Mower County transcript., 1890-12-03

IHE North Pacific Hotel and build-
ings Of the Oregon Pottery Company 1T
Portland were totally de stroyed ~ flre,
causing loss Of $3.50, 900. >...."'
AT Anderson, Ind, William +. Hill. .
widower, aged 80, was publicly whipped
BY two young ladies whom he had an
noyed by his attentions. ....s
AT the meeting Of the Union Pacific
Railway Company at Boston Charles
Francis Adams resigned the presidency
and also IS director, and Sidney Dillon
was chosen as president
ROBERT F. PORTER, superintendent Of
the census. presented statement to
the Secretary Of the Interior giving the
population Of the several States and
Territories Of the United States as
finally determined at 81, ,8as, aoo
FIVE men were drowned near Bay
fold, Wis, by the wrecking Of their
boat
THE bay stallion Allie Wilkes was
sold by Stanhope & Brother, OF Kius-
man, O., to w. c. France & Son, of
Lexington, Ky., for $780,
NEAR Washington, Ind., Elijah
Malott shot and killed his wife and
then killed himself. No cause was known
for the deed. SO =
TnE boiler in steam saw-mill at
Scotland, Ca, exploded, killing three
men and injuring four others.
The bank Of II. II. Bell at Duluth,
Minn.. suspended. with liabilities Of
$3.50. 900 and assets Of s, ZOO, 900.
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stables were burned, and nineteen
mules and the entire equipment Of cars
were destroyed.
FIRE destroyed the best part of tho
business street at Rayville, La.
The young man in Boston jail who
claimed to be Charlie Ross was visited
by Mr.. Ross, father of the lost boy, who
said the Boston youth was not his long
lost son.
WHILE hunting in Washington Coun-
ty, Miss, Senator Wade Hampton was
accidentally shot by his son. 1t was
feared that he would lose the sight OF
his left eye.
FLAMES destroyed the Powers Dry
Goods Company's building at St. Paul,
Minn.. causing loss Of $3.50, ,O00
The steamboat Thomas P: Leathers.
the fastest stern-wheel boat on the
Mississippi river, was burned with her
cargo at Fort Adams, Miss, and Ave
sailors and the cham bermaid were lost.
AT Eastern Park in Brooklyn, N. Y.
a big stand of free seats erected for the
Yale-Princeton football game collapsed
and hurled to the ground over 2.O0O per-
sons, fifty Of whom were injured, mono
fatally.
The Postmaster-Gen in his an
nual report recommends postal tel
egraph service and a system Of postal
savings banks. The revenue of the
department for the fiscal year was $780,
S5S,7s3 and the expenditures were $780,
6a5,6S leaving deficiency of SIS, 1885,
800. Nearly 5000 new post-ofices were
established, the total number in the
country being 81, 401.
Mrs. LUCY PARSONS, the Anarchist,
charged with melting a riot in Jersey
City, N. j., was acquitted.
BENJAMIN WRIGHT, aged 80 years,
died at Trenton, N. ]. He had eaten
nothing for hve months on account of
stomach trouble.
THE residence of p. Lorillard Rey-
nolds at Newton, Conn.,, was burned.
causing loss OF 100000.
JUDGE ISAAC BERGMAN, ex-probate
Judge, who had been imprisoned for
contempt shot himself at Cheyenne,
Wyo. If he recovered he would be
blind, the bullet having destroyed both
eyes.
James Ferguson and Calvin F. Camp
bell went hunting in boat near Os-
wego. N. Y, and were drowned.
DR. WILLIAMSON, aged so years, a
practicing physician at Lebanon, Ind,
for thirty-6ve years. was run over by
buggy and fatally injured.
The business failures in the United
States during the seven days ended on
the 28th numbered 249, against 274 tho
preceding week and 249 the correspond
ing week last year.
JOSEPH PULITZER sold the New York
World for 1000, 900 to a Philadelphia
syndicate headed by George w. Childs,
editor of the Public Ledger, and A. j.
Drexel, the banker.
THE militia force of the United States
aggregates 109, 469 men, az shown by an
official report by Captain D. NJ. Taylor,
in charge of this branch of the service.
WHILE laughing heartily Mrs. John
Patterson (colored), of Brazil, Ind,
ruptured the optic nerve and was strick.
en- blind. Physicians said it was the
only case Of the kind known.
The barn of Mrs. Chris Reimen-
schneider. near State Center, Ia., was
burned to the ground, together with
twenty-five head of horses.
THE officers of the Brazilian squadron
visiting Washington were given re-
ception by President Harrison, and they
presented the President with one
pound gold medal sont as token of
friendship and good will from the Presi-
dent of the Republic OF Brazil to the
President of the United States of
America,
REPORTS reached Bristol. 8. d., that
the hostile Indians were at Pierpont and
Langford, and that the former place had
been burned. A boy said he had been
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