Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-12-01

seriously burned that he died in few hour
after his escape.
The bodies Of three men, frozon to death
drifted past Montreal on the 24th inst, on a,
ice cake in the st. Lawrence.
Mrs. Anna Coleman, wife of farmer nea
Jonesboro, ILL.,, was on the oath gored to deatl
by bull.
John Conk, aged so years, was found frozo,
to death at Long Branch, NJ, on the 23d.
At the American hotel Allentown, Pa, on tn
burned to death. The child played with
lighted gas Jet during the absence of its mothe
and ignited its clothing:
Mrs. Fred Choteau, and Miss Amand,
Gregoire, two prominent and estimable 1adie
of East Dubuque, H., attempted to CROSS th'
river on the ice from Dubuque, where they hat
been shopping, on the 2Sd. When about I
fell into hole and were drowned.
Mrs: Levi Hulseapple, whose husband is EN-
| ployed in the mines near New Vernon. Sullivan
| county, N. Y, placed cartridge of giant pow
der in the oven to warm it. An explosion fol
! lowed, blowing the stove to fragments and en-
Mrs Hulseapple was seriously if not fatally in.
jured by the flying pieces Of the stove.
lMortunry.
Byron Gilmore Pierce, cadet midshipman OF
the first class, died at Annapolis, Md, on the
2sth ,llt, of rleurisy aggravated by erysipelas.
Gen. George B. Crittenden, who served with
distinction in the rebel army during the civil
war, and in tho federal army during the Mexi-
can war, died on the 9th, at Danville, Ky.
General Hiram L. Brown collector Of Gus
toms at Erie, died on the 25th. from wound
received at Gaines Mills, eighteen years ago.
Capt. r. 3. Lowry, of the United States Navy,
died at the Naval Hospital at Brooklyn. on tie
25th. He was born in South America in 1926,
and entered the Annapolis Academy from Penn
sylvania in his 14th year. He rendered distin-
guished service to tue Union cause during the
war.
Alfred Gather, widely known in business
circles, more particularly throughout the South
and West, as member of the Board of Manag-
ers of tie Adams Express Company, and long a
resident of Cincinnati, died at New York on the
25th.
Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, the London
chemist, is dead.
manager of New York, died on the 25th.
David Nicholson, an extensive wholesale
grocer of st. Louis, Mo-, passed away on
the 25th.
Samuel c. Carey, general passenger agent OF
the Chicago, st. Louis and New Orleans rail
road, died at New Orleans on the 26th.
The deaths are announced of Samuel L: Har-
tranft. father of ex-Gov. Hartranft, Of Penn
sylvania; of Charles Rutledge, southern CORE
spondent of the Louisville Commercial; OF
Mrs. Estella Anna Lewis, the author Of "Sap-
pho" and other poems; Of Hon. William Fow-
Ter, one of the first settlers at st. Joseph, No.,
and Of John Emery, an old citizen of Fond drl
Lac, Wis.
Leon Cogniet, the French painter, has passed
away.
Prof. James E. Watson, Of the Wisconsin
State University, died at Madison on the 23d,
of inflammation of the bowels. He was one of
the most distinguished Of modern astromers.
Thomas; II. Newton, D. D., IL. D., we'll
known and aged Presbyterian divine, died near
Waverly, Sussex county, Va, on the night of
the 18th.
Marine Disasters.
The propeller Simcoe, which left Chicago On
corn meal, for CoIlingwood, has been lost in
Lake Huron, off Mlchael's Bay, with her entire
crew of eighteen people.
The bark Mosclle, of Prince Edward Island,
fram Montreal, with cargo of grain for Ham
burgh, was dismastcd in the Gulf, recently.
One Of the crew died from exposure and four OF
i've others we're badly frozen. Bark Oranio,
from Quebec for Montevideo. lumber laden.
was totally wrecked in the same gale. Bark
Alice, from Quebec fer Montevideo, with a
cargo of lumber, was roughly handled by the
storm and had four of the crew badly injured.
The schooner L. and d. Fisk, of Bath, Me-,
stranded on the outward Diamond shoal, coast
VI NOitu CATOuld, OH TIC ZLO. Out VI Il croW
of seven but ono was saved.
Further reports of disasters on the north At
lantlc coast during the late terrific gales con-
tinue to be received. On the north side of Con-
ception bay six vessels were totally lost. At
other points along the coast seven other vessels
are known to have beon wrecked, and it is feared
many more are yet to be reported. The loss of
life has been terrible, the storm being 50 fierce
that there was no prospect of wrecked sailors
reaching shore. The steamer Bristolian, laden
with phosphates from Montreal, ran on the island
of Anticosti. -Four of the crew were frozen to
death.
A London dispatch of tie Goth says: "a
great storm prevails on the Scotch coast. A
number of vessels in the CEde have dragged
some loss Of life. The ship Vandyck, from
from Quebec for Greenock, is ashore at Rose
meath point. The bark John A. Harvey, from
New York for Dublin, previously reported
ashore on Wexford coast, is hkoly to become a
total wreck"
The sloop Mamoor, Of Chester, Pa., sunk
during gale on Chesapeake bay, on the 18th
inst. Chas. Steetman, William Carperson and
Mr.. Rodgers were drowned.
The English clipper ship Boyne has been
abandoned in the St. Lawrence, with cargo
of grain worth $4,000.
The most terrible ocean horror of the year
is the collision near spezzia Italy, between the
Italian steamship Ortigia aud the French
steamer Oncle Joseph. The latter had on
board three hundred people, and sunk 80 quick
ly that but fifty out Of the whole number were
saved. Most of the passengers were poor emi-
grants from Calab1a.
The propeller Jarvis Lord, laden with wheat,
from Toledo for Buffalo, struck snag in Mau-
NEE bay on tho night of the Goth and sunk.
Cargo total loss. The vessel will be raised.
Her barge the Dictator, laden with wheat
also, was taken in charge by the propeller
Morley, but they encountered storm on the
lake, ard while riding at anchor the steamer
drifted against the Dictator, sinking her. No
lives lost. The barge and cargo are, Of course, a
total loss.
At Dr: alo, N. X, on the 21st. the schooner
Falmol th, laden with 10000 bushels of wheat,
struck the breakwater and foundered in "a feet
of water. One life lost.
TraEical.
The commander and six of the crew of Her
Majesty's schooner Sand Fly, have been
murdered at the Solomon islands.
A gang of oattle-thieves were recently pur-
sued by body of citizens near Tucson, Ari. A
fight ensued in which Wing, the chief of the
robber-gang, was killed, aud William Smith, one
of his followers, was seriously wounded. The
cattle which the thieves had stolen we're re-
covered.
A bloody encounter occurred at Vergon-
borough, near Pittsburg, Pa, on the night of
the Goth ult., between Peter Skinner and Joe
Werle, resulting in Skinner cutting deep gash
in Werle's head with knife, from the effects