Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-09-28
Recently Sheriff Stephens OF jackson
county, Ark, while pnrsuing horse thieves
into Dnnkirk county, was seriously shot
while disarming them. 4 .s.. & ] @..=25. .s...
The Casualties or the Week.

The Casualties or the Week.
Capt. Miller, OF the steamer d.. Foley,
arrived from Kingston, via Port Antonio,
Jamaica, reports Jac,nel and Jeremi com
pletely in the hsnds Of the insurgents A
large cargo of provisions was purchased in
Kingston by agents OF the rebels, and
shipped to Jacmel in sailing vessels. The
iron steamer called the Elder was purchased
from the English line running in the is
lands, to guard Jacmel against all vessels
attempting to land or assist the govern
menr ferces President Salmon is reported
anxious to go to Hayti, but is prevented BY
his party, who claim that he has $500, 600
deposited in London and Paris Which be-
longs to the government. His family is IN
Europe, and the money is deposited IN
Elder will intercept the new steamer Des.
salines, which is put under Haytien colors.
The Elder is a small steamer ard fast, and
adapted for shore. water service.
Early on the morning of the 21st inst.
fire destroyed the principal business por-
ton of Brownwood, Tex, consisting of
nine substantial buildings and twelve wood
en- structures. Loss Unknown. Supposed
incendiary. The chief losers are Lawrence
q Mcfarland, drugs, and N. A. Altman,
grocers. The town has no water works or
tire extingu1shing, apparatus. Mrs. Mary
Hall aged seventy five, was 50 wrauEht up
by the sight Of the confederation that she
dropped dead.
The scoville house at Waterbury, Conn. .,
narrowly escaped destruction by the ex-
plosion of range on the 24th inst, caused
by shutting off city water. Several en-
ployes narrowly escaped death. The build
ing took fire in several places, but the
flames were extinguished. Windows and
partitions we're shattered. Guests rushed
into the corridors in their night clothes.
There was almost panic.
OBJ. Ward and Charles Johnston were
accdently poisoned at Camp Point, near
Quincy, H., recently. They procured
what was supposed to be quart bottle of
bltters at q drug store, to be drank as bev-
erage. Drinking freely of it, they bot h
dropped dead in short time. One May,
who drank with them, Was seized wit.
spasa,s, but will recover.
Dearduff & Morris's livery stable. at Ga
lena, eight miles from Deadwood, Dakota,
burned on the 23d inst, with contents, in
Guiding five horses. harness, saddles and a
la &c quantity OF bay and grain. The fire
started in the hay loft, from cause that
can only be conjectured. The loss was to-
tai; insurance $4,000.
On the 22d. inst, John Mcdonald, while
st work in the new mill at Saltwater, STUN
bled and fell upon belt which drew him
under machine cutting him upon the
head, face and neck in very severe man
ner.
The Pillsbury & Hur'burt grain elevator
with 1000 bushels of wheat in store, and
three cars were burned at Angus Manitoba,
recently. Fire escaped from the fire box of
the eHRine. There was some insurance.
A Swede named Peter Johnson Rusty was
accidently rub over and killed at Crookstop,
Mimi, recently, by freight train. The
unfortunate man was visiting friends before
going home to Tread Lake, Wis.
Three men were precipitated Into twenty
feet of water in the Woodward shat of the
Delaware, Lackawana & Western Coal
company, at Kingston on the I'D inst, and
were drowned.
At Peotone, ILL.,, few days ago, tie town
bali, Collins grain elevator. hotel and three
business houses burned. Loss, $35. 600; in
sured for $6 900.
At Cannon Falls, MIMI, four-year- old
lad named Nels Thoreen was so badly
crushed in railway tnrn table that he died
soon after.
nelson Lyons furniture factory at AL
bany, N. Y, burned m the Goth inst. Loss,
$4,000 to $4,000; insurance, $35, 1000.
Oster Torsenson, of Wastedo, Mimi, was
killed by a runaway team recently his
neck being broken.
A fire at Benson, Arizona, on the 10Th
icsts reduced the town to pile of ashes IN
few hours.