Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-03-20
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Parkersburg, West Virginia, Thursday even
ing. A block Of stores in the business centre
was destroyed. 81.
Jonx MALLORY, usher Of the church Of tn
Messiah, suicidcd St. Louis on Friday. ~
IN New York, on Friday, Chas. Cordes &C
clsed of the murder Of Jno. Rourke, pleaded
guilty OF manslaushter in the third degree
AMI was sentenced to four years imprison
mtut. =,
GE'. DRIVER, who murdered his wife las
November, was hung for the crime in Chicag,
ON FRIDAY. =
TsnEs small chilhen, q son ind tlausltc,
Of Henry Plcede, and son of Charles Bake.
were drowned at Bangor Maine. on Thurs
day, by breaking through tho ica while ~
play.
in the business portion OF the place. :L'ss
100000. '.'.'
Ir is reported from Boston that the schooner
=. Ceres sunk near Bakers Island lights Oh
Wednesday. All on board, five men, were
drowned. ~
r.s dwellings, we're burned in Ashland, Pa,
. Oil Wednesday. Loss So, 600 / .
! 4 TIN Thousand dollar tire \ reported from,
Iowa City, iowa. 80
Lon JAMES attempted to escape from a
court room at New AlbkpI, Indiana, on We'd:
nesday, by making savage attack Upon John
Switzerland the city marshal. Switzerland,
: ~ sclf-defense, Not him tvice-oncc tl,lb1SA
the arn,then through the.heatk sanlnS him
Instantly y = : : :
=. In sinkinga shaft for coal, tevenmiIe ffoin
Dcs Moines, Iowa, ON Wednesday, petroleum
made its presence known by loud noise and
rush Of gas and srccn,sh-colored oily swatel
into the shaft. This was set on fire, and the
fire vas afterwards esxtinguished by filing UP
the shat. Steps will be taksn at once ia
ascertain if the Oil is there in paying quaint.
ties. ..-
Tue RI Rev. DR.. Newman, recently re.
elected to the chaplainship OF tho Senate
proposes to take 2 "trip around the vorhl Z,
Governments expense: TO accomplish This
end, the President has rendered him tho ap.
pointmcnt Of inspector of Consulates, 4 posi-
ton which pays both salary and travelling
expenses.
AN epidemic is raging amongst the cattle
in the vicinity OF Lawre nceyilie, Indiana, with
Rossvilc distiIicry forty-nine out OF L lot OF
slxty-two have died since Tuesday, and nun.
bers arc dying hourly. What the disease is
has not yet been determined: -'------~ -"
LAST Sunday morning Ezra Clever, about
eighteen years old, near Noiynn Station, Har-
din county; KY, demonstrated With his father
Tor choking younger brother. The old man
seized shovel to stl Ike him, when Ezra struck
him OH the head with board, injuring him 10
badly that he did the same evenings
In Vallejo, California, on Thursday, Jas. b,
Page shot his wife through the neck and then
put ball through his own head, Mrsy Page
will probably recover. II
SAMUEL TICKLE, farmer IS years of age,
was assaasinated At his home near Council
Bluffs on Wednesday evening: The murder er
is unknown.
WEALTHY farmer living near McGrcger,
Iowa, while retsfnihgl homie from that city
was waylaid and robbed of the proceeds OF a
large sale of cattle, aud beaten so that Ills
life is dispaissd 81. The assalants are un-
known.
The Great Eastern Circus met with series
OF misfortuncs in louisville. On Monday
night their tent was blown down and three
persons killed. On Thursday the horses It,
tacned to one of the wsgons"in the process.
sion ran away, killing their driver, JAS Bar
Der, and boy named Geo. Seab or, and seri-
ously injuring an old man.
AMOUNT of legal tenders at present out
standing 1857 ,O0o.440.
SEvEhAL failures are reported from Virginia
City, Nevada, causcd by a sudden and heavy
decline III mining stocks.
A BOY in Wyandotte, Kan, named Combs,
aged II years, tried to shoot nm apple, a la
VIM. Tell, from the head OF little brother
two years old, and shot him in the centre OF
the forehead, killing him instantly.
P. T. Devoid and Mrs. r. A. Tyncr, charg.
ed with the criminal abductionot Miss Veto
ria Layton, were to have been examined at
Glenwood. Iowa, Wednesday,, but Devoid had
fad. Mrs. Tyner waived an examination and
was held for trial in August next. Much ex-
element exists in that section - - So
The robbery OF the Falls City Tobacco Bank
at Louisville, KY, grows in magnitude daily,
and it is now believed that the Amount of
bonds taken 10 between 5000, QUO and $500, 900,
mostly railroad, canal, and Government
bonds. '..'
GEN. CANBz's troops are moving against the
Modocs. :,
An unsuccessful attempt was made to rob
the Metacomet Bank, at, Fall River, Mass
early Wednesday morning. The burglars had
succeeded in blowing open the inner and out
er doors to the safe when parties approaching
frightened item away
The Quincy Wing say that report has
reached that city to the effect that daughter
: OF clergyman living near Chillicothe,; No..
had been brutally outraged by a negro on
Saturday last. near her fathers residence.
The ravisher, having effected his hellish pur-
pose, stole horse in order to escape, but was
pursued and overtaken about twenty miles
from Cbi!licothe, where he was shot dead and
his body left where fell. j..
AT Portsmouth, n. H., = tow DAYS since, a
son OF Samuel White, aged fourteen Years.
accidentally shot and killed his brother.
THE Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Rail-
road Company have reduced their tariff on
grain from points along their line Of road
three cents pcr:bushel.; =
WSs1ow PICKETT was shot and killed by
one Woods, lin an affray at Sacramento; CAL,
several days ago.
BARBARA HoEN1DLE, ! German lady. com
nlstcd suicide at Monmouth, Ill.,, Wednes tlav
Ivy taking arsenic. The deceased had been for
some time insane.
IHL coal mines at Youngstown, Ohio, arc
almost stopped i'll consequence Of strike bv
the miners for more pay, which has been go
ing on for some weeks without prospect Of
settlement. The employers and employees are
holding out with determined spirit.
The body of auemploye ofthe rolling mills
at Youngstown, Ohio, WIS discover ed in par
tally decomposed state, on the banks OF the
river, two miles below the town. where it had
washed ashore. Flo is supposed to have been
murdered by some Plttsburg roughs. who had
threatened his life while here some two
mouths ago.
IN New Hampshire Straw's majority will be
hctween 300 and 40. In the second Concre..
s!onal district, with all the towns heard from
but one. Austin r. Pike, Republican,. has -
plul atty.
A FIRE at Louisville, Thursday night. de-
stroycd the rectifying esta .isl,ment of W r.
Wiiler Son. LOSS $50, G0d-iDsurance sa7
700.
The Office of Sheriff Gi|lcn Walters, at Cor
NTH, Miss, was robbed OF 1000 last night by
burglars, who blew open the safe. No clue to
the perpetrators.
"A PETITION signed by 1000 women OF st.
Louis, was presented to the Missouri Ir2:-ia.
ture, asking for the repeal OF tho s. ci4l cy,I
laws Of st. Louis.
Tue wife of Mr.. Hill, farmer living five
miles from Aurora, Ill.,. became suddenly in.
sane Wednesday morning, and, leaving tho