Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-10-17
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the entire building mass OF ruins. Tho el-
gtnc.r J. Il. Greenwood, was thrown through
tic lu::diug into tho Salmon river, and found
dcat! .rnc ro,;s below.
Ar1nr at Whitehall, Ill.,, on Friday, CONSUME
ca t,, cu houses.
Ax immense deposit Of mineral has been
struck by New York mining company near
Tairrlay, Wis.
I'mE remains Of Fanny Fern will be taken to
Boston for intcrmcnt.
J. II. PRovlNE, one of tho pi onecrsa of Mem
rh:s, died Friday afternoon, aged sixty.
The Treasury regulations OF cl,aptcr 9Th of
Warehouse Regulations have been so amend
ed as to allow the transportation and cxpor-
tation of merchandise from rcmEina by way
OF Duluth, Milwaukee, Chicago, Port Huron
and Detroit to Canada also to allow the same
kind OF transportation and expectation from,
Duluth, VIA Pcmbna to British North Amer-
caon the Red River.
JOHN TioHE, his vito aud infant, and two
men, aud q boy. left L,tchtcld, Ill.,. on the
tacdo, Wabash and Western Railroad Oh =
t'and-ca', Thursday evening, for their home,
snp miles away. Wh,n ont a short distance
they were run into .bya passenger train, and
Tghe, his wife and child killed.
SIX burglars were fo,'cl in an attempt to
rob the Merchants Bank At Mottowan, New
Jersey, Monday night, by the courage Of q
colo. ed woman, who escaped after they had
haadculed her, and gave the alarm to the
citizens. The. robbers succcede, in escaping.
THEo. s. Fowler has commenced suit to re-
cover tifty thousand dollars from Thos. Nc
Grath, who, as il alleged, obtained by false
papers ut the New York Custom House eighty
th:rc bales of goods, the property Of the plain
tff. McGrath was arrested.
\ MIDpIE-AagD D man named VIM. Sands, liv-
ill.,; near Hil!iArd Station, Ohio, was commit
tod to Jail on Friday for committing rape on
his daughter.
The bauS of England rate has advanced
one per cent. II is now six per cont.
GEO. Il. k1NasBUEY, cashier of the Lacka
wanna Valley Bank, at Scranton, Pa, was gar
rotea, beaten, aud gagged Thursday evening,
by three men, who nnsucccssfuly attempted
to get possession OF the keys Of the bank.
SARAH PAlsoN WILLIS, wife of James Parton,
otherwise known as "Fanny Fen," died on
Wednesday, in New York city.
AMAN named Fagg was burned to death in
New York city on Wednesday. He is said to
have been An Italian noblcman banishetl for
political offences, and lived under an assumed
name.
IT is said that fifty thousand dollars have
.becn already expanded in prosecuting the late
HTammany ring.
y FIRE at Plaiufeld, N. J., on Wednesday
damaged property to the extent OF $50. 900.
SUPERVISOR HENDRICKS, OF Wcstchester. N.
y, is reported n defauiter to the own of the
sum Of $4,000.
EDMUND SCOTT and James Galma, employ
ecs at the Philadelphia gas works, fell into q
drop Thursday morning, and wore suffocated.
Il B1cHoN- and Eyrand, two Communists,
have been cony:c: ed and sentenced to be exc
cutcu
MINISTER ScHENCK has left London for
l:aly, wnere he will remain two months.
\ PRIZE FIGHT between Tom Kelly and Fred
Bnsscy took place about twenty miles below
81. L,uis on Wednesday, and was won by
Kelly in twenty-eisht rounds. Time, IS min
utcs. Busy was badly punished.
FIRE at Slug Sing, Wednesday night, con-
somed twenty-seven stores in the principal
business portion of the town. Two persons
were seriously burned. Loss over $25O,OOO.
Hon. WIN. H. SEWARD died in Auburn, N. T.,
OIL Thursday.
TuE Secretary OF State has received by q
sp cial messenger an official copy of the de-
cision an award OF the Geneva arbitration,
handsomely engrossed on parchment and
bnld, with the signatures Of the arbitrators.
The document was enclosed in q neat wooden
Csc, highly polished. The Secretary pre-
svnted it to President Grant. 1t was after
ward taken to the Department to te deposited
l. .he o. 'chives.
EARTHQUAKE shocks werc experienced at
Sioux City, Fort Randall, Yankton, and other
points Oh Wednesday,.
ARMSTRONG (Dem.,) has been elected Dele.
gate to Congress, from Dakota Territory
There were two Republican candidates in the
fell
JUDGE JAMES BUCKLEY, of Brooklyn, who
was recently indicted for drunkenness, died
suddenly Wednesday night.
SAMuE'. BANcRoFr's woolen mill ut Metlea
Pa, was burned on Wednesday. Loss 5000,
900.
AT fire in West Thirty-second street, New
York, Wednesday night, Nicholas Watson, .
boy, was burned to death.
4 LONDON letter says the publ cation Of thu
Fondcrons judgement OfSir Alex. Cockburn
discerning from the award OF the the Geneva
arhltra:ors has had the effect to create abe
li"f that the award was fagrantly unjust tt
England.
The extensive new furnace OF the Nun
Lamott Mission Lead Company, at Frederick
town, was burned on Thursday. Loss quar-
ter Of a million dollars. Five hundred mel
are thrown out Of employment.
REScoSTRE occurred in St. Louis on Wed
ncsdaY between J. NJ. Turner and Geo. B
Wedicy, colored politicians, in which Wedle
stabbed Turner with a pen knife, infic'ing
serious if not fatal wound.
FURTHER trouble bet yeen whites and black
in Oseola, Arkansas, are reported. In figh
on Wednesday, one negro was killed and sev
eral wounded. The negroes were driven ou,
but Threatened 10 return and burn the tow
TUE Cincinnati Exposition closed Sa,urda,
the receipts having amounted to 100000. !
is proposed to raise $500, 900 as a guarante
'nn1 for the Exposition Of 1873, for whic
:l25,Oo0 has already been subscribed.
A coSFIAaRAr1oN at Pennington, Mich
carly Wednesday morning, destroyed almos
the entire business portion of the ipiace, in
ending Woodmans drug store, Selsby's jew
clry store, Horizons dry goods store, Mrs. Piel
sons millinery store, Shepard's dry good
store, Mrs. Testers millinery store, aud tn
rostoficc.
DIR. ALBERT REYNOLDS, formerly Assstan
Superintendent Of the Insane Asylum at Fla
bush, N. Y, and later OF Clinton, iowa, b;
been appointed Superintendent of the Insar
Hospital at Independence, Iowa.
The total expenditures on the foundation
the new Iowa Capitol, from the commenc
,nent of the work thereon to the LIST Of Octobe
have been s194 27570. OF the appropriate
made hy tie last Legislature there renal
uncxpenelcl the sum Of ia 80.
The locomotive, tender, baggage, expires
matt and several passenger cars OF the
I.oais express train on the Baltimore and Oh
load. jumped the track and plunged down
dcrlvsty, between the Relay House and Bal
n.cr.. Singular to state, while number
l'"sscngers suffered contusions, no bones We
tlokcu Gr Ives lost. The accident occurr
carly Monday night.
WALTER SELrs, aged twelve years, "
fm1thcr"d in grain bin at Popular Grove, /
the KenoslIa and Rockford Railroad, Nc
day afternoon. co,nrade who was with h