Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-12-19

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Lincoln.
stranger in tn,
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snap ofLogan coun.
pArE1& NASn's sAsn ...>. u.,nu ssAcsory,
Tray, n. T., was 's,rs.s sund.y norni:ijx
Loss $40, ,ooo- insured $l9ooo.~ Fifty employees
lose situations and their tools.
The brush factory Il AZ Lansingburs N.
" Manufacturing Company, with al its con-
teats. *asdeat.pyed by: an incendiary fire sun
day morning. About two hundred men, wo-
men aud children ,are thrown out Of employ-
mont, snd the lose j. s1ariously estiuated At
$40, 900 to So, 900. - ~ i.
THlRrzxx houssA were AestroyeAby fire at
St. Mary's, Kansas, last Saturday. Loss
heavy.
An eight-yesr-old girl Of Nh. Copley gas
burned to desth in Chicago, a.tsw days since.
A DEsPERADo in Chattanooga, Tenn, on
Saturday, knocked down. Mr.. Colwell, mer-
chant, and sitting upon bis body, stabbed him
terribly with bowie knife, killing him. Then,
when his arfest was attempted. lie shot and
killed two policemen, aud wounded third. af.
forwards escaping across the river in canoe.
The war vessels Guerrero and Albany were
sold At auction At the Brooklyn navy yard on
Thursday-the former bringing -, 900 and
the latter *ls.0Oo.
FoUH HUNDRED AND TuIRTy italian immi.
grants, most OF them from the lower classes
in Southern Italy, landed 1t Castle Garden on
Thursday. They state that nearly one thou.
sand OF their countrymen are awaiting trans
portation to this country. They have but lit
tie money or baggage.
The following are among the combinations
BY the Senate on Thursday: J. L. Orr, Of
south Cirolins, Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary to Russia julius
White, OF Illinois, Minister: Resident to the
Argentie Republic; Lucien Hawley, Super.
visor Of Internal Revenue, uice Silas B. Dutch
81, resigned Alexander D. Dutton, Supervisor
OF Internal Revenue, appointed during the
recess ofCongress; Alex. Knowles, Associate
Justice Of the Supreme Court in Montana
Territory Nelson Rustler, United States At.
torney for Indiana.
A TlRs at Galvs, ILL.,, on Thursday destroyed
one Of the largest business houses lett by the
recent conhagration. Two Swedes are under
arrest ON SUSPICION Of having caused the fire.
CAPTAIN A. H. BosARDus. the celebrated
crack shot, met with 4 serious accident near
Elkhart, Indiana, on Monday. He was riding
in wagon, when sudden jolt discharged his
gun, sending its contents through his thigh.
making hole nix inches in length by one and
hat inches wide and deep. The wound.
though serious aud painful, Is not necessarily
fatal.
rHE bridge On the Congsree River, DESTROYED
during the evacuation OF Columbia, 8. c., in
1866, was reopened Saturday.
GEORGE G. Watkins, Of Little Rock. Ark.
died in st. Louis, Saturday. He was for manv
years Chief Justice and Attorney General Of
Arkansas. ~
FRED. 8. WnsLow, the DEF. .ultine Pre.ident
Of the Scandinavian National, Bank Of Chicago.
10 In China.
FRED PUo0ENscHE fell into vat Of boiling
slops ut Dickinson, Leach& Co.'S distilleryin
Chicago, and was literally boiled to death.
MAR1HA SMITH, alias Maui Merrill, pros-
tltute, was shot In New York on Tuesday even
ing. The person who committed tho murder
said, in passing out Of the house where she
stopped, that he had shot his niece, and would
give himself up, but did not do 80, and kad
not been arrested.
IHsEE men were precipitated to the ground.
= distance Of forty feet, ia Chicago, on We'd.
nesday, BY the fall Of scaffold At the new
Turner Hall, on North Clark street. Ono man
received fatal injuries.
GIN. VAN BuREs, United States Commis.
sioner to Vienna Exposition, and Clayton Nc
Michael, Of Phihdelphis, assistant Commits
sionesr, we're before the Bouss COMMITTEES on
Foreign Affairs on Wednesday. to urge the
proPrlcty q an immediate and liberal Sppso-
pristion by Cs.gressto seisfe. rop,f repss-''
sentation Of United States products at Vienna.
Secretary Robeson was present at the meeting:
and stated that the Navy Department vas
ready to send two vessels to transport the
goods as recommended in the message Of the
President: An appropriation will be RECON-
Ar billiard tournament in Boston. We'd
nesday evening, an exhibition game Of 100
points was played between Mss Bessipgoer and.
M. Tobin. The lady played with much SKIN.
and won TIE game BY; 81 points. =, :
D1sxlj ana Mot and ,,sertally wounded
James Laugblin At Louisville, late Monday
night, in . saloon hrawl.> :. E
The name Of the man found dead At Union
City, Ind, on Monday, was q. p Raining. The
Corohsr's verdict was that he was murdered
ard carried out to the woods. The doctors
say be msbeen dead two weeks.
Rf1uRka from Gdhoolcraft county. Miehipap.
complete the vote Of the state. The whole
number OF votes is 227, ,s79-Orant has 138, 81 {:
Greeley, 1860 others, Ais. The majority
for Grant is 60,161. Grants vote exceeds his
vote IN 1858 by 19,261 Greeley's, 1s,41s less
Seymour's.- The whole vote Of the state is
1910 less than in 1868.
A YOUNG German named Heinrich Mohr
was accidentally shot and killed by pistol in
the hands Of . companion named Henry
Smith, 1t Chicago, on Honday.
COMPTROLLER GREEN, OF New York city,
having refused to pay Court Justice Quin
$4,000 salary, allowing the legal salary to be
$1,000, suit was brought by Justice Quin.
Judge FaDcher, OF the Superior Court, decid-
ed in favor cf-the plaintiff that the salary was
legally raised from 5000 to $4,000 BY the
Mayor and Municipal Council.
EnBIN PORTER, living near Columbiana,
Ohio, murdered his two children, aged one
and two years, with hatchct, ON Thursday.
The steamship st. Louis sprung leak and
sunk. on Sunday last, 40 miles from South
west Ear, Florida. The passengers and crew
we're rcscued.
QUARREL among the convicts in the Ohe
penitentary resulted in a serious disturbance,
which was not quelled till one of them wa,
shot twice.
DAVID G. CloLr has rerigned the position
OF managing editor Of the New York World
and it il reported is succeeded by Jerome B
Stillson.
One Howard Tilden is under arrest at Jack
sonville. ILL.,, for dealing 10 bogus paten
rights. He succeeded in taking in four mopict
men of that place, but failed to get away wltl
the spois.
AWAsB1N oToN disratch states that the Al
torney General has notified Lieut.. Governor
Pinchbeck that the President recognizes hin
as the lawful executive OF Louisiana, and thu
body assembled at the Mechanics Institute al
the lawful Legislature Of that State.
WIN. A. LAU VALE, Cuban, and ono Of thu
directors OF tho Montreal branch Of tho British
North American Bank, has been arrested il
New York, charged with fel"niously approprl
sting the funds OF the bank to the amount O
100000.
The murderer Of the fallen girl, Maud Mil
lov, IN New York, has given himself up. II,