Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-02-02

vide, but tho managers had to content them
selver with $500 for their trouble. The
pedestrian fever seems to have waned in
Gotham.
Crooked Transactions.
| San Francisco, CAL, firms are "out" to the
tune of from $4,000 to 100000 through
shipping that amount of goods to bogus firm
j. Lyons, of Yuma, manipulated the job. It is
a question whether anything can be done to the
swindlers, as the goods were bought on credit.
Yhe plunder cannot be found. Goldwater
skipped out to Arizona.
Government detectives arrested Cyrus Smith
| at Short Creek, Kansas, few days since on
charge of defrauding the government out of
$42, 900 worth of revenue stamps. Smith and
others bought stamps at Chicago under pre-
tence of starting match factory, gave bond
for the payment of them, and skipped out.
| Railway Accidents.
broken rail caused a coach on the Sunbnry
road, in Pennsylvania, to be thrown from the
track. Fifteen persons were injured, five quite
| seriously.
| Two freight trains collided near JeffersonviIle,
Ind, on the 29th inst, destroying the engines
and twenty cars. Loss $50, 900.
The mail train on the wellington, GREY and
Bruce Railway, left the rails near Paisley, Scot
| land, on the 28th, and with the exception of the
| engine turned completely over into the ditch
| Several passengers were injured, but none dang
erously. The accident was due to spreading
| rails.
An engine and two cars went over an en-
| bankmentn near Loguna, N. NJ, on the 9th inst,
owing to broken rail. The engineer was
wounded, one Indian killed and another badly
scalded.
BROKEN rail near Millersburg, O., sent
! coach down an embankment injuring several
persons, among whom were DR.. Firestone, su-
permtendent OF the insane asylum at Columbus,
| and DR.. Bright, of Akron.
A landslide ditched train on the Buffalo &
Southwestern railroad, killing Charles Becker,
| the fireman. The unfortunate man met his
| fate while leaping from the engine.
train on the Chicago and Alton road run
| over and killed DR.. Rudolph Shariach and his
son Herman near Mexico, NO., on the 23d.
The unfortunates were walking between the
rails.
| At Puerto Cortes, Central America. q train
consisting of two passenger coaches, mail and
baggage cars jumped the rails aJ Golden Rock
| curve, Amour mountain, into an abyss 70 feet
! deep. Nearly all on board were killed.
Minor Casualties.
While sliding on ice at Shadevile, O., on the
| 28th, John Tucker, aged 18, fell and was fatally
| injured.
| A. J. Muryon, formerly druggist of Cold
water, Mich, was found frozen to death at
l
Huron, Dakota.
| John Welsh, steamboat engineer, while oil
ing the machinery of his boat at Memphis,
Tenn, on the 9th inst, fell into the river and
was drowned.
j. NJ. Smith, cashier of the bank of Kansas
City, started to descend a bluff by stairs which
had recently been removed, of which fact he
was ignorant. He fell sixty feet to the railroad
track, and was fatally injured.
| DIR. II. V. Peck, Of Indianapolis, accidentally
stepped into reservoir of hot water, and was
so severely scalded that fears of his death are
| entertained.
crew Of eighteen persons engagedin harbor
work at Cherbourg. France, was drowned by
the foundering Of their boat. Eight bodies
had been recovered at last accounts.
| Two thousand tons Of coal and rock fell in
the Empire mine, at Welkesbarre, Pa, on the
26th inst, burylng Morris Evans and his son
Thomas.
| A careless boy threw cali of lubricating oil
into stove around which miners we're congre-
gated and eating lunch atPrestOn collierv Pa, on
the 24th. An explosion followed burning John
! Davis, bog nanaed Geo. Howell, Edward Jones
and Edward Eagan. The two former it is
thought will die.
| A bar of reI-hot iron pierced the body of
Charles Kennedy, an employe of the Pennsyl-
vania steel works at Harrisburg, on the 26th
His death was instantaneous
! Eugene Mahon was killed by backing train
in the railroad yard at Kansas City, No., on
the 25tb.
A Mrs. Butler of st. Mary's Ind. was killed
by runaway accident, on the 23d inst. The
horse jumped over q high embankment near
Terre Haute. Mr.. Butler was badly injured.
| Tragical.
| Buck Mcclellan was shot and killed by a COM
panion named Belk in a scrimmage at dance
near Plattev1le, Me-, on the 25th ult.
After killing her two little boys, aged 8 years
Whitevale, Ont, stabbed herself fatally.
At Galveston, Texas, on the 29th ult., Jacob
Hancock and John Bonner were arrested for
| the murder of Joe Spears. Hancock confessed
dispatch from Shreveport, La, gives par
ticulars of the killing of prominent merchant
named Sam: B. Lewis, at q point on the river
younger brother. The murderer, who is a des-
perate character, mounted horse and escaped
In a difficulty at Memphis, Tenn, on the
9th, concerning the collection of draft for
$10O, E. j. Osterhout was shot and killed by
John s: Schroeder. Both are merchants Of
Gaines Landing.
Charles Mcdonnell while riding on switch
engine near Cincinnati, O.. on the night of the
29th ult., was hit with boulder by some un-
known person and injured SO badly that he
died next day.
DR.. Washington F. Hanbough, a dentist of
| O.,
the 29th, and then blew his own brains out. He
was drunken, dangerous man, and had been
married Is years.
New Mexico advices state that detectives
have ascertained that Col Potter, of the United
States geological survey, who has been missing
since October last, was murdered and robbed
az field. d. '' '''' NA'N''"'' "n''' on 0u'' III
| Near Assumption, Ills., on the 9th inst.
Theo. Vatrim. a French farmer, deliberately
shot his wife dead, and then attempted to COM
NIT suicide. He shot himself in the mouth
horribly mutilating his head, from the effects
of which physicians say he cannst recover.
Vatrim is considered hard case, and Las bad
| record.
The body of J. NJ. Smith, cashier of the Kan
| sas city, (Mo.) bank, was found at the foot of
| 80 foot wall with ribs broken and skull crushed.
! There is no doubt but what the unfortunate
man was murdered and his body thrown over
the wall.
Julius Hanske, painter, formerly of Mil
| waukee, Wis, was murdered in St. Louis, No.,
| on the night of the Gath inst. He was discov-
cred in an alley in dying condition, with IA
tai cash in his throat.
Joseph Kline has been indicted for murder in
the first degree at Canton, o. It is alleged
| that he poisoned his father.
Gray Varreu was found dead in his store at
Memphis, Tenn, with fatal dent in the side
of his head, made by hammer. No money
was taken. A negro has been arrested on sus-
picion.
An unknown man was found dead at St.
Louis on the 24th inst, and farmer named
Thomas Stol, Of McLeansboro, ILL.,, has been
arrested for the murder. The farmer denies
the deed, but saws he had drunken fight with
three men who attempted to rob him.
Obituary
Killion 81. Van Rensselaer,, native of Alba
ny, N. Y, for nearly half q century resident
of Ohio, died at California, in that state, aged
80 years. He was one of the most distinguish
ed Scottish-rite Masons in the United States.
LucLettellier, ex-lieutenant governor of Que
bee, died at River Onelle on the 29th ult.
Ezra Elliott, one of the oldest merchants of
Cincinnati, is dead.
Gen. John Love, graduate of West Point,
and veteran of the Mexican war, died at
Indianapolis, Ind, on the 29th.
John Wassell, ex mayor of Little Rock, Ark.
and formerly Vice President of the Merchants
National Bank of Little Rock, died on the 29th.
J. NJ. Hines, city attorney OF Bowling Green,
Ky., and Past Grand Master of the Kentucky