Mower County transcript., 1890-07-23
DOMESTIC.

fifty-five saloons, and the prosecuting
attorney was allowed 81, 125 IN fees.
THE United States Hotel Mems Asso-
citation was formed on the 18th at Sara
toga Springs, N. Y, with the election
Of T. E. Roessle, of Washington, as
president.
AN explosion on the 18th at Kings
powder mills near Cincinnati killed ten
men and dangerously injured twenty
other persons.
THE four big breweries at Minneap.
oils consolidated on the 18th with cap
ital of 81, 100000.
BISHOP ALpHEUs w. Wilson, of the
Methodist Episcopal church, started
from Baltimore on the 18th on his third
mjssionary-instrucion trip around the
world.
Hot winds had on the 18th done ire
mediable damage to early corn in nearly
all parts of Kansas.
ADvIcEs of the 18th say that in De-
lott township Holt County. the census
enumerator discovered the oldest man
in the State of Nebraska. His name is
James Mcdonald and he is IO4 years of
age.
ISAAC CASES brood mare Fury was
found dead in her stall near Goshen,
Ind, on the 18th. She was valued at
$4,000
TIE house of John Hamlett, near
Valparaiso, Ind, was burned on the
10th. and his wife and four little chill
dren perished in the flames. Hamlett
was absent from home.
PRESIDENT HARRISON on the 10th ap-
pointed Prof. James R. Soley as As
sistant Secretary of the Navy and nom
mated A. B. Nettleton, of Minnesota,
to be Assistant Secretary of the Treas
ury.
Mrs. ELLEN PEARSON, aged 96 years,
committed suicide on the 10th in her
cabin in Wilcox County, Ala, where
she had lived for forty years. She had
no living relatives and left as an ex-
cuse for the deed that she was tired of
living on charity.
ADvIcEs of the 10Th say that Morris
Sullivan and his wife were murdered in
their home in Goreville, Ill, by their
son, aged 16 years. who gave as reason
for the crime that he was tired of wait
lug lVI VIC O1u 1OAhS AuOuoy.
THE total list of deaths by cyclones,
lightning and wind-storms in the United
States since January to the 10th inst.
is placed at 1, 100, as compared with only
1853 deaths by the same cause all last
year.
The yacht Marion, of South Boston,
struck rock at Portsmouth, N. H., on
the 18th and was sunk. Three of the
crew were drowned.
which arrived at New York on the 10Th.
made the passage from Queensto wn in
five days and thirteen hours.
> j. S. JACOBSON and Mrs. John J. Hud-
dart, of Salt Lake City: were drowned
in Berkley lake near Denver, Co.., on
the 18th, by the upsetting of a boat.
Henry HALL, aged IS years, team
ster, shot his wife and fatally wounded
himself after a quarrel on the 10th at
Council Bluffs, Ia-
UP to the 10th eighty-nine dead bodies
had been recovered fr,.p. the wreck of
the steamer Sea Wiz IN Lake Pepin,
opposite Lake City. N IN, and over
dozen persons were still missing
HENRY C. THOMPSON, Of Morristown,
n. j., millionaire who had charge of
several large trusts, was on the 10th
found to be 100000 short in his &C.
counts.
LIEUTENANT c.. v. DONALDSON, sta
toned at Fort Grand, A. T., and Miss
Lottie Spurgeon were drowned at New
port beach, Cal, on the 10Th.
Two YACHTS from Chicago were lost
in storm on Lake Michigan on the
18th and five persons were drownad.
JUDGE ROWLAND decided at Indian
apolis ON the 18th that German must be
taught in the public schools.
AT Rockland, Mass, fire on the 18th
which started in the Congregational
church caused loss of 100000
CHARLEY JACKSON, an s-year-old boy,
found a pocketrbook containing SIS, 900
in the street at Lynn, Mass, on the
18th, and returned the money to its
owner, Captain Robinson.
The mayor of Red Wing, Mimi, on
the 18th prepared an official list OF the
victims Of the Lake Pepin disaster, by
which it was shown that ninety-seven
of the It's persons on the Sea Wing lost
their lives.
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