Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-08-28

a Berlin correspondent reports loss Of
property in Russia by fires, in July alone
at aoo,sS6 roubles. An enormous fire
occurred at Batoum on the 9Th instant.
x fire at whitehall, Michigan, on the 21st
instant, destroyed ten buildings on Lake
street. Loss $4,000.
IBonly & Harris elevator at Columbus, O.,
was entirely destroyed by fire on the 2lst.
Lon $25, 900; insurance light,
he Long Island lumber mills burned
Brooklyn, N. Y, on the2Oth. Loss $s5, 900.
At Marengo, Iowa, on the Goth, Kelchain
&Bros., elevator was destroyed by fire. A
large amount of grain, some cattle and
other property was consumed. Loss $30,.
COO: insured for one.third.
The large saw mill and salt block of San
born d Bloss, at Carrollton, opposite East
Saginaw, Mich, was. consumed by Ere on
the 2Oth. -Four thousand barrels of salt,
several dwellings, dix million feet of lum.
eer and three thousand cords of wood were
destroyed. Loss at rough estimate $780,.
o0o; insurance $4,000.
A train of % loadedoil tanks, was wrecked
and burned on the Goth, at Kipps Run, seven
miles from Sunbury, Pa. -
The Waldron block, Hillsdale, Mich, was
burned on the 18th inst. Loss $50, 900; iu.
surance $4,000. The structure was the
largest in the city.
hon. D. 8. Hammond's residence. two
miles from Chicago, was destroyed by fire
on the 10th. Loss $4,000.
Russell Il Johnson's planning mill and
two adjoining tenements were burned at
New York city on the 18th inst. Loss $780,.
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A Aurderous Record.
In fight at the Jupiter mine, Bodie,
Cal., on the 23d inst, John Goa was killed
and three others wounded.
I. w. Mcclure and Henry Bedford, con.
testants Of the land claim in Barbour county.
CAL, quarreled on the 2Oth inst, about cnt.
ting timber on the land in dispute. In the
scene that ensued revolvers played an
Active part. McClure's funeral occurred
next day.
At Trinidad, COL, on the 23d inst, Dan
Logan and man named Cormack were
strung up by mob. Both were in iail for
raping children.
Mr.. Wilson, al engineer long connected
with a sugar plantation near Guineas,
province of Havana, and forty miles from
that city, has been murdered. Wilson after
finishing the seasons work on the planta.
ton hired small farm. He was reused at
night by noises, and went out when he was
attacked BY party Of men with. swords,
who almost instantly killed him. Mrs. Viii.
son intends laying the case before Consul
General Hall.
Police Sergeant Jacob Nohl, OF Toledo, O.,
shot aud killed a man named Ross Sauls.
bury and then shot himself fatally on the
23d inst. Salisbury was the author of
newspaper articles rejecting on NohPs
character.
Hugh Mcclure shot his stepfather fatally
at Iuscola, ILL.,, on the 2lst inst. An old
feud existed between them, caused by fam.
lily difficulties.
An infamous den where infanticide and
abortion was practiced, was disclosed at
Boston, Mass, on the ed inst. The bodies
of four infants supposed to have been mur.
dered, have been found.
Il. B. Pearson, superintendent of public
education "f Harr;son ""nn+y. kI,ad Iohr
ID. Conkerton. of New Orleans, at Mississip
pi City, Ls., on the 2lst. They quarreled
about drink.
J. W. Cotton, station agent and grocer al
Williamsburg station on the Kanses Pacific
road, near Topeka, was murdered on the
21st inst. by tramp. The tramp called fol
cheese and while Cotton wa reaching into
barrel, to get: the crackers the tramp
struck him in the back OF the neck with an
axe, nearly severing the head from the body
James johnson, aSwede, murdered J Jamet
Gibson, marshal OF Barry county. Mich, al
Middleville, on the 10th inst. The murderer
was captured at Chicago on the 2lst inst.
and acknowledged his guilt.
Henry n. Dixon, of Yazoo City, Miss.
who had announced himself as iudependen
candidate for the Office of sheriff, was sho
and killed by James Balkesdale, a candi
date for the office of clerk of clancery, OF
the goth instant.
The rancho of Jim Raines on the Salmon
river, near Walla Walta, w. T., on the l7tl
inst, and Rsines and Jim Edwards killed
| and Albert Weber badly wounded.
AT Wu1lron, Scott county, Tenn, "n tn
10th, the sheriff, Samuel Lemming, Will
attempting the arrest of Walter Malone TO,
butally assaulting his wife, was shot an,
mortally wounded by Malone.
The partially decomposed remains OF
body supposed to be that of Samuel E. Al
bright, who killed William X. Miller, q
Montgomery Ferry, Perry county, Pa, o.
the 9TH of August, were found in the cav
near the scene the of murder on the 1T
inst. 1t is supposed that after committin
the murder Albright killed himself.
Benjamin Miller murdered James Kerli1
a notorious saloon keeper. on the night {
the 18th inst, at Riverton, near Chicago.