Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-01-01
DOMESTIC.

City, Wis, was burned on the 21st, and
Balm persisted in the flames.
WHILE drunk on the 21st Mrs. MARY
Goodwin, of Oshkosh, Wis, threw a
lighted lamp at her sixteen-year-old
daughter Mary, and the girl was fatally
burned.
"A CONDUCTOR on q Pittsburgh (Pa.
local train found pocket-book on the
Slst. containing $4,000 in money and
papers.
PETER RAYMOND and John Lewis were
drowned on the 23d in the New river
near Hinton. w. Va, by the capsizing OF
their boat.
The next Methodist National camp
meeting will be held at Eaton Rapids,
Mich, the last week in July, 1890.
BY the explosion of kerosene lamp
on the 2sd Mrs. Kate Houston and her
two-year-old daughter, Of New York,
were fatally burned.
EMMA COLE, aged thirty years, was ar
rested in Bradford, Pa, on the 2sd for
making and circulating counterfeit
money.
In riot on the 2sd at Potts Camp.
Miss, over dog, two negroes and one
white man were killed.
The report on the Esd of the commits
sion which negotiated the recent treaty.
with the Sioux Indians recommends the
education of Indians in schools erected
on the reservations, as the Indians are
opposed to sending their children to
schools in the East.
ROBERT THREsHER and Fred Will
Jams, brothers-in-law, quarreled in Ash
boro, Ind, on the 23d, and Thresher
shot Williams through the heart.
JAMES j. WEST, ex-editor of the Chi
cago Times and ex-president of the
Chicago Times Company, was found
guilty on the s3d of over-issuing stock
and sentenced to five years imprison-
ment and fine of $1,000.
The body of man was found in the
Conemaugh at Johnstown, Pa, on the
23d. One of the bodies found on the 21st
had been identified as that of Mrs. Luz
cinda II. Roberts, the first white child
borp in Johnstown, that event occurring
in 1907.
BAPTIST divines met at Louisville,
KY, on the 23d and "began comparison
of notes looking to an edition of the
New Testament with revised readings
of numerous passages"
COUNTERFEIT silver money, principal
~ dimes, quarters and halves, was on
the 23d being showered upon the retail
merchants of Kansas City, Mo.
WILLIAM ENBANKs, a widower of San
Jose, CAL, shot and killed his sixteen
year-old daughter on the 23d and then
cut his throat with razor.
NEARLY five thousand miners in the
Monongahela (Pa.) valley who had been
on strike for two months resumed work
on the 23d.
TWELVE contestants started at Pitts
burgh, Pa, on the 2sd in seventy-two-
hour go-as-you-please, twelve hours a
day, walking match.
MRS. RUTTERT, the wife of Paul Rut-
teri, jeweler at Tarentum, Pa, was
murdered on the 23d by burglars who
broke into her husbands store, and with
whom she grappled.
The stocks of wheat on the 23d at
Minneapolis, St. Paul and Duluth aggre-
gated II, GAG, 979 bushels.
THE boom in the iron trade continued
on the 23d, and it was said the furnaces
could not fill the orders they were re-
ceiving.
THE cotton compress at Fort Worth,
Tex, was burned on the 23d. Loss,
$15O,O0o
The candle-works of Thomas Emery's
Sons at Ivorydale, O., were destroyed by
fire on the 23d. Loss, 500, 900.
Trim TIu;&o1 Cto+oc o.ron1 :,,n-~ nj
ena, Ark, returned ten indictments on
the 23d for election frauds alleged to
have taken place at the last Congression-
al election in the First district
By an accident in mine on the 23d
at San Andreas, CAL, sixteen men were
killed outright and thirty injured.
NEAR Austin, Tex, on the 23d J. R.
Kevan, wealthy Englishman from
Liverpool, committed suicide because a
young woman refused to marry him.
The jury in the case of John Sage at
Marion, Ind, for murder, disagreed on
the 23d after being out eighty hours.
The Commercial Telegraph Company
was sold at New York on the oath to Ed
ward G. Pratt and John w. Mackay for
1856, 900.
STEEL mill and blast employees of the
Lackawana pa Iron & Coal Company
were 1otified on the Oath that on the LIST
of January their wages would be in
creased ten per cent.
THREE sailors were drowned on the
Oath at Yaquina City, Ore, by being
washed overheard from the tug Reso-
lutte, and four men met like fate in the
harbor at Vallejo, Cal.
AT Baltimore, Nd, John A. Wehner,
. groceryman, discovered his wife in
the company Of her lover on the oath
and cut off her nose with a razor.
AT Washington more patents have
been issued from the Patent Office this
year than ever before. The total number
up to the oath was %, $50, against 10, 5s5
last year.
JOSEPH WOODWARD, mailing clerk in
the Denver (Col.) post-of1ice, was
arrested on the Oath fo1 robbing letters
of 81, 200.
THE corn crop of Kansas this year is
enormous, and corn is SO cheap in con-
SEQUENCE that thousands of bushels
were, being burned on the oath for fuel