Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-06-05
Accidentally Shot.

ACC1elGut1Sl1y SMVes
Col. Richard H. Rowe, member of thu
city council of Wilmington, Del, wa
fatally shot on the 3lst ult. by the Academia
discharge of pistol in the hands o
Hagan Dugan, saloon keeper.
Confesses the Crime.
The Boston Herald's Salem special says
"John McBuzzel confesses the authorship
of the Jennie Clark trunk tragedy, and tina
he was hid in the woods for four days while
officers were working up the case"
Heard From.
The governor of Yakutsch, Eastern Sibe
ria has received intelligence from Professo
Nordenskjold of the Arctic expedition t.
May 8. The professor announced that b
intended to start in the Vega for Europe b.
way of Behring straits and Suez canal.
Geographic dispatch from Irkutsh report
the Vega has since arrived in Behrin
straits.
The Doomed City.
A violent hurricane at Szegedin, Hungary
on the 3Oth ult., destroyed the works pre-
pared for restoring the railway and film
the breaches in the dam. Barges filed wit
building material and earth were mostl
sunk. The storm caused extensive fres
breaches in the railway embankment, an
the laborers are in great danger. Relief ha
been sent them.
Eads' Bonanza.
At the cabinet meeting on the 9th, tn
attorney general gave an opinion in relation
to the Eads jetties, to the effect that Capt
Eads is entitled to the payment of half
million of dollars claimed to be due unde
hia contract, notwithstanding the Sigh
filling up of the river above the jetties, an
the secretary of war has ordered the pay
ment to be made.
The Pcsky Reds.
John T. Vincent and four other men
while travelling from Fort Keogh to For
Assinaboine recently, were attacked b,
fifty Yanktonnais Indians. After fighting
twenty hours and killing eleven of the red
skins, the men succeeded in effecting thei
escape, but were obliged to abandon thei
horses and wagons The Indians near For
Mcleod are killing white mems cattle t
avoid starvation.
Cattle Plague.
Reports from all parts of Georgia an
nounce the appearance of strange an.
fatal disease among cattle. In severa
counties the death rate among cattle ant
oxen is alarming. Nobody seems to under
derstand the treatment of the malady, anG
it is spreading to the central and northern
parts OF the state. The symptoms seem t.
be new and the effects of the disease strange
vOlcssufc 1rupsavu.
The volcano of Mount Etna is in full
eruption. Three new cratsrs appeared
near the town of Randazzo, at the rorthwes
foot OF the mountain. Streams of lava ar,
flowing down the western slope. Severa
villages are threatened With destruction
and there is great alarm among the inhab
itsnts.
Fresh craters have opened On Mount Etna
endangering Blanca valley, Randazzo an6
Castiglioms. Clouds of ashes overhans
Redmont, which is in almost total darkness
Naval Warfare.
An engagement has taken place of
Iquique, Peru, between the CHILEAN woode1
vessels Esnleralda and Cavadonga and Peru
viau armor-plated frigate Independence
All three vessels sank. The Esmeralda wa
originally Spanish gunboat. The Indepen
dencia was the most important vessel in thu
Peruvian navy, her armament CONSISTING
entirely Of Armstrong guns namely, twelve
seventy Founders and and two pivot guns
The latter were one'hundred.pounders.
A Cyclone.
A st. Joseph, No., dispatch of the 2oth
nit, says: At 10 o'clock this morning 8
cyclone swept part Of Holt and Nodaway
way counties, near Barnard and Bolckow'
about % miles north of St. Joseph. 1,
moved at a velocity Of so miles an hour
demoiishing houses, uprooting and twisting
OFT trees, destroying property OF all descrip'
tons. 1t took a northeasterly direc
ton, and when several miles east OF
Barnard, suddenly disappeared. A track oil
territory half mile wide is devastated.
Embezzlement.
Edwin Harris, former book. keeper of the
wholesale boot and shoe firm of Voc
Brothers, Chicago, later known as McAuley,
Dyke & Co., was indicted for abstractinp
funds of the firm, arraigned and plead
guilty on the 31st ult., and was sentenced to
seven years in the penitentiary. Harris ad
mlts that the total amount stolen is between
$4,000 and $4,000. Harris told Mr.. Yoe
that he used to take about $500 a year.
which he kept in a private box in their
vault.
Railroad Accident.
A Cumberland, Ind, dispatch Of the 28tb,
says: "At 1 o'clock to-day an outward
bound express train on the Pittsburg di.
vision of the Baltimore and ohio railway.
when three miles west of the confluence
near Pittsburg, ran on to a rock that had
fallen on the track. Engineer Benz. Pritch.
ard, residing at Connellsville, and an un.
known tramp we're instantly killed. The
fireman, Flaherty, and also another tramp
were seriously injured. Pritchard died
with his hand on the air.brakes."
Political Notes.
The Ohio Republicans met in convention
ut Cincinnati on the 2Sth and nominated
Charles Foster for governor; Andrew Kick.
enlooper for lieut.. governor; w. w. John.
son for supreme Judge; George K. Nash for
attorney general; J. F. OgsIvie for audi.
tor of state.
The Iowa Greenbackers held a conyen.
ton at Dss Moiues on the 28sh, and put in
the field the following ticket:
For Govermor-DaDiel Campbell.
For Lieut.. Gouermcr-H. NJ. Moore.
For Supreme J,tdge-M. 81. Jones.
For Superintendent. A. Nash.
Financially Embarrassed.
VIM. 81. Punchard, partner in the en-.
cheering firm of CLARK & Punchard, who
las been connected with Baron Grant in
ioating the disastrous Lisbon (Eug.) Tram.
ways company, has failed. Liabilities $780,.
400. Edwin Clark, the other member of
he firm, failed in the early part of last
month for 100000. a.:-<
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