Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-12-27
& Franks jean goods establishment adjoining
suffered a severe dreuching.
Goldsmlth's Hall, Philadelphia, burned on


suffered severe dreuching.
Goldsmith's Hall, Philadelphia, burned on
the Goth. Loss 100000.
Harvey's livery stable, containing 20 horses,
and the Baptist parsonage adjoining at Nc
Pherson, Kansas, burned on the Goth.
E. c. Hawks farm buildings at Charlemont,
Mass, burned on the Goth, with $50 sheep, 50
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 Goth.
The sixty inmates were all safely removed.
Tho hame shop at the pe'itcntiary at SYRIA
cuse, N. Y, burned on tho20th. Loss $45, 600.
A night Waterman 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 persisted.
John +. Lowell l. Sons, firearms and powder
establishment at Boston, Mass, was consumed
by fire on the, 18th: An explosion of gas
caused the contiagration. Warren Lowell, a
member of the firm. and Oscar Pleavv, a
Waterman, were badly burned. Loss $780,
600,
A fire in the business portion Of Grand
Forks, D. T., on the 10Th, swept away $100,U00
worth Of property.
regular carnival OF flames prevailed on the
sufferer, sixty business buildings and many
residences being laid waste. The loss foots up
$780, 900. The other fires were as follows:
Principal business houses in Clayton, Ala,
$4,000; Hays planning mill and quantity OF
manufactured stock, Pitrsburg, Pa, $4,000;
tn entire block of wooden buildings at Hope,
Ark, $50, 900; seven brick business houses and
1920 bales of cotton at Corsicana, Texas; par
tial destruction of the Barton Block, Minneap-
oils, Mimi, 1901
Two fires in Foo Chow, China, on the 18th
and 9Th ult., consumed about two hundr ed
houses. Four lives we're lost. On the 9TH 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 a lieutenant and several soldiers
wounded. Troops pursued the deserters an6
captured about one-haf of them, who will bt
shot.
negro was hanged by a mob at Nelson
Ga, on the 22l, for assaulung white girl.
A Brooklyn negro named Alexander Jeffer-
son, in jealous fit on the 21st inst, sho,
Henry Hicks dead and cut a Mrs. Jackson's
throat from ear to ear, causing immediate
death. The fend also seriously shot his
brother Celestial, and slashed Annie Jackson
severely in the breast with razor. The muir.
derer became enamoured with Annie Jackson
and was insanely jealous of the attention palc
to her by his brother Celestial and the mar
Hicks.
At Morrison, Ill.,, on the night of the 2Ott
inst, two brothers named Hays, were Oh
served burglarzing hardware store. Ont
was shot and MORALLY wounded, and the othel
captured.
Levi Maltseberger, aged 65, WAS fatal,
n q hro 1C1 at Roo Do
on the 21st inst. Conrad Brettman did tn
stabbing.
A terrible and peculiar tragedy occurred a
Sandersvllle, Ga, on the night of the 10Th
Dave Wilbur attempted to play a practical jok
on his brother by frightening him. The latter
IN paroxysm OF fear. seized guntand sho
the joker dead.
Nine persons who recently escaped from jai
/ at Pleasonton, Texas, are creating 4 reign Q
| terror in the neighborhood by shooting at citi
zens and stealing horses. Two citizens hav
been killed thus far.
Valentine Wagner, a farmer residing nea
Mt. Gllead, o., killed his brother-in-aw, Dan
iel Shcehan, on the 10Th.
| At Waxahatchie, Texas, City Marshal Spauld
ing, in attempting to arrest negro, was sho
and killed. The negro fed, but was capture
in az, clubhouse and riddicd with bullets.
News is received from Dallas, Texas. of til
lynching of two brothers, George w. and Jir
Fra'ey, the latter mere hoy. Both were ar
rested i'll the Commanchc country, charged wit
stealing cotton, They were placed unde
! guard at Hazel Dell. At midnight a mot
armed with shot guns. overpowered the guards
| took the prisoners to the woods aud hange
them on the same limb.
In 1.eadville dance-house carly on til
morning Of the 18th, two men named Mile
and Cummings began firing at each other. tn
latter and spectator uamed Rearick, who's
home is at Victoria, ILL.,, receiving morta
wounds, Miller escaping without scratch.