Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-09-19

sea of water and great damage has been sus-
tanned. A train ran into damaged culvert
near shenango, and went down, killing the
engineer and fireman, and injuring the first
brakeman SO badly that his recovery is i'm
possible. In the vicinity of Geneva, Penn,
nine lives were lost, while the loss to the
city will foot up nearly 100000.
FIVE masked men took possession of the
Great Western railroad station at Dundas,
Ont, on the 9th instant, blew open the safe
and appropriated therefrom 500.
AT Murfresboro, Tenn, on the 9th inst,
Pickney Bell, white man in Jail for MUIR
dering a constable, was taken from jail and
lynched by an armed mob.
AN accident occurred on the Long Island
railroad, two miles from Hunters Point on
the 18th inst. The engine and three cars
were thrown down an embankment and one
man was killed and several seriously in
jured.
RICE plantations around Savannah, Ga,
were damaged by a gale and rain to the ex-
tent of $s5o,ooo.
THE schooner Mary, wood laden, was
wrecked near New Buffalo, Ind, on Lake
Michigan, on the 18th inst. -Four of the
crew were drowned.
EIGHT COTTAGES on Sunset terrace, Len
OK, Mass, burned on the 18th inst. Loss
10000; insurance $4,000. The personal
loss Of the occupants was serious, one lady
losing $1,000 worth of diamonds.
ALEX. AUSTIN, a prominent member of
the San Francisco stock exchange and ex-
collector of taxes, committed suicide on the
18th inst, by shooting.
BY the fall of derrick at Buffalo, N. Y,
on the 10th inst. three men were killed and
two wounded.
The small stern wheel steamer Nadine
struck snag near st. Charles, No., on the
afternoon of the 9Th inst. and sunk. Louis
wilkinson, colored, Charlas Everty, and a
man named Dunlop, were drowned.
SYLVESTER E. DEAN, in fit of jealousy,
cut his wife's face badly and then severed
his jugular. Dean died but his wife survives.
They lived at Chicago.
JOHN SMITH refused to allow Jos. Dick
son to marry his daughter, in New Orleans,
on the 9th instant, whereupon Dickson shot
and killed him.
aENERAL.
CAPT. CONWAY, of the Australian team
of cricketers, arrived at New York on the
18th inst, on the steamer City of Berlin.
Capt. Conway comes in advance to his team
to arrange the contests to take place in the
United States and Canada prior to their re-
turn to Australia. The captain expresses
himself we'll pleased with the result of the
matches in England. They won five games,
lost four, and had two drawn games in con-
tests with England's representative eleveus.
EDWIN FORREST made trial trot at
Dubuque, a., on the 18th inst. Time,
1904. Little Fred won the free of all.
Adelaide second, Lucille third. Eightheats
were trotted; best time 2:25. Dan Mace,
who drove Lucille met with an accident
dislocating his shoulder.
The executive committee OF the South
western railway association met at the Lin.
dell hotel, st. Louis, on the 18th INST, and
equalized rates from Missouri river points.
Rates from the seaboard will be q cents
per hundred to Chicag % to East st.
Louis Local rates will oe 80 cents to Chi
cago and 20 cents to st. Louis.
P. STAUB, proprietor of the Knoxville,
Tenn, opera house, and large real estate
owner, made an assignment on the 18th
In consequence the Knoxville bank is
closed. The banks liabilities are 1900.
KLEAD1NG citizen of Bismarck, D. T.,
telegraph,d to the st. Paul papers as follows
on the 18th inst: "The brother of Senator
Dorsey, return, Il from! Keogh BY the Custer
trail to-day, reports that Gen. Miles and an
excursion party were surrounded by Ban
nocks in Yellowstone park, and twenty.
seven of the escort killed. A lot of Chey-
enne Indians and two companies of mounted
infantry were sent from Keogh to his re-
lief. Mrs. Miles, daughter of Gen. Sand
born Of st. Paul, and other ladies' are in the
Miles party" The story is not credited at
st, PAUL *4as&s zesg 44aas sass.
:. MIcnAx1, roB1r.a soldier, scon,isted Of
the murder of comrade named Alver, at
West Point, and sentenced to be hanged on
the goth inst, has been reprieved by Presi-
dent Hayes until the 25th inst.
A LITTER from Disco, Davis Straits,
dated 18th of July, says; Not one vessel Of
the Arctic whaling feet had caught single
fish. It was expected the season would
prove complete failure. No vessel had
been able to pass through Melville Bay,
which was unprecedented. The bay from