Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-01-16
CASUALTIES.

1hE Iemale cOue80 az COl0mDu6, Ga, burned
on the 9th. All the inmates escaped. Loss
431, 900. ! ].
FnE at Bald. Tex, on the 9Th. destroyed
property valued at $50, 900.
The mill of Herzier Bros, Akron, O., burned
on the 9Th, Loss. $6O, 900.
A BREWERY near Wllkesbarre, Pa. burned on
the 9th. Loss $4,000.
On the night of the 9th, q snow storm ac-
companied by high waves destroyed bath
houses, piers and other buildings at Atlantic
City. n. j.. and Coney Island, N. Y. TIE dam
age will amount to 81, 600, 600.
In a railroad accident near Easton, Pa, on
the 9th, Thomas Green, q conductor, was ia
tally, and nine others seriously injured.
AT Brinton Station, Pa, on e:.Pennsylvania
Railroad, on the 9th, some fifteen or twenty
laborers were engaged in shoveling drifted
snow out OF cut, when q train dashed into
them. Two we're killed and five seriously in !.
jured.
An entire family Of negroes VIM. Groom,
wife and six children -perished in their bnrn-
ing dwelling on the night Of the 9Th, near
Raleigh, N. G.
FIRES on the 9Th. The coffin factory Of
Smith, Winston & Co.. New York, loss about
90,000; Opera House block, Meadyille. Pa.
loss $500, ,OO0; five frame buildings at Pitts
burg. Kas., loss $21, 900;
The house of Mrs. Almy Haines, near saei-
nav. Mich. burned on the 7th. Her daughter
Lydia, aged 10, perished in the flames.
TIE workshops Of the Saltwater, Mimi,
prison were destroyed by fire on the 9Th. The
cell building was not injured. Loss about
$l00, 900. -
HAMPTON BIbD and two Of his daughters, at
Kaufman, Tex. died on the 9Th from poison in
food. : =
On the 9Th scaffolding at four. story build
ing, Milwaukee, Wis, broke and J. 4. Dunn.
contractor, and Kszimer Klopotek, . mason.
were killed, and Henry Hove, mason, seriously
injured. :
A BOILER in Hood l. Parsons mill, Merrill.
Mich. exploded on the 7th, wrecklng the mill
and killing ten men. =
THREE hunters Henry Shields, Edward
Shields aud James Anderson were frozen Ia
death on the plains in Chickasaw Nation. In
dian Territory, on the 5th.
A BARN on the farm OF Mrs. Rosene Baurrrs.
near 1slgin, ILL.,, burned on the 7th. Forty-fiye
COWS pe-lshed in the flames.
THE range IN the house Of R. Matthews.
Plt:sburg, Pa. exploded on the 7th. Two
daughters were severely scalded, one it is be-
ieved fatally. -,
TIE connecting rod Of an engine on the Long
Island Railroad broke on the 7th near Patch-
ogue, L. The engineer was killed.
PROCTOR d GAMBLE's soap and candle works,
Cincinnati, O., burned on the 7th. I,oss a9D0.
600. l s. .-o'
BAY Cry, Mich. had . 900 fire on the
7th, the shearer block being DESTROYED.
A DIsPATcH from Lowell. Mass, gives partic-
u!ars Of the finding Of the body Of Arthur
stltf. -, = : De''. , Dos'' " AA>z's'n D
AT Chicago. Ill. the Re.nriva ,a t,ata !. :.
h,a ., .no na.s, lasn-
t;re at an a.r,v ,o,r =, ,,,s s., .ss .,: ~
pants were driven intnthe street n their ,,;oS4-
clothes Loss S65. ono ''1o.1 .1.e' 'u
THE convent Of Notre Dame. BallaviIle III
was destroyed by fire on the nirht of the RI ,' :
The fire. canobt fron, tha :: o..''
ment, and before the inmates were a. aWare go of
their danger, al escape BY the s'airways was
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