Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-04-02
DOMESTIC.

The main business portion of Hamil.
ton, ILL.,, was burned on the 2Sd.
NINE suicides on the West side in Chi
cago were reported during the week
ended on the ed.
A PRAIRIE fire on the gath burned over
fifty quarter sections of land near
Wichita, Kan, causing loss of 5000, 900,
and in Rocks County an immense
amount of hay and grain had been de-
stroyed.
A SEVERE wind-storm prevailed
throughout Oklahoma on the oath, do.
ing great damage to the unsubstantial
dwellings Of new settlers. Rube John
son, wife and one child were killed by
the falling timbers of their house.
TIE Midway Hotel and other build
ings at kearney, Neb, were burned on
the oath. Loss, 100000. A man named
Harry Deming was killed.
A FIRE on the oath in the business
portion of Laredo, Tex, caused loss of
500, 900.
COLE & KNOTT, silk manufacturers at
Paterson, N. j., failed on the oath for
500. 900.
DURING the seven days ended on the
saith there were 1880 pension certifi-
Gates issued from the pension Office at
Washington.
THE visible supply of wheat and corn
in the United States on the gath was re-
spectively, 1858, $50 and 1915, 1877
bushels.
ITwas stated on the gath that the
Susquehanna Coal Company's mine at
Nanticoke, Pa, would resume April /,
giving employment to 5000 men, who,
with their families, had been for some
time on the verge of starvation.
r. NJ. KING, seventh-day- adventist
OF Obion County, Tenn, was on the gath
fined SIS for working in his fields on
Sunday.
AT Red Lands, CAL, P. C. McConkey,
hotel-keeper, and Charles Gresham, a
newspaper proprietor, had fight on the
saith and both were killed.
MRS. JOHN LowR1E, living near
Charleston, o., gave birth to quad
ruplets on the gath. Four years ago she
had triplets and year later twins.
IT was reported on the oath that the
United States troops had found very
few settlers within the borders of the
Cherokee strip in Indian Territory, and
all left without resistance at the order
OF the military.
THE damage to young orange trees in
Florida by the frost was on the gath es-
Hmated at $1,00O,000.
Ross, CAMPBELL & Co., dry-goods
commission merchants at New York,
failed on the oath for $125, 900.
A COPPER tube four inches long, filled
with powder and percussion caps, was
found in the Philadelphia post-office on
the gath and caused sensation.
AT Wilkesbarre, Pa, on the Gath Jo-
seph Thomas committed suicide to
avoid arrest for robbery.
MABEL, q little daughter of Philip
Hose, living near South Bend, Ind, was
scalded to death on the Oath by falling
into tub of boiling water, and the
8-year-old son of William Domen, OF
Goshen, Ind, met like fate.
A GANG of railway freight thieves
which had been operating on large
scale was unearthed on the Oath at Min.
neapolis, MINI.
The house of L. B. Root at Medicine
Lodge, Kan, was burned on the 25th,
and his three children persisted in the
flames.
SIMON SIMPSON (colored) was taken
from the Jail at Mariana, Fla, on the
s5th and lynched for murder.
A sK1FF containing John Rickett,
Louis Williams and Harriet Lee and
her four children, ranging from to 1e
years of age, all colored, was capsized
on the 25th at Arkansas City, Ark, and
all were drowned except Ricketts, and
one child.
The two sons of q well-to-do farm
or named Shipley, accompanied by
two other boys, names unknown, were
drowned on the 25th near Omaha, Neb.
by the capsizing Of a boat.
A WAGON in which John Brown and
three small children were riding was
struck by train at West Berkeley;
CAL, on the 25th, and all four were
killed.
As A result of drinking an embalmine
6uid by mistake for mineral water Prof
Richard Dale Owen, we'll known in geo
logical circles, died on the 25th at New
Albany, Ind, aged 80 yeare