Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-10-01

tariff bill was submitted. Mr.. Mckinley intro
duced joint resolution for final adjournment
on the 30th inst. At the evening session 1l2
private pension bills were passed.
DOMESTIC.
AT Ottawa, O., Sherman Lines and
D. T. Lee fatally shot each other in a
quarrel
A FLOOD caused by water-spoAt at
Hot Springs, Ark, did $4,000 damage
to property.
AT Omaha, Neb,, Ed Wiggand fatally
shot Miss Allie HORNE and then blew
his brains out He lett a note saying
the girl had promised to marry him but
had been false.
A HAIL-sToRM in the towns of Sigel,
Bloomfield and Paris, in Western Mich
igan. did damage to crops, stock, ETC.,
to the extent of 100000 Many farm
ers were said to be in nearly destitute
circumstances owing to the storm.
SIX shocks of earthquake were felt at
Columbus, S. c., but no damage was re-
ported.
THE Columbian National commission
has formally accepted the Lake Front
and South Park site, completed by
Washington Park, and adjourned till
November IS.
HORACE MERCER, boy II years old,
shot and killed his father at Little
Rock, Ark, because of a whipping his
father gave him.
MRS. G. w. CooMBs, wife of an indus.
trious carpenter in Humboldt, Tenn,
has fallen heir to an estate valued at
$3.50, ZOO.
The Cincinnati Board of Education
haAreinstated as teachers the married
women recently dropped from the rolls
by vote of II to II.
A CYCLONE at Dresden, Tex, did
great damage. Several buildings were
unroofed, church blown down and two
negroes fatally hurt.
A DANGEROUS counterfeit on the two
dollar silver certificate is in circulation.
In the words ''Register of the Treasury"
in the counterfeit the 'i'' in "Register"
is not dotted, neither is there period
after the word "Treasury." In the gen.
uine there are both.
HABEAs corpus proceedings have been
instituted before Judge Gresham in
Chicago for the release of Anarchist
Schwab from Joliet. Benjamin +. But
Ter appeared as one of the counsel in
the case.
The total collections of internal rev.
enue from all sources for the irst two
months Of the fiscal year 1s90-'9l aggre-
gated SEA, 500, 576, against $23, $40, TIA for
the corresponding periods of last year
A LARGE number of German citizens
met at Indianapolis and formed Ger
man-American Prohibition League, the
object being to create entiment
among German-Americans in favor of
total abstinence.
mon church, has issued manifesto de-
claring to be false the reports that
plural marriages were being solem-
nized, and denying that the church en-
courages or countenances the practice of
polygamy in Utah.
MARY BEL, an 8-year-old child, died
OF hydrophobia at Peru, Ind. She was
bitten by a dog a week previous to her
death.
HELENA, Ark, was the scene of a
cloud-burst, portion of the city being
COUVerCou 1uCO d VaSt Suc0I VI WdIoT auu
much damage to property being done.
AT Erie, Pa, Mrs. J. F. Mcconnell
struck a match while cleaning gloves
with benzine and was fatally burned.
EDWARD LENNox while fishing near
Lima, O., lay down beside fire and
went to sleep. His clothing caught fire
and he was burned to death.
JACOB ANDERSON, fisherman at
Lima, O., shot and killed Jacob Botkin,
whom he caught robbing his nets, and
fatally wounded Lewis Smith.
The fourth annual Corn Palace festi-
val at Sioux City, Ia, was opened on the
25th.
A MAN named Zaner whose trial at
Admission, Ala, for murder had been con-
tinued from term to term for twenty
years, was on the 25th sentenced to q
term of one year for.his deed.
LEVI and George Bryant (brothers)
were drowned at Machias, Ne.
At school election in Binghamton,
n. Y, over 500 women cast their ballots.