Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-03-26


decided on the 18th to issue excursion
tickets to the G. A. r. reunion at Bos-
ton next July on the basis Of asingle
| fare. -. H.
JUDGE HYLAND, OF Marshall, Mo-, In
structed the grand jury on the 18th that
! playing progressive euchre for prizes
was violation of the gambling laws
and punishable as such.
As THE result of the State investiga-
ton of the sheriff's office in New York
several prominent Tammanyites were
arrested on the 18th charged with cor
ruption.
A FIRE on the 18th destroyed tho dry
goods store of Pardee, Mills & Co. at
Peoria. ILL.,, with its contents. Loss,
800, 900.
CHARLES CULBERTsoN, OF Shelbyville,
Ind, was ON the 18th nominated as the
Prohi bition candidate for Congress from
his district
PRESIDENT HARRISON on the 18th sent
5000 and Acknowledgement Miller 800
to aid tho families of hremen who per-
ished by the recent Indianapolis fire.
THE safe OF tho county treasurer Of
Sebastian County, Ark, was blown open
by burglars on the 18th ana robbed Of
So, 900.
w. JOHNSON BROWN while at work on
the 18th in Slasher's steam saw-mill
near Warren, Mass, was caught by the
carriage and drawn upon the saw which,
beginning at his head, cut him COM
pletely through lengthwise.
Four companies OF United States
troops, comprising 200 men, began
patrolling the Cherokee strip in Indian
Territory on the 10th to keep out the
boomers.
FIVE passengers were seriously, If
not fatally, injured by collision on the
Northwestern road at Lavalle, Wis, on
the 10th.
AN explosion in mine near Wilkes
barre, Pa, on the 10th killed John
Grnhock and fatally injured Patrick
Hays and Thomas Devers.
THE firm of John F. Plummer & Co.,
OF New York, wholesale dry-goods deal
ers, failed on the 10th for $1,000 900.
A BILL providing that railway en-
ployes who have worked twenty-four
consecutive hours shall not resume un-
til they have had eight hours rest
was passed by the Ohio Legislature on
the 10th.
COLONEL 3. F. BRYANT was on the
10th elected Commander of the Wiscon-
sin Department, G. A. R., by the Mil
waukee encampment.
NJ. ]. CHEArHAM (white) was hanged
murder of John Tillman (colored) July
10 last.
ADvIcEs of the 10th from New Mexico
say that 100 Indians were out from San
Carlos, and that they had killed seven
men on the Blue river
The heaviest snow-storm Of the sea-
son prevailed on the 10th in New York
City and vicinity.
JAMES S. KENNEDY, JR., for eight
years foreign money-order clerk in the
San Francisco post-otfice, was arrested
on the 10th for embezzling $4,000.
A METEOR weighing several hundred
pounds fell on the 10th ten miles north
west of Gainesville, Tex. 1t had the
appearance of a gigantic flint rock.
The total collections of internal rev.
enue during the first eight month of
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1890,
were $50, S22, oil, being an increase of
Sc, 45s. 500 as compared with the collec-
tions during the corresponding period
of the last fiscal year.
The Newark, the last of the three
steel cruisers built for the Government
by Cramp & Sons, of Philadelphia, was
successfully launched on the 10Th.
THOMAS VANDEvEER's saw-mill at
Brookfeld, Ind, was blown up by dyna-
mite and completely wrecked on the
10th. The perpetrator was unknown.
A FIRE broke out in the Germania
mine at Hurley, Wis, on the 10Th, and
five miners were burned to death. The
property loss was over $4,000
MISS JESSIE WHITE, lovely girl Of
20 years, shot herself in Joliet, ILL.,, on
the 10th, dying instantly. She had been
troubled during the last three years by
an anonymous writer's eatening her
and otherwise annoying her.
BENJAMIN GREwEL was lynched on
the goth at Robinson Station, KY, by
farmers whom he had defrauded by the
use of bogus checks.
ADvIcEs of the Goth from the Flam-
beau Indian reservation in Northern
Wisconsin report an alarming scarcity
of food, and that there was great suf-
fering among the Indians there.
HORN CLOUD, an Indian at the Stand
ing Rock IN. d. agency, killed squaw
named Julia on the Goth because she
would not live with him, shot dead her
father, known as Irish Mike, and then
took his own life.
The work of distributing provisions
and supplies among the destitute miners
at Wilkesbarre, Pa, was actively COM
menced on the goth.
A STRANGER made the acquaintance
of J. L. Sterrett, of Sterrettania, Pa,
on a train on the Goth, and at cleveland,
O., snatched purse containing So, 800
and escaped, leaving Mr.. Sterrett penni-
less.
AT Westport, Conn.,, Annie Loveric
and Mamie McDermott fought with
bare knuckles on the Goth, the result of
quarrel about young man. Miss
Loveric won the battle.
IT was stated on the 20th that over
200 moonshiners, with over 100 illicit
stills, had established fortified camp