Mower County transcript., 1890-12-24

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some person unknown.
HEAVY snow crushed In the roof Of the
Roanoke IVA. machine works, causing
100000 damages. One man was killed
and eight severely injured.
The old and well-known banking
house of s. A. Kean s. Co., in Chicago,
closed its doors.
Miss MABEL IsMoND was fatally shot
at St. Louis by her sister-in-law, who
mistook her for q burglar. ..*
Mrs. JESSIE HlaBEE, % years old, was
arrested at Brandenburg, KY, for fatal
ly poisoning her four children. She was
believed to be crazy. -.
Ar Fresno, Cal, DIR. +. o. Vincent
shot and killed his wife, from whom he
had been separated for some time, and
then took his own life with poison.
LINCOLN GossETT was arrested ut Ell
wood, Ind, for numbering his grand
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Asa Womock,
who resided at Honey Creek, Ind. Tho
object was robbery, but Gossett only
secured $3.1O.
w. ]. CUNNING, special correspondent
Of the Chicago Inter Ocean, who was on
,, a trip around the world, fell down.
stairs in an apoplectic fit at San Fran
cisco and was killed. a"
OWEN Bros, agents Mt Providence, R..
l., of the Atlantic mills, failed for about
81, 900, 900. McGheis 4 Co., wholesale
grocers and cotton factors at Rome,
Ca, failed for $15O,OO0.
DURING q quarrel John Rose, a sa-
loon-lzeeper at Athens, O., struck Lee
Davis on the head with beer glass and
killed him.
THE total collections of internal rev.
enue for the first five months of the
current fiscal year were $50, 3,901, ,470, an
increase of $4,725,s59 over the CORE
spending period of the last fiscal year.
CHARLES SroDER found two diamonds
near newly-dug well in Jennings
County, Ind, and It was said that in
the immediate vicinity of the well many
smaller-sized specimens Of the stone
abounded.
THE liabilities of the banking house
of S. A. Kean & Co., in Chicago, which
had closed its doors, were given at
81, 800, 900; assets, $497, 1000.
ELMER SHARKEY and Henry Popp
were hanged in the Ohio penitentiary at
Columbus. The former killed his
mother and the latter took the life of q
saloon-keeper.
A TRAIN on the Wheeling & Lake
Erie road went through a trestle near
Bolivar, o., and four persons were
killed and eight injured.
A TRAIN on the Baltimore l. Ohio
road was derailed by a snowdrift near
Harrisonburg, Va, and six persons were
badly injured. The loss to the railway
company was $4,000.
AN express train on the Colorado
Midland road ran into the rear of a
freight at Cardiff, Col, killing one man
and fatally wounding four others.
Mrs. MCGUIRE and her grandchild
were burned to death at Newark, N. J.
NEARLY the entire business portion
OF Boonville, Ind, was destroyed by an
incendiary fire.
CHARLES WILLIAMS, wife-murderer,
was hanged at Traders hill, near Ma
con, Ga.
TWELVE horses were burned to death
near McGee's Mills, Pa.
1T was reported on the 10th that aght-
ing had taken place near the Bad Lands
in South Dakota between troops and
some Of Sitting Bulls friends. At Fort
Yates the Indians were coming in and
appearances indicated that the trouble
was about over.
JEFF KENDALL (colored) was placed
in jail at Mariana, Ark, for burning a
negro cabin occupied by Mrs. T. Jen-
nings and family, the woman and an
infant being burned to death.
AGNES LEBERHARDT, handsome
woman of ~ years, who has four hus-
bands living, from neither of whom she
had been divorced, was arrested in Bos-
ton.
FREDERICK BoEHM, a noted New York
Anarchist and friend of Herr Most, COM
mitted suicide. He left note saying
that it was impossible for him to reach
his ambition.
AT Missoula, Mont, four Indians,
Lala Lee, Pierre Paul, Antley and Pas
cole, were hanged for the murder of j.
N. Quinn in the spring of 1889.
AT Clarksburg, w. Va, colored girl
mixed a box of poison in the coffee
which Charles A. Bond, wife and five
children drank. All would probably die.
THE Central Mutual Fire Insurance
Company at Fort Wayne, Ind, decided
to discontinue business owing to recent
heavy losses.
CARL KoRrH, treasurer of Pierce
County, Neb., was arrested at Norfolk
on the charge of embezzling $4,000.
HORSES in Kansas and Missouri were
dying of a strange epidemic.
A PECULIAR and supernatural mystery
surrounds the home of Mrs. Jane Nc
Gowen at Springfield, O. All sorts of
household articles blaze up suddenly,
although being at distance from any
fire. Citizens in the vicinity were much
excited over the matter.
THE business failures in the United
States during the seven days ended on
the 10Th numbered, 404 against s74 the
preceding week and 342 the correspond
ing week last year.
THE American Marble Company at
Atlanta, Ga, was placed in the hands
of a receiver. Assets, $150,O00; liabili-
ties, 100000.
ADAM MoNG1N (colored was hanged