Mower County transcript., 1890-12-03
E pitome of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.

Eplt0me OF the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
DOMESTIC.
JASPER NJ. RUTAN, young farmer
near Martinsville, Ind, became violent
ly insane and attempted to kill his fa-
ther and mother. His brother arrived
barely in time to save their lives.
In battle between cowboys and
Mexicans at Anton, N. NJ, over 500
shots were exchanged, resulting in the
death and wounding of several on both
sides.
PETER STUBENRAuCH, cashier of the
Chicago, Rock Island s Pacific and the
Rock Island & Peoria railways at Pc
oria, I'LL, was charged with embezzling
SIS, 600.
TIE United States Supreme Court has
decided that the New York law for the
execution OF criminals by electricity is
constitutional.
AT Falkville, Ala, DR.. A. NJ. Turner,
an ex-member of the Legislature,
choked his wife and little daughter to
death. The doctor had twice been in
an insane asylum.
COMPTROLLER LACEY in his annual
report shows that there were In the
country S567 National banks with q
combined capital stock Of $3.50, 7S2, S65.
During the fiscal year SO7 new banks
were organized, fifty went into volun-
tary liquidation, and nine were placed
in the hands of receivers.
Two BROTHERS, Samuel and Edward
Weller, were drowned near Troy, ~,
by breaking through the ice while skat-
ing.
CHARLES F. Wilcox, aged 19 years,
was shot and killed at Fall River,
Mass, with revolver by Fred A. Hig-
ginbotham. 16 years old. The boys did
not know the revolver was loaded.
THOMAS FAwCErT s. Co.. extensive
for $500. 900.
THE large grain barn of DR.. Russell
at Lomax, Ill.,. was burned. and two
tramps and dozen horses perished in
the flames
SINCE the establishment on August
% of a system of inspection by Amer
lean official veterinarians Of all cattle
landed in British ports from the United
States 100, 900 cattle have been inspected
"a very large increase over the ship
ments of the last fiscal year.
BURGLARS robbed the safe Of Bryant,
Dowd & Co., at Hebron, Ind, of S:2, 900,
then set the building on fire, and that
and seven other buildings were de.
stroyed.
The Oregon Improvement Company
of Portland, Ore, was placed in the
hands of receiver. Its indebtedness
was said to be $1,000. 900 and its assets
$40, 1000. .O00
DURING October 4s,2o7 immigrants
came to this country, against 39,O5l in
October, 1888 Germany supplied 10,-
119; England and Wales. 9,1ll; Ireland.
4,677: Italy, $500; Sweden and Norway,
4,052; Hungary, ASIA, and Poland, 1885.
STARR & Co., extensive packers of
tomatoes at Salem, N. j., failed for
$1Ob, 900.
THE dwelling Of Arthur Harold at
Seattle. Wash, was burned, and his a.
months-old babe and wife and little
daughter perished in the flames
The 107th anniversary of Evacuation
day was celebrated in New York City
on the 25th.
The Cheboygan Lumber Company's
docks at Cheboygan, Mich. were
burned, causing loss of $500, 900.
SIX men were killed and others fatal
ly injured by boiler explosion at St
Johns. N. F.
CAPTAIN NORTON. his wife and niece
sailed from New London, Conn, on the
25th in their eighteen.foot steamer.
They were bound for Liverpool via the
Azores.
The exports of merchandise from the
United States during the twelve months
ended October 81 last aggregated $780,
675, $40 and the imports $817, 1924, 233,
making the excess of exports over i'm
ports, S43, ,351, lO7. This shows an in
crease over the same period in 1889 of
exports, ss2,047.96o; imports, S51,23l,-
1872 and in the excess of exports over
imports of s10,sl6,177.
THE National Columbian Exposition
Commission has ratified the recon-
mendations of the joint conference COM
mittee creating board of reference and
control for the arbitration of all differ
ences between the commission and the
directory with final authority.
THOMAS 81. ALLEN & Co.. of Memphis,
Tenn, one CT the oldest and most ex-
tensive cotton commission firms in the
South, failed for $75O,00Q
: NEARLY 1000 bushels of potatoes-or,
to be exact, 971 bushels and 48 pounds
were grown on one acre of land In
johnson County, Wyo., the past season
: EVA HAMILTON, who claims to be the
widow of Robert Ray Hamilton, was re-
leased from prison, where she had been
for one year for stabbing her nurse, by
the New Jersey board of pardons.
JOHN w. MASON, Commissioner of the
Internal Revenue Bureau, in his an
nual report says the receipts from in
ternal revenue during the last fiscal
year amounted to $142, 594, ,696. He es-
timated the receipts for the current
fiscal year at s145, 100000.
WILLIAM CLARKE, president of the
Sheboygan Electric Light & Power
Ccr,ronv u,,o rohhod ~ $40 snn in "a ah