Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-05-23
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OBaldwir trains at Pittsburg.
THx fax mill of Brownell Il Co., At Rochelle
Ill.,, was bufaed on Tuesday evening. Loa
$4,000. -;
XIV DR. HUSTON, tho Maryland libertin,
has sued tho Baltimore American for hbe
r',cing his damages at 100000.
SEVERAL police officers were terribly beate
',y gang Of roughs in Philadelphia on Sur
day.
The barracks Of Fort Washington, twelv
miles south of Washington, on the Potoms1
were destroyed by fire on Saturday.
The loss BY the blowing up Of tho Moosi
Powder Company's mill, near Carbontlale. p.
on Monday, is estimated At ]50, 900. :
IL New Orleans, Oh Monday, Judge Hear
rendered decision restoring the confiscate
property Of the late Jno. slidell to tho heir
OF the deceased.
IHE body Of man named Ward, clerk a
a. !. Stewards, who disappeared Marci, lst
mas been found in North River. Ward had cv
identity been murdered and robbed.
"A DISPATCH from Scranton says tho Moosil
fowdcr-mill. at Gibsonvile. Luzerne county
Pa, exploded Monday morning. The woods
for miles around are on fire.
CONFEDERATION in Brooklyn, on Monday,
destroyed buildings OH Throop avenue and
Bartlett street, rendering one hundred fami.
hes homeless Loss SO, 900.
TUE Chicago papers pronounce the laborers'
demonstration in that city to have been only
partially successful. Less than four thousand
took part ill tho procession.
BY the destruction Of Clothier h Sprodson's
sLinele mills, several stores, Offices, etc., At
hempel'ille, Ontario, ON Tuesday, 900, ,OOO
North Of property was consumed.
TIE bark Caroline, from Bremen had seven
teen deaths during the passage, out Of Al
passengers. Tho bark Gcssler. from Bremen,
with 2AO passengers, had 1G deaths.
PETER GRAY, a wealthy resident of Pitts
town, Rensselaer, county, N. Y, was murdered
near his dwelling Saturday night The mur-
derer is unknown
IHE Grand Trunk railway bridge At South
lar's' Name, was burned Monday morning.
having caught fire from embers dropped by
an engine
TELEGRAM from New York states that the
Jury was unable to agree in the case of Mad
aoe freiod, who asks s1OO, 900 damages for
loss OF baggage. Six award $75, 600, three $685.
ooo, and three $4,000. They were DISCHARGED.
HE fires in the Pennsylvania woods ara
still raging, in many quarters destroying vast
amounts of lumber and timber. A nnmner ~
oa'i's ana small houses have been destroyed
IN the vicinity of Moscow and Lehigh Falls.
DESPERATE fight with canes and pocket
KNIVES occurred at Washington, Saturday, be-
tween Gen. A. Jones, Of West virginia, and
COL Calvin Sayre, Of Alabama. Both rece;v.
CD serious injuries
Two boys, whose names could mt h.
learned were poisoned At Leo, Indiana, bv
drinking water from the st. Joe river. An
analysis will be made to ascertain. il possib,a
'he poisonous substance contained in it.
lAhnxs dog sledge aud raft expedition. in
search OF the open polar sea, sails via Alask.
.A'S week. he expects to spend three days
loose on tho shores of the Arctic sea. and ssil
round to Greenland on raft.
DH. EEo. IL. GILES was arrested in New York
on tuesday evening. charged with having caus-
ea The death of Mrs. Mary Ann Lowden. 4
WHO" residing at 220 Thompson street. by an
operation performed for the purpose of pro-
curing an abortion e'~
FIRE IN Louisville, on Tuesday, burned !
1he stables and warehouse of H. J. Lewis r.
bfos., sash and blind factory, consuming |
l:rse quantity of finished work. Two mules
and four horses were burned IN de.th ros.
