Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-11-28
adjoining was duo the fact that tho roof OF the
building was practically fire proof. Total loss
was between SIM. .O0O and $2OD O(O.

| IKE fFeSl0enCs gu 8OueeAys DuSp0uuCu MAUI.
,aniet Popc, Superintendent Of Indian Affairs,
for the Territory of Now Mexico, and appoint
cd Leyis D. Dudley. under tho civil tenure
| act. : - S<S>,$=s
TIE large grain storehouse-of Woodruff h
Robinson, At the foot Of Anity street, Brook
lyn, WAS burned on Monday afternoon. Loss
On sraia 41Do "a 1sfncEy -, 600, and
ON building $1s0, ,ooo. The building covered,
an area " of'e hundred and forty by two hun
drcd feet, and Was five stories in height. It
had grain ELEVATOR sevon stories high.
The horse disease has broken out in St.
Paul. The epidemic is rapidly spreading
through the South.
Two men sought shelter in tho boiler house
Of blast furnace at Columbus, Monday
morning. One, named Thomas, was shortly
aftorward found dead, having been suiocated
by gas, and tho other insonsible from the same
cause. Thomas started down the river from
Pittsburg working .on>a boat, spraincd his
arm, and was discharged at Cincinnati.
PATRICK KENNEDY was crushed to death in
Chicago, on Monday evening, by q cart loaded
with coal.
TaE Illinois State Auditor has received no.
tico that tho Republic Insurance Company of
Chicago has been adjudseq bankrupt BY con.
fession in the United Stktes Circuit Court.
| ARRANGEMENTS are being made at Quincy,
Mass, to give pnblic welcome to Charles
| Francis Adams, who is expected home on Mon.
day.
| DUNNO the recent gale at Duluth, Minne-
sofa Point was entirely submerged. 1t was
largely occupied by private dwellings,. The
damage here alone is estimated at 100000.
| AT8 O'Clock Friday evening, fire was dis
tcoycrcdin tho woodwork department of the
Michigan Central car shops at Detroit, which
burned down in half an hour. The building
and eontensstvefe worth $4,000, and arc in
surcd, it is said, for nearly their full value.
I A WOMAN, named Fish shot and killed ira
peze performer named Harry Minard, in
Cleveland on Friday. The shooting is claimed
to have been accidental. :
/ WILLIAM YoKEx. Of Pike county, I'll. had ten
head Of fine horses poisoned to death on We'd
ncsday night. The lot was valued at nearly
! $500.
A NAN named c. ". Alien, mail agent on
the Illinois Central railroad, was robbed and
th, own into the river at Sioux City, Iowa, on
Friday night, but succeeded in getting out Of
the water and was picked up and cared for by
people living near by.
ALONG the line of tho Hudson River tcrri-
ble disease has broken ont among the poultry.
Chickens are dying by hundreds. Turkeys,
geese and ducks in tho New York market show
aisns OF the malady. The disease appears to
be. assuming the form of a destructive pcsti-
lence among domestic fowls.
DRoPsY, the new horse disease, has made it's
appearance in all the car stables in Now York
city. Fifty per cent. of all tho horses attacked
are said to die, and the horses affected are
mainly those worked whilo suffering from the
epizootic.
A DISPATCH from Phillipsbu1g, Pa, states
that there il great excitement in tho mining
regions consequent upon general strike Of
miners npon an advance Of ten conts per ton.
Tho operators refuse to give tho advance.
Sixteen mines arc now idle, all Of the miners
in them have quit work.
A LOCOMOTIVE on the Atlantic and Grcaq
Wectcrn Railroad exploded at Bowlcsvilic, six
miles north Of Springfield, Ohio, Saturday,
tearing up the track, wrccking the train, kill.
ing tho engineer, John NJ. Maynes, the brake
man, L. D. Carter, and fatally scaldiug the
fireman, J. Dovoss.
OK Saturday night Wilson l. Sons silver and
plated ware manufacturers, corner of Fiftl,
and Cherry stroots, Philadelphia, were robbed
Of 81, 600 worth OF property.
New YORK Insurance circles arc excited over
rumors that judges in an adjoining county
are ready to appoint receivers upon er.partt
stat. ment, with the view Of making money Out
OF the misfortunes Of companies.
THE now coal shaft, penetrating the bluff be.
tween LaSallo ard Peru, Illinois, the sinking
Of Which was commenced last July, has reach
ed tho second stratum Of coal, five feet il
thickness, ut depth Of 245 feet, aud the Goa
is remarkably free from sulphur pyritcs.
WM. P. SHERMAN, chief OF tho stamp divi.
sion of Internal Revenue, has resigned, to tax.
effect January first. It is understood Sherman
has been appointed treasurer Of the New Yorl
and Eric Railroad.
By tho breaking Of platform on tho thirt
Monday afternoon, FIVE workmen were prccipi
tatcd into the basement, and Jerome Norma
ra, John Farrill, and John McCurdy fatally in
jured.
JAMES G. KING, formerly stock broker, sho
one O'Neil dead in New York, on Monday.
family difficulty was the cause.
GEN. NEWTON, United States Army, expires
scs the opinion that the use of gunpowder i
injudicious to stop the pro gross Of fire, Civ
Ing preference to dualinc and giant powder
which do not scatter combustible debris, bu
cut . building close off to the foundations ant
piers, and lets itfall vertically.
The state fire building, police charities ant
, dock departments of Now York city will b.
abolished by Legislative acti.n this winter.
In the United States Circuit Court, at Ne,
York, on Saturday, Judge shipman d eide,
against the government in = suit to rccove
1 s25,OCO from Benz. J. Cahoon, the alleged de
D faulting paymastcr in the navy, and suretics
holding that Cahoon was lunatic, and una
bic at the time OF entering into his bond t
4 make any contract whatever.
! Coal MINES arc on fire at Evanston, near til,
head OF Echo Canon, Utah.
JuDaE SHEA, OF the Now York Marine Oour,
' has decided that knowledge on the part Of O.
agent, not communicated to his principsl, thu
t premises arc 10 be used for improper purposes
, cancels the claim for commission or brokerage
THE people, Of Arizona protest against chang
ing tho territory to the Department of Mexico
< and the assignment Of General Howard, or an
. one else, to the command, in place Of Gcners
Crooks.
THIRTY vessels arc in San Francisco to 1oa'
+ with wheat Tie inward bound. feet duo b.
10 fore April 1st is composed of one hundred an
n eighty vessels.
i Abroad.
THERE IL crisis IN the Hungarian Cabine
, IT is reported that \ second ecclesiactic'
province Of tho Roman Catholic Church is
= DO established in England, with Liverpool q
- the Metropolitan See.
, PRINCE NAPOLEON has determined to con
II mence civil suits to recover 10000 francs dan
ages from the Prefect and Commissary of P,
:, lice, who served him with tho order of his @,
"a pulsion from Paris, while visitng, NJ. Richau
ut the residence of the latter.
q IHE American man-ofwar Plymouth II,
-, left Barcelona.
Y Ex.EMpREss EUaENIE held fete at Chisf
=. hurst on Friday, Many visitors wcro presc,
!, from Paris. Anumbor of regiments station,
~ at Versailles sent boqucts.
The United States war steamer Shenando,
~ has arrived at Marseilles. Sho will sail
- - Tunis.
n. TwENTY-THREE cases of Marseillcs rifle
h. which wero to have been sent to the Car]is
~. now in the Spanish provinces of Corona. ha,
he been seized at Pcrpignan, by the authoriti
9. Of that town.