Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-05-06

The Potter and Williams houses were de.
stroyed at Battle Greek, Mich, on the 3Oth ult.
A telegram from Tiflis, Russia, states that the
town Of Osurgati has been burned to the ground
and there is great distress in consequence.
Wilson Sons wholesale grocery, at Pitts
burg, Pa, was burned out on the 28th. The
firm estimates the loss at $780, 900, but the fire
marshal claims it will fall below $1,000 In
sured for $4,000.
The machine shop and contents, several offices
Pennsylvania Railroad company, were burned
at Trenton, N. j., on the 23th. Loss heavy.
| The warehouse of the Kalamazoo paper COM
pany. at Detroit, Mich, was destroyed by fire
on the 27th. Loss $4,000.
=. L. Hunton l. Co.'s croguet factory at Clinton,
Me-, was destroyed on the 28th. Loss $500
It took fire from the spark of locomotive.
The south side and part of the east side of
the public square at Adairyille, KY, was burned
recently.
The distillery Of A. R. Keifer and the govern
ment warehouse located at Port Siding, three
night of the 25th. Loss about 1885,, 900; in
sured.
| The Storm King.
=, Quite storm prevailed in various portions of
Texas on the 29th ult., doing considerable DAM
age. At Plano the Methodist church and la gin
shed was leveled, and crops of all kinds injured
Several buildings were demolished at Davila, in
Guiding Murrays hotel; quite number of peo-
pie were injured at this point. The seminary
building at Greenville was destroyed, but no
loss of life is reported.
A cyclone swept the southeartern portion of
Columbia, S. c., on the 23th ult Two houses
occupied by large families of colored people
were completely wrecked, and woman and
three children badly hurt. Outhouses and
barns on the outlying farms were generally
shaken.
On the night of the 25th severe storm passed
over Macon, Miss, blowing down % houses,
including the Mississippi and Ohio railroad
machine shops, round-house, depot, telegraph
Office and master mechanics Office. Sixteen
cars were thrown from the track. Eighteen
persons were killed outright and forty more or
less wounded, some perhaps, fatally. Bodies
We're found quarter of mile from their
homes, decapitated, limbs torn asslinder and
otherwise mutilated. The pecuniary loss is es-
timated at from S125,ooo to s2Oo,o6o.
Oakville, Ont, was visited by a violent wind,
rain and hail storm on the afternoon of the
26th. Houses we're unroofetl, barns destroyed
and trees uprooted. James Pickett, at work on
scow, attempted to swim ashore and was
drowned.
The south experienced the same storm which
swept Iowa and Illinois on the night of the 25th.
In Giles county, Tenn, three children were
were demolished and three children killed. T.
J. Mann was killed by Lightning near Nashville.
A Presbyterian church at Dechred, on the Chat
tanooga road. was totally wrecked.
Mortuary.
Hon. Charles Kirtley, prominent lawyer and
politician died suddenly at his home in Mt.
Vernon. O., on the I'd Sl inst aged 60,
Mass, on the I'd inst, of pneumonia.
Maj: Gen. Heinizelman, who commanded
q division at the first battle of Bull Run and
whose gallant conduct throughout the war, as
well as his many amiable qualities, endeared
him to the soldiers of the Union army, died at
Washington on the LIST inst. Gen. Heintzelman
suffered much i'll. recent years from chronic
Col. Joseph E. Egan, United States arbitrator
on the American and Spanish claims commits
sion, dropped dead on a steamer while en- route
from Norfolk to Washington on the 3oth ult.
Samuel NJ. Janney, q prominent Quaker, and
died at his home in London county, Va., on the
Col. VIM. Hemphi1 Jones, clerk of the COM
mittee on ways and means, died at Washington
on the 30th ult.
James Cook, equestrian director for P. T.
Barnum, died at New York on the 29th, of pneu-
mona.
Ex-state senator VIM. Hiner, died at his homo
in Fond du Lac, Wis, on the 29th, aged SO
years.
D. w. Middleton, clerk in the Supreme Court
Of the United States, died at Washington. on
the 9th, from gout in the stomach. BE had
been connected with the Supreme Court Of the
United States for over so years and filed the
position of clerk to the court for nearly 20
years.
DR.. Joseph T. Webb, well-known citizen of
Cincinnati, and for two years resident of
Minneapolis, Mimi, died suddenly of apoplexy
at the latter city on the 9th. He was brother
of Mrs. Hayes and brother-in-law of Hon.
Stanley Matthews.
Judge Trigg, of the United States Court for
Tennessee, is dead.
Joseph Seiig1nan, senior member of the firm
died suddenly Of heart disease on the 26th.
James o. Durff, connected with the Memphis
Ava(o'ache for the past fifteen years, as river
editor, died on the 25th.