Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-01-14
LATE NEWS NOTES.

49, 90 ASA " AS~AA0Ss
North Carolina reports small cy-
clone on the 7th inst. A chnrch at
Goshen and q number of houses in the
vicinity were destroyed, and small
sawmill was blown into the river near
Clinton. Two children of John Jack
son were seriously injured.
Two brothers named Balleuch, mem
bers of the Paris police, becoming en-
ragged by attacks of the press, on the 9Th
inst, forced An entrance into the edit
orial rooms of the Cri du People and
attacked the editor with swords. The
latter, although wounded, resisted
his assailants, and after shooting one
fatally had the other arrested.
The trial in Paris of Nine. Clovis
Huges for the murder of Private De-
tective NORM closed on the 9Th with q
verdict of acquittal. However the de-
fendant was made to pay the costs
of the trial, amounting to something
over $4OO.
The burning of the church of St.
Therese, Catholic, at Montreal, on the
9TH, involved loss of 100000.
A four-story building at Norfolk, Va,
burned on the 7th, causing q loss of
$4,000.
Another county seat war is in progress
in Salter County, D. T. On the morn
ing of the 7th, an armed mob from
Gettysburg went to Forest City, and
after wrecking the building in which
the county records were kept, sue.
ceeded in getting away with the books.
The sheriff started to recover the county
property, and bloodshed is anticipated.
At Angus, Ia, on the evening of the
7th, the striking miners started riot
and drove all the miners ut work out OF
town, beating and kicking them badly.
One man defended himself and was
killed, and six others are reported
seriously wounded.
James Mclaughlin, the noted wrest.
ler, died at Bellevue Hospital, New
York, on the 9Th, of BriRht's disease.
Right Rev. John Jackson, Bishop Of
London, died suddenly at his home on
the 9Th.
A serious religious outbreak is re-
ported fro1d India. It an attempt to
quell the disturbances, nine men were
killed by the soldiers, who lost one
man.
A furious Orange outbreak is in
progress at Bay Roberts, N. F. A Brit.
ish gunboat and large force of police
have been ordered to the scene o1
trouble.
Jacob Michaels, hitherto respected
citizen of Hardenburg, Ind, committed
forgery for the paltry sum of 500 and
shot himself dead on the 5th in the pres
ence of the officer who attempted to ar
rest him.
Dr. John Maxwell, who poisoned his
three children short time since, hung
himself in the Jail at Springfield, O.,
with towel.
Holley, Orleans County, N. Y, waf
visited by disastrous fire on the morn.
ing of the 5th. This is the third time q
section of the town has burned over
The loss will reach at least $4,000.
Disastrous floods are reported in va.
rious parts of India.
The house Of Oide Leclerc, at Hull
Ont, burned on the Sd. The occu-
pants in their haste to escape, deserted
3-year-old child, which perished in
the flames.
At Denver, on the Sd, proceedings
were begun against Williams, manager
of tie private foundling asylum at
which three children recently died for
want of medical attendance, Williams
Is prayer-cure crank.
At Chicago, on the .4th, NJ. Keene,
while drunk, assaulted his old father.
John McName interfered, and was ia.
tally shot by Keene, who was finally ar
rested.
At Bloomington, ILL.,, on the night of
den was Drained with a wagon spoke by
an unknown man.
Fire on the Sd inst, destroyed three
large buildings of the Plymouth (Alass. J
Cordage Company. Loss 100000.
Fires on the I'd: Jay Cox's residence,
Syracuse, N. Y, loss, $2O,00O; bottling
works, Nautasket, Mass, $4,000; gro
Gerry store at Mexico, Mo-, $l5, 900;
Phoenix lumber yards and mills. a barn
and three houses, at Cory, Pa, $685.
900; b. Kern's dry goods store, New
Orleans, 81, 900; shoe store, at Angus
ia, Ga, $25, 600; building used as piano
factory, New York, $4,000; the Glen
WOODEN mill, North Adams, Mass,
100000.
Herman Garlic was shot dead BY g
watchman named John Gordon at
Cherryville, Pa, on the night of the
1st.
Mrs. Robert Jennett's clothes caught
fire at Franklin, KY, on the I'd, and the
lady was burned to death.
The weavers in Johnson's gingham
mill at North Adams, Mass, struck on
the I'd, against reduction of wages,