Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-02-27

JEvNE's extensive retail grocery and Glanz'
| fur establishment, on Madison street, Chicago
burned on the morning Of the 18th. Los
| $175,0 1000.
MRS. TupPER, of GAINESVILLE, O., was so badl.
frightened by being removed from her flooded
| house at night that she died.
The Episcopal mission at santee agency
Dakota, was entirely destroyed by fire on thu
morning of the It'll.
A HEAVY snow-slide at Park City, Co.., OF
the 18th, resulted IN the death of five persons
AT Crockett, Tex. on the 18th, Rheube1
Hart and wife, colored, locked their six chill
dren up in the house while they went te
church. The house burned to the ground and
the inmates were roasted to death.
FIRE at Sparta, Wis, on the 18th, destroyed
seven wooden buildings. Loss Gil, 1000.
WALLACE BRocKMAN and Richard Craig
wound up debanch by putting up at the Ash
land House, Lexington, Ky, on the 18th. Or
retiring ono of them blew out the gas and
both were asphYxiated.
The Commercial Hotel, Beloit, burned or
the 18th. Loss about $4,000.
Miss EMMA ROGERS was burned to death at
Chattanooga, Teno., on the 10th. An ele ven'
ear old girl named DaIskl suffered death IN
the same manner at South Bend, Ind. AT
Bloomington, 1ud :, a three-year-old girl named
Plerefield was roasted alive duuug the absence
overlook the child of Mrs. Fred S.egle.
TWELVE lives were lost at Cincinnati on the
18th by the fall Of two boarding houses which
had become undermined by the food.
JAMES MERKLE, brewer at Chicago, was
killed BY a fall through an elevator hatchway
on the 18th.
DANIEL FLYNN committed suicide with car.
bo'ic acid ct Chicago on the 10th.
Hutton & SoNs' -four mill at Poksgon. Mlch..
burned on the 14th inst. Loss, $4,000.
FIRE on the 18th destroyed buildings and
apparatus to the amount of $4,000 belonging
t. the Chapln mine at Iron Mountain, Mich.
The ONeil wa2 on shops bur ned at Cortland,
N. Y. on the 18th Loss, $4,000.
GEORGE EMERY, engineer at the Hoosiel
Flouring mills. Indianapolis, met horrible
death on tho 18th by being caught in the ma.
chinery.
EDWARD GORDON accidentally shot his young
wife at Bslefontaine, O., on the 18th while
cleaning gun.
BRIDGE gave way on the Southern Central
railway near Weedsport, N. Y, on the 18th as
mixed train was passing over, killing the
engineer and fireman.
Two frame stores burned at B.loit on the
18th. Loss, $4,000.
SEVERAL buildings we're destroyed by fire al
sprague, Washington Territory, on the 14th
inst. Lose. $4,000.
On the 14th Emma Neusis, domestic, was
suffocated in burning boarding house at
Coupc.I Bluffs. Il.
FRANK HE1NBsRGER and John Seeman were
drowned on the 18th inst, at Pittsburg BY the
capsizing Of skiff.
AN aged German named Krotlow was found
on the streetm Milwaukee, on the 14th, severely
and probably fatally frost bitten.
Mrs. w. II. JOHNSON of Clintonvih. Wis.,.
tel upon hot stove in an epileptic fit on the
18th receiving fatal injuries.
VIM. KIRBY was killed by falling tree at
Amigo, WIS.,. on the 14tb.
AN accident on the Burlington, Cedar Rapids
and Northern occurred near Cedar Rapids on
tue 18th, iniuriug eight persons.
DAVID LEONARD. of Burlington. Ia, we'll.
known prohibition advocate. was thrown from
his buggy and killed on the 18th.
GALVESTON, Tex. and vicinity experienced q
disastrous tornado on the 18th.
THE river at Cincinnati was still rising on the
l2th. and the danger greatly increased by the
undermining OF buildings.
TIE situation at Pittsburg. Wheeling. and
all towns in tho flooded district was still uniuo.
proved on the 18th.
The steamer W. P. Halliday, of the New Or.
leans anchor line. burned at st. Louis on the
18th. Private Watchman Matt Brown lost his
life.
FIRE at Eau Claire on the 18th destroyed the
house OF August Fleck. LOSS $4,000.
CHARLES ERBsE dropped dead on the street
in Milwaukee on the 18th.