Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-08-28
the NEWS.
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rnrr'l woman OF means, obtaining 500 from
ar',hrr female, and making $1,000 extra b,
l"r''ltar operations, has been sent to iall f.,
att, mptng to swnllc a cigar merchant =,
thu tune of s5.rIO.
sr is ANNOUNCED from Boston that numnc,
OF Gentlemen. mostly grain merchants, have
organized IL grange Of the order Of Patrons OF
ll.~han lrv. John Il. Bartlett was elected
Master. and Herbert Ra,,rlitf Secretary, A
fl' number OF charter members was obtained
" II proposed to form oranges in all II Q grain
counties Oh the Atlanta coast.
lHE laying OF q new ocean telegraph cable
between Lisbon, Portugal aud Rio Jancro, S
A., began Thursday morning.
NOSES TAYLOR, All old resident OF Spencer,
ln'., was scred to death BY m OK Monday
N;.'t
II Is stated that tho Mcnnonitcs who arc
r"'s,ip:, West, brought with them to this coun.
try ssio,0c0 in gold.
iw"-ruiRDs of tho Geneva award, due Sep
J<nbrr S'h, has already been paid into the
United States Treasury by Great Britain.
The Erie Railway Company are sending two
,".;,ous OF consolidated mortgage bonds to
Europe for negotiation by Bischoffsheim, in
order That the double tracking and other pro.
jcris may be carried out.
WHALLry, the Tichborne claimants agent,
has returned to England. He said his visit
was satisfactory in all respects. and its object
has been fully realized.
GREAT excitement exists in Baxter Springs,
Ham, over tho discovery OF lead in the streets
OF That city. \ negro boy found it by acct
d' ut few days ago, STAGE which the street
HIS been vacated by tho City Council, am, the
citizens generally have turned ont to mining.
II Is tould III INN. nse quantities near the
surface.
IKE body OF hoat.r that has laid on the
hHtucky shore opposite Cairo since Satur.
l'y, was examined and buried Thursday, BY
l party from Carlo. 1t was a white man un.
Iii 'wn.
'}"RrESzE ELDER, living in the western sub.
s'''s ofSt. Louis, attempted to increase the
kitchen fire with coal oil, Wednesday night.
Her funeral was n11mcrousy attended.
WEDNESDAY afternoon at a late hour, as Gen.
dee Shelby was riding in his buggy from his
II >''cnrc i'll Kansas City to the town OF Aull.
, vile, he was fired upon while passing some
brush ly the roadside by some persons hid
therein. and the shot took effect in his LEG
near the hip. 1t is not known whether the
wound is fatal.
INFORMATION has been re ceiyed of the shoot.
In" OF J. D. Pierce, gambler, at Ellsworth.
h'"sas' Pierce and man named Kane OF.
tered reward OF $1,000 to any parties who
womb run the pursuers Of Ben THOMPSON.
wiz murdered Shoriff Whiting few days ago
back into Ellsworth, when some excitemcn,
: was raise, and d quarrel ensucd, resulting in
the death Of Pierce.
HE race Of the New York Yacht Club for
the Bennett challenge cup. was sailed from
lr'vdcnce Thursday. The Madeline won in
three hours and sixteen minutes.
YESTERDAY All accommodation train on the
Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad collidcd with
freight train. Three men were killed and
three wounded.
1uE break in the Delaware Canal. at Elk.
horn, Md, swept fourteen boats into the
meadow and undermined several houses. from
Which the occupants were rescued with diff.
Guilty.
JOS. WEISS, Of Memphis, fell asleep while
sitting in fourth-story window, tun,bled ont
and received fatal injuries.
john MURRAY Ryan, q suspended priest Of
thu Catholic Church, who has for some time
'''n 'racsiciH5 medicine in Chicago, Thurs
v commenced suit in the Circuit Court
a. inst Right Rev. Bishop Foley, bishop of
tho Diocese, laying damages at $25,O Tho
clam is based on the allegation that the Bish-
OPP i'll suspendins him, acted dcspoticaliy and
lrreSuIarly. and not in accordance with the
.capons of the Church. =
GAssIlrrPEEs have attacked the corn in the
vicinity Of Omaha.
