Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1869-08-26

Van i;c"l y. ..l:r' vl,"l'sl" Ii,,uc,
'A'::5 about SIC, 900.
- The oil cloth factory Of sS;,,,Ison, Al.
d'' \ Sons, at Ca1umhrrHIiiI'. Inny Island
VS. h'"n'A On, tIr. 7li,. Los; cstmated ~
9zVb,"'o t. 100, 900.
Qnl"by y "'"tz.:rs block, in Ei,lIc.
ford, Nc, W., partially barntd on tLr
10Th: Valued AT *I5,ooo; insured for
$1,000.
A store l,t,us'. for SEQ ccnl, in N,v
York, belonging: to V.,n IlnjlA Co., W..
destroyed Ivy fire on Ia" H!l.. Loss, s:l4-
900; partially insnr1i.
The loss by Tie destruction of IT,
Crystal LAX" ice Companyr icc-hr,la"sanl
content; aggregate; about $7755,ovD; i,.s,
rance, 81, 900.
--C.,lkinS x Hail.. steam raw mill. ST
Nluskcgon, Mich, was burned on the niu.,t
of the Stll. Loss from $50, 900 to SEQ, 600.
Insured tor 327, 900, principally i'll CLican,
companies.
On the morning of the 1llh the six
mammoth ,r-houscs belonging TO the chi.
cn:!o Ice Company, located at Crystal Lake,
on the Northwestern railroad, some forty
nil" north of Chicago, were entirely d4:;-
troyc,l by fire. A large quantity of ice
was stored in the buildings, and the loss
is very heavy. Tic Origin, Of the fire il a
mystery.
Obituary.
Joseph &. Hanlcy, wcll-known actor,
died in New York Oh ,Ilc 9th.
Daniel Stowe committed sricidc, ly
hanging, in the Jail at Chicago, On the 1OL
inst.
Rev. Wm. Hooker died in the pulpit
on sunday, of heart disease, in his own
church at Lawrell, Ind.
-Alonzo Gaines, of the firm of Gaines
d Blanton, New Orleans, committed SUI
eide by jumping from a steamer into Tie
river.
"A. Chnsty, an old and wealthy Cit
zen of st. Louis, and one OF the principal
owners Of Virgins Ferry Company d!rd
On the 18th.
--Charlcs Little, founder ana senior
partner of the firm Of Little, Brown e. Co.,
the wcll-Enown law publishers Of Boston,
died on the 9th, i'll his seventy-tr year.
Hon. D. L. Ridley, of rutherford, died
suddenly, on the 11th, at his residences i'll
Mnrtraesboro, of apoplcHy. Itc was party
to the Sncrbrook- liid!cy suffrage case from
Tennessee, now pending i'll the Z. S. Sr-
preme Court
Commodore Jarvis, of the United
States navy, died at Geneva, ILL.,, on the
18th, aged seventy-tour years. He entered
the navy in 1912. He has been on the lt-
tired list for many years. He was native
of Cambridge, Mass, but has resided at
Geneva for number of years.
| Mr. Cornelius Grinncll, of the Yacht
Hawk fell from the winlow Of his lo.;,-
ings, on the Isle of Wight, and was killed.
Three boys-Georgc Carr, John Clark,
and William LocLman were drowned in
the Ohio River on the sth, by the capsizing
of sl1iff.
Tho steamer Cora A. Mo, river pack
ct, SINK about six o'clock on the night Of
the 18th, at Bellcontaine Bend. No par
ticulars, but no lives lost.
Mrs. Dr. Schrader and her mother. Of
Red Rock, Marion County, Iowa, were
both poisoned On the 10Th 10y taking a
dose Of bel]adonna given them by a blnn-
dering druggist. They 10th died in few
hours.
| On Friday night last two boys. named
| Michael Monery and John Godfrey, lrl,
aged twelve, were roasted TO death while
sleeping in an ash-pit Oh the Central Eail-
road, near EGzabethport, New York. They
belonged to Elizahethport, and being ava,
from homo went into the pit to Sleep and
the fires of the locomotives were thrown III,
literally roasting them to death.
| Crime.
Detectives Woodbridge and Dnnley, Of
New York, have arrested William Nurl..v
alias Reddy, the blacksmith, at San Fran
cisco. They will return with the prisoner
in few days.
In the Department of Loire sixty
miners who took part in the late riots in
st. Etienne and vicinity, have been tried
convicted and sentenced to various terms
of imprisonment.
The dead body Of Mowrey Irons, who
murdered his wife in June last at Burrils-
vile, Rhode Island, was found Saturday in
a swamp near the scene Of the murder. He
had evidently killed himself soon after
killing his wife.
Joseph Coping and his wife and En-
lime Giovanni were arrested on the 18th at
ST. Louis by United States detective John
Eagan for dealing in counterfeit money
A box was received by Mrs. Coping, from
New York, by express, containing $4,000
in five dollar notes, Oh the Jewett City Ma
tional Bank.
"A riot occurred between the whites and
negroes at Heathville, Northumberland Co,
Va, in which sailor killed negro. The
sailor WAS committed to jail, but at night
was rescued by the whites General Cam
by has sent detachment of troops to that
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