Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-08-20
DOMESTIC.

& Hudson River railroad was practi-
cally ended on tho 12th. Passenger
trains were running on schedule time
and the freight blockade had been
raised.
WHILE an Odd Fellows excursion was
passing through Harrison, N. j., on the
18th Michal Barney put his head out of
= car window and was Struck by a pole
and instantly killed.
The wooden mill of C. E. Geisendorff
& Co., of Indianapolis, was burned on
the 18th. Loss, 100000
Four men we're killed and a number
seriously injured by the explosion of
2,0oo pounds of molten metal at the H.
linois Steel Company's works at Joliet,
Ill, on the 18th.
ALL the original package saloons in
Mason City, Ia, were closed on the 18th
on an order issued by the mayor. The
liquor men would com bine and carry a
test case to the higher courts.
EVERY passenger conductor on the
Louisville, St. Louis & Texas railroad
was discharged on the 18th and their
places filled by promoting freight con-
ductors- No reason for the change was
known.
The Chicago & Atlantic railroad was
sold at Indianapolis on the 18th by
order of the court for SIS, 600, 600, the
Erie road being the purchaser.
The first annual report of the New
Hampshire Commissioner OF Agricult-
ure, issued on the 18th, showed that of
1912 abandoned farms in the State a
year ago 3o1 were now occupied.
The Secretary of the Interior on the
18th received telegram from Governor
Prince, of New Mexico, asking for
troops to suppress white-cap outrages.
L. L. HUCK1L1, an express messenger,
was killed and several others injured in
q collision on the Louisville & Nash
Vile railroad west of Lexington, KY,
on the 18th.
SAMUEL H. BEARD, an attorney, aged
go years, threw himself in front of a
train at Leesburg, O., on the 18th and
was instantly killed.
CENSUS figures, compiled on the 18th,
credit Vermont with population of
332, 900, a falling of of 2S6 since the CEN
sus of 1850.
The oil refinery of George Rice, at
Marietta, O., exploded on the 18th. kill
ing one man and causing loss of $685.
600.
. IT was found on the 18th that Hume
Clay, member of the Clay family of
Kentucky, had forged the name of his
grandfather at Winchester, KY, to notes
aggregating about 500, 600 and fed the
country.
In South Dakota forest fires were rag
ing on the 18th. and in the same section
prairie fires had destroyed much prop
erty.
The remains OF the late John Boyle
OReilly were laid to rest in Mount CAL
vary Cemetery, near Boston, on the
18th. The funeral cavalcade was said
to be one of the largest ever seen in
Boston.
LIGHTNING struck farmhouse three
miles northwest of Nehawka, Neb., on
the 18th, instantly killing young man
named Wilkinson and a young woman
named Josie Hobock.
WILLIAM SLOAN (colored), residing
On Lake plantation, Mississippi, called
his wife to the door of their cabin on
the 18th and shot her through the
heart The woman had her infant in
her arms at the time and it was shot
through the heart. The murderer es-
capped, but was captured by his neigh
bors and lynched.
JOSEPH A. SARGENT, aged rs years,
and his grandson, aged years, OF
Erving, Mass, while crossing the rail-
road tracks on the 18th were struck by
train and Instantly killed.
ROCKWELL & Co.'S tannery at Warren,
Pa, was damaged by fire on the 18th to
the extent of 500, 900.
GENERAL rains fell throughout ILL
nois; Iowa and Missouri on the 18th and
crops were reported in good condition
except in districts injured by hail.
IT was said on the 14th that plan
was on foot to establish in New York
City National university, to be mod
eled after the great institutions OF
Europe, with an endowment at the out
set Of $40, 600, 600. John D. Rockefeller
and Rev. r. s. Macarthur, of the Bap'
fist church, are the promoters OF the
enterprise