Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-07-10
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ru the 10th nt last November.
WAGNER, The Is|, OF Shoals murderer, and
t>" others, escaped from the Alfred tMainc)
jail on Wednesday night.
MAN named Il. ID. Hcrnwick went to
nll"cy, Ill.,, some days ago, and commenced
business rs 4 commission merchant On
"Wednesday it was discovered that h" had
srd forged checks on the banks for scvrra
thousand dollars, and had lett tho city. HIS
whereabouts are not known.
Ar Drs Mu,nrs, Iowa, Saturday night. Net
son Yard shot and instantly killed Jackson
Jones, who Yard alleges has repeatedly out
RACED his wife. Mrs. Yard also fired 4 shot at
JONES with y revolver, hut missed. Yard and
his wife surrendered voluntarily to the au-
thoritirs aud are both in Jail.
.,nurr Sl20. 900 will be required to pay the
claims for tho additional twenty per cent.
compensation allowed to certain civil en-
pl ,ycs Of the government in the city of WASH
inston by the recent decision OF the Court ot
Claims, affirmed by the Supreme Court.
PREPARAT1 Ms are being made to print the
new national bank currency authorized by
Congress, an appropriation Of $6OO.COO to pay
therefor having become available.
LIEUT.. BABcoCK, Of the Fifth Cavalry, who
WAS sent in pursuit Of tho murdcrcrs Of Almy,
overlook them in the mountains, compelled
an engagement, and killed fourteen and cap.
turcd six. Two Ut Babcock's Indian aids were
wounded.
TUE Kay knitting Mill, at Unionville, Mass.,
was DESTROYED by fire Wednesday night. Loss
$b,,uuo; insurance $4,000. Spontaneous
combustion.
GEN. HOWARD, referring to the various re-
ports concerning him III connection with his
late management Of the FrccAmcn's Bureau,
declares that he never misal Piled ONO dollar
Of public MONEY, and the moment there shall
hr all official charge he will demand court
martial, Us the most Cff, ctuAl means OF clear
ing him q! every vcstlgc of unjust suspicious.
HANNIBAL TlBDELs and Charles Lamb, aged
respectively . and ~ years, ". re drowned in
Iiallry's Fond at Lewiston, Maine, Monday,
by the "PsethuS ct boat.
SNvEN HUNDRED AND rffrx Mormons have
just left England for the United States.
, HoN. JOSEPH WILSON, Member of Congress
from Oregon, died at Marietta, Ohio, on We'd
ncsdsy. of paralysis.
\ SALOON KEEPER named Aaron Rose was shot
and m"rtally wounded at Bloomington, lnt!i-
ana, Wednesday night, by tho Hon. George
A. Bushi:k, late SPEAKER Vi the House Of Rep
rr>rntativcs, and now President OF the First
National Bank at that place, and brother Ut
Judge Samuel II. Buskirk, of tho Supreme
Court. Eu>kirA asked Rose for whisky for two
r"lnrcu men who wanted him to treat, aud
Rose refused, saying lie had been requested
10y Judge Buskirk not to let his brother have
amy liquor. On bis refusing second time
Euskirk fired, the ball entering the side in the
direction OF the heart ,iRflictIng fatal wound
\ PUBLIC sale OF shorth from Oakw God
farm, hear Drs MoiIcs. Iowa, Wednesday,
brought $4,000. Cows sold at from $A00 to
$50. Among the purchasers were Cyrus
!ones, of Illinois, Col. King Of Minneapolis,
and other noted cattle tancicrs.
In the Dubuque Telegraph of Wednesday,
Dannis \. Mahoncy, who, during the war, was
lnrarccratea Ill Fort LAFAYETTE on account ut
his strong secession proclivitics, in speaking
ul General G. W. Jones marriage to the Re-
publican party at Dcs Moincs, says there is
NJ thpu and purpose in tho Goneral's do
ins;s. 1t may be folly i'll him to act as nc is
doing, but he is not acting tho foil in doing
it. We fullnN lis example. As the Repub-
l"an party Of iowa has adopted our princi-
piles, don't sec the need Of any further
fvrmaity.
