Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-01-23
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AZ Muscatine, Iowa, the jury in the case Of
tho State against Wilmering, for killing his
father short time since, has just returned a
verdict Of murder in tho second degree.
DocroR JONES, a homeopathic physician at
Toronto, daea suilenly on Wednesday, after
taking doss Of cl,lorate hydrate, which had
been admins: cred at his own request ,asler a
painful surgical operation. ssFs. r
REV. JOSHUA LEAvlvr, D. D., associate editor
Of the Now York Independent. died in Brook.
lynoh Thursday from aroplexy, whilc at the
rcsidcucs af his son. .,s.,>.r-,s
Rev. J. D. L. ZEurEr, NJ. D., editor Of the
French Almanac, and Minister Of TIE copgro.
gatiepal Church, died on III ksrsday. in Brook.
yn: {. Il : 81 Il !
TAE report Of finding bottle ot ts.rychnine
In the cell lately vacated by stokes is er:o-
neous. The drug was nu1 vo,nica, aud had
been medically prescribed.
TEE levying of tonnage dues ON American
steners, running bNNcen Bremen and the
UnAh states ahsvidg been stopped ,byder
many, the same cour6e was adopted here, at
she4 Jew Yak sCsstol1 House, Thursday. by
order of the Secretary ofthe Treasury.
RLv. ". C.. CLARK has been expelled from
tho New York Conference Of the Methodist
Church, nr, ,easryibE sneA. lottery osteusihly
for thesbldtRt Of y miaaiohs house and free
reading room. Clark contilNss to .serye J.
church of his own in Brooklyn, apparently
success sful. .x -
A BOILER explosion 20 on "Wednesday. on The
Chattahoochie river, killed two persons and
wounded several.Ss = - u
DEs1ssEsY, French Minister Of War, has
written , letter to Marshal AcMahon. prohib-
hing the circulation OF Bonaparte's addresses
in the barracks Of French troops, and urging
the severe punishment on persons found dis.
tributinG such papers. ..------~- Is
A srARcH-LADEN canal boat at Glencove,
Long island. Was sunk by ice on Thur,day
night. Loss $4,000. -
An important decision was made by Judge
Boterick in the Muscatine District Court on
Monday, dissolving an injunction heretofore
granted restrainins the collection of I've
per cent. tax voted to the Muscatine Western
Railroad Company, involving $4,000. Tho
tax will probably be paid without further op-
position, as but-a comparatively small share
Of the taxpayers were concerned in the suit.
TIE brigantine Mary E. Jones, of the Clyde
river, has been lost at sea. Her. crew WAS
saved. but two passengers, daughters OF Da-
vid Sutherland Of Clyde river, were drowned
- the cabin. -. : -
COOPER, REEs l. Co., bankers Of Baltimore,
we're swindled to the amount Of $4,9o0, on
Saturday hast, by payment Of bogus draft for
that amount. purporting to be drawn by Glib.
Casanova Il Co bankers, New York, and pay
able to the order Of R. s. Knox, Baltimore.
AMONG the amendments that passed the
House with the Appropriation bill WAS an i'm
portant one by McCrary, OF Iowa, which pro-
vldes that hereafter no money from the con-
t'ngent fund Of the House shall be paid to .
contestant for seat in the House.
The committees Of both Houses have agreed
to ro'ort in favor OF giving the Kentucky Salt
Company $4,000 for the destruction of their
works near Manchester, Ky., by Gen. Buell., to
keep them from falling into the hands of the
rebels.
TUESDAY evening the planning mill Of Messrs.
Trimble. Mcintyre l. Co., iu Allegheny CITY.
together with ave dwellings,, was entirely
destroyed by fire. The total loss 10 $4,000,
Oh which there il . small insurance.
NEWFOUNDLAND journals announce the loss
OF schoonors Elizabeth aud Magnolia, the
hrst With the loss OF her entire crew, and the
second with the loss Of her captain and four
men.
The Senatorial contest in Kansas has mar
rowed down to Pomeroy, Gov. Harvey and
Judge Lowe. Seventy-eight members are
pledged in opposition to Pomeroy. sixty.seven
votes are sufficient to elect.
MATILDA HERON, who arrived in New York
from San Francisco few days ago, is IN in.
mate OF the Park Hospital, suffering from al.
coholic hysteris. Her little daughter is cared
tor in the, same Institution.
AkSRxEaiAx named Ben Anderson vi. in.
staut:y killed in Chicago. on Wednesday, by
hll'ng through stairway hole in The new
Clifton House, distance OF forty feet.
WALTER HADsEIL and Dewitt Ellis quarrelcd
over game Of cards at Rock Island, on
Wednesday, when Hadsell shot Ellis through
the body, aud escaped.
TIE German Savings Bank, of Chicago, sus.
ts'neda = heavy run on Wednesday, in conse.
quence Of reports that the institution Va,
Weakening
isaac MILLS, agent OF an extensive house in
New York, was robbed of $4,000 worth ol
jewclrya at the fremont House, Chicago. earl,
Weduesdayevsnlng while at supper.
A PORTION 81 the library of Edwin Forres,
has been destroyed by fire at his late rcsidenc<
in Philadelphia. Tho famous original copy o.
Shakespeare, published in 1923 and valued a
$1,000, was consumed. Total loss between
sl2, 900 and $751;
BILL has been introduced into the New
York Legislature disfrsnchisipg any person
convicted OF bribery, larceny or any infamous
crime; also any one laying wager on IN elec.
tion.
The Postal Appropriation bill, 40 finally
eomp'eted, calls for $32 sos, ,767. The onl,
item which, is expected to GAUGE debate ID that
OF half . million dollars as increased compen
sat1on to railroad companies for carrying
mails.
TEE Kellogg legislature in Louisiana ha,
nominated Joe Ray for U. 8. Senator in p,act
OF Kellogg. resigned.
WV. B. SMALL has been nominated for Con
Rress by the Republicans Of the first New
Hampshire district, and Austin T. Pike in thu
third district.
WHEH the cell in which Stokes was confined
prior tohis eentence was searched, q little bot
ae was found in the corner, which, on exam
'nstion BY chemist, was found to contain ,
concentrated solution OF stryclnine.
=. LIN. Barlow, in an interview. said non,
ofthe proc seds Of the SO 0oc 600 bonds Of Fri,
proposed to be irsued will be used to pay OF
the floating construction debt. The work o
laying third rail will begin at Buffalo as sool
as the season permits, and will be cxtendc,
as fast ~ funds arc secured till the road unite
with the Boston, Hartford and Erie road.
A Bo1LER in factory .st Charlcrrie. BiIgium
exploded, instantly killing eleven persons IN,
wounding = large number.
AT Pontiac, Mich., Portia Walter, the e!des
daughter Of Hon. Mark Walter, dropped
kerosene lamp, breaking it and saturating he
clothing with oil, which instantly took 6r
and burned her fatally. Her parents wcr
severely burned in trying to extinguish tn
flames.
TIE paper mill at Amsterdam, N. Y, wa
burned OH Monday. Loss $50, 900.
DISPATCH from Bombay says q report ha
reached that city that terrible carthquak
occurred at soonguhur, town Of India, in
detached district OF the Barada dominion,
ia miles north Of Bombay. Fifteen hundre
persons are said to have been killed in I'll
toxin alone. Nothing hae haen Loorl f-,,