Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-10-31

FIRES on the 2Sd: Twelve buildings, frame.
at Miles City, Mont; aggregate loss, $S5, 900.
! McLeans medicine factory and warehouse, St.
Louis; loss $4,000.
TIE steamer Heimdahl, with 500 passengers,
on fire OF Fire Island, signalled for assistance
on the 22d. Later she reached her docks when
the passengers were safely landed.
CHAs. LEaa and his aged aunt, Miss Lizzie
Watkins. were burned to death at ire in An
| napols, Nd, on the 22d.
Four barges broke loose from tug in gale
on Lake Ontario, on the 21st, and one is sup
posed to have foundered with all on board.
FIRE on the 22d, destroyed four stores on
South Second Street, St. Louis. Losses aggre-
gate about $4,000.
On the 22d the hardware store of Capt. 8.
B. Smith, at Middleville, Micb., burned. Loss
$50, 900. Mr.. Smith. Cbas. Bunday, and H.
year-old son Of Thos. Walsh, we're killed by =
falling vail.
OK tho 22d . train consisting Of locomotive.
passenger and baggage car, went through a
bridge near Fort Edward, N. Y. Dallas Grip
pen, and Mrs. N. Mahalen, Of Glen Falls, and
. Mr.. Wincap, of Gloversville, were killed
Twenty-Five others were injured, several "a
tally.
On the 22d at private school in Cincinnati,
the clothing Of Maggie McKsl, years old,
caught fire from contact with the stove, and
she rushed from the room screaming. panic
ensued snd the $50 pupils pushed and jammed
girls injuries are fatal.
On tho 21st, at New York, three boys found
= giant-powder cartridge, and fired the fuse.
One of them-John Burke-will die from
shattered brain, and the others are seriously
hurt.
FIRE on tho 21st damaged dry goods
house at New York to the amount of $4,000
HE carriage and farm implement warehouse
of A. B. Thurston Il Sons, st. Paul. Minn.,
burned on the 21st. LOSS $35, 900.
TIE dry shops, warehouse and paint shop Of
the Stearns Manufacturing Company, at Grand
Haven, Nich., burned on the 2lst. Loss $50
900. y
On the 20th, at Harvard, Mass, a platform
crowded with spectators watching boat races
on the Charles River, broke down. A student
named Mead was fatally injured and several
others seriously.
On the 10th. Thomas Hughes, while chopping
wood near Lexington, Ind, was pinioned to
the earth by falling tree, Q limb of which
passed through his body. He lived only a short
time.
On the 21st, at Brooklyn, L. l., a twenty ton
boiler, in the planning mills Of John Loomis,
exploded, wrecking portion of the building,
Nicholas Leik, the watchman, was killed.
WHITE RIVER, al Batesville, Ark. was re-
ported very high on the 21st. Over $4,000
acres Of corn and cotton are destroyed.
On the 18th Herman Jacox, IN old and dis
tinguished resident Of Denver, COL, had both
legs cut of by railroad train, and died in a
short time.
The round house and two locomotives of the
| North Western Railway, at Marshal]town, a.,
| were destroyed by fire on the 18th. Loss $780,,
| 600.
FIRE at Weston, Washington Territory, or
the 18th, damaged business property to the
| extent OF $3.50, 600.
A CYCLONE overturned and wrecked freight
train moving at 18 miles an hour. on the Mar
row Guage Road near Sulphur Springs, Tex.
| on the 10th.
The town Of Wayland, N. Y, lost nearly al
it's business portion by fire on the 18th. Losi
| $4,000.
JASPER VAN ScHA1CK was killed on the It'll
near Amboy. N. j., by the fall of a clay EN-
bankmens, at the foot Of which he was digging