Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-09-05

York, burned on the 9th. Loss S2O,O0O.
The sawmll of Finley, Young l. Co., at
Wiliiamsport. Pa, several dwellings. barns,
and about 10000, ,OCO feet of lumber were de-
strcytd by fire on the 9th. Loss S5C0,000.
DENNIS KELLY was run over and killed by
the cars at Parkdale, COL, on the 26tb.
MDMAs LUsT1GER and several companions |
went bathing in the lake near Chicago, Ill.,, on
the 26th. Thomas dove once too often and
didnot rise, and bis comrades became scared
and fed from the place.
0N the 26th, Johnnie England, aged 10 years,
w@ killed at Davenport, Ia, by being run over
bya street car.
A LIGHTNING express and freight on the
Pm Handle, collided near Mingo Junction,
Olio, on the 27tb. Postal Clerk Hayt was
fa:ally injured, aud several others seriously.
At GAINESVILLE, Wis, on the 26th, Mrs. Mar
earet Wood, widow aged 81 years, fell into a
| dstern and drowned.
FIRE at San Anto MA, Tex, on the 9th, de-
troyed property valued at $3.50, 900, as follows:
Hugo & schmetzer, wholesale grocers, $10o;-
100; Groos & Co., bank and building, $240. 900;
1annig 4 Stander, $4,000; Duan's Mercantile
agency, $1,000.
| HENRY STEIN, OF Harrisburg, Pa, was bitten
by a mad dog on the 2Otb. He refused to be
treated for it, and experimental with whisky.
He died of hydrophobia on the Oath.
| THE wire factory at Ainsvlle, N. Y, was de-
troyed by fire on the 25th. Loss $75.OOO.
| CHRISTOPHER SL1NK1E fell from railing on
sherman Street, Chicago, on the oath and
fractured his skull.
The Huntsville. (Ala..) steam Touring mill
turned on the 26th. Loss $5O,COO.
On the Goth, at Boston, Mass, George and
chomas Mclaughlin, Mrs. Fred Savage and
Katie and Mamie Savage were burned to death
ly the destruction of tenement house.
HANS CRUISE, sailor, was drowned at Fort
Howard, Wis.,, on the 25tb, by falling through
| IN opening adjoining small bridge.
HENRY L. MITCHELL and an nunknownpersoD,
lad their skulls crushed at the Reesbrook Tun-
le! while stealing ride.
Two well-d,ggers were killed at point six
niles from Knoxville, Tenn. by inhaling the
foul gas of we'll in which they were at work
en the Oath.
FIRE at Manitowoc, Wis. on the 25th de-
,troyed property of the Lake Shore and
Western Railroad Company TO the value Of
$3.50, 900. Three engines, one tender and one
with several buildings were partially burned.
WILLIAM PFAFF was fatally crushed in a
lthresher at Burr Oak, La Crosse County, Wis.
lon the 22d.
TRow l. Co.'S elevator at Madison. Ind, in
(which was stored 100000 bushels of wheat,
burned on tho Gath. Loss, 1926, 900.
DoLLARv1LLE, new town of 500 inhabit-
ants, fifty -four miles from St. Ignace, Mich,
was almost wiped out by fire on the 22d.
A PAXTON, ILL.,, farmer named W. L. Morris,
feared burglars, and being awakened in the
night on the 23d, seized his gun and killed his
nephew, aged IL years, mistaking him for q
robber.
On the oath at Oqumquil Beach, Me-, fifteen
bathers were caught in the undertow and four
of them drowned. OF those rescued four are
| in precar1ous condition.
NEAR Lexington, KY, on the 23d Mrs. John
Laws was struck by a bolt Of lightning and
killed.
HENRY POWERS, employed in a sawmin al
Cave Springs, Ga, was on the 23d oiling the
gudgeon, when he was caught by the band OF
the wheel, and crushed to death.
ON the oath Lottie and Emily Little, inmates
of the Zanesville, o., County 1nfirmary, at.
tempted to escape By means OF bedding tied
together. The improvised rope broke, and the
two girls we're found next morning on the
ground below. Lottie was dead and Emily
fatally injured.
FIRE was reported raging on the Gath in thu
mountains of Feather River, California. Thir
ty miles of valuable timber has already beer
destroyed.
The Wilson grain elevator at Gibson. III.
was destroyed by fire on the 24th, with 5000
bushels corn and 1000 bushels oats. Loss
100000.
The building occupied by the Whitehil
Sewing Machine Company, and known as tn
Singer Block, in Milwaukee, Wis.,, vas dam
aged by fire on the 24th. Loss $4,000
TWENTY houses at Alilladore, Wood County
Wis. were blown down by a tornado which
struck the village at midnight on the 9th. N,
lives were lost.