Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-09-11
NEWS in BRIEF.

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NEWS in BRIEF.
: 9eal From !. asnxwav.
Char1ss Hard vvltchlliaaan at Filly's four
dry, St Louis, No., fell from gangway o,
the 9TH inst, and died from tho Injuries.
Unfatthful Servants.
W. II. Mayor, bookkeeper in the Niaear
company bank, Lockport, N. r., 10 ,unde
arrest, charged with stealing s., 600 in bond.
Hydrophobio.
The wife OF fSherif Kern, of Philadelphis
died Of the rabies on the 5th instant, havin,
been bitten by pct dog six weeks before
The Deadly F1re-DamP. -, Il;
An explosion Of fire.damp in the Goa
mines at Bonohamp, department of Hsute
saone, killed fifteen persons. A large mum
ser were injured. - -'.~"~~-> '~' 49, =~'~''
Fatal BxploslOns.
An explosion of gas in the sCremorne
gardens, New York, on the ~ inst, proba.
bly, fatally burned Frederick Hughes, .,ro.
Prietor, and Chas. Thompson, bar.ke esper.
Killed by the Caps<an.
While the anchor s.of hez majesty's Cor.
vetts Euryalus was beip ( lowered It Oldea.
on the Let inst, the :apstan swung around
klilng two men and seriously injuring sew.
oral.
"A WhaleF Crushed In the leo.
ihes whaling ship Our Queen, of
Dundee, Scotland, with fourteen whales,
'~as caught in the ice in Lancaster Sound,
between Ba6n's Bay and Barrow's Straits
and crushed. The crew was saved. :::sa:e
WELCOMED!
: On the Sth inst. the steamer Helyetia ar.
rived at New York from Liverpool, with
arge load of passengers. Included in the
number are eighty English farmers e., route
Tor Texas to settle They are from ~York.
'hire, and are said to be industrious and of
'teady habits.
=, Magnificent Bequests. /
Thomas Wilson, the wealthy Baltimorean,
Vho died recently, left $5C0, 1000 for the en-.
lowment of the Thomas Wilson Sanitarium
or the Children of the Poor, and $500, go
or tho endowment Of the Thomas Wilson
'uel Saving Society, to aid the poor. A
lalt million is given to nephews and nieces.
Shocking Calamity. J.
While a party of girls and young men
'ere crossing White river at Morgan's |
'rry, twenty miles south of Viucennes, |
nd., on the 4th inst, the horses became
'ightened and backed off the ferry boat.
lice Cottre]l, ::aged II, Ellen Dellineer,
sed Is, and Jebn Hummel, eyed %, were
rowned, rs were also the horses.
", From thosArct1e Region.
A telegram has been received from Prof,
ordenskjold, Swedish Arctic explorer,
sted Yokohama 3, as follows: Gall arc
ell. We left winter quarters on the 18th
Id doubled the East Cape on the 10th of l.
aly, proceeded thence to lawrence Bay,
PIT Claselcs5. and 5s,Rahrings Isiand: Have
I'D no sickness and no scurvy. The Vega
in excellent condition." This practically
Ives the northeast passage question.
Postal Matters.
The postmaster general has ordered an
tual daily count in all postoffices from /,
e 1st to the 18th of November of~allslst- Z
re, packages, postal scsrds, eto. Tiie pub.
hers OF newspapers are requested to fur
sh postmasters with the number of papers .
allied the same time.
The free postal delivery system begins at
'peka, Kansas, October l. .
Trouble i'm Afghan1stau.
At Cabul, on the 4th inst, several native {
giments mutinied and attacked the British q
lbassy which was garrisoned by large I;
rec. The occupants fought nobly, but I
re compelled to fee the buildings .fter Z
ey had been fred by the natives. All
re killed, including Major Cavagnari l..
lkoob Kahn, the ameer, asked for British
and will quell the outbreak and punish q
3 guilty parties. Seventy.rlae persons +,
re massacred.
C0p1Ous Floods.
A dispatch from St. Petersburg, Russia, ,
ted the 9Th inst, says: "Violent storms
the gulf of Finland have caused the river ,
va to rise to level Of the streets. The ca. !
Is in the center of St. Petersburg have over
wed and the faubourgs are ander water.
IN roofs have been blown from houses and ,
urches in all directions. The guns Of the
tadel have been firing all Thursday night,
d to-day notices have been issued warn! ,,
3 inhabitants to take precaution against
Q food"
The Cal1fornia Election. IS
A San Francisco dispatch of the 5th inst. I
-: -" Three.fourths of the, vote in this
y and state are counted. 1t is now prob.
10 tho Republicans will elect, Ill the con.
essmen, though it is very close in the city
ltrict. Republicans elect railroad com:
ssionsr in: the nesthern distr;ct, and the II
,rkingmsn theirsin the city, and SOU hern
,trict. The legielature is,stin in doubt
alloch continues to insreafe his lead, and
stected beyond . doubt - .
:. Run Over ~ an regime. - |;
Four boys, Henry Poth, John Geebe],
chard Kept and Henry Rsinboid aaging I
I'm: six tosthirteel1 3esre;ivere run1 by ,
light cars on the IRON Mountain road at s.. ,
uis, on the 18Th ult. They were lettering ,
ont the track when 4 switch engine moved ,
wn upon them suddenly and caught them
. Poth had both legs cut of, one above
the other below the knee. Goebel lost 4
th legs below the knees. Kept had both
. badly mapgled, but not entirely smpu- .
ed. Reinbo]d had his right leg crushed. +
th and Goebel will die.
Financial DlsnxioF.
III the property of Jefferson Borden, /,
. of the founders of the Fall River man. q
lcturing industries and an officer in many 1
n ka and othor oorunre+;ons ho. ho., - !