Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-02-08
THE NEWS.

ia6aiy Dchoolsof Polin - -, :. !,
.INAL menigtas ID laeing azaong tho ehorsea
&iNew York. The best constructed and aps
bointed stables are visited by II, and fearful
Heath rats has bs1d ~ =. :.
The Cunard Steamship Line offered to carry
Wednesdays European mails FREQ Of charge.
thus enabling the Postmaster General to re-
duce tho rate'of postage to four cent?. :.
TIE Captain of the bark Warren Hallet to-
titled on Thursday in Boston, that he sLot
George Little dead whilo he and other seaman
were mutinying and beating tho second mato.
TuEconasrcal Agency Of Hock Brnthm.
in Boston, Has exploded, leaving 16o vo1nc
mon and girls, employed a. clerka. vithor,
Iay, many of thom daAtituts and sarnour
strangers. '~- eAA4o"e;
i" In New York, on Saturday, i Henry nepno,
: lNlAle su6aring txoan daliriua, tssnasus. ,shot
anu instantly killed his own son, eighteen
years o. age; and then inflicted mortal wound
upon himself.
JOHN MCKENZIE, miner working in tho
Ncnosha coal mines, about tlreo miles from
Lasailo, ILL.,, was instantly crushed to death by
the fall of an immense mass Of rock upon him
from the roof Qf mime. - 'S%- :
GEo. W. WATSON, williamsburg hair
dresser, was shot dead in his own establish
mentb by Mrs. Fanny Hyde, aged 10, who saws
nc las been in the habit Of insulting and &C.
cusing her of unfaithfuluess to her husband.
Miss MA1rls sRAInsal, age] lbodts tw,nty-
one years, only daughter of ". ". Raleigh, =
well-known citizen OF Columbus, Ohio, COM
ntted suicide, ON Tuesday evening, by taking
poAAauu' E%.srfss, r., ..,,e s.s,.. lie T.,
knAS named John oburn" n" committed uui- nj
ciic in Joliet, on Tuesday, by shooting himself
with shot gun. Tie shot took effect in his
heart, causing instant death: F:S T.,
CH1cAaoASs were highly excited, and msny
OF them selated' On Mondsy. over rupor that
the principal portion Of st. Louis had been
DESTROYED tSssr BY are Unfortunats'y for Chicago,
IHE~ afand~Jnry~ Of" Hudson county, Now
Jersey, ndieted Boss" Barnstead, of the
Board Of fabns swogksi Ere $1ommissioner
rhos. Fielder, Chief Of Police Williams, Police
C,aptaln McHarney and Z number Of Reputl
"e.n ponuc'ans' charged with ring jobs.
THE city of Omaha has conveyed TO tho
Union Pacific Railroad Company property pc val
ued at S2Oo,oo0, which secures the compietion
OF tho Iai]toad bridge across the Missonr;
hlver At that point, and the erection of depot
buildings, machine shops, etc. =.
PUBLIC inquiry is made to know what became
OF the Salt Lake contributions for tho relief
s OF the sufferers BY tho Chicago 6re. The
pupnshed official list makes no mention Of
n;yeg an;yyamng received from Utah, while the amount
collected In that city alone was nearly 020' 'it10
PROMINENT Tammany sachems cay that the
amount in the Treasury of that Society /.
ABOUT th'Ety-sax. dollars that the Society has
never since it's organization had larRe bal
me VI naod' put has often found ito expendi-
lures greater than its income: - =
EAnir on last Saturday morning, the United
states Quartermaster'a Department and Com.
m'ssary store, At Madison Ba1rackss, s.ckett's
f;aIa fHarSor, n. T.. were destroyed BY Arce'. All
Reportad lore .SGo etc, were
JEFFERSON CALLING has been convicted II
Cmcago court, of the murder Of James Town
send, and sentenced to imprisonment for life.
Ih's is known as the "Hgeon Hole" murder:
Caiing having deliberately shot Townsend
Mn,. Mai.e the two were engaged in playing pigeon
A DESPATCH from Nice reports : terrible
railroad accident in that city, on Thursday.
