Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-11-28

secure safety, by the use Of better iron In
steam boilers.
THE annual report of the revenue marine
bureau of the treasury department shows
that of vessels wrecked or in distress, with
an aggregate of 926 persons on board, 1872
have been assisted by the revenue cutters,
The estimated value of property saved is
$1,7OO,O00.
THE EAST.
VIM CLARKE, we'll and widely known in
financial circles, died in New York city Oh
the 2lst instant.
CHAs. Z. LEsCHE, clerk in the brewery Of
David Jones, New York, has been arrested
on charge of embezzlement. Jones finds
his cash account short $4,000.
Ex.SECRETARY of the treasury b. H.
Bristow has been secured as counsel by the
creditors OF A. & W. Sprague, of Rhode
Island, in place of Judge Thomas, deceased.
The total indebtedness of the Spragues is
over S., 100000.
De RJYTER, Madison county, N. Y,
has voted to repudiate the bonds of the
town, amounting to $1O3, 900. The bonds
are payable in 1890, and were issued in aid
of the western extension OF the Midland
railroad.
THos. H. POWERS, drug manufacturer,
died at Philadelphia on the 10th inst. His
property is valued at SIC, 100000.
In the trial of Charles w. Pontez, at New
York on the 10th, the whole story of the
Union Trust company forgery was told in
court by the engraver of the forged $64, 900
check, who described the process from the
first attempt at engraving to the distribution
of the spells in Broadway restaurant.
EDWARDS P1ERREPoNT, ex-United States
minister to England, has resumed the prac.
tice of law in New York city.
c. REED, secretary in the treasury of the
Union League club at Philadelphia, Pa,
has disappeared, leaving letter con tossing
to the appropriation of $500 belonging to
! the club.
by the police, up to ten O'Clock on the night
of the 18th they had nothing new to report
concerning A. T. Stewards remains. The
grave robbers have skillfully eluded the de.
! teetives.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. :
: BY an accident at the Forty.third street
crossing of the Rock Island railroad at
Chicago, on the Oath instant, a wagon was
run down by an incoming train. A boy
was killed, man seriously injured and the
horses killed.
! The schooner Laura Pike, Capt. Lassen,
, from San Francisco to Humboldt Bay, cap.
sized on the 22d instant, on the Humboldt
bar. AL hands, seven in number, lost.
| LILLE SHERMAN, q colered child, burned
to death at Cairo, ILL.,, on the ed inst, while
alone in the house. The fact wss only dis.
covered after the burning garments had set
fire to the bedding and the door was bro
ken open by fremen.
The mail that left Mckinney on the goth
instant was stopped and robbed by two
masked men, 81 miles north of Fort Fetter.
man, Wy, on the 22a. Two passengers,
Thomas D. Williams, of Omaha, and Geo.
w. Chubb, of Cheyenne, lost all the valua.
bles in their possession. The maiI.bags
were cut open and ransacked.
A FIRE at Mayvil]e, N. Y, on the 22d
inst, which started in the postofice, burned
eleven stores, causing loss of about $780,.
900; insurance $4,000.
A TERRIBLE coal mine explosion occurred
at the Sullivan Qnd.) coal mine, on the 21st
inst. The explosion was caused by the
ignition of a lamps flames with gas, and a
terrific velocity was added by the fact of
there being eight kegs Of powder below.
There were thirty men in the mine at the
time, thirteen of whom were killed out
right, eight or ten wounded, aud many Of
the others are suffering SO from suttocation
that their lives hang by thread.
The stables of the Central city horse rail.
way company at Peoria, ILL.,, burned on the
2lst inst. Thirty horses were roasted. Loss
$1,000.
AT St. Paul, Mimi, on the 10th inst, Otto
Montgomery, living at the St. Paul House,
made On attempt to commit suicide by
shooting, inficting severe wound in the
head. His son, about twenty years cid, at
tended him. Last night, while the son
stood at his fathers bedside, he (the SOM
tainted from exhaustion, dropping kero-
sene lamp held in his hand, which exploded.
setting fire to the bed. The father was
burned to crisp in bed. The son was
severely burned. 500.
b
Wis, was burned on the Goth inst. Loss
$4,000.
THE most intense excitement prevailed in
the upper partof Mecklenburg county, Va,
on the 10th, occasioned by the finding of
the body of Col. Calvin Harris in the road
terribly mangled, his ears, nose, and several
fingers cut of, and his hair pulled out by
handfuls. The deed was committed by one
James Mccall and his son, in payment of
an old grudge.
THE Manchester paper mills, Duchess
county, N. Y, burned on the night of the
10th inst. Loss $4,000. Incendiary. Two
employees were badly burned. ALI hands
were at work. and a panic ensued but the
rest escaped.
A RIOT took place at Mount Sterling,
KY, on the 18th, IN which 20 or 30 shots
were fred, two men instantly killed and
three wounded. Two of the rioters
George and William Howard, were wound.
ed, one dangerously. John Thompson, q
clerk and disinterested party, was shot and
instantly killed by shot fred through the
window of the store in which he was EN-.
ployed.
A DISPATCH from Columbus, O., says,
Jacob Dewitt, prominent farmer and road
supervisor, was shot and fatally injured on
. the 18th inst. by . neighbor named ingalls,,
during dispute about payment Of the road
tax
THOMAS KENNAR, his wife, and Lizzie
Callahan, of Pawtucket. r. l., were drowned
on the evening Of the 18th, at Woonsocket,
the carriage which they were driving being
plunged into ditch 40 feet wide and con.
tainingg feet of water.
| GENERAL.
| AN exciting foot race occurred at Denver,
COL, on the 23d, between G. II. Williams of
Denver, and Davis of California. The
stakes, a thousand dollars side, were won
by Williams. Time 9H; distance hundred
pards. Thirty thousand dollars changed
hands on the result.