$4,000, -'"'
The New York Boa1d of Fire Undrvr;tars
lave voted to resume the old rate of insur- |
anco OF 1869, with only five per cent. commits
Uoa ,xos ~ aSents ana brokers, and = committee
ahce companies here a. to the data of com.
"'0 0A eonl-
1hoAAs SHARP, young resident of Prince.
ton' Ind, was badly and perhaps fatally hur,,-
Ell by entering an oil cellar with A liphtad
lamp setting tire to the gas emitted fron the |
oil stored therein.
n MOB OF stllkers attacked 4 number of In.
borers on the works of the METROPOLITAN Ga.
Company, on Sixty-second street. New York
FRIDAY morning. An extensive fight enaued.
curing which the strikers were driven OF by
.., ueiMans, ana the police protected the work. |
men from further Interference.
IN Thornton, Cook county, Illinois, on We'd
q nesday' young man named McCracken ehot
MS father three times, once in the arm and
twice IN the head. The father was abusino |
III nls family. The son interfered, and the faith.
,.;ti tnen ~ tted to kill the son with sh-spear
~tn the above result. He was still alive at
last accounts, but there was no hone of his
recovery. 0- A''
AZ tne afternoon session of the Woodruff
in New York, on SATURDAY.. 4 res.
olntlon was adopted authorizing the iasue ~
bonds for the expenses of the campaign. Tha
Dohds are to be payable when tho people suc-
ceeu IN IeSalnlng possession Of the Govern. !
ment. Some $4,000 were pledged.
''AViD SCOTT and Michael Clxrest, who mur-
'e1ed three inmates Of house of ill-fame |
near windsor Locks, in January last, and wore |
subsequently arrested at varwort, Ohio. were
found guilty of murder in the first degree and |
sentenced to state prison for life. Tie testi-
mony was all circumstantial.
>. Il. PATTEEMAy. for long time . oromi- |
hent clerk in the New York postof1ice. has |
been arrested and committed in default of |
So'ooo bail for embezzling letters aud pack
aSes containing articles Of value. Some of |
the articles were found on his person. He
admitted his guilt.
Rev. DIR. E. F. BERK1EY. who for 6ftaan
years previous to few months ago was pastor |
OF st. Georges Episcopal Church, in St. Louis.
has been arraigned before an ecclesiastical
: couit IN that city on charge of assault and |
a''ery on Eila q: Perry, eleven years old, but
AZ ~, ieaM.y Tor takirg improper liberties With |
of 1870. '''0 Dul'''es
LIE American Medical Association adopted |
d resolution, recommending that all bottles |
'onta'nlns poison shall not only be labelled !
put be roughed on the side, 20 a to indicate |
tne'r poisonous contents to the sense of tonch- |
l.iu II, also DC labelled with the most ready and
efficient antidotes. 10' @'o
HE anniversary of the American Tract So-
clety was largely attended, including.
rather Gavazzi. The annual report shows
the receipts of the year from donations and
leoacles 3l26, 1873, and from sales S4lO. 9O3 ex-
peudltures $751;, 194; balance in the treasury
s955. resolution was adopted for the prose-
cutlon OF publishers and venders of obscene
books and pictures.
some days since two men, named Tulden and
Anderson, we're murdered in Caldwell, Sumner
county, Kansas, by q man named Mccarthy.
who escaped into the Indian territory. vie-
lance committee Immediately found out and
shot Mccarthy. After the return of the vipi-
lantes shooting affray took place in >Welline-
.'1, IN which Jack Lynch shot and wounded
Two men named Hopkins and Clark. and re-
celved two wounds himself. Lynch VA. hnno
by the viyilantes. o
IESS1E c. CIAF11N has applied for the
oo'one'cy OF the Ninth New York Regiment.
"''e protests that it is wrong to the memory
VI ''s oead leader to select as his successor
a''s ohe lacking the magnetic influence he
possessed over the soldiers. Sl,e will .ccant
tlc posltion, and pledge herself. il elected r.
tl!o sucn IN impetus to recruitinp thai in