Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-08-20

the 18th. Twenty thousand bushels Of
wheat, valued at $4,000, belonging to
various farmers was destroyed, with
little or nc insurance.
Mrs. Joan ZUENER and two children
were thrown from buggy in runaway
at Lima, O.. on the 18th and killed.
Mrs. JOHN HoLDEN and her son Ed
ward were arrested in Monticello, I'LL. :,
on the l4th charged with wayla ing and
killing Harley Russell in June last.
LAVENDER & Sp1NNAaE, dealers in
general merchandise at Scotland, ). D.,
failed on the l4th. Liabilities, $75, 600;
assets, $4,000.
Two UNKNOWN men were swept over
the Niagara Falls on the l4th. One
was olinging to boat; the other leaped
into the rapids before the boat reached
the falls and tried to swim ashore, but
failed.
BY an explosion on the 14th in the
soap factory of the Kendall Manufacture
ing Company at Providence, r. l., ten
employees were badly burned, two
fatally.
THREE men and one woman were
killed and several others seriously in
iured in so-called negro riot in the
neighborhood of Birmingham, Ala, on
the l4th.
THE vinegar factory of Paul Bechtner
at Milwaukee was destroyed by fire on
the 14th. Loss, 100000.
AN oil we'll was struck near Findlay,
o., on the 14th that produced 1000 gall
Ions the first hour. This is said to be
the largest flow known.
In a quarrel at North Platte, Neb.,
on the 14th Edward Newman shot his
wife and himself, both dying instantly.
In u collision on the Cincinnati South.
ern road near Danville, KY, on the 14th
Louis Simpson, engineer, and tramp
were killed.
The distillery Of the Kentucky Dis
tillery Company and Conrad & Sellers
Great Western pork house at Louis
Vile, KY, were totally destroyed by
fire on the 14th. The loss was estimated
at over 1000, 900; partly insured.
HENRY E. WALDO, OF Minneapolis,
and Miss Gussie Hoffman, of Kansas
City, were drowned on the 14th while
fishing ON American lake, near Tacoma,
WASH, by the capsizing of their boat.
MRS. CARRIE HOWARD, of Jamestown,
N. Y, found her stolen child, which
had recently baen abducted, in an asy-
lum in Erie, Pa, on the 14th where it
had been taken after being abandoned
by its abductors.
NEAR Santa Barbara, CAL, natural
gas was struck on the 14th, with flow
of 5000, 900 feet day.
By a unanimous vote the United Car
penters' Council of Oh icago resolved on
the 14th to call out on strike all car
penters and joiners under its jurisdic-
ton September /. The violation by the
New Bosses Association OF the agree
ment by which the recent strike was
settled was given as the cause Eight
thousand men would be affected by this
decision.
j. II. WARD. a well-known member of
the Baltimore Corn and Flour Exchange,
committed suicide on the 10th by cut
ting his throat with razor.
Two P1NKERToN detectives belonging
to the force now at Albany, N. Y,
guarding railroad property, were killed
on the 18th by being run over by train.
UNKNOWN persons placed an obstruc-
ton on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad
tracks twenty miles from Pittsburgh on
the night of the 14th. An excursion
train struck it and two engineers and
supposed tramp were instantly killed.
CARELESS contractors caused the al
most total demolition of Red Cliff, COL,
on the 18th by the explosion of powder
with which they were blasting.
A BARN belonging to Josiah Beatty,
near Columbus, Ind, was destroyed by
fire on the 18th, together with 10000
bushels of grain and farming imple-
ments, the whole valued at $40, 900,
partly insured.
BUSINESS failures during the seven
days ended on the 18th, number for
the United States ia, Canada %, total
1877, as conn pared with 203 last week.
For the corresponding week of last year
total 213, representing 131 failures in
the United States and 80 in Canada.
The body of John kirkland, foreman
of the Pennsylvania shops at Crestline,
O., was found under the railroad bridge
at that place on the 18th. There were
deep cuts on his head, and his watch
and money were gone.
CHARLES PRATT was taken from Jail
and lynched at Blair, Neb., on the 18th
by enraged citizens for the murder of
NJ. r. Towne and daughter. A love at
fair was the cause of the murder
A TRAIN on the Michigan Central
road struck broken switch at Au-
gusta, Mich, on the 18th, overturning
the engine, which exploded, killing the
engineer and fireman, and injuring sew
eral other persons.
WILLIAM TULLEY, of Colum bia Citv,
Ind, set spring gun for burglars in
his gun store on the night of the
18th. On entering the store his foot
struck the trap and he received both
loads from double.barreled rife kill
ing him instantly.
1T was estimated on the 18th that the
wheat crop of Minnesota and the Dako-
tas would reach SO, 600, 900 bushels. The
yield per acre for the State of Minneso-
ia was estimated at 13 bushels; for South
Dakota, 1917 bushels, and for North d.
kota, III bushels.
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