Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-04-03
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6nt IN the IOmrOS case. 11c ""S ~" "'' ""S 'A~'s
Fort Scott to Independence, and it il suppos
cd has been murdered to prevent his reveal
Jag tho perpetrators Of another murder com
m:ttcd in tho vicinity. Much excitement pre-
walls and Senator York is out with detective,
hunting for his brother.
CONDUCTOR ARTHUR LINDsLEY, OF the Chi
cago and Northwestern Railroad, was ru1
over by freight train at GAINESVILLE o,
Wednesday evening, losing his right arm aut
being somewhat bruised on the back and side
At Minneapolis, Oh Wednesday, Marccllu
GIazier and Elias Conner we're prccipitatcf
from staging. Glazier was instantly kille.
andConnor severely injured.
NUMBER Of Senators and Representatives
haVe Lett Washington without drawing the il
back pay, and some were under tho impress
on that unless drawn it would revert into thu
treasury at tho close Of the present fsca
year. Ttis is mistake, as the money will re
NUN subject to their order for two years after
tho date OF the appropriation made to pavi
At tho end Of that time such sums as remain
Nncxpcnded will revert to tho Treasury,
GENERAL CROOK has written to tho War
department for authority to station small
body Of troops along the southern boundary
"fCochisc's reservation to prevent incursions
into Mexican Territory.
GEO. HowEs Co., of San Francisco, have
purchased the Unitod States steamer Wander
biIt for $4,000.
The President w,'l hereafter, whileC Cong.esa
is not in session, re ceiyo callers on other than
official business on kondays, Wednesdays and
Thursdays, from IL to O'Clock. ~'' ~'eT
A CONVENTION Of the farmers Of Kansas, to
arrange for mutual advantages, was held in
Topeka on Thursday.
BRAKEMAN named VIM. Luke, in the en-
poy of the Erie and Pittsburg Railway, wss
instantly killed at Thorpsville, ON "Wednesday
night, by being run over by IN engine.
TELEGRAM from San Francisco says that
intelligence from Washington rcviving the
charge that Senator CasscrIy's election was
tainted with bribery, and that such is tic
general sentiment OF the people in San Fran
cisco, ezcitcs only surprise and indignation.
INTELLIGENCE comes from New York that
VIM. NJ. Earl ard F. ". Saltenstall have COM
menccd suit against Geo. s. Scott, Geo: &c
Wood, and others, 10 recover $500, 600 alleged
to have been lost by them through the failure
OF defendants to take stock bought for them
in tho Rock Island pool.
Axe Chicago Evening Journal, on Thursday,
occupied the elegant building just completed
for its use, on Division street, by Charles L..
Wilson, its proprietor, and appeared that even-
lug in an entire new dress, printed on ono Of
Hoes six cylinder presses.
In st. Louis, ten days ago, Jno. Anderson
and James Lewis, colored, quarreled. TIE
latter struck the former terrible blow with !
brick, crushing the skull. Anderson died to-
day, and Lewis was arrested on . charge O;
murder.
DlAoo T. WEED for thirty years resident
of Cincinnati, intimately identified with reli-
g'o"s and benevolent enterprises, died 1t
Maumse City, Ohio, on Thursday.
SWITZERLAND has established a Department
OF Commerce and Railways, and appointed a
Federal inspector of railways and inspector OF
rolling stock and time tables, and controller
OF rates OF fare and freight.
CHARLES E. AYLEswoRrH, a printer en-
Ployed in the Daily Citizen, committed suicide
ut Jackson, Michigan, Wednesday. He leaves
wife and two children in indigcnt cilcum.
stances.
ton, California, was found murdered in the
streets Of that city on Wednesday.
OFFICIAL announcement is made of the an.
pointment Of Gen. Pieltain to be Captain Gen
eral OF Cuba, and Gen. Rivera to be CAPTAIN
General OF Porto Rico.
CN tuesday night q man named Lind was
brutally murdered in North Bloomfield. New
ia county, California, by person unknown.
Four shots were fired. Lind cried "My God"
Some men ran to tho place, and found him
dead, with bullet-hole through his BODY.
and his face and head horribly nutilated by
an ax. Thirty hours before, IN the same co, n-
ty, Corlin Smith was murdered by George Kill
gore.
QUITE riot occurred in Cairo, ILL.,, on
Wednesday, between the friends of Elder
Shores, pastor OF the Missionary Colored Ban.
tist Church, and his opponents, who have
elected new pastor. Ono OF the faithful was
badly hurt.
The United States government has had
three silver services, consisting Of two VINE
coolers and punch bowl each, made by q
prominent firm in this city, as presents to
Counts 1turbide and Sclopis, and viscount
staempdi for thoir impartiality and lirmness
in the Geneva Arbitration. Each service is
enclosed in box three feet wide and five feet
long, Fined with green silk. The boxes alone
cost s1:8O0.
LARGE meeting OF colored Republicans
was held in New Orleans on Tuesday evening.
RESOLUTIONS we're adopted endorsing Judge
Durell, W. H. Hunt, Beckwith, Dilleno, sena-
tor Morton, the New Orleans Republican news
paper, and complimcntiDg Grant for his de-
votion to Republican principles.
Hon. JahEs DIXON, United States Senator
from Connecticut from 1857 to 1869, died at
Hartford on Thursday.
THE Navy Department announces the death
OF Fear Admiral John B. Montgomery. at
Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the 9th inst He er.
tered the navy in 1912, and was en- tho reti-efl
list. he Was midshipman on board the fac
ship Niagara. in.thc victory on Lake Erie.
AfeECiAL from Peoria, Illinois, SAYS that
the farmers of that.section are organizing Tor
war on the railroad.
n. II. F1cAES, while attending q cable At
tho top Of the high trestle work on the west
abutment Of the bridge at St. Louis, on Thurs
day, slipped and fell to the abutment beneath.
ahshting on pile Of bolts, sustaining fa.al
injuries.
STRANGER, said to be from Wisconsin
soic'ded in Chicago, on Wednesday. by takin,
an overdose Of morphine.
"a the night of January 9Th, Julia Hickey
was Ellled by falling from the window of her
r'sidcnce in New York. And now the coron.
c's jury has verdict ID that she was pushf Il
out OF tho window by her husband Daniel in j.
quarrel.
TIE President was bssiegcd on "Wednesday ".
ny Senators seeking to nave nominations sent
IN so that they might be confirmed before the
adjournment Of the Senate. Many Southern
t'rpet-baggors are disappointed, 40 the Presi
dent stated that no had no more important
nominations to make in the South.
iHE packing establishment OF F. NJ, Hale &
Co., IN Chicago, suffered damage by fro 70
the extent OF $1,000.
ThE New York Custom House autborito.
on Monday, found 81 800 worth of sewing silk
IN a ialse bottomed trunk belonging to one Of
'"o saloon passengers of the Rhcin. The
owner drew pocket knife ard attempted to
c"t his own throat, but was prevented and
locked up.
FIRE at Waco, Texas, DESTROYED $4,000
worth OF property.
1T IS reported from Washington alread,
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