Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-08-07


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A LErrER from Fort Black, Texas, says TO-
rays OF the 1udians are increaaing to an alarm.
ing extent and scarcely dry passes but The
body Of some isolated hontiersman, 10 found.
stockand hosses are frequently Sran OF from
seemingly secure settlements. Tho letter says
these things happen notwithstanding tho cav
airy are securing the country.
CHRISTOPHER ScuNEoz, vito and child, while
In Z wagon thSstzaek 'of the FlushinE
and North Side Railroad, Long leland, Thpss-s
day, were struck BY passing train. schmseh
was killed, and his wife and child fatally In.
jured. =
IsADol1 KoxKlx, Of Crawford, N. J., got
drunk while holding wake over the body Of
his newly nnsn infant, and bfutalH beat bis
wife,-who was lying sick in bed, from the
effects Of which she died. Eonkls va arrest.
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TaE War Department 10 advised ct the
death OF Col uewm Jones, q retired United
States officer. He died At Paris, July 10th.
THs Signal B1reas has completed III ar-
ransements for signal station at Pixies
CAo1ERA is sgain breaking out in Bowling
Green. Ky. Two negroes died on Friday with
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TIE rains Of Monday extinguished. the fires
raging IN the woods along, the line Of the
Camden and Atlantic City Railroad. For
distance OF twenty miles the ravages Of tho fir
eau be seen in blacksnsd trunks Of trees
burned corn fields and orchards. Farm
houses eacapsd through the exsrtions Of the
people.
On Wednesday Of last week, tho body OF
Charles W. Huxley, IN old and esteemed
resident, was found IN the harbor at Osweeo.
The sad intelligence threw his daughter Mary
E. Hinck'ey, aged nineteen, into couvulsions
and she died on the following day, it 10 be.
lieved, OF broken heart. -
TIE mortality report Of the Board Of Health
Of st. Louis, for the week ending Saturday
eveqiuR shows tho total deaths to be 2sS
decrease nom previous week, SO. Deaths from
cholera, 81; increase Z. Cholera nlorbu, %
decrease. 81.
In New York, on Saturday night, tte dry
goods store OF J. J. Simpson l. Co., 6l9 and
OIL Eighth avepue, WAS destroyed by hre.
Loss on stock and building, seb, 600 insur-
snce, $685. 600. ees
On the night Of July 18th . man named
Hall, living on. the plantation, Of Thos. Reed,
in Madison county, Tennessee, was taken out
Of his bed by mob Of fifteen negroes dis
guised Is Ku:KIux, and hung 10 : tree. They
charged him with having outraged an old
negro woman living in tho neighborhood.
Hall was from East Tennessee, and the ne
groes Say he boasted Of having been bush.
whacker during the war.
SINCE leaving Washington in March, Senator
Morton has spent considerable time at the
Hot Springs of Arkansas, whore he 10 far re.
covered from his lameness 20 to dispense en-
tircly with canes. =; >,
EARLY Sunday morning engineer Conway,
OF the Baltimore and Ohio Railway, lost oon.
troll OF his engine on down grade two miles
cast OF Ellemont and forty five vest Of Balti.
more, when the engine ran away, and while
running over forty miles an hour, struck tb,
lear OF freight train, demolishing twenty
cars loaded with corn. cotton and tobaecs
from the west. scattering the contents oil over
the track. Engineer Conway, and two men,
named MARITIME aud Elliott, drovers from Bar.
bour and Harrison counties, West Virginia.
were killed. T. Burke, The conductor. and E.
Cdoney, brakeman, both of Piedmont. and 4
drover named Reynolds, were badly injured.
A TELEGRAM from Bangor, Me-, states that
on Saturday evening two spans of the bridge
on the European and North American Road
between Old Town and Milford, three hun.
d:cd feet long, were blown. completely away
~ 4. totnado which swept over that section
OF the state. An engine and tender, with five
men, which was crossing from Old Town,
plunged into the river. The engineer, Geo.
Mcclellan, was drowned. Tho others escaped.
AN old man named Peter Kistor and bis two
sons, George and August, were arrested on
Saturday. charged with stealing muls in Call.
away county, Missouri. Their house, situated
twelve miles in the country, was searched,
and large quantity OF jewelry, consisting o:
watches, and cbainA earrings. breastpins,
bracelets. rings, and Z general assortment OF
!'weity, together with burglars tools, were
found
The first car load Of new Illinois spring
wheat was received at Chicago, Saturday, vi,
the Illinois Central Railroad. ~
100000 l1RE in . psjnt and oil warohous,
occurred at Toledo on Tuesday.
moRnIs RocHEL1E drank . pint OF whisky q
Antwerp, Ohio, and died.
FURTHER advices from Louisiana, No.. Al,
the cholera has abated, but some thirty per
sons have died with II since it Arst broke put
including some Of the most prominent citizens
In Prairieville aud Troy, Mo-, the scourgt
ragged fcarfnlly, the towns being depopul.ted
by the disease or the people fleeing from thei,
homes. Ont OF ore family OF nine persons in
the former place, all OF whom were well last
Friday, only two remain tn bury the dead
The disease also prevails in other towns nea,
by.
DEATHS in Chicago, last week, l,123L.an in
crease Of 107 over the preceding week.
Two young men named Ftzhurh wer,
1owDed Monday, while swimming, At Ant
wcrp, Ohio. -
Two brothers named COnOvers were drOWDel
at Long Branch on Saturday.
BENZ. RATHBuN, whose forgeries in Nc,
York State made him go notorious 80 year
ago, died in New York city, on Monday, age
eighty.two.
The funded andbo nded debt OF the Ditstl
OF Columbia, including those OF the late col
porations, amounts to s., 396, ,891.
CHOLERA deaths at Cincinnati, MONDAY
three. The disease il spreading through II
interior Of ofIndiana.
MCMAHON, OF Rutland, won the intern,
t'onal wrestling match with Copeland, of ca,
d. on Tuesday.
NORWEGIAN named OsmoDd was run ovl
by train near Madison, Wis, and kille,
while sleeping on railroad track in an intox
c.tcd Ondition.
ACoLL1sloN between two passenger trail
on tho Niagara Falls branch Of the Erie Ra
road and the Buffalo, New York aud Philadt
pllie Railroad, Tuesday evening, at Clint,
street crossins. about two miles ont Of Bun
10. caused the fatal injury Of Mr.: Dooley.
Emira, and Mrs. Pierce OF Buffalo, while 4
or twelve others we're more Or less severe
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