Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-09-17

ana referred TO the committee on ways and
MEANS A bin was introduced to regulate the
gressional districts.
DOMESTIC.
AT meeting of the directors of the
Worlds Columbian Exposition at Chi
cago on the 9th the Lake Front and
Jackson Park were chosen as the site
for holding the fair.
THE c. L. C. elevator at Ogdensburg,
N. Y, was destroyed by fire on the 9th,
causing loss Of $500, ZOO.
WILLIAM BLOOM & Co., Boston wool
dealers, failed on the 9th for $50, 900.
The American Pharmaceutical Asso-
citation in annual session at Fort Mon
roe, w. ", on the 9th elected Alfred B.
Taylor, of Philadelphia, president.
CYCLONE which visited Clinton
township, Ind, on the 9th wrecked fences
and trees, destroyed crops and blew down
outhouses and barns.
The Great Council of the Improved
Order Red Men met in National session
at Boston, Mass, on the 9th.
THE Alaska Commercial Company's
steamer Karluk arrived at San Fran
cisco from Siberia ON the 10th with 49,
600 sealskins. The total catch for the
season was estimated at go, 900 skins
The original verdict of the coroner's
Jury in the inquest upon the bodies of
Joseph and Hyram Smith, the Mormon
leaders killed by a mob June 81, 1874,
was found in a heap of rubbish in the
courthouse at Carthage, ILL.,, on the
10th.
G1oRDAN1 SUcc1, an Italian faster,
arrived in New York on the 10th for the
purpose of attempting to Guido DR..
Tanners record and his own by fasting
forty five days.
ABEL HUGHES and his wife and child
were drowned near Parkersburg, W.
Va, ON the 10th by being thrown off a
bridge into the river by a runaway
team.
HENRY G. WILSON, Kansas City liv-
ery-stable keeper, was indicted by the
grand jury on the 10th for conspiring to
kidnap the children of wealthy parents
for ransom.
A CONVENTION of delegates from South
ern States met in Atlanta, Ga, on the
10th for the purpose of establishing
trade with Europe directly from South
ern ports.
The dead body of Hugh Boyle,
ranchman near the Cheyenne reserva-
ton in Montana who started out to
hunt cattle few days ago, was found
near his ranch on the 10th. 1t was sup
posed he had been murdered by In
dams.
GREAT damage was done by floods in
New York State on the 10th. The vii
lage of Canastota was under water and
at Ithaca stock was drowned in the fair
grounds and railroads were incommoded
by high water and wash-outs.
IT was reported on the 10th that the
seven peaks on the Blue Ridge mount
aims in North Carolina had been smok-
ing for some weeks. AS this occurred
just before the Charleston earthquake
persons in the neighborhood were
alarmed.
The Interstate Temperance Union,
in session at Lincoln, Neb., on the 10th,
elected James A. Troutman, of Kansas,
president.
JOHN THORNTON, 12-year-old boy.
residing with his parents ten miles east
of St. Joseph, No., committed suicide
on the 10th by taking strychnine.
NAMES were found on the II til for the
new military posts at Newport, KY,
and San Antonio, Tex, the former to be
called Fort Thomas in honor of George
Il. Thomas, and the latter Fort Houston
in honorsof Ex-Governor Houston, of
Texas. III "a M { .@@s zS3.
The twenty-frst annual convention
of the Master Car and Locomotive
Painters Association opened atsBoston
on the 11th. Joseph Murphy was elect
ed president.
The demented daughter Of Frederick
Horn of Hoboken, N. j., committed
suicide by hanging on the 18th, and
when the father learned of it he fatally
shot himself in the head.
A COMMITTEE of the ex-employes of
the New York Central railroad called
on Mr.. Depew, president of the COM
pany, on the 11th. in the hope Of set
Ting the strike. Mr.. Depew declined
to discuss the strike with them, saying
that it was practically over. .