Sr. LOUIS deaths the past week were 2O6; 10
OF cholera and 26 cholera morbus.
PASSENGER and a special train collided on
: tl''- Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, near
Mixers Switch on Saturday. Several persons
were injured more or less, and both trains
ba'lly damaged.
The sub treasury at New York confirms over
$50 o"",oOo in gold coin, and So, coo, 06O in
currency.
rev. GARDINER Spring, for sixty-threc years
'''a*T"r of the Brick Church congregation, died
AT i!is Residence in New York Sunday, aged SO
years.
COLLISION ooCnrred between an excursion
train ana freight train near BLOOMINGTON
LII Friday night, by which two men were,
hl!l'1 a"'l three injured.
i'"N. WILLIAM NJ. MER 1DITfl, who was Sec
r'tarT OF the Treasury under Taylor, died at
lhila!elphia Oh Sunday.
IHl:EE fatal accidents, all the result of
drunkenness, occurred on the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad, Sunday.
lIETHER atlyiccs about the lvnchinc OF
Letter k"sser, at Fulton, Galloway county,
Mo-, Friday, say that Sheriff Law was shot in
t;l'' y II" Ivy tn" mob, and MORALLY wounded,
"l"i that JOHN Watson and young Dunbar
VI 20 also, 1t is feared, fatally hurt Kcsslcr
Vas Il" only one in the carriage not wounded.
LIEUT.. BAEc,rK, Of the Fifth cavalry. re-
ports t" Gen. Sherman, from Camp Arachc,
Arizona. that on the 10th oiJune, with com.
l"hE "l thrty.1ivt' men and eighteen Apache
'''il'rs. alter following Il trail for seven days,
n overlook body Of Apache Indians in the
III uHfalns, near TontO Creek. fight en-
~ Il, and fourtf en- Indians were killed, and
nv women and children captured. The same
h'.' were found other camps, evidently hastily
abandoned
DURING the exhibition of show at CRANKY.
Missouri, on Friday, two drunken rousbs,
No. - Dar Kelley and James Hill. assaulted
( '''!cs Yh"m,s, colpred, and shot him
''T"n@' III" tir"Tt and breast, iriilctiug Sc
y '.'i t'','ilrla. Thomas returned the fire, but
''N'l"u; effect. S.vera! other shots were fired,
and Mr. Schmidt, a prominent merchant of
Granby, was killed, and Mrs. Sweet aud Mr..
Gage wouu!cd. The men escaped.
MAN named Scott, at Seaforlb, Canada, a
~"i COL teacher, arrived from Detroit OH Fri
ca, and went to his fathers house, five miles
d'Sta:.t, Where he met bis wife and child.
1!:Hv started Saturday forenoon for Mrs.
S'"tt's fathers place. Sun lay morning man
r. -'n; ~" ""o'ls near Ey heard a child cry
:. TN searching he found the father and
''''i"r quite dead, with their throats cut. It
supposed Scott cut his wifc's throat and
t1!tn his own.
PIE r"Stotice at Litchtiela, ILL.,, was broken
INTO by burglars ~ nig ht or two stree, who
forced open the safe and stole about $500 in
money anil stamps.
y FHIGHTFUL affair occurred in Seward
equity. Nebraska, Friday. John Mahof,v. a
;dcr, was killed and torn to pieces Nv p
I''.rd Of Texan cattle. His stcp-son a sma!
aud to avoid punishment ran through the
Lord, and the father in attempting to follow
Was knocked! down ard killed. The body was
badly torn ~ fragments, and the pieces were
picked up in Il pail.
Il KANSAS Cry telegram of Saturday says
. Yesterday the body OF a man, supposed tt
" that rf y negro, was found in the woods
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