Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-08-27

UpoN being reprimanded by her 70
ther ON the a1st CARTE Walker, II years
old, living in ST Louis, wont into hcs
room and swallowed dose OF arsenic,
dying IN hour afterwards. @ 5f
THE Thousand Island Park Hotel and
twenty cottages ut Thousand Island
Park, on the st. Lawrence river, were
burned on the morning OF the a1st.
Loss, $3.50. 1000.
AN explosion Of powder at the Stand
ard Cartridge Company's works, four
miles south OF Blue Island, ILL.,, on the
9lst resulted In the killing Of ono man
and the injury Of twenty mon, boys and
girls.
BY the blowing down OF street rail.
way sheds at Philadelphia on the a1st,
! four persons were killed outright and
several others were fatally injured.
FIVE members Of u pleasure party
we're drowned by the upsetting OF their
boat of Whitestown l.. l.. on the 2lst
MASKED burglars entered the resi-
denoe Of Michael Shelby, a farmer re.
siding near Wooster, O., on the 2lst and
bound and gagged the family and stole
o., 900.
BY the collision of freight and pas.
senger train at Carbondale, ILL.,, on the
Illinois Central road ON the alst Charles
Mitchell, the freight conductor, was
killed.
B. H. Cooks & Co., clothing merchants
Of Nashville, Tenn, made an assign
ment on the 31st. Liabilities, 5000 600:
assets, $,4O. OOo.
THE Blue Grass Palace Exposition
was opened at Creston, H., ON the 21st
by Governor Boies.
AT Cassopolis, Mich, on the morning
! Of the 2lst James Matthews killed Mrs.
John Matthews for refusing to marry
him. He then shot himself in the head,
inflicting a fatal wound.
A FREIGHT train on the Missouri, Kan
sas 4 Texas railroad telescoped pas
senger train At Paola, Mo-, on the 2lst,
killing Pullman Conductor Camp and
seriously injurins Engineer Woodward
1T was said on the asd that great des-
titution prevailed among the farmers
in Aparahoe, County, COL, and that be-
tween 500 and 800 people were in q
starving condition. the entire failure Of
crops being given as the cause.
SEVERE froSts were reported in Mime.
sofa, North Dakota and Manitoba on
the cad. and fears were entertained that
great damage had been done to crops.
WILLIAM ALEXANDER, 17-year-old
mulatto, was lynched near Baton
Rouge, La, on the 22d for attempted
assault on a 1l-yea4 old white girl
THE special agent sent to Oklahoma
by Secretary of the Interior Noble re-
turned ON the 22d and confirmed the
stories Of restitution existing there and
said help should be sent at once.
AGAR on the Mount Penn Gravity
railroad at Reading, Pa, ran away on
the 22d with eighteen passengers on
board. making the descent in three min
utes, and rolled down q dfty-foot en-
bankment at the end of the track.
Four persons were killed, two fatally
and others seriously injured
In jumping from an engine that had
become unmanageable on the Denver,
Utah & Pacific railroad near Lyons,
COL, on the 32d three men were killed
and others seriously hurt.
ABOUT 300 engineers, fremen and
switchmen employed bv the Union
Stock Yards Switching Association of
Chicago struck on the 22d for an in
crease in wages and more rest on Sun
days
the country during sthe seven days
ended on the ed number 1872, as COM
pared with 1877 the preceding week and
200 for the corresponding week last
year.
The air-brakes of q freight train
standing on a grade at Summit, CAL,
gave way on the ed and the train
dashed into another freight train at Cas-
cade, killing four men.
Two YOUNG men were killed by the
premature discharge of cannon in a
sham battle at Athens, Pa. on the 22d.
PEOPLE in Northwest Wyoming were
excited on the 22d over rich finds of
gold in the Tongue river field and there
was stampede from the surrounding
country.
FIRE at Crotch, S. d., on the 22d de-
stroyed nearly all the west halt of the
business portion of the town, entailing
q loss of $3.50,
In a trottine match for S., 900 at Wash
ington Park Chicago, on the ED Palo
Alto defeated Jack in three straight
heats, the last being made in 2:l3, the
fastest time on record in a match.
NEAR Shelbyville, Mich, on the 22d
Barnum & Bailey circus train broke
in two. A car platform was torn out,
and two men were thrown under the
wheels and killed.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
THE Democrats of the Fifth Louisiana
district on the 10th nominated Charles
I Roatnar to snccead himself in Con.