Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-08-14


DAVID JONES, Waterman, and Hugh Mur-
Sray, lrcn,an VI, tho steamship Atlas, lying ut
>N!s twelve, >Nurtl, RIVER New York, had an
ahrrcati"n, when Jones seized Murray and
threw 'Iul IatU: tho river, aud before help
<'uu't reach hl,n lie WIS drowned. Jones was
ar Sc |.
Ttl uli'distilIrry building on Princc street,
is"ston, WHY burned. Friday morning. Loss
;sG3,00o ; insurance SIS, coo in tho America OF
Ihtt >hurs.
\ Dlar!xTcu from Berlin says tho cholera il
prevalent in the barracks in that city.
..Tuhaa.s4*F hnuwAu, from New Bedford, 0diS6
>l9ll, for cruise in tho Atlantic, capsized and
five of her crew were drowned. The remain.
der, seventeen in number, wero rescued by q
passing vessel and landed ut Liverpool.
;ALA"aE rico mill In the Stepney suburbs OF
London, has been destroyed by fire. Loss
about 5000, 600.
REAR ADMIRAL. SrEEDNAN, commanding tho
S"nth Pacific fleet, has teen placed on the re-
tined list in the Department. Rear Admiral
Amy has Il rcived preparatory orders to com-
mu'lda IL ct in The navy. Rear Admiral Taylor
& luluam|lnE the South Atlantic fleet, will bo
retired, and relieved OF command by Rear Adj
nnra1 Strong. Rear Admiral jenkins, cunl-
ma'"hn. the Asiatic fleet, will DO retired in
December. His successor is not yet desig-
mated.
Far wife OF Cass,us Claxton, living in Henry
county, Ky. WAS awakened few nights since
toy Il man named Payne attempting to get in
Ut window. Mrs. Claxton seizrd a pistol and
shot Payne through tho head, intlctlng fatal
wound. Mrs. Claxton WAS tried and hunorably
&C :uittcd.
Tl"s. CoNSERroS, and Thomas Feeney and
Patrick Fcrney, brothers, were killed in a
we'll at Huntington, Wis.,, Thursday afternoon
Cause foul air. Conncrton dccenlcd first and
falling to the bottom dead, Feeney went to
his assistance, followed by his brother, when
both suffered the same fate. Connerton leaves
wife and seven children,
Two SONS of David Kendall, a highly re.
spectacle citizen Of Henry county, Tenn,
AGED eighteen and twenty-five, were drowned,
Saturday, while bathing.
y GERMAN named Rittan was shot, proba-
hy fatally, Tuesday night. through tho neck
and body, at Richmond, Indiana, by a pistol
III the hands ola boy fourteen years old, who
m stock him for burglar.
y TELEGRAM from Bridgeport. Conn. states
that Willie officer Jennings and n party were
conversiuS, Thursday evening, a dog owned
by this latter attacked jennings animal and
was beaten III, when he jumped at his owner,
catching him by the neck and cheek, and in.
lic'inS fearful and probably fatal wounds.
The directory of Detroit for this year con-
talns 81, l72 names, which, on the basis OF
three and half inhabitants for each name,
would give Il popu'ation of 113,OO0
SERIOUS railroad accident occurred Tues
'la; afternoon on the Southwestern Road.
hear JAmc~port, Mo. double engine train
was coming down the grade rapidly, when a
drove Of cattle started to cross the track
a!'rai IT the train. The engines ran into
H. II midst, add threw them i'll various dircc-
toms, but ditthcd both engines and wrecked
I'll" train. y fireman named John Morgan
was instantly killed. The two engineers, Ed
ward Mills and George Wallingford. were
badly injured.
HE finn OF Case, klaus Il Co., OF Grecn
GaN, S>ncral dealers and dealers in lumber
aud Shingles, has been thrownninto bank
ruptrv. LII" estate Of o. X. Moore, of Nee.
hah, was the complainant, the order being
granted by Judge Miller, OF Milwaukee. Par
It's i'll Chicago, who profess to be ,ostetl, as
sent that the liabilities Of the two firms Of
case, Klaus X Go. and Eail, Case l. Go. will
reach half IL million dollars.
