Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-12-12
His thigh was broken, and he sustained other

Hls thigh was broken, and llo sustained Other
injuries Of fatal character.
FIRE at st. Johns, Mich, destroyed tn,
| establishment Of W. V. Brown 4 Co., Mis-,
Darling, Jacob Brown, Hcadlcy 4 Porter, Lant
i Watkins, and one or two others. The tota
loss is sl4, 900; insured for IS 600.
FIRE broke out in Lonis Rutfre's bakery
Cincinnati, one night last week, and James
Crowley and his son jumped from q third
story window to escape the flames. Tho eide,
Crowley struck on his head AMI received in.
jur'cs which will probably prove fatal. The
wife and thrco children Of the younger Crow.
ley were rescued by tiremcn from tho third
story. though in m inscnsible condition. The
children were restored to consciousness. The
mother, however, is in q critical condition.
Lou1svlILE has voted 81, 1,Qoo,0 600 aid to the
Elizabethtown and Paducah Railroad.
The Union Bank, of Marietta, Ohio. has re-
sumed payment.
THERE ~were =afty.&hree deaths from small
p0x in Boston last week.
WooDHULL's AND CLAFL1N's bail has been re-
duced to 81 500 each, and they are At liberty.
TIE Chesapeake and Ohio Car al, and the
AOsOAss0c 31ScJS UH0 1EOZe0 over,
TIE death Of Horace Greeley is universally
no'rned throughout the country:
A GALE at Baltimore, on Monday night, un-
rooied sixteen out of twenty houses.
MERRlNoN, Republican, has been elected
Unittd states Senator from North Carolina.
The police Of Chicago, on Saturday evening,
ra'ded twenty gambling houses and arrested
ono hundred inmates.
The Republican branch Of the divided Ala
bama Legislature have chosen Spencer United
States Senator.
HENRY SMlTH and George Drew were crushed
TO death by falling rock at Johnston, r. l..
on Monday.
FRANK ANDERSON fell through the Rock Is-
land Railroad bridge at Davenport, on Satur-
day night, and was killed.
The charred bones Of another human be-
ing have been recovered from the ruins of the
Boston fire.
JULIA SNEAD was burned to death in Cleye-
land one day last week, while lighting fire in
agasoline stove.
FIRE At Gretna, La., destroyed r. Gardier,s
brick kiln, including sheds, machinery and
quarters. Loss $20, 0,oO0.
President GRANTS position in regard to af.
fairs in Utah is the source of much tribul..
tion to the Mormons.
KERs1ER, half-breed sionx, is to be hanged
At Cheyenne, Jan. 2, for murder.
1NcEND1AR1sn is rife in Brooklyn, and re-
ward OF $500 is offered for the arrest Of INV of
the guilty parties.
AT Corsicania, Texas, ON Thursday eve.
ming, E. Bennett, citizen of some promi-
neuce, was fatally shot by Policeman Wa]luce.
The murderer was killed next morning while
attempting to escape his guard.
A VIOLENT storm swept over Naples on
Wednesday, doing much damage to the shin.
ping in the harbor.
RoNAYEs, Nationalist, has been elected
Member of Parliament for Cork.
The ship Teutonia was abandoned bv her
crew while on the voyage from Quebec to
Bristol. Eight persons we're washed off the
sessel and drowned.
DEPUTA1IoN Of Americans had an audience
with the Pope on Thursday, and presented an
address expressing the devotion Of American
Catholics to the Holy See. The Pope made =
feeling response, and concluded by giving hin
blessing to the Catholic Of America.
The treub]esome bands Of Carlists in Sna;n
are beginning to disperse.
A CASE was before Justice Me)ick. OF Detro;&
on Wcdne sflay, between Daniel Bassett. thu
richest farmer in Oakland county, and the
Birmingham Plank-road Company, the latter
suing the former for one cent, which Basset
refused to pay at the Company's toll-xate
where twenty-five ceuts were demanded. and
Bassett would pay: only twcntx-four. -Four
lawyers were engaged. The jurygave verdict
for the defendant, and the case was appealed
to the Wayne Circuit.
The President on Thursday sent to the Sen.
ate large number Of nominations of various
civil and military officers appointed during
the recess, OF which tho following are the
most important: y. F. Philips, Solicitor
General, uise Barstow; G. W. Fairman, POST
master at Philadelphia, uice Bingham; Lucien
Hawley, Supervisor OF Internal Revenue at
New York; BriRadier General Irwin Mcdowell.
to be Major General; Knowles, Justice of the
Supreme Court Of Montana Territory United
States District Attorneys: N. Tauster, for the
Western District OF Indiana; VIM. Pound, d.
kota Territory; United states Marshal. J. H
Burdick, Dakota Territory.