Mower County transcript., 1890-12-17
TnE FrA.klin Bank at Clarksville,
Tenn, failed for 5000, 900; assets, $780,

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THREE sons OF G. T. Archer, aged 10,
Is and . years respectively, were
drowned in tho Delaware river at Val.
Icy Falls, Kan, while crossing on the
! ice. IN G%' &
| THE total population Of the country,
including Indians, etc., will reach O3, :
OOO. OOO s.~ e,5. ..-s5~s,s .-. . 4 49, 80
GEoEoE MARTIN, tho murderer Of
William Crouch. was executed in the
Jail yard at Meridian, Miss.
CuARLIE MlLLEW u l5.vear.old boy,
who killed Ross Fisbaugh and w. H
! Emerson, two boys, while the three
were stealing ride in Union Pacific
,, box car: was convicted ut Cheyenne,
Wvo., OF murder in the first degree.
The penalty is hanging.
FIRE at Sandusky, O., destroyed a
grain elevator and 3,03o,O 900 feot Of lum.
Der. TOTAL loss, $100,O00
REPoHrs were received at the War
Department in Washington that the
hostile Indians were giving evidences
Of submission. General Brooke stated
! that the Indians near White river had
turned loose the cattle which they
stole, and were preparing to come to
the agency.
EvlcrIoNs of striking miners were
hegun on the l1th at the Monongahela
mines near Fairmont W. Va. Over
2, 0oO men were out
JUST before the death Of an unknown
man at Tennyson,> Ind, he made the
statement that no was the murderer Of
John Il. Bilderbach near Fort Branch,
Ind, twenty years ago, for which crime
Thomas Camp was hanged. Camp as
serted his Innocence on tho sca(fold.
DAN WILLIAMS, an old negro living
near Qnincy, Fla. was lynched by
negroes f'r firing buildings.
AT Jenny Lind. Ark, Charley Joplin
shot and killed John Miller, Miller's
wife and grown daughter. DR.. Stewart.
physic an, and man whose name was
not learned. five persons In all. After
ward he killed himself.
Ar Kalamazoo. Mich, Louis Scott
shot his wife and killed himself. Do
m .stic trouble was the cause.
In Now York Vcnable s. Heyman,
wholesale liquor Dealers failed for
S4OO, 600. and Henry Siebert, a tobacco
dealer, failed for $3.50, 900.
SEVERAL. carloads of coal. feed and
grain reached Huron, S. D., for distri-
button among the needy settlers in the
northern part Of tho State.
AT Unadilla, N. Y. ex-senator Frank
E. Arnold committed suicide owing to
dependency over his defeat in tho last
election.
TnR annual report OF the chief OF the
Bureau Of Animal Industry in Wash.
ington says the year passed without
the discovery OF pleuro-pneumonia in
any new district The expenses during
the year were S274, SS5. and 2S3. 500 ami
mails were inspected. Tho report says
"there is no foot and mouth disease in
the United States und has boen none
since 1884,"
REPORTS were received at Pine Ridge
Agency, :. D, on the llth that tho hos
tile Indians had been lighting among
themselves in the Bad Lands. The
fight was for tho leadership between
Two Strike and Short Bull. and the re-
suit was from twenty to fifty dead In.
diaEs.
In New York the Irish American Par
liamentary Fund Association through
which such generous contributions havo
been made To Ireland, declared against
Parnell.
TIE indianapolis, Decatur & West
ern Railway Company has changed its
name to the indianapolis, Decatur s.
Quincy.
TIE suffering among destitute farm
ers in Western Kansas was said to he on
the increase. All we're leaving that
conld, and in Rawlins County but thirty
live families were left out OF 200.
THE steamer Il ton Rogue, valned at
$50, ,0OO and plyin, betwcon Now Or
leans and ST. Louis, was wrecked at
Hermitage, La, and ten persons were
said to have been drowned.
THE grip and lung and throat trou bles
were said to be taking hold OF the In
dian ghost dancers in South Dakota
owing to the exposure and hardship en-
durc during the performance.
Ar Nacona, Tex, six business houses
and almost thcir entire stock were
burned.
DURING fight among striking miners
at MOnegha, w. Va. Jason Hall. mast.
er workman of the Miners assembly,
was shot and killed by John Jinkins.
THE business failures in the United
States during tho seven days ended on
the 18th numbered 374, against 3l2 the
preceding week and 200 tho correspond
ing week last year.
FREIGHT trains collided on the Union
Pacific road near Coyote. WASH, and
Brakeman James was killed and Engi-
nineer Nichols and Fireman Gicse wore
fatally injured.
THE American Federation of Labor
in session at Detroit. Mich, reelected
Samuel Gompcrs as president.
? TIE lumber cut at Cheboygan (Mich.)
saw-mills for the season just closed was
over 1870, 600, 900 feet, an increase Of H.
600. 600 feet over last year.
THERE was bloody encounter on the
18th four miles from Pine Ridge agency
in South Dakota between the United
States troops and some 400 or 500 In
dians under Kicking Bear, and mum.
Der we're killed on both sides. Tho In.
dians were put to ro,lt and large num-
bcr captured, including Kicking Bear.