Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-08-07
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CHOLERA has broken out in full force in
Carmi, Ind. Eight deaths in twenty-four
hours.
4 TrxAs horse thief was shot and killed 81
Ok ,lona, Clarke county, Arkansas, on Thurs
day.
ALARaE building on Lewis street, in East
Boston, used. for storage purposes aud 40
bonded warehouse, was burned Thursday.
Loss over $4,000.
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 =, e,- g
BRIDGE isto be built across tho Missouri
River ut Atchison, Kansas, ,277 feet long be-
twceusth otttn1nts a..':
FRANK FULTON, q young man in the employ
OF the MaSt]c'and Crate Company at Column
bu', O.. was instantly killed Thursday After
noon. while attempting to pull 4 mantel top
TO tho second story Of the manufactory.
Ex-VlcE-PREs1DKNT CoLFAx and his vito
were tnChicaso. Thursday, and loft for trap
through Minnesota and Dakota, accompanied
BY r sS"1 msr," %.;a'% nj v is va.
NICHOLSON AND HALLAHAS, murlerers Of
Mrs. LamprsI. -sere executed in Baltimsre on
's-RmpBlroAss OK VIeiaas met in State Con-
vseation on Wednesdsy and nominated fun
t!esst via, Col. HugheA toff1sxstnos. = 4 I.
1taff o. lines drafsee i1tati aalqnsnt
knospssa Ahs-Aa, Il Hard ,lE61te ~ -
Mp4 l0uhstard, Paris, 1riy II, bufnsS
three shopmen 70 death, and : fourth psrso1s
was killedby alump nom : window 10 escape
tho fames.s> - = l,sz =
eS1HK garlists we're defeated at Malasa with
ahss ofcishty.seven killed. :: -.
Tue south building 81 tho Norwich, Conn.,,
bleaching and cleansing works was burned on
Friday, Loss $4,000; insured.
LETTER from Fort Black, Texas, saws 10.
rays OF the Indians are increasing to an alarm.
in: extent and scarcely day passes but tho
body of some isolated frontiersman 10 found.
Stock;and horses are frequently run OF from
seemingly secure settlements. Tho letter says
these things happen Notwithstanding the cav
airy are securing the country.
CHRISTOPHER ScuMEcH, wife and child. while
crossing in wagon the track Of tho Flushing
and North Side Railroad, Long Island, Thurs
day, We're struck by passing train. Schmech
was killed, and his wife and child fatally in-
jured.
lsADoRE KoSkLE, Of Crawford, N. j., got
drunk while holding wake ovor the BODY of
bis newly born infant, and brutally beat his
vito, who was lying sick in bed, from tho
effects OF which she died. Konkls was arrest
ed.
TuE War Department il advised Of the
death Of Col. Levin Jones. retired United
states officer. He died At Paris, July goth.
IHE Signal Bureau has completed its ar
engagements for a 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 extinguished the fires
raging in tho woods along the line of the
Camden and Atlantic City Railroad. For
distance OF twenty miles the ravages of the fr
eau DO seen in blacksned trunks OF trees
burned corn fields and orchards. Farm,
houses escaped through the exortions Of the
people.
ON Wednesday Of last week, the body OF
Charles W. Hinkley, An old and esteemed
resident, was found In the harbor at Osvepo.
Inc sad intelligence threw his daughter Mary
f. H'nckIev, aged nineteen, into commissions
ana she died on the following day, it is be.
heved, OF broken heart.
HE mortality report Of tho Board Of Health
OF st. Louis, for the week ending SATURDAY.
evonlng shows the total deaths to be ga
decrease from previous week, 49, Deaths from
cAolera, II increase Z. Cholera n,orbus 50
decrease, 81.
IN New York, on Saturday night, tire dry
goods store OF u. Simpson l. Co., go and
62l Eighth avenue, was destroyed by fire.
Loss on stock and building, $65, 900 insut-
ance, $36,0OO.
On the night Of July 18Th a man named
Hall living on the plantation OF Thos. Reed,
IN Madison county, Tennessee, was taken out
OF his bed by mob Of fifteen negroes dis
gu'sed as ku-Klux, and hung to tree. They
charged him with having outraged an OLD
negro woman living IN the neighborhood.
Hall was from East Tennessee, and the ne
Erocs say he boosted OF having been a BUSH
"hacker 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-
tlrrly with canes.
EARLY Sunday morning engineer Conway,
OF tho Baltimore and Ohio Railway, lost oon-
'roi OF his engine on down grade two miles
cast OF Ellemont and forty. five west Of Balti.
more, when the engine ran away, and while
running over forty miles an hour, struck the
lear OF freight train, demoIishing twenty
cars loaded with corn. cotton and tobacco
from the west. scattering the contents ali over
the track. Engineer Conway, and two men.
named MARITIME aud Elliott. drovers from Bar
bour and Harrison counties, West Virginia.
were Killed. I. Burke, the conductor. and +.
C'oney, brakeman, both of Pit dmont. and
drover named Reynolds, were badly iniured.
A TELEGRAM from Bangor, Me-, states that
on saturday evening two spans of the bridge
on the European and North American Road
'etween Old Town and Milford, three hun.
urea 1eot long, were blown completely away
~ tornado which swept over that section
OF inc state. An engine and tender, with five
'nch' which was crossing from Old Town.
plunged INTO the river. The engineer, Geo.
Mcclellan, was drowned. The others escape0.
AN old man named Peter Kister and his two
s'ns' George and August. we're arrested on
saturday, charged with stealing muls in Call.
away county, Missouri. Their house. sitnated
WE'VE miles in the country, was searched.
and large quantity OF jewelry, consisting o:
watches and chains, earrings, breastpins,
bracelets, rings, and general assortment OF
]"""lry, together with burglars tools. wore
found.
HE first car load Of new Illinois spring
wheat was received at Chicago, Saturday, via
the Illinois Central Railroad.
A $40 900 FIRE in Faint and oil warcbouae
occurred at Toledo on Tuesday.
MORRIS ROCHELLE drank pint OF whisky at
Antwerp, Ohio, and died.
FURTHER aIvices from Louisiana. No.. say
tho cholera has abatcd, but some thirty per.
sons have died with it since it first broke ont.
including some Of the most prominent citizens.
III Praricville and Troy, No., tho scourge
r'Sc' fcarf"lly, the towns being dcpopuIated
ny the disease or the people fleeing from their
II mes. Out Of orc family Of nine persons in
the former place, all Of whom were well Iast
FRIDAY, only two remain to bury the dead.
Inc disease also prevails in other towns near
by.
DEATHS in Chicago, last week, 1,123- an in
crease OF 107 over the prccce ing week.
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