Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-02-12

mon In Washington on the 9Th Editor
Mitchell, Of Richmond, read a paper up
on outrages upon colored people in the
South. He said that SS3 negroes had
been lynched in the South from 1887 to
date, and that colored mon had been
roasted in North Carolina. A permanent
organization was formed to be known as
the American Citizens Equal Rights
Association of the United States of
America.
DURING quarrel on the 5th near To-
peka, Kan, Melville Beard, aged 10
years, fatally shot his brother William,
% years old.
THE town of Burke, Idaho, in the
Coeur d'Alene mining district, was on
the 5th nearly destroyed by avalanches.
Half the business houses were in ruins
and three men were killed.
THE steamer Mineola, which arrived
at Philadelphia on the 5th, passed on
iceberg on her trip one mile long and
seven hundred feet high.
IN Portland, Ore, the river front and
several streets were under water on the
5th, caused by the swollen condition of
the Willamette, and merchants were
compelled to suspend business. The
flood was tho highest since 1861.
Throughout the Willamette valley and
in Southern Oregon heavy losses were
reported, bridges, houses fences, mills,
ETC., having been swept away
THREE men were drowned while boat
ing at Marine City. Mich, on the 5th.
The American Axe and Edge Tool
Company, comprising all the edge tool
concerns in the country, was organized
on the 9Th at Pittsburgh, Pa, the cap
ital stock being $4,00O,O0O
DEsTITUrIoN was on the 5th said to
prevail in Hamilton County, Mo-, owing
to the failure of crops, and aid was asked
for the suffering people.
PETER G1BL1N, aged S, and Eddie Cain,
aged years, broke through the ice on
Lapham's pond at Worcester, Mass, on
the 5th and were drowned.
A BILL before the Virginia Legis-
lature to revive the old whipping post
law was defeated on the 9Th.
LYON CITY, a mining camp, which lies
at the base of Lyon mountain in Mon
tana, was completely buried by snow
slide on the 5th, and two miners were
killed and large amount of property
destroyed.
The Hudson river was on the 5th open
to navigation one hundred miles above
New York.
F. A WALTON, clerk of the Pacific Ex-
press Office at Dallas, Tex, absconded
on the 5th with $50, 900 belonging to the
company.
The Rhode Island Supreme Court de-
cided on the 5th that the ballot-system
law could be extended to city and town
elections.
SECRETARY MoHLER, of the agricult-
ural department of Kansas, on the 9th
stated that the value of crops in the
State for 1889 was $l04, 572, 49S. The
value of live stock for the year 1889 was
SIG, 1875, 466.
The colored mems convention in
on the 9Th elected ex-Sen-
ator Pinchback president of the Ma
tional organization and issued an ad-
dress to the people of the United States
asking justice for the colored race, and
declaring that the colored vote
in the South is suppressed by vio-
ence or neutralized by fraud, and
that their children are not afforded
school facilities to which they are en-
titled. The colored voters are urged to
support in the future only such candi-
dates for public office as are known to
be in favor of justice to the colored
American citizens. All we ask, says the
address in conclusion, is justice, equal
rights and fair play.
THE box factory of j. K. Hunt, the
shoe factory of Lewis and Pifer and
the Trix Company in Rochester, n. Y,
were destroyed by fire on the 9th. Loss,
100000.
A FREE library, to cost not less than
81, 900, 900, was on the 9th offered the
city Of Pittsburgh, Pa, by Andrew Car
negie.
CH1EF-JUsT1CE SHoPE, of the Illinois
Supreme Court, on the 9th granted
writ of error in the case of Fielden and
Schwab, the imprisoned Chicago An
in order that the question of
the right of the condemned men to be
personally present in court when the
decision of the State Supreme Court
was rendered may be determined.
On the 9th Deputy Sheriffs Ross and
Snead were mbushed and killed near
Camden, Ark, by negroes whose friends
the officers had arrested.
CHARLOTTE DUNLAP, aged 20 years,
committed suicide by poison on the 9th
at Susquehanna, Pa. She was to have
been married to man she did not love,
and preferred death, requesting in a
letter that she be buried in her wedding
dress.
ADv1cEs of the 9th from Oregon say
that the floods had washed away fifty
houses in Oregon City, fifteen buildings
at Salem, and caused considerable dam
age at other places. The waters were
subsiding.
WHILE the family of J. B. Perkins
were at dinner on the 9Th at Cincinnati,
O., sneak-thief entered the house and
secured box con tanning 81, 1000 worth of
diamonds and $25 in cash.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
NATHAN C. BARRETT, Secretary of
State of Georgia, died on the I'd at At
lanta in the Goth year of his age.
ADv1CEs of the LIST announce the
death of Miss Chloe Lankton in New
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