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

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]siA AnlInkL 1f1EnalAs, commanding Is.
Sddsh fscilic hee+, hss been placed on tho re-
tired list in the Department. Rear Admiral
A'my has received prepeerator! orders 10 COM
mand flcot in the navy. Rear Admiral Taylor,
: cos4msn.ing the So.th AtianticIAeeN win bs
: rei1ed, and reliivsd Of comnapd!by Rear|Ad.
miral Strong. Rear Admiral Jenkins, com.
man1ins the Asistic fleet, will be retired In
December. His successor is not yet desig-
mated. +. 70 -
TIE wife Of Cassius Claxton, living in Henry
!. county, .Kyx.wss awakenedes1sw uigtts since
by man named Payne attempting to get in
ut window. Mrs.. Claxton seised pistol and
shot Payne through the head, infict,ug \ fatal
wound. Mrs: CIaxton was tried and honorably
acquitted -
ruos CqssEsrex, aud Thomas Roenoy and
Patrick Feoney, brothers, were killed In 4
well at Huntington, Wis.,, Thursday afternoon.
Cause foul air. Connerton decended first and
falling to, tue bottom dead, Feeney; went to
his assistance. followed BY his brother, when
both suffered the same fate. Connerton leaves
wR0and seven children, -
Two sons OF David Kendall, highly re-.
spectacle citizen OF Henry county, Tenn.
aged eighteensn twenty-five, were drowned.
Saturday, while bathing. :
\ GERMAN named Rittan WAS shot, proba.
bly, fatally, Tuesday night, through the neck
and body, at Richmond, lndiana, By q pistol
in the hands ofa boy fourteen years old, who
1ctn hin koR~ hv~~w
TELEGRAM from Bridgeport, Conn.,, states
that while officer Jennings snd PARTY we're
eonvsrsing. Thuriday evening, dog owned
by the latter attacked jennings animal and
was beaten o6 when he jumped at his owner.
catching him by the neck and cheek, and in.
ficting fearful and probably fatal wounds.
The directory Of Detroit for this year con-
tains 49, names, which, on the basis OF
three and half inhabitants for each name.
would give population Of $4,000.
SERIOUS railroad accident occurred Tues
day afternoon on the Southwestern Road.
near !amesport, Mo. double engine train
was coming down the grade rapidly, when =
drove OF cattle started to cross the track
ahead OF tho train. The engines ran into
tEcir midst, add threw them in various direc-
tl"ns, but ditchcd both engines and wrecked
the train. A fireman named John Morgan
was instantly killed. The two engineers, Ed
ward Mil's and George Wallingford, were
badly injured. 80
The firm OF Case, Klaus l. Co., OF Green
Bay, g<neral dealers and dealers in lumber
and shingles, has been thr0wnninto bank.
ruptcy. The estate Of O. X. Moore, Of Nee
hO
granted by Judge Miller, Of Milwaukee. Par
ties in Chicago, who profess to bo posted, -.
'stlt that the liabilities OF the two firms Of
Case, Klaus X Co. and Earl, Case l. Co. will
reach half million dollars.
"THE family Of Mr.. Gamnel G.. Merriam. O.
the town Of New Haven, one Of the oldest and
best known families in Oswego county, had
narrow escape from death by poisoning ono
oay last week, through eating toads,ools
which were mistaken for mushrooms. All
We're rendered dangerously i'll, but arc now
doing WE'LL. >.E.-' =.
The Chambers-Seddons prize. fight took
place Sunday about i've miles from BROOKLYN.
he latter being defeated in fourteen rouudsi .
GovERNAEST surveyors report the discovery
OF immense tracts Of pine lands in northern
and northwestern Nebraska, country here
toforo thought to be barren. i (
Two women were killed by Indians at Camp
Brown. Wyoming Territory, last week.
). d. R1rLEx, clerk in the PostofIico De-
r"rtmcnt st Washington, committed suicide.
Saturday. :.
Mrs. y. F. &. OsBoRNE, Of Kalamazoo.
Michigan, suicided Friday. Cause, domestic
troubles.
CHOLERA has appeared at Pleasant Hill. N.
j., opposite New York.
The Sheriff OF Des Moines county. Iowa. "a.
turned from the hcnt after tho railroad rob
bcrs. He says they have fled to Texas and
Mexico.
AT Three Rivers, Mich, on Friday, Edward
fisles, son of the proprietor Of the Three
Rivers House. suicided BY taking two ounces.
vi laudalium.: :, *I..; -
DEATHS of st. Louis for the week end;np
Saturday evening 2l1 decrease from previous
wees ~. Seventeen arc reported ~ ohOlcra.
a'fd 70 40 cholera morbus.
Ar Worcester, Mass.. on Saturday alter
noon, tho state consta able, assisted by local
"hicers, visited a largo number OF saloons in
tins city whore bcer is sold, and seized all tbat
could be found, the total amount being about
one bundled: kegs. Most ri tho saloons vis. 4
tied were Kept by Germans.
The Texas cattle fever, which has boen
prevailing in DeKalb, Davies, Nodaway. and
other counties OF northwestern Missouri, for
two weeks past haa carried CT, several thous.
and head, and issa]l lsging. .&
DRUNKEN roughs assaulted tho polics at
lrovldebcc, r. T., Saturday night, and pistols
were used to 9uc)l the riot, Fifty Of the mob
were wounded, some seriously. :
lwESTY'rHREE THOUSAND six hundred emi.
rants arrived at Now York last week,
AT Chicago,' Oh Saturday evening. the |
haSna'cent five-stor' marble building, erect
ca by the Singer Sewing Machine COMPANY
Tor fleld' Letter u Co., and not yet occupied |
was da'na@ed by hre to the extent of $lCO. .OOO
Two men, Edward johnson, q foreman ~
the city pottery, and Louis Knight. . painter.
while rowing on pond, near the water works. |
"t Detroit, ran against snag, the boat up
SGT, III ten feet OF water, and, being sheet
iron. WAS unmanagablc. Both were drowned.
CITIZENS Of Portland, Oregon, residing in
Washington state that the fire in that city was
confined entirely to the oldest portion of that
town, and in which nearly all buildings we're
VI wood and OF comparatively small value.
Many Of the structures have been standing
rom tho hrst settlement Of the place, no fire
OF any Importance having ever occurred. In
Tic district eighteen squakcs wero burned
"v'r, principally occupied by dwellings,. All
the best and most substantial business part
" lie city escaped.
Os Saturday n,.rrng u dreadful accidens
occurred On the Northwestern Railroad, near
W':an, England, to the Scotch tourist express
tram ir"m London. Twelve persons wore in
stant'y killed and thirty wounded. Among
the killed is Sir john Anson. Many OF tho
injured will die.
FoUR deaths from cholera, ono from cholera
,norb6s, ind three from cholera infantum arc
stnp6rtc6 t" have occurred at Dayton, Ohio,
aud vicinity, durm, the past week.
CIV Wo DsoN. OF Missouri, aud Gen. James
Graz; and several other gentlemen of st. Jo-
seph, No., went across the line into Kansas,