Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-09-03
CASUALTIES.

F4CAuAky u HuAttAd, aA1', are euAeIAuS
from Shydrophobia in more or less ag-
gravated form, caused by eating the
infected carcass of hog given them for
soap grease.
THREE women, Bridget and Annie
Hayes, and Mary Nc Cabe, of New York,
were drowned on the 9th near Catskill,
N. Y, while boating.
Two children of Judge Davidson, of
Cleveland, were drowned at Denison,
O., on the 9th, while boating.
AN explosion on the 9th at Uhricks-
vile, O., caused blaze which destroyed
property to the value of $4,000.
4 FIRE at New Iberia, La., which
burned several houses, on the 9th,
caused loss of $4,000.
THREE young students at the Moody
school, at Greenfield, Mass, were
drowned on the 26th, while bathing.
JOHN HOPKINS, aged II years, had
his head severed from his body by a
descending carriage in coal shaft at
Scranton, Pa, on the 26th. 49,. i
THE wholesale dry goods house of O.
2. Lnce s. Go, Toledo, O., suffered by
fire to the extent Of $4,000 on the
night of the Goth. r.. -@
FIRE at Scranton, Pa, on the 26th,
destroyed the mill and lumber yard of
Joseph Ainsley. Loss $4,000.
HERMAN BEYER, q farmer, was gored
to death by vicious bull at Calumet,
Wis, on the 25th.
Ar Rock Island, ILL.,, on. the 25th, d
widow named Frantz took tincture of
aconite by mistake for another drug
and became a corpse in half an hour.
The steamboat Shields and wharf
boat Maria Louisa burned at Shreve-
port, La, on the 25th. Loss $4,000.
A TERRIBLE storm on the coast of
Newfoundland, on the Oath, caused the
wreck of fifteen fishing smacks in
Oyster Cove, two schooners in White
Bay and a fishing smack with four men
and two lady passengers off Cape
Broyle.
The sawmill of McBurney & Co., at
Gravenhurst, Ont, together with a
large quantity of lumber, burned on
the 25th. Loss $35, 900.
A TORNADO swept over Grant County,
Wis, on the oath, destroying number
of houses and doing other damage.
The little town of Sarahsville. O.,
was almost destroyed by fire on the
23d. The losses will aggregate nearly
$4,000.
By fire which started in the saw
mill of Little & Peck, at Duluth, Mimi,
on the 23d, buildings and lumber were
destroyed to the value of about $780,
600. -:--..-.
OVER twenty race horses lost their
lives by the burning of the Abdallah
Stables, at Cynthiana, O., on the oath.
Aggregate loss 100000.
The elevator in q grain warehouse at
Pittsburg fell on the 23d, fatally injur.
ing two men. .,.- -
WHILE in somnolent state on the
night of the 22d, Prof. w. R. Kingman,
of Charleston, s. G., walked out of a
window and was killed.
FIRE at Colorado, Tex, on the 22l,
destroyed thirty buildings. Loss $780,
600.
CLAY McCLANAHAN was killed by
lightning near st. Louis, Mo-, on the
23d. His team was also kille1.
EIGHT business houses and a large
canning establishment at Boonesboro,
Ia, were leveled by flames on the 22d
By collision with another train on
the Pennsylvania Road at Columbia,
Pa, on the 22d, cattle train was sci
on fire and 800 animals were roasted.
DESTRUCTIVE forest fires are reported
in the vicinity of East Tawas, Mich, on
the 22d inst.
FowLE's sash factory, New Bedford
Mass, burned on the 22d inst. Loss
$50, 900.
THE saddlery hardware factory Of
Wilson & Sons, Cincinnati, was de-
stroyed BY fire on the 22d. Loss
$50 900. Is.
SEVERAL people we're killed in the
vicinity of Troy, N. T., by the elements
during q storm on the 22d.