Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-12-06

A boiler IN q papGr-mnl at MlddletOWn, O.,
exploded on the 1st inst, killing Adam For
ester and seriously injuring John Zeller.
By the premature explosion of a blast at VAL
latama, Mexico, two men we're killed and an
other injured.
Two children of Hiram BerkeypiIe perished
in burning house at Johnstown, Pennsyl-
vania
Plattsburg, N. Y, fell on the 30th, killing VIM.
Hetfermaul and seriously injuring two other
workmen. James Murray is supposed to have
been knocked into the river and drowned.
The family of a laborer named Sullivan were
poisoned at San Francisco on the 28th by eat.
ing fish. Two children were dead and q third
not expected to live at last accounts.
Louis. heard the report of a gun in their house
while they were at work in field. They soon
discovered that their 6-year old son had play
fully drawn loaded shot gun upon his younger
sister, actually blowing away her head.
On the evening of the 25th as Rev. T. W.
Terrence with his nephew, aged 8, aud four
hired men we're driving home near Danville.
the vehicle down an embankment. All were
badly injured.
AtSpripg6eld, o on the Goth D. H. Roche
and I. c. Case, railway agents went into the
vaults at the general Office of the I. B. & w
Railroad. Somebody had blown out the gas
anu Lue dc;umuldtloA VI tAo couuue1lOlo GA
ploded on the appearance OF the above named
gentlemen with a lamp. Both were dangerous
ly burned.
Marine Disasters.
The schooner Henry Folger, coal laden, wa
wrecked on Salmon Point Reef, Lake Ontario
on the I'd inst. Her entire crew, eight in mum
| ber, were lost. In the past twenty years clever
| vessels have been totally wrecked on this dan
| gerOus point, with forty lives.
| The steambarge, r. G. Peters, of Manistee
Mich, was totally destroyed by fire on LAX
Michigan on the night Of the 1st inst. Th
captain, mate and eleven seamen perished
was disabled and unable to render assistance
She was headed for Chicago where she arrive'
after stormy passage. Captain Smith AM
Mate larson, of the Peters, resided at Milwau
kee. The steamer was owned by Louis Sands
of Manistee, and was built in the winter o
1888, at a cost of $4,000.
The missing boat of the esteamer Cedar Grove
sunk off Canso, on the Goth ult., was picke'
up by tho steamer Parole. The total aumbe
saved from the wrecked steamer is twenty-si1
but the captain, second and third engineers,
lady passenger, and an unknown man are be
lieved to have been drowned. Misfortune fol
lowed the passengers and crew of the Ceda
Grove, for the schooner which rescued the1
was itself sunk by q collision with the steame
VIVA
saved.
The steamship Cedar Grove, from Londo
for Halifax, struck ledge off Cape Canst
N. B., on the 30th and sunk. Three boat
landed safely, but third containing ninetee
persons is supposed to have swamped.
Eleven of the crew OF steamer which foul
dered of Cape Reath, Cornwall, England, wei
drowned.
The steam collier Moniora. heavily ladel
foundered off Botany Heads, N. w s. Sixtet
lives lost.
The steamer Camhronne was sunk by CO
lision in the British Channel on the 27t]
Fourteen lives lost.
Obituary.
DR.. TAFT, archbishop of Canterbury, died
; London on the Sd inst.
Ex-Congressman Orville Robinson, of Ne
York, died at Oswego on the LIST inst, aged
years.
political and financial circles, died on the
inst: He came near receiving the PRESIDENT
nomination in 1852 at the convention whi'
elected Franklin Pierce. President Buchan
o appointed him minister to Hague in 1856, Al
he afterwards wrote a history of the Nethe
\ lands.
4 Samuel Remington. president of the Ri
: and Agricultural Company, died at New Yo
on the 1st inst, of pneumonia.
!, DR.. L. F. Rap, a prominent organizer of
: A. o. U. W., passed away at New York on
: list inst
7 Congressman-elect J. T. Updegraff, of
i Seventeenth Ohio district, died at steubenvi
+ on the 3Oth, aged GO years.
!, Gen. Daniel Tyler, formerly of the regu
army, and who was second in command at
q famous battle Of Bull Run, passed away at N
IS York on the 30th. He was largely interested
g southern railway enterprises. -
Il Boston dispatches chronicle the death
" Rev. Jacob NJ. Manning, formerly pastor of
Old South church, of malarial fever contract
~ while chaplain of the 49d Massachusetts, vol
70 teers, and of Rev. DIR. William Lamson, y
e was General Buffers instructor l9 youth
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