Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-05-09
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Fires arc also raging along the line OF tho o.
wogo and Rondout Railroad, whore large
quantities Ut wood and railroad ties have been
burned.
GAIT. MIENHoLD, of tho Third Cavalry, in
pursuit Of tho Indians who drove on the stock
near McPherson, Nebraska, on tho oath, suo-
cccdcd in overtaking twenty Of them ON the
Loupo. Three Indians wore killed and = por-
tion OF tho stock rocaptured.
The Washington Chronicle, whose editor. is
Executive Clerk Of tho Senate, makes the as-
sertion that il is fact within tho knowledge
Of the editor, that senator Robertson, of South
carolina. paid forty Thousand dollars to secure
h's election to the Usited States Senste.
DURING = severe thunder storm Sunday
night. lightning ran down the stovepipe Of
house four miles from Ackley. Iowa, instantly
killing two of the occupants-Patrick Cassidy
and Peter Burns. The other occupants Of the
house were uninjured. The house also cscap-
Cd damage.
SEVERAL children were injured, but not Sc
riously, during panic cccasioned by fire in
tho rear Of q public school in One Hundred
and Twenty.fifth street, New York, on Tues
day.
srsTENExE recently widely published
thate%'ss Casey Collectorof the port Of New
Orleans, had drawn ss2, 900 from the Treasury
AZ a H1oidty pertaining tohis olRce h said to be
untrue. .-t ii- :t...:i:.
SERIOUS difficulty has occurred between
New Jersey Ind Del.<afs fishermen, concern
ing tho ashfne boundaries between tho two
statcs.
The late Quincy Tufts, of Boston, leaves by
his will $4,000 to Harvard College for the ed-
ncation of INDECENT students, $2,0O0! 10 Am.
herst College, and ~, 900 to the Atkinson (N.
H.) Academy, for like purpose; 80, 900 to
the town of Weymouth, for , free library,
lectures, ETC.; $4,000 to the Massachuyetts
General Hospital for free beds, aud nome 9al),.
900 to be distributed among the city charitable
institutions.
AflRE. in Akron, Ohio, Saturday morning,
entirely destroyed the office Of the Akron
Beacon. together with three jewelry stores of
y. d. Remington, J. B. Stow L Co., and II. s.
Abbey. Loss about $50, 900; partially insured.
The mails received on Saturday by the Jap.
anese Embassy At Washington, to March &c,
show that the reports Of the persecution Of
Christians in Japan are untrue, and grew out
Of tho conviction Of counterfeiters.
TIE American Society for the Prevention Of
Cruelty to Animals held their annual meeting
and reelected H. Bergh president and Henry
C!ews treasurer. The treasu, er's report shows
balance in cash Of e2200O, together With
s!OO,UOO bequeathed by the French Board, and
S5OO;0OO secured BY other bequests.
PATRICK DoNAHuE, publisher Of the Boston
Pilot, presented the Catholics in the north
section Of Boston, ON the occasion Of tho 6oth
birthday Of Bishop Williams, with St. Johns
Hall, worth s25, 900.
The house Of John Jennings, ON Atlantic
avenue, Brooklyn, was burned Tuesday night.
His wife and three children escaped from tho
burning building by means Of sheets tied to-
gether. Loss $4,000; insured for $4,000.
Work on the now Academy of Fine Arts, in
Philadelphia, viii commence at once. Twenty-
one gentlemen have subecribed $l0, 600 each.
and four $50, 900 each. The tota; subscribed
10 523O. 600: The lot and building will cost
half a million dollars.
The large rolling-mill Of VIM. Case, At Co.
lumbia, Pa. was destroyed by fro last night.
Loss ss0.00O; insurance $1,000.
ALBExf YASsouN, New York broker who
forged,Acheok for $4,000 last August, sur
rendered himself on Wednesday, and was held
to answer,
THE jewelry establishment of VIM. Kidd.
and bookstore Of Caleb Andrews l. Co., in
Clevland, suffered damage by fire to the ex-
tent Of $50, 900 on Sunday.
WOMAN named Mcmahon was killed bv 4
runaway accident, at Metropolis. Ill.,, on Sat-
urday night.
The large pipemen in the employ Of tho
New York Commissioner Of Public Works,
have struck for 32.50 per day.
Two young men, named Norris and Con-
nelly, were drowned while attempting to cross
the Missouri river below Council Bluffs.
A DISPATCH from The Hague announces the
death of Prince William Frederick Henry,
brother Of the King
NATHANIEL n. MooRE, ex-President of Co.
lumbia College, died on Monday, aged ninety
JOSEPH TnsoS, of New York, aged IL years,
while playing With . revolver, accidentally dis
charged It, fatally wounded his brother, aged
twoyears.. -
THE entire village Of South China, Maine.
was burned up last Friday night. Only eleven
houses remain. The hrecaught from defec-
tive chimney. ''..i
RICHARD 1NoH, Superintendent Of, the. Fer
guson mine, At Mariposa, and Willisin Oliver,
were drowned in tho MERGED River, California,
On Saturday.
BosToN broker named David Nichols has
been arrested on the charge Of forging the
name Of Horace Saunders, another broker, fol
s9,S75.
Abroad.
LoNDoN dispatch announces the death Of
Horace Mayhem, the well-known literateur.
BISHOP FEssLER, who oficiated a. secretary
of the late Ecumenical Council; il dead.
POLAR Expedition is projected, under the
auspices of the Royal Geographical Society Of
England. +,:---,~ -"
PRINCE HuMptRr, Of italy, is expected in
Berlin. to return the visit Of Prince Frederick
Charles to the royal family Of Italy.
IT is reported that Bismarck has sent te
King Amadeus 10000, ,000f, to be used in put.
ting down the Spanish insurrection.
LARGE number of members of the Inter.
national Society have been arrested 1t Lyons
A BATTLE has been fought. At sJaudelia, In
Navarro, Spain, between tho government
oops and insurgents. Tho latter were do
feated, with . loss of 800 killed and wounded
The Swiss Government having demonstrated
against the maintenance of the French Dass
T.
it is abandoned for England and Belgium, or.
ders have been issned that passports no longe,
be required of travellers to and from Switzer
land.
!GoRToN,' ! convicted Of participating in tn
slaughter Of hostages under tho Commune
has been shot At satory. Blanqui has bee,
sentenced to transportation for life.
Two thousand cartmen in Liverpool hav
struck work, and all business on tho dock AM
warehouses is interrupted in consequence
Upwards Of one thousand laborcrs are threw
out Of employment by the action Of the cart
men.
A PARTY Of French half-breeds went up tn
Red river, armed, to prevent the Canadian
from rafting down the timber they have cut b,
special permit from Dominion officials. TIL
Canadians have sent to Winnepeg and 70
themselves reyolvers. and both parties 70,
they will fight sooner than be thwarted, TIL
hal. f.braeilN eaY fha fipnhae uaa cnf On land