Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-11-17
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER II, $780,


remains as much of mystery as ever. 1t is
now certain that forty-four men were killed.
Only few of tie bodies have as yet been dis
covered. The first accounts indicated that none
of the persons who were at work in the mine es-
capped. Later accounts show that this is not
the CASE One of those who escaped, while |
making for the mouth of the pit, stumbled over
a boy, who proved to be his son, and afterwards
over the PROSTATE body of his father. He res
cucd both, but the father is in SO exhausted a
condition that he will probably die. Onthe 14th
inst. frequent explosions occurred, creating
havoc with everything within reach. Immense
volumes of smoke were ascending from every
opening Of the pit, and great fears are enter
tanned that the whole workings will be destroy
ed. A trench was dug from the river to the
mine, and the pit is being flooded slowly.
Joseph NIcCorkey. a miner of Leadville, fell
through the shaft of the Chrysolte mine at that
place on the 9th inst. and was killed. Alex.
McHardy, q brother miner, descended to recov-
er the body, and when on the point of having
the foul gas, fell backward, and was killed. The
brave fellow deserved better fate.
A fifteen year old boy was killed on the 18th
in the Grove coal mine at Massilon, O., by the
falling Of huge rock. It required eight men
to remove the stone from the body.
A fire broke out in the Goodshow hosting
works at Bodie, CAL, at one o'clock on the
morning Of the 9th inst, and de-
stroycd the building. The shaft took fire
and the tin1hers down 20 or 30 feet
were burned. AS soon as the flames were SUBJ
dued, temporary hosting works were lmpro-
vised and the foreman, James Hood, descended
the shaft. There were four men at work on
the G60 level, McCabe, Jackson, Smith and an
other, name not ascertained. All were found
dead at the bottom. Engineer Parker has not
been seen since the fire. and it is feared that he
may have been burned with the building. A
I'M T,orv
mine on the same day by rock falling on him.
Mortuary.
Cornelius Curry, who had been mayor of
Salem, o., died in al Indianapolis police
station among drunken tramps on the 18th.
Carl Heinzel. editor Of The Pioneer a Ger
man radical paper, at Boston, Mass died on
the 18th inst.
DR.. Cough r. Nebinger, well-known Phila-
delphia physicians, was taken suddenly i'll while
delivering lecture at Wagner institute on the
evening of the 18th inst, and died In few
minutes after. He said he had previously
taken half an ounce Of laudanum to relieve a
temporary attack of sickness.
! Judge William Cothran was on his way to
Lexington, Miss, to hold Circuit Court, when
he was taken suddenly i'll at Winona, and died
| in q few hours. He was "a years old.
Prof Robert Harris, colored, the principal of
the state normal school at Fayetteville. N. C.,
for educating colored teachers, died recently in
| that town.
Judge Roger II. Mills, for Is years q highly.
esteemed resident Of Beloit, Wis.,, died at bis
residence on the 18th inst. Judge Mills was
born in Hartford, Conn.,, in 1913. He was al
one time secretary of the state of Connecticut
and in 1850 was the wing candidate for lieuten
ant governor, being defeated by only one vote
Hubert Frerc- Orban, the liberal leader in Bel
GUM and president Of the cabinet, has CLOSED
his earthly career.
u ,l,o, ~,
Wisconsin Methodist conference, and vel
known and highly esteemed by the Methods
church people, died at Fort Atkinson, on tn
18th inst.
Mrs. Pauline Newman, the wife of Emanue
Newman, aretired Jewish rabbi, dropped dea'
while walking in Plane street, Newark, N. j.
on the night of the 10th. She seemed in per
feet health up to the moment she died. Ape
plexy is supposed to have been the cause.
Lucretia Mott died at her residence, nea
PHILADELPHIA OH the 18th inst, i'll her 88th veal
Gen. Richard S. Satterlee died in New Yor
city on the 10th INST.
Captain Roger Perry, retired naval Office
who was engaged in the construction of IL
: Mississippi gunboat fleet, was buried in We
: Virginia, on the 7th inst.
The death is announced Of Zainnio, Frenc
statesman. William Mure Liberal member
the English parliament, is also dead.
l., Mrs Magdeena Patterson. of Linkepin
| ship company at New York, on the 9Th, aft
stepping ashore from the steamer. Cause, o
l age.
