Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-05-30
CASUALTIES.

On the 23d Mrs. Louisa Cauldron was killed
while escaping from burning dwelling in New
York city.
MATHEW ARBUcKLE, the celebrated cornet
player, died at New York, on the 23d.
The steam bakery and candy manufactory of
J. G. C]ausen & Co., at Charleston, S. c.,
burned in the 23d. Loss $40, 600.
The Keystone Lock Works at Lancaster,
Pa, burned on the 2sd. Loss $4,000.
GUERNEvnLE, Gala, was partially destroyed
by fire on the 23d. Loss $23, 900.
CAPT. JOSEPH SwAaAR, the oldest steamboat
man of the western rivers, died on the 22d at
Louisville, Ky, aged 81 years:
HARRY Cool, aged "a, was cut IN two by q
circular saw at East Saginaw, Mich, on the
22d.
The livery stable of Jno. F. 1oomis, at
Brooklyn, burned on the 22d. Two men and
600.
Ho1tENbAR 4 BRADsHAw's manufacturing
establishment at Chelsea, Mase:, burned on
the 22d. Loss 100000.
The schooner Wells Burt, foundered during
the gale on the 21st, about twenty miles north
doubtedly drowned.
The warehouse Of Smith Il Wyman burned
on the 21st inst. Loss $4,000.
The residence Of F. Rogers, near Philadel-
phia, was damaged by fire on the 21st, to the
amount of $4,000.
HELM Bros ice house and barn at Milwau-
kee, were destroyed by fire on the 21st. Loss
$4,000. s-. 49,.
REV. Dr.. HORSEPOWER, .Pittsburg divine,
was stricken with paralysis while preaching on
the goth inst.
JOHN WALTER aud his wife were drowned in
the lake off Lake City, Minn., by the caps,zing
of boat on the 20th inst.
The schooner Lille E., wont ashore at MI
waukee durirg the storm on tho night of the
2Oth inst. She was bound for Milwaukee from
Manistee, with 1870, 900 feet Of lumber. All on
board were rescued by the crew of the life
saving station.
The steamer Granite State, belonging to the
the Hartford and New York Transportation
Company, was burned at Goodspeeds Land
ing: about forty miles below Hartford, on the
morning of the 18Th inst. Five lives were
lost.
In collision on the Maine Central Road,
near Augusta, Me-, on the 18th inst, one per-
son was killed and two fatally injured.
A HIGH wind at Chicago on the 18th inst,
wrecked some buildings at tho south end of
the Exposition building. Three men were
killed.
BISHOP PECK, of the n. E. Church, died at
Syracuse, N. Y, on the 18th inst.
The steamer Iskatermburg, plying on the
volga, in Russis, burst her boiler on the 17tb
inst, killing twenty seven people.
A FIRE at Pittsburg on the 17th inst, par
TALLY destroyed the Blair Iron and Steel Works.
Loss $4,000.
DURING slight fire in tenement house in
New York on the 18th inst, woman named
Schwitze fell from the fire escape and was
eriously injured, and Simon Binkowitch also
fell and broke leg. The building was saved
with but little damage.
On the 18th inst, Mrs. Zimmerman, wife of
an artist on East Nineteenth Street, New York,
in an insane fit caused by puerperal fever,
stabbed her l2-days-old child, and then at
tempted to commit suicide.
AN incendiary fire at the works of the Har-
rott Varnish Company, at Bridgeport, Conn.,,
destroyed property to the value Of about $50,
900.
The Harrison Reduction Works at Leadville,
branch Of the st. Louis Smelling and Rein
ing Company, bnrned on the 18th inst. Loss
$4,000.
Row1rzER Bros mill and three tenemants
Staffordville, Conn.,, burned on the 18th inst.
Loss $50, 900.
FIRE destroyed the planning mill and resi-:
! deuce of Ira N. Dehart, and several othe,
buildings at Nashville, Tenn, on the 18th inst
Loss $4,000.