Mower County transcript., 1890-11-26
Epitonle of the Week.
INTERESTING News COMPILATION.

IpltOul0 vi tll0 week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
DOMESTIC.
The suspension of P. w. Gallaudet 4
Co., Wall street brokers, was announced
on the New York Stock Exchange. The
liabilities were estimated at s., ,O00, 900.
THE Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago
& St. Louis railway recorded s75. .O00,-
900 mortgage at Peru. Ind, in favor of
the New York Trust Company on all its
leased and operated lines west of Pitts
burgh.
The citizens OF Mandan, N. D., were
provided with arms and ammunition,
and were in readiness for any outbreak
that might occur among the Indians
THE Michigan Masonic Home at
Grand Rapids has been completed. It
cost SIS, 900 and has accommodations for
100 inmates.
A FIRE in a suburb OF st. Augustine,
Fla, destroyed lumber OF the East
Florida Land & Produce Company, an
English syndicate, valued at 500, 1000
COMPANIES of troops from Fort Omaha
and Fort Mckinney lett on the 18th for
the scene Of the Indian trouble in North
Dakota, and it was said that soldiers
from Fort Niobrara and Fort Robinson
would join them.
The attempt to remove the capital OF
Oklahoma Territory from Guthrie to
Kingfsher failed.
FLAMES destroyed a large sugar re-
fnery on the Ponte Palms plantation at
Houma. La Loss, $1O0,
R. T. MEADOWS, of Bledsoe, Tenn,
sold his farm and all his possessions,
and intended to make his future home
in Texas, but while sitting by the fire
counting his wealth door opened and
blew his all into the fire and it was con-
sumed.
The gable end of the new St. Marks
Episcopal church at Cleveland, o, col.
lapsed, and Herrit Morton was instantly
killed and two other men were fatally
injured.
In lizard County, Ark, Jack Brans-
comb and two young ladies, aged Is and
II, respectively, daughters OF DR.. Ham
ilton. were drowned by the upsetting of
boat.
THE Waterbury Comm Button Com
pany have advanced the wages Of ivory
button-turners 10 per cent.
AT the meeting in Chicago Of the Ma
tio0al commissioners of the worlds fair
it was decided that the exposition
should be located on the Lake Front
and at Jackson Park.
In a runaway accident at Wichita.
Kan. Gus Romerie and John Kimmerle
sustained fatal injuries.
JOHN KELLER, a Chicago real-estate
dealer, was robbed of 500. 900 worth of
deeds, notes and mortgages, the thief
taking them from box under q seat in
his buggy:
FRANK VOKEY, cabinet-maker re-
siding at Pullman, ILL.,, shot and killed
his wife and himself. Jealousy was the
cause.
At Springfield ILL.,, the National AS
sembly, F. M. B. A., elected w. j.
Stillwell. of Fort Branch Ind, as pres
ident. The secretary reported the total
number of lodges in the United States
as 4.947. with a mem bership Of 107,755.
CAPTAIN FRANCIS L. NoKroN's fifty
eight-foot steam yacht with ten persons
Toulon, France.
JOSEPH BOYD, of Kansas City, NO.,
fatally shot his wife and child and then
killed himself. Poverty caused the
deed.
A FIRE at Evanston, ILL.,. destroyed
Turner's livery stable, and seventeen
horses were burned to death
THE first annual meeting of the Ma
tional Non-Partisan Women's Christian
Temperance Union commenced at Pitts
burgh, Pa, on the 10th.
ALL the leading manufacturers of
harvesting machinery in the country
met in Chicago and consolidated under
the name of the American Harvester
Company, with capital of $35, O00, 900.
AT meeting in Cleveland the Nickel
plate railway managers decided to ad
vance the wages of conductors, baggage
men and brakemen.
TUE members of the firm of Tong
Yoong q Co., an extensive Chinese mer-
camille house in San Francisco, fed to
China with $50, the wages of 24)
Chinese fishermen who recently re-
turned from Alaska, leaving the fisher
men penniless.
AT the sale of horses owned by ex-
Congressman Scott at New York Bolero,
a2-year-old, was sold to Philip Dwyer
Tor S35,OcO.
SURGEON GENERAL HAMILTON in his
annual report takes a decided ground
against the existing immigration law
and makes strong argument for the
restriction of immigration. Fifteen in
sane persons and eleven idiots were re-
ported by the medical officer among the
immigrants arriving at New York dur
ing the year.
THE jury in the Rev. ". F. Pettlt
wife-poisoning case at Charlottesville,
Ind, returned a verdict of guilty, fix
ing the punishment at Imprisonment
for life.
E. SEAoLD. of Charlotte, Mich, at
tempted to kill his wife and then COM
mitted suicide. Domestic trouble was
the cause.
A. NJ LOFTIys shot and killed his