Mower County transcript., 1890-04-30
DOMESTIC.

REL1c-HuNTEKs have so mutilated tho
Lincoln monument at Springfield, ILL.,,
that it was decided on the 21st to erect
large iron fence around it.
AT Galesburg, ILL.,, the house of G. L.
Arnold was entered by burglars on the
2lst and pocketbook containing s., 200
was stolen.
The visible supply of wheat and corn
In the United States on the 21st was, re-
spectively, 24,513,273 and 1855, 500
bushels.
THE King & Hamilton Company's
large wagon and farm implement works
at Ottawa, ILL.,, valued at 100000, were
burned on the 21st.
THE carpenters strike at Indianapolis
came to an end on the 22d, the men be-
ing allowed thirty cents an hour for
eight-hours work. In Chicago the strike
was still on.
AT Bayou Sara, La, the situation ON
the 2ad owing to the breaking of levees
was beyond description, and the suffer
ing in Pointe Coupee was terrible, peo-
pie having to resort to trees for safety.
A LAWSUIT over jug of whisky at
Falls City, Neb., which ended on the
22d, cost Richardson County 5000.
A VOUCHER for Sl3, 1918 for pension
and back pay, said to be the largest sum
given for that purpose to any Indiana
soldier, was sent on the 22d to William
Bobley, of Linton, Greene County.
THE truant officer at Tuscola, ILL.,,
was fined on the 22d for arresting a boy
absent from school without leave. His
defense was that the compulsory educa-
tion law gave him that authority.
OWING to the illness of Governor
Goodell, of New Hampshire, David A.
Taggart, president of the State Senate,
was on the 22d inaugurated to perform
the Gubernatorial duties-the first time
in the history of the State, since 1884,
that such course had been adopted. :,
In Dallas County, Ark, on the 22d
Kit Walsh killed Henry Owens and was
himself fatally wounded. They were
farmers and had quarreled over land.
AN incendiary fire on the 22d at
Point Pleasant, w. Va, destroyed nine
dwelling houses, four business houses
and large amount of other property.
SOAKING rains, which would be Of
great benefit to the crops. fell in the
Dakotas and in Minnesota on the 22d.
THIRTY men were on the 22d impris-
oned in the Rock Springs (Wy. IT, coal
mine No. 4, which was on fire. and it
was almost certain that all were dead.
A F1BE in Neville & Co.'s toy ware
house at San Francisco on the 22d
caused loss of S1OO, 600.
In fit of jealousy on the 22d near
Hesperia, Mich, Thomas Nelson shot
and killed Anna Nelson, aged IA years,
and then killed himself.
The Congregational church at Ran
iolph, O., disbanded on the 22d. 1t was
noted as the scene of the longest pas
torate in the history of the Congrega-
tional denomination, DR.. Merriam hav-
ing been pastor for sixtythree years.
JOHN BoDENM1LLER, editor of the La
bor Signal at Indianapolis, was drowned
on the 22d while boating near that city.
A FIRE on the 23d at Rochester, N. Y,
in John G. Wagner's fve-story block,
caused loss of 100000.
AT Cedar Rapids, a., the seventy-first
anniversary of the Order of Odd-Fel-
lows was celebrated on the 23d by a
parade in which 5000 persons were in
line.
THE total collection of internal rev.
enue for the first nine months of the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1890, were
500, 943, 226, being an increase of 81, ,5o4,-
77o oyer the corresponding period last
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