Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-02-01
THE NEW 8.
Mleoellaneoua,

TaE Yopksss and Nsw York Insurance Com
lany has been judicially diasolved.
TIM number of Sszlan anpe1 deaths In Phila-
dolphiafor tho week ending Saturday 10 III, =
decrease Of 70 deaths and 100 cases. ,e-..
fnorEssoR Of Nusic John D. Panezmor who
was assaulted and robbed ON Myrtle avenue
car, Brooklyn, has since died.
The Ooean National Bank property was cold
at auction in New York, on Monday, for $780,.
900, and The Helmbold store, on Broadway,
or SIA8,00o. :
1r i rumored that Stokes offers privately to
bet five to one he won't be couvietsd.
GEN. OADwA11ADEaaa summer rssidence, It
Tronton, was barned Wednesday morning.
Loss $4,000; insured. -
AHEAvx snow storm on tho Plains has again
blocka:sed tho Union Pacific Railroad between
Ch.yeane aud Laramie, and also between Lar
anle and Rawlings.
THE worst snow storm OF tho season ia 10
ported in the neighborhood of Cheyenne. For
several days, it is reported, the railroad on
both sides Of that place was blocked, T''
M1cSAE1. HECK, = German, aged 4e, wa
killed Saturday evening At Germantown, n.
T., by jumping from the cara while In motion.
Ho has siateG reaidiug in Cincinnati.
Nm Old colored woman. Aunt Phillis. said to
have been spy in the Federal service among
tho Tories in revolutionary times. was burne
to death Friday night, at Bricktown, NJ.
The N. Y. Herald says the Market Savings
Bank was forced to suspend in consequence Of
tho secretary entrusting 3195, 900 in Tsnnes-
SOC bonds to Hoysers Il Sons, Broad street
brokers, for sale.
POSTMASTER JONES, Of New York, believes
%ssnral prominent and responsible persons
were involved in the defalcation Of Norton,
late head Of the Money Ozdcr Bureau. An
investigation, is going On.
AN army officer writes from tho Texas from
Hier, January 18th, that ho has just returned
from the interior OF Mexico, and found the
peap!e most unanimous for immediate annex
ntion to the United States.
ADvlcEs from Denver report . severe snow
storm and cold snap on Tussday and Wednss.
dav. At Denver, the thermometer was 10 be
low; at Central 20, the ooldest known for
years; At Colorado Springs, H.
At East Saginaw, ON Tuesday, krs. Wilz
locked three children In house and went Wis
itins. Soon after she left the house took fire,
and two cf the children were burned te aeath.
The eldest escaped BY juuaffA6 through =
In Lakeville, Msss, On Friday, Chas. A
Leach, q dentist, while laboring under de-
hrium tremens. shot Thomas Bauf, John
Copeless, Daniel Swift and H. ". Coombes.
Tho Arst two named are supposed to be
1nessslly wounded.
IN New Bedford, on Monday, seven boys
attempted to cross the Acquishult River On
tho ice. The ice broke, and two sous Of VIM.
Wilkinson, aged nine and eleven. and two sons
OF William Smith, aged ton and thirteen, were
drowned. The other boys were rescued.
An American white boy. named Watson, and
an Indian hoy, each about seventeen yeazs old,
are committed for trial for the murder Of Dick
inson; = merchant of Stringtow, CAL, and rob-
olng iis store. A younger boy Is supposed to
have been implicated.
DISASTROUS fire occurred at Littleton,
seven miles from Denver, Wednesday, burn
ing the Rough and Ready Touring mill, in