Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-09-10
DOMESTIC.

Clayton. Breoxinridge election case was further
discussed.
DOMESTIC.
THE statement Of the public debt Is
sued on the 1st showed the total debt
to be 81, $40. lis, 4s9; cash in the treasury,
1854, 557, 449; debt less cash in treasury,
$s75, $50, 040. Decrease during August,
$sSS, O7S. Decrease since June so,
1890, sa1.911. sos.
THE business portion OF Oxford, Ia,
was destroyed by an incendiary fire on
the 1st
LABOR day was celebrated all over the
county on the 1st.
ADvIcEs of the 1st say that the total
cotton crop Of the United States for 1890
amounts to 1911, S23 bales, exceeding the
largest crop ever grown by 265. 4s9
bales, and the crop Of last year by S7s i.
0S9 bales
THE Wolford House at Como, Col,
was burned on the LIST and three persons
lost their lives in the flames.
Miss EM1LY ASHTON, daughter of
prominent citizen of Northwood, Pa,
eloped on the 1st with William Thomp-
son. her fathers colored .coaohman.
The Grand Master Of the Grand Lodge
Of Odd-Fellows in Missouri declared on
the LIST that the Grand Lodge had no
authority to dismiss saloon-keepers
from the order.
THk best estimates on the ht put the
wheat crop of Minnesota and the Da-
kotas at 90. 600. 900 bushels.
AT West Point q California mining
town, q man named Gallagher while
drunk on the LIST fatally shot his wife
and killed his son and himself.
TIE American Social Science Associa-
ton commenced its twenty-hfth annual
session on the LIST at Saratoga Springs,
N. Y.
The New York State Board of Arbi-
tration on the I'd began its investiga-
ton as to the difficulties existing be-
tween the New York Central railroad
and the Knights Of Labor.
The annual convention of the United
Typothetse met in Boston on the I'd.
NEAR Eagle Gorge, Wash, on the I'd
sixteen persons were seriously hurt in
an accident on the Northern Pacific
railway, two fatally.
AN express train on the Louisville &
Nashville railroad was stopped by high
waymen within half . mile of Pensa-
cola, Fla, on the I'd and the express
money box was robbed.
By the overturning of sloop on tho
I'd in the bay at San Diego, CAL, gen.
tleman. three ladies and two children
were drowned.
i ABOUT 1000 carpenters in Chicago
struck on the I'd for higher wages.
ALEXANDER LoBDEN, of Harrington,
Nd, died on the I'd, aged IS years.
Since an illness several years ago he
had been shrinking physically, so that
he was foot less in stature than he
had been when in health.
THE New York Board of Aldermen on
the I'd adopted resolution asserting
that the census of that city was 200, 900
short, and asking for q recount.
The New York Equalization Board
announces the assessed value of all real
estate and personal estate in that State
at S, 6s3, 653, 062.
The visible supply of grain in store
in the United States on the I'd was:
Wheat 1857 IA bushels; corn, 1890,
647 bushels.
The leaders of the Senate and House
at Washington had a conference on the
I'd on the subject of adjournment and
came to the conclusion that there was
no reason why the session should not
be brought to close by September IS,
and efforts would be made to accomplish
this. r. , ~.
IT was reported on the I'd that J. J.
Hill, president OF the great Northern
Railway Company, had given $500, DOC
for the erection of q Catholic college at
Groveland, st. Paul suburb.
A FIRE on the I'd at Cocoa, Fla, de-
stroyed nearly the whole town. The
people were panic stricken and many
were homeless.
ALL but TOO of the 1000 striking car
penters in Chicago returned to work on
the Sd and the strike was virtually over.
IT was announced on the Sd that al
Of the largest shot and lead works il
the country had been purchased for g..
oO0, 900 by company called the "Ameri
can Shot & Lead Company.
The Milwaukee lWis.)s exposition
was opened on the Sd.
SIXTY THOUSAND persons attended thu
lows State fair at Des Moines on the Sd
TEE annual convention Of the Ameri
can Bankers Associa ton was begun 2
Saratoga, n. y, on the s. 8