Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-11-07
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.


THEODORE MUsrERMAN, q farmer, is un.
der arrest at Chetopa, Kansas, charged with
numbering Mr.. Hunt and wife. Hunt was
shot through the right eye, and Mrs. HUT
fciently before she died to state that Mus.
terman committed the deed.
A PORTION Of the Green knitting mill at
Amsterdam, N. Y, was consumed by fire on
the 81 instant. The falling walls crushed
the Schuyler & Blood mill adjoining, bury.
ing three men in the shattered machinery.
Charles Luton lost leg, and two others
were slightly injured.
A FURIOUS gale on Michigan caused con.
siderable havoc amongst the shipping. The
barge Rutter, laden with corn, wentsshore
at Ludington, Michigan, and Will prove a
total wreck. Loss on vessel and cargo over
100000. The schooner L. c.. Woodruff is a
total wreck, near Whitehall. Two of her
crew lost their lives. The YES ell is cora
laden. A number sot small lumber crafts
stranded along the Michigan shore.
TAYLoR's wooden mills, North Salem, n.
H., have burned. Loss $50, 900; insurance,
$4,000.
Two freight trains ON the Grand Trank
hallway collided three miles west of Torop-
to, Canada, on the 3lst ult. Both@engines
and several cars were completely wrecked,
and both engineers and one fireman injur.
ed, the latter fatally. Damages estimated
at $4,000.
A BUCKET fell down mine shaft at
Boyersdown, Pa, on the 30tb, killing John
Quick, Charles Klebe, and a man named
Hagy. Isaac Gehris lies in critical condi-
ton.
A SERIOUS prairie fire swept across the
southern half of Turner County, D. T., on
the goth ult., and destroyed large quantity
of grain and hay. Mrs. James Roland and
child were caught out on the prairie by the
fire; the latter was burned to death and the
former is seriously injured so that she will
probably not recover.
A CONSTRUCTION train on the Chicago,
Milwaukee and st. Paul road, near Sheldon,
MIMI, was ditched on the Goth ult. J. G.
Patterson, Of Charles City, attorney for the
company, was killed; Fred. Merrill, 4
nephew of s. s. Merrill, general manager,
and Frank Church, superintendent Of the
United States express company, were in.
jured. .sS8 49,
ARNoLD's morocco factory at Salem,
Mass, was destroyed by fire on the goth.
Loss $4,000. ~ to -.
The refinery of cons 'lidated Oil Co.,
No. 2, at Canten, ,PA,, formerly Brown IL
HamwelPs, burned Cd the 18th. Robert
Hinsmere, Vim. Smi' aud Stephen Lebnur,
employees, burned to leath.
THE sash aud blind factory and lumber
yard of the Sierra Flume company, at Chico,
CAL, burned on the 28th. The fire caught
from sparks from an engine. Loss various.
~ estimated from quarter to half a million
dollars, probably nearer the latter figures. -,
TIL state Normal School building at EN-.
poria, Kun 7as, burned on the Goth. Loss on
building ss5 600: no insurance.
.Y>nJ yni: II lo8NlRAL! fa,tysi iii {.
THE convention of stone cutters of the
United States and Canada has protested
against the further continuance of the con-
vict labor system.
PIERRE BACHAND, treasurer of the prov
ince of Quebec, died at Montreal, on the
2nd inst.
A PARKERsBuRe, West Virginia, dispatch
of the LIST instant says: Along the line of
the Bsltimare and Ohio railroad, near that
~ aiasria q ragidI ~SraehhS,er
W& knowMe Twelve chfIdse1' have did ID
the last four days. More thau half the fam
lilies hsve at least one case. In some of
them all the children are down with it.
A CONFEDERATE monument, the work Of
the ladies memorial association, was un-
yelled at Augusta, Ga, on the 31st ult., in