Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-05-14
~ DANIEL B. FISHER, Of Leesport, Pa, as
signed on the 7th, with liabilities amounting to

a. DANIEL b. FISHER, OF LeeSport, Pa, as
signed on the 7th, with liabilities amounting to
$l50,O00.
Two men we're carried over the falls n
boat at Chippewa Falls, Wis.,, on the 9Th and
one, named Bob Savage, was drowned.
a CLEVELAND dredge in tow Of tug cap
sized of Black River, Lake Erie, drowning the
woman cook and her little daughter.
BALLARD & BALLARD, Louisville, Ky., millers,
failed on the 7th. Liabilities S15O, 900.
ADAMS l. Co.'s glass factory, at Pittsb urg,
burned on the 9Th inst. Loss $4,000.
FIRE at Oconto on the 9Th inst. destroyed A.
daiDach5 foundry. Loss $1O, 900.
ONE thousand acres Of timber land in the
vicinity Of Freehold, N. j., were blasted by fire
on the 9Th. Loss $50, 900.
PEBBLY BEACH HOUSE, Gloucester, Mass,
burned on the 5th inst. Loss $18, 900.
BETWEEN 100 and 200 acres Of timber land
near New Bedford, Mass, were consumed by
fire, on the 9Th.
DURING the heavy fog on the 5th inst. col.
lision occurred on the Chicago Il Eastern Rail-
road near Englewood station. Two men were
fatally and twenty slightly injured.
PARTS of Illinois and Iowa were visited by
another damaging cyclone on the 9Th inst.
PETER BoITE, q lad Of 10 years, was drowned
of the breakwater at Milwaukee on the 5th
inst.
JAMES DowE11, mason, aged 60 years, who
was terribly crushed in the falling wing of the
state capitol, at Madison, last November, died
on the Sd inst, from his injuries.
FIVE buildings belonging to the Chateaquay
Iron Company, at Bradley's Pond, near Utica,
N. Y, were destroyed by fire on the Sd. A
man, woman and two children lost their
lives. -..
THE entire village of Gilman's Depot, in Sui
livan County, New York, was swept away by
fire on the Sd. Loss 100000.
FIRE at Portland, Me-, on the Sd, destroyed
.Pennelps drug store. Loss $50, 900.
TIE village of Brisbin, Pa, was laid waste
by fire on the Sd. Loss $2OO, 900.
FIVE men were killed by boiler explosion at
Gouverneur, N. Y. on the Sd.
"A CONFEDERATION in Detroit, on the Sd inst.
caused loss of 100000.
Two children were burned to death st Troy,
N. Y, on the Sc. ,.~,.
J. s. FARREN l. Co.'s canning establishment
burned at Baltimore on the I'd. Loss $35, 900.
DISPATCHES Of the I'd report the mills OF the
Moosic Powder Company at Scranton, Pa,
burning. One employe perished.
LoPPERT's saw null burned at Williamsport,
Pa, on the %. Loss $2O, 1000.
A FIRE at Berlin, O., on the I'd, destroyed
the Berlin Flour Mill. Loss $s5, 600; insurance
$4,000. ~
GRAND RIVER, Missouri, overrun it's banks
on the I'd, and thousands Of acres were inun-
dated.
DEL RIO, Tex, was swept by tornado, on
the I'd inst. One man killed and five persons
seriously injured.
FIRE at Wausau, Wis, on the I'd, destroyed
the Murray Manufacturing Company's works,
together with the planning mill Of Werheim &
Hazeltine. Loss $8O,0OO.
JOHN SHAFER, sawyer in Dorrity, Alberts &
Co. g mill, at Muskegon, Mich, was cut in two
on the afternoon of the I'd inst, by the burst
ing Of saw.
The stanchions supporting the roof OF the
old Broadway theater in Williamsburg, N. T.,
which is being torn down, gave way suddenly,
on the I'd, and the roof fell in, killing two men
and wounding four others.
NOTHING has been learned of the fate of the
lost Schleist children, near Medford, Wis. It
is believed they have been devoured by wild
animals.
THE ship Atlantine, Of Doammen, Norway,
was wrecked on the LIST, near the Magdalen
Islands. Nineteen lives we're lost.