Mower County transcript., 1890-01-22
DOMESTIC.

AWFUL destitution was reported on
the 18th in several of the Western coun-
ties of Kansas, where a blizzard had
ragged with great violence.
A HURRICANE on the 18th in Western
New York did great damage at Roches-
ter, Lockport, Oswego and Utica.
A PACKAGE containing 1000 was
stolen from the Wells, Fargo & Com
pany's express Office at Dallas Tex, on
the 18th.
A TORNADO struck the city of Clinton,
Ky, on the 18th, demolishing fifty-five
houses, and eleven persons were killed
and fifty-three injured.
AN order was adopted in the Massa-
chusetss Senate on the 18th requiring
cities and towns to place the United
States flag on every school-house.
FIFTEEN White Caps visited the home
of Andrew State at Crothersville, Ind,
on the 18th, dragged him from his bed,
and when he resisted shot him fatally.
The Northern Central railroad ele-
vator at Baltimore, Nd, was burned
on the 18th, causing loss of $3.50, 900,
and three men perished in the flames.
MISS CARRIE BARcUs, of Danville,
I'LL. aged twenty-one years and in per-
feet health, lay down New Years after
noon for nap. She fell into deep
sleep from which all efforts to arouse her
were futile. and died on the 18th.
By the upsetting of boat on the 18th
near Carmi, ILL.,, Misses Lou Asbury and
Lizzie Bowles and Dan Asbury and Will
Rose were drowned.
The William 81. Schmidt Sash and
Door Company at Milwaukee, Wis,
failed on the 18th for $4,000.
CHARLES A. CLARKE, principal of the
Allison Academy at Milton. Wis, died
on the 18th of hydrophobia. He was
bitten by cat last March.
CICERO ROLLS, a ]aboring man of
Carthage, ILL.,, received advices on the
18th that he was heir to lands in the
Mohawk valley, New York, valued at
$4,000, 900.
A w1ND-sToRM on the 18th in Penn
sylvania did great damage at Pitts
burgh, Butler and Oil City.
The four little children Of Carl Rog-
alinski, of Erie, Pa, were burned to
death on the 14th during the absence
of their parents. The little ones we're
left with an uncle, who was drunk, and
he laid his lighted pipe down on the
bed in which the children were sleep
ing, causing fire which destroyed the
house.
AT Maysville, S. D., on the 14th a
band of women armed with hatchets and
other weapons wrecked several illicit
drinking places and totally destroyed
the fixtures and furniture.
THE Smith Middlings Purifier Com
pany, organized about three weeks ago
at Jackson, Mich, failed on the 18th for
$484, ZOO.
SEVERE weather prevailed on the 14th
throughout the Northwest and in por-
tions of Minnesota the snow drifts were
twenty feet high.
THE visible supply of wheat and corn
in the United States on the l4th was
respectively 33,17s,1S1 and 1O,833, ,695
bushels.
FIVE boys went swimming in the East
river at Brooklyn, N. Y, on the 18th.
They dived, splashed and thoroughly en-
joYed themselves.
In Muskingum County, O., half-grown
grasshoppers had made their appear
ance on the 18th in vast numbers, and
farmers were alarmed for the safety of
their wheat.
In the vaults of the internal revenue
Office at Washington on the 18th there
we're 78, 865, ,617 stamps valued at $28, $50,
1918.
STRAWBERRIES grown in the open air
wore on the 18th being shipped from
Charleston, s. c., to New York.
In the Cronin case in Chicago on the
18th Judge Mcconnell overruled the
motion of Daniel Coughlin, Patrick
OSullivan and Martin Burke for new
trial, and sentenced them to lifelong
penal seryitude. The motion of John
p. Kunze Tor, a new trial was granted.
The three murderers were taken to
Joliet in the evening.
CoLoRED men representing nearly
every State and Territory in the Union
met in Chicago on the 18th for the pur-
pose of organizing an Afro-American
league for the advancement and protec-
tion Of the race.