Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-31

Of the poorhouse. His remains were bnried.
In the potter's field. His second wife, from,
whom&he was divorced, wse daughter Of
ope = tho oldest and wealthiest oitisens Of
Felt Wayne. Il 4 4
Dom. SBRoRN 4 Co., one of the largest
Wholesale dry goods houses in st. Louis, has
ssaspsnded.s Liabilities estimated st over
100000.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
EARLY on Sunday morning (the 27th)
masked burglars entered the Manhattan
savings bank, New York, city, and after
Handwriting the janitor, extorted from him,
under threats of instant death, the safe com.
bination, riaed the vault. They stole secur.
tiles to the amount of $2,757, 200, of which
81, sos, 700 are registered in the name of the
institution and not negotiable, $l6s,000 are
made payable to it, $4,000 are in coupon.
bonds and $ll 900 in cash. For the purpose
of protecting depositors no payments will
be made without 80 days notice.
HENRY w. TYLER, well.known desper
ado of Parkersburg, West Virginia, shot
and killed his wife on the 25th, and then
put bullet through his own head, dying .
few minutes after.
The iron steamship City of Houston, of
New York, 1875 tons burthen, foundered
off the coast OF Florida in the recent gale.
All on board saved. On the same day the
steamship General Barnes, foundered off
Hatteras. Passengers ana crew saved.
THE barge Van Shack, sank off Yonkers
on the 18th, and the captain and his wife and
two children were drowned.
BOILER explosions: At Carlinsville, Ill.,.
on the 25th, in a saw mill, killing James M.
Thomson and badly scalding Willis Turner
and Dave Falkinton. At the Otsego fork.
handle works, Rome, Iowa, killing George
McKinzel, and seriously injuring two men,
and totally destroying the building.
| JOHN D. VACELAT, his wife and two sons,
were murdered at their home near Vincen.
mes, Ind, on the night of the 23d.
Pierce Provost, hired man, is suspected
and under arrest.
LEARNED, proprietor of the Learned no.
tel, Cookshire, Quebec, was shot dead by a
tramp, to whom he refused whisky, on the
Oath instant.
DAN DEMAND, --one of the gang of train
robbers who escaped when Mike Rourke
was captured day or two ago, was over
taken by detective Light, of the Kansas
Pacific Road, fifteen miles from Ellsworth,
Kansas, on the night of the 22d inst, and in
the struggle which ensued, Light shot and
killed the robber.
The schooner Algerine, laden with iron
ore, went ashore at Springfield, Pa, on the
23d and became total loss.
TIE banking house of Clabaugh, Nelson
& Co., of Baltimore, Ind, has suspended
and made an assignment to James Preston.
A SPECIAL from Fort Worth, Texas, saws
the stage for Weatherford was stopped Is
miles east of the latter place by two masked
men. The mail pouches were cut open and
the contents riaed. One male and two
female passengers were stripped of valua-
bles.
Two trains on the Hamilton & North.
western railway collided near Barrie, Ont.
on the 22d. Both engines and several cars
were wrecked. Three employees seriously
injured. Loss $35, 1000.
| o0NG0AAs
! THE officers Of the Supreme Lodge of the
World Knights of Pythias met at Colum-
bus, O., on the 26th, to take action in per-
fecting AND promulgating new uniform
rank which was adopted by the Supreme
Lodge.
The Arctic schooner Florence, Captain
Tyson, supposed to be lost, arrived at Pro-
vlncetown, Mass, on the Goth, leaking bad
~, having experienced extreme hardships.
All on board we'll.
The special agent of the treasury, Kinds
| at Chicago, on the 25th inst, seized a mail
package containing 924 precious stones,
mailed at Ceylon to party in Keokuk,
Iowa. The package contains some yery
valuable jewels including 696 moonstones
and valuable semi-sacred gem of India.
They have been turned over to the appraiser,
e. II. Ham, like all matter sent through the
mails in violation to the custom laws, in
order that valuation may be fixed.
BISMARCK and Sidney, Nebraska, dis.
patches OF the Oath instant, reported that
snow was falling rapidly along that region
and extending up the river from Bismarck
200 miles. The heaviest storm ever known
in October.
TIE prohibitionists of Indianapolis, Ind,
nominated city ticket on the oath instant.
This makes the fifth ticket in the field, and
the union workingmen will nominate an.
other.
The stallion Administrator" owned by
George F. Stevens, of lion, N. Y, was
sPeeded over the Lexington (Ky.) track on
the 22d in 2:294. The Cincinnati trottinq
wonder, Maud ), three years old, without a
record, was speeded in 2:22N. A high wind
was blowing in the faces of the horses.