Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-11-07


tinted somo timo ago by tho Government
against tho New York Central and Hudson
River Railroad, in tho Northern District o.
New York. for tho recovery Of 81, 500, 900 un
paid taxes on script, has been discontinued.
CnARLEs O'LEARY foil down tho shaft of the
new lake tunnel at tho water works in Chi:
cago, on Wednesday, = distance OF seventy
feet, and WAS instantly killed.
In the Criminal Court st Chicago ON We'd
ncsday. Thomas Hurley was convicted q
shooting John Fiannigan alias John Paterson
ast September, and sentenced to seventeen
years Imprisonment at. Joliet. The accused il
about twenty years Of age,
The Western Union Telegraph Company
has just completed now limo along tho At.
Gibson and Missouri Railroad, from Atchison
to Lincoln, the capital of Nebraska.
COLLISION occurred Oh Thursday evening
between coal and passenger train, near
Jamesburg. New Jersey. Jacob Tndall, en-.
gincer OF the coal train. was instantly killed.
Both firemen were seriously injured. Tho en-.
Gineer Of the passenger train had his arm and
leg broken. No passengers wero injured. The
boiler Of tho coal train engine exploded.
The Vermont Legislature made the follow
ing election of state oaacers: Secretary oil
State. George Nichols Auditor. ". G.. Ferrin ;
ouartermaster General. W. W. Lyme Adju-
tant and Inspector General, James 8. Peck
Judge Advocate General, 8. II. Southard Di-
rcctors OF State Prison, J. W. Hartshorn and
W. Il. Speed !; Railroad Commissioner, N. b.
Bailey.
WV. b. klrCHERsON laid in wait in . fence
corner, near Xenia, Ohio, and shot Vim. Fog
we'll with double barrcled shot gun, as be
was passing along the road, wounding him NC
that he viii certainly do. Both %wer6 young
neighboring farmers. ST. -
An old man named Ewing, school master, In
Floyd county, Indiana, near New Albany, fed
tho ncishborhood, Friday, to avoid being
lynched by the Indignant parents OF 4 little
girl he had taken foul liberties with and At.
tempted rape.
CHARoEs of malfeasance in Office arc pre-.
fcrred in the city council OF Louisville, against
CAPTAIN G. Levi, chief Of tho fire department,
1t is alleged he collected pay for men not en-
ploycd on the force, and retained part of the
salaries Of others.
1ris reported that Steve Moore and Lucius
Morgan were killed Tuesday at Aberdeen,
Miss, by Capt. Bill Forrest, Henry Cozart and
another man. Reports are conflicting as to
tho origin ofthe difficulty. Forrest escaped.
The Others we're captured.
BURGLARS took &4OO in money and watches
from the Osgood House, Colan,a, Mich., on
Monday night. d.
THE American side Of the Detroit River
drainage tunnel was completed on Thursday,
400 feet on the Canada side remaining to be
done.
The President has appointed Benjamin
Thomas, OF Indiana, agent Of Indians in New
Mexico.
The Secretary OF the Treasury authorized
the redemption OF ono million two hundred
and fifty thousand three per cents ~ follows !:
Five thousand each, number 4,792 to SLIT in
elusive, and in ton thousand from number A.
776 to 4SO0 inclusive, dated October 18th,
1858, and November 7th, 1863. Interest will
cease December 31st, 1872.
GusrAvE g. KINDT, alias Marshall, an es-
capped Sing Sing convict was arrested in
Hackensack, N. Y, Thursday, for tho recent
robbery of tie Hackensack Jewelry Manuiac-
tory, stealing 5000 worth OF jcwelry.
The case OF Congressman Baltic Payton, of
Gal'atin, Tenn, . distinguished member Of
Congress during Jsckson's administration,
was before the Claims Committee on Saturday.
TnE President Of the Pacific Mail Company
has announced that the company has sold ~, :
900 reserved shares at par, and thus increased
the company's capital to about so, ,o25,0o0.
The House of Bishops OF tho Episcopal
Church elect this week Bishop for Nebraska.
Tho jurisdiction includes tho territories ii
Dakota. Montana. etc.
LOUIS koRAERK1, tho well-known proprietor
OF kormerky's gymnasium OF Chicago, shot
and killed himself on Sunday.
GROUND is broken on the Brigham Union
Narrow-gaugo Railroad, At Salt Lake CITY. to
be finished in ninety days.
GENERAL HOWARD, arrived from Arizona.
says he acts strictly in accord with tho in
structions from General Crook, and endorses
his policy and plans Of . vigorous war against
the hostile Indians. He never gavo Crook
orders to suspend hostiltios while he was in
power.
THE election Of Gen. Maxwell to Congress
from Utah is to be contested.
The race between Occitlcnt and Lucy. at San
Francisco, has been postponed to November
18th.
DISPATCH from E'ko, California, says the
esstern-bound freight train was badly wrecked
Saturday morning.
La GRAVE, who some time since cxtens;vclv
swlndled prominent merchants in New York.
was taken in custody on Saturday, on his ar
rival from France, where he was arrested
The amount Of his swindling is said to reach
near million. He has been jailed In default
Of bail, which il fixed ut $4,000.
TIE French papers foreshadow the adoption
at the coming scssion Of the National Assem-
bly, Of constitutional amendments making
Theirs President for life, creating an Upper
Chamber and the Office of Vice. President, par
ticularly remodeling the Assembly, and pro-
vidiDg restrictions upon tho right Of universal
suffrage.
SjB SAMUEL MARTIN PUIsNE, Baron Of the
Court Of Excheauer, will probably succeed
Lord Penseanco rs Judge OF the Court Of Pro-
bate and Divorce.
The Emperor Of Germany has conferred on
MIR. hcpworth Dixon the decoration Of Knight
Of the Golden Cross.
PRIVATE company propose to construct and
maintain telegraph lines throughout Spain.
The waters Of tho river Rhine are rising.
The dykes above the town OF Aries arc broken
in many places, and the extensive plains OF
Camarguc are inundated.
BANQUET was given by French conserya-
tivcs at Bordeaux Thursday. They declared
in favor Of q monarchy, and hoped soon to be
permitted to offer toasts to tho King and
Queen.
rHE trial OF impeachment OF members of the
Sagosta Ministry promises some curious dis
closures. Scnor Sagosta has announced bia
mention Of defending himself at tho trial.
LIEUT.. MoonE and gunner Mal,oney, OF the
British sloop Sllcarwater, recently SWAN
across the III llcspont. from Abydos to Scstos
COUNT DE GUYDoN, Governor General Of AL.
H'ria, in report to the President, statos that
the number OF immigrants to the colony, dur.
i"S the last three months was live thousand
and OF these fifteen hundred were from A,sacf
and Lorraine.
The 20 continues t" rise. and the inuntIa
ton il spreading. Families arc tiyiny, Thos,
who cannot escape are starving ON house top
and in trees, where they have taken refuge
The streams are filled with carcasses Of ca tile
and wrccki; Of hoascs and barns. The tow
of Reggie, fourteen miles from Matliua, la
almost entirely disappeared beneath the food