Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-25
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
A CAMP of ten white men near Sc
pore, N. NJ, was surprised by Indians
on the 18th, and only one escaped with
his life.
From statistics compiled by Inspector
Williams it appeared on the 18th that
in the last twenty years 10, $50, It's tons
of coal had been mined in Pennsylva~
MIA
THE sheriff of Rock County, Wis, on
the nth served writ of mandamus on
the school board of the city of Edgerton
commanding it to compel teachers not
to read the Bible in the public schools.
This is the district in which the Su-
preme Court decided against allowing
the Bible in the public schools, but
teachers had ignored the decision.
MAYOR PATRICK MCQUADE, of jack
sonville, Fla, was fatally assaulted on
the 18th by City Marshal Virgins,
whom the mayor charged with neglect
of duty.
OMER, the 13-year-old son of DR.. Bid
dinger, who resides in Clay township,
Ind, was killed on the 18th by the kick
of horse. This was the fifth child of
the doctor that had met death by vio-
lence.
A CLoUD-BURsT on the 18th near APP
pomattox, S. D., flooded a large tract of
country, and three members of William
McElroy's family and five members of
George Wager's family were drowned.
Large numbers. of horses and cattle per-
Sch oh
over several miles of country, Destroy
ing number of houses and killing VAL
entine Bonn and John English.
DURING the quarter ended May 81
there were 1909 fires in New York City,
entailing loss of 81, 395, 1913.
JOHN and William Detar, aged about
IA years, twin sons of Rev. J. D. Detar,
we're drowned in a bayou on their IA
TIERS farm at Wood bine, a., on the nth
while bathing.
w. C. ALBERTsON, broker on the
Chicago Board of Trade, failed on the
l7th for $250,0O0. A dishonest clerk
caused the disaster.
AT Denver, COL, Aaron NJ. Jones,
aged 60 years, one of the best known
men in the State, shot and killed his
wife at the breakfast table on the 18th
while temporarily insane and then COM
United suicide.
YALE won the college baseball cham
pionship on the 18th in New York by
defeating Princeton 6 to s.
The three-mile race on Cayuga lake,
N. Y, on the 18th between tho eight
cared crews of Cornell and Bowdoin was
won by Cornell by four lengths in II
minutes 80 Is seconds.
JAY GOULD was fined 500 in New
. York on the 18th for failing to answer a
summons to serve as juror.
At Providence, r. l., ON the 18th the
122d commencement exercises of Brown
University were held.
AT Wilkesbarre, Pa, Mrs. Thomas
would no longer be scolded by her hus-
band and she committed suicide by eat
ing paris green.
AT Williamsburg, KY, the wife and
twin children of Cortland Brown, prom
inent merchant, were fatally struck by
lightning on the 18th.
Four men were killed and three in
jured in a collision between freight
trains near Melrose, N. c., on the 18th.
Ar New York on the 18th Harris
Smiler was sentenced to death by cleo
tricity during the week beginning Au-
gust 4.
AT the twenty-second annual conven-
ton in Chicago on the 18th of the Junior
Order of United Americans George n.
Bartlett, of Massachusetts, was elected
National councillor.
BRAKEMEN on the Reading (Pa.) rail-
road were notified on the 18th that they
must leave the Order of Railway Brake
men or quite the services of the COM
pany.
A CYCLONE swept over Logan, Kan,
On the 18th, and the new Episcopal
church was destroyed, many farm
houses were wrecked and one man was
titled.
The business part of Harlem, Mo-,
vas burned on the 10th.