Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-02-19
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
SIXTEEN men, of whom three were
white, were whipped at New Castle.
Del. on the 9Th by Sheriff Allen. The
total number of lashes administered
was 1O3
AT Birmingham, Ala, Dick Halves
confessed on the sth that he paid John
Wylie (under sentence of death) $500
to get his wife and children out of the
way.
The city of Schenectady, N. Y, on
the 9th held services in various churches
commemorative of the 2OOth anniver-
sary of the burning of the city and mas
sacre of it's inhabitants by the French
and their Indian allies.
PRESIDENT FITZGERALD, of the Irish
National League of America, issued an
address on the Sth in which he urged
landlordism in Ireland.
TEE damage by the recent flood in
Kane County, Ore, was on the 9th
placed at over 100000.
JAMES J. WEST, ex-editor of the Chi
cago Times, was released from Jail on
the Sth on bail pending the determina-
ton of the writ of error granted him.
The Chicago Presbytery on the 10th
voted in favor of revision of the con-
fession of faith, and the presbyteries of
San Francisco and Philadelphia voted
against revision.
AT Cameron, Mo-, on the 10th Susie
Thompson shot and killed her girl
friend. Allie Ellis, while showing her
how to scare burglars with revolver.
PRESIDENT HARRISON on the 10th
tgned the proclamation opening the
Sioux reservation $4,000. 900 acres) in
South Dakota. He also issued an order
establishing land Offices at Pierre and
Chamberlain.
THE heirs of the late Conrad Seipp, of
Chicago, on the 10th distri buted s135, 900
among seventeen hospitals and other
charitable institutions in sums ranging
between SIS, 900 and $4,000
SUFFERING and restitution was re-
ported on the 10th among the Sioux In
dams at Devils Lake agency, N. D.
FIVE ex-commissioners of Cook Coun-
ty ILL.,, were released from the peniten-
tiary on the 10th, where they had been
serving two-years' sentence for bood-
ling.
ADv1CEs of the 10th say that while
fording a swollen stream near Burns
vile, Miss, four children of James Seals
were swept from the wagon and drowned,
and Mr.. Seals and his wife narrowly es-
capped like fate.
On the 10th South st. Louis was dis
turbed by slight earthquake.
ADv1cEs of the 10th from Norfolk,
Va, say that in recent storm six
oyster vessels were wrecked and twenty
Ives were lost.
The tow-boat Port Eads struck the
pier of the bridge being built at Mem
phis, Tenn, on the 10th and sank, and
six of the crew, all colored, were
drowned.
ELLIS BARD, cashier of the Lincoln
National Bank of Lincoln, Pa, was on
the 10th charged with being defaulter
to the extent of S25. 900.
ANDREW GOTTsCHACK, of Decatur,
Ind, ex-treasurer of Adams County, was
on the 10th said to be defaulter to the
extent of $40, ooo
The saloon of J. R. Joyce at Falkland,
Ind, was blown up by dynamite on the
18th. Prohibitionists were charged with
the deed.
The firm of Franklin Woodruff e. Co.,
of New York, dealers in fish and salt,
failed on the 18th for $500, 1000
THE Philadelphia & Reading Com
pany's North Ashland PA. colliery shut
down indefinitely on the 18th, throwing
five hundred hands out of employment
LENA ROBERTS, 14-year-old girl of
st. Joseph, No., committed suicide on
the 18th with revolver because of a
quarrel with her mother over house,
work.
WILLIAM TERRELL, farmer of Iron
ton, O., was killed on the 18th by his
son, who interfered in defense of his
mother.
THE commission appointed to exam
inc the electric apparatus in the New
York State prisons for the killing Of
criminals reported on the 18th that
each is perfect and will cause death
within four seconds