TIE family OF Mr. Samucl G.. Merriam. o.
the town OF New Haven, one Of the oldest and
i's known families in OsweHo county, had u
harrow escape from death by poisoning one
'ay last week, through eating toadstools
which were mistaken Tor mushrooms. All
N'r'' re- '!' red dangerously i'll, but arc now
DONG we'll.
Tie manifestations prize fight took
l',rc Sunday about live miles from BROOKLYN.
he latter being defeated in fourteen rounds.
GOVERNMENT surveyors report the discovery
IT immense tracts Of pine lands in northern
"'rl northwestern Nebraska, a country here
tor" thought to be barren.
Tw" women were killed by Indians at Camp
l'"wn, Wy"mlnS Territory, last week.
j. II. RIPLEY, Il clerk in tho Postofficc De-
Iart"'cnt 1t Washington, committed suicide.
Saturday.
Mis-. L.. +. s. OSBORNE, OF kalamazoo.
Michigan, shielded Friday. Cause, domestic
troubles.
CHOLERA has appeared ut Pleasant Hill, N,
J, "Iposit" New York.
The Sh"riir"f Des Mrincs county, Iowa. re-
turned from the hrnt after the railroad rob-
/" r.. i'll" says they have fled to Texas and
VI, xitn.
Ar lhrr" Rivers, M'ch., on Friday, Edward
''Sh"", son of the proprietor Of tho Three
h:"'s House, suicidcd by taking two ounces
vi l.ulauum.
D!|In1 ii st. Louis for the week ending
''N"'d'H eve ming I'll 1ccreas. from previous
,"n'' 90 as cholera nnrlu1s
Ar Worcester, Ma"-., On SATURDAY after
'""'n. til" stat" cn,st able assisted by local
: 'h'' T., Hslt''! Il !nr3: number Of saloons in
~ city "h"rc beer is gold, am, seized Ill TINT
r'iI'' br found, tho total amount being about
one hundred kegs. Most OF tho saloons via.
ted were opt by Germans.
lIIE Texas cattle fever, which has been
pr vai'lnS in DcKalb, Davies, Notlaway, and
''h"r r"Lntr~ Of northwestern Missouri, for
w" y" Ks past has carried II several thous.
and head, and is still raging.
DRUNKEN rouShs assaulted the police at
1f"V'd'urr, X. l.. Saturday night. and pistols
"'r used G',"ll the riot. Fifty Of the mob
"''' ""H"l'd, ZONE cripusiy.
l"'.>'f'IIIElE THOUSAND six hundred cInl-
rant arrived at New York last week.
~ 'h!ca%n, On Saturday evening. the
"''@ u'''c"n' i'r"-st''r: marble building, crcct-
ny IN" Singer Sewing Machine Company
I'r flt'h Letter Co.,, aud not vet occupi,d
MAS dhna"'"l by fire t" the extent rt SirD OOo
Two mon. Edward Juhn-nn Il fprcuan nr
H. city pottery, and Louis Knight, u PAINTER.
"!''l' rowing on pond, near the water works.
1T Detroit, ran against snag, tho boat up-
~, m ten feet Of water and being sheet
Ir"n, was unnanasablc. Both were drowned.
CITIZENS Of Portland, Oregon, residing in
Washington state that the fire in that city was
'''nii" i entirely to the oldest portion OF that
'''"r, and in which nearly all buildings were
III ""'"t and Of comparatively small value.
N'nv ct til" structures have been standing
'''n til" first ret tIclncnt IF the place, no fire
"' ah' Importance having ever occurred. In
''''' "'''rnt cIglt' squares were burned
"V'r principally occupied by dwellings,. All
'II' /" Il md most substantial business part
= ''r 'nN 'nI"i.
o. S.hls'l,v morning Il dreadful accident
''' n'''d tn the Northwestern Railroad, near
"'..ln, Eu=I nd to the: sc.tcI, touris,r1rrct
''.'n I'"'r J. '"i.'u. Tntv. PERSONS were. ir,-
~';n'iE h'iI' Il and thirty wounded. Among
:i'r h'll,'i Is SIR john Ansnn. Many of tl,
injured will 'r.
FuUi: deaths from cholera, one from cholera