Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-05-21

the 1Stn, on account OF the boycott
brought against the merchants Of that
place by the Farmers Alliance.
| The thirty-seventh National oonven-
ton Of the Ancient Order OF Hibernians
convened at Hartford, Conn, on the 18th.
| MYRIADs OF worms, resem bling the
army worm, We're on the 18th devastat-
ing the grass fields In Lancaster Coun-
ty, Pa.
FIRE on the 18th at Auburn, Neb., de-
stroyed almost all Of the business por-
ton of the town: The loss was 800, 600,
with little insurance.
| A sCI1ooI.-BOOK trust of four big firms
that control the publication of more
than IS per cent OF the school publica-
tions Of the United States was formed
at Boston on the 14th.
THE National Conference of Charities
and Corrections commenced its annual
session at Baltimore on the 14th.
THE suspension Of j. E. Reynolds, a
New York broker, was announced on
the 14th, with liabilities of $500, 900.
The general convention OF the Order
OF Railway Conductors in session on the
18th at Rochester, N. Y, decided to
eliminate from their constitution the
clause prohibiting strikes.
THE Nebraska Ministerial Associa-
ton, in session at Lincoln on the 14th,
adopted memorial to Congress asking
for the passage OF an act to overcome
the effect of the original package de-
cision.
JOHN w. SHERRY, of Button, Ind,
shot and killed his young wife on the
18th. The couple had parted.
AT Richmond, Mo-, the 7-year-old
daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Mitchell
while playing with pistol ON the 14th
shot and killed her mother.
A FRENcHMAN named Marley was
tied up at jackson, Tenn, on the 14th
and J. II. Carson, a well-known citizen,
gave him 900 lashes with horse-whip
for an attempted assault on his 9-year-
old daughter
AT Bentleyville, Pa, John Crouch, q
wealthy farmer, aged Is years; his wife,
aged 70, and their son, IS years of age,
were murdered on the 14th by q person
or persons unknown, the object of the
crime being robbery.
travels for 3. F. Norris & Co., wholesale
jewellers of Chicago, were robbed by
burglars on the 14th at Waverley, Ia >.
of goods valued at $4,000.
By the overturning of caisson on
the 14th at the new bridge being con-
structed in Louisville, Ky, C. ?. Mitch
ell, Charles Sanders and Joseph VALID
ron were killed.
THE passenger rate from Chicago to
st. Paul was on the 14th reduced to So
by the Burlington road.
GOVERNOR BOIEs, of Iowa, on the
14th decided to recommend to President
Harrison for appointment as commits
sioners to the worlds fair Prof. King, of
Lynn County, and w. j. Buchanan, of
Sioux City.
EIGHT inches of snow fell on the 18th
at Neche. N. D.
A SEARCH was being made in Chicago
on the 18th for two Chinese lepers who
had been seen on the streets.
Ed VAN METERE, an educated Sioux
Indian, was on the 14th admitted to
practice law in the circuit court at
Pierre, S. D.
AT Hallock, Argyle and other Minne-
sofa towns snow fell on the 14th to the
depth of four inches.
STORMS of wind and rain did great
damage on the 14th in the vicinity of
Utica and Elmira, N. Y.
THE Winona (Minn.) Mill Company's
Touring mill and elevator were burned
on the 18th with $4,000 bushels of wheat
L.
$500, 600, with 5000, 900 insurance.
THE village of Columbus, Tex, was
inundated on the 18th by an overflow
of the Colorado river.
MARTIN MAYFIELD, of Ligonier, Ind,
killed himself on the 18th because his
sweetheart. Ida Maggart, had rejected
his addresses.
A FIRE on the 18th at Spokane Falls,
Wash, destroyed half block of frame
buildings and burned two persons to
death.
In an ''original package" whisky case
at Bangor, Me-, on the 18th the defend
ant was fined 500 and costs, or ninety
days in Jail, the Judge holding that he
was amenable to the State prohibition
law.
THE Presbyterian general assemblies,
North and South, began their sessions
on the 18th respectively at Saratoga,
N. Y, and Ashville, N. c..
The wife and daughter of President G.
Stanley Hall, of Clark University, at
Worcester, Mass, were found dead in
their bed on the 18th, accidentally suf-
located by gas which had escaped during
the night.
By cavern of earth on the 18th in a
cellar in Brooklyn, N. y, Arthur Tay.
lor, aged years, his brother John, aged
8, and Percy Weaver, aged 8 years, were
smothered to death.
A PORTION of the Hartford mine at
Ashley, Pa, caved in on the 18th, and
twenty-seven miners were entombed,
with but little hopes of their being
rescued alive. Nearly twenty houses
were wrecked by the catastrophe.
s. KIRKPATRICK, well-known rev.
enue agent, reached Nashville, Tenn,
on the 18th from North Carolina with
both eyes shot out, the work of a moon
sinner.
BURGLARS entered the post-office at
Martin, Mich, on the 18th, and blowing
OMEN the safe secured So. 900 in money