Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-08-21

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insurance. The Canton House, severa
stores and all the fre apparatus were de
stroyed.
Several fires, some incendiary, are report
ed in the Spanish provinces. In one cas-
thirty houses were destroyed, and thirty
four persons perished.
fremont Temple, Boston, was almost com
pletely destroyed by fire on the 18th inst
The Parker house, close by, was somewha
singed. Loss on temple, owned by tn,
American Bible society, is estimated at from
$1oo, 1000 to $12o.O00. Several 6remen wer,
injured by falling walls, but none though
dangerously.
The drug store of Davis & Miller, at Bal
timore, Nd, was destroyed by fire on thu
18th inst. Loss $25, 900; insured.
The: extensive bending works, coope,
shops and saw mill of Humphrey Bros, al
Wakeman, O., burned on the 18th inst
Loss $4,000; insured for So, ,60O.. =, 49,,
A serajsvo, Bosnia, ispatch reports that
the recent fire at that place destroyed 2Se
houses, s5s shops and 4s warehouses. The
loss to private property is estimated al
1000, 600 forms, with no insurance. Owing
to the scarcity of provisions, prices, already
high, have been increased. The fire was
caused by an accident, which occurred
while the excise officers were sealing casks
in spirit warehouse.
Financial Crisis tn Canada
Our Canadian neighbors are just now ex.
periencing period Of extreme financial de.
preston, the stringency of the times being
greater than ever before in the history of
the country. Although one bank after an.
other has closed its doors it is believed that
the worst point has not yet been reached.
The excitement is intense throughout the
Dominion, and particularly at Montreal.
The last crash reported is the failure of the
Vile Marie bank on the 9Th inst, but the
officers of this institution claim that they
closed for prudential reasons, and announce
their liabilities as $997, IT'S, against S., 1885,.
314 assets. OF course there has been a
great shrinkage in the assets but the bank
expects to be able to pay all demands in
full ifssnf6cient time is allowed to close up
affairs satisfactorily. The commencement
of this trouble in Montreal was the failure
of the Consolidated bank, which closed its
door. ON the 3lst of July. This was the re-
suit Of the failure of the Royal Canadian
bank of Ontario. Subsequently the Ex.
change bank followed in the wake of the
others, and the Hochelaga bank is the next
one expected to succumb to the pressure
The run upon the savings banks has been
the most serious that has ever taken place
in Montreal. The deposits amount, in the
aggregate, to $3,00o,000, nearly all belong.
ing to the working classes. Although these
events have given rise to general depre.
ciaion Of confidence in the minor banking
institutions, nearly all of them claim to be
be able to make their depositors good
Among those thought to be IN the best con.
dition are the Consolidated and Exchange
bank, which will probably settle at par
with depositors, and redeem all their bills,
but The stockholders will be heavy losers.
Forty per cent. of the capital of the Elk.
change bank will be sacrificed. So far the
banks themselves are the principal sufferers
from the panic, but this state of things can
not continue long without involving nearly
all branches of trade in serious difficulty, if
not needless disaster.
Criminal Happenings.
Samuel Croaks was fatally beaten in a
fight at Pottsyille, Pa, on the 18th inst, by
Horace Hallinan and Jefferson Jacks, who
have been arrested.
George Parish, ward constable, at Cen
terville, La, was shot and instantly killed
on the 16,h inst, by Louis Wendell.
AT Deadwood, D. T., on the 18th inst L.
F. Whitbeck, local editor of the Pioneer,
shot a negro, whom he claims had assaulted
him, but missed his man and seriously
wounded T. S. Marian, merchant.
Joseph F. Frye, aged about 40, dealing in
hides and leather at Boston, Mass, was
found murdered, on the 18th inst, at his
residence, 13 Jay street. The letter carrier
seeing the door ajar entered and found Frye
lying dead in front of his open safe. The
fatal wound was a shot through the heart,
but in addition to that there were at least a
dozen ttabs in. the back, and numerous
bruises on the body, giving evidence of a
desperate struggle with the murderer
Frye's watch was gone, pockets rifled and
the safe robbed Of its contents.
At River Forest, suburb of Chicago, on
the morning of the 10Th inst, Henry Bald.
win shot tramp dead, who was demanding
TO his house, under threats of
burning the premises. The tramp proved
to be J. D. Trainor, a journalist of irregular
habitr. + r. ~
David Gates, of Margarstville, N. S.,
killed his wife and then drowned himself
on the 14th inst.
At St. Louis, No., in q frenzy, Thaddeus
E. Baber slipped into the house and while
his mother-in.law was reading and his wife
was lying on a bed in the same room fred a
bullet into Mrs. Shoulders brain, killing
her almost instantly, and shot his wife
through the left breast, inficting a mortal
wound. He then left the house, but was
arrested few minutes later and locked up.
Cause, a family jar.
DR.. GuIick, of Hyde Park, Pa, while in.
toxicated on the night of the 18th, as.
saulted DR.. Gibbs at his house and was shot.
Gulick then stabbed Mrs. Gibbs, probably
"eduys OuIlcA anu O1DD6 are well known
physicians. -, -.,..
At Fiucastle, Va, on the 18th, James
Stevens quarreled with his wife and shot
her dead.
John Champion (colored) was assassinated
while dining with his family at their home
in Prince George county, Maryland, ON the
18th inst.
A horrible case of fatal stabbing occurred
at Urbana, Ill on the 18th instant, in an
alteration between CaptainJ. M. Tracy and
Alvan II. Whitcomb, bo h business men
and partners as abstrac'ors. Tracy cut Mr..
Whitcomb in the abdomen so that his bow.
els hung out, the knife being turned round
and round, cutting him all to pieces inter-
nally. Another stab entered higher up, near
the breast bone, and penetrated into the ab.
domen.
A shooting affray growing out of an old
feud, at Boston, Mass, on the 18th instant,
resulted in the wounding of two printers
Thomas and VIM. Keolin. Thomas will die.
VIM. Kelker was shot and killed at Ma.
tional Park, Louisville, on the 18th instant,
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