Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-08-13
DOMESTIC,

CHILDREN playing with matches set
FIRE to barn at Perry, Ia, on the 5th,
and two girls, aged and 4 years, were
Burned to death.
S. P. AYEEs, a Cleveland (O.) tele-
ing on the lake at Buffalo, N. Y, on the
5th.
The Whiteman paper-mill at Dams
vile, n. Y, was burned on the 5th.
Loss, $50, 900; insurance. 500, 900.
THE thermometer registered we'll up
in the nineties in New York on the 5th,
and there were thirty cases of sum
stroke. Brooklyn people suffered great
~, and there wero twenty cases of heat
prostra5ion at Coney Island and num-
Der at Long Beach.
vanced prices on the 5th, making the
selling price of ice equivalent to 81
ton.
A'QUARREL over the ownership of GER
tain lands in Gunnison County, COL, on
the 9th resulted in the killing of Alex
ander Lavelle. Charles Purham and
young man named WEIGH.
OFFICIAL returns computed on the
9th from the eight census districts of
Missouri show the population of the
State to be 2,659,741, an increase of
about Is per cent in the last decade.
KEMMLER, who murdered his mis-
tress. Matilda Ziegler, March 20. 1889.
was put to death by electricity at the
Auburn IN. W State penitentiary on
the morning of the 9th. The scene chat
followed the turning ON of the electric
current was reported as terrible to wit
ness. There were signs of life after the
current had been turned off, and the
electric volt had to be applied the Sec
o2d time. The opinions of the doctors
present varied as to whether the con-
demned was virtually killed at the first
shook, though the view was expressed
that he suffered no pain. The murderer
exhibited marvellous courage and assist
ed his execu tioners SO far as lay in his
power up to the last moment
CORA K1NsEy. who was bitten by
mad dog three years ago, died at Goshen,
Ind. On the 5th Of hydrophobla.
The Catholic Total Abstinence Union
Of America met at Pittsburgh. Pa, on
the 9th in twentieth annual session.
with 900 delegates present from all
parts of the country.
IT was decided by the Nom bers of
the South Fork Fishing AMI Hunting
Club on the 9Th to donate the property
at the famous South Ford dam, the col
lapse of which caused the Johnstown
horror to the Pittsburgh Fresh Air
Fund Association.
The cornerstone of the Utah Univer-
sity, great Methodist institution
being erected at Ogden, U. T., was laid
on the 9th with notable cere monies by
Bishop Vincent the famous Chautau-
guam.
The National Bar Association met at
indianapolis on the 9th, delegates
being present from thirteen States.
Charles Marshall, of Maryland, was
elected president
MRS. MARIE De CAMP was found dead
in the cellar of her residence in Cincin-
natl on the morning of the 9th. She
had set fire to her night clothes and
was burned to death.
JAMES MIDDLETON, wealthy resi-
dent of Harlan, KY, while on his way
to the courthouse on the 9Th to appear
against William Jennings, was fired
upon from ambush and his body COM
pletely riddled with bullets.
MURRAY HALL, handsome summer
hotel at Pablo Beach, near Jackson
vile, Fla, was burned to the ground on
the morning of the 9TH. There were
fifty guests in the hotel, allof whom es-
: capped without injury. The loss was
over 100000.
THE ohicia, count Of the city of Chi
cago was made public by the Census
Bureau at Washiny ton on the It'll. It
credits Chicago with . population OF
L09s,556. ~"