Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-02-12
DOMESTIC.

The Sears building, one of the finest
in Boston, was burned on the I'd. Loss,
$25O,OOO.
In Washington on the Sd the superin-
tendent of the census appointed John
Hyde, of Nebraska, and Mortimer White
head, of New Jersey, chief special agents
for the collection of the statistics of
agriculture.
The New York Presbytery on the Sd
declared itself in favor OF revision of
the Westminster Confession of Faith by
vote of SO to 43.
In Chicago on the Sd motion for a
new trial for James j. West, ex-presi-
dent of the Times Com pany, was denied
by Judge Grinnell, and West was SEN
fenced to five years in the penitentiary
and to pay fine of $1,000.
The schooner Annie NJ. Strople. of
the Gloucester (Mass.) fishing feet, was
en the Sd given up as lost with her ere W
Of fourteen men.
The visible supply of grain in this
country on the Sd was: Wheat 3,4S9, 1913
bushels, a decrease of 454,411 bushels;
corn, II, 919, AIT bushels, an increase of
288, 535 bushels.
THE bridge across the Illinois river
near Peoria, ILL.,, gave way on the Sd be-
meath the weight of a freight train, and
Engineer Neville, Fireman O'Brien and
Brakeman Lewis were killed.
In the Metropolitan Opera-House at
New York on the Sd Hon. Seth Low was
istalled as the eleventh president of
Columbia College in the presence of a
vast audience.
The convention of Knights of Labor
of New York State, held in Troy on the
Sd, adopted resolutions in favor of the
Australian ballot system.
ON the Sd Director of the Mint Leech
estimated that on February there was
81, 1872, 1875, 174 worth of gold and silver
coin and bullion in the United States
divided as follows: Gold coin, 1924, 900, =
4Ss; gold bullion, $s6, oso,9 1887; silver
coin, $429,646,6 45; silver bullion, SILL
557, 759
The residence of Secretary of the
Navy Tracy in Washington was burned
early on the morning of the Sd. The
Secretary's youngest daughter and Mrs.
Tracy's French maid, Josephine Nor
rell, were burned to death, and Mrs.
Tracy received injuries from which she
died shortly after being removed to a
place of safety. The Secretary was
rescued in partially-asphyxiat con-
dition, while his daughter, Mrs.
Wilmerding, and her little daughter
Alice saved themselves by jumping
from the second-story window.
IT was stated on the Sd that fully
fifteen thousand persons near Pottsville,
Pa, were in starving condition owing
to lack of work in the coal mines.
The stove works of A. Cox & Co., near
Norristown, Pa, were destroyed by fire
on the 18th. Loss, 100000.
On the 4th two colored men named
Gray and Randle were assassinated in
the woods near Rocky Comfort, Ark.
SEVERAL persons were bitten by a
mad dog on the 9Th at Huntington, Ind.
A cABoosE and Car containing rail-
road laborers went through railroad
bridge sixty-eight feet high on the Ore
gon railway near Cascade locks on the
4th, and ten men were killed and fifteen
wounded.
THREE section men were killed by a
train on the 18th near st. Cloud, MINI.
The centennial of the formation of
the United States Supreme Court was
celebrated with public meeting at the
Metropolitan OperaHouse in New York
on the 4th and banquet in the even
ing.
JOSEPH P. MURPHY, manufacturer of
cotton and wooden goods at Philadel-
phia, failed on the 4th for $500, 900.
THE Baptist Book Concern was organ
lied on the 18th at Louisville, KY, on a
plan similar to the Methodist Book
\ Concern, and would soon begin the pub
LEGATION of UNCONVENTIONAL books.
AT New York on the 4th the Sixth
:Naaopal Bank and the Equitable Bank
: n..Sr12d husiness