Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-02-06
VOLUME V.

VOLO ME- v.
Arms At Now Orleans destroyed Thomson's
Crescent City Sugar Refinery. Loss $20o, 900.
JOHN J. INGALLS,, tho new U. y. Senator
from Kansas, met With au enthusiastic reccr-
ton at A.chlsou, his home, on Thursday eve-
ming.
THOMAS CAR1wRloHT, Mormon high priest,
one of the leaders OF the Mountain Meadow
massacre, died recently at Beaver.
NJ. PAUL MEssANT, well known French
journalist aud resident Of the United States
since 1861, died on Long Island Monday morn
ing.
IT is stated that some four tho sand sheep,
suffering from contagious skin dis ase, were
recently sent to, New York from Illinois and
slaughtered, and the meat distributed through
out the city.
THE Treasury Department has received
from the United States Cousul at Rotterdam
twenty-five sets Of sugar aamples for the year
1872, which will BIO furnished to Collectors Of
Customs to determine the classification OF i'm
ported sugars. ~'
THERE s reason to hope that the strike OF
iron miners in South Wales viii soon stop.
JAxEs McCAxxA Was run over and killed on
the Pan Handle Railroad, near Pittsbure, on
Saturday. rs
TnE Walnut street brewery, in Madison.
Ind, was burned on Monday. Loss thirty-fv
thousan dollars. '.ss ::
JOHN HUNT, colored, accidentally shot and
killed himself at Cairo. Oh Monday, while en-
gagged in slaughtcring hogs.
LUTHER WILLIAMS has absconded from
Columbus, Ohio, leaving tho affairs of TIVE es-
tates of which he vas administrator in sad.
ly mixed condition.
SENATOR HowE was serenaded by his Wis
consin friends in Washington on Monday
evening.
The coal miners At New Lisbon, Ohio, struck
for an advance OF wages last Monday, aud
their demands not having been acceded to,
they have not been employed since. On Tues
day tho proprietors put into the mines some
forty negroes from Richmond and Norfolk,
VI.
CAPT. ". H. WILEY, prominent broker
Of Indianapolis, was killed by falling from .
Dalton, Georgia, on Thursday.
JOHN VARIABLE, IN inmate Of tho Soldiers
Home, At Dayton, was killed by . locomotive
on Thursday.
Six persons were injured by an explosion Of
gas 10 the Manchester Print Works, At Man
chester, N. H. Considerable damage vac
done to the building.
In San Francisco, on Wednesday evening,
John Teurs and Henry Howard, negro min-
strels, engaged in fight At saloon ON WASH
ington street. Teurs drew pistol and fired
Bowling, the veteran stage manager of that
city, in the left side, tho ball passing nearly
through tis body, indicting fatal wound.
A LOCOMOTIVE exploded on the Sprir gield
and Illinois Railroad, Tuesday evening. No
one hurt.
JOHN OLNyrED, who died in Hartford, FRI
day night, from injuries received by falling
upon an icy sidewalk, was the father Of Fred
erick Law Olmsted, Of New York city. He
was 81 years old, and had been for many
years prominent resident OF Hartford and 4
highly esteemed citizen.
The Excelsior Coffin Works, at Allegheny
City, Pa, were damaged ny fire to the extent
Of s9o. .ooc on Thursday, Insurance. t24,7 100.
&c. GuSs1ro's wagon f.otory At Hil]sboro,
Ill.,, was burned on Saturday. Loss $30, 900
insured for $4,000.
On Saturday freight train hacking into the
Detroit l. Milwaukee depot, st Detroit, ran OF
the track, striking one Of the supports OF the
roofand breaking it. A large portion Of the
roof fell in. Damage about a COO. -Four men
were slightly injured.
The defaulting officer Of tho Granite State
National Bank, of Exter, N. H., il A. Appleto
shute. The bank loses two hundrt d thousan
dollars.
A FIFTY thousand dollar confagration oc-
Cured in Kingston, 8. c., on Monday.
PRoFEssoRs Coz and Lay, and Mr. Hull, Of
the Bulletin, who made balloon ascension
from San Francisco, on Saturday, and landed
twenty-five miles south.
A MAJORITY OF the Massachusetts legislative
committee on the liquor law have reported :
bill to repeal the beer clause.
Two NOTED burglars were arrested in But.
falo on Wednesday evening, with . large
amount OF iewelry in their possession. Among
the articles are valuable gold hunting-case
chronometer watch, No. q, ,492; large gold
hunting.c case watch, With the name partly
erased, but supposed to bc Annie or Alice
Funk, and heavy gold cross set with pearls,
marked R. M. Burton.
AxoNo the combinations by the Senate, on
Monday. were the following: Navy-Commo-
'dore Alexander NJ. Bennock, Rear Admiral,
vice Jas. Lanman, retired Commodore Jno.
L. Worden, Rear Admiral, vice Jas. f. Wins
low, retired Commodore Geo. T. Emmone,
Rear Admiral, vice J. r. Greene, retired.
A MAN named Miller was shot by another
named Davidson, at jamestown, Indiana, on
Monday night. Miller 10 not expected to live.
TIE trial of Eugene Wahrer and Nsx Wah-
rer for the murder Of their .mother at West
Point, Lee county, Iowa, on Sunday, June
3oth, 1879, was concluded on Friday in the
District Court CT Des Moines county, Iowa, At
Burlington. The jury returned verdict OF
msDslaughter.
Four locomotives, attached, to . freight
train going cast on the 1ndiauapolis, Bloom
lngton and Western Railroad, jumped the
track at Champaign, H., on Thursday night,
and ran into train OF freight cars standing
Oh the side-track. The engines were oil bad
|y damaged, aud three OF the freight cars are
. total wreck.
The Russian newspapers whose lutterances
are considerctl.o l.offcial, deny that the Car has
designs on Constantinople. but do not dispute
that lie seeks an eventual southern CONNER
cial outlet in Asia.
A FIRE at Uxbrid2e, Ontario, Wednesday
evening, destroyed the Dominion block. Loss
$4,000.
IT is reported that American bankers Of Lon.
don loanct! Napoleon 100000 to iaci;itate =
coup he was meditating, and that since his
death the money has been returned to them.
AT public meeting in Glasgow, $4,000
were subscribed for = monument to the poet
Campbell.
IT is probable that the present tolls on dis
patches by the Atlantic cable will be reduced
soon.
TIE Queen OF Spain has given birth to boy.
PUBLIC opinion in st. Petersburg is in an
excited state over accounts OF atrocious cruel
ties enacted by the Khivans on the Russians
who have fallen into thcr hands. The people
are heartily in favor Of tho expedition against
the Khiva, and demand exemplary puH ishment
Of Khan. The Russian force will soon be aug
mcnted to $4,000.
A CoNsTANrINorLE dispatch, says au e,ne,te