Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1877-05-24
SUMMARY OF GENERAL NEWS.

CFlaes, Criminals and Accidents.
Stevens Point: Wis.,, had a 100000
lumber fire on the 18th.
The Sheriff at Cincinnati. has been
fined 1900 for aiding prisoners. to escape.
A coal mine explosion in mines neal
st. Clair, Pa, occurred on the 9th inst, killing
seven men and seriously wounding six.
-Four revenue officers have been shot in
Lee county, Virginia, while in discharge o
their duties. The Collector has appealed tc
9he Governor and President
Forest fires in northern New York arc
doing great damage. Clinton Mills and Con
nors Corners have been entirely destroyed and
several other villages have suffered severely.
St. Stephens, New Brunswick, was Wis
tied by q half million confagration on the 18th
Ninety five buildings were burned and be.
tween seventy and eighty families made home.
less.
2 During Whit Monday amusements at
Hull, England, a balloon about to ascend was
blown against q gas jet and exploded. Eighty.
six Of the spectators were injured, six danger
ously.
Sweeny, one of the great ring thieves
in New York, is reported to have retained Dan.
Sicklcs for his counsel and the first fruits is
Dan1ers persuasion of the Attorney General to
leave Tweed In jail and not use him rs a wit.
ness.
V. ]. Foster, Congregational minister
at Hannibal, Mo-, hos stepped down and out.
He has five living wives and has not been d.
vorced from any of them. He married them
for their money.
Five children were burned to death at
Little York, Cortland Co., New York, on the
16th Their father and mother were but a
short distance away when the house took fire
bnt could not rescue them.
Secretary Sherman has written another
.etter declining to compromise with Hesing,
Powell, Rush, Dickinson and other Chicago
whisky crooks, relative to their pecuniary
liabilities. He orders the suits to proceed.
A school teacher at Oregon, Mo-, under
took to punish boy Of Is. He struck her
several blows on the breast with his fist and
she turned to her seat and expired. Her lungs
and heart were diseased and hence death en-
sued
In Cleveland, a Mrs. Donovan, after
having some trouble with her husband
took her two children, boy of
six months, and girl oftwo years, went to the
river near Willow street bridge jumped in, and
drowned herself and two children. The bodies
we're all recovered
The South Carolina Senate and House
met in joint session and has elected Associate
Justice Willard to the office Of Chief Justice,
he receiving S. of 12S votes on the first ballot.
His successor as Associate Justice will be
chosen next week. So the Palmetto State has
Supreme Court once more
The government steamer, Don Cameron,
snagged and sunk on the upper Missouri, on
the 18th. There was ninety passengers on
board including Gen. Miles, thirteen officers
and their wives and children. The govern
ment freight was valued at $4,000. Nolives
were lost.
: Sanumel Orr, was hanged on the 18th.
at Mount Vernon, Mo-, for the murder of q
farmer named Davis in Christian county, in
1870, and another near Springfield in 1873. He
made no confession. Five thousand people
witnessed the execution. An accomplicc in
crime, Albert Cox, is to be hanged next month
at Cassvillc, Mo.
Jake Rellm, the Chicago whisky crook,
who turned States evidence and thus escaped
criminal punishment, also expected to escape
civil damages for his distinguished services.
The present Secretary of the Treasury refuses
to make the compromise, but says Jake must
abide the result in the counts of the million
dollar suit against him.
A reign Of terror is said to exist in
several of the Missouri and Arkansas borle,
counties, through the operation of bands Of
marauders calling themselves "Ghouls," who
are committing the worst indignities upon
peaceful inhabitants. The st. Louis ReDu5li;
can thinks the matter sufficiently grave to call
for attention on the part of the State or ma
tional authorities without further parley.