Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-12-27
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& Frank jean goods establishment adjoining
suffered q severe drenching. .,,
Goldsmith's Hall, Philadelphia, burned on
the 20th. Loss 100000. >.
Haryey's livery stable, containing 20 horses,
and the Baptist parsonage adjoining at Nc
&. C. Hawks farm buildings at Charlemont,
Mass, burned on the Goth, with $50 sheep, so
calves and large quantity of fodder. Less
$4,000.
The Sister Of Charity Hospital, at Big Rap.
ids, Mich, was consumed by fire on the 20th.
The sixty inmates were all safel y removed.
Tho hame shop at the penitentiary at Syra-
cuse, N. Y, burned on ho2Oth. Loss $45, 900.
A night watchman named Austin lost his life.
A fire at Pembroke, Ont, on the Goth inst,
destroyed the Copeland Hotel and an adjoining
block. Several of the hotel guests had narrow
escapes. Two French boys, attaches of the
hotel and travelling agent named Jas. Cam.
eron perished.
John +. Lowell l. Sons, firearms and powder
establishment at Boston, Mass, was consumed
by fire on the, 18th. An explosion Of gas
caused the confagration. Warren Lowell, a
member Of the firm. and Oscar Pleavy, a
Watchman, were badly burned. Loss $780,
A.; fire in the business portion of Grand
Forks, p. t., on the 18th, swept away $1OO, 100
worth; Of property. ,,,,I .m'.z, I:
A regular carnival OF. flames prevailed on the
18th inst. Newport, Ark, was the severest
sufferer, sixty business buildings and many
residences being laid waste. The loss foots up
$3.50, GOO. The other fires were as follows:
Principal business houses in Clayton, Ala,
$50, 900; Hays planning mill and quantity Of
manufactured stock, Pittsburg, Pa, $4,000;
ttn entire block of wooden buildings at Hope,
Ark, 1000; seven brick business houses and
1900 bales of cotton at Corsicana, Texas; par.
tial destruction of the Barton Block, Minneap-
! oils, Minn., 100000.
Two fires in Foo Chow, China, on the 4th
and 5th ult., consumed about two hundr ed
houses. Four lives we're lost. On the 7th and
9Th ult., Canton received like visitation. eight
hundred houses melting before the flames.
Many lives were lost.
Record Of Tragedies.
A company Of soldiers mutinied at Tampico,
Mexico, on the 22d. Captain Burgoo was
killed and lieutenant and several soldiers
wounded. Troops pursued the deserters and
captured about one-half of them, who will be
shot.
A negro was hanged by mob at Nelson,
Ca, on the 221, for assaultng white girl.
Brooklyn negro named Alexander Jeffer-
son, in jealous fit on the 21st inst, shot
Henry Hicks dead and cut Mrs. Jackson's
| throat from ear to ear, causing immediate
death. The fiend also seriously shot his
| brother Celestial, and slashed Annie Jackson
| derer became enamoured with Annie Jackson,
and was insanely jealous of the attention paid
to her by his brother Celestial and the man
| Hicks.
| At Morrison, ILL.,, on the night of the 2Oth
! inst, two brothers named Hays, we're oh.
served burglarlzing hardware store. One
was shot and mortally wounded, and the other
| captured.
Levi Maltseberger, aged IS, was fatally
! stabbed in a bar-room brawl at Reading, Pa.
on the 21st inst. Conrad Brettman did tn,
stabbing.
A terrible and peculiar tragedy occurred a
| Sandersville, Ga, on the night of the 10Th
on bis brother by frightening him. The latter
in q paroxysm of fear, seized gunland sho
the joker dead. "
Nine persons who recently escaped from jai
at Pleasonton, Texas, are creating reign o.
terror in the neighborhood by shooting at citi
zens and stealing horses. Two citizens hav'
been killed thus far.
Mt. Glead, O., killed his brother-in-la law, Dan
iel Sheehan, on the 10Th.
At Waxahatchie, Texas, City Marshal Spaultl
ing, in attempting to airesta negro, was sho
and killed Thesnegro fed, but was captured
in HE clubhouse and riddled with bullets.
lynching Of two brothers, George w. and jim
Fraley, the latter mere boy. Both were ar
rested in the Commanche country, charged will
stealing cotton. They were placed under
guard at Hazel Dell: At midnight mob
armed with shotguns, overpowered the guards
took the prisoners to the woods and hanged
them on the same limb.
In Leadville dance-house early on th,
morning of the 17th, two men named Mi1Iel
and Cummings began firing at each other. th'
latter and spectator pamed Rearick, whose
home is at Victoria, Ill.,, receiving morta
wounds, Miller escaping without scratch