Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-12-24
LATE NEWS NOTES.

Great excitement was caused in for
eign financial centers on the 18th by the
announcement on the Vienna bourse of
the fight of Lucas Jauner, director of
the securities department of the Lower
Austrian Bank, leaving a deficit of ST.
100000. It was rumored that he had
committed suicide. =
Cargiil Brothers Touring mill at
Whalen, Mimi, was totally destroyed
by fire on the 18th. Loss $4,000.
Fire on the 18th destroyed the tin
stamping works of Thomas Davidson &
Co., Montreal, causing loss of $500
An explosion in the wholesale drug
store of Lamar & Co., Augusta, Ga, on
the 18th, killed William Holt, colered
boy, and seriously damaged the build
ing.
The morning train west on the East
Brandywine & Waynesburg road on the
18th was wrecked by broken rail near
Reeds Road, Chester County, Pa.a The
engineer and fireman were killed.
An explosion in the building of the
Metallic Cap Company, Philadelphia on
the 18th, killed the superintendent, G..
NJ. Hughes, and George Owens, a boy.
The Rev. T. B. Fuller, bishop O
Niagara, died on the 18th, from gan
creme, caused by running file into his
hand.
Marion Mcfarland. a farmer near
Geneva, Ga., died from hydrophobia,
on the 10th.
Fire in the hold of the steamer Bar
rowmore, at Baltimore, on the 18th,
damaged 5000 bales of cotton and 5O,-
600 bushels of wheat. Loss $4,000.
The woolen mill of Hawes, King &
Co., Lewistown, ILL.,, burned on the
18th. Loss $4,000.
Riegel & Robinson, clothiers, Buffalo,
n. Y, assigned on the 18th. Liabilities
$120,O0O.
An explosion took place on the 18th,
in mine in the vicinity of the recent
similar disaster in Hungary, by which
three men were killed and a number
fatally hurt.
John B. Hoffman was hanged at Gin
cinnati on the 10th for the murder of
his son in January, 1882.
At Rockville Center, L. l., on the
night of the 18th, q burgar entered the
house of Mrs. Seeley Sprague, demand
ing money. Mrs. Sprague shot him
dead.
Benito Duran, sheep herder near
Cheyenne, Wyo., shot and killed Mrs.
Adela Sanchez for refusing to elope
with him. He then put bullet through
his own head.
A dispatch from Admiral Oourbet,
dated .Kee-Lung, December 13, says !:
~We disloged the Chinese from the
works they had thrown up, menacing
our position. Two hundred Chinese
we're killed or wounded"
Fire at Little Rock, Ark, on the 18th,
consumed five buildings and the greater
portion of the stocks of goods. LOSS
estimated at 5000
Woodstock, N. B., was visited by a
fire, on the 18th, which destroyed
property valued at $4,000.
The sugar factory of Mezritisch,
Vienna, failed on the 10Th, with liabilities
to the amount of 100000.
A Paris dispatch of the 18th says
private information has been received
of the massacre of 200 Chinese prisoners
by Gen. Negrier, who used them as
targets for his sharpshooters.
The first span Of new bridge at st.
Hyacinthe, Que, was blown down on
the 18th. One man was killed and two
fatally injured.
The Boston whaling vessel, named the
John Easmond, was wrecked on Desc.
lation Island. All but two Of the crew
were lost.
Fire on the 18th destroyed six stores
at st. Mary, Kas., valued at $45, 600;
q car storehouse in Philadelphia, and
two dry goods stores at Norfolk, Va.
4 In the mines at Goal Greek, Tennes-
see, on the 18th, six convicts undertook
TO escape. Two were killed and two
fatally wounded by the guards.
Gains Chadwick, who was nearly
murdered by fellow convict in Joliet
penitentiary, has been pardoned out.
The inseed oilworks Of w. II. Grove,
Kansas City, Mo-, burned on the 18th.
| Loss $35, 1000,