Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-18

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THE Board Of Trade firm Of Robert
Warren 4 Co., Of Chicago, failed on tho
18th for $500, 1000.
| NEAR Lebanon, Ore, on the 18th Mrs.
Aurnsbaugh shot and killed her hus-
band, Grant Aurnsbaugh, and then blew
her own brains out Domestic trouble
was the cause.
| The ninth annual international con.
vention of the National Young Peoples
Society OF Christian Endeavor COM
menced at St. Louis on the 18th. Dele.
gates were present from every State and
Territory in the United States, repre-
senting 5000 societies, with an aggre-
gate membership of over 100000.
The International Typographical
Union in session on tho 12th at Atlanta,
Ca, reelected E. L. Plank as president
and W. $. McCleevy as secretary and
treasurer.
DURING rain-storm on the 18th at
Auburn, N. Y, cellars in all parts of
the city were flooded and sewer pipes
were burst in many places. The loss
was estimated at $780, 600
employees of the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad Company We're notified on the
12th that hereafter no person who drank
liquor would be employed by the COM
pany, and employees would be dis
charged If Intoxicated either on or of
duty.
The town OF Southampton, L. l.,
celebrated the 250th anniversary of its
| settlement on the 18th.
The entire business portion of POTTS.
boro, Tex, was burned by incendiaries
on the 12th.
AT Milwaukee, Ore, Daniel Harvey,
= fruit:grower, shot and killed his aged
mother on the 18th and then killed him.
self. No cause was known for the deed.
AT meeting Of the stockholders of
the local worlds fair organization in
Chicago on the 1ath it was voted to
change the title to the "World's CO.
lumbar Exposition"
The Supreme Court of Illinois de-
cided on the 12th that "bucket-shops"
were illegal.
The Indians in Montana were COM
uniting depredations on the 12th, hay
ing destroyed several ranches and killed
thousands Of cattle.
The steamship Columbia which ar
rived in New York on the 18th made the
run from Southampton in 6 days 16
hours and 90 minutes, beating all pre-
vious records.
THERE were 212 business failures in
the United States during the seven days
ended on the 18th, against 2O5 the pre-
vious seven days. The total of failures
in the United States from January to
date is 5,09l, against 5,44S in like por-
ton of 1889.
GOVERNOR FIFER on the 18th issued
call for special session of the Illinois
Legislature to convene at the capitol in
Springfield July % to consider worlds
fair matters.
JOHN TUEsToN and wife while driv-
ing across the railroad track at Big
Springs, Neh, on the 18th were struck
by train and instantly killed.
THE house of a family named Estler,
located on Bull creek, near Maysville,
KY, was swept away by food on the
18th, and Mrs. Estler and her three
daughters and two sons drowned. About
a dozen other persons living on the
banks of the creek were also drowned.
In their weekly trade review on the
18th New York business agency says
the legitimate business of the country
continues unprecedented in volume for
the season and highly encouraging in
prospects.
A SALOON owned by Jack Christian in
residence district of Indianapolis,
Ind, was chopped to pieces with axes
on the 18th by negroes hired by citizens.
A FREIGHT train collided with pas
senger train at Cleveland, o., on the
18th, wrecking it and severely injuring
seven persons.
J. s. HARTMAN left Wabash, Ind,
April 10 on walk of 5000 miles across
the continent for wager of Sc, 600. He
arrived in San Francisco on the 18th,
having finished the trip in sixty-one
days, four days less than the time slip
ulated.
DURING a storm on the 18th in the
vicinity of Sibley, a., buildings we're
wrecked. crops destroyed ana numbers
of horses and cattle killed.
A. TRAIN on the Chesapeake & Ohio
road went over an embankment near
Maysville, KY. on the 18th owing to
washout, and three trainmen lost their
lives.
The strike of street-car employees at
Columbus, O., was satisfactorily settled
on the 18th.
AT Elmira, N. Y, on the 18th Her.
bert Warren, a 16-year-old boy, shot and
killed his father, Frank Warren, who
was abusing and threatening his mother.
In cellar at Philadelphia on the 18th
William Collins and Charles Dermer
were found lying dead on the floor. The
police claimed that Collins first killed
Dermer and then shot himself.
A STORM in Central New York on the
18th flooded portions of Norwich, Oneida,
Solsville and Rome, causing loss of
over $3O0,000
A CENSUS enumerator at Richmond,
Va, found colored woman named
Martha Gray on the 18th who has had
thirty-seven children since 1868. She
has given birth to triplets six times, to
twins six times and to seven others
singly.