! Six desperate characters broke jail at Ii
Vegas, New Mexico, recently. A posse whiC
pursued them killed two mmderers and woun
ed another.
On the 18th inst. Deputy Marshal Thoma
at Socorro, New Mexico, was compelled to dl
pamhiar named
n In the evening the latter assassinated tt
:, marshal at poker table, firing nine shots in
q his body, and walked away unmolested.
. y. In a fight over yellow dog at Richmond, Va
- on the 18th inst, Robert James stabbed Cha
- Watson fatally.
l. An insane woman of Cincinnati cut her thro
from car to ear, during the night of the II
inst, and awoke her husband to deluge him
;, her blood. Klein, an ex-lieutenant of police,
70 that city, made similar disposition of himse
y, North Carolina fcuds find vivid illustration
=, Il the case of Edward Form. of Wilson, WHO Ia
u week killed his brother. Edward is at lare
~ and threatens to extelminate his family, a.
~ the whole neighborhood is on patrol duty.
10 A large landowner at Valparaiso, Ind, nam
10 John Button, was killed by Joseph Taft, te
- ant, for stealing his corn crop. The murder
surrendered himself to the jallor.
VIM. V. Grover, aged SO, murdered his
n, vcar-old wife at Red Bank, N. j., on the IL
II inst.
- Dr.. J. T. Aust killed his brother-in-la
6 James Humphrey, at Winslow, Ind, on t
=, 18th. Both were drunk at the time.
" Wheeler, a land agent, has been shot de
20 near COLA, county Limerick, Ireland.
in John Dougherty, an oil tank builder, Y
~ at Knapp creek station, II. Y. Oh the 18TH in
ri Samuel Allen and Ed. J. Breeden, seam
e.. quarreIed Oh the deck of q ship at Baltimo
NJ on the 18th inst, whon in the struggle AL
f. rolled overheard and was drowned.
For an attempt to take hencoop at Rivert
of R. l.. Charles Thomas was shot dead by Mo
~ Grinnell.
~, John Berkeley, colored youth, aged 18, '
n waylaid and assassinated near Bloomfield, Ne
- son county, Ky. OH the night of November Z
at Russell Dart, q prominent citizen of Buffs
o. N. Y, probably fatally shot Emil Seifert, +
AZ sic teacher, on the 10th inst. Seifert made Il
W. to Darts daughter, while teaching her mi
on the house on the 9th, and drawing a caryi
w. knife threatened to kill any one who kept
aw from seeing Miss Dart. He was elected
t. promised to stay away, but returned next mo
N, ing, and was shot by Dart, as he claims, in s
defense.
,n Audrey se. Ssn d s ss 5sp1 Ss s
called at her residence in New York city on
"a 10th inst, and in the presence of her mot
a. and youngest brother repeated his overtu]
as Being rcpulsed again he threw his left s
" about the young iadys neck, and, in the pl
ence Of her mother, drew a pistol from
pocket, placed the weapon against her head
sent bullet through her brain. Mary
~, down dead at her mothers feet, and Gil
M rushed from the house. He was subseque1
is arrested and taken to the tombs.
M On the Hudson river steamer Escort, W
mt near Tivoli, N: Y, on the 10th inst, a man
he posed to be drover with considerable mo
ed was murdered and thrown overheard. Mo-
zee to the perpetrators Of the deed.
Matt. Reeves, q steamboat mate, was fat
OF stabbed in saloon fight at Memphis, Tenn.
nd the 10th inst.
In Officer James Virgins of the Allegheny,
IN police force, was shot dead by John Fuel
)ns the night of the Stb, while arresting Fuch
rye man named Geo. Herke for quarrelling.
re- The nude and mutilated body of Dora
TED ence, a nyn,ph du pave was found in close
State street lodging house in Chicago on
nat 9th inst. Annie Handley, sister in sin,
the occupied the room with Dora, and is now 6
IGN ing out sentence in Bridewen prison,
The charged with the crime. She admits havi1
He fight with her partner while both were in'
for Gated one night. In the morning she found
ere Dora had died from blows received, so she
nld cealcd the body in the closet, left the p
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