Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-03-12

short In his accounts. He had fed.
THOMAS B1sHoP, Mexican war vet
eran and pensioner, about 80 years old,
was arrested at Petersburg Va, on the
4th on suspicion of having murdered his
wife. ' >>*>' 4 .~=
REPORTS concerning the alleged
scheme to COLOMBO Oklahoma with
negroes had on the 4th aroused the set
tiers to . high pitch of excitement. 49,.
K. Il. DoNNELLEY s. Sons, printers OF
the city directory, and one of the oldest
printing and publishing houses in Chi
cago, failed on the 5th for 500, 0OO
THE jewelry store of B. ]. Dunning at
Kansas City, NO., was robbed of 1000
worth OF diamonds and watches ON the
5th.
AT Jefferson City, NO., it was official
ly stated on the 9Th that the alleged
shortage of State Treasurer holland
would reach over $4,000.
MRS. CATHAR1NE DRAKE was burned
todeath on the 5th at GAINESVILLE, 0. She
was 81 years of age. Her clothes caught
fire from CRATE.
THE first snow-storm of the season
at Charleston. w. Va, occurred on the
5th.
CONGRESSMAN F. w. WHEE1ER's NAM
moth ship-yard at West Bay City, Mich,
was reported on the 5th to have been
sold to an English syndicate for $780,
900.
THE State Temperance Alliance of
Iowa in session on the 5th at Des
Moines elected j. A. Harvey, of Polk,
as president, and adopted resolutions
against the repeal of the present prohib.
itory law and favoring third party in
politics.
A NEGRO while blowing in field on
the 5th near Nashville, Ark, turned up
Jug containing 10000 in gold.
The large sanitary pottery of Mad
dock, Sons & Co., at Trenton, N. j.,
was burned on the 5th. Loss, $780, 600.
AT New York on the 5th number of
supposed packages of macaroni from
Mediterranean ports were found to con-
tain fine shawls There were 40 boxes
and ten bags seized, all being con-
signed to Chicago.
AN underground route" for smuggling
Cinnamon into the United States was
discovered on the 5th at Port Huron,
Mich.
The Troy IN. W cooperative stove
works burned on the 5th. Loss, 500, 600.
Four workmen were killed and as
many injured by an explosion on the
5th in coal mine at Plymouth. Pa.
PRESIDENT HARRISON on the 9Th ap-
proved the act providing for an AS
slstant Secretary of War.
The mercury ranged from IS to 40 de-
grees below zero at Ashland. Wis, on
the 5th, and registered 20 below at Che
boygan, Mich.
JOHN G. HENDERSON, q wealthy citi-
zen of Lower Merton, Pa, who died on
the 9Th, confessed before his death that
twenty-four years ago he killed DIR.
Joseph lowering, whose murder caused
great excitement at Lower Merton.
The following clubs will com prise the
National Baseball League the coming
season: New York, Boston, Cleveland,
Chicago, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Wash
ington, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh and In
dianapolis.
w. II. FARNHAM, of Milwaukee, for
twenty-seven years assistant cashier of
the Northwestern Mutual Insurance
Company, shot himself to death on the
9Th. Temporary insanity was the cause.
FIFTEEN stores and dwellings at Read
Ing, Mass, were burned on the 9th.
HENRY KEEP made bet in St. Louis,
on the 9th that he could drink seven
ponies of whisky on top of half beer
glass of gin. He won the bet but died
four hours later.
A FIRE on the 9th at Madrid, Neb,
destroyed seven buildings in the bust
ness part of the town.
HE Chicago express train on the Lake
Shore road was wrecked on the night of
the 9Th near Hamburg, N. Y, a Pull
man and two day coaches being piled in
a heap Ten persons were reported
killed and about twenty-five more or
less severely injured.
j. W. GALLOWAY, a Little Rock (Ark.)
tax collector, was on the 9Th found to be
$12, 600 short in his accounts.
The American wire, rod and nail mills
at Anderson, Ind, were burned on the
9Th. Loss, 500, 900.
DOnAN0 VAO 6OSOACo VI WITS. LILA
Moore on the 9Th her residence at Co.
lumbus, Ind, took fire, and two of her
children were consumed in the flames.
JOHN CHENEY and wife and their SER
want were found asphyxiated at their
home in Philadelphia on the 6th
DANIEL D. BLAKE, mill employee at
Fall River, Mass, was informed on the
9Th that he was heir to $1,000, 600 by the
death of an uncle in England.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
JAMES E. ENGLISH, Ex-Governor of
Connecticut and ex-Congressman, died
on the I'd in New Haven, aged 70 years.
JUDGE DANIEL B. T1LDEN died at his
home in Cleveland, O., on the 4th. He
was "a years old and was a member of
Congress during the Mexican war.
The third annual convention of the
National League of Republican Clubs
met at Nashville, Tenn, on the 4th.
Mr.. EDWIN CowLEs, editor of tho
Leader, of Cleveland, O., died at his
home in that city on the 4th, aged Is
years.
WILLIAM B. ALLISON was on the 4th.
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