Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-01-23

| to walk from Cross Village, Mich, to Beaver
Island during the late cold snap.
A STREAM of waste oil, flowing from tank
| across the Bradford and Kinzus Railroad,
| caught fire on the 18th. A passenger train
| was caught in the fame, and the baggage car
and passenger coach burned. Three women
we're burned to death, and twelve seriously in
jured.
On the 18th Geo. schofeld's rag warehouse,
New York, was damaged to the extent of
| $25, 1000.
On the 18th Mrs. McDonald's two children
built fire in . room during their mothers alb
sence. in New York city, and were suffocated.
On the 18th, west-bound passenger on the
| Texas Pacific was wrecked near Weatherford,
| Tex, by broken rail. Forty persons were in.
| jured, some fatally.
On the 18th. Klaus block, four three-story
brick buildings, Green Bay, Wis, burned with
their contents. Loss $4,000.
The fur establishment Of Matheny, Hanie
& Co., st. Paul. Minn., burned on the 18th
| Loss $5O.00O-
| On the 18th, Hensers tobacco warehouse
| Quarryville, Pa, burned. Loss $29,00O.
! CHARLES DEIMoN1co, the famous New York
restaurateur, disappeared n January 9Th. Or
the 18th his body was found frozen stiff, or
|
marks of personal violence, it is supposed he
wandered there while laboring under mental
| alteration and succumbed to tho cold.
| On the 18th Henry and Herman Brinkel
were drowned while skating at Chicago, Ill.
! On the 18th James B. Agard, wealthy grair
dealer of Rockford, Ill.,. while in Omaha, Neb.
on business. fell on an icy sidewalk and sus
tained injuries from which he died.
On the 18th, in New York city, three ware
houses owned bv Lawrence & Co., and occu
pied by several firms, were destroyed by fire.
| Loss 1876, ,00O.
Ten buildings at Naples, ILL.,, burned on the
14tb. Loss $35,O00.
! A POWDER magazine near Lebanon. Pa. OK.
ploded on the 14th. An emp'oye named Posey
| was tom to pieces.
On the 12th fire destroyed the Boston, Mass,
! telephone cfice and that city will be without
telephone communication for week or two,
| FIRES on the 18th: R4lph Lidster, dealer in
| agricultural implements, and adjoining prc.
perty, Beloit, Wiz, loss $25OOO; railroad re-
pair shop at Auburn, N. Y, loss $25, 1000: Will
| lowdaJe Mill at Ipswich, Mass, loss $50, 600
Knowles woolen mills, Newcastle, DEL, loss
| $3.50, 900.
RISE in Elk River on the 18th caused loss
| of 100000 in slaves, bark and lumber al
Charlestown, W. Va.
The Baptist Church at GAINESVILLE Wis, was
destroyed by fire on the 18th. Loss $40, 600.
On he 18th, John Eigen was run ever and
killed by switch engine at Appleton, Wis.
On the 18th H. O. Holmes and Mrs. Pau
| Sherman were drowned in az attempt to 20 il
skiff from Sandy Neck to Barnstabie, Mass.
FIRES on the 11th: Asmuth d Co.'s ele
vator, Milwaukee, Wis, loss $15. 1000; the hom
my mills of Backus & Co., Indianapolis, Ind
loss $4,000; Tivoh Theater and ADJOINING
buildings, Pueblo Co.., loss $4,000; fourins
mill of John Stende at New Martinville, w
Va, loss $4,000.
FIRES on the 10th: At Onalaska, Wis.,, tn,
brewery of Wilhelm Nader, loss $4,000; q
Batesville, Ind, the grist mill of c. schwier
loss $1,000; at Ashtabula. o., the Ashtabul.
Park Hotel, loss $4,000; Maysville, Ind,
buildings valued at $4,000: Edwards Oper,
House, Selma, Ala, loss $14, ,O0O; cotton mil. a
Jonesboro. Ca. loss $35.0OO.
On the 10th the bark Elmira, sunk near Nes
| Creek, N. j.. with all on board.
| On the 10th the coroner accepted as officia
the statement of surviving sisters, that tn,
Belleville convent contained 63 persons at tn,
time of the fire, of which 81 were rescued ant
| 26 loat.
AUGUST BucKLAND was killed on the 10th in
logging camp near Hayward, Wis, by falling
| tree.