Mower County transcript., 1890-11-19
Epit0me of the Week,
NEWS COMPILATION,
DOMESTIC.


DOMESTIC.
In his annual report Acting Adjutant-
General McKeever says that the aver
age number of pupils over Is years Of
age attending military schools during
the year was 1850, OF which B,OO5 re-
oeived military instruction.
JOHN Z. WALKER, Son & Co, OF New
York, silk importers, failed for 5000, O00
HENRY M. STANLEY, the African ex-
plorer, was greeted by an immense au-
dience on the 11th at the Metropolitan
Opera-House in New York, it being his
first lecture in this country.
DIR. BOSWELL GORMAN. q prominent
physician and farmer and veteran Of
the Confederate army, was shot and
killed by colored employe at his home
near Lexington, KY
The general assembly of the Knights
Of Labor met at Denver, COL, and Grand
Master Powderly in his report said the
late New York Central strike had al
most brought the organization to fnan-
cial ruin. and it developed the fact that
the press of the country was not friend
ly to the Knights.
CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER GRERLY in
his annual report says there has been q
decided improvement in the condition
and efficiency of the army as regards
signal practice. At the end OF the year
1887 miles of military telegraph lines
and 621 miles Of seacoast lines were in
operation. There were only fourteen
occasions during the year on which
severe cold waves we're not predicted,
IS per cent of all the important cold
waves being noted in advance. In
speaking of tornadoes General Greedy
said that they were not so destructive to
life as thunder-storms
BEE EUBANKs, of Mitchell, Ind, was
arrested on the charge of numbering his
sister while he was drunk.
The panic in stocks in Wall street,
New York, caused the failures of the
following brokers': Decker, Howell &
Co., for $40, 200, 900; C. M. Whitney &
Co., for $SOO.0OO, and Daniel Richmond
for $500, 900.
1T was believed that the recent explo-
sion Of the Dupont powder works near
Wilmington, Del. in which ten work
men were killed outright, was caused
by gang of flre.buga
JACK BUCKINGHAM (colored) con-
mitted suicide at Noble Lake, Ark, by
taking morphine. This was the first
negro suicide that ever occurred in
Arkansas
FIFTEEN persons were injured in q
railroad collision near Yarmouth. Miss.
ATToRNEY-GENERAL MILLER gave an
opinion that the anti-lottery law does
not prohibit the guessing contests"
now much in vogue among newspapers
rs means OF advertising.
TIE fourth annual session of the Ma
tional Fraternal congress-, comprising
nearly all the beneficial organizations
in the country, began on the l1th at
Pittsburgh, Pa.
In fire in George w. Burnside's
livery at Sioux Falls, S. D., thirty-four
horses were burned to death.
A LIST of losses from the Gloucester
(Mass.) fishing fleet this year show that
of eighty-six lives lost elghty-6ve were
Canadians.
A. F. ANDERSON, at one time the lead
ing attorney at Tiffin, O., was sent to
the workhouse in default of a $40 fine
for drunkenness.
THE Knickerbocker Fire Insurance
Company OF New York announced its
intention of going into volunt tary liq uid
alton. 1t was probably the oldest fire
insurance company doing business on
this continent. 1t was founded in 1857
and had just completed the lo3d year
of its existence.
The financial crisis in Wall street,
New York, came to an end on the 12th,
the prompt action of the clearing house
in assisting the banks restoring conf
dence.
The remains of General George Crook
were taken from Oakland, Md, on the
18th and inferred in the National Gene.
terry at Arlington with military honors.
A PASSENGER train going west on the
Reading road jumped the track near
AnnviIle, Pa, was thrown down an en-
bankment, and seven persons were bad.
ly injured.
The amount of gold coin and bullion
in the United States Treasury on the
18th was S157. $50. 331
AN unfinished house at Marion, Ind,
was blown to atoms by natural gas
which had escaped from pipes and accu-
mulated between the foundation walls.
THE board of managers of the Adams
Express Company decided at meeting
in New York to boycott lotteries.
EVERY house in the town of Cape
Gracios, La, was blown down by hur-
ricane.
F.: A SPECIAL census agent finds that
there are $500 Indians in the State of
Washington.
MARY and Ann Meyers, two old maids
who lived at Hartford, Conn.,, were
found dead. Neglect and old age was
the probable cause of their deaths.
A NEAT market at Middleport, N. Y,
was burned and Joseph Spalding, who
lived on an upper floor, perished in the
flames.
AT the depth of twenty feet a we'll
digger at La Harpe, ILL.,, found some
curious wooden and clay images OF
quaint design.
JOHN BECK was burned to death in a
fire which destroyed the Hamilton