Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-01-04


other men were convicted. They were re-
manded for an investigation.
REV. ". c. WALLACE was shot and killed ,
Atlanta, Columbia county. Arkansas. on tn
2oth, by man named shelman. The latte
was drunk. and used some insulting languae,
10 the family Of Mr.. Wallace, whom the latte
Shelman made his escape.
WANG Hobo, son of the late President n
the Ming Yung company, was buried With inn
posing Celestial ceremonies in San Francisc
on Tuesday. Nearly ono hundred carriage
were IN me, with twenty professional mourn
ers and i've wagon loads Of ,provisiops AM
flowers. - '-4'
TaE residence belonging to G. A. Woods. o
fittst urgh, at Wheatland, Pa, burned o,
Christmas. Two servant girls wsre burned I.
Death a. Loss ON house, 81, 900; insurance
WILLIAM A. WHITAKER, postmaster At Bowl
"s Green, Wood county, o., h under asres
on charge OF ennbezzline moneyord funds
iHE Howard sugar refinery I'm East Cam
bridge, Mass, was damaged by fire on Wed
nesday.
SHOOTING ARRAY in . saloon in East Al
ington, VT, on Christmas Day, resulted /,
the death OF two persons, tho mortal wound.
'ns OF two others, and serious injury of fiftt
person. -
TIE Order Of the United Mschanics vi,
celebrate Washington's birthday, in New Yorl
CITY, by grand banquet, ban, etc.. at which
delegates from all over tho states will be pres.
ent.
A FIRE 1T New York, Saturday afternoon. in
Book 4 schneider's Unsatisfactory, damaged
property to the amount Of 42O, 600.
ENGLISH 4 Co.'S oil cloth factory NJ Gam.
den, New Jersey, was burned Friday night
Loss S2O, O0e. >'
HE report Of several deaths in Nevada from
the bursting ofs dam il .eontradicted bv the
superintendent Of the North Bloomfield
Mine. Extensive damage was done to thu
nuns u along the rivers in Nevada. Portions Of
Layton add Empire City are flooded,
AN explosion Of fireworks in Macon, Ga.
on Christmas day, occasioned the destruction
OF four business houses. Loss csc, 900.
The Christmas carnival at New Orleans re-
suited as follows John Hampton, first off,
Ger Of the ship Success, was accidentallv
drowned; Mrs. Waldron accidentally canchi
ire and was burned to death; A. Bush WAS
shot dead by Joel Cannon; two persons were
dangerously shot and two dangerously stabbed
o! an assault; five were accidentally shot, and
nine boys were severely injured by q gun
powder explosion, two dangerously. The DO
nee made l92 arrests for all mannerof offencea.
Orunkenness predominated over. all.
w Sunday afternoon, Bill Woods and an.
other negro approached the commissary build.
ing of the contractors Of the Memphis and
Salem Railroad, five miles east Of Mamnh;s.
They were ordered away by man named Rev.
nol<ls, in charge Of the building, who threat
, ened to shoot them il they approached. Not
ih '.,;1d;g me warning, they started for the
killing them instantly. He then fied. - '''
The Hunton House, = ~, H., was
burned Saturday n1ornius ed that
some persons persisted ir mon.
those Injured by junra ,l.ildinS
are Carl G. Meter, cle,.. "a Cc,1;sSt
OF Common Pleas, who, in falling from the
third story on his head and shouldera 10 on
badly hurt that his life is 6espaired Of: 7. f.
Scott, Of Campton, ankle disfocated; Warren
Aah!ey, OF Plato, leg broken, and MIR. Foote,
both ankles dislocated. Loss on buildinv .nd
furniture $4,000. 'N
NEAR Seneca, Neosho county. Mo.. l.s
week, Louis Swimmes and another desperate
known of Texas Joe," alias "BucLskin. y
assaulted a German named Henry Solomon
with clubs. and left him for dead. after rob
bling him of twenty-five dollars and = watch
Solomon recovered sufficiently TO crawl haci
to town, and reported the affair. The desnsr.
a. aooes we're subsequently captured and hung
to tree. Before the execution. Buckskin co1.
tessed to having murdered eleven mem durino
tue past year, tho total booty obtained heinz
only ninety dollars. "'s
DISPATCHES from st. Louis, Louisville, In
hanaEolis, Lafayette Toledo, Buffalo Ind
Springfield, ILL.,, announce much damaee n
buildings and other property BY the high wind
OF Saturday. Seven hundred feet Of the tres
t'e-work OF the railway bridge across the Ohio.
1 T,sa New Albany, were blown down
Two men IN buggy On the road, were in the
mon were lifted up and carried FORTY fee{ ana ana
escaped unllurt. At Lafayette large number
OF buildings were unroofed. including the Sec
onu National Bank, the Postofice and tele-
graph Office buildings. Several persons were
injured At Toledo, the spire Of the Frat
and partially crushing an adjoining b1ild!ne
AT Springfield, ILL.,, the wind blew down the
Immense skating rink, the new rolling mill o1
the sringtield Iron Co., and entirely destroy;na
the ronnd-honse of the Gilman, Clifton and
Springfield railroad, beside doing other dam
age. LOSS $50 900.
A NOTICE is issued from the American Leoa-
ton IN London, to the effect that it is desir-
able that all citizens Of the United States in
tending totravei upon the continent should
provide themselves with passports.
The smallpox prevails to An ALARMING exte,
Ill Birminston. Special hospitals are to h.
established, the rick are to be quarant.ned
and other precautionary measures taken h,
re authorities to prevent the further spreai
OF the disease. op.0"'
The recent dispatch from Bismarck to Baror
Won Arn'm excites the French to renewed Bit
t2rness against Germany. The tone Of III.
Journals generally is well expressed bv the
'''.o"ln% extract from one Of them which
st:s; Inc silence OF the vanuuishei 10 mi,
~ reI'y TO the insults Of tho victor. A rive'
ana to watt W suuel
LIE Germans have seized prominent citi.
zen OF the town Of Revin, in the depa rtnoen
OF the Ardennes, because of the tronh,e h.
tween the Bavarian troops quartered t,,oro 49,
the French people. |.'>
1T ~ announced that the Germans are mn.
ing census OF the private fortunes Of III.
We Wealtlier citizens u the invaded depart
Welts. t"' y
AN lmperla! decree lxes the conservation IN
the Russian army for the year 1872 at six mer
in every one Thousand.
CARDINAL AMATAL DE FIIIppo Sosso, Bisho,
OF Palestine and Vice Chancellor of the Hol,
homan Church, is dead. He was elevated t.
the rank Of Cardinal in 1887, and died at the
age Of ~.