un-
changed. The foreign trade was un-
usually active, the imports during
October being in excess of $l05. 900, 600.
The police broke up an Anarchist
meeting at Newark, N. j., by arresting
Mrs. Lucy Parsons. Herr Most and seven
others.
TRAINS collided near Nicholasville,
KY, tearing a sleeping Car to fragments.
The passengers miraculously escaped
death, but several of them were severe
ly injured.
The business failures in the United
States during the seven days ended on
the 9TH numbered 215, against 31S the
preceding week and 267 the correspond
ing week last year.
The entire business portion Of Hart
man, Ark, was burned
MRS. o. G. BAILEY, the wife of a
prominent citizen of Arlington, Tenn,
was killed By negro whom she had re.
fused money.
NovERro GRECO, Mexican, was
hanged at Canyon City, COL, for the
murder Of w. L. Underwood on June 4
last. and Will Bethea (colored) was
hanged at Wrightsville. Ca, for killing
Lumber Inspector Raiford on March II
last.
AN assignment was made by the Mu-
tual Fire Insurance Company of Chi
cago. Poor business was given as the
cause of the failure
EVERY house in Winslow, Pike Coun-
ty, Ind, was burned, and there would
be much suffering among the inhab-
itants