Mower County transcript., 1890-12-10

necessary force to suppress tho sale Of
liquors on Sunday and after II O'Clock
ut night 1 # ~ i.
i NAVIGATION on the Hudson river came
to an end on the sd. !, i
MRS. MARY TUnrIE, aged 90 years,
mother OF Senator David Turpie, was
burned to death near Delphi, Ind, her
clothing ostching fire from fire. place.
AT Williamstown, Ky., George Bur-
CESS. saloon-keeper, shot and fatally
wounded Miss Alice Mckinley, and was
himself shot dead while resisting arrest.
A FIRE In the Scotten tobacco works
at Detroit, Mich, caused loss Of $500, =
600, and two fremen were killed and
two others were injured.
| THE Rittenhouse Manufacturing Com.
pany OF Passaio, N. j., failed, with
$500, 600 debts and $4,000 assets.
TIE National Colored Alliance opened
its third annual convention'on on the Sd at
Ocala, Fla, with National President j.
s. jackson, OF Alabama, in tho chair.
TIE 800" canal was closed for the
season. The number of boats tnat
passed through during the season was
1o,557. carrying s4,s5s passengers and
0,041, 31S tons of freight
| BRADY Bros, wholesale grocers at
Gainesville, Tenn, failed for 500, 900.
| ALBERT II. SMITH, of Mills, Robson
| & Smith. who wrecked that firm by
committing forgeries, was sentenced at
New York to seventeen years in State
prison.
ElECTIoNEER, the most famous sire Of
trottiug horses in the world, diod at
! Senator Stanford's stock farm in Cali
fornia at tho age Of rs years.
A PASSENGER train on the Chicago &
Alton road was run into by Wabash
freight train at Jacksonville, H., and
two mon were killed and four wounded.
THIEVES extracted several thousand
dollars from an express messengers
sachel which had been left in tho Balti.
more & Ohio depot in GAINESVILLE, 0.
THREE workmen were fatally injured
by the explosion OF a tank in q chemi-
cal manufactory at Cincinnati
AN extinguishel blast furnace Of the
Illinois Iron & Steel Company at Joliet
collapsed, ana nine men were killed AMI
nine others were injured.
JOSEPH B. ABBOTT, cashier for the
Henry W. Sage Lumber Company at
Albany, N. Y, who was discovered to
be defaulter to the extent Of $lOO, 900,
shot himself dead.
The Indiana State Board of Health in
its annual report to the Governor esti-
mated that the grip epidemic in Indiana
in 1890 caused . money loss of more
than 81, 900, 0Ol
THE residents Of Rawlins County,
Kan, were said to be in q destitute
condition, and many would starve un-
less assisted.
Rev. WILLIAM BAIRD and wife, OF
Charlestown, Ind, left for Corea, where
Mr.. Baird will be employed as a mis-
sionary by the Presby terian board.
FIFTEEN inches of snow foil in tho
Lydonvi!le (Vt) regior, and lumber
men would begin operations at once.
The G. G. Carpenter nursery at Fair
bury, the largest in Nebraska, was sold
to an English syndicate for $75 OOl
HENRY JOHNSON (colored) was lynched
near Pickens. s. c., for criminal as
sault upon Mrs. Thomas Walters, q
white woman.
JACOB SCH>EFER beat the worlds rec
ord at balk-line billiards in Boston. In
FIVE innings be made total of 400.
GENERAL BROOKE reported on the
4th to the War Department. that a ma
jority of the hostile Indians in South
Dakota were willing to return to Pine
Ridge agency.
A STOCK OF liquor that was to be used
in opening saloon at Kyana, Ind, was
destroyed by women crusaders
The .Intercontinental Railway Com
mission was called to order at Washing
ton by Secretary Blaine and organized
by the election of A. j. Cassatt as presi-
dent
DIAMONDS valued at $4,000, belong
ing to Mrs. Kirk B. Armour, disap-
peared from the vaults of the New En-
gland Safety Deposit Company at Kan
sas City. Mo.
THE business failures in the United
States during the seven days ended on
the 5th numbered 3l2, against 249 the
preceding week and 3l6 the correspond
ing week last year.
A FIRE which broke out in Maginn's
VI 0SnOA 'oSIOAS oU AVeoO0AS H. OO-
royed four large business blocks. caus.
ing a loss of $500. 600.
AT Providence. E. l., fire in the re-
tail dry-goods store OF Sheppard & Co.
caused damage to the extent of $780,
900.
IT was reported that gold in large
quantities had been discovered in a
gulch eighteen miles southwest of Co.
lumbus, Ind.
THE cotton house of v. & A. Meyer at
New Orleans suspended with Liabilities
aggregating $2,5 o. 900 and assets $3, 000,-.
000 This was the third largest cotton
house in the country.
DELAMATER & Co., bankers at Mead
Vile, Pa, failed for S4OO, 900.
In quarrel at Ironton, O., John
Wheelersburg was fatally injured by
fellow workman, who threw a shovelful
of red hot sand in his face.
AT Fort Worth. Tex, Ben Mabley
cut the throat of Lizzie Ford and then
his own. ...s
The schooner Undine was wrecked
while attempting to cross thechannel
from the islands to Santa Barbara, CAL,
or1 re- oft non ~, ON