Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-07-02

'econd.class post-offices. tho debate on the Ns
aonal election bill was commenced.
THE bill to admit Wyoming Us State wa
passed In the Senate on tho 9Th by a part
5ote Of 20 to Is and now goes to the President
Fhe bill for the admission OF Idaho was cor
,idered. -. In the House the time was mostl
occupied in discussing the Federal election
oils. At the evening session los private pen
iion bills were passed.
DOMESTIC.
THE total collections of internal rev
snue for the first eleven months Of
the fiscal year ending June 80, $780,
were S1so;62s,O 04, being $40, 5e4, 0s4
greater than for the corresponding
period of the last fiscal year.
PARKER HARRIS, Ed Carr and Bardie
Bellard, all colored, and Frank Brenish
(white) we're hanged at Memphis, Tenn,
On the oath, the negroes for numbering
their wives and the white man for kill.
Ing street-car driver named Pinkston.
NINE persons in Chicago were pros
trated by the heat on the Gath, three
fatally.
THE New York Court of Appeals de.
sided on the Gath that the warden Of
Auburn prison should execute the sen
'ence of death by electricity passed
apon the murderer Kemmler.
Two-TH1RBs of the business portion Of
the town of Blue Hill, Neb., was de-
stroyed by fire on the oath.
THE sixth International Sunday
school convention convened at Pitts.
surgh, Pa, on the Gath, with 1900 del
.gates in attendance from all parts OF
North America, representing 112,S9
Sunday-schools, with Its, 30l teachers
Ind 9, 149, 997 scholars.
The National Editorial Association
opened its three days convention at
Boston ON the Oath.
The New York Court of Appeals on
the Gath rendered a decision affirming
the judgment of the lower courts dis
solving the sugar trust
The three children of John Kujawa,
living at Medford, Mimi, were drowned
In Stevight river on the Gath.
The conductors, switchmen and brake
men of the Illinois Central railroad,
north of the Ohio river, struck on the
e4th against the continuance in Office of
Superintendent Russell and all business
was at stand-stilL
The Supreme Court of Indiana de-
cided on the Gath that primaries are in
luded in the meaning of the law which
provides that saloons shall be closed on
election days.
TIMBER fires were doing immense
damage on the oath in Boulder County,
COL
HENRY WATSON (colored) was taken
from Jail at Brandenburg, KY. on the
oath by a mob and hanged for crimi-
nally assaulting little white girl.
AT Purvis, MISS, on the Oath John L.
Sullivan pleaded guilty to an indict-
ment charging him with prize-fghting
and was fined $500!
The Louisiana House on the 18th
passed by a vote of &C to % a bill SUBJ
hitting to popular vote constitutional
amendment extending the charter of
for twenty-five years in return for ST.
OO0.O 900.
In Northern Iowa heavy rain-storm
on the oath did great damage, sixteen
railway bridges near McGregor being
washed away, and in the vicinity of
Dubuque twenty-five bridges were
swept away and in some localities
farmers fled to the hills in fear of be-
ing drowned.
The Supreme Lodge American Order
United Workmen in session at Boston
on the Oath elected William w. Wilson,
of Detroit, Mich, supreme master
workman.
J. w. ADY, United States District
Attorney for Kansas, declared on the
25th that the State prohibitory law was
absolutely null and void, made so by
the recent Supreme Court decision.
A SUDDEN rise in Root river on the
25th between La Crosse, Wis, and
Houston, MIMI, did great damage to
the Milwaukee railway, and farms were
overfowed and hundreds of head of
stock were drowned.
BY boiler explosion on the 25th on
the farm of w. Craig, near Colchester,
Ont, George Craig and Thomas and
Frank Quick were killed.
A GREAT portion of the Sangre de
Cristo range in Colorado and New Mex
leo was in hameS on the 10Th, and near
Boulder over 1900 acres of timber had
been destroyed.
MISS ANNIE TURNER, a beautiful
young lady of Groverton, Tex, COM
mitted suicide by shooting on the 25th.
Her father took the pistol from the hand
of his dying daughter and with it
killed a Prot. Davis, who was in the
room. The motives for the double
tragedy were not known.
In Chicago on the 25th thirty-one per-
sons were Frustrated by the heat and
four died. ;
By the explosion OF boiler in Frank
GARDENERS stave mill at North Star,
Mich, on the 25th three men were in
stantly killed and four more fatally in
jured.