Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-08-07
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hours.
. Texas horse thief was shot AMI Killed IT
Ok.loua, Clarke county, Arkansas, on Thurs
day. ....
ALARaE building on Lewis street, in East
boston, used for storage purposes and AZ
bonded warehouse, was burned Thursday.
Loss over 100000.
ABOUT twenty of the. employees Of the Pitts.
burg, Fort Wayne and Chicago road were ar
rested Thursday, for stealing goods passing
over the limo. ~>~~rs ~ - -
a BRIDGE is to he buiit across tho Missonr;
River at Atchlson, Kansas, 1,?77 feet long be-
twren'tAe eGaGmIntS 49,
FRANK FULTON, a young man in tho employ
u the Mast)cand Grata Company at Coluu,.
bns, O.. was instantly killed Thursday after.
noon. while attempting to pull mantel top
to tho second atory Of the manufactory.
Ex-VICE-PREs1DBNT CoLFAx and his vito
were tnohtcaso. Thursday, aud loft Tor trap
through Minnesota and Dakota, accompanied
'y r sD11 "sf." "!.s%; nj v Ill va.
sold at suction Thursday, for Isl, 900.
NICHOLSON AND HALLAHAS, murderers Of
Mrs. Lamprsl@ more executed in Baltimore on
Fr4dayss i .~~< = .
'.S--RzPpaaloASs of VIeisas met in Slate Con-
vGndon on WednesdSy and nominated : idll
t!easst ssith COT Hpghest Rqysrnos, r, 81
- skt1 DC hnse drlSs 3txtl llnenS;
tnospsa he.Ah, Is Iaasl. lE41ta IL -
Mrm 6niIstard, rSris, 1ciy Il, tufnnass
three shopmen 10 death, and : fourth psrso6
WA ktlledby jump nom . window 70 eseape
tho dsmes.s. y IF 5,
ss1nk Uarlists were defeated At Malsss Win
aAss ofsiehty.seyen killed. =. -. :. -,
THE south building 81 the Norwich, Conn.,,
bleaching and cleansing works wss burned on
Friday, Loss e75,soo; insured. =
LETTER from Fort Black, Texas, says TO-
rays OF the Indians are increasing to an alarm.
ing extent and scarcely day passes but the
body Of some isolated hontiersmau 10 found.
Stock,an horses are frequently run of from
seemingly secure settlements. Tho letter SAYS
these things happen Notwithstanding the cav.
airy are securing the country.
CHRISTOPHER cuxEcH, wife and child, while
crossing in wagon tho track Of tho Flushing
and North Side Railroad, Long Island, Thurs
day, were struck BY passing train. schmech
was killed, and his wife and child fatally in
jured.
1sADoRE KoSKLE, Of Crawford, N. j., got
drunk while holding a wake over the BODY of
his newly born infant, and brutally beat bis
wife, who was lying sick in bed, from the
effects OF which she died. Konkle WA Arrest.
ed.
THE War Department il advised Of the
death OF Col. Levin Jones, retired United
States officer. He died At Paris, July 10th.
IHE Signal Bureau has completed its ar
engagements for signal station at Pixies
Peak.
CHOLERA is again breaking out in Bowling
Green, Ky. Two negroes died on Friday with
the disease, which is confined entirely to that
race.
The rains of Monday cxtinguished the 1ircs
raging in the woods along the line of the
Camden and Atlantic City Railroad. For
distance OF twenty miles the ravages of the dir
can 90 seen in backsned trunks of trees
burned corn fields and orchards. Farm
houses escaped through the exortions Of the
people.
On Wednesday Of last week, tho BODY OF
Charles ". Hinkley, IN old and esteemed
resident, was found IN the harbor at Osveco.
Inc sad intelligence threw his daughter Mary
f. H'nck'cy, aged nineteen, into commissions
and she died on the following day, it is be.
lieved, OF a broken heart.
IHE mortality report of tho Board OF Health
OF st. Louis, for the week ending SATURDAY.
evening shows the total deaths to be 25s
decrease from previous week, 80. Deaths from
cuolera' 81; increase 7. Cholera n,orbus 50
decrease, 81.
In New York, on Saturday night, tire dry
goods store OF J. J. Simpson l. Co., 6l9 and
OIL Eighth avenue, was destroyed by fire.
Loss on stock and building, $65, 900 !: insu,-
ance, $4,000.
OS the night Of July 18th q man named
Hall, living on the plantation Of Thos. Reed.
IN Ma''son county, Tennessee, was taken ont
OF his bed by mob Of fifteen negroes dis
gu'sed as Ku:KIux, and hung to tree. They
charged him with having outraged an old
negro woman living in the neighborhood.
1iall was from East Tennessee, aud the ne.
6rocs say be boosted Of having been bush.
whackcr during the war.
SINCE leaving Washington in March. Senator
Morton has spent considerable time At the
Hot springs OF Arkansas, where he 40 far re-.
covered from his lameness as to dispense en-
tircly with canes.
EARLY Sunday morning engineer CONWAY.
ct tho Baltimore and Ohio Railway, lost oon-
troll OF his engine on down grade two miles
cast OF Ellomont and forty.five west Of Balti-
more, when the engine ran away, and while
running over forty miles an hour, struck the
'ear OF a freight train, demolishing twenty
cars loaded with corn, cotton and tob.ec.
rom the west. scattering the contents ali over
the track. Engineer Conway, and two men.
named MARITIME aud Elliott, drovers from Par.
Donr ana Harrison counties, West Virginia.
were Killed. I. Burke, the conductor. and E.
C'oney, brakeman, both of PIE dmont. and a
drover named Reynolds, were badly injured.
"A TELEGRAM from Bangor, Me-, states that
on Saturday evening two spans Of the bridge
on the European and North American Road
between Old Town and Milford, three hun.
area leet long, were blown completely away
~ tornado which swept over that section
OF inc state An engine and tender, with tive
men, Which was crossing from Old Town.
plunged INTO the river. The engineer, Geo.
Mcclellan, was drowned. The others ESCAPED.
AN old man named Peter Kistcr and his two
sons George and August, we're arrested on
Saturday, charged with stealing muls in Call.
away county, Missouri. Their house. situated
Twelve miles in the country, was searched.
ana large quantity OF jewelry, consisting o:
"atcnes and chains, earrings, breastpins.
bracelets, rings, and general assortment Of
LIVERY, together with burglars tools, wore
found.
HE first car load Of new Illinois sprinp
wheat was received At Chicago, Saturday, via
the Illinois Central Railroad.
AAo, 600 FIRE in PAINT and oil warehouse
occurred at Toledo on Tuesday.
NORRIS ROCHELLE drank pint of whiskv At
Antwerp, Ohio, and died.
FURTHER alvices from Louisiana. Mo-. sav
the cholera has abatcd, but some thirty per.
sons have died with it since it first broke ont.
including some Of the most prominent citizens.
LII Pralricville and Troy, No., the scourge
ragged fearf"lly, the towns being depopuIated
ny tho disease or the people fleeing from their
II ines. Out Of o.e family Of ninc persons in
INC former place, all OF whom were well last
friday only two remain tn bury the dead.
The disease also prevails in other towns near
by.
DEATHS in Chicago, last week, 1.123-.a in.
crease OF 10Y over the prccee ing week.