Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-08-17
Work of the Flames.


Waubashene, Ont, burned on tho 14th lust.
Loss heavy.
The Atlantic Flour Mills, of St. Louis, we're
struck by lightning on the night of the 10Th
inst, and an explosion followed entirely de-
stroying the fine structure. The fire communi-
works and a rosin and turpentine warehouse I.
The loss foots up in the neighborhood of $780,
600. Several employees of the -four mill were
badly burned.
The Parry House, Beach Haven, N. j., las
burned. The guests lost all their property.
Loss on building, 100000.
St. Paurs Episcopal church, the finest sacred
edifce in Erie. Pa, caught fire on the 18th
inst. from a lamp in the hands of the janitor.
The damage to the building is estimated at
100000, while the loss Oh organ and furniture
amounts to $4,000 more. The building was
insured for $4,000, but the organ, ETC., we're not
covered.
Fire destroyed fourteen business houses in
the village of Trafalgar, johnson county, Ind,
on the 10th inst. The total loss willreach $50,
600 with only small proportion of insurance.
The tobacco warehouse of Bosnian & Co., at
Athens, O., burned on the night of the 9th
inst. Loss $25,OO0.
The City Brewery, st. Joseph, NO., burned
on the 10th. Loss $4,000.
destroyed by fire at Pullman, ILL.,, on the 10th.
Loss $4,000.
Greyy, a village in Canton Gusons, Switzer-
land, has been wiped out by fire.
Fire destroyed almost the whole of the busi-
ness part of Pawnee, Neb., on the 9th inst.
Twenty-four business houses, two banks and a
printing Office were burned.
The Laughlin nail mills, at Martins Ferry,
w. Va, burned Oh the 9th inst. Loss, $50, 1000;
fully insured.
The Mclean woolen mills, GAINESVILLE, Wis,
were destroyed by fire on the 9th inst. Loss,
$50, 900; insured for $18, 600.
The excursion steamer Flower City, valued at
100000, was burned at the dock, at Clay
ton, N. Y, on the st. Lawrence River, on the
9th inst. She was owned by John H. Barry, of
Rochester.
A training stable on race-course near Lex
ington, KY, was burned at daylight on the Sth
inst Out of sixteen horses preparing for the
fall meeting, Bowen's Carrie Hanson and
Eagles gray colt Knox we're burned to death,
and the others were greatly injured by dashing
madly around the course.
The large wire and nail mills at East Taun-
ton, Mass, operated by the Old Colony Iron
7th inst. Loss estimated between $780, 900 and
100000.
TragicssI Tales.
Charles Kolb, aged 19, was fatally stabbed at
Baltimore, Md, on the night of the 18th, by an
negro boy who had thrown an apple at him.
John McNally was stabbed twelve times by
John Benson, at New York on the 14th inst. He
will die.
A contest at Bellefontaine, O., to see who
could knock Off hats the oftenest, ended in
Albert Hage shooting Charles Martin through
the left lung, causing his death IN three hours.
The tragedy occurred on the 18th inst.
A family quarrelled at Saco, Nc, on the 18th,
ending in Charles Boynton wounding his wife
and sister-in-law and then killing himself.
At dance house fight near Hannibal, Mo-,
on the 18th inst, Winston Barnes shot John
Gibbons and as he fell Boyd Robinson plunged
knife into his neck. Gibbons parents reside
in Dubuque, la.
Thomas Mcdonald was killed by Robert Nor
ris in Sugar Loaf County, Choctaw Nation, on
18th inst. Cause, too much whisky.
Parker, the Adirondack guide who assaulted
a lady relative of Senator Platt, of Connecticut
and was run down and shot by a constable,
died of his wounds at Forked Lake.
James Gotelg, a laborer of Dedham, Mass,
dubbed his wife to death on the 11th inst
| city, Byran Golden, aged 68, probably fatally
assaulted his wife and then killed himself.
James Wetherell, a widower aged 70, and
Margaret DOhcrty, were married at Ottawa
Ont, on the 18th inst. Roughs started 8
char1vari in the night, but we're driven Off by
tue IncieuC DTlue6IoO1u, WHO lOlioWeu up LII
disturbers. In the morning his dead body was
found by the roadside with the head crushed
Elijah Brady, a young scoundrel living a
Corey, Clay County, Ind, shot and killed hi
father-in law, Josiah Dorham, on the 9th inst
They quarreled about some wheat.
In Washington township. Paulding County
O., on the Sth INST, two farmers named Fishe
and Young quarreled about the possession of {
house. In the fight Fisher was shot dead b.
Young.
A gang of '::regulators' rode into Grayson
Ky, on the night Of the 9Th inst, and attempt
ed to take the town. The marshal and hi
force killed three of the gang and captured til
rest.
Charles Moody and wife (cclored) of LAX
Village, N. c., murdered their two children an
then burned the house to conceal their crime.
James Crawford, of Maysville, KS, shot an
killed William Yates in a brothel on the night q
the 7th inst.
A band Of armed men attempted to take tw
brothers from the jail at Fredonia, Kansas, o
the 7th inst. They overpowered the guards
but not until ono of them handed his pistol
one of the prisoners in the cell. When th