Mower County transcript., 1890-05-07
DOMESTIC.

ODoNovAN Rosa was convicted OF
criminal libel in New York on the 2Sth
for calling P. s. Cassidy British spy
and publishing the same in United
Irishman.
WHILE John Juker was plowing on
his farm near Berwyn, Neb., on the
s9th ult he unearthed the skeleton of
three grown persons, a child and the
skull of dog.
ADv1cEs of the Goth ult. say that the
smuggling of Chinese into this country
from Mexico is being carried on as a
business by company we'll backed as
regards capital and having headquarters
at San Francisco.
JUDGE WALLACE, Of the United States
Court, on the 29th ult. granted writ of
habeas corpus, returnable June II, in
the case of Kemmler, the murderer
under sentence of death by electricity
at Auburn IN. W prison.
THREE men were drowned at Newport,
VT, on the 29th ult. by the capsizing of
a boat.
DESTRUCTIVE prairie fires were rag
ing on the Goth ult. on the Sioux reser-
vation in South Dakota. The fires were
started by Indians. who had been ar
rested.
AT Bath, Me-, fire on the Goth ult.
destroyed range of buildings in the
business center of the city.
FOUR Hungarians were fatally burned
on the Goth ult by the explosion of a
furnace in the Edgar Thomson steel
works at RraddOck pa FE
JAMES BELTS. Thomas Belts and
Marion Wymore were drowned on the
goth ult. near. Woodland, Wash, while
rafting logs.
THE steamer H. B. Plant on the 29th
ult. was burned in Beresford lake in
Florida, and two men and boy (all
colored) lost their lives.
IH1RTY-ONE warrants were sworn out
on the Goth ult. for the arrest of persons
charged with fraudulent voting in the
Twenty-fourth ward of Chicago at the
last election.
A SERIES of temperance meetings held
at Marshalltown, Ia, by Francis Muir
ply. closed on the Goth ult., over 2,000
persons having signed the pledge.
THE Michigan Supreme Court on the
Goth ult. decided the State liquor license
law unconstitutional.
RICHARD SNEITKE, a farmer living
near Rochester, Minn., killed his 3-year-
old boy on the goth ult and then took
his own life. Domestic trouble caused
the deed.
The entire business portion of Harts-
vile, Ind, was burned on the Goth ult.
FRANK WOODRUFF, who attained no
toriety in connection with the Cronin
case in Chicago, was let off on the 29th
ult. with six months sentence for
horse-stealing. 80
The first lodge of the Independent
Order of Machinists of the United States
was instituted on the goth ult. at LYNN.
Mass.
THE twenty fourth annual encamp-
ment of the Ohio department of the
Grand Army of the Republic commenced
at Cincinnati on the goth ult
RETURNS from 1913 presby teries on the
29th ult. showed that 1877 had voted for
revision. 81 against and five had taken
no action on the question. Twenty
presbyteries were yet to be heard from.
AN lncendlary nre on the 3Oth ult
burned the business portion OF Carpen-
tersville, Ind.
ARBoR DAY was celebrated in Wiscon-
Elm on the 30th ult.
CAPTAIN P. H. DOWNING, of Toledo,
was elected Grand Army of the Repub-
lie Commander of Ohio on the 3Oth ult.
at Cincinnati.
NATIONAL organization was perfected
on the 30th ult. in Louisville, KY, by
the Society of Sons of the American
Revolution, DR.. William Seward Webb,
of New York, being elected president.
In Chicago on the 3Oth ult. Lyman J.
Gage was elected president of the
worlds raj association and T. B. Bryan
and Potter Palmer yice-presidents.