Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-04-11
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outlaws Henry Berry Lowefy ana BOSS strong
arc dead.
A FIRE at Philadelphia, Friday evening, par
TALLY destroyed the spice-mills of Wilkie 4
Smith. Loss 5s5,0O0.
Gov. PERuAx, Of Maine, has appointed
Thursday, April 18th, day of public fasting
and prayer in that state.
TuE convicted anti-C Chinese rioters at Tos
Angeles have been sentenced, two to nix years
each in the penitentiary.
TIE old City Hall building, used for a Conn.
Gil room, engine house, etc., in Ksnoshs. x.s
destroyed by fire Saturday morning.
A FIRE at Port Leydon, n. T., ON Mond.v
night, destroyed Sylvester l. Riggs block.
Loss $s6. 1000: insurance. @2l, 900.
EIGHTEEN thousand three hundred and
seven emgrants have arrived in New York this
year to date, against l ,007 last year.
A S5OO, 900 hotel, to be built near the corner
OF West Harrison and Halsted streets, is talked
soout oy the West Siders Of Chicago.
MICHAEL HAYS. charged with tho murder Of
oConnell, fifteen years ago, was committed
for trial in New York on Wednesday.
The dwelling Of A. J. Phelps, Eric Railway
agent, in Binghamptop, N. Y, was burned
Sunday morning. Loss e2O, 900; insured for
$12.5OO
The number Of cases presented to the Brit
ish and American Claims Commission is about
five hundred, only eighteen Of which arc
American.
Gen. HUMPHREY Marshall, of Kentucky. ia
dead. His body has been eu,balmed, and
Will be temporarily deposited in . vault At
Frankfort, Ky.
A YOUNG man named Frank Mullen, Law
student, resident Of GAINESVILLE, Ohio. fell
from the fourth story Of = building in Colum-
bus, Tuesday evening.
A CONSIDERABLE con1lagration occurred ut
the coal oil works of J. L. Gibson, at Gibson
fomt, near Philadelphia, Monday morning.
Loss 100000; Insurance e26, ,75O.
The Michigan Central Railway Companv han
contracted for double track between Detroit
and ipsilanti, and from Niles to Lake Station,
to he completed within sixty days.
The lottery advertised in the East for the
Dehent OF charity hospital in San Francisco
ls, says dispatch from that city, fraud.
Ihere u no such institution or lottery there.
HE senate Executive session on Mondav
confirmed the nomination OF Ex-Governor
Francis Thomas Of Maryland, - Envoy Extr,-
Ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Peru.
MA'.-GEN. JOHN NJ. OLIVER, who served
under Gen. Sherman during the war. died in
Washington Saturday morning, Of congestion
OF the lungs. He is to be buried at Penn Van
New York.
L1Eur.-Gov. PINcHBEcK, Of Louisiana. dined
wath Senator Sumner In Washipqton on
wednesday evening. The New Orleans poll
tlclans have made no progress in compromi.-
ing their differences.
JOHN ALBERT BR1aHr, son of thu distin-
e"sneo English statesman, John Bright, was
on the floor Of the House of Representatives.
and was introduced to the Speaker and m,nv
msmbers Of the House.
FORGED certificates of deposits. amounting
toSl72,o0o, purporting to be issued by George
Opdyke d Co., have been sent to New Yorl
1or payment by Iowa and Kentucky banks.
Other victims are feared.
ALEX. BEAvE1, . New York lavver. "a.
committed in default of ball in $4,000. on a
charge OF forgery. in obtaining the sienature
o1 . 'ady to . sheet Of blank paper, and filing
'ne paper 80 as to obtain her property.
CARY, NASH Il OaDEN's paper mill and Geo
y: Mons Touring mill, At Port Dickinson near
nghampton, N. Y, were burned Saturday
evening. Loss on the paper mill, e25. .00D:
INSURED Tor $1l.9 800. Loss on the 1iour min
$l6,5OO insured for 10000. ''
A HEAVY robbery is reported from New Or.
leans. The runner of the Citizens Bank. Win.
at the Canal Bank, on Monday. placed his hool
ON tne counter and turned around to answer 4
~ Saest.oa. s WMie SO engaged some one took
ms book and substituted another.
