Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-18
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! THE Oriental Mills Company of Prov.
idence, r, l., failed on the 10th for
1885, 1000.
DEsPERADoEs wrecked a passenger
train on the 10th between Camden and
Texarkana, Ark. and robbed the ex-
press car of $4,000 The engineer was
killed in the wreck.
B. F. QUIGLEy, a Catholic priest at
Toledo, O., was indicted by the grand
jury on the 10th for violating the educa-
ton law.
The Department of Agriculture's cot
ton crop report for June shows large
increase in the acreage planted in near
ly every cotton-producing State.
AN unknown man committed suicide
ON the 10th at Niagara Falls, N. Y,
by jumping from Goat island bridge.
A NEW American and European bank
ing company, with capital of S25, OoO,-
600, was organized in Philadelphia on
the 10th.
HARRY MCBRIDE, who was badly pun
ished in brutal glove fight with Frank
Larue at San Francisco, died on the
10th.
THE village of Channahon, Ill, con.
tanning about 1900 inhabitants, was al
most totally destroyed by cyclone at
o'clock on the night of the 10th.
Several persons were reported killed
and many injured.
In freight train wreck on the 10th
near Hannibal, No., an engineer and
fireman were killed and several other
trainmen injured.
A CYCLONE destroyed many houses on
the 10th at Piedmont, Ala, and three
men were fatally hurt.
THE two little boys of J. S. Reaves, =
farmer living near Marion, S. c., ate
some cake poisoned and placed in tho
barn to kill rats and died on the 10th.
WALTER Rowe, living near Corydon,
Ind, was brutality beaten by White Caps
ON the 10th, and William Strother was
served in the same manner in Orange
County.
The Pittsburgh, Cincinnati; & St.
Louis, the Chicago. st. Louis & Pitts
burgh, the Cincinnati & Richmond and
the Jacksonville, Madison & Indian
apolis railways were consolidated on
the 18th under the name of the Pitts
burgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St Louis
Railroad Company. The capital of the
new company is SIS, 100000.
JOE PARENT, suspected OF being
q murderer, was taken from his house
near Green Ridge, Ark, on the 18th by
mob and hanged.
FIRE destroyed the City button works
in New York on the 10th, owned by
Erlanger & Lehman. Loss, 500, 900.
MRS. K1PP aged 70 years, and her
granddaughter, girl of 16 years. were
fatally burned on the 18th by an explo-
sion of natural gas in their dwelling in
Allegheny City, Pa.
. ADvIcEs of the nth from Montana
concerning the expected Indian out
break were to the effect that the North
ern Cleyennes were altering at many
points and were making small raids.
The National Temperance Congress
of the United States convened at New
York on the 18th.
A TORNADO On the nth blew down
houses at Wapelia, ILL.,, wrecked
school-house and injured five children,
one fatally, and unroofed many build
ings in the immediate vicinity. At
Jacksonville trees, fences and small
buildings were ruined, and a tent where
$500 people had assembled to witness
musical jubilee was blown down, sew
eral persons being badly injured.
THIEVES entered w. D. Norton's
jewelry store at Gloversville, N. Y, on
the 18th and secured $40, 900 worth of
booty.
DISPATCHES of the 18th say that the
recent cyclone at. Channahon, Ill,
moved buildings and leveled outhouses
and trees. but no lives were lost.
A TORNADO in Indiana on the 18th did
great damage in the counties of Ben
ton, White, Carroll, Howard, Grant,
Blackford and Jay.
GEOBeE GLAzBRooK, sheriff of Cole
County, Mo-, died at Jefferson City on
the 18th from the effects of blowing out
the gas.
MANY buildings were destroyed on
the 18th at Wapello, L.. by cyclone,
and several persons were injured.
TIE fortieth annual convention Of the
American Protestant Association of the
United States conn enced in Chicago on
the 18th. The public schools and UNI
restricted in migration were the main
subjects for discussion.