Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-02-26

MRS. AsBuRY SAwHAM, Of Lima, O.,
was accidentally shot and killed by her
husband on the 18th. .
F0UR houses were burned at Newark,
N. j., on the 18th, and young woman
named Mary jackson persisted in the
flames. , 5 Il IT. It d. T. - - f. :r.%.
ELLISON MOUNTS was hanged at Pike
vile, KY, on the 18th for completely in
the murder Of Miss Alafair Mccoy and
her brother. 49,.
THIFrEEN women were arrested on
the 18th at Piokardsville, No., on the
charge Of maliciously destroying prop
erty of saloon-keepers. ".
THREE men named Moran, Coleman
and Weloh were killed by the cars on
the 18th at Johnstown, Pa.
WARREN BLOOM and Warren Adkins,
boys of "a, quarreled over q game of
cards at Hope, Ind. ON the 10th, when
Bloom drew revolver and fatally shot
his young companion.
j. B. KELLY, arrested at St. Louis as
Cronin suspect, reached Chicago on
the 10th, and Mrs. Conklin and Frank
Scanlan declared that he was not the
man that drove the doctor away the
night of the murder.
FLAMES in the Touro block in New
Orleans on the 10th caused a loss of
$3.50, 900.
MRS EzEL1, wife of Milt Ezell, q
well-known politician, was killed at
Greenville, ILL.,, on the 10th by stroke of
lightning.
THE New York Legislature on the
10th passed bill appropriating $10,-
100000 for the worlds fair If held in
New York City.
A PARTY of Kansas City pilgrims
bound for Europe and the Holy Land
sailed from New York on the 10th.
The village Of Aurora, Ia. was al
most entirely wiped out by fire on the
18th.
The American horticultural Society
in session on the 10th at Austin, Tex,
elected Parker Earle, of Ocean Grove,
Miss, as president
ABOUT twenty persons in Minneapolis
were bitten by q mad dog on the 10th.
THOMAS LEE assaulted and fatally in
jured his wife on the 10th at Bladen-
burg. Md, and then committed suicide.
Domestic trouble was the cause.
The right to cut leo on the Erie canal
was on the 10th sold for $22 mile. In
ordinary times the ice is considered too
poor to harvest.
HALF q block of business buildings in
South Amboy, N. j., were burned on the
10th. Loss, 100000.
WILLIAM SEELEY HOPKINS was hanged
on the 2oth at Bellefonte, Pa, for the
murder Of his wife and mother-in law
last September. Jacob Schoop and
Thomas j. Cole were hanged at Phila-
delphia, the former for the murder of
Anton Schilling and the latter for that
of Walter McAllister.
In mine near Aspen, COL, on the
Goth Mart and Hugh Brennan (brothers)
and James Lyons were killed by falling
distance of 100 feet.
The formal dedica ton of the Carnegie
free library at Allegheny City, Pa, took
place on the evening of the Goth, and
the institution was declared open by
President Harrison.
1rwas said on the 2oth that jay
Gould had acquired nearly all the coal
fields in the Southwest.
THE Farmers Cooperative Brother
hood of the United States was incor-
porated at Springfield, ILL.,, on the goth
with a capital stock of $50, 900, 900. It's
object, as stated, is to do general farm
hyvcirooo INV, or
protect the farmers against trusts of all
kinds
A FIRE on the Goth in Weigcltown, an
Erie (Pa) surburb, destroyed the
Weigel House, the Oldest and most
noted hotel between Buffalo and Cleve-
land. The landlord, J. G. Rhoades, lost
81, 900 in money in the flames.
J. B. KELLY, the man arrested in St.
Louis on suspicion of being implicated
in the murder of DR.. Cronin, was dis
charged in Chicago on the goth.
Il. P. PERCY's store at Donaldsonville,
La, was burned on the 2Oth, and clerk
named Boisac and young colored boy
persisted in the flames.
The two-headed baby which had been
on exhibition in various museums
throughout the country died at Buffalo,
N. Y, on the Goth, one-half expiring
forty-five minutes before the whole
body became inanimate.
THREE-FoURTHs of the village of
Black River, N. Y, was destroyed by
fire on the Goth.
DURING a storm on the 20th at Car
Isle, o., accompanied by thunder and
lightning, H. II. Gentry, telegraph OPP
orator, had his mustache and the hair
on his head burned off by q flash of
lightning, but was not otherwise in
jured.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
CAPTAIN A. T. PALMER, aged SO years,
the only surviving officer in Maine OF
the Mexican war, died on the 18th at
Bangor.
The 10th anniversary OF the birthday
Of Miss Susan B. Anthony, the veteran
champion of woman's rights, was cele-
brated by banquet at the Riggs House
at Washington on the 18th.
c. LATHAM SHoLEs, the inventor of
the typewriter, died at his home in Mil
waukee on the 18th, at the age of II
years.