Mower County transcript., 1890-07-09

The local hoard sof directors Of the
worlds fair voted on the 1st to recon-.
mend to the. National commissioners
the lake front and jackson Park as a
site for the exposition.
MRS. EsLEP and Miss Mary Helmut
were drowned on the lat in the Alle-
gheny river at Taruntum, Pa, by the
oapsizing Of a skitf ~.
A FIRE on the 1st at Seattle, WASH,
caused a loss of 500, ,OO0
OVER s,oo0 boiler-makers and helpers
at Pittsburgh, Pa, struck on the lst for
a nine-hour day with ten hours pay.
| THE statement of the public debt is
sued on the 1st showed the total debt
to be 81, ,595, $50, $50; cash in the treasury,
$55, 409,74S; debt less cash in treasury,
$9SS, 175, 173. Decrease during June,
2O,6Ss, 725. Decrease since June 80,
1889, $SS, Al, ,44S.
THE Government receipts from all
sources during June last amounted to
$37, ,546, S92, against $S2, 757, 907 in June a
year ago; and tor the fiscal year the rev.
enue aggregated $403, 0S3. 079, which is
greater than in any year since lss1-S2,
when it reached $4Os, 525, $50. During
the preceding fiscal year the revenue
from all sources was 1887, ,O5O, ,O5S.
THE imports of gold to the United
States during the fiscal year closed on
the Soth ult. was $12,s7s, 7ss, and the
| V1r OO2 n 1or - ~
by export during the year of $4,22O, 1Ss
During the preceding fiscal year the i'm
ports of gold were $40, s72, 145, while the
exports reached $50, ,O33, 2S6, a net loss
Of S49, 66l, l0l.
IT was ascertained beyond a doubt on
the 1st that the thirty-one imprisoned
miners in the Hill Farm mine near
Dunbar, Pa, were dead. and the search
for their bodies was abandoned.
The bill extending the charter of the
Louisiana Lottery Company was passed
by the Senate of that State ON the 1st
by vote of "a to IL The bill has al
ready passed the House.
A MONUMENT to the memory of Thom-
as A. Hendricks was unvailed at In
dianapolis on the lst in the presence Of
great throng. Speeches were made by
Senator Turpie, Of Indiana, and Gov
! ernors Hill IN. W, Francis (Mo.) and
Campbell (O.).
A PORTION of GAINESVILLE, O., was in
undated by heavy storm on the 1st,
and many bridges in the vicinity were
washed away.
The storage warehouse in connection
with the cotton-mill of George Brown at
Mount Joy, O., was burned on the 1st,
and Mrs. Samuel Miller, who resided
near the fire, dropped dead from fright.
DURING an encounter between reve-
nue. officers and moonshiners in Rowan
County, Ky, on the I'd three men were
killed.
FoUR Chicago dressed beef houses in
Boston, Swift, Armour. Hammond and
Morris, suffered an aggregate loss of
500, 900 on the I'd by fire..
The Peabody Institution at Danvers,
Mass, was burned to the ground on the
I'd. Loss, $75,O00.
GRAIN shippers met at Topeka, Kan,
on the I'd and formed the Kansas and
Nebraska Grain and Elevator Mems
Association for the protection of men,
bers.
BY lamp explosion on the I'd in the
house of Adam Steinler at Bradenville,
Pa, his little son and daughter were
burned to death and Mr.. Steinler was
fatally burned.
A. e. T. LEE, dealers in wools in West
Manayunk, Pa, failed on the I'd for
100000
YOUNG Wallace and his accomplice,
who robbed his uncle, John Fl. Wallace,
of $4,000, was on the I'd sentenced in
New York to eight years hard labor in
State prison.
A STARCH trust was organized in New
York on the I'd under the name of the
National Starch Manufacturing Com
pany with capital of SIC, O,500,000.
NINETYTwo cars of coal belonging
to the Reading Company were lost on
the I'd at Elizabeth, N. j., by the COL
lapse of pier.
The Standard Oil Company's ware-
house at New Orleans was burned on
the I'd. Loss, 100000.
JUDGE KAvANAUGH, of the district
court, sitting at Des Moines, Ia, de-
cided on the I'd that aliens could not in
herit land in Iowa.
On the I'd Haverhill, Mass, cele-
brated the 250th anniversary of it's set
Element, poem by Whittier being the
feature.
A CLoUD-BURsT over Coshocton Coun-
ty, O., on the I'd caused the loss of thou
sands of dollars.
The National missioners of the
Worlds Colum bian Exposition voted on
the I'd (7s to 11) to accept the lake front
and Jackson Park site as proposed by
the local directors.
A TERRIBLE storm prevailed on the I'd
along the Ohio river and Muskingum
valley. The big Government dam at
Marietta, O., which has cost the Govern
ment already over $3.50, 600, was torn to
pieces and carried away. At Church
vile, O., the whole village was badly
damaged. Crops over wide area were
ruined.
PRESIDENT HARRISON signed the act
for the admission of Idaho as a State of
the Union at 10 o'clock on the morning
of the Sd.
The entire business portion of Pull
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