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

AT St Lo ais on the goth nine deaths
from the heat and sixteen prostrations
were reported. .[,'s
AT Jackson, Miss, on the 28th ex.
State Treasurer Hemingway was found
guilty of embezzlement and sentenced
to five years. imprisonment.
TIE National Worlds Fair Commits
sion met in Chicago on the Goth. Tenn
porary officers were chosen, and in the
evening banquet was given the com
mission at the Palmer House.
THE Pottawattomie Indians in Kan
sas received their land in severalty and
800, 900 in money on the a0th.
AT Morris. ILL.,, Charles Decker, q
wealthy farmer, and his aged mother
were fatally beaten by burglars on the
night Of the Goth.
HARRY RoUaHToN, of Catlin, ILL.,, on
the Goth received notice that he had
fallen heir to $500, 900 worth of property
in New York City.
GRAIN merchants at Louisville stated
on the Goth that the oats crop OF Ken
tucly was total failure.
In drunken fury at Kansas City on
the Goth L. r. Meyers fatally wounded
his uncle, b. Van Horn, and the latter's
daughter.
THE eighth annual convention Of the
Travellers Protective Association in
session on the 36th at Denver elected T..
S. McGreat. of St Louis, as president.
AT Standing Rock, N. D., Rain-in- the
Face, the noted Sioux chief, ranking
next to Sitting Bull in renown, was
fatally stabbed by his wife on the 26th.
Jealousy was the cause.
AT Indianapolis on the Goth pistol
in the pocket of a street-car driver was
accidentally discharged, killing Thomas
Liddy, passenger.
AT Joliet, ILL.,, three Italian quarry
men named John Stancher, Joseph
Stancher and Michael Milausky were
drowned on the Goth while bathing.
THERE were IT'S business failures in
the United States during the seven days
ended on the 27th, against 1874 the pre-
vious seven davA
REPORTS of the 27th from all the
wheat-growing regions of Kansas were
to the effect that the berry was plump
and full. The yield would be Is per
cent. above the average for the last six
years.
A LARGE class graduated on the 9th
from Whites Institute at Wabash, Ind,
the well-known Indian training school.
The course comprises three years, and
about thirty Indian children are brought
from the West each year.
Two LITTLE girls were killed by a
train at South Somerset, Mass, on the
eth, the elder losing her life in the at
tempt to save her younger sister.
For the fifth consecutive time Yale
defeated Harvard in the four-mile
boat-race at New London, Conn.,, on the
9th. Yale's time at the finish was
2l:29, Harvard's 21:4O.
PRESIDENT HARRISON on the 27th ap-
proved the dependent pension bill.
w. H. HAMNEL and wife, of Hutchin-
sou, Kan, were burned to death on the
9th by the explosion of a gasoline
stove.
MUCH property was destroyed on the
27th by tornado in the vicinity of
Loves, KY, and one person was killed.
The business portion of Carbon, Wy
T., was burned on the 27th. Loss $780,
900, with small insurance.
A CYCLONE passed over the eastern
end of Washington County, Wis, on
the 9th, doing great damage to houses,
barns and trees, while growing crops
were leveled for miles.
ALL the brewers and distillers in Bal
timore, Nd, were on the 9th indicted
for violations of the high-license law.
PETER BETTEs, of Jacksonville, Ind,
who was denying himself food because
he was deluded with the idea that his
children were starving, had reached
the fiftieth day of his fast on the 9th.
THE strike ON the Illinois Central rail-
road was settled on the 27th, the men
having come to terms with the company.
The loss to the railroad by the five days
strike was $500, 900.
THREE bodies of women we're found
on the 9th in the river at Johnstown,
Pa, near the stone bridge One was
recognized as the wife of H. j. Roberts,
cashier of the First National Bank,
who, with his family, was drowned in
the food.
C. NJ. HALLowAY, agent for the
Adams Express Company at Salem, O.,
skipped out on the 9th with $4,000 Of
the company's money.
THERE were eleven deaths from the
heat in st. Louis on the 9th, and in
Chicago twenty-seven persons were
Frustrated and three died. In Gales
burg, La Sale, Monticello and other
towns in Illinois the thermometer reg
istered 103 in the shade and number
of people were fatally sun-struck. In
Iowa the heat was also intense and nu-
merous fatalities were reported. The
heat was general throughout the coun-
try.
The National Association of Daugh-
ters of Veterans concluded its first an
nual convent ton on the 9th at Quincy,
ILL.,, Miss M. Estella Mcmillan, of Mas
sillon, O., being elected president.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
In the Thirteenth Illinois district
Captain Jesse Hanon was nominated for
Congress on the Oath by the Republic
ans; Harrison Kelly (Rep.) was renom-
mated in the Fourth Kansas district,
and w. J. Dean (Pro.) was nominated
in the Fourth district of Minnesota