Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-01-15

In New York State last year 40, 958
men were convicted of various crimes
and 1854 women. @.& e
CHIEF JUSTICE ELLIOT, of the Indiana
Supreme Court, on tho 18th rendered .
decision sustaining the Validity of the
law which forbids the payment Of wages
In any thing except money
FoR their participation in the Sulli-
van-Kilrain fight William Muldoon, w.
E. Harding, Mike Cleary and Mike
Donovan were arrested at New York on
the sth and held for extradition to Mis-
sissippi. - ."'
HENRY WARD, negro boy who muir
aered w. n. Benson on December 80,
was taken from Jail at Bayou Sara, La,
on the Sth by masked men and hanged
to tree.
The Patoka river in Indiana had over
flown its banks on the 9Th, and track
OF country twenty miles long by three
to four miles wide in the vicinity of
Jasper was inundated.
LABOR agents in Oklahoma and at
Fort Worth, Tex, were on the 8th said
to be DESTROYS Of obtaining colored men
| from South Carolina, and were Offering
facilities for the organization of colo
MES.
SPIRIT thermometers at Elko, New,
registered so degrees below zero on the
sth, and at Wells the thermometer in
Dictated % below.
THE Western Union Telegraph Com
pany's building at St. Louis was burned
on the sth. Loss, 100000.
The Secretary of the Iowa State Agri-
cultural Society on the Sth estimated
the crop in the State in 1889 to be: Corn,
1926, 073, 900 bushels; oats, 113, 900
bushels; potatoes, 2l,00O,0OO bushels;
wheat, $1,000, 900 bushels. The value of
the total crop, exclusive of grass, was
estimated at $127,ooo,ooo.
JOHNSTON CALHOUN, an aged and
wealthy resident of East Liverpool, O.,
who was accused of beating his wife,
was given a ride on rail by band of
regulators on the Sth and badly injured.
In Kansas City on the sth the four
months-old child of Peter Martin and
the five-year-old daughter of Mrs.
O'Brien were burned to death.
On the sth Chattanooga (Tenn.)
Chinaman sent package of cabbage
seed to friend in the Celestial En-
pire. Cabbages have never been grown
in China.
FIVE men were killed on the 8th by q
cave-in in the Victor coal mine near
Trinidad, Col.
A COUNT completed on the 9Th showed
that there were 46o,516 unadjudioated
and pending claims on file in the Pen
sion Office at Washington.
"A HEAVY snow-storm which prevailed
throughout Northern Michigan on the
Sth proved beneficial to the lumbermen.
The National jackson Club was
organized on the 9Th at Nashville,
Tenn, with A. D. Mcclure, of Pennsyl-
vania, as president.
The Union Pacific fast mail train was
wrecked near Sidney, Neb., on the 9th
by a broken rail, and the cars caught
fire and the two mail-cars and the bag
gage-cars were burned.
ADAM BRANr1GAN, dealer in pianos at
New York, failed on the 9th for 500, 900.
He had been in business forty-two years,
and indorsing notes for a friend caused
the failure
On the 9th Cane creek, near Poplar
Bluffs, No., OVERLOOKED it's banks and
nearly hundred families were forced
to abandon their homes and over one
thousand acres of corn in the shock were
destroyed.
WILLIAM ToRRESs, of Philadelphia,
after lovers quarrel on the 9th fa-
tally shot Belle Carter and then shot
himself.
JOHN HICKS, aged eighty-four years,
was on the 9th released from the north
ern prison at Michigan City, Ind. He
had served forty-eight years of his life
behind the bars.
AS THE result of feud Ferdinand
Casting, living near Winamac, Ind, shot
and killed Charles Kuryart on the 9th
and then took his own life. Both were
farmers.
MANY farms in Southern Illinois were
on the 9th almost submerged with
water, the result of long-coatinued
rainfall.
A cAIssoN of the new bridge near
Louisville, KY, gave way on the 9th,
crushing to death fourteen workmen.
DURING gale on the 9th in Brook
Ign, N. Y, the wall of church was
blown down, and in falling it crushed a
small house adjoining, killing David
Purdy and his sister Mary, and badly in
juring four other persons.
The disbursements from the pension
Office for the Milwaukee district, which
includes Wisconsin, Minnesota and the
Dakotas, during the last six months of
1889 were $3,075, 1875, against 81, s4O,-
400. OIL for the last six months of 1888.
The large hominy mills at West In
dianapolis, Ind, were burned on the 9th,
causing loss of 100000.
A GENERAL order was issued on the
9th to all brakemen and baggage-mas-
tiers on the Reading railroad by which
they are all compelled to report for duty
with clean shaven faces.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
THE Ohio Legislature convened at
Columbus on the 9th.
JUDGE DAVID j. BREWER was sworn
in as Associate Justice of the United
States Supreme Court at Washington at
noon on the 9Th.
THE third National convention of Re-