Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-09-26

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w. Watson receiver of public money for
the district of Kansas, at Topeka, Kansas,
vice A. Kelly, resigned.
ALBERT ]. JONES, an old Pacific Mail
captain, and in command of the steamer
Ariel, when captured by the Alabama, died
in San Francisco ON the 18th inst, of Pana-
ma fever.
THE grave of an old and well known
citizen of Cleveland, O., whose remains
were inferred ON the 8th inst, was discover
ed to have been robbed next day. A thor
ough search revealed the body in tank
underneath the floor in the Homeo-
patio medical college in that city. The
faculty of the institution have been placed |
under arrest.
LOMAR GRIFFIN, the oldest man in the |
United States, died at his residence in Lodi, |
Ohio, on the evening of the 10th inst, aged
lO6. |
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
THREE little children-Joseph Toney,
Charles Steps and Polly Brooks were killed
at Kansas City on the Goth, by the caving in
of q gravel bank.
CHRIST. PRETEN shot his wife..and then
himself at Cincinnati OH the 2lst. Cause,
domeotic difficulty. Both are dead.
THE Office of the Kansas City horse rail-
way company was robbed on the 21st of
81, 600 in money and $21 900 in bonds.
SHERMAN CITY, a small village in Isabella
county, Michigan, was annihilated on the
10th by terrific tornado. Every store,
dwelling house and shed in the village were
swept clear except one frame dwelling,
which was partially destroyed. Several
persons were badly injured.
AT Morris station, Ga, on the Goth, some
fends murdered an old lady named Farmer,
who lived alone on farm with her daugh-
ter. She was killed with bludgeon, and
the contents of the fireplace poured into
the bed. The muraerers then took the
eldest daughter, carried her to an adjoining
wood, outraged her, and then broke her
skull with rocks, leaving her for dead.
ON the goth inst still in the Queens
county oil works, at Flushing, L. l., explod-
ed. John McKeon, Owen Lynch and James
McElery were terribly, perhaps fatally
burned.
A QUARTER of mile of frame sheds in
the horse department of the Ohio state fair
at Columbus were destroyed by fire on the
10th. The fire was caused by carelessness
of children.
Col. VIM. BOONE, president of the Mount
Vernon cotton mills, and director of the
First National Bank of Baltimore, Nd, was
and $S7, 900 in cash. The robbery occurred
in broad day light and at busy time of the
day, but, SO far as known, there is no clue
to the perpetrators.
CHARLES SILK, son of Henry Silk, a prom.
inent Cincinnati merchant, comm tilted sui.
eide on the 10th inst.
The dead body Of B. w. Fay, halter,
was found on the docks at Chicago, on the
18th inst, with bullet hole through his
head. Probable case of suicide. He had
been unfortunate in business in New York
and Chicago.
LAWRENCE GARDEN, while feeding a
burning slab-pit at Manistee, Mich, fell
into the glowing mass and was consumed.
THE dead bodies of two men, named O.
B. Davis and Geo. w. Heating, well-known
horse and cattle thieves, were found hang
| ing to tree, five miles norte of Spearfsh,
D. T., on the 18th inst, undoubtedly the
work of the vigilants of Spear6sh.
MRS. CHAs. MORSE, of Chardon, O., while
her little daughter, aged 7, and then cut her
own throat, both dying in few moments.
LAFL1N & RAND's powder mill and dry
house, at Platteville, Wis.,, blew up on the
10th inst, the terrific conclusion shaking
the earth for miles around. McGranahan,
q workman, was seriously injured. The
other mills were badly wrecked. Loss,
$12, 900. No lives lost.
A DAM at Mays Landing, N. j., burst on
the night of the 18th inst, the released
water sweeping through the village, causing
great damage. Several persons are reported
lost.
A, F1END entered the house of George
Lynch, at Berkely, Texas, on the night Of
the 10th inst. and murdered Berkely and
his seven children the eldest girl seven
teen years of age. A young man named
Boatware with whom Lynch had difficulty
is suspected of the crime.
A MAGAZINE containing twenty pounds
! of glycerine and seventy.fve pounds o.
dynamite, located two miles south of Brad
: ford, Pa, exploded on the 10th inst, killing
Andy P. Higgins, J. B. Burkholder, N. B
s Pulver and Charles I. Page.
!. GENERAL.
FRANK HYDE, of New York, won the
Wimbledon cup at Creedmoor, on the 21s
inst, making 143 out of possible $50. HI
also won the army rifle match.
AT the session of the Grand Lodge of In
dependent Order of Odd Fellows at Balti
more, Nd, on the Goth inst, the appeal case
from Ohio, involving the question of eigi
bility of presiding officers of the lodge fol
; immediate reelection, was decided in thu
> affirmative, -;
W. 8. WADDEL1, professor of Languages
} in the university of Georgia, died on thu
night Of the 18th inst, at Wexford, y. C.
? THE yellow fever seems to be abating il
the south. Up to the 10th the deaths a
/ New Orleans numbered 1929.
: TEE postofice department. is taking meas
ures to deliver the mails to all quarantin,
t cities in the south and where routes are Gu
off by the railroads cessing to run, on &C
, count of quarantine regulations or other
\ wise. Pestmasters are instructed to try
? some other method to serve the public BY
5 delivering the mails regularly.
THE Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows at Bal
timore, O., on the 18th inst, elected Johr
> B. Harmon, of California, grand sire, ant
1 Mr.. Glenn, of Georgia, deputy grand sire
The other officers were reelected. Tn,
amendment changing the title of the suprem,
D. body from the grand lodge of the United
r States to that Of the grand lodge of indie
l pendent order of Odd Fellows, was adopted
by a two-thirds vote. The action give
? great satisfaction to members from foreign
, jurisdictions.
: The Grand lodge, l. O. o. F., of thu
t United States, met in annual session a
7 their hall in Baltimore, Nd, on: the 10Th
! The grand body consisted Of 165 members
The report of the grand size that whilst the
annual returns exhibit an increase in lodges
and encampments, and in the amount pait
60 ov,v 1os< vaor $hav ;nI;oo<n -,