Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-10-15

The -four mill OF L. Blanden & Co.,
at Fort Dodge, Ia., with large quantity
of -four and wheat, burned; on the 9th.
Loss $4,000.
A LOSS of $4,000 was incurred by
an incendiary fire in the dry goods store
owned by Senator Mccarthy, at Syra-
cuse, N. Y, on the 9th.
FoUR men were killed and two
wounded by the explosion of powder
mill at Cumminsville, Ont, on the 9th.
SURE OLEMAN and Peter Severson,
two whisky. picked Norwegian farmers,
were struck by train while driving
across track near Madison on the 8th,
Severson was slightly hurt, one of the
horses killed and the other severely in
mred. Oleman escaped injury.
A sHANTY resting on piles about one
mile from the beach, at the new water
works tunnel, near Chicago, was washed
away hy the waves on the night of the
7th. Fifteen workmen were in the
structure at the time. One of them
reached the shore on plank and four
others were rescued from the pier by
the ife-saving crew to-day. Ten were
drowned.
AN express train struck carriage at
Graylock Crossing near North Adams
Mass, on the 9Th, killing George and
Alice Hull. of Stamford, Vt.
WILLIAM VErrER, of Forest, Fond du
Lao County, died on the 9TH from 6
kick from horse.
A SERIOUS flood is reported in the
vicinity OF Ontonagon, Mich, on the
9Th, the river of that name having risen
twenty-five fest; much damage to prop
erty was done, and large number oi
logs we're carried out into the lake.
HARRISBURG, Pa, suffered consider.
ably from ten-minute storm on the
9Th. Houses we're unroofed, and trees
and fences leveled.
The barn and sheep.sheds of T. J
Wilson, near Corsicana, Tex, burned
on the morning of the 8th. One
hundred tons OF hay, 600 sheep and 6
large quantity of wool were destroyed
A FIRE which started in the planning
mill of .. Zaffard, Richmond, KY, or
the 6th, destroying property to the value
of $125,OOO.
The toy mandatory of Peter g.
Thomson. Cincinnati, burned on the
9Th. involving a loss of 100000.
ST. PATR1oK's Church, Eau Claire
Wis, caught fire on the 9Th, and in lest
than an hour was in ruins. The loss il
estimated at $4,000.
A FIRE at Bethlehem, Pa, destroyed
the Grand Opera House on the 7th
Loss 100000.
A ROW of buildings one block long
burned at Abilene, Tex, on the 9TH
causing loss of $4,000.
The Newton Paper Company's mil
at Holyoke. Mass, burned on the 9Th
Loss $150.0Oo; Insurance $4,000.
"A YEAR old child, named Rick, fell
into kettle of boiling water, at La
Crosse on the 9Th, and was scalded tc
death.
A FIRE at Wailula Junction, Ore on
the morning of the 9Th, destroyed seven
buildings. The losses aggregate about
$15O,000. A bartender named Pfefe,
was burned to death.
BAY SHORE, L. l., had an incendiary
fire on the 9Th, which caused the loss
of $4,000.
A MORTAR of explosive matter ex.
ploded in a Cincinnati fireworks fac
tory, on the 4th, killing John Goodwin
Two business houses and q residence
were swept away by fire at Millersburg,
KY, on the 4th. Loss $25,O0O; in r
| ance small.
Two men were killed and number
badly injured on the 4th, by the ex'
p!osion of threshing machine boiler al
Lake Elmo, MINI.
A BuLKHEAD collapsed in an elevator
at Buffalo, on the 4th, smotherinQ
Thomas DAILY under mass of grain
Three others we're badly injured.
A TRAIN of empty fiat cars jumped
the track near Foxborough, Mass, on
the morning of the 4th. Two men were
fatally injured.
RoUTzoNa & Sons mill at Greenville
Falls, O., was destroyed by fire, on the
4th. Loss $4,000; insurance $4,000.
FIRE in q storage warehouse at Phila-
delphia on the 5th, destroyed property
to the value of $5OO,OOO.
AN incendiary fire at Braddock, Pa,
on the Sd. destroyed an entire block OF
frame buildings and caused loss oi
$4,000.
A CANNON exploded at the Blaine re.
ception at Morrow, o., Oh the Sd, kill.
ing man named George Hamilton and
injuring another.
The sseam~wbaler Bowhead, of San
Francisco, valued at $125,OOO, was
crushed and sunk by ice in the Arctic
Sea. Crew saved.
ADv1cEs from Hudson's Bay state
that the whaler Roswell King, of New
London, was crushed in an ice foe
Jhe crew escaped.
The charcoal furnace at Geo. P
Whittaker's iron works, Principle, Md.
was consumed by fire on the Sd, with
100, 900 bushels OF charcoal.
GENERAL.
BARNEY 81. YORK, prominent eleva
tor man OF Cleveland. died suddenly or
the 9Th of heart disease. He was sc
years Of age.
SEVERAL hundred men have been
made happy at Pittsburg by the re-
sumption OF the Fort Pitt Iron and
Steel Works.
The Geddes iron works at Syracuse
are in the hands of q receiver.
GEN. JOHN B. MURRAY, an old Grand
Army man and originator of Decoration
Day, was fatally stricken with apoplexy
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