Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-02-20
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The American Register, printed IN Paris, is
informed that ths French Government pro-
hi,itcd NJ. rartlonnet, Kansas Emigration
Agent from lccturing in Belfort.
Ir is reported that from the wreck of the
Atlantic Mail Company new linc of American
steamers will be organized, to run between
New York and Havana.
DETRolr telegram states that the Pull.
mann Palace Car Company have completed
the purchase OF the buildings and Teal estate
OF the Detroit and Milwaukee r. X. car works
in that city.
JOSEPH SAW, JR., has been re.clccted State
Treasurer. aud Charles Wilson elected Super
intent OF the State Prison, by the Legislature
Of New Jersey.
CHAs. VANNEss, Train Master on the Jack
son. Lansing and Saginaw Hai;road, wa
crushed to death on Thursday ut East Sag
inaw, between two cars, whilo directing tho
shunt;ny OF cars.
IN unknown man, namc supposed from his
papers to be J. Is. Gillcr, WAS run over and
killed ut Birch Station, on the Flint ard Pcre
on tho train while in motion.
DISPATCHES from Montgomery, Alabama,
state that great excitement prevails in legisla.
tive circles in that state, owing to the attempt.
ed assassination, ON Wednesday, of N. s.
McAfee by J. ". Mayberry. The provocation
is al eyed to have been = speech made by
McAfee in the House Of Representatives Wed.
nesday. Msyberry Is said to be one Of tho
bogus Senators from Barber county, who was
ousted from his seat by the late compromise
between the conflicting legislatures. McAiec's
wounds are represented to be fatal.
President GRANT recently pardoned Vim.
II. Carrick, who vas convicted Of rebbine the
mails while Route Agent on tho Iowa Central
railroad, some two years ago, and received
sentence for ten years at hard labor.
THE officers Of tue Cleveland Society for
Savings publish card stating that = clerk in
their employ has embezzlcd funds to the
amount Of twenty thousand dollars. The
amount has been made up to the Society.
The namc Of the guilty party is not men,
toned.
The town Of San Vinccnte, in Salvador, has
been destroyed by an earthquake. The houses
being chiefly Of adobes, are easily shaken to
pieces. No lives are reported lost.
A FIRE broke out Oh Tuesday morning in
the married soldiers quarters at Fort Schuy-
LEI, and destroyed the row Of buildlu gs, con.
sisting Of fifteen tenements.
YOUNG man named Winslow Simon ds, COM
mitted suicide on Tuesday, in Chelsea, Mass,
throwing himself from the window.
The retort and fre-brick factory at Geo. G..
Hicks, at Locust point, Baltimore, burned
Thursday evening. Loss $4,000.
ABERL1N dispatch says that the Prussian
Ministry have required of Councillor Wagner,
the proteee of Bismarck, an explanation OF
his conduct in permitting concessions of tho
fulfiimonts OF state railway contracts by which
rauds were committed on the government.
Several designations have already occErred.
JOHN GArrNEY was hung in Buffalo on Fri
day, for the murder of Patrick Fahey.
The freight depot Of the New Haven and
Harlem Railroad. in New York city, was burn
ed on Friday, together with adjoining build.
ings. Total loss 100000.
THE wooden ware factory Of Vim. Brown, in
st. Louis, was burned on Friday. Total loss
$4,000.
The Erie officials say that the laying OF \
third rail will commence in the spring, and
that it is probable that . sum greater than
the ten millions already raised will be neces.
sary for the undertaking.
CHARLES READE has began a suit against
the London Advertiser for libelous criticism
OF one OF his plays, laying his damages at
E1,OOO.
In the vicinity OF Ii Sale, ILL.,, on Tuesday,
q son OF Mr.. Ralph Brewster, . farmer-a lad
10 or IL years old, got possession Of pistol.
and while handling it, the weapon was dis
charged, the contents taking eff.ct in the per-
son OF his little baby sister, aged three and q
half years, causing her death shortly after.
SEVERAL American naval officers who visited
the Pope OF Rome, "n Wednesday, were asked
how he would be received in America. The
officers replied that that country would regard
his taking up his residence among them as q
great honor.
ADisPArcn from Salt Lake City. Utah, says:
fall OF the se,son. A dispatch from Alta,
Little Cottonwood, says it showed all last
night and still continues. It is twelve feet
deep on the level. The roads are all blocked.
At Evanston, on the Union Pacific, there is
two and half feet OF snow, and drifting, but
the monster plows are in constant motion and
keep tho track clear. The U.ah Northern
Railroad is again blockaded.
The manuiactory OF the Erie Knitting Com
pany, owned by VIM. More, was burned on
Friday. Loss 80, ,C00-insurance $37, 900.
The party who defrauded the Cleveland So
ciety for Savings, out Of S20o, GOO was Frederick
q. Martin, son OF the Treasurer of the insti
tuition.
Two HUNDRED uncompleted bonds of 3, 900
each OF the Toledo, Canada and Southern and
Detroit Railroad Company were stolen from
the Office Of the company in New York on
Weuncs0ay. The bonds are valueless in their
present state.
The New York Children's Aid Society has
received $4,000 from the Old Friend Society to
make up for the probable loss in case the
Greeley estate be materially impaired.
CENTRAL CITY. CAL, has received four large
silver bricks, each weighing lis pounds, from
the Carbon luine.
Ex-MAYoR KALBFLIEsCH, of BROOKLYN. died
on Wee nesday.
- The Presiecnt has granted an unconditional
pardon to Seth johnson, who was sentenced
W p"y O Au0 ~ p1V3VVu 1UI Cl1UGZZlCUc0t from
the United States Treasury. The Presidents
reasons are that the accused is unable to nav
the fine, and his imprisonment in the face Of
that fact would be preposterous.
The barn on a farm known as tho "Voder-
mark farm" near Fort Wayne, was entirely
consumed by fire last Saturday night, to-
gether with its contents, consisting of tour
horses, seven cows, farming implimcnts of
every description, and over 1000 bushels of
wheat and oats, The total loss is estimated
at about a, 900.
T. H. HINDER and Philip Hampton, en-.
ployed ON a bridge in course OF construction
across the James River, between Richmond
and Petersburg, were drowned on Thursday
by the upsettins OF their boat. At later
hour another dreadful accident occurred at
the same place. The temporary trcst,c work
across two of tho pillars of tho bridge, upon
which about fifteen men were engaged in lay
IN: the iron supcrstructure, gave way, pcrcip-
itatiug the whole party into the water. Nine
were rescued, and the remaincr either drown.
cd or killed by being dashed against the tim.
bers and iron, which went down Will, them
Sevcra' OF those recucd were badicy injured.
CONVICT named Hermann VIM oac,no5