Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-18
MOrtuary.

L. A. Gobright, one of the Oldest journalists
in this country, died at Washington, D. c.. on
the 18th inst.
, Prince Pc Peteryen % oldenburg died at st. Peters,
Samuel Hamilton, well-known steamboat
builder of Cincinnati, who fitted out several of
the mississippi gunboats during the war, is
dead.
John M. Ingersoll, veteran Michigan jour-
nalist, died after q lingering illness.
Col. Freeman W. Novel;, q veteran of the
Mexican war of the rebellion, died at Detroit,
Mich, on the 18th.
Merrill Ladd, business man we'll known in
Chicago and Evanston, died at Chicago, on the
10th inst. aged Sc years.
Peter NJ. Brown, who died on his farm near
and served in the Blackhawk war in the regi-
ment commanded by the late General Jacob
Fry.
Charles F. Hunt, young attorney of Indian
apolis, who was the receiver of the Grand hotel
during its bankruptcy, died of congestion of
the brain on the 9th.
Joel foster, who ranked as the oldest letter.
ter, N. H., Of pneumonia, on the 9th.
James W. Kelly, a wealthy lumber merchant
Of Hartford. W: w., died of heart disease in
Cincinnati brothe1.
Nose Phillips, who dropped dead in Chicago
on the 9th, was character known on every
an estate of $4,000 in Europe, Of which he
managed to rid himself in few years.
George C. Harding, editor of the Indianapolis
Saturday Revie,o, died on the 9th inst.
Matthew V. Fowler, president of the Com
mercial Fire insurance company, New York,
died very suddenly on the 9th inst,
Minor Mishaps.
Annie Martyle, young miss, Of Racine, died
oofFo of
hundred times cOnsecutively.
Andrew Jackson was fatally Frustrated at
Cleveland, on the 18th, by the suns heat. Six
deaths are reported in New York city from the
same cause.
While cleaning a vault at Cincinnati, O., on
the 18th, Benjamin Althoff was suffocated by
foul air
An explosion of sulphur in the Palmer Vein
colliery, at Pottsville, Pa, John 0. Horn and
Daniel Dougherty, miners, were killed.
Beware of soda water. Jas. r. Turner,
druggist Of Nashville, Tenn, was killed by the
explosion of a fountain which be was charging,
on the 11th.
A Swede died from sunstroke at Cleveland. on
the 18th inst. He had only been in this country
ten days.
magazine containing explosives on Iron
Hill, near Leadville, Col, took fire on the 18th
inst, and terrific explosion occurred. Three
men we're badly injured and others slightly.
Buildings in Leadville received thorough shak-
ing up.
Two children of Frank Levevre, of East
Rochester, Mimi, aged and 5 years respective
", were drowned in a mill race on the 18th inst.
-Four negro laborers on the Alabama and
Great Southern road we're covered by land
slide and killed.
On the morning of the 10th inst, two men
named Browscombe and Spindler, while repair
ing an old we'll at Kincardine, Ont, were as
DhyXiatcd bY foul air.
An unknown man was run over by the cars
and killed near Erie, Pa, on the 10th inst. In
his pocket was handkerchief marked g Fred.
B. Dodge"
Lizzie Yelton, 3-year old child, became
entangled in a swing at her home in Lincoln,
ILL.,, on the 9th inst. and was strangulated.
The first case of sunstroke for 1881 occurred
at Erie, Pa, on the 9th inst, when Mrs. Culhare
received fatal injuries.
Mr.. John Hopkins, an old and respected busi-
ness man of Chicago, was suffocated by illu-
minatiug gas. He was found dead in his bed
room on the morning of the 9th.
Mrs. Emeline Gould, widow Of Eaton Rap
ids, Mich, living alone, was recently found in
her bed after having been dead week.