Mower County transcript., 1890-07-30

imported into State and sold there shall be
amenable to the laws Of that State.
In the Senate the Indian appropriation bill
was further discussed on the Esd, but no action
was taken. >. In the House the bankruptcy bill
was considered. In the contested election case
of James III. McGinnis vs.. John b. Anderson,
from the Third district Of West Virginia, the
committee reported In favor Of seating McGin-
mis- (Rep.)
In the Senate on the 24th the Indian appro
priatiOn bill was passed and bills were intro.
duced to fix the limit OF value and to provide
for the free coinage Of silver, and to pay to DR..
Mary e. Walker $1,000 for her services as as
sistant surgeon in the United States army dur
Ing the late war....1n the House the Torrey
bankruptcy bill was passed by ayote OF III to g.
DOMESTIC.
WINsLow HARMON was killed and his
wife and daughter fatally hurt by their
wagon being struck by New York
Central train on the 21st at Weedsport,
N. Y.
JOHN CARROLL and Daniel Wilt were
killed and two others were injured by
the explosion of can of gunpowder in
Carroll's store at Logansport, Ind, on
the 2lst
A CLOUD-BURsT on the 21st in the foot
hills of the Santa Rita mountains in
Arizona covered an area of square
mile. The Schofeldt ranch was COM
pletely devastated of crops, orchards
and houses, and many horses and cattle
were drowned.
TH1RrY-F1vE houses at Poplar Bluff,
Mo-. were destroyed by fire on the 21st,
including the Methodist church and the
principal hotel.
HARSH treatment by her husband was
the cause of Mrs. Cora Cary's suicide at
Goshen, Ind, on the 21st. She was
married last spring.
The Government timber agents were
on the 21st preparing an expedition
against Canadian timber thieves in the
northern portion of Minnesota.
TIE Centropolis Car & Machine Com
pany of Centropolis, Mo-, failed on the
21st for 500, 900.
JOHN SPRINGER & Co.'s saw-mill and
sash, door and blind factory at Brush
Creek, CAL, was burned on the 2lst.
Loss, 100000.
By the explosion of threshing en-
gine on the 21st near Princeton, Ind,
Andrew Kretsinger and Charles White
were killed, two men were fatally and
one seriously injured. Several horses
we're also killed.
THE visible supply of wheat and corn
in the United States on the 21st was,
respectively, 1S,559,191 and 13, 1873, 1o1
bushels.
THOMAS FARQUHAR, of West Bergen,
n. j., was run over by the cars on the
s1st while walking on the track. He
saved his three children by throwing
them down an embankment, but it was
then too late to save himself.
Two HUNDRED babies, including ten
pairs of twins, were wheeled in their
carriages at Asbury Park, N. j., ON the
Dist Fifteen thousand people witnessed
the procession, which was headed by a
band of music.
In a drunken spree on the 21st at
Rushville, ILL.,, James Denny and Mrs.
S. Wilson were fatally shot. It was
claimed that Mrs. Wilson's husband did
the shooting.
1T was announced ON the 21st that the
recent death of Mr.. Walker, of Missouri.
the ninth member of Congress who had
died this session, made the greatest rec
ord of mortality in Congress everknown.
The climax of the recent sensational
murder of Engineer Vandevender in his
cab near Van Vert, o., was reached on
the 21st when Fireman Roadhouse con-
fessed that he killed the engineer, but
claimed he did so in self-defense.
A CYCLONE on the 22d in Trail Coun-
ty, N. D.. wrecked many houses at
Bowen and Clifford ard at Hunter seven
persons were killed.
In fire in a Cincinnati tenement
house on the 22d Solomon Minces and
his wife and little son were burned to
death, his daughter Eva fatally injured,
and two other persons were badly
burned.
A WHITE frost spread its mantle over
the lowlands of Perry County, Mass,
on the 21st.
The engineer and two unknown men
were killed and twelve passengers in
jured on the 2sd by Chicago & Rock
Island train running into creek near
Limdon, Col.
At small village in Williamson
County, Tex, Mexican named Milena,
his wife and daughter were murdered by
unknown parties on the 22d.
ILLINOIS G. A. B. posts decided on the
ed to erect memorial hall at Spring
field in honor of B. F. Stephenson, the
founder of the order.
A CYCLONE passed over Ghent, Minn.,
on the 22d. killing two persons and
doing great damage to property.
BRADLEY & Co.'s woolen mills at
Allegheny, Pa, were destroyed by fire
on the 22d, causing loss of 100000.
WILLIAM w. CoBLETT. aged 4S years,
a leading member of the Wyoming bar,
anl for twenty-three years resident of
Cheyenne, died at that place on the 22d.
He was member of the Forty-sixth
Congress.
ALoNzo SEE, aged 80 years, of AS
bury Park, n. j.. was feeced Of $4,000
ly card sharpers on the 22d.