Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-12-31
AUSTIN, COUNTY. MINI WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 81 1884
LATE NEWS NOTES.

LATE NEWS NOTES.
Jacob Boyles was fatally stabbed by,
man named Magee in row near Frank
lin, Pa, on the Oath. !.
Jacob Lorian and Peter Adcock, two
farmers living near Long View, Ky.
were assassinated on, the night of tht
Oath, by an unknown man who stoo6
outside the window. H.
On the night of the 24th w. G. Har
vey, station agent at Panora, Ia.. had hit
arm shattered by an unknown party
who robbed him of money package
containing $4,000. g..
The old building known as the old
Academy of Music at Minneapolis
Mimi, was completely Quilted by fire or
the afternoon of the 25th. The aggre'
gate loss is estimated at 100000.
Thomas Bell was burned to death on
the 25th in the flames which destroyed
his house, near Mansfield, Pa.
Fire on the Oath destroyed the mag.
nifcent Masonic. Temple at Cincinnati,
together with the stationery and print.
ing establishment of J. R. Mills & Co.
Loss $20O,OOO.
In consequence of q quarrel in the
Opera House at Augusta, Ga, on the
night of the 23d over the ownership of
a seat, Manager Cohen was fatally
stabbed by 9. H. Mayhem.
By the sudden sinking of q canal
boat at a Brooklyn dock, on the 23d,
two children of the captain were
drowned.
By an accident caused by obstruc-
tions on the track of the New Orleans
& Northwestern road, near Purvis,
Miss, on the 23d, Engineer Robert
Turner and the fireman were killed.
Four large business blocks at Cam
bridge, N. T., were destroyed by fire
on the 23d. The probable loss is
placed at between $15O,OOO and $780,
600.
On the 29d the crew of the life.sav-
ing station at Cape Hatteras rescued
the crew of the barkentine Ephraim
Williams, after they had drifted about
in storm for five days, lashed to the
rigging.
Harrigan & Harris Theater Comique,
one of the most popular places of
amusement in New York, burned on
the 23d. It was situated on Broadway,
just opposite the New York Hotel. The
theater cost $125,000. There was no
insurance on the building or contents.
The total loss will reach 5000, 900.
Coal miners along the Monongahela
River, to the number of nearly 1000,
went out on a strike on the 22d, being
refused an advance of half a cent q
bushel.
At Leipsic, on the 22d, sentence was
pronounced on the Anarchists tried for
an attempt to assassinate Emperor
William at Niederwald. Reinsdorf,
Rupsch and Kuechler are sentenced to
death. Holzhauer and Bachman were
condemned to ten years. penal servi-
tude. Sohngen, Rheinbach and Toellner
were acquitted.
At Waxahatchi, Tex, on the Dist, two
young men were handling revolver,
when one, named Angel, was shot dead.
The other, whose name was Goodwin,
ran home in terror and took fatal dose
Of strychnine.
Egbert Earl and an infant daughter
we're sufocated by coal gas from a
stove at Albany, N. T., on the night Of
the 21st.
Thomas Cooley, an Englishman so
years of age, was frozen to death on the
night OF the 21st, while on his way from
Marquette to Harvey, Mich, in a heavy
snowstorm.
A gas leak in No. 2 Upper Empire
Woolen Mill, at Clayville. near Utica,
on the 21st, caused it's total destruction
by fire. Loss 100000; insured.
An insane man, named Thomas Mil
Ter, created great excitement on the
streets of Chicago, on the Goth by
fourishing big knife and attempting
to run muck. He was arrested after
stabbing a number of people.
There is trouble in Roberts County,
D. T., over the county seat location.
On the Goth q party of armed men from
Wilmot went to Traverse, wrecked the
courthouse and broke open the safe. A
number of ohattel mortgages were de-
stroyed. The county records had been
removed.
While temporarily insane, on the
Goth, DR.. A. @. Newell, of Lone
Pine, Mo-, wandered from his home and
was frozen to death.
London had another shake up on the
21st. A small fire occurred at Windsor
Station, and in the debris was found
the remains of what is thought to have
hAnn ar infnrno1 m chinn
Two engines were demolished and a
number of train men injured by col
lision on the Panhandle road near Day
ton, O., on the 21st.
Six masked men entered the house of
Henry Workenhouse, in Wheeling, w.
Va, early on the morning of the 21st,
by breaking down the door. After beat
ing and binding the inmates the thieves
got away with $4,000.
A man named Drake was shot and in
stantly killed by Joseph Carter, near
Eldon, 1a, on the 18th. -
William Armstrong, assistant super
intendent of the Cleveland iron mine,
at Ishpeming, was killed in the mine on
the 18th, by fall into shaft.
Fire among the oil tanks Of Fisher
Brothers, at Phillips City, Pa, on the
18th, caused q loss of $5O,OOO.