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

secretary of state, $1,000; Kettleson, fol
treasurer, 16,6o6; Start, for attorney general,
II, ,O10; Marshall, for railroad commissioner,
1865; Meighen, greenback, for governor,
has 4,024 votes, and satterlee, prohibitions
ist, 2,S7l. It is thought the remaining IL
counties will add 1900 to Pillsbury's me.
jority and 4,4O0 to the rest of the ticket,
making the former 5000 and the latter 2O,.
600. The constitutional amendment limit.
ing the issue of bonds by cities and towns
to per cent. taxable property is adopted
by large majority.
Fire and bm0ke.
Early on the morning Of the 14th, a fire
took place on the second door of tenement
80, Canon street, New York. Mary Babis.
XII, who occupied apartments on the third
floor, leaped to the street and was probably
fatally injured. Joseph Batzkie, who lived
on tho fourth floor, unable to escape by the
roof or stairs, threw himself from the win.
dow aud was killed. His entire family,
consisting of wife, two children and mother
in.law, were suaocated. The damage by
FIRE will not exceed $500.
The printing establishment of The
Churehman," in Lafayette Place, New York,
was destroyed by FIRE on the 18th instant,
and many Of the employees barely escaped
with their lives. The jsnitress of the build
ing was found insensib and subsequently
died. The fire originated by the ignition of
oelluloid in the factory below. Total loss
$65.oO0.
Bowen's clock factory at Winstead, Conn,
was burned on the 14th.
At Frabach, Prussia, sixty houses, includ-
ing the town hall building, dating from the
sixteenth century, was burned.
Oxiy & Giddings' gas fixture establish.
ment 81 New York city, suffered damage
to the extent Of $25, 900 by fire on the 18th
instant.
A planning mill, some lumber sheds and
two dwellings,, at Lock Haven, Pa, were
burned on the 18th. Loss $25, 1000.
A hub and spike factory at Pad ucha, KY,
was burned on the - h inst. Loss 5000 ;
insured.
Msun's cotton seed oil mill at Yazoo City,
Misa., was destroyed by fire on ths 18th
inst. Loss $45, 900; in. urance $l2,C00.
On the 1lth lust large building in New
York city, which extended from Bleeker to
Hudson street, facing on Abingdon square
vss burned. The structure WIS occupied
by several manufacturers. Loss So, 900.
The Latest Muyders.
On the night of the 10th inst John
Graft, German farmer, was fatally beaten
and robbed of about $50, near Lancas,e er,
o. Before he died Graf named Jack Rorch
a. one of his assailants.
Frank Davis, a painter, was murdered
for his money on the road near Blueball
Butler county, Ohio, on the 10th inst. His
murderer got thirty cents.
Chas. Scheuer was shot and Instantly
killed at his boarding house in Newport,
KY, on the 14th inst, by Miss Anna Hoff
She called on him, accompanied by he,
brother, and demanded tha. he fulfill his
promise to marry her. He contemptuously
refused, and she fred ! ieto> which sht
held under her shawl and he fell dead
Miss Hoff gave herself up. She says HI
ruined her under promise Of msrriege, ant
she does not regret her act.
| At the Marshall house, Ludingtop, Mich.
on the 18th inst Herman Winkler, engineer
of the tug Stevens, was shot, it is thought
fatally, by John Rostley, colored barber
Burglars entered the house Of Joseph
Hensley, on DeKslb street, Chicago, on tn
18th, and when cornered by him fred three
shots into his body. from the effects o
of which he died in a few minutes. No re
liable clue Is obtained.
Johnny O'Toole, aged IA, and Paddy En-
NETT, a cripple, aged Is, got into a quar,c
on the corner of Seventh street aud Clark
avenue, st. Louis, No., on the 18th. En-
NETT struck O'Too]e under the eye with
lrock, whereupon O'Toole whipped out
knife and plunged it into Emmetts lei
breast, indicting q wound from which h
died while being conveyed to the lospita
Aman named Ferguson shet and kille
W. II. Coembs at Hopkinsv,lle, KY on th
18th inst. Coombs had aeduced Ferguson
sister under promise OF marriage and ha
refused to fulfill his agreement.
Benz. Brewster, son of J. P. Brewster,
prominent halter of Chicago, shot aD
probably fatally wounded one Of the fema]
inmates of q brothel in Kansas City, Mo
on the 11th inst. Brewster gave himself q
and was placed under arrest.
VIM. II. Harrington, reoently electe
county commissioner of Wicomico count,
. Nd, was shot and instantly killed at Sail
bury, Nd, on the 11th inst, by ]. Wesle
: Turpin, during quarrel. Both were fsrr
ers. There 10 said to have been an old feu
betkeen them