Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-01-15
DOMESTIC.

The full-rigged ship Rappahannock,
the largest vessel ever built in Maine,
was launched on the 9Th at Bath.
DURING December the copper output
OF American mines aggregated 4,5Ss
tons.
The Nebraska Grand Lodge of Masons
on the 9Th commenced expelling mem.
bers at Lincoln who were in the saloon
business. It was understood that the
work would be prosecuted in every
lodge in the State.
A TRAIN on the Fall Brook road went
through bridge on the 9th near Wells
bOro, Pa, and three men were killed
and eighteen others were injured, some
fatally
DURING it's trip to Pittsburgh, Pa, on
the 9Th the mail train on the Pennsyl-
vania road killed FIVE men.
AT meeting in Boston on the 9th i'm
porters of window glass advanced prices
ten per cent.
r. DE1MEL & Co., Chicago furniture
dealers, failed on the 9th for $500,
WHILE drunk ON the 9th James F..
Belk, young planter, killed Poll y
Smith, his young colored mistress, and
her mother, near Vicksburg, Miss.
In New York on the 9Th two young
girls named Mary Fallon and Lizzie
Cunningham blew out the gas and were
killed.
The principal hotel at Hiawatha,
Kan, was burned early on the morning
of the 9th, many of the guests being
obliged to jump from the windows.
A BLIZZARD was raging in Kansas and
Missouri on the 9Th, with the tempera-
ture at about zero.
The Lee-Deming Grocery Company OF
st. Louis failed on the 9th for $3.50, 900.
AT Pueblo, COL, Carson Parker was
found dead in saloon on the 9Th. He
had been distinguished Methodist
minister and brilliant editor, but
whisky caused his downfall.
The visible supply of wheat and corn
in this country on the 9th was respect
lively SO, 756, oo4 and 1885, s52 bushels.
In fit of jealousy on the 9th at Atchi-
son, Kan, Louis Hurts, aged fifteen
years, shot himself fatally. Nellie Bur.
lesham, thirteen years old, preferred the
attentions of another boy.
The city building at Lewiston, Me-,
was burned on the 18th. Loss, $500, 900.
DIPHTHERIA and ''black tongue were
epidemic on the 18th near Morgantown,
w. Va. Many persons had died and
great suffering existed among the af-
ficted families.
FRANKLIN B. MASON, an old and
wealthy farmer, and Theodore Mickey,
his nephew, were drowned on the 18th
while attempting to cross Rock creek
near Kankakee, Ill.
THREE workmen were crushed to death
at Long Island City, N. Y, on the 18th
by the caving in of one of the walls OF
the railroad machine shops
The secretary of the Indiana State
Board of Charities said on the 18th that
there were ALL insane persons in In
diana.
Miss FANNIE KEENER, of Jackson
vile, Ill. was shot and mortally wound.
ed on the 7th on the street by Nathan
Pasten, her colored coachman, who also
was fatally shot by Miss Keener.
The American Brewery Association
was organized at St. Louis on the 7th
for the purpose of competing with the
breweries said to have been acquired by
the English syndicate.
UNDER an order from Mr.. Vanderbilt
on the 18th no freight trains, except
those transporting perishable freight,
will hereafter be run on the Pittsburgh
& Lake Erie railroad on Sunday.
Ed CHURCH, aged seventeen years, fled
E from Guyandotte, w. Va, on the 18th
after poisoning his father, mother,
brothers and sisters. Two had died and
the others were not expected to live.
THE President and Mrs. Harrison
gave their first state dinner on the
evening of the 9TH to the Vice-Presi
dent, members of the Cabinet, leading
Senators and their ladies at the White
House. -f ''.' 80
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