Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-24
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS.
Crimes, Criminals and Casualties

Grimes. Criminals and Casualties
1t is proposed to equalize the senten.
ces of the whiskey thieves by reducing some
of the heaviest.
A house belonging to Mr.. Kelley, at
St. Lawrence, burned on the 10Th and two
children perished in the flames.
The State savings bank at Dallas,
Texas, was entered ny two men at midday
who robbed the cashier of two hundred dol
lars.
The accounts of reaper and thresh.
ing machine accidents now in circulation are
simply blood-curdling In Iowa, especially,
the accidents have been really horrible
A child was lately taken from a cir
Gus in San Francisco OH writ of habeas COR
pas, by the society tor the prevention Of
cruelty to children, and forwarded to his
parents in New York.
A Portsmouth, n. H., man, was ut.
tempting to recover diper from the bottom
Of an old well, when the earth caved in and
buried him to the depth Of forty feet. He
was recovered alter twelve hours, alive.
Sam. Mcbride, clerk of Pueblo
county, Colorado, has absconded with Sl3, 900
ofpublic money. He was delegate to the
St. Louis convention and one OF the COM
mittee to notify Tllden Of his nomination.
Missouri seems to be the home of
the desperate, just now. Last week a man
named Bradbury, in Jail at Marshall, attempt
ed to kill the turnkey, but got fatal bullet
in his abdomen. At Warsaw rough plunged
knife into the arm pit of All inoffensive
farmer canSinr inlmeliatc death
A policeman in Faribault, Minn.,
found young man under stairway, a few
nights since, and on pulling him out he
broke away and ran. The policeman called
on him to halt, but as lie did not do so, shot
him through the hips, inhicting fatal wound.
The uncalled for shooting created intense
excitement.
The crop Of rattlesnakes this year
i'll Iowa has never been excelled, and many
people are reported bitten. Last week Miss
Davis and Mrs. Craft, in Monroe county,
young man named Powers Alec Frizzell and
w. +. Burgess, of Lucas county, aud two
men i'll Marion county were bitten by the
reptiles. All recovered by the use OF whisky
or plantain leaves.
A water spout struck the line o: the
Virginia Midland railroad, six miless north
OF Lynchburg, Va, on the 10Th. The flood ex-
tended for FIVE miles, swelling small streams
into rivers and submerging portion Of the
country never under water before. A culvert
was carried away, leaving gap ninety feet
broad and fifty feet deep, into which freight
train was percipitated, killing Keyes, engi-
neer, and Anderson, brakeman. The storm
lasted only few minutes.
A gang of ruf1ians, supposed to be
from Mitchell Mills, about midnight entered
the town ofMount Olivet, Kentucky, and ell
deavored to force an entrance to several sa-
looms. They finally attacked the Ward
House, and on being refused admittance they
began firing and throwing stones. Ritley
Whiting was severely shot in the side and
Lille Ward in the arm. A party Of citizens
quickly assembled and drove them out of
town. They have threatened to return and
burn the place.
Edward Joseph, a prominent young
business man of Abba, Iowa, while out driv- +,
ing, few days ago, was bitten OH the upper !
lip by what he supposed was horse-fy. AL
though the bite was sharp, he paid no atten-
ton to it, until, several hours alter, his lip
began to swell and became painful. The |
swelling increased, covering his whole head
and body, despite all efforts OF physicians to
allay it. He finally became delirious, and
died. 1t is supposed the bite was by fly
which had been feeding on dead flesh, as
several cases Of death from that cause are re. |
ported.