Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-05-25
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS

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rested in Omaha, on the 18th.
A 100000 saw.mill, at Lyon, Ia. vas
destroyed by lightning recently.
Every day brings fresh news of In
dian murders from the Black Hills.
ii BY the laundering of the schoqpax
Thos. 4. Sweet, on Lake Erie, six lives were
lost.
The explosion of dynamite at Jersey
City damaged property to the extent Of $780,
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The Indians continue to make it ex.
eeedingly lively for the boys in the Black
Kills. Z. fTgFsY = a.
John J. Riddick has been nominated
6!ft for So esf sl
The giant powder works at brakes.
vile exploded onthe 10th, killing two per-
sons and causing loss Of $4,000.
One child was killed and six BADLY
injured, on the 18th, by lightning striking =
school house in Rondeau, Ontario.
r. Aspassenger coach went through a
bridge ON the Maysville & Lexington railroad,
seriously injuring thirty passengers ,,s.
I "a fearful locomotive boiler exp1o.
sion occurred in Chicago, on the Goth, killing
two men and injuring several others. - go.
Three shipwrecked sailors, of the
ship Calcutta, have arrived at St. Johns,
N. B. Only six of all on board survived.
Six Of the principal culprits in the
The salonica outrage have been publicly exc
cuted, and tranquility once more prevails.
The law was merciless in the case of
two negroes of Savannah who murdered Mrs.
Cochran and daughter. They were hanged
on the 10th.
Mckee and Mcclure, of the St. Louis
whisky thieves have been .'incarserated'' in
Jail, their efforts TO seeureexecutivs eiemency
being unavailing. 71' -'". g,
The report of the Congressional
committee on the freedman's bank recon-
mends the prosecution and punishment Of
the officers OF the concern. +.
A duel took place in Vienna, on the
18th, between Count Kalkin and the Marquis
Palavicine with broadswords. The Count
was seriously wounded in the skull. afs5"'
The steamer Pat CleburAe exploded
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captain, both mates, express agent, and .
number of passengers, besides badly wound
ing many others.
Excavations have revealed several
underground pipes from the Bay View distil-
lery at San Francisco, used in secretly con-
veying whiskey from the distillery to vessels
at the wharf.
Tom Allen and Joe Goss have agreed
to bruise one another with their fists, on the
7th Of September, for $500 = side. The
brutal scene is to be enacted within one hun
dred miles of St. Louis.
Another collision is reported be.
tween whites and blacks invest Feliciana
parish, La. The trouble is alleged to have
commenced by the killing Of = white man by
negroes, when the whites collected to the
number of several hundred. It is probable
that the number killed will never be known
but reports place It At eight negroes shot dead,
thirty wounded and four hanged. ss.'
T. "A young man named Ganney, liv'
ing in GAINESVILLE, Wis, married girl against
her parents will, and during his absence
from his home they took the daughter away
On his return he made complaint against his
tather.in-law who was arrested and taken t.
the police court, where he met Gatfney and
attacked him. Gafney, in self-defense
struck the infuriatcd man with hammer,
killing him almost instantly. -