Mower County transcript., 1890-11-19

HENRY N. STANLEY lett New YORK on
the 18th TOR bis lecture tour throughout
the country, which. will end on April g..
1891. III.
AF1RE at Mburon, Cal, destroyed !
dozen Of the principal stores and houseA
@THs little child u John Lanahan, 81
Wesleyville. Pa, was burned to death,
and the mother was 40 severely burned
as to be crippled for life.
RuBE Smith, one Of the Burrows gang
OF train robbers, was sentenced at jack
son, Miss, to olife-imprisonment
| WILLIAM OSBORN, an agod man, was
killed by the cars at .Jeffersonvil Ind,
while carrying home some medicine for
a dying daughter.
| A SOUTHERN PACIFIC passenger train
broke through trestle near Salem,
Ore, and 6ve persons were killed and
nearly 100 injured. i
The Knox County Savings Bank at
Mt. Vernon, O., suspended.
THE baseball war Is aotically over,
the Players League having virtually
gone out Of existence.
| JUDGE DAVID MCLEAN, ex-president
of the Savannah (Mo.) National Bank,
was sentenced to two years in the peni-
tentiary for defrauding depositors out Of
500, ZOO.
JACOB STRoEDEL, farmer living near
Saginaw, Mich, drank pint OF whisky
on a wager and dropped dead a few min.
utes after.
CoMMoDoRE GEORGE DEWEY, chief of
the naval bureau of equipment in his
annual report says that during the year
sixty-hve vessels were either wholly or
partially equipped at an expenditure Of
$59s, ,9s8.
A LARGE deposit of copper ore was
found near Mellen, Wis.
The Wertheimer building in San
Francisco was burned, causing loss of
$3.50. .O00
The Kansas City Packing Company
at Armourdale, Kan, failed for $500, 900.
| GOVERNOR FIFER decided not to
pardon Oscar W. Neebe, who was con-
victed in Chicago in 1886 of participa-
tion in the Haymarket riot with the
other Anarchists.
THE National convention of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
met in Atlanta, Ca, on the 14yh, Miss
Frances E. Willard presiding.
The excitement among the Standing
Rock Indians in South Dakota oyer the
arrival of their g-looked for Messiah
has subsidized and no trouble was antici-
pa ed.
| rHE business failures in the United
States during tho seven days ended on
the 14th numbered 266, against 215 the
preceding week and 265 the correspond
ing week last year.
THREE workmen were blown to pieces
by premature explosion Of dynamite
in stone quarry at Omaha, Neb.
TRAINS collided on the Pennsylvania
road at New Florence, Pa, and the
wreck took fire and one Pullman car
was burned. Two persons were killed
and eighteen injured.
The business portion of the town of
Burton, O., was destroyed by fire.
CONSUL CONNOLLY in a report on the
wool-growing industry of New Zealand
says that the number Of sheep exported
| last year with and without wool
amounted to 1864 2s1. The value of
imports from the United States during
1889 was 81. 712, 1sO. and the exports
were valued at 81, FOG, $50.
The report of New York commercial
agency showed that the legitimate busi-
ness of the country was the largest ever
known and that trade had not been af-
fected by the furry in Wall street
They said that the demand for money
was largely due to the unprecedented
| volume of business thus far.
CoMM1ssARY GENERAL DU BARRY
states in his annual report that So, 5O6.-
| O16 was expended for the needs of the
subsistence department of the army
during the fiscal year.
In a collision between gravel trains
on the Lackawanna & Western road at
East Buffalo. N. Y, John Swombosky
was instantly killed and nine others
| were injured, three of them fatally.
| MAJoR-GENERAL ScHoF1ELD, COM
manding the army, in his report to the
Secretary OF War recommends the in
crease of the military force of the ooun-
try to 10000 men.
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