Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-04-06

SUMMARY OF THE NEWS.
Grimes. Criminals and Casualties.

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| Crimes, Criminals and Casualties.
The spring floods are reported to be
unusually great, everywhere.
St. Louis had the heaviest snow storm
| Of the season on the goth ult.
The Chicago whisky crooks have
been declared guilty Oh four counts.
A snow storm at Buffalo, ON the Goth
ult, detained all trains from fourt to six hours.
A Brooklyn bank teller has abscond.
ed with So, 600 belonging to the Fulton Bank.
The Fort street Presbyterian church,
Of Detroit was destroyed last week, with all
| its contents.
Bismarck had wife.shooting trag-
edy last week, but names are suppressed ''for
| obvious reasons"
A young man was burned to death by
the explosion Of the gas works of the Ire
mont House, Chicago.
The steamer Jorrad was lately wreck
ed in the Arabian sea with five hundred pill
grims on board, Of which only three escaped.
Hopkinton, Mass, has lost a 5000, 900
boot and shoe factory by fire, and Pittsburgh
a large block with goods valued, all told, at
$4,000
Four boilers exploded in the Fletcher
mill, Providence, r. l., killing two men and
wounding several others. A boiler also ex-
ploded near Sand Ridge, Pa, killing four
men.
The direct ocean cable has parted
again, forty to sixty miles off Rye Beach,
and it is supposed to have been broken pur-
posely for the benefit of the old cable cont
pany.
During recent storm in Brooklyn
house was blown down, and woman and q
little boy killed. A steamer and two barges
were sunk in the Hudson, and the fast mail
train was delayed three hours.
The emigrant ship. Strathmore, from
South Pacific in July last, and sunk. Forty
four persons were drowned, and the remain-
der have Just been rescued from rocky
island where they have lived on birds and
birds's eggs for six months. Their suffering
has been terrible.
Before the House sub.judiciary com.
mittee, OH the 25tll ult., Gen. McCook testified
that house was presented to Gen. Reynolds
by army contractors in San Antonio, and that
citizens agreed to raise SOS 600, with the UNI
.derstanding that that sum would bring head
quarters Of the department of Texas there.
He did not know whether the money was COL
lected. Alvin Leighton and other post traders
testified that Gov. Hendricks received large
sum for obtaining post leadership, and that
1900 month was contributed to Orvile Grant
Personal, Impersonal and Political.
EX-Gov. Jas. 4. Smith. of Rhode
Island, died Oh the eth ult.
The Scotch and Irish rifle teams will
be at the Centennial, hut no English team.
Hoffman Atkinson. of West Virginia.
has received the appointment OF Secretary Of
legation at st. Petersburg
\ Berlin dispatch say the car is to
retire the czarovith being made regent and
temporarily invested with the full sovereign
power.
Gen. Crooks victory over Crazy
Horse was complete one, and many Of the
Indians must starvc, as all their provisions
were destroyed.
The Reeves story about Bristow has
been effectually laid on the shelf by Reeves
making al affidavit that it was all lie, told
when he was drunk.
The majority Of the English minis
try OH the Irish borough bill-the latest test
vote in the house of commons, was only 10
the vote being l79 against 1872.
At a meeting OF the London Eng. }
school board, Sir Charles Reed, chairman, an
nounced that he would sail May 9th for Phil
adelphia as the English representative in the
educational section of the centennial exhibit
ton.
Gov. Ames simplitied the Louisiana
question by Internationally resigning his
office. He says he finds himself connected
with hostile legislature, and is bafaed in
all his efforts to carry out his plans for the
benefit of the State, and he asked that the
impeachment articles be dropped after which
he would resign, which was done.