Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-01-26
Minor Casualties.

A young man named F. S. Fisk, bookkeeper
for Sawyer, Goodman & Co.. Chicago, and q
son of VIM. J. Fisk, Fort Howard, Wis, fatally
shot himself, on the Goth, while putting a
loaded pistol in a bureau drawer.
Oliver Bushnell, stonecutter, was killed at
roof of building in which he was at work.
John Wilson, a miner, while at work at the
bottom of Chalk Ranch, near Lcadville, was
buried alive By snow-slido the avalanche COM
pletely filling the shaft.
A youth named Harrison White was coasting
with companion near Woodruff, N. j., on the
Goth, when from some cause their sled left its
course and ran off a bridge to the ice below, a
distance Of twenty feet. White was fatally hurt
and his companion slightly injured
At Port Jefferson, L. l., coasting accident
resulted in the dangerous injury Of Samuel
Acker1y, a newspaper foreman, and Fred
Tooker, college student.
James Coyle farmer, fell asleep while driv-
ing home at Frampton, Canada, on the 19tn,
when his team took the railroad track and fell
into culvert where they remained until train
came along and killed all Of them.
At Gerardville, Pa, on the 10Th inst, two
young ladies, named Cardaf; and Doughelty,
iding with a telegraph pole. They were horribly
smashed.
John Powell was killed at Kirkwood, O., on
the 17th inst, by soap-stone, which crushed
his head.
James Quinn's remains were found scattered
along the rails Of the New York Central road
near Albany, N. Y, on the 17th.
FIortuary.
Eugene Joseph Verbockhorn, an eminent
Belgian painter, is dead.
Charles Mcknight, a prominent Philadelphia
newspaper man, is dead.
Captain John Mcmahon, president of the
Southern Bank, of Savannah, Ga died on the
| goth inst.
J. NJ. walker, general solicitor of the Chi
| cago, Burlington q Quino, 1uilreea, e,aa fa'
some years its president, died at Chicago on the
22d inst, of heart disease.
Rev. ". H. Perrin, D. D., one Of the mos
prominent Methodist ministers in Michigan
died at Albion, in that state: on the 22d inst
He was formerly professor of Albion college.
! Theodore D. Roeau, the French priest ant
| theological writer, is dead.
Father Edward Purcell, brother Of the arch
bishop, and the one responsible for the enor
nous financial loss to depostors in the church
banking scheme, died at Cincinnati, on the 20tl
inst. of apoplexy.
David Jones, a New York brewer, who wa
buried on the Goth, left eleven million dollar
to his five brothers and sisters.
Hon. Jesse D. Bright. who was expelled iron
the United States senate in 1861, died in In
dianapolis, Ind, on the Goth.
lnIOfmaLlOn mas Deen received Dy the war ue
partment that Capt. Theo. Bryne, of tn
Twelfth infantry, died on the 18th inst, at Ft
Moiave, Arizona territory.
Capt. W. B. Frue, of Detroit, who has lont
been prominently connected with mining inter
ests in Michigan, died on the 18th.
Rev. William Edwards, Grand Chaplain o
Odd Fellows of Illinois, died at Mendoza, o.
the 18th inst.
Senor Armando Montlue, Mexican consul a
Paris, is dead. Senor Estabon Velasques ha
been appointed to his place.
DR.. Levi Smith JONES, LII. D., one Of tn
most prominent physicians Of Virginia, died o.
the 18th at Richmond, aged 62.
Judge Chambers G. Patterson died at TER
Haute, Ind, on the 18th.
Alfred Selwyn, son of wel-known Bostol
theatrical manager, died at the Sherman House
Chicago, on the 18th inst, of pneumonia.
Maria Clifford, one of the claimants to Graves
end and Brighton Beach, Coney Island, died a
her residence near Rochester, N. Y, on the 18th
aged 49,.
John W. Gray, a leading citizen Of Steuben
vile, o., dropped dead, Of apoplexy, on Marke
street.