Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-04-02


DURING the year 1889 there were b57
persons killed on Illinois railroads, and
l, 708 were injured.
The business portion Of Elmoria. q
small town in Southern Colorado, was
consumed by fire on the 25th. =
DIREcToRs and other officers were
elected at Boston on tho 25th by the
American Bell Telephone Company.
The net earnings last year were 50, $685.
1888, an increase OF $344, 63s, and the div.
idends aggregated 81, $50, 500
ADv1cEs of the 25th say that about
$500, 900 loss was occasioned by the re-
! cent prairie fires which swept over
Rocks, Phillips AID other Kansas coun.
ties
The grand jury at New York on the
25th reported that the sheriffs Office
was disgrace to the city and shame
to civilization.
Mrs. MARY A. GILES, whose husband
left her year ago because of her love OF
liquor, hacked her left hand off on the
25th at her home in New York and died
from loss of blood.
AN attempt was made by incendiaries
on the 25th to burn the city of Bis
marck, N. D., but the flames were dis.
covered and extinguished.
PRESIDENT HARRISON on tho 25th is.
sued procla MOTION announcing that
the now British extradition treaty
would go into effect on April 4. By the
terms of the new treaty the crimes of
manslaughter, counterfeiting, embezzle-
ment, perjury, rape, abduction, burg
larry. kidnapping and piracy are made ex-
traditable.
THE work on the Mountain Lion sill
YER mine near Cooke City, which had
been in progress during the winter, re-
suited on the 26th in the discovery of
the greatest body of silver ore that had
thus far been found in the State of Mon
tana.
NAVIGATION on Lake Superior opened
on the Goth.
THROUGHOUT Southern Indiana the
wheat had on the Goth been damaged
from Is to 20 per cent by the recent
freezing weather.
THE low lands of Arkansas seemed to
be doomed on the Goth. Levees we're
continually breaking and the foods
were practically beyond control. Work
on the crevasse At Arkansas City had
been suspended, which meant devasta-
ton for that section.
THE young wife of John Werlich, of
Shipshewana, Ind, committed suicide
on the 26th on account of domestic
troubles, and Mrs. Hattie Norris COM
mitted suicide at La Grange, Ind, be-
cause she had been deserted BY her hus-
band.
FOREIGN corporations were on the Goth
said to be denuding the Government
lands in Montana of timber.
THE resignation of Sheriff Flack, Of
New York, was received on the 26sh by
Governor Hill at Albany, as a result Of
Flack's conviction for conspiracy.
TIE Lima CO., Oil Company was sold
on the Goth to the Standard concern, the
reported consideration being 81, 125, 900.
REPORT was made to Governor jack
son, of Maryland, on the Goth that the
State Treasurer. Stevenson Archer, had
misappropriated the securities in his
possession.
AT Shamokin, Pa. four engineers and
four fremen OF the Reading road were
discharged on the Goth for drinking in
toxicants.
The levee in front of Skipwith, Miss,
broke on the Goth and the crevasse was
more than 400 feet wide, the water
reaching to the caves of houses in Skip
with. A large section of country was
flooded.
A FIRE on the Goth destroyed large
part of Pioneer, town of about 1000
inhabitants in Williams County, O.
The bill suppressing pool-rooms was
passed on the Goth by the Maryland
Legislature, and signed by the Gov
ernor.
Mrs. JAMES MCCAULEY, who had been
living in abject poverty in Philadelphia
for good many years, learned on the
Goth that her husband was a wealthy
Idaho miner, and had been writing to
friends inquiring after her. She would
join him.
IT was reported on the Goth that an
English syndicate had obtained options
on several large tobacco factories in
10y ACAOulSs as dAA :" do AOo OuAnuAA6
for eight factories in Danville, Va.
Rev. DR.. JOSEPH n. RYLANcE, of
New York, on the 26th recovered a YER
dict of $4,000 against Nicholas Quack-
enboss for malicious libel.
THE Philadelphia mint force was on
the 26th working night and day to meet
the demand for silver dollars, of which
it was expected to turn out l. 800, 900 dur
ing March.
THE old chestnut horse slack" that
carried Brigadier General Geddes
through several campaigns during the
war, died at Des Moines, Ia, on the
Goth, at the advanced age of SO years.
IT was reported on the 27th that Me-
tropolis, small village in Illinois, had
been destroyed by a cyclone and that
several hundred people were killed and
injured. Many buildings at Olney and
Nashville, Ill, were also wrecked.
SHORTLY after o'clock on the even
ing of the 9th tornado swept over the
western portion of Louisville, KY,
wrecking 200 or 300 houses, and killing
200 or more people and injuriEg many
others. The path of the cyclone was
about square and half in width.
A TORNADO at Birds Point, No., on
the 27th blew down several houses.