The bark Nimrod was burned OF Bermud.
last week, OF seventeen persons on board
only ten were saved. The vessel vas lo,aed
with napths and kerosene, and IN explos;on
1ITm some unknown cause took place in the
mold behind the main-hatch.
An elderly lady named Norton w,s found
dead in her room at the residence OF Col
Jack, well-known lawyer Of BROOKLYN. Tbnra.
day morning. There were some eleven na-.
sons IN the house, al Of whom were prostrsted
tro,,, o, me enects, ss Is supposed, Of coal gas
iHE artes'an well for J. v. Farwell l. Co.
store, in Chicago, is finished. Wa. was
reached at the depth Of fifteen hundred feet
ana At last accounts was flowing through the
tube at the rate of one thousand gallons per
hour. With the exception Of one hundred feat
near the surface, the we'll passes through lima
stone rock. --'-'>
The Office of the Lycoming Fire Insurance
Company at Muncey, Pa, was entered bv
burglars Tuesday night, and one Of the safes
blown open. Over thirty thousand dollars Of
straoted, ton thousand of which belonaed I -
the company and the balance to private indi-
viduals. Three suspicious characters have
been arrested In connection with the robbery.
HE Union Pacific Railroad Companv In
making a survey for . na1row-gsugs road
from Julesburg up the South Fork Of tho
Platte River to Greeley, Denver and Golden
Gity, to connect with the Colorado Centrsl
naiir0ad. which they are extending to Cantral
City. This will give the Union Psoif3c Pail
[oaa an independent line into the heart of
California. VI
a coRnEsPoNDENr Of the Chicago Times
teiegraphs: "Senator Wilson has been in CON-
ference with the opponents of Colf.x. and
hopes in few days to have several RepubI-
can papers present his name for Vice Preei-
dent. Grant, however. wants the old ticket
lenom1'ated, while the whole west, il is
cG,s,.med, VIII be either for the Iowa Wilson or
0ol1s1' ana against the New England Wilson. !"
A BAND Of robbers last week removed tho
rails on the Madrid and Andalusis RAILWAY.
between Valdepenas and Manxasares. and
stopped the mail train. They then made IN
attack on the train, which was resisted bv tho
guard. Shots were exchanged, and one of
.ne guards, an officer and passenger were
wounded: The bandits finally gained posses
sion OF the cars and took ali the monev thev
could nnd some G3, 600 sterling.
IHE Supreme Court on Monday. in tho c.sa
appealed from the United States Circuit Court
Tor Kentucky, decided that q witness has M
snch night in case to be tried under the c;v;,
right act Of April, 1866, as will give Fef,er.,
courts jurisdiction, and that onIy the Govarn-
ment and parties to record in this case are ia
be affected by the decision; therefore. sn
averment in AZ indictment that important
witnesses in the case we're colored and we're
denied the right to testify by Kentucky courts
dia not give the Circuit Court jurisdiction in
this case,
IHE Washington correspondent of tho Chi
cago Times telegraphs that ex-Congressman
Wilson, Of Iowa, is developing considerable
strength among the Republicans,n tho South.
ern states as a candidate for the Vice. Presi-
dency. All the delegations to the Philadelpbi.
convention which have been appointed bv
tnose states have expressed themselves in
lAvor ol wilson. Well-p0sted politicians there
seem &c think the contest for the Vlce-Presi-
dency at Philadelphia will be between Wilson.
vi :a :Maaassachusetts, q and Wilson, of Iowa. It IL
salu that Colfax is in earnest about retiring
from politics, and that il his name il brought
Oe1Ole the fhlladelphia convention it will be
AeEe'v ID OBTAIN complimentary vote.