Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-03-28

Thursday, which destroyed Wells. Fargo
Co.'S express office. Loss 100000.
The steamer Charmer struck rock while
descending tho falls At Louisville, on Thurs
day, and sunk The boat was valued 1T SlO,-
600.
TnE Touring mill Of Zesighouse l. Brother,
corner Of North Second and Jefferson streets,
was burned on Sunday morning. Loss e6O,-
600. ..>
IRA A. PAINE, Of New York, on Tuesday beat
Richard Woods, Of Chester, Pa, in pigeon-
shooting match, Paine killing 49, and Woods
SO, out Of 50.
The harnoss and saddle manufactory of F..
P. Mover h Bros, 72O Market street. philadel
phia, was burned OH Saturday night. Loss
ss5,OOO.
THE Methodist Episcopal Church at New
York Mills was destroyed by fire on Saturday.
Loss $50, ,oOO-insured for $4,000. The fire
was caused by defective flue.
HARTFORD, Conn.,, has voted to purchase
the Trinity College grounds for the extension
OF tho park and site for new State House.
The price to be paid therefor is 100000.
THERE were about II 600 bushels Of wheat,
$4,000 bushels of corn, and 10000 bushels of
oats destroyed by ire in the Ohio elevatar at
Buffalo.
BURGLARS entered the warehouse Of c.,
Moorman, in Shelbyville. Tenn, killing clerk
named Michael Murphy, blow open and robbed
safe OF $500, and then burned the building.
10y named Rowe, nine years old, got On
behind an omnibus in Covington, Ky. The
driver drove him OF, and the lad fell down
and bagSage-wagon ran over him and killed
him.
IT is stated that fully el2,OO0, 900 Of Erie
STOCK are now under control Of Jay Gould.
half OF it his private property. 1t is rumored
that he retired from tue board merely to en-
able him to renew the fight.
THE New York Post calls on Connecticut to
strike death blow to tho Democratic party
before tho national canvass begins, on the
ground that in Connecticut the Democracy
have adopted tho same old platform.
The typhus and typhoid fevers are prevalent
IN the House Of the Good Shepherd, Brook
iyn. There are forty-two cases now there.
including four of the Sisters OF Mercy. while
another of the latter has died.
Boston had . snow-storm on rrid.v ,..t
III which about half the fakes consisted Of
greenish- brown worms, an inch long. Thew
crawled away ID q lively manner A soon A
they struck the ground The same phenoms
enoh was witnessed at Somerville. Mass.
The subscription books for a monument to
Gen. Thomas will be opened the 1st Of Nav.
1t is proposed to raise 800, ,O00 or s5, 900 from
each OF the twenty states. The monumant
VIII be at Washington, West Point. or in New
York Central Park. '~"
The aggregate issues of the Chicago relief
and aid societies to March I'd were i. .460 117
articles or yards Of goods. Among thess ara
over 2l.OOO mattresses, over GO. 600 blankets
200 pairs Of shoes, 1000 articles of cloth'
ing, lo:ooo oedsteads, II, 600 stoves and 80, 600
tons of coal. '~~0
LAWRENCE GIBBONS, shot on the steamer
Aons Two months ago by Thomas Worthine.
died on Saturday At the Marine Hospital in
Louisville. He had not lain down since the
array. The only sleep he has had since he
was shot, was by laying his head on a table
while sitting in chair.
NEW review Of the candidates for Mayor of
New York, gives the name of COMPTROLLER
Green, ex-Sherif John Kell, Senator O'Brien.
W. Il. WicSbam, and F. Havemeyer. Chairman
of the Committee of Seventy. The Germans
name Ottendorfer, Whit bars. Augustus Schell.
and Emil Sauer. Banker Kelly. Is still Tam,
many's favorite, aud Wickham, Of Apollo Hall.
1T was rumored in Washington, on Mon
day evening, that Chief Justice Chase
intends to 60 to New York for the
purpose of urging August Belmont and other
prominent Democrats uf that locality to hold
straight out party Convention. notwith-
standlng the Cincinnati movement. Chase ia
said to regard Judge Davis prospect for the
democratic nomination with much jealousy,
InE workmen in the mines of the Roth
sohilds at Wittnowitz, in Moravia, enrsged at
the non'payment of their wages, attacked tho
ONCE OF the Superintendent. Gaining an en-
trance. they burst open the safe and appropri-
s: stea the contents They then demolished the
Suname: Seaa Inc soldiers were called out. and
nred on the rioters. Four were killed. ffty
wounded. and one hundred arrested. Order
has been restored.
dEN. hosENcRANz, Gen. Palmer and wife.
Leon P. Acosta, and Richard York, civil eaein-
Ger. sailed by the Panama steamer from
New York. for Mexico, on Monday morning.
They will land at Manzanil]o. and follow tha
route Of the Seward party across the conti-
nent, making preliminary railroad survey.
They expect to commence active operations for
the construction of the Luxpan Railroad and
connections immediately.
EDWARD Cook, q young married man, living
in the vicinity Of Charlestown Landing, Ind.
was found dead IN skir floating down the
river on Saturday afternoon, half mile balow
the landing: He had gone out to hunt ducks
VIII VI "A double-Darreled shot,g Que barrel
1l1a OF the gun wa was discharged and the hammer
self accidentally.
A FATAL shooting ARRAY occurred on the
morning of the 18th inst. 1t the rancho of
Mayor Crane, near Clrmou City, Co.,, be-
tween Jack E. Tindall and Adam Hanna. Thev
were at the breakfast table, when . dispute
arose about the size of tho potatoes in dish
before them. The lie was given TindalI
seized a butcher knife and attacked Hanna.
Hanna picked NJ. = pistol and shot his assailant
Hanna was arrested.
4 LITTLE girl, named Morrison, went into
her fathers barn At Chester, n. Y, to hunt for
hens eggs. rough board partition separat-
ed the haymow from the other part Of the
barn: She stepped ON tho end of . board
through hole in the partition to look into q
nest. The board tipped and fell to the fioor
below, leaving the girl hanging by her neck
from the opening in the partition. She was
strangled to death
HARDLY = more pitiable sight could be imag-
med than that presented in the Essex Market
police court, New York, on Friday. An honest
shoemaker named John Christ, with his wife
and ei hit little children, had been SLOWLY
starving to death in their wretched apart
ments, in consequence Of his being unable to
procure work for the past six weeks. In shee,
desperation, the man stole . shawl and silk
sacque from nelghboring house, was detected
anu brought into court as above indlcated. Ha
was eld lor trial, but was bai]ed bv friend
ana Ie1t the court room With bis staryeinys All
clinglng to him, moaning most piteously from
sheer hunger. 1'o''
Abroad.
The first steamer Of the new French line ta
tweenValparaiso and Panama has arrived n
the Pacific.
IT is rumored that General Bourbaki ba,
sent challenge to Marshal Baraguoy de
Hilliers.
FRINGE NAPOLEON, who is now in Rome. has
had an interview with His Majesty King victo,
SEVEN persons were drowned by the upset.
ting OF a boat Of the British steamer Bapot.
at Eten, on Feb. 13.
The several parts Of the monument to he
erected to Gen. Rodman, of Rock Island. have
arrived at that place.
IHE bark Delta picked up at sea seventy.
three persons, who escaped in boats from the
burning French bark Oriental.
PENSION Of 81 600 has been granted h
Lady Mayo, and eco, 900 has been settled on
her children by the British povernment