Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-01-08
Epit0me of the Week.

Epitome of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
DOMESTIC.
DAMAGE to the extent of $500, 600 was
done to fruit land on the 2Sth by river
overflow in the district around Los
Angeles, Cal.
FRANK BRUcK, Brooklyn barber,
killed his mother on the 2sth and then
himself, because the mother was sick
and not expected to recover.
In New York City on the 29th there
were $4,000 cases of influenza, in Boston
10000, and in Philadelphia 25, 900, and
several deaths had occurred from the
disease.
THREE men were killed by an explo-
sion on the 2Sth in the showcase manu-
factory of Schmitt & Co. at Cincinnati.
HE coroner's annual report on the
Ssth showed that $50 persons were
killed last year in Chicago by the rail-
roads.
IN Peru, Ind, an old man named j. f.
Clarke was cooked alive in bath tub
on the @sth, due to the bath proprietor's
carelessness. Clarke was paralytic.
The family of Theodore Gross, con-
sisting of the parents and eight chill
dren, with one visitor, Miss Lena
Erbst, were cremated by the burning of
the house in which they lived at Huron
town. Mich, on the night of the GOTH
WILLIAM MAJOR. farmer living near
Mount Vernon, Mich, on the 2Sth killed
his wife and his daughter, Mrs. Depew,
and her child, and then took his own
life. Domestic troubles were the cause.
EIGHT negroes were taken from Jail at
Barnwell, S. c., by a mob on the 2sth
and shot. They were accused of murder
PRAIRIE fires were on the 2Sth doing
great damage near Fort Worth, Tex.
TWoBRoTHERs named O'Dell, fugitives
from justice, were killed by posse of
officers in the mountains near Uyalde.
Tex, on the 2Sth.
|. MoNAscH, financial secretary of the
Turner Building and Loan Society of
Minneapolis, was on the 2Sth said to be
$25, 600 short in his accounts
"A PASSENGER train on the Chesapeake
Il Ohio road was wrecked by broken
axle near White Sulphur Springs, w.
Va, on the 2Sth, and ten persons were
killed and ten injured.
On the 2Sth 1912 immigrants arrived
An New York from Europe.
THROUGHOUT the Northwest heavy
snow-storm prevailed on the Goth, block
ing all the railways. In Stevens County,
Kan, there was much suffering from
lack OF fuel and food, and many were on
the verge of starvation.
AN unknown assassin killed jerry
O'Neil and his wife on the goth in their
home at Mount Sterling, Wis.
A HERD Of seventy-five lumpy-jawed
cattle was shot at the stock yards in Chi
cago on the 2sth.
The firm of Alexander Beck e. Son,
carpet manufacturers at Philadelphia,
failed on the 2sth for $500
BRADsTREEr's on the SOth ult. re-
ported total of 11,719 business failures
in the United States the past year,
against 10,5S7 in 1885, The total liabili-
ties were $40, $50, AGO. against $3.50, 242,-
4O2 the previous year. The assets the
past year were $50, 500, 769, against SG1,-
999.911 in 1888.
GOVERNOR GoDEL1, of New Hamp-
shire, issued a proclamation on the 2sth
that all saloons in the State must be
closed and the prohibitory law strictly
enforced.
THE Academy of Music in course of
erection at St. Louis fell in a heap on
the S0th ult., owing, it was thought, to
. bed of quicksand under it.
As A result of the collapse of the
Western Passenger Association a rate
war was begun on the Both ult., and the
st. Paul road had cut the first class rate
from ST. Paul to Chicago $3.50.
THE report on the 3Oth ult. of Com
missioner of Education Dawson esti-
mated that 1922, 455, 900 in round num-
twelve million children in the United
States the past year, an average cost of
81 child per annum.
THREE women persisted in fire on
the 28th in San Francisco.
CALL for the purpose Of organizing
. National association was issued on the
30th ult~ by the provisional committee
of the non-partisan w. c. T. U. The
meetings will begin January % at
Cleveland, O.
The Dunkard College at Br;dgewater,
Pa, was burned on the 3Oth ult. It
was one of three in the United States,
the other two being located respectively
at Mount Morris, ILL.,, and Huntingdon,
Pa.
Hon. GEORGE STARR, president of the
National Bank of Coldwater, Mich, fell
from the veranda of the sanitarium at
Battle Creek on the Goth ult and was
killed.
The employees of Carnegie's Home
stead (Pa.) steel works were notified on
the 30th ult. of an advance of sixteen
per cent. in wages to go into effect i'm
mediately.
The visible supply Of wheat and corn
in the United States on the 3Oth ult
was, respectively, 1891, 64s and 8, 0e9, 901
bushels.
The trade outlook was very promising
on the 30th ult, and business men and
financiers all over the country concurred
in the opinion that the next twelve
months would be unusually prosperous.