Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-04

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National Bank, were on the 27th said to
be short about $4,000 Thompson's
speoulations caused the failure OF the
bank. os .......*. ~
AT the session Of the Baptist Home
Mission Society in Chicago on the 27th
resolutions we're adopted favoring con.
stitutional and legislative safeguards
for public schools, the encouragement
OF education, opposing the appropriation
OF public funds for schools under scotia
rian and ecclesiastical control, and IA
voring the prohibition and sale OF in
toxicating liquors,
The Warning Brothers Company, man.
utacturers of fertilizers and farming i'm
plements at Elkton, Nd, failed on the
a7th for 100000.
| The census otlce at Washington on
the 9th made public the frst results Of
the eleventh census in relation to State
and local finance. The reports show
that the principal of the several State
debts ut the present time is $22S, 1919, ST.,
and tho debts OF the s,So9 counties in
the United States is $50, 7S4, 900,
| against $lO4, 49S. 759 In 1880.
JAMES CLINTON WAITE, charged with
having married six women in the past
three years, all of whom are living, was
arrested on the 2sth st Geneva, O., for
! bigamy.
AT Toledo, O., on the ssth Mme De
We're, clairvoyant, was found guilty Of
forgery and sentenced to ten years i'm
prisonment at hard labor.
FIVE acres of frame buildings in Chi
cago, comprising tho Lyman A. Bud
long pickle works, were burned on the
2Sth. Loss, $500, 900. Fifteen head of
cattle and six horses wore also con-
sumed.
AT the meeting Of the Ohio Grand
Lodge of Knights Of Pythias at Cleve-
land ON the 2Sth the constitution of the
order was amended prohibiting any per-
son who deals in intoxicating liquors
from becoming member of the order.
The boycott recently instituted by
the Farmers Alliance against tho bust
ness-men Of Warren, Ind, came to an
end on the eSth.
A SYSTEM of Knocking down." which
had been followed for Ave years by q
number of managers of Western Union
telegraph offices in the Northwest, by
which the company had lost $50, 600, was
discovered on the 2Sth.
THE first original package house un.
der the late decision of the United
States Supreme Court was opened in
Burlington, Ia. on the 2Sth.
A RICH strike of gold was made on
the 2Sth in the Golconda mine near
Denver, Col.
AT the session of the Congressional
subcommittee on immigration in Chi
cago on the 2sth Potter Palmer advised
a tax of $50 head on all immigrants
C. L. LIND, of Hillsboro, Wis, who
recently failed in business, shot his
wife fatally on the 2sth and afterward
committed suicide.
The Baptist National Anniversaries
which had been in session in Chicago
for ten days closed on the 2sth with an
immense meeting in the Auditorium
building, where it was announced that
the 100000 necessary to secure the
100000 offered by Mr.. Rockefeller for
the building of a Baptist University in
Chicago had been raised.
THERE were 14Q business failures in
the United States during the seven days
ended on the 29th ult., against 222 the
previous seven days. The total number
of failures in the United States from
January to date is 1857, against 5,044
in a like portion of 1889.
AT Putnam, Conn.,, four mon were
killed by the cars on the 30th ult.
DECORATION DAY was generally OBJ
served throughout the country on the
30th ult At Cleveland a monument to
the martyred President Garfield was
dedicated, President Harrison assisting
in the ceremonies, and in New York
the cornerstone of the Washington
memorial arch was laid.
A CLOUD-BURsT and thunderstorm
passed over Arcadia, Wis, on the 29th
ult., flooding the town. Two mill dams
and one mill were destroyed and child
was drowned.
AT Oakland, CAL, q narrow-gauge
local train went through an open draw
of a bridge on the 30th ult., and thirty
people were drowned.
The General Assembly of the United
Presbyterian church was opened at Buff
falo, N. Y, on the 29th ult. A motion
asking for law forbidding the use of
tobacco by mem bers of the church was
referred.
SNowDEN SMITH, of Prairie Grove.
No., died on the 30th ult. of hydropho-
bia after enduring terrible suffering.
He was bitten by dog year ago.
THE Laclede -four mills at st. Louis
were entirely destroyed by fire on the
29th ult. Loss 1926, 900.
BENJAMIN HAWKINS (colored) was
hanged in Washington on the goth ult.
for the murder of his wife.
FROM 10000 to 10000 Confederates
marched in line at Richmond, Va, on
the Doth ult.. on the occasion of the ded-
ication of the monument to General
Lee.
MRS. o. J. STONE and her two chill
dren and Mrs. Poe WINNER, of Marion,
Ind, were killed on the goth ult. by the
lightning express on the Panhandle
railroad. They attempted to cross the
track ahead of the train in buggy.
A FURIOUS wind and rain storm swept
over Lincoln, Neb., and vicinity on the
29th ult, breaking down trees, over
+,rninr 1iphf hni1d ;nra on1 dom o1ioh.