Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-07-18
CASUALTIES,

J. r. LopER, prominent soap mauufac-
turcr OF Oshkosh, Wis.,, was found dead iu
soap vat on the 11th. The flesh was ali off the
bones. He was identified by truss and filing
in the teeth. It is supposed he fell into the
vat while standing on the top stirriug the con-
fonts.
A MASONIC excursion train coliided with
freight train on the Buffalo and Southwestern
Road, near jamestown, Pa, on the 18th. Tho
engineer and conductor Of the excursion, and
the engineer of the freight were killed. None
OF the excursionists were seriously injured.
SELDEN's planning mill at Rome, N. Y,
burned on the 18th. Loss 100000.
BoNIFAc1Us UHLR1oH, bricklayer, while
working on chimney, fell from tho scaffold-
ing and was killed, at Chicago, on the 18th.
AUGUST BUEcHE, laborer, drowned in the
river at Milwaukee, Wis, on the 11th.
FOREST fires are raging near Kalamas, Ore
gon. The Oak Point logging camp loses over
100000. The flames extend for miles and the
total damage can not be estimated.
A MIXED freight and passenger train on the
Matches and Jackson Road went through a
bridge so feet high, near Natchez, Miss, on
the 10th. The conductor was killed and nine
persons seriously injured.
THE Touring mill of J. A. Flant, at Fiemings-
burg, Ky., burned on the 10th. Loss SIS, 900.
ANTON GABn1EL's little daughter, aged 9
ton, Wis, on the 10th, and was drowned.
AN embankment on the land of the Newman
ket Manufacturing Co., at Exeter, Mass, caved
in on the 10th, killing three men.
A PASSENGER and a gravel train collided on
the 10th near PIainvile, Coma, on the New
England Railroad. Tho passenger engineer.
md another n n tho ha
gage car were killed. No passengers injured.
SEVERE storms visited Fond du Lac, Green
Bay and Racine, Wis, on the 10Th, doing dam
age to growing crops. At Fond du Lac, Willie
Dugan was swimming in Lake Winnebago when
the storm commenced and was drowned.
HENRY B1scHoFF, turner, had his left arm
crushed in attempting to board moving train
at Buffalo, N. Y, on the 9th, and attempted to
commit suicide, saying he preferred death to
being crippled.
MISS MINNIE LUsK was accidentally shot in
the forehead at her homo in Chicago, on the
9th, by q stray bullet. The shot was fired by
James Muskek, living short distance away,
to frigbten some hoOdlums, who we're creating
disturbance. The wound is considered q
fatal one.
CHAs. Hotter, "a farmer living near New
Philadelphia, O., was plowing corn when o
swarm Of bees in passing, settled on the horses.
After some difficulty they were driven off and
settled on tree. He then called hired hand,
named Smith, to assist him in hiving them iu
half bushel measure. The hiving failed,
both men being badly stuug.
FR1EBuRa & WoRKuM's distiller~at Cjncin-
natl, O., burned on the 9th. Loss $25 1000.
THREE children Of a man named Selig, aged
4, and years, were burned to death in Mil
waukee, Wis.,, early on the morning of the 10th,
in fire which destroyed the dwelling of their
parents.
NJ. o. CoaE1's building at Red Wing, Minn.,
occupied by Fred Little, groceries, D: o. Quail
| the 7th. Loss $4,000.
The liquor house Of Shropshire & Co., New
Orleans, burned on the 5th. Loss $4,000.
FIRE at Boston, Mass, on the 9th, destroyed
ton Color Company, and $4,000 worth belong
| ing to the Gleudon Company.
AT Albany, N. Y, on the 9Th, August Ehlers
and child were stuck by falling tree during
| . storm, and killed.
Ar RusseIlvillc, KY, on the 7th, Nimrod
Long, while fooling with an old gun, shot his
cousin, Nimrod Briggs, killing him instantly.
The cap on the gun was corroded, and Long
thought it WASN'T loaded. $50.
A WAREHOUSE Of the Cocheco Print Works at
Dover, N. H., was flooded on the 9Th by a
storm. Loss $50, 600. -. -
FIRE at Elgiu, ILL.,, on The 9Th, destroyed
Gerry l. Bros clock fact Try. Loss $4,000
The ice houses of Sargent Il Nichols a,
HaverhilI, Mass, burned on the 9Th. Loss
! 920, 900. .@G,
SIX colored persons were drowned near
Wbitevllle, N. c., on the 9Th, by the parting Of
| . rudely constructed raft. y
Two boys were drowned IN q quarry at st.
Louie on the 9Th. ~.
Duane storm at Dover, N. H., on the 9Th,
lightning struck seven houses and killed three
men. *&:s
suxsrRoKE on the 9Th killed men in Phila-
delphia, Pa. 2 in Jersey City, and in Chica-
go, III. zss.-:5a re sEs zs2$S
By the fall Of derrick in Walkers quarry, at
Lemont, ILL.,, on the 9Th, two men we're killed
and nine seriously injured.