Mower County transcript., 1890-02-05

ADv1cEs Of the a9th say that family
of eight persons named Hargrave, near
Point Pleasant w. Va, were poisoned
by anegro woman, and four 81 the eight
died. . y :: :=. i. s=
| FRANK FILLEY and Ben Atkins were
killed by boiler explosion on the 29th
at Beebe, Ark, and Joe Wright, Morgan
Hoover and Bud Mullins met like fate
near Charleston. w. Va.
AT St. Joseph, Mo-, Thomas Jenner,
aged 10 years, was accidentally shot and
Instantly killed by Frank Sullivan, q
playmate, on the 29th. .1st%tys -; =. AZ y
On the 29th ex-Vice-P President Hanni-
bal Hamlin headed the subscription list
for the Grand Army Memorial building
at Bangor, Me-, with a gift Of 500.
JACOB OpELL, OF Marion, Ind. while
supposedly insane on the Goth saturated
his clothes with coal oil and sot fre to
them. He died in great agony.
AFTER returning from rehearsal at
Evansville, Ind, on the 29th w. n.
Shook, veteran actor, dropped dead.
He leaves . wife and two children.
BURGLARS entered President Harri-
sons house at Indianapolis on the 29th
and secured about $1,000 worth of prop.
erty belonging to the President.
The treasurer of the Cherokee nation
said in St. Louis on the Goth that he
would sell the strip to the Government
for $50, 400, 900.
A sA1L-BoAT crossed the straits ON tho
soth ult. from Cheboygan, Mich, to Bois
Blanc. A winter had never been known
| before when the straits were so free
of ice.
THE trains which had been snow
bound for seventeen days in the Sierras
began moving ON the S0th ult., resulting
| in popular demonstration at Reno and
| other places.
AT Covington, Neb., a fire on the S0th
ult. destroyed most of the business part
Of the town.
BosroN officials decided ON the s0th
ult. not to grant any more licenses for
sparring exhibitions.
The steamer Bothnia, with Miss Bis
land, the competitor of Nellie BLY, in
the race around the world, reached New
York on the S0th ult.
THE Lenox Hill and the Sixth Ma
tional banks of New York suspended
payment on the 3Oth ult. owing to the
operations of President Claassen of the
latter concern, who tried to dispose of
$500, 900 worth OF bonds belonging to the
bank.
THE Chicago & Northwestern Railroad
Company on the soth ult paid William
De Lorenzo, OF Chicago, the uncle of
little Grace Payne, $1,000 for the loss of
her mother and step-father in the recent
Rose Hill railroad accident.
THREE wholesale business houses and
eight saloons were destroyed by an in
cendiary fire at Stanton, Neb., on the
3Oth ult
EIGHT prominent farmers of Heals
bury, Ind. T., were arrested on the 3Oth
ult. and taken to Gainesville, Tex,
charged with being members OF mob
which lynched an old man last Novem-
Der.
GEORGE ToBER was hanged on the
30th ult. at Fort Smith, Ark, for the
murder last September of Irwin Rich
ardson. Both men were colored.
AT Seymour, La, Texas Pacific
train was derailed on the 30th ult., and
the conductor and engineer were both
instantly killed and the fireman and one
brakeman were fatally injured.
The Attorney y-General of Kansas stated
on the 30th ult. thatit was criminal Of
fense to advertise lotteries or offer
tickets for sale in that State.
The house OF Rev. Father Fleckinger
at Chartiersborough, Pa, was blown up
by dynamite on the 3Oth ult., but no
one was injured. Anarchists were
charged with the crime.
AT Sioux City, Ia, on the 30th ult.
Hans Leander shot and killed Annie
Carlson, who had refused his attentions,
and then shot himself fatally.
ANN REVIVE, aged los years, was in .
Newark IN. j. court on the 3Oth ult. to
complain that she had been robbed Of
$300-her all.
DURING quarrel on the s0th ult. at
Erie, Pa, between Italians, four persons
were fatally cut with stilettos.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
THE deadlock in tie Iowa House of
Representatives was broken on the 27th,
a compromise being effected by which
Henry S. Wilcox (Rep.) was chosen tenn
porary clerk and L. D. Hotchkiss (Dem.)
speaker, the minor offices being equally
divided. This does not affect the ques-