Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-04-02
At Large.

A COMMITTEE sent by tho city council Of
| Omaha, Neb., to examine tho wator works Of
! other cities, visited Chicago, Detroit, Toledo.
Dayton, Indianapolis, st. Louis, aud returned
yesterday. They arc discouraged about tho
Louis is only an experiment, notwithstanding
tho expensive works erected there.
JOHN BREEN fell from ladder at the new
state house building in Springfield, Illinois. OH
Thursday, and was instantly killed.
A TOLEDO telegram states that Greimer, tho
ex-ooonty treasurer, charged with embezzling
es0, 600, who jumped his bail = few days since,
and suddenly disappeared, has been heard
FROM ~ being safely lodged in Windsor, Ont,
opposite Detroit, where ho intends to spend
the remainder Of his life In enjoyment of tho
peoples money.
The customs receipts for the week ending
March 81, were ~ follows: New York, -, 2OS,-
654 Boston, s291, Os6; Baltimore, sos, 635;
Philadelphia, @176,l59.
CHARLOTTE TEMrLE and Lady Oaktlalc,
blooded trotting mares, arc Gil route to San
Francisco, Is present to ex-Gov. Sanford, of
California, by the Alaska Fur Company.
Exchange and Board Of Trade, who have been
considering the question of line Of steamers
between New Orleans and Rio Janeiro, heartily
approve the project, but decline to illdorsc any
particular company.
ONE man was killed and three others serious
" injured by an explosion Of gas in street
sewer at Baltimore on the 9th.
O1ivER r. COPELAND, of Memphis, died sud-
denly in railroad car at Cairo, after taking his
seat for Chicago, Thursday.
AU1 COLLINS, Lexington, Ky, Irish milk
man, shot, fatally, Frank Higgins, another
milkman, Thursday.
. W. r. SPEARs, lawyer, shot and killed,
J. Miller, another lawyer, at Vickburg, Mis-
Thursday.
The small steamer Economy. onroute from
Memphis for st. Francis river with miscel-
laneous cargo valued at $50, 900, struck the
draw Of the railroad bridge ut Madison Ark,
Monday night and capsized. The boat and
cargo are total loss. The boat is owned in
Memphis by Walt Fremmel, and valued at
$50, 900; no insurance. No lives lost.
AT Vicksburg, Miss, on Thursday, Thomas,
Calkins, an ex-policeman, attacked J. W. Law
ms, local editor, of the vicksburger, cutting
him in the neck with knife. LAWNS then
shot Calkins twice, killing him instantly.
The Supreme Court of Oregon has decided
the tax levy Of 1872 and 1873 unconstitutional
It il thought the decision will necessitate
change Of the entire revenue system of the
state.
The colored societies Of Memphis held me-
mortal service on Sunday in honor of the late
Senator Sumner.
JosEpH Booth fell under the cars at Virgin
ia, New, and had both legs cut off. A young
man who witnessed the accident tainted, and
his hair, which was jet black, turned instantly
gray.
The win OF the late John Clark, of New
Brunswick, N. j., gives $40, 900 to the Ameri-
can Bible Society, $50, 900 to the Board of
Domestic Missions Of the Methodist Protestant
Church, aud $4,000 to the widows and dis
abled ministers Of the Reformed Protestant
Dutch Church.
AT Bellevue, Illinois, a little son of Henry
Beck, while playing in the street, had his
whole face mashed in by the kick of a horse.
The bodies Of the Sismese twins have been
taken back to North Carolina, where they will
be decenty inferred.