Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-09-13
Minor MiSllapS,

At Cleveland, O., on the 10th inst two boys
named John and Henry Banker, aged and
II years respectively, attempted to kindle
fire with kerosene oil. An explosion followed
While party of boys were boating at Ban
gor, Me-, on the 7th inst, their craft capsized,
and two of them were drowned
Near BarnesvilIe, O., yesterday, B. and o.
engine struck q wagon with fohr occupants,
fatally wounding one of them, threw the other
three over the pilot, and carried them into
town without their receiving scratch.
fast mail train on the New York Central
Road struck the village omnibus at Ilion..
Albert P. Redway, a dry goods merchant, was
horribly mangled, being thrown one hundred
feet; two men were seriously injured, and three
slightly bruised. The bus driver mistook the
train for the Atlantic express, which stops at
the station.
Herman Delbragh and Joseph Duff, aged 1s
and 29 respectively, were drowned by the cap
sizing of skif at Wheeling, West Va, on the
David Bowers, employed in the Atlas Works
at indianapolis, was caught in the machinery
yesterday and crushed to death.
A boiler in Swift l. Harper's rolling mill,
Riverside, O., exploded on the 4th, iniuring
several people, but none fatally.
A hand-car and construction train collided
near Edwardsburg, Mich, on the 4th, killing
two men outright and fatally injuring third.
A blast exploded prematurely at Storm King
Mountain. near Cornwall, N. Y, on the 4th,
killing two laborers.
u Dr.: AZ 4: o: pickey, Of Worcester, Mass, and
drowned in Fairlee Lake, N. h., on the 4th.
They were riding in carriage on the beach
when the team became unmanageable and
plunged into the water upsetting the vehicle
and drowning the occupants.
A Tragica1 Record.
Deputy Sheriff John Domenick killed Geo.
Demo, former police sergeant at New Orleans,
La., on the night Of the 10th.
Henry 6. Scribner, for the past twenty-five
years respected citizen Of Des Moines, .
brother Of the New York publishers, received q
fatal blow from club in the hands Of two rob-
bers who sprang out OF an alley, o., the even
hours, while his assailants did not dare to take
his money or watch. t..-..
. John 81. Johnston, mayor of Danyille,
Virginia, in an affray resulting from demand
for an apology, inflicted mortal wounds with q
police.
Officer Sheppard was shot dead near wadena.
Iowa, on the 8th inst, while attempting to ar
rest two brothers named Barbour.
Burglars murdered Andrew Wit6g, the aged
proprietor of . grocery store at East st. Louis.
While ina state Of intoxication, John Hurst,
OF Cambridge, Mass, took his 8-year-Old son
up and dashed him to the floor. When picked
| up the child was dead.
Two men murdered Jesse Pace, a highly re.
spectacle farmer, Of Winona, Miss, and tten
acknowledged their crime in letter to the
| sheriff.
Orlando Bacon, Of Lancaster, Wis.,. had an
alteration with his father-in-law, Joseph Toey,
and was shot dead by the latter. The tragedy
occurred on the 9Th inst. e 1
Charles Harris, a Pinkerton detective, was
assassinated at San Antonio, Texas, on the It'll
inst. The murderer escaped.
| At . saloon in Milwaukee, Wis, on the night
Of the 9Th inst, Frank Allen, of Burlington
engaged in dispute with habitu Of the place
and ended it by drawing his revolver and dis
persing the crowd present Two shots took ef
feet, one fatally wounding John Waters, ma
chlnist, and the other lodging in Charles John
sons thigh, indicting serious wound.
Winston Wade, leche,ous negro, VA
hanged BY . mob at Union City, Tenn, on tn
9th inst, for an indecent assault on q lady.
At Chicago, on the 9Th, q teamster name,
/ Mariner, was fatally beaten by Samuel VII
hsms, who claimed that Mariner had been q
intimate with his wife, - !. ..s'sss -