Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-03-19

AT Council Bluffs, Ia, on the 18th
Mitchell Hauoh. laborer. shot his wife
and then killed himself. Jealousy was
the supposed cause Of the tragedy.
The losses by fire in the United States
and Canada during the month of Feb
ruary were $685., 025, decrease Of
about "a, 0O0, 600 compared with the same
month of 1880.
The. State enoampment of the Indiana
G. A. R. began at Indianapolis on the
18th.
By collision OF three freight trains
on the 18th at Mount Carroll, ILL.,, dam
age to the extent Of 500, 900 was caused.
AT meeting Of the G. A. r. encamp-
ment Of Indiana at Indianapolis on the
12th resolutions were passed urging Con-
gross to pass service pension law at
the present session. q. r. Stormant Of
Princeton, was elected Commander-in.
Chief
THE Louisiana lottery scheme was
again before the Legislature of North
Dakota on the 12th. and was defeated
by vote of Is to II.
THE Prospect Rolling-mill Company
Of Cleveland, O., failed on the 12th for
$780, ZOO.
THE village Of Excelsior, Tex, was
completely demolished on the 12th by q
cyclone, but no lives were lost.
THE Chicago, Burlington & Northern
railway was bought by the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy Company on the
18th, and the Louisville & Nashville
Company secured control of the Monon
route.
THE Methodist Book Concern now has
a capital of $500, 900 and declared divi-
dend on the 12th of 500, 600, which goes
to the wornout preachers of the church.
A FIRE at Coalition, o., on the 12th de-
stroyed five stores, two halls and few
dwellings.
FIRE on the 18th in Pelzer's cotton
factory warehouse near Greenville, s.
c., caused 100000 damage.
The 4-year-son of Myron Naus, living
near Lima, O., was resuscitated on the
18th after having lain a long time in a
coffin, and no would recover.
A THIEF threw rock through a Jew
eler's window in Dallas, Tex, on the
evening Of the 18th and carried away q
trayful of diamonds worth $1,000.
| The bodies of Misses Adele and Han
nah Povre, sisters, who lived on farm
near Concordia, Kan, were found on
the 12th in Lake Dibley. No cause ex-
cept melancholia could be assigned for
their suicide.
A FREIGHT train went through a
trestle on the 18th near Birmingham.
Ala, and five men were killed.
| AT Whitehall, Wis, Ole Sletto, Ole ].
Hanson and Bertha NJ. Olson, the
three principals in the recent lynching
of Hans Jacob Olson, were found guilty
of murder in the first degree, and the
thirty accessories were fined $107 each.
FORTY women graduated as doctors at
Philadelphia on the 18th from the
Women's Medical College of Pennsyl-
| vania.
The Treasury Department at Wash
ington issued a statement on the 18th
showing that the exports of breadstuffs
from the United States in the month of
February amounted to $685. 726.
Two LABoRERs were blown to pieces
and two others fatally injured by an ex-
| plosion Of dynamite at the water works
at Rockville Center, N. Y, on the 18TH
HARRISON & LoDER, wholesale dry
goods merchants of New York, failed on
the 18th for $350,oOo.
Snow sixty feet deep was reported on
the 18th on the Denver & Rio Grande
road in the San Juan mountains.
THE Indiana Supreme Court rendered
decision on the 18th upholding the
school-book law enacted by the last Leg
islature providing for uniform school
books for the entire State.
AT the State encampment in Quincy,
| ILL.,, of the Illinois G. A. r. on the 18th
William R. Distin, of Quincy, was elect
ed Department Commander.
The Boston league and brotherhood
baseball clubs have forty-five conflict
ing dates on the home grounds.
| The Capital Investment Building and
Loan Association was organized at Ian
sing, Mich, on the 18th, with capital
stock of $50, 600, 900.
The strike of the 5000 miners in the
Norrie and Ashland mines at Ironwood,
Mich, came to an end on the 18th, the
men and bosses having come to an
agreement.
| The defalcation of Colonel Heming-
way, recently State Treasurer of Mis-
sissippi, was on the 18th placed at $685.
$500.
NEAR Brown, Ia, Henry Nurre, a
wealthy farmer, was murdered on the
18th by unknown persons, who also
fatally wounded Mrs. Nurre. Burglary
was the object.
MORRISON BAILEY, a leading and
wealthy citizen of Plainwell, Mich,
hanged himself on the 18th. No cause
was known.
THE situation in the flooded Arkansas
district was alarming on the 18th. AT
Black Rock there was six feet of water
in hotels and places of business and the
destruction of property would be heavy.
The lower part of Batesville was flooded
and the country round about was en-.
tirely under water.
JAMES s. Cross, formerly superin.
tendent of the Southern railroad at St.
Louis, was fined 500 on the 18th for
| vaprancv Whisky caused his d0wnfan