Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-12-17

LATE NEWS NOTES.

LATE NEWS NOTES.
A break in the wall of the big gasom-
eter OF the city gas works, st. Louis.
on the 11th, caused an explosion which
did damage to the amount of 100000.
Near Wheaton, Dakota, on the morn
ing Of the 11th, farmer named E. J.
Lewis was found dead in bed with q
piece of bed quilt in his throat. His
sons are under suspicion, as they had
quarreled with him.
Twelve Nihilists fell into the hands
OF the police at st. Petersburg on the
evening of the 11th. Important docu-
ments and $4,000 roubles were captured
in an underground passage at Ritchitza.
The party were arrested at ball.
William Lynn, aged %, died at Chi
cago on the 18th, from the effects of q
blow from a policeman's abilly".
Frank Mantel Adams and Miss Cole
ridge were privately married in Lon
don on the l1th. r.
Englands negotiations with China,
looking to settlement of the trouble
with France, resulted in failure.
Wilkinson Bros, private bankers,
Syracuse, N. Y, suspended on the
10th. Liabilities 100000; assets
100000.
Fire in Centralis, ILL.,, destroyed the
works of the Centralia Mining Com
pany. Loss $25,OOO; insurance SIS, 900.
Clark Bros. & Co.'s furniture fac
tory and number of adjoining build
ings, atPhiladelphia, burned on the 10th.
Loss $4,000.
A dispatch of the 10th, from Golden
City, B. O., states that q commercial
traveller named Baird was killed and
robbed of $4,000 near that place. A
large number of citizens are in hot pur.
suit. Eddy, Hammond & Co., fo1
whom Baird was travelling, offer a re-.
ward of $1,000 for the capture Of the
murderers.
A man named Daniel Kennedy wal
shot and killed by his wife, on the
10th, in front of the new City Hall, Sa1
Francisco.
Fire on the 10th, in the hold of the
steamer City of Augusta, ar her dock il
Savannah. Ga, destroyed $4,000 wortl
of cotton.
Two Mexicans named Hernandez
and Altimveano fought duel with pis
tolls near Oakville, Tex, on the 10th
The latter was killed at the first fire anc
the former. had a shoulder shattered
:Lhe cause was q woman.
Two sections Of q broken train collidel
near Dongola, ILL.,, on the 9th, killing
brakeman named Dougherty.
| Aliens tobacco warehouse, Will, 6O(
cases of stock, at Thompsonville, Goa
burned on the 9th, causing loss O
$4,000.
Fire on North Street, Philadelphia
on the 9th, caused loss of $4,000.
-Four Anarchists, with dynamite il
their possession, were arrested on tn,
9th, at Sternberg, Austria.
A MOB took a desperate namet
Charles Stevens from the Jail at Mary
vile, NO., on the 9th, aud hanged hin
to railroad bridge.
Capt. Dudley and mate, of th,
wrecked yacht Mignonette, On trial a
London, who were found guilty of mur
der in killing the boy Parker for foot
to keep themselves alive, were on th'
9Th, sentenced to death. It is believed
they will certainly be pardoned.
A Judgment against Gen. Grant TO
$155, 900 was fled in New York by Van
derbilt's attorney, on the 9th.
The Cincinnati Desiccating Com
pany's Works were damaged by fire OF
the 9th, to the extent of $4,000.
st. Louis has sensation. In Ma,
last the Office of the city clerk at East ST
Louis was robbed by burglars of So, 900 il
cash and $40, 900 in city scrip. Charlie
Clark, leader of q gang of burglars, ha
confessed the robbing, and implicate
a number of the police force and sew
eral city officials.
The banking house of George Opdyk
q Co., New York, failed on tae 9Th, witt
debts to the amount of 100000.
News of the 9Th states that Gordo,
has captured Shendy after Smelling tn,
place. Small bodies of rebels attac]
Khartoum at Intervals, but are invaria
bly, repulsed.
Fresh encounters between the Frencl
and Chinese in Tonquin have resulted
in the defeat of the latter. The block
ade.at Formosa is stated to be onl,
nominal.
The ceremonies attending the com
pletion Of the Washington monumen
TOOK place on the 9th inst. The cere
monies were of very simple nature
One of the master mechanics who as
sisted at the laying of the corner ston,
thirty y-six years ago, was present.
While searching the river at Wheel
ing, w. Va, on the 9TH inst, for The
body OF Rebecca Stewart, who was sup
posed to have drowned herself, Johl
McMasters was drowned by the upset
ting of a boat.
Butterfield & Crabb's saw mill q
Alpena, Mich, with 275.OO0 feet of lum
Der, was destroyed by fire on the 9Th
Loss $4,000.
A furniture store and number Q
other buildings at Randolph, VT, valae'
. at $50, 1000, burned on the 9th.
The Home Rubber Works, at Trenton
n. j., burned on the 7th. LOSS $40
600.
By the caving of an embankmen
near Carlton, Tex, on the 5th, two me,
were killed and three injured.
Menken, the murderer of Kati
Broedhoft, was found guilty Of murde
in the first degree, at Binghamton, N. Y
on the 5th.
An incendiary fire at Meyersdale, Pa