Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-01-02
VOLUME V.

BARBER's elevator, in Brooklyn, was burned
On Monday night. Loss $20,0
A BUILDING in Duane street. New York, was
damaged to tho extent Of .000 on Tuesday.
HENRY SEIaLER was stabbed to death by
| Frederick Wise, in Williamsburg, N. Y, Mon
day night. Wise escaped.
J. BALRY, . shoemaker, suicided at Cory,
Pa, on Monday.
vHE Standard carpet mills in Blair street,
Philadelphia. Alters carpet mandatory and
Rings yarn spinning establishment were total,
ly burned Monday evening. Loss $4,000.
ALEXANDER REAK froze to death at South
Bend on Sunday. On Saturday samuel Ostcn-
der was found near Grand Trunk Junction.
frozen to death. In Cincinnati, Saturday
night, Benjamin B. Cameron froze to death in
the streets.
TIE Official estimates Of the wheat product !
Miunesota for the year 1872, based upon re- |
liable data, are as follows: The average yield |
per acre, seventeen and three -fOurths bushels, |
makes the total wheat product Of tho state |
during the year no less than 2e.o0o, 900 bush- |
els... Tho aHsourt necessary to hs rcts..szE i i
within tho limits OF the state for home con. |
sumption will hardly reach six millions of
bushels, leaving for export or sale over 10,
COZ, 900 bushels,- than double that Of
the preceding year. This places Minnesota
third, il not second, In the wheat-prod ucing
states Of the Union.
TIE beer-brcwers of New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Massachusetts
have resolved to form organizations to oppose
the additional tax OF three and half cents
per barrel.
GEO. PALMER PUTNAM, the well-known pub
| Usher Of New York, died suddenly on Friday
evening, Of apoplexy.
A YOUNG man named Melvin, recently from
| Adrian, was cut in two by freight train near
Detroit, Thursday night.
THE citizens Of Moline, Illinois, have sub
scribed 81, 900 for public library. Moline has
only 1, 800 inhabitants.
TEE Senate has confirmed the following NOM
nations John T. Coxton, Of Kentucky, Min
lister Resident at Bolivia, uice L. Markobert,
recalled; William P. Crosby, of New York,
Consul General At Rome, uice D. H. Arm
strong, resigned B. w. Brisbane, Of Wiscon-
sin, Consul 1T Vervies, ,uice G. W. Kleiberg, re-
called Horace Grant, postmaster at Stevens
Point John Macarthur, postmaster at Chi
cago.
SUPERVISING ARcHlTECT MULLErT says, il
the appropriation for the erection of the st.
Louis postoffice is increased to $4 0o0, GOO. the
building will be built OF red and gray granite,
latter for the main building.
WASHINGTON Is nearly deserted by Congress-
men. Two committees sit during the recess
the House Appropriation Committee. which
| expects to complete the army, navy, river and
harbor fertilization bill, before reassembling,
and the Senate Caldwell Bribery 1nvestiga-
ton Committee.
| ELISHA GREaoRY, one OF the propriotors OF
| the Canterbury Concert Saloon in New York,
shot 1T one George Wilson, on Saturday even
ing, and accidentally killed Theodore VIII
liams.
TIE London correspondent Of the Scotsman
| states that the total liabilities Of the exploded
firm Of Bowles Brothers, At London, Paris
Nice, Geneva and New York, are now stated to
be something more than f25o, 900. The assets
are not more than E48, 600; Of which sum much
the larger part is of only hypothetical value.
An explosion in reported in coalmine at
Silverdale, England, by which eight miners
were sunocated.
TIE River Thames, which has already over
flowed it's banks in many places, suddenly rose
nearly foot ON Saturday, 1T Windsor. Homo
Park is one vast lake of water. Thousands of
acres of other land are submerged. The pres
ent inundation of the Thames is the greatest
since the food of1852.
A rELnoRAn from Halifax states that VIM.
Wately, colored, steward of the brigantine
Onion Star, to avenge himself on the captain,
attempted to burn the vessel and kill all on
board. He stupehed ali hands while sleeping,
with narcotics, and then fred the vessel in the
hold. Before he could extricate himself he
was sunocated by smoke. The captain
awakened in time to arouse the crew and ex-
tinguish the fire. Wately, who belongs in the
West Indies, WAS the only person who lost his
life.
THREE thousand Paris students, on Friday,
demonstrated in favor of Prof. Robin, dis
tinguished member Of the Institute who was
struck from the jnry list in consequence of his
disbelief in the existence of God.
Work in the new sulphur mines in the Coco
pah mountains, near the Colorado River, Is
progressing finely. Sulphur is found in great
quantities in these mines.
Nlws from the Modoc Indian country in Arl-
zona, state that Major Green was preparing to
surround Captain Jack and his band in Lava.
A section Of the military was moving very
slowly. The Indians offer to fight them ten to
one and will never surrender.
TIE beer-brewers of New York. New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Massachusetts
have resolved to form organizations to oppose
the additional tax Of three aud . half cents
per barrel.
In Dubuque, the other day, Mrs. Maloy re-
covered eight tn ousand and seventy-five dol
lars damages for the death of her husband
from blow at the hands OF one Maloney, a
short timo ago. She claimed 81, 900, but the
matter was compromised by Maloney giving
Mrs. Maloy note for $1,000, due in one yeal
at 6 per cent. interest.
ME-. Cc1FAx's friends announce that hif
principal reason for declining the editorship o1
the Tribune was tho refusal to allow him tG
select staff Of editors without the approval o.
the stockholders.
THERE are fears that the steamship Shan
Z non. which sailed from Montreal for Hull, ha,
I f0undered.
SALT LAKE CrrY fears destruction by incen
: diaries.
A FREIGHT train from Boston was wrecked
near Dodgeville, Rhode Island, on Tuesda,
and 18 cars broken to pieces. An unknown
man was killed.
A DISPATCH from Liverpool says AS persons
including passengers, are said to have per
ished by marine disasters during the pas
ten days. Thirty persons were lost by tn
sinking OF the ship Matchless, off Northum
=. berland county.
TIE town Of Peterborough, in Northampton
: county, England, is flooded. Many of the in
- habitants have been compelled to take rcfug
j. in the upper stories Of their dwellings,.
FIVE hundred miners in the coal distri<
r near Springfield, Ill.,, have struck for an at
, vance Of twenty live per cent. in their wages
- or FIVE cents instead OF four cents per bushe
JACOB SCHN1IzEL, teamster, fell from h
u, wagon at Louisville, while drunk, and ".
y, crushed to death by the wheels.
-. The Office OF Marshal of tho Supreme Cour
!. to which John G. Nicolay has recently bee
appointed, is worth Sc: 900 per annum.
The failure Of Dimmick, Myers l. Co., al
IL Robert Bale, New York gold brokers, is a
~ nounccd.
IT cost Ohio sss,7ee for public printin
binding, etc, the past year.
IN THOMAS L. BOND, prisoner in the coun
on jail at Cincinnati, cut his throat with a pc
NJ knife, and will probably die.
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