Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-08-28

II IS Staleu tnaC tne MennOnltCS VINO arc
coming West, brought with them to this coun-
( fsy t34o,Ooo in gold.
Two-rH1RDs Of the Geneva award, due Sep
.,*ember Gu, has already been paid into the
United States Treasury by Great Britain.
= The Eric Railway Company are sending two
/ n.,ltions OF consolidated mortgage bonds Ia
Europe for negotiation BY Bischodbheim, in
order that the double tracking and other pro.
jects may bc carried out.
WHALLEy, the Mchborne claimants agent,
has returned to England. He said his visit
, was satisfactory in all respects, and its object
has bccn fully realized.
GREAT excitement exists in Baxter Springs,
Ram, over tho discovery OF lead in the streets
OF tiat city. A negro boy found it by acci.
dcut few days ago, siucc which the street
has been vacated by the City Council, and the
citizens generally have turned ont to mining
1t Is found i'll lmm:nse quantities near the
surface.
The body OF f1oatcr that has laid on the
Kentucky shore opposite Cairo since Satur
day, was examined and buried Thur sday. b,
Il party from Carlo. It was white man un
known.
iloRrENzE ELDER, living in the western sub
Hlhs ofSt. Louis, attempted to increase the
kitchen fire with coal oil, Wednesday night
Her funeral was numcrously attended.
WEDNESDAY afternoon at lato hour, as Con.
dog Shelby was riding in his buggy from his
residence in Kansas City to the town OF Aull.
vile, he was fired upon while passing some
brush BY the roadside by some persons hid
therein. and the shot took effect in bis lee
near the hip. 1t is not known whether the
wound is fatal.
INFORMATION has been receivedof the shoot.
Ing OF J. D. Pierce, = gambler, at Ellsworth
Kansas. Pierce and q man named Kane Of
fered o reward OF $1,000 to any parties who
would run the pursuers Of Ben Thompson
wh' murdered Sheriff Whiting few days ago.
back into Ellsworth, whom some excitement
: vas raised, and quarrel ensued, resulting in
tho death Of Pierce.
IHE race of the New York Yacht Club for
tue Bennett challenge cup, was sailed from
Providence Thursday. The Madeline won in
three hours and sixteen minutes.
YESTERDAY an accommodation train on tho
Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad collided with
freight train. Three men were killed and
three wounded.
The break in the Delaware Canal, at Elk
horn, Nd, swept fourteen boats into the
meadow and undermined several houses, from
which the occupants were rescued with difa-
Guilty. -
Jos. WEISS, Of Memphis. fell asleep while
sitting in q fourth.story window, tumbled out.
and received fatal injuries.
JOHN Murray RYAN, q Suspended priest of
the Catholic Church, who has for some time
been rrac.icing medicine in Chicago, Thurs
day commenced suit in the Circuit Court
against Right Rev. Bisuop Foley. Bishop OF
the Diocese, laying damages at $4,000. The
claim IS based on the allegation that the Bish.
op, in suspendins him, acted dcspotically and
lrresularly, and not in accordance with the
.capons Of the Church. .
GEAssHopPERs have attacked the corn in the
vicinity OF Omaha.
Sr. Louis deaths the past week were 2o6: 19
OF cholcfa and 26 cholera morbus.
PASSENGER and special train collided on
= t''e Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, near
Miller's Switch, on Saturday. Several persons
were injured more or less, and both traina
badly damaged.
The subtreasury at New York contains owe,
S3o, o,Ooe,000 in gold coin, and 81, ,o00, 900 in
currency.
REy. GARDINER SPRING, for rsixty-threo years
pastor Of the Brick Church congregation, died
at his residence in New York Sunday, aged SO
years. !,
a COLLISION occurred between an excursion
train ana a freight train near BLOOMINGTON
ILL.,, Friday night, by which two men were,
killed ard three injured.
it"N WILLIAM NJ. MEREDITH, who was Sec
rctary OF the Treasury under Taylor, died At
Philadelphia Oh Sunday.
IHEEE fatal accidents, all tho result OF
drunkenness, occurred on the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad, Sunday.
FURTHER advices about the lynching of
Letter Kcssler, at Fulton, Galloway county,
No, Friday, say that Sheriff Law was shot in
tn" spine by the mob, and MORALLY wounded,
and that Johu Watson and young Dunbar
were also, 1t is feared, fatally hurt Kessler
WAS the only QUO in the carriage not wounded.
LIEUT.. RAEcocK. OF the Fifth cavalry, re-
ports to Gen. Sherman, from Camp Arache,
Arizona, that on the 18th Of June, with com
rany OF thirty five men and eighteen Apache
soldiers. alter following trail for seven DAYS,
he overlook body OF Apache Indians in the
m 'nntains, near Touto Creek. fight en-
sued, and fourte en- Indians were killed, and
tv" women and Children captured. The same
day were found other camps, evidently hastily
abandoned.
DURING the exhibition of q show at CRANKY,
Missouri, on Friday, two dranken rou.bs.
nann.d Dan Kelley and James Hill assaulted
through the throat and breast, irtllcting &c.
rlo''s wounds. Thomas returned the fire, but
without effect. Several other shots were fred
and Mr.. Schmidt, prominent merchant o
Granby, was killed, and Mrs. Sweet and Mr.
Gage wounded. The men escaped.
A MAN named Scott, at Seafortb, Canada, q
school teacher, arrived from Detroit on Fri.
day, and went to his fathers house, five miles
distant, where he met bis wife and cEild
They started Saturday forenoon for Mrs.
SCOTS fathers place. Sunday morning man
pa*sns the vootls near by heard child cry.
Az. IN searching he found the father and
'''fhcr quite dead, with their throats cut. II
is supposed Scott cut his wife's throat and
then his own.
FHE postotfice at Litchtield, ILL.,, was broken
INTO by burglars u night or two siccs, vito
forced open the safe and stole about $500 in
money and stamps.
A FR1GHTFUL affair occurred in Sewar,
county. Nebraska, Friday. John Mahofev. 8
hcidcr, was killed and torn to pieces bv ,
herd of Texan cattle. His step-son, small
boy, had been guilty OF somc misdemeanor
and to avoid punishment ran through til
herd, and the father in attempting to follow
was knocked down ard killed. The body va
badly torn to fragments, and the pieces wer
picked up in " pail.
KANSAS CRY telegram OF Saturday says
Yesterday the body OF man, supposed 4
be that Of negro; was found in the wood
near "yandotte. Investigation to-day de
vclopctl the fact that the victim was whit
man named Berry Meyer, from Chicago fe,
days aSo. A bank book and papers belonging
to such man were found in the river bclo,
the city, from which 1t appears that no has
'i''posit will, Emil Josrphal, OF Chicago, to til
ainout Of nearly u thousand dollars. He cam
I" t'''~ city week or two ago, and stopped q
the Little Broadway Hotel, from which he h:
been missing since Sunday. 1t is suppose
he was killed for nj, money"
':'IN Lee comfy, KY, Thursday night, J !
Eversoll attacked his brother Stamford, W, G
l,n (Stamfora) fired upon him with sllo II,
u,st ntlv killing him. Forty buckshot wei
found in his body.
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