Mower County transcript., 1890-11-26

NOSES s MARKS, formerly note teller
in the Flour City Bank At Rochester, NJ
Y, secured $40, 900 In money sent to tho
bank BY express and made his escape. 5
JoHN#F. BLAZE, mayor Of Canton, O,
leading miller, made an assignment,
with liabilities OF $4,000
The business failures In the United
States during the seven days ended on
the alst numbered 274, against 966 the
preceding week and 277 the correspond
ing week last year. -. ...., ... ,.
THE death of Maria L. Perry at Whit
man, Mass, disclosed the fact that for
twenty years she and Lucy A. Lobdell
had been living together as man and
wife. .,.~-,- ). ,-
HERMAN BECKERTs one of tho richest
and best known distillers in Kentucky,
dropped dead from heart disease ut
Louisville.
AN Eastern commercial agency re-
ported that notwiths tanding the tlnan.
cial troubles in New York tho general
business Of the country continued large.
DIR. CHARLES G. ABBOTT, OF the Uni
versity OF Pennsylvania, in o lecture in
Chicago gave many instances that had
! come under his observation Of the abil.
ity of animals to think and even reason.
EIGHT freight cars were hurled over q
trestle on the Meriden railroad near
Meriden, Conn.,. three men being fatal.
ly hurt
Ar Webster, Fla. Deputy United
States Marshal Samuel LIE Strange was
shot to death by r. E. Burford, whom
he sought to arrest for violation Of the
postal laws.
DISPATCHES OF the 21st from the Pine
Ridge agency in South Dakota reported
an extremely critical condition of af-
fairs The Indians continued their
crazy dances, and several chiefs had Ut
| tered threats against the whites. The
few hundred troops that had reached
the agency were said to anticipate an
attack from 6,O00 to 5000 well-armed
redskins at any moment
IT was reported that Jay Gould had
secured control Of all the great rail-
ways west OF the Mississippi river.
JACK NAPLES (colored) was hanged
at Knoxville. Tenn, for criminal as
sa"lt, and Dorsey Edwards (colored)
was executed at Yazoo. City, Miss, for
the murder Of his wife Septem ber last.
The Treasury Department at Wash
ington has decided that grain taken to
Canada to be ground can not be re-
turned to the United States without
p2vment OF 6utv
Tux firm of Ragsdale & Co., of
Oklahoma City, o. T., who have banks
at Guthrie, Norman, Kingfisher and Ell
Reno, in that Territory, failed to open
their doors. and announced that all pay
ments were suspended.
In battle with horse thieves near
Cairo, Kan, two of the robbers were
shot dead by the officers.
A PECULIAR and fatal disease was
raging among cattle and horses in Ore
gon and adjoining counties in Missouri.
Over 100 horses had died, and the dis
ease baffled the skill OF the veterinary
surgeons.
AT New Orleans the grand jury re-
ported finding true bills against the
seventeen men under arrest charged
with the murder of Chief of Police
David C. Hennessy on October Is.
COMMODORE FoLGER, of tho ordnance
bureau of the Navy Department. re-
ports that tests of nickel-steel have
proved successful and that it may be
confidently anticipated that nickel-steel
will enter into the composition of pro-
jectiles.
UNITED STATES MARSHAL. WHITE and
his deputies returned to Charleston, s.
c., from a big raid ON the moonshine-s
of the interior mountain counties and
brought in forty-three prisoners
The boiler in Lupton's saw-mill near
Catlettsburg, KY. exploded and killed
James Lhpton, w. E. Morg and Smith
Hosmer.
In drunken row at Eagle Rock,
Idaho, Jasper Yarber completely
tramped the eyes out of John Bayliss,
an old citizen.
The Twenty-sixth Ward Bank in
Brooklyn. N. Y, was robbed of ST, 900
in broad daylight by the old trick of
calling the cashier outside on the plea
that customer had nervous horse
which be could not leave.
The baseball losses during the past
season were: Players League, 1926, 600;
National League, S231, 1000.
NEARLY a million dollars in Aus
tralian gold sovereigns were deposited
and melted down at the San Francisco
mint. e..
The Census Bureau at Washington
has paid %. 900 of the ,4s, 600 enumera tors.
They have received 50, 45O. 600, at which
rate the pay of the enumerators alone
will amount to 81, 100000
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
THE Wyoming Legislature on the
18th elected their second United States
Senator. the fortunate candidate being
Governor Francis E. Warren (Rep.).
JOHN RUSSELL YOUNG, who is one of
the best-known newspaper men in
America, was married in New York to
Mrs. Mary D. Davids, of Philadelphia.
The Georgia Legislature on the 18th
elected Governor John B. Gordon (Dem.)
to the United States Senate to succeed
Joseph G. Brown.