Mower County transcript., 1890-04-23
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AS A result OF reading novels William
McGregor, aged II years, hanged him
self on the l4th ut Pittsburgh, Pa.
THE supply OF. wheat and corn in the
United States1on the 14th was, respect
lively. s6,14s,6s and 2o,525, ISL bushels.
FIEE on the 14th at Omaha, Neb.,
destroyed the clothing store of Brown
ing, KING & Co. Loss. S115,O0O.
THE United States Supreme Court on
the 14th affirmed the Judgment of the
California circuit court exonerating
Deputy Marshal Neagle for the shoot
ing of Judge Terry at Lathrop, CAL,
last August
HENRY GOETHE, sent to the Joliet
Qll) prison December 7, 1869, from
Belleville to serve life sentence for
murder. died on the 14th.
NEAR Madisonville, La, Captain
John Richardson and his wife were
murdered ON the 18th by burglars
AT Gibson City, I'LL, q fire on the 18th
destroyed six Of the finest business
buildings
MANY food sufferers in Logan County,
w. Va, were on the 18th said to be in q
starving condition.
BEN E1sET (colored), under sentence
of death at Birmingham, Ala, confessed
on the 18th that in the past few years
he had killed five persons
ALL tho union carpenters in Indian
spolis, Ind went on strike ON the 18th
for . working day Of eight hours with
pay at IS cents per hour.
The celebration of the twenty-dfth
anniversary of the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion commenced At Philadel-
phis on the 18th with ex-President
Rutherford B. Hayes presiding.
TIE commemoration of the twenty
fifth anniversary Of the death of Abra-
ham Lincoln was appropriately OBJ
served in Springfield, ILL.,, on the 18th,
and the exercises at the tomb were inn
pressive.
EDWARD BUsH, Matilda jackson and
IN unknown boy were drowned on the
18th in Old Town lake, near Helena,
Ark, by the upsetting of q canoe.
AT the session in Boston on the 18th
of the Methodist annual conference,
with over 200 ministers in attendance,
resolutions were adopted condemning
allegiance of American citizens to any
foreign power or potentate, political or
ecclesiastical. and declaring for woman
suffrage in municipal elections
The house and barns of Jerry Bass
{oolored) near Jackson, Miss, were
burned by unknown parties on the 18th,
and Bass and his son Charles were fatal
ly shot. No cause for the crime was
known. sax.
The Detroit (M4icts (M4icts; sstseel 4 Spring
Company, tie largest concern ofthe
kind in the United Sta.~a naapended
payment on the 1stll, with liabilities of
$500. 600 and assets the same.
Ar Scottdale, Pa, over 1900 coke
ovens were shut down indefinitely on
tho 18th, and thousands of men were
thrown out of employment.
IT was said on the 18th that syndi-
cate with backing of $500, 000, 900 had
agents at work buying up all the lith-
Ographic plants, large and small, in the
United States.
From Arkansas City, Ark, to Helena,
. distance of $50 miles, farming lands
were under water on the 10Th. and the
people was great.
PRAIR1E fires were raging on the 18th
in the vicinity OF Chippewa Falls and
ct other points in Wisconsin.
SAMUEL WooDY (colored), who killed
his father recently at Auburn, Ky.. was
lynched on the 10Th by negroes.
THE forest fires near Pleasantville,
N. j., had ON the 10Th caused . loss of
t4Oo, 200. ~ =.
THE presbytery for Oregon. decided on
tho 10Th that all candidates for license
must quit the use of tobacco.
The employees Of tho United States
Express Company were notified on the
18th that salaries would be reduced 10
Per cent May l. ~.
a GREAT pile Of lumber at Milford,
Ne, belonging to n. 8. Gould and 9th
srs, wss burned on the 10Th. Loss,
t1oaoOo.