Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-04-16

The twenty-hfth anniversary Of the
surrender Of General Lee to General
Grant at Appomattox was celebrated on
the 9th In Brooklyn, N. Y, by re-.
ception to Generals Sherman, Howard
and Slocum.
DURING a storm on the 9th at Pine
Village, Ind, lightning struck John
Eberley and tore out both of his eyes
AT Roanoke, Va, cyclone on the 9th
wrecked nearly 100 dwellings and four
men were killed. In Richmond several
houses were destroyed and number of
persons badly injured.
A STORM Of sand on the 9th in Colo
RADIO did great damage in several towns
and all railway traffic was stopped.
In q fit OF jealousy on the 9th at
Cairo, ILL.,, Allen Thomas (colored) shot
and killed his wife and then killed him.
self
A CYCLONE swept over Summit Coun-
ty, O., on the 9th, cutting q path twelve
miles long and quarter of mile wide.
The devasted district was in Sharon,
Copley, Akron and Springfield town
ships. Houses were wrecked and four
persons were killed and several others
injured.
Four persons were executed in Penn
sylvania on the 9th: William Fl. Bar
tholomew at Easton, Alfred James An
drews at Bellefonte, Charles Carter
(colored) at Ebensburg, and Zach Tay-
lor at Waynesburg.
The business portion of Pearsall,
Tex, was burned on the 9th.
THE Conemaugh (Pa.) valley was
under water on the 9th, and the towns
of Wilmore and Woodvale were flooded.
The lower part OF Johnstown was also
overlooked. In Western Pennsylvania
high water and wind had done great
damage.
A FIRE on the 9th at Decatur, Ala,
destroyed most of the shops of the
United States Rolling-Stock Company,
causing loss in excess of $1,000
BILL providing for the execution Of
condemned criminals by electricity was
defeated in the Iowa Senate on the 9th.
GEORGE B. GRIMES, prominent Des
Moines Qa.) grocer, was fatally shot on
the 9th by James Guam, burglar.
NINE buildings at Linesville, Pa, in
Guiding the Herald Office. were burned
by an incendiary fire on the 9th.
GEORGE A. FIELDS (colored) was
hanged on the 9th at Scranton, Miss,
for the murder of Jennie Mosley.
SILVER in large quantities was dis
covered on the 9th near Mitchell, S. D.
Miss CAMPBELL, the only daug liter of
0. H. Campbell, of the Continental Hotel
at Crestline, O., eloped on tho 9th with
a negro and married him at Cleveland.
The new steamship Majestic which
arrived in New York on the 10th made
her first trip from Liverpool, via
Queenstown, in 6 days, 10 hours, 80
minutes-the quickest maiden passage
on record.
A BOY 10 years old named Hockardt,
living near Geneseo, ILL.,. quarreled
with his little sister on the 10th and
struck her on the back of the neck, kill
ing her almost instantly.
The Steele court-martial finding was
made public by the War Department at
Washington on the 10th. The Lieuten-
ant is found guilty of conduct unbecom-
ing an officer and gentleman in strik-
ing Private Wild, and sentenced to be
reprimanded and confined within the
limits of his post for three months.
EMMA STARK, under arrest for poison
ing the Newland family in Chicago, ad-
mitted on the 10th that she put poison
in the food ''just to see how strong it
was"
ISAAC WHITE, an old veteran living
near Leavenworth, Ind, was brutally
beaten by white caps on the 10th for
no known cause.
FLAMES on the 10th at Helvington,
KY, destroyed seventeen buildings and
large tobacco factory.
THE United States coast survey
steamer Patterson sailed from San Fran
cisco on the 10th for seven months
cruise in northern seas.
GoTTLIEB BENSON. an Omaha COACH
man, blew out his brains on the 10th
because the cook refused to marry him.
A NEW counterfeit $40 bill on the Ger
mania National Bank of New Orleans
was in circula ton in Chicago on the 10th.
THE Arkansas City (Ark) street-car
stables were destroyed by fire on the
10th, and twenty three horses and four
cars were burned.
Or the 3,OS1 immigrants landed at
Castle Garden, New York, on the 10th
1,030 were Italians. They started in
gangs for Pittsburgh and Chicago
THE equipment shops of the Brooklyn
City Railroad Company were burned on
the 10th. Loss 100000.
THROUGHOUT Kansas Arbor day was
observed on the 10th.
Two HIGHWAY robbers captured in
Jackson County, w. Va, on the 10th
proved to be women.
DURING an electrical storm on the
10th at Paterson, N. j., large mass of
ashes and potato bugs fell from the
clouds.
Much excitement but little damage
was caused in Burlington, a., on the
18th by the hurting of a bomb by an I'M
known person upon the pavement near
the National Bank building.
TWELVE letter boxes at Dayton, O..
were broken open early on the morning
of the 18th and their contents scattered
about the streets.
THERE were 200 business failures in
the United States during the seven days
or1o1 no 11th oroinat 0OR tho