Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-01-01

| -: ts11 Wills MS WIG ana DaDy were
Instantly killed at Wilmette, Chicago
suburb, on the Gath by an express train
on the Northwestern railroad.
IN quarrel on the oath at L'Ange
Garden, Ont, w. II. Ford killed his
wife and then took his own life.
WHILE crossing the railroad tracks on
the gath at Kinzers, Pa, Mrs. Annie
Mcllvaney and her eleven-months'-old
child We're struck by train and killed.
In ut OF jealousy on the oath DR.,
Munroe, OF hardwood, 1a., shot and
killed his wife and then took his own
life. .'.-r .t.,:;.7:'.7
ADv1cEs of the oath say that Mike
Marker, James Hardie and Tug Wilson
persisted in the snow on the Blue mount
tains in Oregon.
| JAMES HIckERsoN and wife were assas-
sinated in their home near St. Adams, w,
| Va, on the gath, by unknown parties.
On the Gath $50 Immigrants landed at
| Castle Garden, New York.
AT Baltimore, Nd, on the oath Carroll
5. MacGill finished his task of eating
thirty quails in thirty days. Flo said
hereafter quails and himself would be
strangers.
PROF. Brooks, director of Smith Oh
! servatocy at Geneva, N. Y, discovered a
| new comet on the 25th.
WHILE returning from Christmas eve
| dance on the morning of the 25th Miss
| Mamie Campbell and her escort, Benia-
min Lovett, both Of Williamsburg, Pa,
were struck by train and killed.
The stock barn of w. P. Eells near
Cleveland, O., was burned on the e5th,
and thirteen head of valuable Holstein
cattle were suffocated.
MISS MARY MILES, of Marion, Ind,
while curling her hair on the 25th
touched one of her eyes with the hot
iron, soaring the iris and destroying the
sight of her eye.
OVER five thousand coal miners in the
vicinity of Scranton, P;.., were thrown
out OF work on the 25th by the shutting
down of mines.
ANNA C.. JONES, the seventeen-year-
old daughter of Rev. Sam Jones,
the noted evangelist, eloped from Car
tersville, Ca, on the 25th with William
M. Graham, stenographer, and the
couple were married at Chattanooga.
In race riot, on the 25th at Jesup,
Ca, two white men and seven negroes
were killed; at GAINESVILLE, Tenn, two
colored men were killed while resisting
arrest; at Augusta, Ca, two more ne
groes we're killed for assaulting police
officers, and in riot at GAINESVILLE, Ga,
three negroes were killed.
CHRISTMAS DAY was generally OBJ
served throughout the country on the
25th, and springs ETHEREAL mildness was
reported prevalent all over the United
States.
AN unsuccessful attempt was made in
a Kansas City (Kan.) gambling-house
on the 25th to murder Bob Ford, the
slayer of Jesse James
The business portion of Europa, Miss,
was destroyed by fire on the 26th.
DURING November 29,097 immigrants
came to this country, against 25,419 in
November, 1883. Germany furnished
6,7s2, England and Wales 8, 1888, italy
3,147, Austria 3, 100, Hungary 2,20l, Rus
STA 2,319, Sweden and Norway 1868 and
Ireland 1909.
SARAH DEMERETr, aged eighty years,
and Charlotte Thompson, aged seventy
years, were suffocated by coal gas on the
26th at Dewitt, N: Y.
A HURRICANE swept over the western
portion of New York State on the Goth
doing great damage to property and
causing the loss of five lives.
THE merchandise exports from the
United States during November were
valued at $93, $50, sS9, against $76, 37S, 900
in November, 1888. Imports were $751;
oo7, 173, against $5S, s76, 789 in November,
1888.
THREE-FoURTHs of the inhabitants of
Denver and Cheyenne were on the Goth
said to be suffering from Russian in
fuenza.
AT Ludlow, Mass, on the Goth John
Bassette a mill-hand, killed his wife
with an axe and then killed himself.
JOHN P. JONES and William H. Pal
mer, of Bangor, Pa, blew out the gas
on the Goth in hotel at Bethlehem,
Pa, and were suffocated.
SIMON SPoHN, miser worth $40, 900,
was killed by the.ca on the Goth while
pi cking up coal on the track at Reading,
Pa.
ON account OF the mild weather the
directors of the Carnival Association at
St. Paul decided on the Goth to abandon
the carnival and ice palace
FLOODS in California had on the Goth
caused loss of 100000 along the line
of the Santa Fe railway and $3.50, 900 loss
on the Southern Pacific lines.
THREE children of Mrs. Lena 7Schip
were burned to death in their home at
Omaha, Neb., on the goth. The mother
was absent and the house caught fire
with the little ones locked in it.
A w1ND-sToRM on the Goth leveled
hundreds of derricks in the Mexican and
Allegheny Pa.) oil fields, and two
houses at Bradford were wrecked:
The Nadean winery near Los Angeles,
CAL, was wrecked on the Goth by the
breaking of a levee and nearly 500, 900
worth of wine was destroyed.
AT Bowling Green, KY, J. Mcdonald,
as the outcome of family quarrel, fatal
ly shot his wife and himself on the goth.
A PETITION addressed to the Congress
of the United States praying for the
speedy establishment of q Territorial