Mower County transcript., 1890-04-23

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sons Of . farmer named Charlton beat
their father and sister fatally on the
10th and then hed. S.} -@'>5ss :.
The delegates to the Pan American
conference in Washington gave dinner.
on the 10th In honor Of the President Of
the United States. "
News reached Minneapolis on the
10th OF the death Of Eugene NJ. Wilson,
OF that. city, at Nassau, Bahama ISL
ands, April 10. MI. Wilson was mem-
ber Of Congress In 1868. r i#&
AT the opening session Of the annual
meeting OF the lows State Medical So
ciety at Des Moines on the 10th paper
by President Emmert fayoring the legal
prohibition OF marriage Of persons with
constitutional diseases was applauded.
In the prison at Montpelier, VT, on
the 17th James s Caswell, life con-
viot, married Mrs. Laura Gould, widow
of the man he murdered.
EXTENSIVE forest fires were raging
on the 17th on the mountains north of
Pine Grove, Pa, and hundreds of acres
Of timber were being destroyed.
THE barn Of David Vanest, near New
Sharon, Ia., was burned on the 18th, and
sixteen valuable horses were cremated.
THE Dutch village three miles south
Of Port Rcpublic, n. j., was entirely de-
stroyed by fire on the 17th.
THE Masonic committee of the dedi-
cation of the Garfield memorial at
Cleveland, o., on the 18th extended an
invitation to all Masonic bodies to par
ticipate in the ceremonies May 80 next
TH1RrY-oNE young preachers were
graduated on the 18th at the twenty
third annual commencement of the
Baptist Uuion Theological Seminary at
Morgan Park, Ill.
WILLIAM THoRNE, q fruit dealer, COM
mitted suicide on the 18th at Albany,
N. Y, BY jumping from the Senate
staircase in The Capitol to the floor be-
low, distance Of seventy feet.
FRANCIS MURPHY, tho temperance
evangelist, said at Creston, Ia., on the
18th that since he commenced his CAM
paign in Iowa last winter over 90, 900
persons had signed the pledge.
LOUIS FRAME & Co., silk merchants
OF New York, failed on the 18th for
5000. 900.
The report that Oscar Neebe and Sam
uel Fielden, the Chicago Anarchists,
were treated with great cruelty by tho
prison guards at Joliet, was denied by
the prisoners on the 18th.
THERE were 214 business failures in
the United States during the seven days
ended on the 18th, against 400 tho
previous seven days. The total OF fail.
ures in the United States from j; nuary
to date is 1851. against 4,064 in 1889.
THE wife and two children of Z. L.
Tells (colored) at Berlamont, Mich,
were burned to death in their home on
the 18th.
AT Vandalia, ILL.,, family named
Grupp ate poisoned sweetmeats on the
18th, and the father, mother and one
son were not expected to live.
A FIGHT was reported on the 18th be-
tween outlaws and detachment of
State troops seventeen miles east of
Harlan Courthouse, Kv. The soldiers
were fired on from ambush and five of
them wounded. ..
Mrs. KEMPFER. Of Mishawaka, Ind,
while embracing her sister on the 18th
who had just arrived from Germany
fell lead from heart failure.
REPORTS of the 18th from the flooded
districts in the South were that the
Mississippi was slowly but steadily fall
ing.
JAMES DENNIS, who died at Wayne
town, Ind, on the 18th, confessed be-
fore his death that he was tho murderer
of Mr.. and Mrs. H. R. McMullin. for
which act John F. Coffee was hanged in
1885:
CHARLES Meg owAN and wife were
fatally burned on tho 18th at Elbridge,
N. Y, by the dropping Of lamp, which
set fire to their clothing.
BEN ELsEY (colored) was hanged on
the 18th at Birmingham, Ala, for kill
ing j. w. Meadows, railroad con-
tractor, last January. He had murdered
four other persons at various stages Of
his career.
UPON orders from Washington tho
landing of immigrants was stopped on
the 18th 1T Castle Garden. New York.
Debarkation would in the future be
made.at the barge Office.
TwENrY-o>E imported preceding
mares on the farm of N. P. Clark at
Brockway, Mimi, were burned in their
barn on the 18th. Loss, $25, 900.
MRS. JOHN CLARK and her daughter
Ida, aged IL years, were poisoned on the
18th at Canton, O., by eating raw green's
which they were gathering for dinner.
A WAGON load of nitro-glycerine
shells exploded on the 18th at Cygnet,
O., and two men were blown hundreds
of yards and nothing left Of them but
few strings of their clothing. The
horses were also killed.
GOLD was on the 18th said to have
been discovered on the farm of c. B.
Fisher, ten miles south of Aurora, ILL.,
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IT was stated on the 14th that, while
Mr.. Lawrence Barrett's general health
was not affected, humorous growths
would probably prevent him from ever
again appearing on the stage. 49, T.
ANDREW CAMPBELL, the well-known
inventor and manufacturer Of printing
presses. died suddenly in Brooklyn, N.
Y, on the 14th, of heart failure, aged SO
years. 'l ~ 49, '."> H..
MRa TArrpA M J0uNn nreaident ~