Mower County transcript., 1890-07-23

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the Sisseton Agency In South Dakota
reported on the 18th that the Indians
on that reservation were entirely desti-
tute OF food. $780, -@S~s'z
The Natural Bridge property in Vir.
ginia was sold on the 18th to Massachu-
setts and Virginia syndicate for $500, 900.
RAIN, thunder and hail-storms swept
over parts Of New Jersey and Pennsyl-
vania on the 18th, causing heavy dam
age. Lightning killed several persons
and caused many destructive fires.
TIE scheme to amalgamate into a
trust a nd sell to English capitalists the
soda wator and boer apparatus interests
of tho United States collapsed on tho
18th.
PRESIDENT HARRISON ON the 18th ap-
pointed O. L. Spaulding, of Michigan,
Assistant Secretary Of the Treasury, vice
George c. Tichenor, resigned.
THE steamer st. Lawrence ran into
tho yacht Catherine on the st. Law
renee river near Alexandria Bay, N.
Y, on the 18th, and out Of a party of
twelve on the yacht five were drowned.
They were all from Bradford, Pa.
Two coUNTEEFErrERs, members Of a
gang that had been flooding the country
with an excellent two-dollar silver cer-
tiicate, were captured by tho New York
police ON the 18th.
A HOME for soldiers wives and mothers
was dedicated on the 17th at Madison,
O., by the National Woman's Relief
Corps.
FRANK ,V1LLERMAN, secretary of the
German and Centennial Building and
Loan associations at Denver, COL, was
on the 18th said to be short in his &C.
| counts about $SO.C00.
The three little sons Of Otto Golden,
at Monroeville. O., were struck by light
ming and killed on the 18th, and Ben
jamin Morton and his son Rufus met
like fate near Paris, Ill.
In the Federal Court at Paris, Tex,
be hanged for murder.
THE robbery of $4,000 from the
United States Express Company in CHI.
cago last March was virtually cleared
up on the 18th by the confession of John
Ehret, the.driver of the delivery wagon,
who took the money.
LOUIS PIppER and David Walker were
killed by Cal bonic acid gas while dig
ging we'll on the 18th at Franklin,
Ind.
THERE were 2O7 business failures in
the United States during the seven days
ended on the 18th, against 1877 the pre-
vious seven days.
The upper floors of the Western
Union Telegraph building at New York
were destroyed by fire on the 18th, to-
; gether with valuable books, files and
records that can not be duplicated.
Loss, $500, 900.
NEGOTIATIONS were completed on the
18th between the Cheyenne and Arapa-
sioners by which 1900, 900 acres of land
in Indian Territory will be thrown open
to settlement
NEAR Harrington. N. j., George Duff
field, al aged farmer, shot and fatally
wounded his grandson, Oscar Bodine,
on the 18th and then cut his own throat.
EIGHry-slx Swedish-Americans were
naturalized in Chicago on the 18th and
112 were granted first papers.
DURING fracas on the 18th at Tus-
cumbia, Ala, Mayor Steele was shot
dead and John Goodwin and w. z. Chal-
len were probably fatally wounded.
AFTER an illness of twenty-four hours
Mrs w. B. Bishop died at Atchison,
Kan, on the 18th, and physicians united
in declaring that Asiatic cholera caused
her death.
GREEN JACKSON (colored) was lynched
at Fort White, Fla, on the 18th by
neighbors of Mrs. Robert Pritchard,
white woman whom he had assaulted.
THIEVES on the 18th took $4,000
worth of jewelry from the Bliss cottage
at Saratoga Springs, N. Y, occupied by
the families of Vice-President Morton
and Mr.. Bliss.
AN unsuccessful attempt was made
on the 18th to rob train on the Gin
cinnati, Jackson & Michigan road
near Enterprise, O. Engineer Vande-
vender was killed and the fireman IA
tally wounded by the robbers, who
made their escape without securing any
plunder.
became so enraged in the course of
dispute with her son-in-law on the 18th
that she choked to death.
In quarrel over a mule trade on the
18th at Guyton, Ca, R. 4. Norton, Jr.,
shot and killed Willie and John Bird
(brothers). All were young boys.
AT Pittsburgh, Pa, the prophecy OF
fortune-teller that Jennie McDowell's
wedding dress would be her shroud was
fulfilled by the girls suicide on the 18th.
CYRUS CRAIG, of Marysville, No.,
local agent for Bartle Bros, extensive
brokers and real-estate dealers in st.
Joseph, NO., was on the 18th charged
with having defrauded his employers
and others out of 1926, 1000.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
PROF. NORMAN DUNsHEE, of the
Drake University at Des Moines, 1a.,
died on the 18th, at the age of IS. He
was President Garfield's Latin and
Greek teacher at Hiram College.
MRS. JANE HARRISON, the only known
pensioner of the revolutionary war in
illinois, died on the 18th near Pinck-
NEVILLE, aged 80 years. Her husband
died in 1885.
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