J. +. SPEEE, of Unontown, Pa, jumped, into
the river al Kansas City, Wednesday,, and was
drowned. lie was drugscd and robbed OF
several thousand dollars last Friday, and since
then has acted strangely.
Miss MARY JANE DAVIS, young lady Of o.,
tie daughter Ut L. II. Davis, q prominent cit
NJ "f Bellevue, Iowa, shot herself through
the heart with pistol, Wednesday evening
tAu-r-''isappointcG love.
The public debt was reduced 81, ~, l5s dur
IN; June.
\ DUEL was fought near Montgomery Sta
tinn, La, Oh Mon'lay between cx-Judge Coo.
Icy, OF New Orleans, and Il. Il. Rhrtt, Jr., OF
tn" Picayunc, the former being killed at the
- cond shot.
The wife OF Ex-Governor Washburn, of
Miuucsota, died Sunday evening.
WIsE and Donaldson, ;pronauts, are building
n balloon in New York, in which they propose
tn make = voyage to Europe, starting about
August Goth.
dead in the same room at Baltimore, having
committed suicide
ST. PAUL will have the frcc-dclivcry system,
eight carriers. after tho first OF August.
TIE value Of railroad property in Ohio is
$7o,2l3.55o.
IN the Missouri River, Dakota, near the
y. Z. Il. II Sergeant Gilmore, with three men,
"l,le rowing on the river, capsized. Une
private Of Co. n. Goth Infantry, George J.
Price, WAS drowned, and but for the heroic
Efforts Of III" sergeant, the others would have
suffered the same fate.
ITALIANS in New York petition for measures
t" put dosn the traffic in Italian children, car
ricd on between Italy and America.
The receipts Of internal revenue for the
fiscal year just closed were 81, 900 600 in excess
I'll the estimates.
bNI.-HA1F the business portion OF the town
.: Thonasrillt, Ga, was burned "n Monday.
J. II. DANIELS banking house at Whining
ton, ILL.,. has failed Tor s275,N'O.
The r.'l'hratrh Emma Mining Company, o
Utah, Is bankrupt: deficit eight hundred
and forty tipuSand dollars.
The fifteenth CONNIE nccmcnt OF the Uni
vcrsity Of Chicago Was held on Thursday. A
class IT sixteen" graduated, among them Byron
J.. AlIrIrI. Of LA Crosse.
Tnt Northwestern University, at Evanston,
H., held its annual commencement Thursday
alt"rn"on, Il class OF sixteen graduating. DR..
e. A. Fowler, the new President of the North
western. was formally inaugurated. The
trustees, at their election to-day, elected Miss
Francis l.. Willard, Of the Wolncn's College,,
Professor Of aesthetics with a salary OF ST.
500, and ali increase Of S2U0 per year until 1t
-,.ll reach s2,loO Henry $. Carvart, Profess
srr "f Physics Prof. II. +. Fiskc, Of Lima, N.
L., Principal Of the Preparatory Department,
with salary Of s2,4OO per ann,,m Robert L.
Gunner, Professor Of Elocuton
\. ". WLI.LEs is appointed stOre-kecpcr Of
the Twelfth District of Wisconsin.
NAanISGrnSs headquarters at Morristcwn.
y. j., was sold at auction Wcln, sday, and was
purchased for presentation to the state at the
lu,. ing price Of s25, 900. The sash worn by
Washington when Grand Master Of a Masonic
irI;: in the South sold for 81, 900.
BARNS produce and shipping warcln",sr,
Graves planning mill and two small building.
adjoining; were burned by al i"ccntliary fire.
1T Norfolk, Va, Thursday. Loss $500
partly insured.
:. VI. GH>T and John \. IIccksi,"r, two New
Irlk b"",s, engaged in a bioodlcss ,iucl il,
tnna!a the other day.
ARCHBISHOP McCiIeKy has had Il conference,
with Number OF leading Catholics m New
i"lk on tn" nrccss sit v for religious, in conn, e.
ton with ~ rrlar cdGrati"n, and the urgency