Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-09-12
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Miscellaneous News in Brief.

L. NJ. Barlow's family, was murdered
at Glen Cove, Long Island, by q drunk
en- Captain of sloop named the David
Ayres. The Captain was arrested:
The decrease in the publis deht dur
ing the past month Is SO, ,Z36 635.85;
Coin in Treasury ga, ,981 ,817 Currency
balance, S109, ,347.42; Coin certificates,
$28, 965, 800. ......,E
A DISPATCH from Springfeld, H.,
says boiler in Scott's mills, twelve
miles from town, exploded Saturday,
afternoon, instantly killing two of Mi:
Scots sons, and severely iniuring sev-
eral other persons.
JOHN LIVINGSTONE, brother Of DR..
Livingstone, has been interviewed at
Listowell, Canada, by q correspondent,
as to the genuineness of the Living
stone letter. He states that there IL
not the least doubt that the letter he
received was in his brothers. own hand
writing. .i ,.
A MYSTERIOUS murder was committed
on Saturday last, near Round House
Station, Green county, III. A farmer
named Scott, not returning from work
at the usual time in the evening, was
sought by his wife, who found him, dead
in the field, bullet hole through his
brain. .;:;'.
The cathedral at Canterbury, Eng.
land, was seriously damaged by fire on
Tuesday The fire caught over the
shrine of Bishop Beckett by the upset
ting of a brazier used by vorkmen in
repairing the dead roof. About one
! hundred and fifty feet Of the roof was
destroyed, and the interior of the splen.
did edi6ce seriously damaged. =. .
THE New York Bar Association in.
tend to institute measures to have
Judge Cardozo disqualified from prao-
tice at the Bar. ... ... :.
EDWARDS, the Jamesburg bank rob
Der, escaped from the New jersey state
| prison OH Wednesday by fling the iron
bars and letting himself down outside
JUDGE LEWIS DEkr was arraiRned in
the Washington police court on We'd
nesday for an assault upon Mr.. Reed.
one of the editors of the Daily Capi-
tai, and fined five hundred dollars and
costs. 5;'
Ar Providence, r. 1, on Wednesday,
Morton E: Hoard. late cashier of the
Rhode Island National Bank, and Rob-
ert Pierson, late teller of the same in
stituti0n, were each sentenced to. nine
years Imprisonment for embezzlement
the former to pay five of s., 600 in
addition r.
AIKEN, the New: York hugla1 police
man, has been !, sentenced TO- twenty
years imprisonment.
An Irish boy named Morrisey vas
hung at Buffalo on Friday, for the nur-
der of his mother last June, ,~".'. = =:
JOHN SrxATH,rAx, . New York ruff
fian beat his wife badly, and concluded
by smashing kerosene lamp over her
head, burning her fatally.
PRESIDENT THEIRS will provide aresi-
dence for the Pope at Compeigne.
The Geneva Arbitrators have con
cluded their labors satisfactorily.
JOHN GREaoR SIXTH has resigned the
presidency of the Northern Pacific
railroad, and Geo. w. Cass recently
president of the Pittsburg, Fl. Wayne
! and Chicago line, has been elected to
ucceed him. ........
The Y'DRYcH, Welch paper, says
Stanley real name is John Rowlapds.
and that he was born in Denhigh, North
| Wales. .... =,
-. North CARo11NA advices say Judge
Merriman has decided not to contest
Caldwe 8 election. y: odt "-,yr :
JAMES FRAME bit off the thumb and
! fingers of Herman LiPkin in q fight in
New York. .Epkin threw glass tsurmnlt-
bier at Frame, fraoturing his skun
Both were arrested, Frame will die.
When taken to the station, Frame was
or izy, and was found drinking the
blood which was flowing copioualy
from his fractured head.
SENATOR suxNiEaR sailed for Europe
from Boston on Tuesday. @"'E f.! :
| A D1sPATcH from; Bombay confirms
the report that the cholera is raging
IN India Numerous deaths occur
daily. ,.:;H 49,: ?; 80 .'is
A HEAVY thunder storm occurred on
Wednesday, at, Bolton, Lancashire,
England, causing the loss of several
lives and much damage to the crops.
:, The schooner Emily Gorham was re-
Gently wrecked at, Prince Edwards
Island, and nine lives lost.
Rev. GEO. F. HowR, New York city
missionary, was arrested for swindline
several thousand dollars. u:,, !..n
A CAR driver named Thurston hsa
been arrested IN Brooklyn, for fatally
beating H. Hahn with . caF-hook in
Brooklyn. a,.i..I,..1 .:,., ).
| Ar the fair grounds in Virginia, ILL.,,
ON Thursday, G. F. Didenbacher, cir
cult clerk of Cass county. and I'd
Unlisted ,quarreled, and Aillsted
knocked Diffenbacher down, when thl
latter drew q pistol and shot his as
sailant in the; abdomen, and iinaicting 1
mortal wound. ,..t-..r .
The Rinderpest has appeared among
the cattle in several places in Yorkshire
England. Precautions have been takez
to prevent it's spreading :, =; f..
Four persons were killed by an ex
plosion of the powder mills af Houn
slow, England, on Friday tr:.', -
TWENTY thousand dollars worth o1
property was destroyed BY an explosion
and conflaglation at Lombatdb oil
. works in New York, on Friday. !, O.
CALEB SHBR1ERs . wealthy farmer;
living in Ossawatomic township, Kan
sas, in a fit Of insanity produced By
family difficulties, murdered hid
daughter, Mrs. Wallace, and danger
} ousiy wounded his wife, and son-in
law, Wallace. The latter, in defenseo o.
!; himself, struck Sherier, causing in
} slant death. The wounds received BY
Mrs. Shierier and Wallace are pro
nounced fatal. ~"
The failure of Nash 4 Co., 1ondoE
bankers, is announced-liabilities twt
hundred Thousand pounds.
II A Hard.Headed Convict.
The Carson (Nevada) Register has th'
following account Of . hard-headed con.
vict: "Just after the prisoners were turn
ed out for labor in the State Prison yester
day, two of them-CAssimore and Carte1
- were ordered to the quarry TO drill
hole for tlast. Cassimore held tn
drill while Carter did the striking, Am
the last blow given came near causing tn
death Of the drill. holder. Carter made ,
; miseblow and, instead of hitting tho bea.
Of the drill, struck Caas,more behind th
; left ear with heavy sledge, telling th
unfortunate man to the rOck, and to al
appearances dead, remaining insensibl