The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-07-16

Bcarr. At Hanover, two barns and several
grauaries were destroyed by the WIND.
LEE 4 MuRpocKs mill, stOrehouse and other
buildings at East Douglass, Mass, were burned
on the 7th instant.
A uoRRImE accident occurred near Dunkirk, |
Ohio, on the 9th instant, the boiler Of n steam |
ulresher exploding, killing five persons and &C.
riously wounding four. Richard Case was III
stautly killed His head WAS blown distance
of one hundred Yards from where the body lay
and his heart was literally torn ont and found
some distance from the trunk. Ansly Harden
was instantly killed, George Pisle instantly Kill
ed, William Frederick died an hour after the
accident, Rudy Thrust cannot recover. Jesse
Frederick will lose leg and John McNetty and
A. NJ. Bower were slighdy injured.
The Cascade flour mill, at Osceola, Wis, was
DESTROYED by fire on the 9th inst. Loss $l5,-
200; insurance 100000.
TnE Iowa Distillcry Co.'s alcohol works ut
Clinton, Ia. burned on the 9th inst, with sew
cral thousand bushels of grain. Loss about
| SlS,OOO; insurance Sll 900.
| PHELIM Tool, the fireman who made himself
famous by the rescno of many lives Mt the burn
| of the Southern hotel, st. Louis, few years
ago, was killed at fire on the 9Th inst, by the
! explosion of all eXtingusher which he was oper-
ating.
~.
| Syracuse rxcursionists on board, sunk i'll Gaze
nova lake. New York, on the 9th inst. No lives
| lost.
Ar the burning of stable i'll San Francisco,
| On the 9TH inst, six tremcn were buried under
| the falling roof. All were rescued more or less
| injured. Geo. Chcstcr's injuries are supposed
! To be- fatal. as Inc was buried thirty minutes
under burning hay.
NJ "A To N ia m al
Hanna attempted to cross a submerged bridge
with wagon in which were his wife aud five
children, the vehicle was upset and Of the seven
! only Mrs. Hanna escaped.
john MULLEN WAS shot dead during melee
at Cincinnati, on the 18th inst.
| Ar Monterey, Cal, on the 18th inst, the mag
| a2nc for company q. national guard exploded.
| killing ". &. Burke and terribly mangling two
| others. The accident WAS the result Of careless
| pcnng of ammunition boxes.
| FIRE on the county farm nj Lancaster, Pa,
| OH the 4th inst. destroyed large barn and sew
eral adjoining buildings. Loss $4,000.
FOURTEEN cars laden with grain Were demoi-
| ished by an accident ON the Chicago and Alton
railroad near Mexico, No., on the ith inst. The
| engineer and rCman Were injured.
| 4 Two-YEAR-pLp girl named Amy Van Avery
was shot through the heart at Milwaukee, Wis,
| on the 4th inst, by boy named llanlcy, who
carelessly pointed pistol at the child.
| PENSACOLA, Fla, suffered from $4,000
blaze on the 9th inst. An entire block was
duced TO ruins.
| G. b. HOWARD, veteran of the Mexican war,
conired in MERGED, Cal, for drunkenness set
| tire 10 the building on the Ith inst, and was
fatally burned Lefore he could be reached.
CAPT. WIN. HAMMOND, of Chicago, WAS shot
| 1, 4 l,, Ian
the hands of his son at Chicago on the 9TH inst.
AT Philadelphia, Pa, on the 9th inst. the
ferry boat Arganauta ran down 4 row boat and
drowned Mrs. Kate Mahoy, aged %, Robert
Orr, l5 Lizzie Orr, 9, and Katie Orr, 6.
Ar Victoria British Columbia, on the 9th,
Thomas Pail was chained TO post in stable
for creating disturbance. During the day
the stable took lire and Pail was burned to
death.
A YACHT capsized on White Bear Lake, near
st. Paul. Mimi, Oh the 9Th inst, and Frank
Gibson. wife and two children, Mrs. John Dow,
Miss Tllic Dow and Katy Kline was drowned.
ENGLISH CARTER, ahas l.. b. Jones, was
hanged at Huntsville, Texas, OH the ID inst,
for the murder Of W. X. Spaulding, III July
last, near the town of Dodge.
SC"rr BELL (coloreD WAS hanged at Stark
Vile. Miss, on the ID inst, for the murder of
| James Henry lcoIoicd) on inc loth Oh May Iast-
Ar Amtyville, l.. l., on the I'd inst, Lewis
Schmid was murdered, his body thrown into
| well and his house burned.
A DESPATCH from Cedar Mills, Texas, says
Prank Northcote, who shot Constable Crab
tree, was arrested and placed under guard at
Crahtrec'S house. During the night lie was
taken from the guard by mob of masked men,
| who crossed led river To the Indian territory,
| where they riddled him with bullets"
MRs SYLVESTER CHICK, of Kemebec, Me-,
took her only son, eight years DID, to the river
on the LIST inst, undressed him, and held him
under the water till he drowned, and then at
tempted 10 drown herself.
The firm of Geo. &. Ball 4 Co., commission
merchants of Chicago, are losers TO the extent
Of -, 900by the scculations of their book keeper,
Fred r. Evans, who confessed the crime and
| left the city.