Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-11

thanking and educating the colored peo-
pie. A society was formed with ex-
President Hayes rs president.
THE Lutherans OF Wisconsin held .
State convention at Milwaukee on the
4th and resolutions were adopted pro-
testing against the Bennett school law.
AN immense crowd listened to Chaun-
cey NJ. Depew's lecture on the worlds
fair on the evening of tho 5th ut the
Auditorium in Chicago.
OWING to recent storms the village OF
| Manawa. Ia, on Lake Manawa, was
under five feet of water on the 5th and
entirely deserted.
LIGHTNING struck school-house near
Flandreau, S. d., on the 5th, killing
seven children.
In the vicinity Of Lockport, N. Y,
great damage was done on tho 5th by q
wind and rain-storm and many cattle
were drowned.
ZACH L. HuNDIEY, chairman of the
State Democratic Central Committee Of
South Dakota, was murdered by his son
at Huron on the 5th In dispute about
putting down q carpet.
RoLL1N BEERS, a lawyer at Bridge
port, Conn.,, who swindled his brother
and sister and other persons out of $780,
600, fled to Canada on the 5th.
THE district near Hubbard, Ia, was
swept on the 5th by tornado, houses
and barns being reduced to kindling
wood, and many horses and cattle were
killed.
ApvIcEs Of the 5th say that q party
of five Government surveyors had been
massaored by Indians in the upper
Green river country in Wyoming.
THREE men were fatally sunstruck on
the 5th at Cleveland. O.
FIFTEEN HUNDRED Indians armed
with Winchester rifles on the Menomi-
nee reservation in Wisconsin drove the
Indian agent of on the 9Th. Trouble
was feared.
A CLoUD-BURsT on the 5th at Red
Wing, MIMI, did great damage. Near
ly half OF Goodhue County was over
flowed and several cases of loss Of life
were reported. The Belle Creek valley
was completely devastated and every
farmhouse on bottom land was washed
away.
THE 1S4th annual commencement of
the University of Pennsylvania was
held in the Academy of Music in Phila-
delphia on the 5th.
AN oil tank on a steamer near Phila-
delphia exploded on the 5th, killing
one man and badly injuring eleven
others. The property loss was $l55, 900.
THE post-office building at Golf, Pa,
was struck by lightning and destroyed
on the 9Th and Postmaster Henry was
fatally injured.
THERE were 2O5 business failures in
the United States during the seven days
ended on the 9th, against 21S the previ-
Gus seven days.
AT Middlebury, Conn.,, Mrs. John
Smith and her two little boys we're
drowned on the 9th. The lads fell into
the water, and the mother lost her life
in trying to save them.
THE New York Supreme Court on the
9th affirmed the conviction and sentence
of Sheriff Flack, of New York City, for
fraud.
HEAVY rain and thunder-storms pre-
vailed in Central New York on the 9th,
the lightning, wind and floods working
havoc. Several lives were lost.
THOMAS KING was hanged at Boulder,
Mont, on the 9th for killing Matthew
Fogarty at dance few months ago.
A PASSENGER train jumped the rails
near Rockford, ILL.,, on the 9Th, and the
engineer and four section men were
killed.
CHEYENNE Indians in Montana were
on the 9Th on the verge of an outbreak.
1t was reported that they had killed i've
whites, and settlers we're taking precau-
lions for their safety.
A TEST vote on the strength of the lot
terry people in the Louisiana Legislat-
ure, taken on the 9th, resulted 40 to 26
in the lottery's favor.
THE bill exempting editors and re-
porters in New York City from jury
duty was signed on the 9Th by Governor
Hill.
THE Ames thrasher and reaper works
at Oswego N. Y, were struck by light
ming on the 9Th and totally destroyed.
THREE negro murderers, Tom Miles,
Fletcher Halden and Henry Halden,
were hanged at Linden, Tex, on the 9th.
EZRA LEECH, q farmer of Newton
County, Miss, discovered $40, 900 in gold
while ditching in his field on the 9Th.
The first anniversary of the great fire
by which the entire business portion Of
Seattle, WASH, was destroyed, was cell
ebrated on the 9Th.
TRAINS collided on the 9th at Des
Moines, a., causing loss of 500, 900.
No one was injured.
The Louisville & Nashville cannon
ball express, from New Orleans for Gin
cinnati, was wrecked near English, KY,
on the 9Th, and nine people were seri-
ously hurt, two of them fatally.
PELL1Co, Umatilla Indian, was
hanged at Portland, Ore, on the 9th by
the United States authorities for the
murder of an Indian woman.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
ALFRED 7. PERR1NE, the inventor of
the Calling gun, died in the Cincinnati
city hospital on the Sd in poverty At
one time he was worth $50, 900.
In the Fourth district of Maine the
Democrats on the Sd nominated Josiah
CrOSbV of Dexter for COnpreSs