Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-03-12
GENERAL

1HE On1IeO states inspectors nave revoked
the license of Capt. Wright, who had charge OF
the steamer City Of Columbus when she war
wrecked at Gay Head with the loss Of 1Oa
lives.
A GERMAN woman named Knausfelt OF
Chambersburg, N. j., had snake fifteen
inches long removed from her stomach on the
4th.
STURGEON. the Baptist preacher, has fallen
heir to large fortune left him by Joseph
Pool, of Leicester.
THOMAS A. REEVE. a Cleveland ironmonger,
failed on the 4th. Liabilities $50, 0,0OC.
CAPT. HENRY A. JONES, a prominent river
steamboat man, died at Cincinnati on the 9th,
LYMAN & CURTIS, New York toy dealers.
assigned with preferences amounting to!$83, 900
on the 5th.
EDWARD D. PAYNE, brother of senate reject
Henry D. Payne, died of paralysis at Dayton,
O., on the mornings OF the 5tb.
ALLEN B. sTooKwELL, Wall Street, N. T.,
broker, failed on the 9th.
GEO. W. BROWN. New York builder, has
assigned, With $4,000 liabilities.
MRS. DELLA PARNELL, mother of the Irish
agitator, is being maliciously prosecuted by
unknown persons, at Bordentown, N. J.
A MOVEMENT has been made in the dominion
house of commons for an ipquiry into the al.
legged persecution of Roger Amer, Canadian.
Frenchman, by Massachusetts authorities. It
is said that Amer and two sisters were
driven insane by the arrest and false imprison-
ment of Amer on charge of murder
REV. FATHER SHAUB who died recently at In.
dianapolis, of smallpox, while delirious. "a
vigorously assaulted his own father, who was
administering to his wants, that the old gentle
man Is now reported to be dying at his home
IN New Albany, Ind.
JUDGE +. 81. WAITE, candidate for congress
in 1874, against Mark 81. Dunnell, died at Man
kato, Minn., on the 4th aged 20.
The Cleveland, Columbus. Cincinnati l. In.
dianapolls Railroad Company has mortgaged
its property to the United States Trust Com.
pany, of New York, for $12, 600. 900, the debt
to run for fifty years, with interest at pei
cent.
AT one of the Mardi Gras balls in New Or.
leans, Jefferson Davis and other prominent
men of the rebellion were in private box dec.
GRATED with confederate flags. A floral sword
ornamented with the confederate colors was
presented to Davis, addressed simply ''To the
President"
FULLY $4,000 was found hidden in the bed
of Isabella McWead, an aged lady who died al
Essex Center, Mich. last week.
JUDGE BUM has decided that logs cut within
the confines of Wisconsin are taxable in the
towns in which they are cut, even after they
have been set ahoat for their destination in
Minnesota.
VIM. G. WRIGHT, travelling agent of the Wis.
consin Central Railroad, died at Fond du Lac
on the morning of the Sd, after brief illness.
The bill prohibiting the employment OF
prison labor by contractors has become Law
in New York.
The Apaches are again committing murders
nd depredations on ranches in Sonora.
DIETRICH & Co., San Francisco bags and
twine dealers, failed on the 29.h. Liabilities
$3.50, 900.
MRS. PETER LA BEERNBoRD apparently died
at Vergennes, Vt, but faint breathing was no.
ticed by the undertaken who was preparing the
body for the grave, and on the application OF
restoratives the supposed dead woman revived.
ALEX BUTLER, an extensive carriage man.
ufacturer and dealer in q ricultural nipple
ments at Platteville, Wis.,, assigned. Iiabili
$30,O0
MRS. JOHN BROWN, the immortal Johns
widow. died IN San Francisco, on the 28th.
DIR. SIDNEY A. COREY, once minister of the
gospel, but later q 8, ock speculato1, died on
the 9th in New York City.
EDMUND SMITH, an old abolitionist, died al
Boston OH the morning Of the 28th.
A MUD geyser formed at Powhatan, WA, dur.
ing the HOOD, still continues In action. Heavy
timber dropped endwise into the crater il
hurled into the air with terrific force.
SULLIVAN n Robinson will pummel each
other ut Mechanics Pavilion, San Francisco
March 9Th.
EDWARD F. SEXTON, aged 80 years, was found
dead in his room at Oconomowoc on the morn
ing of the 28th.
A CAPTIVE whale near Port Royal, 6. c., hal
given birth to young one, and the owners art
calculating on profit Of $4,000.
PERE HYAc1NTHE, wife and son are in Lot
Angeles, Cal.
JOHN sTETsoN, the theatrical manager, haf
gotten himself into peck Of trouble at New
York by an advertising dodge in the shape Of .
telegram reading. "Come to town at once, you
baby is worse" W. Rogers, a Brooklyn Heights
millionaire, has brought salt against stetsor
for 100000 damages, one of these telegram
having caused the severe illness of his wife whs
failed to notice it was bogus.