Mower County transcript., 1890-01-22

The New York Legislature decided on
the 18th to erect at Gettysburg $780,
600 monument in honor of her dead on
that field. <E:z2 .z
In the presence OF his wife at Hamil-
ton, o., John Mars, aged sixty-four
years, shot himself dead on the 18th. IN
A FIRE on the 18th wiped out the bust
ness district OF Flora, Miss, but one
small store being left intact. .E
THE Cron1n murderers were set at work
in the Joliet penitentiary on the 18th,
Burke being assigned to the cooper
shop, Coughlin to the stone-cutting de-
partment and O'Sullivan to the shoe
shop. :'
THREE HUNDRED persons at Carmi,
ILL.,. were on the 18th compelled to leave
their homes by q sudden rise in the Lit
tie Wabash river.
A SLIGHT but pronounced earthquake
shock was felt generally throughout
Columbia, S. c., on the 18th, but no
alarm was caused by the disturbance.
HEAVY rain had ON the 18th caused
floods in Washington, Westmoreland
and Allegheny counties, Pa, and
bridges. fences and outhouses had been
washed away.
The first bill passed by the Legisla-
ture of South Dakota-to provide for re-
funding the indebtedness of the State
was signed by the Governor on the
18th, both houses adjourning for five
minutes to celebrate the event.
AT Newark, O., on the 18th Thomas
Lennox's stations, Adjuster and Eugene,
valued at $1,000 each, were destroyed in
their stables by an incendiary fire.
CHESTER A. TURNEY was pardoned on
the 18th by Governor Larrabee, of Iowa,
on the condition that he would not
drink liquors nor frequent saloons He
had nearly twelve years of a seventeen
year sentence to serve.
Work at the Henry Clay shaft at
Shamokin, Pa, the largest mine of the
Reading Coal & Iron Company, employ
ing eighteen hundred men, was sus-
pended indefinitely on the 18th.
AT a meeting in Philadelphia on the
10th of the Johnstown (Pa.) flood-relief
commission arrangements wore made to
by the disaster. The secretary's report
showed that there were estimated to
have been drowned in the Conemaugh
valley, 2,2S0 persons; number of bod es
recovered, 1875; identified, 1,021; uni
Identified, 654; missing, COS. The total
amount of money received from all parts
of the country was 50, 902, 072.6S; total
exnenditures 40 6S3 TAT H.
The special committee appointed by
the House to investigate the Ohio bal
lot-box forgery commenced hearing evil
dence at Washington on the 10th.
The non-partisan element of the
Pennsylvania Woman's Christian Tom
perance Union met in convention at
Philadelphia On the 18th and formed an
independent organization.
Four men were killed and several
others badly wounded on the 10th by
the premature explosion of blast at
camp near johnson City, Tenn.
The bank of Henry r. Pierson & Son
at Albany, N. Y, failed on the 10Th for
S15O,OOO.
THE first Universalist church in
America, erected in 1850, was burned on
the 10th. 1t was located on the old
Pierce farm at Gloucester, Mass, and
had for years been used as barn.
LUc1Us D. STONE, dealer in saddlery
at San Francisco, failed on the 10th Tor
$205, ZOO.
Four young: blacks from Africa ar
rived at New York on the 10th. They
are to be educated for missionary work
at the Central Tennessee College.
AT the meeting of the Afro-American
League in Chicago on the 10th w. A.
Pledger, Of Georgia, was elected presi-
dent.
THROUGHOUT Minnesota the thermom-
eter registered from 20 to 40 degrees be-
low zero on the 18th.
The prize of $1,000 for the largest
yield of shelled corn grown in 1889 on
ono acre was on the 10th awarded to z.
j. Drake, of Marlboro County, S. c.,
whose crop was within fraction of 239
bushels.
WHILE insane on the 10th from con-
tinued illness the wife of James Nc
Neil, Jr., living near Cannon Lake,
Minn., shot three of her children fatal
~, cOnpelleu 1oufCu tO uf1uk CdrDolkc
acid and then drank some of the drug
herself. All would die.
SIX Indian murderers were hanged on
the 10Th at Fort Smith, Ark.
A NEW trial was granted on the 10Th
by the North Carolina Supreme Court to
Father Boyle, the ex-priest, under SEN
tence of death for outrage.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
JAMES E. CAMPBELL, of Ohio, took
the oath of Office as Governor at Colum-
bus on the 18th. In his message to the
Legislature he commended the Austral-
ian ballot system, and advocated State
control of the sale of school books.
JOHN M. STONE was inaugurated Gov
ernor of Mississippi on the 18th at Jack