Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-03-05

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failed on the 26th for 800, 600.
A TORNADO on the 25th at Carson,
New, leveled many houses and trees,
and vessels on Lake Tahoe were smashed
to pieces.
The courthouse and Jail at Van
couver, Wash; with most OF the county
records, were burned on the 25th. ,.
On the 25th two Italians had their
eyes blown out by a premature blast in
Rocky Hill IN. J.) quarry. -.
A WOMAN named Hall and her three
children were drowned on the 95th in
Martindale creek, near Cambridge City,
Ind.
AN express train on the Evansville &
Terre Haute road went through a bridge
on the 25th near Vincennes, Ind, and
tho engineer and fireman were killed
and several passengers were injured,
none fatally.
THE firm of A. G. Leonard & Co.,
boot and shoe dealers in Chicago, failed
on the 35th for $4,000. The pecula-
tions OF their superintendent caused the
failure.
FIFTY mules were suffocated in q
burning mine at Shamokin, Pa, on the
26th.
The temperature fell to 45degrees be-
low zero on the Goth at Bowlder, Mont,
freezing to death herd of 100 cattle in
the stock-yards belonging to- the Miner
Cattle Company.
MANY buildings were unroofed and
several were destroyed in cyclone at
Brownsville, Tenn, on the Goth.
The entire rubber business in import
ing and manufacturing branches was
formed into trust company in New
York on the goth.
ALFRED CARBoUGH, the s-year-old son
Of farmer living near Sedalia, Mo-,
died on the Goth from hydrophobia.
The old observatory and a number Of
frame houses at Hot Springs, Ark, were
wrecked by tornado on the Goth, and
in the region round about number of
farm houses were destroyed.
JOHN JACOB AsroR's will was filed for
probate on the Goth at New York. With
the exception of $750,000 in charitable
and other requests the entire estate goes
to his son, William Waldorf Astor.
JACOB HENKELL, an extensive New
York cigar box manufacturer, failed on
the Goth for 500, 900.
GEORGE CLARK was hanged on the
Goth at Waynesburg, Pa, for the murder
of drover named William McCausland
in 1857.
The Mariposa stage was robbed by
two highwaymen on the Goth near Mer-
ced, CAL, of the mails and express box.
The Big Miami river was food-high
at Hamilton, O., on the goth, and many
houses were submerged. In Cincinnati
high water in the Ohio river was doinp
great damage.
Bob POPE and his 11-year-old son,
''obnoxious citizens" of Hampton Coun-
ty, S. c., were shot and killed on the
Goth by unknown parties.
GEORGE A. BLACK was hanged on the
Goth at Laramie, Wy. T., for the murder
of Robert Burnett, an eccentric old
ranchman, last May.
AT Keathley, Tenn, q cyclone on the
26th wrecked Winslow & Bands bank
building, resulting in serious injuries
to six persons
AN unsuccessful attempt was made on
the night of the 9th ult by an unknown
man 70 assassinate DR.. Alexander Neil
at Columbus, o.
ADv1cEs of the 27th ult. say that an
other victim of the Hatfield Mccoy feud
in Kentucky is ''Uncle Joe" johnson, of
Pikeville, who was called to the door of
his house and shot dead.
CuApTrs n GDANn. r,oo1<Ix, o~l
eccentric citizen of West Andover,
Mass, was found dead in his house on
the 9th ult., having apparently starved
to death.
The house of Daniel Hebron (colored)
was burned on the 27th ult. at Lynch
burg, Va. and his two children, aged IL
months and years, persisted in the
flames.
A CALL was issued on the 9th, ult. to
branches of the Afro-American League
of New York to meet in State conven-
ton at Rochester May 25.
AN attempt was made on the 27th ult.
to wreck the limited express on the
Baltimore & Ohio road near Independ-
ence, O., three ties wedged into cattle
guard being found and removed a few
minutes before it arrived.
A BAND of train-robbers and consider
able of their plumber were discovered
on the 9th ult. near Spencerville, O.
THOMAS O'BR1EN was hanged on the
9th ult. at Lexington, KY, for tho muir
der of Bette Shea March 81, 1889.
ALL the through mail for San Fran
cisco on the mail storage car of the
west-bound fast mail train was destroyed
by fire on the 9th ult
A PASSENGER coach on the Norfolk &
Western road was wrecked on the 27th
ult. at Roanoke, Va, and ten persons
were injured.
AT Newaygo, Mich, fire on the 27th
ult. destroyed David w. Squires' barn,
consuming eight horses, two COWS, hay,
grain, etc.
A TORNADO on the 9th ult. did great
amount of damage at Torrance, Miss.
IT was thought on the 9th ult. that
$50 lives were lost by the recent burst
ing of the dam in the Hassayampa val
ley in Arizona.
The United States steamer Etruria
arrived at New York on the 9th ult,
having on board the remains of George
H. Pendleton, late Minister at Berlin,