Mower County transcript., 1904-07-20
Wednesday, July 6.

| Fire at Corrina, Me-, started by
Fourth of July explosions. caused a
loss of 100000. Nine buildings were
destroyed, including two general stores
and grist mill
| Senator Hachman, chief burgomaster
of Hamburg, is dead. He took promi-
nent part in the reception of King Ed
ward on the occasion of his majesty's
recent visit to Germany.
| General Piet Cronje of Boer war
fame was married at St. Louis Tues
day to Mrs. Stertzel. the widow of
| Boer soldier. The ceremony was per-
| formed in the Boer camp on the
grounds and was private
| Thursday, July 7.
John D. Rockefeller has given $780,
900 to Denison Baptist university at
Newark, o.
All Kansas streams are rising, the
result of heavy rains in the past twen-
! ty-fOur hours, and serious foods pre-
vail
Mr.. Snyder, United States charge at
Bogota, Colombia, has cabied the state
department that General Reyes has
| been declared elected president of
Colombia.
The federal grand jury at New York
has resumed it's investigation into the
disaster to the steamer General Slo-
cum and the consequent loss of more
than 900 lives.
Julius H. Appleton, former president
of the Central New England railway
and we'll known paper manufacturer,
was stricken with apOplexy at Spring
field, Mass, and died soon afterwards.
General J. l.. Lewis, famous as COM
mander of the "Orphan' brigade in
the Confederacy, dropped dead at
Frankfort, Ky. He was chief justice
of the court of appeals over twenty
years.
Friday, July 8.
A strike of Havana harbor workers
was inaugurated Thursday. The tie
UP is complete.
Frank Hoffman, under arrest at
Walla Walla, Wash, for the murder
of Clarence Myers in Kansas City, has
confessed.
Justice Gavan D. Burgess of the
Missouri supreme court has suffered
stroke of paralysis and is in a seri-
GUS condition.
General Thomas Howard of the
Confederate army died at Washing
ton Thursday after a brief illness,
aged eighty-fOur years.
After ten days stay in St. Louis
Cardinal Satolli left that city Thurs
day for Indianapolis. From there he
and his party will go to Dayton, O.,
and then to Chicago.
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Northern Pacific rail-
way, which has been several times ad-
journed, was to have been held in
New York city Thursday, but another
adjournment for one week was taken.
Saturday, July 9.
During the week ending July 9,
592,303 persons attended the worlds
fair at St. Louis.
A negro was taken from the Jail al
Cord, Miss. by a mob and hanged for
making insulting proposals to two
white women.
A lot OF 68S head of lambs, averag-
ing IS pounds, brought 81 per 100
pounds at Omaha, the highest price
ever paid at Missouri river market.
Ballington Booth, general-in-chief of
the Volunteers of America, and Mrs.
Maud Ballington Booth sailed Friday
on the steamship Celtic for Liverpool.
Dr. Silas C.. Swallow, the Prohibition
candidate for president. will receive
ficial notification of his nomination
in Indianapolis on Friday evening, July
22
Eleven Welsh miners who arrived
at Philadelphia week ago on the
American liner Haverford and who
| were reDOrtnd to he contract lahOrerS
have been depOrted on the same YES
sci.
Monday, July II.
William j. Bryan is slightly i'll at
nings, in st. Louis.
A general strike involving 100000
union men engaged in the packing in
dustry in the nine big packing centers
of the country is understood to be i'm
minent.
According to the Construction News
building in the principal cities of the
country during June showed an extra
ordinary increase compared with the
corresponding month a year ago.
It is now claimed that the bandit
who was shot by Colorado cowboys on
July after robbing a Denver and Rio
Grande train near Parachute, Colo,
was Harvey Logan, alias Kid Curry,
the noted Montana outlaw.
A sidetrack to the home of Judge
Alton B. Parker at Esopus, n. Y, has
been ordered constructed by the West
Shore railroad for the increased busi-
ness at that point anticipated because
of tho indoa's nom in tj0p for