Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-12-29
Minor Casualties.

Minor Casualties.
While driving across the track Of the Boston
and Albany road. near Natick, Mass, on tho
Oath. three men we're instantly killed.
Suicide or the accidental discharge of a gun.
on the 25th, caused the death OF Miss Hebbeny,
Canadian lady who was visiting her brother 1T
Chicago, III.
BY tie capsize Of beat at Fortress Monroe,
on the 25th, Corporal Norton was drowned,
Jacob Klein, a citizen, was rescued, but died
soon aiterward from the exposure.
Jacob Rilston, one of the, weolthicSt cattle
men of tue wost, was killed at East Bijou. near
Deer Trail, Col, on the 25th by being thrown
from carriage by j runaway team. !,
By the giving way 81 pulley in the ceiling
of Strons's marble-works, IN Cleveland, John
Berry and Hiram Winchester were killed.
Dr.. James NJ. Vest and c. r. Morrison a
druggist of Richmond. Va. went out duck
shooting on the James river on the Dist, and as
they did not return il i, feared they arc
drowned. Tho steamer Ariel picked up a boat
and broken oar in the fierce snow storm which
A BRICK building in Char1ottcstown. P. T. l.,
collapsed Oh tue 22d, owing to overwhelming
the top floor. Frank FRAZIER was killed and
James Mcmillan and AIcNutt seriously injured.
VIM. cberts Of Ridge Valley Furnac c,
Georeia, accidentally shot his 'tw0-year~old
nephew dead while cleaning "a revolver, on the
22d.
Ed. Huffman, little boy, was MORALLY
wounded by toy pistol at Reedsville, Ind, on
the 21st inst, and on the same day at Stanford,
Ky, VIM. Murphy, boy of fourteen. died from
wounds accidentally inflicted while handling &
gun.
A singular accident befell a farmers wife II,
, Blue Mound township, III. Mrs. Charles Dyer
was watering cattle at q well III the pasture,
Wien pet COW suddenly turned its head and
| hr1I:h &c water
where she struggled four hours for life, and III.
stantly expired on being released.
Conductor John Nancy shipped off the foot
plank OF the Plattsmouth ridge, III Nebraska
falling sixty feet 10 the frozen ground, and sur
vived the accident bnt two hours.
The body OF Gabriel Char!,u, who wandered
away from LIS homo III Smithfeld, Oakland
county, AIcb., IN a fit OF temporary insanity
about eight weeks previous, was found Oil tn,
2u,l frozen iii Il marsh near Royal Oak. Tht
knees were sticking up through the ice.
Francis Parsons, respected citizen Of Ea
VIENNA. O., Yves rilcd by q switch engine on thu
Doth. He was 70 years Of age.
1sortuary.
James NJ. Tareton, who was consul-genera
at Melbourne under President Pierce, died a
Washington from exposure and want, on tn
25th.
David P. Ewing, of Fort Dodge. Ia, d:op'c
dead of anopex at Meadville, Pa, on the 25:i
James +. Owen, the famous wrestler died a
Fairfield, VT, Of 8 bronchial affection on tn
18th.
David p. Smith. Of spslngfcld, Mass, PFC
fessoi in the Yale Medical achool. and the mo
eminent physician and surgeon in the Connect
cut valley, died at Springfield OH the 25tl
aged 80.
The death is announced at Spottsvlvania, Va
of Gaspar rochnan leader of the Polish rcvc
iutiol and b1igadicr general in the confede>
ate scrvice.
The widow OF Bishop Uphold, of Indiana, hs
pas ed away, at the age Of IS.
William G. Holmes. well known as booksc
Ter in Chicago since 1857. is dead. lie was on
of the founders of the Jefferson Park PreSbytt
ran church.
Franci, n. Thompson, former grand maste
of the Masonic order in Missouri, died on I'll
ed, at Phelps.
man Jce," the prosecutor of Dr.. Dix, died
Sing Sy 6 l.rison, New York, on the 25d.
: Mrs. Gloss George Ehot), the distinglishe
, novelist, died at London. England Oh the 23
F Her death wa. quiet and almost painless.
A. S. Ac1ernlau. who WAS attorney eener
y dining Grants first term, died at his home
Gainesville, Ca, on the 22d, Of ,nlia;l4.nato,
y rheumatism.
( George Ford, who owned q 1ar"e amount
: landed property at Ludngton, Mich, droTrs
dead in hote! at East aSluAw, On he Dist.
The death is announced, ct Decatur, ILL.,,
+ Colonel William I. Elkin, q participant IN II
Black Hawk war and a member OF the Him
D legislature when the seat of government W
= removed from VandAlia to Springfield.
8 Major John Riley, o prominent stock man
/ Wood County, Kentucky, and Shedrach Ola
n well q large farmer OF 10 Dayiess County, II
d di' on the DIST.
: Hon Charles Jewett, Of Niles, Mich, i, dea
lie was native OF Vermont, graduate of Hi
It d)ehury, college, and has resided IN MichiS
J. since 1896.
= William NJ. Mayo, well known from his form
i connection with the jewclry trade Of Clncae
died at Jacksonville, ILL.,, OH the Goth.
Rev. John O'nonnoi, Of Prescott, Ont. d
in Chicago, H., on the Goth.
# Leander Church, an old settler in Wcodstot
= ILL.,, has closed a career Of usefulness.
Andrew Kloman. proprietor Of the Super
& rolling mill, at Pittsb1rg, Pa, and one of
% largest iron manufacturers N he United Stat
died at Pittsburg, Pa, On the 18Th inst. )
q, Kloran was of German birth, and started
IS life with brains and determination fer capt.
r. K. Turner, prominent in the legal GIRO
A. of Quincy, H., died Of heart disease or the IS
- Josiah Debloach, aged 70. died at Mompl
Tenn, on the Goth. Deceased WAS 1romin
O. Union man during the war and at one time 6;
IN Gen. Grant timely warning OF the approach c
troop of rebel cavalry and thus saved HIM fr