Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-10-12
each, and in the Phoenix and Watertown for

2ach, ana IN the IhRnlX and WatertOWn Tor
$4,000 each.
Fifteen oil cars, q portion of train on the
Erie road. took fire and were consumed near
Port Jervis, N. Y, on the 9th inst. As each
car exploded, volnmes of flames shot hundreds
OF feet in the all, and the burning oil and frag;
hlents Of tanks were thrown one thousand
yards. The end Of tank was thrown across
the Delaware river. The remainder Of the
t1ain; consisting Of thirty five cars was saved
with difficulty.
The Galveston Wharf Company's elevator at
Galveston, Texas, containing about $4,000
bushels Of grain, burned on the 4th inst. Loss
on building and contents about $4,000.
The blacksmith shop of the Indianapolis,
Ind, wagon works was destroyed by fire on the
The mill and drying shed of the Oak Point
mines, on Bull River, South Carolina, burned
on the 4th inst Loss $4,000.
The Home warehouse in New Orleans, Occu-
pying q block of ground on Poydras Street,
was destroyed by an incendiary fire. with con-
tents valued at 1926, 900.
Goodenow g. Hawley's saw mill at Minneap-
oils, Minn., was swept away by fire on the Sd
inst. together with quantity Of lumber. Loss
about $4,000.
TragicaI Tales.
Thomas Zindle, an inn-keeper of Lock Haven,
Pa, was murdered on the night of the 9Th inst.
John O'Connor; drunken brute, shot and
killed his wife at New York on the 9Th inst
Thomas McKeever, who had been divorced
from his wife for eight years, met her in a
butcher shop in New York on the 9th inst, and
stabbed her to death.
During quarrel between two brothers Bud
and Harry Bassett at Louisville, KY, on the 9Th
inst, over the loan of Is cents, the latter shot
the former, killing him.
Mrs. Rose, residing near Ellsworth, Kansas,
has made a confession to the effect that her
husband murdered Andrew Ware and his 12-
year-old son on the 21st of September. He
and fled the country. Cause of the tragedy, an
old grudge.
A man named Church, confined in the New
ton, N. c., Jail on a charge of murder, was
taken from the prison and lynched by mob on
the 9TH inst.
and " "Frenchy," both formerly of the notorious
Stockier gang, were lynched on the night OF
the 9Th, at SocoTo.
Two men were found murdered near Benson,
Ar,zona, Thursday morning, and it is supposed
to have been the work Of Indians.
Mrs. A. c. Bennett, Of London, N. H.. who
has been partially insane since the loss of hel
son in the battle of Charlottesville, tried tc
cieave her husbands head with an ak, inficting
o mortal wound.
Edward Sanders and Philip Rogers, two no.
tOrious characters of Lancaster, Pa, forced
their way into The room Of Mrs. Mary Seymour,
on the night of the 5th inst, and in the pres.
ence Of her three children, Sanders criminally
assaulted her. The woman struggled desper:
ately to escape, and at length succeeded, San.
dcrs following herinto the street and knocking
her down several times. Mrs. Seymour escaped
to neighbours house, where she died from the
effects Of the injuries. Both men were al.
| rested.
Fred Nciss and several companions ''bad.
gered" a newly-wedded colored pair at Pine
Bluff Ark, on the night of the 9Th inst, anc
groom used his shot gun and mortally wounded
Neiss.
Thomas Gartrel and wife-the former of In.
diana, and the latter of New York-have beer
murdered at Rio Chico by servant. The all
thoritics are pursuing him. A considerable
amount in drafts were taken by the murderer
At Detroit, on the 9th inst: during quarre
between two shoemakers-John Till and An
| drew Schwenh-over a trihing matter, the for
! mer beat the latter with stool so that he can
not live. Schwenk was a quiet, industrious
man, the father Of a family. Till is unmarried
and is of quaTelsome disposition.
| Dispatches from Marion, o.. tell of the de-
| liberate assassination there of Frank Foster,
prominent young business man, by Orrin De
pugh. Foster was shot without warming, while
standing in the store of Timothy Kelly
Harvey Mink shot and killed Mark Raggs, O.
Pulaski County, on Stages Creek, Rockcastl
| County, Ky, on the 30th ult. Both young mel
we're drunk. Mink surrendered.
; Col. Hunt president of the Huntsville, Ala.
cotton seed oil mill, a prominent citizen, wa
shot and instantly killed, on the 4th inst, b,
the brother-in-law Of young lady whom it i
said he was paying improper attentions to.
In an alteration at a Jetfersonville, Ind.
saloon, on the night Of the Sd inst, Ed. McDer
mott, notorious character, killed John Keefe
| ~A.Jl.
wounded. McEermott and a man named Duff
| quarreled, when the murdered men attempted
to separate them, only to receive death wounds
AlcDermott is the son of A. McDermott who sho
his wife and baby and then committed suicide
| few years ago.
farmer named Leary, living near Rath.
! more, Ireland, on Lord Kenmore's property
was shot on the night of the Sd inst. by bant
of armed men, who visited his house to war;
him not to pay rent. He died next morning.
The police of New York are searching TO
four ex-conyicts believed to be the persons wh'
entered q squalid tenement in West Thirty
eighth Street, on the 4th inst, and brutall
| assaulted an invalid mother. aud killed her in
FAINT babe, only fifteen days old, in the struggle
At New York, on the Sd inst, a man namet
Baxter was shot dead by o policeman who wa
trying to arrest MIN.
| A lad of nine years. residing at Grays Mills
Miss, had a QUAR- el with a girl of two years, OF
tho list inst, and blindfolded her and threv
her into a we'll, where she perished.
| Several citizens of Pitkin, COL: were latel..
robbed and badly beaten. The robberies wer,
traced to Charles Briggs, proprietor of a danc
hall, and his associates, and on the Sd inst.
| citizens mob, after warning the inmates, Sc
fire to the hall. Briggs fired into the crowt
without effect, when an unknown party return
ed the fire, fatally wounding him.
Frank Jefferson. an Illinois man, who settled
| at Maxahachie, Texas, two years ago, and VIII,
owns the cotton gins there and at Palmer, Texas
left Maxahachie, on the LIST inst, for Palme
with a wagon load of bagging and ties. No
reaching home, the neighbors instituted {
search, and found his dead body in the road
with bullet hole through his head. The mur
derer is unknown.