Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-04-16
DOMESTIC.

ACCORDING to custom the children OF
Washington to the number Of ten thou.
sand gathered at the White House
grounds on the 7th to indulge in the
Easter pastime of ''egg-rolling." The
Marine Band played and President Har.
rison and family witnessed the sport.
The steam-barge Sachem, from Cleve.
land, arrived at St. Ignace, Mich, on
the 7th via the north passage. She was
the first boat to get through the straits
this season.
THE two young daughters of Robert
Londerbeck, of Brookville, n. j., while
trying to cross railroad trestle bridge
on the 9Th fell through and were
drowned.
AT Medford, Wis, on the Sth Willard
Williams, known as ''Crazy Kelly" shot
and killed Miss Maggie Pritchard, niece
of the wife of Judge Clinton Texton,
and then fatally shot himself.
In Illinois on the Sth wind-storm
wrecked houses and out-buildings at
Roberts, Anchor, La Harpe and High,
land Park, in the latter place the Cath
Ollie church being destroyed.
JAMES NJ. SHELLENBERGER of Boyles-
town. Pa, was on the 8th said to be
short $50, 900 in his accounts with vari-
Gus estates of which he had charge. He
had fed
TIE monthly crop report of Michigan
for April places the average condition
of wheat in the southern four tiers OF
counties at 10, central at IS and north
ern at Sc per cent, being the lowest
ever recorded in the history of the de.
partment.
FRED MEDHURsT, cashier of the First
National Bank at Minot, N. D., disap-
peared on the 9Th with about 5000 OF
the banks funds.
A w1SD-sroRM in Michigan on the 9Th
wrecked houses and did other damage
atCharlotte, Kalamazoo, Mount Clemens
and several other places. At Frazer
Mrs. Fred Eber]in was struck by light.
ming and killed.
BY a vote of Sc to 9 on the Sth the
Iowa House passed the Australian bal
lot bill.
In Indiana on the 9Th great damage
was done by = wind-storm at Lafayette,
Wabash and other towns, and at Fort
Wayne Miss Ida Miller, aged 20 years,
was instantly killed by lightning.
TIE Manhattan Bank of Manhattan.
Kan, closed it's doors on the sth. Liza
bilities. S561.O0O.
In Colorado on the 9Th a windstorm
destroyed many houses at Denver and
Julesburg.
A FIRE on the Sth at Lexington, KY,
destroyed eleven cottages near the
race-cOuTse.
A STORM of wind on the Sth at Nor
walk, O., caused great destruction to
buildings, and Miss Dora Palmer, aged
10 years. was killed by falling timbers.
At Collins fifteen buildings were
wrecked and several persons hurt.
FREDERIC K1MBAL1, teller of the
Peoples Savings Bank of Worcester;
Mass, was on the 9Th found to be $50,
900 short in his accounts. He was in
Canada.
THE Texas standard cotton-seed oil
mill and refinery at Galveston was
burned on the 8th. Loss. $2o0,000
JUDGE RYLAND in his charge to the
grand jurors at edalia, Mo-, on the 9Th
Instructed them that the fashionable
game of progressive euchre was gam
bling.
Mrs. RoGsDALE and her son Burrel]
were killed by the cars near Newman,
Ca. on the Sth.
A CONGRESSIONAL committee was ap
pointed ON the 9Th to visit Arkansas and
collect testimony relative to the con
tested election case of Clayton VS.
Breckenridge and the assassination o.
John M. Clayton.
NEAR West Point, KY, derrick il
use in repairing trestle fell on the Stt
and killed four men.
Four boys-Ed Severn, A. D. Gam
mon, son of Mrs. Stoner and Jo'
Wright-were killed at Webb City, Mo.
on the 9th by the falling of slab o
rock on them.
M. O. RAGINEL & Co., paper dealer
ut Philadelphia, failed on the 9th TO-
100000.