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


Five three-card monte men were ar
, rested in Omaha, on the 18th.
A 100000 s;,w-mill, at Lyon, Ia. was
destroyed by lightning recently.
Every day brings fresh news of In
dian murders from the Black Hills.
!, BY the laundering of the schooner
Thos. T.. Sweet, on Lake Erie, six lives were
lost.
The explosion Of dynamite at Jersey
City damaged property to the extent Of $780,
600.
The Indians continue to make it ex-
ceedingly lively for the boys in the Black
Hills. =:
John J. Riddick has been nominated
by the Pnesident for assseiats j'aatiefo Of Nay
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The giant powder works at brakes
vile exploded on the 10th, killing two per-
sons and causing loss OF So, 900.
One child was killed and six BADLY
injured, on the 18th, by lightning striking a
school house in Rondeau, Ontario.
A passenger coach went through 4
bridge OH the Maysville 4 Lexington railroad,
seriously injuring thirty passengers.
A fearful locomotive boiler explo.
sion occurred in Chicago, on the goth, killing
two men and injuring several others.
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 secure executive clemency
being unavailing.
The report Of the Congressional
committee on the freedman's bank recon-
mcnds the prosecution and punishment OF
the officers OF the concern.
A duel took place in Vienna, on the
Palavicne with broadswords. The Count
was seriously wounded in the skull.
The steamer Pat Cleburne exploded
her boilers at Shawneetown, ILL.,, killing the
captain, both mates, express agent, and a
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 dstillcry 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 hu,l-
bred miles of St. Louis.
Another collision is reported be-
tween whites and blacks in West Feiciana
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. 1t is probable
that the number killed will never be known,
but reports place it at eight negroes shot dcad,
thirty wounded and four hanged.
\ young man named Gaffney, 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 to
the police court, where he met Gaflncy and
attacked him. Gaflney, in self-defense,
struck the Infatuated man with a hammer,
killing him almost instantly.