Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-02-14
Work of the Flames.

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pants foots up 900, ,90O., -: Ers,1,ss i'',c.:
A fre in Chicago ON the evening of the 10th,
destroyed the building Nos. 16 and 18 South
Canal Street. owned by the Newberry estate
and occupied by the manufacturing firms OF
McAvoy l. Co. and Wichman Il Co., the loss
being $4,000.
Rondont, n Y. was the scene of destruc-
tive confagration on the 1lth inst: A blaze
which started i'll barber shop spread rapidly
to adjoining buildings destroying large struc-
turc occupied by several railway and steam
boat companies and two mercantile firms, the
ice houses of the Cornell Steamboat Company,
containing 1000 tons and the steamer City of
Catski. Loss in the neighborhood of $780,
600.
The residence of J. s. Haldenlan, on historic
ground; near Harrisburg, Pa, was swept away
by fire on the 10th. Loss $4,000.
The planning mill of Thomas Monford, and
the lumber yard OF Fields & Morrows, at Red
bank, N. j., vanished in smoke on the 10th.
Loss $50,00O.
Lucas County, Iowa, was consumed by fire on
the 8th.
Fire damaged the Excelsior Coal Company's
works at Doylestown, Pa, to the extent of :S2O,
600 on the 9Th.
|: J! ". I.add's store at Bird Island. Minn..
Ewas redrced to ashes on the 9th. Loss $780,
300. ..- ../n,,; :.
, The Grand Trunk Railway sheds at Hem
mingford, Canada. burned on the 9Th. Loss
100000. At Toronto On the seme day the
Royal Opera House was consumed. Loss $75,-
600. '' '''''
A4fre at St. Louis ON the night of the 7th,
destroyed Dixon; g.. :Young's pottery. Loss
Ham1ine University. situated midway be-
consumed by, fire on the 7th. Loss $65,00O.
The pupils We're in session at the time OF the
outbreak, but they made their exit from the
building in on orderly manner. &
Voight l. Cos. Wholesale grocery, Norfo lk,
Va, burned on'the 9TH. Loss 1888, 900.
J.s sIurderou$ Deeds,
|! At New York on the 11th inst, Charles D.
Seebach, a bartender, fired on a party of boys
who we're snowballing him; and killed John
Noonan, aged g. ,
/ Joseph Dorry, drunkard, shot and killed
lis. faiher-in-law, NJ. NJ. Smith. ono of the
leading farmers'of Barton County, Mo-, on the
9th. Dorrey. by cruel treatment. forced his
! wife to seek refuge at her fathers. and be.
cause the latter would not deliver mp his S.
year old boy Dorrey killed him.
Anthony Korzminski, a Chicago "sand'
;bagger" waylald August Gerharde, a a-respecta'
bic citizen, on the night of the 11tb, and was
shot dead.
Late on the night of the 9Th young mar
named Freeman, n siding at Roxland, fourteen
miles north of Charlotte, NLicb., was shot in
/ the head by John Day, With whose ,ughte,
he was trying to elope. Young Freeman had
been forbidden the house, and at last uuder
took to elope with Miss Day. Her father
! hearing of il, followed on horseback, and
overtaklng the couple, shot Freeman in thu
forehead, causing serious wound, from which
he will probably die. ''...' -, ..S''..'
The employees of the Pnos, Altos Mining
| ~ ;b,7ab br,o Na>ion oftanloT
| byaesperate characters on the 8th: Manue
I ,Anchon, clerk Of the company. Buctan' Hep
l, burn, the manager. and four whites werf
l"kilied The authorities and citizens turned
put en,sntdsse and captured five OF the ruffiant
whom they promptly executed; 40 .,:.:s =: vi
At. Chattapooga: Tenn; 2 co.; eolorsa ;1.o1aa MAJ
wife inthe: company Of = methodist preacher
cut her throat and then his own. -~,2:.,v. J
Jacob Boaltman, an aged hermit who lived II
the woods in Newayago County, Mich, ant
who it was said had accumulated considerable
money, was found dead in his hut on the 9th
evidently murdered for his money.
| 4 negro who wronged a little girl ct, Rarola
KaDsas.i on the night Of the 9Th inst, VIZ
promptly arrested and placed III jail. An at
temut was made TO secure the prisoner by {
mob en-, tho; night eof the 8th, but the sheriff
fru ,trated the designs Of the avengers. Or
t. the Afternoon Of the 9th inst, however, tn
l.mob broke into the jail and batteredm thedoo
Eof the cell containing the black tiend, when
was discovered that he had taken tis-own lif
by severing his wind pipe. The fbaffed csow'
secured itha bleeding body and hanged it to
tree in the public, park. 80, 49,
y 7Bnrpiars broke into the residence of William
7 McGregor; farmer, 'neara Rockford, I'LL, o.
the night of the 8th, shot Mr.. McGregor ant
lis. little daughter, gagged Mrs: McGregor
and then robbed the heuse and left. Th
u wounded arc not expected TO survive. .s5ss
/ -, A horrible discovery was nader ln St. LOU
7, tenement house on the 8th. It was foun
that Henry Deces,. a German, had cut hi
fswiie's throat with razor, and then bis OWL
4 Epeces D Vas fHard- working man and had ii
d 2cumuiatedl ,OW in savings! Il He i'll ltreAte
j his wife: continually and on one occasion sh
d tty. q. B. Hepburn, son of an English barone
II was murdered by miners at Pinos Altos, Oh
buahue on the 4tb. Five o5 the murderer n'ts
j we're tried and shot.
: b JudgepWlliiams, Of Catulla, Texas, was kille
sAJwhile. attingin bis Office BY a stray shot tlre
by either Green .McCulloch or Charles bog