Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-27

was killed, ana tWo other train hands
badly hurt.
LIGHTNING struck the residence of
Ernest Kingbaum, near Wausau, Wis, on
the 18th inst, killing his Youngest son
and badly injuring his two daughters.
FoRTY.Two buildings were destroyed
by fire at Pomeroy, O., on the 10th.
Loss, $50 900; insurance, $4,000.
SEVENTEEN workmen were sufocated
at Braye, France, on the 10Th inst, by
the caving of an underground canal.
FIRE at Woodville, Mich, on the 18th
inst, destroyed lumber belonging to
the West Michigan Lumber Company,
of Muskegon. Kinney's Mill was also
burned. Loss $4,000.
A.BLooK of buildings at Roseburg,
Ore, including the Metropolitan Hotel,
burned on the 10Th Louis Ziegler,
proprietor Of the hotel, was fatally
burned while trying to save the guests.
Two boys were drowned while bath
ing in Pike Lake, near Hartford, Wis,
on the afternoon of the 18th.
JOHN O'DoNNELL and Charles John
son were drowned at Rockford, ILL.,, on
the 18th, by the capsizing of boat.
The steamer Jack Gumbert burned
at Elizabeth, Pa, on the 18th. Several
OF the crew had narrow escapes. Loss
$4,000.
The charred bodies of two tramps
were found in burned railway wreck
near Decatur, Ind, on. the 18th. They
had been stealing ride.
The village of Anoka, Minn., was al
most swept away by fire on the 18th
inst. The losses aggregate nearly ST.
100000.
FIRE damaged the fre-proof paint
manufaotory of F. I. Russell, on West
Washington Street, Chicago, on the
10th inst, to the extent of $4,000.
The boiler in Polley's saw-mill, at
La Crosse, exploded on the 10th inst,
completely wrecking the building. One
man was killed and three others serious
y injured.
A BOY named Warner was shot fatally
at Thorp, Wis, on the 18th inst, by the
accidental discharge of revolver in the
hands of com oanion.
The Riverside Lumber Mills, at Vim
cennes, Ind. were destroyed by fire on
the 18th inst. Incendiarism is suspect
ed.
FIRE on the 17th inst, destroyed forty
buildings in Greenville, Tex, causing a
loss of $360,0OO.
AN explosion on the 18th inst, de-
molished the factory of G.. L. Crocker
at Carthage, Mo. The loss was $50, 600.
The building was on fire atthe time of
the explosion.
A FIRE which began in the Office of
the Sunday Morning, Altoona, Pa. on
the 18th inst, destroyed the building
and five others. Loss $4,000.
| FIRE at Cincinnati on the 18th, in Henlon
l. Cotes' lumber yard, caused loss of $50, 1000.
HERBERr BRowNE11, aged II, fell under a
freight train in Janesville, Wis, on the 14th.
he lost his right leg and died from his injuries
the next morning.
Wis.,, collapsed under the weight of steam
threshing machine, an the 18th, and the entire
outfit was precpitated into ten feet of water.
Ths driver, named Carroll, was drowned.
! FREIGHT engine on the Grand Rapids &
Indians Railroad exploded near Decatur, Ind,
on the 18th, fatally acslding Charles Hender-
shot, fireman, and Barney Welsh, engineer.
| JOHN REICHFELDER and James Mccarthy
were killed in a railroad accident at Williams
port, Pa, on the 18th.
The factory Of the Nashville Qenn.) Coop
erage Company burned on the 18th, causing q
loss OF $40, 900; insurance $23, 1000.
ADLER's veneer works and Hsrt's perforated
chair bottom factory burned at New York, on
he 10th inst. Loss, $50, 900.