Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-02-26

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The Arsenal street Methodist Church d
Waterloo, N. Y, burned on the 22d. Losl
$15, 600; insurance g., 500.
The Academy of Forest Culture, capable O
accommodating 500 students, together with ,
valuable % mosen en- ~ wss sd destroyed by fire At Mos
Tha spsss s@ss on qsee the s's oi Rein in the ,ou
Oberland, was burned on the 18th.
Batesville, Ark, was visited by Z disastrou
oonAagration ON the Goth. A falling wall kille<
c. 8. Gersuch and injured Thomas Jablin ant
E. w. Morfeld-the former fatally. Tota
loss S76, 5000; about half covered by insurance
The Imperial cotton mills at Doslsg, Pa.
burned on the night Of the 18th inst. Los
At Cincinnati, O., on the T20th Inst, . fir
destroyed the Roberts block, occupied by Burn
hams paper store and print shop. Loss ove
One hundred and twenty thousand bushels O.
corn were licked up by the burning Of Gilman
The large fve-story iron front building, SO!
and 386 Broadway, N. Y, burned on the evening
of the Goth. Losses estimated as follows
Hazen, TOdds Il Co., importers of silk, &400,
600; Dickerhof, Rufflaer & Co., tailors' trim
mings. $3.50 900; James Wilde j. Co., man
Ing $50 600; ipsuranee unknown.
The spoon factory of Holmes, Booth 4 Hay.
den, at Waterbury Conn, burned on the 18th
Loss estimated at $4,000.
Roberts carriage factory at Cincinnati, O..
was consumed by fire on the 18th inst. Losi
$4,000.
The carriage, hub and spoke factory Of Keyes
stroyed by fire on the 9Th. Loss S6O, 900.
John Harriman's livery and boarding stable,
at Milwaukee, Wis.,, WAS consumed by fire on the
18th inst. A valuable horse, thirty sleighs and
fourteen buggies were destroyed. Total loss
about $16, 900; insurance $4,000.
four miles from Jamestown, n. Y, burned on
the 18th inst. Loss on building and furniture
800, 900; insurance $4,000
Railroad Disasters. - = =
An engine and 13 freight cars were ditched
on tho night of the 18th, by running into an
open switch. John Brennan, engineer, and q
brakeman were seriously injured. A similar
accident also occurred on tho same night ON the
Hannibal and St. Joe road, near Buoklin, the
engine and seven freight cars being ditched,
but nobody was hurt. Damage in each case
pretty severe.
Intelligence has been received of a serious
railroad accident on the Bellaire and South
western railroad, in Ohio, on the 18th. A train
consisting of baggage car, coal Car and two
coaches, jumped from trestle sixteen feet
high, injuring dozen passengers. Mrs. A. H.
Caldwell, one of the unfortunates, died Of he1
injuries.
Matanzas papers report that collision 90
CURED on the 10th inst, between the passenger
train from Havana and freight train on the
curve of the road near San Miguel, and that
fifty persons more or less were seriously
wounded. :.
blown into Eternity. 49,.
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pariso, Chill, killed twenty persons and destroy
ed half the building.
A terrific boiler explosion at Barton l. Bah.
cocks distillery, below Peoria, H., on the even
ing of the 18th, shattered the walls of the build
ing, killed two men, fatally injured two others,
and badly burned and scalded three more. Jno.
Still, the fireman, and an unknown man who
stantly killed; Ben. Babcock, one Of the propri-
etors, and John Richardson, = helper, are not
expected to live; Nm. Burns, the engineer,
Louis Laufenberg, q washer, and Oscar Mills, 4
visitor, were painfully injured. Tho boilers
were getting dry and the letting in of the water
was the cause Of the explosion. s8s%I
The boiler in John F. Ehonnpsons steam saw
mill, at Randolph, n. H., burst on the 18th, de-
stloying the mil, killing Elder Page, Roger
Johnston, Mr.. Prescott and French woman,
and badly injuring 8. F. Hawlcy. -.
The boiler on Kidd's salt derrick, near Sea-
forth, Ont, exploded on the 10th inst, killing
John Giligan, the engineer, and completely de-
A Bloody Record.
Near Princeton, Ill.,, on the 18th inst, A. D.
Garvin, an ex-soldier of unsavory reputation,
having trouble with Mrs. Kessick, his sister,
attempted to shoot her, but was prevented by q
daughter who received the bullet in her OWL
body, killing her instantly. Garvin then shot
l.: &1,<h fnko
On the 21st, at Boston, the keepers Of a
boarding house, having missed two of hif
guests for about eight days, broke into Their
room and was horri6ed to frd E. C. Marshall,
one of the missing dodgers, dead upon the bed
with a revolver in his left hand and = bulle,
hole in the side of his head. A lot Of burglars
tools, crucibles, and anumber of precious stones
lice is that the men quarreled over the spoili
and that Marshall was murdered by his partner
Harriet Hink, widow, aged 80, was found il
her room at Paterson, N. j., on the 21st, mur
dered, outraged and robbed of gold watcf
and some money. r..
It has transpired that c. g. Lawrence, Wit
died suddenly at Grand Island, Neb., on the 5tl
of February, was the victim of foul play, ant
his son, Frank Lawrence, is under arrest. Th'
strange and unnatural conduct OF Frank befor,
and at the burial of his father, aroused suspi
cion, and an examination of the stomach of tn
deceased was made. Sufficient prussic acid wa
found to cause death. Frank Had insured hi
fathers life for $1,000 in the Knickerbocke
and sc, 900 in the Travellers.
On the town farm at Corinth, vt, on the Goth
William Fer1ill, aged 79, killed another pauper
Adam Ferrin, aged 76, and then cut his owl
throat.
VIM. Theison shot and killed his divorces
wife, Mrs. Mary Rodewalk, at Columbus, O., o.
the 18th. Cause, jealousy.
nct S%n 0AaeSf3 M
! near Des Moines, Ia., killed his wife on tn
night Of the 18th inst, by mashing her hea'
| with stone.
The body of an unknown man was found in
slough near Venice, Ill.,, on The 18th. The hea1
had been terribly smashed with large rocl
| and there we're other evidences that the ma,
| had been murdered. -5F-2 IL r.
At Metamora; Mich, ON the 18th inst, an oil
man named John Patterson, was brutall
clubbed and robbed of fifty dollars. He va
not expected to survive his injuries. :,.. = .
At Sandwich, Ill, on the morning Of the 18th
| burglars entered the house of Hiram r. Allen
and were surprised by his sitting up in bed m
addressing them. One Of the villains imnnt
diately opened fire and put five balls into NJ
took refuge in closet apd overheard converts
tion between the rascals which it is hoped vi
eventually lead to their arrest. Only fride
the way Of plunder was secured.
Charles Lane, aged "a, Who recently remove
to Bainbr1dge, Pa, from Maryland, killed b
wife, then gave poison to his three children IN
took quantity himself, on the 10th ms
Only one child lives, and its feet are 30 bad
frozen that it is thought it must die.
At Brule City, Dakota, on the 18th inst, il
Somers, notorious character, entered into
settlement Of an old feud With his nephew,
Somers. Jim grabbed needle gun and sh
his nephew through the body. As .he fell, Il
latter pulled his revolver aud shot his uncl
Both are dead. ~ ,~-:.
IN unscientiflo Physician.
(From the Syracuse Herald.) -.
There is one Of our city physicians wi
.. is sometimes in the habit Of imbibing K
, freely and when the trials and tribul
, tions of the busy world bear down heay
In 11non him ho drouna hia n.r;of ox