Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-04-10
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A BRAKEMAN named Smith was run over and
Saturday. ~
Ar Jacksonville, Ill.,, at 2 P. NJ, Friday, the
mercury indicated ninety0 one degrees above
zero. jacksonville lies west Of Springfield
ahont fcrty miles, and $50 miles southwest OF
Chicago.
The pclics Of Chicago captured four river
thieves, Friday evening, but not until two OF
'hc vaSabonds had been shot and severely
wounded.
Two brothers named Michael and Feliu
Kelley, wercs drowned at Clyde, N. Y, on
Thursday evening.
THE gas mems strike was inaugurated al
New York Friday evening.
CAPTAIN JACK, Of the Modocs, is still bel
Escrcnt and irrcconcilablc. 1t is thought ten
days more will elapsc before peace or war is
determined upon. Probably it will end in a
.ight.~
\ FIGHT occurred on Friday between party
IT Pawnexs and Sioux at Willow Island, Neb.,
Il s,,ltins in tho defeat Of the Sioux, several OF
whom were severely wounded, and lost guns
and blankets. Il.
SEVERAL coal bargcs and tow boats sank
tear Staten Island last Tuesday afternoon. A
man and woman were drowned on one whicl,
sank.
ALEXANDER r. STEWART, the merchant
prin e, is reported to be dangerously i'll from
Brightas disease Of the kilneya.Hse. Z
TIE strive OF the gas men has occasioned
ashols supply Of gas ia sthesxestcrn portion
oI New York city.
Iowa Patrons Of Hus5andry will vote for D
". Adams for Governor. -~~ ST
The present tied Of emigration to the west
Aas,nsver been equaled since the completion
Of the Pscihc Railroad, '>.% = G~< =
On SATURDAY. unknown persons entered tho
First National Bank of Toledo, and Viol's
hardware store, and stole $500 in currenc,
and valuable box of papers.
PEEs1DEST GEANT.and his family spent thi
sabbath At Lebanon. n.
\ FIRE at Wardsville, Canada, on Saturday
destroyed propfty valued at s5O, 600. :.
4 FIRE at Wa'halla, s. c., on Tuesday nigh
of last week, destroyed several stores. Or
Friday night, fire at Winnesboro, 8. C.
burned tho Western Union Telegraph ani
southern Express offices, the railroad depot
and adjacent stores.
The Mormon scmi.annual conference wat
held i'll the Tabernacle at Salt Lake City or
Sunday. Six Thousand persons were pre- sent
from alt'rarts of the territory.
BRIGHAM YoUNo has resigned tha presidency
of the Deseret Bank and Cooperative Mclean
tile Institution.
The British and American Mixed Commits
sion have adversely decided what are knowr
as the Calcutta eases. groving out Of the de
&" tention OF United States vessels under til,
proclamation Of the Queen during the late re
bcl!ion, preventing them from sailing iron
British East India ports with cargOessof salt
Ictre.
AN ARRAY in San Francisco, on Saturday
night, resulted in the death OF Manuel E
Escudccra Clcrck, Mexican consul, at thu
hands OF Buenaventura Clrcnga, who claims
to have acted in self.defense.
DETECTIVE SERGEANT GREEN, OF the Lonion
police, has arrived in New York enroute fol
Havana, with papers necessary to secure the
extraction Of Bidwell, charged with defraud.
ing the Bank OF England.
FIFTEEN inches Of snow fell throughout
Colorado on Saturday and Sunday. The storm
was welcome to miners and farmers.
OS Friday morning last party OF ten OF
fifteen Indians stampedcd the government
stock while they were grazing on an island in
the Platte River, near Fort Mcpherson, Neb.
Pursuit was made, and the stock recovered.
Miss PAITIE WRIGHT was burned to death
in Peoria, on Thursday evening, by the ex-
plosion of kerosene lamp.
1t is officially stated that the President has
no intention Of a5olishing the Civil Service
Commission.
HENRY CLEws gave banquet at New York
on Friday night in honor Of the President and
family.
The captain OF river boat has been arrest.
cd at Louisville for cruelty to animals, having
put a crippled horse off on the wharf and lett
it to die.
The residence Of Col. Cunningham, at St.
Albans, West Virginia, the finest in the Kama
Wha Valley, was burned on Thursday.
THs distiery OFF, Blacfmap, near Frank
fort, was burned on Friday night. Loss 8, 900.
AFraE at Jacksonville, Oregon, destroyed
$4,000: worth of property
The Ocean House, the favoritc hotel at Rye
Beach, the fashionable summer resort, was
destroyed by fire Thursday. Loss s1O0, 1000
insurance 100000.
FATHER L. LAp1E, the Oldest priest Of the
Diocese Of Osdensburg, died at Corbeau, N.
y, on Sunday last, aged "a years.
AT st. Joseph, No., on Thursday evening,
the livery stable Of Stuart b Garlan, and con
tents, with eighteen horses, including some OF
tho best in tho city, were burned. A large
brick building, with contents, adjoining, was
also destroyed. Loss $685. 600; insurance IN
known. -,
TIE steamer Pink Varble. belonging to the
southern oil works, struck snag GO miles be-
low Pine Bluff on Tuesday morning, and sunk
to the boiler deck. The boat and cargo are a
, total lose. The boatwas insured IN st. Louis
companies for $4,000, aud her cargo, which
was principally from that city, for s11,0 -
FULL returns OF the election in Rhode Island
give Howard, Republican, for Governor, 1857;
Chase, Democrat, 3,799; Van Zandt, Repub.
]ican, for Lieutenant Governor, 1882 Bailou,
Temperance and Republican, 1888 Wales
Democrat, 2,92o scattering, 133.. Van Zandt
lacks 400 votes of an election.
1OVNd uhu uAt1eu OF0eu playeO car
coupler with other ladz, At Fort Wayne, Ind
on Wednesday, and was crushed to death.
FELIX METzoER fell fifty feet in st. Louis
elevator, and was killed.
ES'the Supreme Court of the District o1
Columbia, judgment by default on bill 10,
$4,000 was given against ex-senator Pomc
roy, at tic suit of Henry Clews Il Co., New
York.
AZ HENRY DARCoUs, who has charge OF tn
Ii ms OF the managerie exhibiting in Washing
t'u. was attempting to change the animal
from one cage to another, one Of them turne'
on him and gave him fearful wound on th
lost side OF lis head and face.
The Delaware and Hudson Canal is open
and the company. have given orders 10 boat
men to commence trips on Monday.
THUS far experts of the Treasury have ider
titled over $4,000 Of the notes ana bond
burned by tho insane cashier of tue bank j
Western Pennsylvania. =,
TWELVE Of the thirteen wards Of st. Loui
ro"tain population Of 421 ,287-nccrcasc ovc
1870, 117,262.
lwEEHTY-rHREE coolies were drowned b
the capsizing OF small boat belonging
the Pacific Mail Company.
HE Carliss have burr el the town ,
Bcrga.
NEAE Fulton, Iowa, a farmer named Marn,