Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-08-31
The principal block in the business portion
of Arkansas City, Ark, was swept away by fire

The principal block in the business portion
of Arkansas City, Ark, was swept away by fire
on the oath. Loss over 10000.
Fire at Barrytown, N. Y, on the 23d, caused
loss of $1,000; insurance considerable. The
property destroyed is mainly ice and coal.
The entire bus siness portion of Raymond, ILL.,,
was swept away by fire on the 23d inst. Loss,
$G5, 900; insurance, $4,000.
Warner Mcrritt's fruit WAREHOUSES on Della
ware Avenue, Philadelphia; burned Oh the 23d
inst: Loss, s225;0Oo; partially insured.
Minor NIishai,s.
At Cincinnati on the afternoon of 28th, Abel
Warner was killed and several others severely
injured by jumping from the fourth story win
dow of burning building. Tie place was
cheap lodging house and was crowded with peo-
pie. The landlord jumped from the fourth
story window and escaped.
While WOrkmen were putting up apparatus
for an electric light at New York, on the 9th,
the lamp weighing over 600 pounds, fell from q
height of 100 feet, striking the platform and
killing three men. Two others we're seriously
hurt,
Two brothers, named Cofferen, living in
Sanilac county, Mich, fell from a steamer in
They were both drunk at the time.
Russ King. a. young mail of Mt. Vernon, Iowa,
fell from freight train, on the night of the
Oath, and was killed.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. Temple, living near Fulton,
ILL.,, were killed by lightning on the night of the
oath inst, while in bed. A little child sleeping
between them was unhurt.
Mrs. John Leonard and Miss Lavina Chase,
of Dummerston, VT, were thrown from car
riagc and killed on the 25th inst
Eddie G. Farnsworth, of Detroit, Mich, was
killed by tue accidental discharge of gun on
the 24th, near Masonv1le Mich. He was rid
on a blackboard wagon having with him gun
when i'll some way the weapon discharged,
sending a charge Of buckshot through his
bowels.
A Pole named John Gracofiski, employed in
Webbers wagon factory, at Chicago, was caught
in the betting Oh the morning of the 23d inst,
and whirled around shaft at tho rate of 120
crushed, and when the machine was stopped
dropped stark naked into a pool of gore.
H. Tratoff, a farmer of Itasca, ILL.,, was run
over and killed by q train on the 18th. He at
tempted TO cross the track and was struck by
the locomotive.
Henry Barnum and man named Fitzgerald,
| lost their lives in a burning building at Phlla.
delphia on the 23d inst.
Two men were sitting in an empty freight Cal
at Providence, r. l., on the 23d inst, when
somc other cars were run down against the one
i'll which they we're sitting with such force as tc
kill them both. Their names were VIM. O'Day
and Lawrence Slattery.
l. IWo ulotucAe, OlCo duu Iityluouu 'otIouel
were drowned while bathing in the river al
Burlington. Iowa, on the 21st.
While attempting to board a train at Racine
station, Wis.,, on the Esd inst, John Morton
was run over and fatally crushed by the cars.
James s. Farwell, of Chicago, was drowned
at San Francisco, Cal., Oh the 21st inst, by tht
upsetting of small yacht in which he and I
number Of companions were sailing on the bay
William Mexanda, a conductor on the Mus
kineum Valley road. residing at Lancaster. O..
was the fourth member of one family killed OF
that line within three years.
William Cole and wife, living near CARROTS
burg, NO., found their house in flames on tn
morning of the 21st. They made great effort
to quench the fire and to save goods until the.
happened to think that their children were il
danger. Mrs. Cole ran up stairs through tn
flames and carried two of the little ones out, bu
i'll her efforts to reach the babe she was shu
| off