Mower County transcript., 1890-10-08

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the entry Of Chinese laborers into the United
States Speaker Reed then declared tho first
session Of the Fifty first Congress adjourned
without day.
DOMESTIC.
In At Of jealousy George J. Jones,
living near Athens, o.. shot and killed
his wife and little babe in her arms
TIE entire business portion of One
onta. Tenn, was destroyed by fire.
A CoMMITTEE report was submitted to
the Mississippi constitutional conven-
tion in session at jackson in favor Of
asking Congress to repeal the fifteenth
amendment to the Federal constitution.
The Western Association baseball
season closed on the S0th ult, the Kan
sas City club winning the pennant
with Minneapolis second and Milwaukee
third.
The Census Bureau gives the popula.
tion of the city of Detroit, Mich, at
2O5, 1869, an increase of 80, 500 in the past
decade.
NJ. H. JUsrUs, of Oakland City, Ind,
was bunkoed out Of 5000 at Evansville,
Ind.
The Census Bureau gives the popula-
tion of the State of Georgia at 1884, :
366; increase in the past ten years. 292,-
1856.
CHARLES A. BENSON, the alleged MUIR
derer of Mrs. Mettman at Leavenworth,
Kan, last March, who was literally cut
to pieces. has been arrested in Camden,
N. j.
THE mail on the stage line between
Eureka Springs and Harrison, Ark, was
robbed by two masked men and every
thing stolen and carried of.
The steamer Wyoming arrived in
New York with $50 mormon proselytes,
forty of whom were young girls. There
were also four Mormon elders.
ALCYON. a 3-year-old stallion owned
by DR.. John Wilbur, of Palmer, Mass,
and valued at $4,000, was burned to
death in barn near Iowa City, Ia
CHARLES MCELvA1NE, convicted of
the murder of Christian w. Luca, a
grocer, was sentenced at Brooklyn, N.
Y, to death by electricity in Sing Sing
prison during the week beginning the
17th of November next
The Supreme Court of Minnesota has
decided that upper berths of sleeping
cars unsold to occupants must remain
closed.
DURING the past nine months upward
of 3, 900 new manufacturing enterprises
of all kinds have been started in the
South.
SEVEN men were injured, one fatally,
by collision between a gravel and
freight train near Bangor, Me.
The Iron and Steel Institute was
opened at New York on the 1st with an
address of welcome by Mr.. Andrew
Carnegie. Delegates were present from
all over the world.
THOMAS OCoNNoR, who had served
twelve years on life sentence in the
saltwater (Minn.) penitentiary for kill
ing his nephew, has been pardoned on
condition that he leave the State for
ever.
The first training school in this coun-
try for deaconesses of the Episcopal
church was opened in New York on the
,1st.
JAMES HERRINGToN, a pettifogging
lawyer, was taken from Jail at Bakers
vile, Cal., by masked men and given a
coat of tar and feathers.
THE statement of the public debt is
sued on the 1st showed the total debt
to be 81, $50, 669, 500; cash in the treasury,
:$679, $685. 436; debt less cash in treasury,
$S7O, 973, 132. Decrease during Septem-
Der, 81, 582, 908. Decrease since June 80,
1890, S26, 494, S13.
PRESIDENT HARRISON on the 1st
signed the tariff bill.
WHILE driving across the railroad
track at Maskinonge, Que, Mrs. Dosta-
ler, Mrs. Piche and Mrs. Heroux were
struck by an engine and killed.
THREE counterfeiters who had been
flooding Michigan with bogus silver
dollars have been captured at North
Lansing
THE New York Central railway has
declared open war against the Knights
of Labor.
THOUSANDS of acres of timber, grain
and buildings have been destroyed by
prairie fires in the vicinity of the Black
Hills in South Dakota.
ERNEST HUMPHREYS (colored) was
taken from Jail at Princeton, KY, and
lynched for the murder of Dizzy Miller.
j. J. MITCHELL mistook his brother
for catamount while in tree near
Guthrie, o. T., and shot him dead.
THE Oklahoma Legislature has passed
q bill locating the permanent capital at
Oklahoma City. ...
j. K. GARDNER, lumber dealer Of
Ridgeway, Pa, was jostled by several
men in train near Pittsburgh, Pa, and
when he reached that city found that he
had been robbed Of q pocketbook con-
tanning $10,0 600. 1s.E z@
AMONG the Mormon immigrants who
recently arrived in New York was an En-
0lishwoman who had deserted her hus-
band to become the sixteenth wife Of :
saint. ,sf
TIE White Star steamship Teutonlc
and the City Of New York, Of the In
man line, started from New York on
the I'd on their fourth race across the
ocean.