Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-12-05
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5i2, and tho number Of deaths was Ill.
Ar Chicago, Oh Wednesday, the jury in the
great South Park land case OF tho South Park
Commissioners against Mrs. Amanda 8. Cook,
brought in their verdict, awarding the defend
au. s14s, ,4l6.G6, Al tho value OF her land on
tao Goth of April, 1870, with six per cent. inter
est on that amount to the present time,
amounting S2s, l5s, making total of s171 $685..
G6. Tho jury also declared that out of the
above sum there should be paid suntry per.
sons holding claims against the property the
tot Il sam et .s4 ,oO2.77, hAytng i 6ala,2e ol
sll7,566. soto Nss. Cook,s credit. s42 . 4
sMAI1.-pox b' oko out on tho bark Columbia
en- route from Bremen to New York with 31(
on''grant passengers. She arrived in New
! York with,twenty-two cases and reported i've
deaths.
Ar an carly hour Thursday mornlng con.
Hasration liz Now York destroyed buildings in
'1the rear of Nos. ia, TIA, 7ls, 72o and ~
Roadway. Also Lima Edwards theatre, oc.
cupicd by Nhy / Leon's Minstrels, the Ariou
Music Hill, and an old mansion with heavy
co!lona,e. The total loss exceeds @lO0, 1000.
lSn,ANol4A and Wintcrsett, Iowa. were put
in tclegraphic communication with DeshIoin.s
OH Wednesday.
A coloEeD man named Lucas shot white
man at st. Petersburg, Pa, on "Wednesday,
three times, killing him instantly. Lucas, e..
caped. ~E.s.
ANTHONY 1RoL1oPE sailed for Europe on
Wednesday,. ~ 10 -
COLLINS, the deiaultiug Washington Pen.
sion Agent, and late editor Of tho Grand Army
. O: tho Republc:newspaper, has left the coun.
try. ...n....
The New York Times denounces Mr.. Crcs.
Wells projects for setting up the Post Office in
the business Of telegraphing, and hints that
he does not DOW manage tho Post Office
itself
JoHS ARMSTRONG, night watchman of the
Michigan Ccatral Railroad Mt Detroit, was
killed by a runaway team on Wednesday even.
ing.
THREE laborcrs, named Edward Foley. Nix.
on Ralph and Patrick Conway, we're instantly
Killed Wednesday afternoon BY the premature
explosion OF blast at Ono Hundred and For.
S-seScnth street, near Seventh Avenue, New
York. Police officer John Armstrong, and q
lsoorcr named Michael Buckley were seriously
wounded. :. = : : e >
GEO. Il. LEWIS, not Lewis, as previously
mentioned, who was reported missing in Now
loi.6 city is said to be an embczzler. and
gone to Europe.
The suit in the United States Circuit Court,
brought by the Wisconsin Fire b Marine In
surar1ce' Company, to recover from David
Dows and others, of New York, advances m ade
by the Company on 26,0GQ bushels Of wheat s
the advances hdvingb been. transferred to 8.
Smith Co., who transferred the wheat to the
defendants and failed. to pay the advances
made upon it BY the defendants, has been set.
ticd, the jury awarding the plaintiffs SO, ,27s
PE1L.s Block, in rLondopville, Ohio, was
burned Oh Tuesday Less $500.
;, The furniture manufactory of John Clark,
North oambl lidgc, was dest' Dyed by fire Wed.
ncsday evening. Loss $4,000.
GRAVEL train, running between Waterloo
and Franklin, on theLskeS SHORE and Michigan
Southern Railroad, ran over and Instantly
Killed A. j. Cronk, near the former place.
Hoes and chickens are dying Of the episo:
otie in. Hamilton county, o.,io. ss1one man re-
potts a loss y fifty boss from disease. which
he attribqte.t TO their roofing. about stables
containing sick horses.
ASeas' bound express train ran into Sec
ton OF freight at Coshocton, Ohio. Jacob
.Gates' ID engineer or the express. one OF the
- ehlest engineers on the road, was instantly
Killed. The express messenger, George Pen.
n'nston was slightly injured.
SENATOR SUMNER met Senator Wilson at the
New York Tribune oficeon Wednesday. The
meeting Is said to have been very cordial.
~ the fall of scaRold a. the new building
Oh the corner of Monroe and Franklin streets,
Chicago, on Wednesday, six men were precipi.
tated o distance Of fifty teet to the stone pave.
ment below. William Double and William
White struck upon their heads and were killed
instantly. The others, singularly enough
were uninjured. = -.
A FIRE in Allegheny City, Pa, on Saturda,
night, destroyed Croft l. Criley's photograph
gallery, James O'Hanlon's grocery and liquo,
store, G. W. Hubt'cy's tin store, and three
buildings. Loss 81, 900.
OS Friday evening the BurlicE House. the
Buffalo House and the Eagle hotel, At Titus
vile, Pa, We're destroyed by fire. Loss abou,
$4,000.
ANETEoR1C shower WIS observed at Green
castle, Ind, Tuesday night PROT. Tirgley, O.
Asfbu'y University ,teesraphed that he count
ed 11o meteors IN forty minutes.
Two HuSnEpIA IAEp r1FTY g shooting stars
were seen OH Sunday night by Prot. Newton o.
Yale College They radiated from Gamn,,
-Antlrpmedas. :. = J
lNDiASoLA and Wiutcrsct, Iowa, werc put j,
Geographic communication with Des Moines
on Weanesdav.-,-
WOMAN named Baldwin. residing near St
Petersburg, Pa, accidentally took dose o
arsenic instead Of morphine, which provet
fatal.
Two TRAINS had a slight collision in tn,
= Michigan Central yards, at Jackson, Michigan
on Wednesday, SO injuring J. A Griffith,
swltcllman, that he died in torty-five minute
thereafter.
y NATIONAL convention OF breeders Of short
horn cattle met in Indianapolis on Wednes
day.
IL Is confidently believed in financial circle
that Vim. P. Cutler, of Marietta, Ohio, vii
make such an adjustment in his financial mai
ters as will enable him to resume at an earl
season. 1t is also stated that work will pro
coed on the railroad in Missouri with which h
is connected. -. d:
TIE fourth Triennial Synod of the Gcrma
hcfol med Church of the y ,ited States met il
Cincinnati on Wednesday evening. Tw
hundred delegates were IN attendance.
The steamer Bay Queen ran into tho re ve
nuo cutter Moccasin At Newport, hst .turd.
evening", causing considerable damage to bot
= vessels. $3.50
The body OF the late Col. o. NJ. Loomis, I
the famous Loomis battery, was burned up i
the recent fire in the express car on the Cel
trail road: The few remains will he inferred
Detroit oh Sunday:
F4AxkzB<Ks1ss1L:.,a carpenter ~ rad
aged 49, and a married man with famil
committed suicide by taking poison at MAJ
chester, N. H., Saturday morning, il roo
occupied by young woman. He had force
the door open, the woman taking refuge in Al
other room. Ho left = note indicating tn
disappointed love was the cause OF the act
INFORMATION has been received at tho inter
Or Department that nearly, all the Sioux ha,
lett Rcd Clouds agency near Fort Larami
OF" p!rty OF warriors. fully equipped, havin
started for the Pawnee reservation to ste
Horses.
The State Temperance organization OF Nc
York has decided to present local prohibitit
. and thcr temperance measures TO the ne
legislature.
"A Tr1FGRAM from San Francisco states tn
". r. Baboock, Albert Gonzcl and Louis Gla
have been appointed Committee OF Inuui