While train from Cameo was crossing =
bridge over the Paglione river, the structures
gave way, and the cars were precipitated into
wounded. ~
The Senate, on Thursday, confirmed the
tne following nominations: g. A. Straffen-
burg, marshal for Colorado; James E. Nc
Catfrey, attorney for Arizona; F. G. Holmes.
Territory; s s. Slater, register at Lewiston.
Idaho. ~e\{ ~ ~-''
STEPHEN IohoAx, .:young Baptist ntin,,ter
who has been about five months pre.ch;nu -
congregation in Cheviot, suburb Ct Cincin-
na.l, was on Friday arrested by detective for
steahng books from the Theological and Re-.
Library. 1o'' u'''c
Aa1 u. Sprlng, colored, murdered two of his
companions few nights ago, At League sta
ton. on the Mississippi Central P.;lro,d
They had been employed on the con,t-,o+;o,,.
train and paid of. They had, been indnio;ng
IN cards, and Hal bad lost his money. IA
then murdered the winners, robbed them. and
then escaped. ~' ".A~
.IHE small pox is raging with great fatality
IN the town of Thayer, Iowa, situated On tha
une OF the Burlington and Mississippi Rail
road. Over sixty deaths have occurred in .
population of less than one thousand. within
lew weeks, and almost every person. old mi
young, is down with the disease. M tr.;ns
on the road are allowed to stop there: -
MRS WHARTON was admitted to bail in AZ OoO
upon ar indictment for attempting to po;aon;
van Ness, and gave her own personal recop
nlzance, and 81, 500 each on the tvo snrot;es
W., j. Crawford Nelson and Miss NeiI;e
Mnarton. Mrs. Wharton remains . few d1vs
III Annapohs at tho house Of friend.
a Mo11Nr occurred on board the brig Casca-
telle, Capt. Simmons, in the haibor Of Port
land, Me-, on Friday afternoon. Tie crew
were drunk, and had just been put on board -.
They went into the forecastle, and with drawn
KNIVES threatened the lives OF anv who shoul1
approach. While there they got into = fieht
ahr aMEn e.. themselves .na and two Of then hor
SENATOR WILSON intends to press tho bill
introduced by him to prohibit the deportation
OF natives from the South Sea Islands. Ith,s
;t;a cVne 10 tae knowledge Of our government that
citizens OF the United States are encaeed IN
TINS nefarious traffic. The bill proDoses ta
Dleak 1t. up and imposes heavy fines and
imprisonment on those engaged in it.
"A SCHEME is on foot among the officer. ~
the National Banks Of Chicago, for the ereo-
ton of magnificent bpjldip6, 400 feet front
BY $50 feet deep. 70 -ba iaRideRnp into t.,
apartments on the ground foof fof 8e accom-
modaeon OF, that nuInbax of xbankfi10 Eom.ee,
Inc building viii be. sufficiently larpe to aiio,~
aportlon OF It to be st apartfor the use Of ex-
press companies. sF' - ~,
1HE senate Judiciary Committee report
upon the memorials claiming the right Of
women to vote under the Fourteenth and
Tnnteenth 1n amendments to the Constellation
r,.Ss4 u.r eose amendments do not confer the
nSht OF female suffrage, the r,ot,rf ~ sf.t1o
10 e1cmde women from voting he;no "no
touched by these amendments. and. i1dsaa
recognized BY, the Fifteenth amendment'
hEfos1s from stations along the Union P.-
chic indicate tho worst blockade Of the xintar.
Ia Wins station reports that It is now showing
and drifting there. Trsina from thG Went re-
port that they are making no progress; as the
now drifts into the cuts - fast n Il ia shov.
eco ont A train with three engines has been
.nIee days in getting ten miles. The westner
1etWeen Cheyenne and Evanston has been
11ntenseiy cold: The thermometer has been m
~" AZ tnlrty degrees below Zero.
Abroad.
I'VE Empress Dowager Of Brazil has freea
all her personal slaves. :,
A NEW national federation ON Communist
basis is organizing in Paris.
SIR CHARLES dixie was married. on T,e..
day, In Chelsea, to Miss Sbeal.
IAE Emperor and Empress Of Brazil le.v.
Par1s on tho sOth of January.
FIVE persons were drowned in Blackvoof]