Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-25

women were drowned and many build
| ings removed from their foundations.
A COACH containing fifteen young la
dies went over an embankment near
Jamestown, Pa, ON the 10th, and all sus-
tanned painful injuries.
AT Peoria, ILL.,, Katie Shehan, Frank
Scott, John Gilbert and man unknown
were drowned during the twenty-four
hours ended on the 10th.
The first original package house In
Lawrence. Kan, was opened on tho
10th. The Women's Christian Tenn
perance Union declared they would tear
the houses to pieces should others be
opened.
On the 10th $50 Mormon immigrants
reached New York on their way to Salt
Lake City.
DIR. w. J. HAMMER, dentist Of
Greensburg, Pa, while quarreling with
his wife on the 10th was shot by her and
mortally wounded.
The Tooth anniversary Of the settle
ment OF Kaukauna, Wis.,, was celebrat.
ed on the 10th.
DURING storm on the 10th so veral
buildings were destroyed at Highland.
Wis. and nine.tenths Of the bridges in
Vernon County were washed away and
the crops badly damaged. At SPRING
vile number of buildings. were
wrecked.
THE Millers' National Association in
session ut Minneapolis on the 10th
elected A. r. James, of Buffalo, as pres
ident.
A PAY train collided with freight
near Atchison. Kan, on the 10th, and
an engineer and eighteen horses were
killed.
THE Illinois crop report on the 10th
gave an average Of about two-thirds for
winter wheat. Spring wheat was good,
and the area in oats was small.
BOYS confined in the House Of Refuge
at Cincinnati set fire to the building on
the 10th in order to escape, but the
flames were extinguished before any
damage was done.
FURTHER advices Of the 10th say that
eleven lives were lost in the recent cy-
clone and cloud-burst near Appoma ttox,
in Potter County, s. D.
THE Park National Bank of Chicago
suspended payment on the Goth, with
liabilities estimated at $3.50, 900.
WHILE drilling we'll on the 20th at
Indian Springs, Ind, a vein of gold was
struck which was said to be so por cent.
pure.
In the country regions near Moberly,
Mo-, creeks overflowed their banks.
bridges were swept away, fences leveled
and many small buildings carried of on
the goth.
THE town of Milaca, Mimi, was
swept by fire on the Goth and almost
wholly destroyed.
ALDERMAN MCABEE and Michael j.
Corcoran, accused of election frauds in
Chicago, were acquitted by jury on
the goth.
AT a meeting in Chicago on the goth
of the worlds fair directors the lake
front was declared to be their prefer
ence as the site for the fair.
A TERRIBLE cyclone and cloud-burst
occurred near Earlville, ILL.,, shortly
after o'clock on the afternoon of the
20th, which resulted in terrible loss of
life and property, no less than thirty
persons being killed and the whole
country from near Earlville to Paw Paw,
in Lee County, being marked with ruin.
At least fifty farm houses and other
buildings were wrecked. Over one-half
the village of Sublette was destroyed
and over hundred persons injured.
Paw Paw was ruined.
A TRAIN on the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad was wrecked near Childs, Ind,
on the goth, and the engineer and fire.
man were killed and thirteen passen-
gers injured.
The following persons were hanged
on the goth: Josiah Potts and Eliza
beth his wife at Elko, New, for the
murder of Miles Fawcett in January,
1888; Peter E. Davis at Belleville, Ont,
for the murder of his paramour's hus-
band, and Fritz Dubois at Quebec for
killing his wife, mother-in-law and two
children in February, 1890.
HEAVY rains visited Northern Iowa
ON the goth, and the small grain was
badly down and much of the corn washed
out. Many bridges were also swept
away.
The village of Higbee, Mo-, was on
the goth reported to have been de-
stroyed by fire.
OTIS PENNINGTON, aged IA years, shot
and killed Elmer Hamilton, play
mate, at Blandinsville, ILL.,, on the Goth
for tying his clothes into knots while he
was in swimming
ADv1cEs of the goth say that a food
at Atchinson, Kan, destroyed five of
the largest railroad bridges in the city,
six large wagon bridges, eighteen
dwelling houses and other property,
the total loss being estimated at 5000,
OOO
THERE were 1879 business failures in
the United States during the seven days
ended on the goth, against PIP the pre-
vious seven days.
BURGLARS cracked the safe of Louis
NJ. Bliler, Kansas City bookmaker, on
the 10th and obtained 81, 100 in cash and
jewelry.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
THE Arkansas Democrats met in State
convention at Little Rock on the l; tn
and renominated James P. Eagle for
Governor
JOHN j. MCELHoNE, chief of the
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