Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-11-20

| uoel u6DAlIleS, were t0ey AVau0Olo.
The old established Wholesale dry good
and grocery firm of L. W. Deucher 4 Son
st. John, N. B., has suspended. Liabilities
t400, 900; assets large.
Forgery and Embe9sloment.
John E. Kubely, bookkeeper at Clausen'
crewery, New York city, IL in dursnce unde
a charge of forging papers to the amount o
$4,000.
Charles Il. Voorhees,, member Of congress
rom the Fifth district of New Jersey, wa
arrested at Paterson on tho 11th, by United
States deputy marshal, on q charge of ab
stracting from the First National bank o
Hackensack, of which he WAS president
collatera1s deposited, to secure = private
loan.
Per1is Of tho Sea.
On the night of the 18th inst. the schooner
C. G. Breed, laden with $4,000 bushels o
wheat, bound from Detroit to Buffalo, wa
struck BY a squau aud caps1zed on Point ar
Pelee, Lake Erie, only two out of the crew
of eight were saved, one being found cling
| ing to the mast and the other afoat or
some debris. Both were nearly exhausted
from exposure.
The steamer Milsnese, Captain Dewdney
from Boston for London, 10 at Gravesend
with hole in her bow, from a collision or
the night of the 10th inst, of Dungeness
with the Norwegian ship Bekhara, Larsen
from Antwerp. The latter sank. Anhandt
we're saved.
Tho 1uion limo u+oo~o. 4 v3-ono r.r&a;n
Jones, which sailed from New York No
vember 4, for Liverpool, putin at st. Johns,
N. F., on the 9th inst She struck an ice.
berg on the Sth, and stove in her bows
No person was injnred and tho cargo is all
right. It will take possibly three weeks to
epair the damage to the vessel.
A Horrible Crime and SUMMARY Pun.
1shmont.
The village of Ward, Todd county, MINI
has been the scene of q terrible tragedy.
It seems that Mrs. Coldale left her hus.
band and went to live with John Waldo, a
bachelor neighbor. Shortly after, the home
Of the brothers Waldo was burned and it
WAS intimsted that Coldale was guilty OF
the act. Next Coldale and his hired
man disappeared mysteriously and sus.
picious of murder were rife. A large mob
confronted Wslde, which 80 frightened him
that he confessed that he and his brother
Michael had murdered the men and pointed
out the spot where the bodies were buried.
Toe mob promptly hung him. The brother
Michael who had left the country, was ar.
rested in q German settlement ut Lake
Henry, Stearns couty, and was taken to
Long Prairie on the 9th, where it is said,
the mob awaited him. The officer having
him in charge did not know the fate of
John, and probably did not learn it before
reaching Long Prairie, too late perhaps to
save his prisoner from the same fate.
Suicidal.
Eugene 7. Riddell, sged %, son Of Alder.
man Riddell, of Milwaukee, Wis.,, suicided
on the night Of the 18th inst, in fit of
dependency. He placed revolver to each
temple and sent two bullets into his brain.
w. r. Greenlaw, one of the wealthiest
and most prominent citizens of Sherman,
KY, suicided by taking morphine on the
18th inst. 1t is said that the discovery of
criminal intimacy between his wife and
Rev. Conrad Haney, Texas divine, caused
his taking Off
At New York, on the 10th, August Morh.
Ter, the German who recently attempted to
assassinate DR.. E. B. Foote, suicided. He
left letter stating that the doctor had,
through professional treatment, made his
life miserable for ten years past.
Two unknown persons in row boat went
over Woods falls, on the Black river, two
miles below Watertown, N. Y, on tho 18th
inst. From appearances and actions it il
thought to have been case of suicide.
Mrs. Margaret Meyers, of Memphis, Tenn,
poured kerosene on her clothing on the 10th
iast., and set fire to herself, and burned 10
death. she had been duped into marrying
man pamed Donovan, who swindled her
her out of some $4,000 worth of property
and decamped, leaving her and four chill.
dren penniless.
Railway lIishaps.
A south bound freight train on tho Chi
cago and Alton road, went through bridge
at Riverdsle, near Alton, ILL.,, on the 18th
inst, six freight cars falling into the river,
The brakeman was killed and the engineer
and fireman injured. The bridge was new
and was thought to have been extremely
we'll made. Damage 81 900.
At Aylmer, Ont, on the 14th inst An
drew Isles, conductor of tho Great Western
railway, while coupling cars had his foot
caught in the frog, at the switch, aud the
cars passing over him, he was killed in
stantly.
At Kansas City, No., on the 18th inst
John W. Dickinson, = painter, was literally
cut to pieces by train while crossing 8
railway bridge.
Two tramps,, while sleeping on tho track
Of the North western road near E,gin, Ill.
on the 18th inst, were struck by q mai
train. One Of them was literally torn tt
pieces, and the mutilated remains scattered
about for rods. The other suffered skull
fracture and will probably die.
| At Albsny, N. Y, yardmsster Thoma
Baker was run over by the cars and killed
he formerly resided in Janesville, Wis.
where he leaves relatives.
| AT Butler Station, Ind. ON the, 11th inst.
| AI6 A. A. 0oWoA was 1uu OVeI W y 1000
motive, receiving fatal injuries.
! Obituary.
Peter Hoy, president Of the Pennsylvani
association OF soldiers of the war of 1917
died At Philadelphis on tho 18th inst.
B. w. Jenness died at his residence i,
Cleveland, O., on the 10th inst, aged 7:
Deceased represented New Hampshire il
the United States senate during tho sessio
of 1856, and at the Democratic nations
Iconvention which nominated Frankli
Pierce, the New Hampshire delegation wa
divided between Judge Jenness and Nj
Pierce. The president of tho delegatio
gave tho casting vote for Pierce.
Prince Almayou, son OF the lateeKia,
Theodore, of Abyssinis, who arrived
Leeds, Eng, recently, to pursue his studie
died on the 18th inst, of broncho-pleur,
|pneumonis. He was 10 years of age.
Theodore c. Vermylie, prominent ]av
yer, met violent de1th at Now York o
the 18th, by being thrown from his carriag
Ross Huntington, editor Of the Noutre'
Herald, died on the 18th.