Mower County transcript., 1890-01-29

(Ky.) constable, was murdered and his
wife fatally wounded on the 21st by =
band OF rufaans who broke into the
house.
The report that Mexicans had flooded
the towns along the border with coun..
terfeit American dollars was denied on
the 21st by Texas bankers.
The American Tobacco Company, sup
posed to be the consolidation Of num-
ber OF firms, was Incorporated on the
2lst at Trenton, N. j., with capital Of
S25, 600, 900. '*,s' Sd. ~-@.
ISAAC LOCKWOOD and William Brad
ley, two printers, were suffocated BY
coal gas In their room in New York on
the 2lst. -, '~..
THOMAS RA1NEY, ranchman, died in
San Antonio, Tex. on the 21st, and his
aged father upon hearing of his sons
death went into an adjoining room and
blew his brains out.
IHE express Car of a train on the
Southern Pacific road was robbed of
$25, 900 by two masked men on the 91st
near Tulare, Cal.
MANY cattle at Eden, Pa. were on
the 99d reported to be dying from ca
tarrhal pneumonia.
Ice formed on the Hudson river in
| New York on the 22d for the first time
this winter.
The bodies Of three more victims of
! the Conemaugh valley flood were found
at Coopersdale, Pa, on the 22d, but none
| of them could be identified.
The Freeman Wire & Iron Companv's
works at East st. Louis, ILL.,, were de-
stroyed by fire on the 22d. Loss, $780,
| 900.
In Chicago court on the 22d Henry
Bush, fireman for the Northern Pa
citic, was awarded verdict of $4,000
for damages received in an accident
the second largest verdict Of the sort on
record.
A FIRE in the lumber-yard of J. r.
Paul, in Boston, on the 22d caused a
loss Of $3.50, 900.
In quarrel on the 22d Anthony N.
Nelson, a farmer living in Abbeyville
County, S. c., was shot dead by his wife,
who afterward shot herself fatally.
ALL railway trains in South Dakota
and Southwestern Minnesota were
abandoned on the 22d owing to a snow
blockade.
AN order was placed at tho Baldwin
locomotive works in Philadelphia on
! the 2ad for seventy-tive engines for the
Northern Pacific railway.
THE negroes of Barnwell County, S.
c., the scene of the recent massacre, at
| a meeting on the 22d decided to emil
CRATE.
JAMES BLACKWELL and his two sons
while crossing in skiff from Belleville
to Providence, Ky, on the 22d were cap
sized and drowned.
The bankers of Nebraska met at
Omaha on the 22d and organized State
Bankers Association.
Four boilers of the Mount Jessup
(Pa.) Coal Company exploded on the
22d, blowing the engine and boiler
houses to pieces, killing the night fire.
man and fatally injuring several labor
ers.
A PASSENGER train on the Pittsburgh,
Fort Wayne & Chicago railway ran down
! two little girls named Walker at Werner
Station, Pa, on the 23d, killing them
both.
AT the coal dumps at Newark, N. j.,
on the Esd three boys set fire to the
clothes Of an Italian girl who was pick
ing coal, and the girl was fatally burned.
AN express train on the Chicago &
| Northwestern road ran into carriage
in funeral procession at Rose Hill
Cemetery gate in Chicago on the 23d,
killing Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Pavne,
who were burying their infant child,
Mrs. Repregel, friend, and Simon An.
derson, the driver.
On the 23d Mr.. and Mrs. George Com.
stock, an aged couple of Newark, Conn.,,
were returning from the funeral of a
relative when they we're run down at a
railway crossing and both fatally in.
jured.
AT Hallowell, Kan, the boiler in the
Touring mills exploded ON the 2Sd, de-
molishing the mills and mortally wound
ing two men.
PRESIDENT HARRISON on the 23d an
proved the act increasing the pay Of
supervisors of the census from $500 t<
$1,000.
THE receipts from internal revenue
the first six months of the fiscal veal
ending June 80, 1890, were $69, or, 832
being IS, 766, 266 greater than during the
corresponding period of the previous fs.
cal year.
AN explosion of powder on the 2sd in
Wilkes County, N. c., killed fve men
and injured thirteen others
THIRTEEN young men of Gynneville,
Ind, were arrested on the 23d charged
with organizing a White Cap raid on
Edgar Elliott and his wife and wreckinq
their house.
THE non-partisan convention of lady
temperance workers in session on the
23d at Cleveland, O., decided that the
organization should be known as '"The
National Crusaders" Mrs. Ellen ].
PhinneX, of Cleveland, was elected pres
| ident.
NICHOLAS MEYER, of Chicago. shot
and killed his wife on the 23d and then
committed suicide. Jealousy was the
cause.
THE old Unitarian church at West
Roxbury, Mass, occupied by the First
Congregational parish, was destroyed
by an incendiary fire on the 23d. It was