Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-02-19

IS a NATURAL gas we'll whose flow was
estimated at $4,000, 900 feet daily vas
drilled in" on the nth near Marion,
Ind. ~
On the 18th Charles and John Butler
and William Lee, fishermen, were
drowned near LIE Preux, N. B., during q
gale. -.
MRS. J. G. FISHER, of Media, Pa,
who had became partially insane on the
subject OF cremation, set her clothing
on lire on the 18th and was burned to
death.
The name of Bolivar County, Miss,
was on the 18th changed by the Legis-
lature to Jefferson Davis County.
SECRETARY BLAINE on the 1ath rein
stated Sevellon A. Brown as chief clerk
OF the State department, from which
place he was removed by Secreta-y
Bayard.
FIVE children were burned to death in
Michigan on the 12th, one near Bay
City, one at Lakeview, one at Ypsilanti
and two near Bellaire, and an old lady
met like fate at Central Lake.
The annual meeting Of the American
Newspaper Publishers Association was
begun at New York on tho 18th.
-FOUR OF the men accused of conspiracy
to bride jurors in the Cronin trial in
Chicago Hanks, Solomon and
Konen-pleaded guilty in court on the
12th.
NEAR Youngstown, O., on the 18th
William H. Marsteller and his wife were
struck by an engine at railway cross
ing and instantly killed.
ADv1cEs of the 12th say that in land
slide near Florence, Ore, the residence
of A. F. Andrews was buried, and Mrs.
Andrews, her daughter and little son
were killed.
In collision on the Alabama & Great
Southern railroad near Coaling, Ala. on
the 18th Engineer Doolittle was killed
and ten passengers were seriously in
jured.
A RESOLUTION was adopted at the
Pennsylvania encampment of the G. A.
R. at Shamokin, Pa, on the 18th re-
questing the United States Government
to prevent the erection of Confederate
monuments on the Gettysburg battle
field.
The schooner Isaac A. Chapman, of
Gloucester, Mass, engaged in the frozen
herring trade, was on the 18th given up
for lost with her crew of seven men.
While sitting in his home on the 18th
at Paw Paw, Mich, DIR. Marvin Fosdick
was probably fatally shot by some un-
known person.
A RUNAWAY engine crashed into a Ca
bose at Placerville, CAL, on the 18th,
killing three men.
In New York on the 18th the centen-
NAL of the Methodist Book Concern
was celebrated.
THE National Canned-Goods Packers
Association was organized at Indiana
polls on the 18th with L. E. Seager, of
Gilman, a., as president.
The seven deaths in the Nottingham
(Pa.) mines by the explosion recently
were, BY the coroner's jury on the 18th,
charged to carelessnes of the mine
owners.
FIRE in Chicago on the 18th destroyed
a large building owned by J. " Farwel
& Co., and caused a total loss of about
$500, 1000. Three wholesale firms were
burned out, and $500 persons were
thrown out Of emplo ment.
A MOUNTAIN slide on the 18th at Dix
on's Bar, CAL, completely damned
Trinity river. Two Cinnamon were
crushed to death and much property de-
stroyed.
A HEAVY fall of snow occurred in va
rious parts of Texas on the 18th.
The boiler of a locomotive burst
on the 18th near Douglas Station, Pa,
killing Engineer John Ludwig and Flag
man Charles Jenkins and injuring three
or four others.
GEORGE CoRvETT, who recently MUIR
dered Ada Goss at Charlottesville, Ark,
was captured by mob on the 18th who,
with an axe, first cut off his arms, then
his legs and then his head.
PHILIP Mower and wife, of Schuyler,
N. Y, while going to funeral on the
18th were struck by a train at crossing
and both were killed.
THOMAS BRYANT, a 16-year-old boy of
Burlington, Mont, in a quarrel with his
mother on the 18th shot and killed her
AT Castroville, Tex, on the 18th Mrs.
Charles Haines was elected president of
the Medina Valley Railway Company.
She is the first woman ever elected to a
similar position in the United States.
AN internal machine was received
through the mail on the 18th at Phila-
delphia by John M. Mcbride, but the
rough handling the box had received
had disarranged the machinery, and
thus prevented an explosion.
Rev. ALBERT P. MILLER (colored), Of
New Haven, Conn.,, secured verdict on
the 18th for $500 against the steamer
Drew, an Albany night boat, for dis
elimination on account of color.
D. L. RUTHERFORD, prominent and
wealthy resident of Marion, Ind, fell
dead on the 18th.
THE steamship Domira, which was
supposed to have been lost, arrived at
Baltimore, Nd, on the 18th. She left
Glasgow December 81, but was driven
1000 miles out of her course.
AT the meeting of the American
Newspaper Publishers Association at
New York on the 18th resolution was
passed expressing sympathy with Amer