Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-04-01

Ds Ruttle & Co.'s pork house, in
Covington, KY, was damaged $50, 600
by fire on the Oath. The adjoining
dwellings burned also, causing q loss
of $40, 1000.
Joel Anderson and Laurel Baugh,
on trial at Carrollton, Mo-, on the
23d, for killing John Rea, were found
guilty and sentenced to ninety-nine
years each, in the penitentiary.
Alvin Jacob, a cigarmaker, was
shot dead in New York on the evening
OF the 23d, by Geo. Klukendance, g.
halter.
Thomas J. Navin, ex-mayor of
Adrian, Mich, was arraigned at that
place on the 23d, charged with forgery.
He pleaded guilty, and was sent up
for ten years.
Robert Maui, German hermit, was
cremated in his own house, in the vii
lage of Diamond, Pa, on the night of
the 22d.
Frank NJ. Cottrill, an actor, at one
time a member of the Madison Square
Hazel Kirke Company, committed sui
eide at Harrisville, w. Va, on the
2lst. He had been adiudged insane.
Fires on the 21st: The Southern
Spoke and Handle Factory, at Hen
derson, KY, $50, 900; portion of the
state capital at Trenton. NJ, $780,
600; store-house of the Continental
Sugar Refinery, Boston, 100000;
block of buildings at Bellefonte, Pa,
$4,000.
Gordon w. Burnham, a New York
millionaire, was to have been married
on the 21st. A few days previous he
was taken i'll with pneumonia and
died.
Christian Bendzus, who shot Maria
Welk, at SO Sherman Street, Chicago,
on the night of the 21st, and then
turned the weapon upon himself, died
from his wounds at 8 o'clock the fol-
lowing night. The girl appears to be
improving.
The Arkansas Legislature in joint
convention on the Goth, elected
George H. Berry to succeed Garland
in the United States Senate. Five
ballots were taken.
At Baltimore, on the Goth, a ver-
dict of $4,000 was awarded the
plaintiff in the case OF VIM. A. Brydon
against the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Company for the violation OF a con-
tract for the delivery of $50 tons Of
coal day for three years, which the
company repudiated after making de-
livery for a few weeks. An appeal was
taken.
The boiler in Chambers mill at New
ton, Miss, exploded on the Goth, kill
ing Sam Glass, fireman, and badly in
juring R. H. Wilson and Marion
Chambers, the former fatally.
Francisco Tuzerona, a rag-picker.
and Francisco Terracona, a boot
black, quarreled in New York on the
night OF the goth, and the former was
shot dead.
Mrs. Betsy R. Hoadley, aged 80, was
burned to death at South Kay, N. Y,
on the Goth, in attempting to light a
fire with kerosene oil.
Joseph Drake, colored, was hanged
at Salem, Ore., ON the Goth, for the
murder of David Swarts. He main
tanned his innocence to the last.
Fires on the Goth: Two stores,
Petersburg, Va, loss $40, 900; brush
factory, Port Elgin. Ont, 1915, 900; !;
works ofthe Boston MachineM Manufact-
urlng company, Boston, $l|o,OOO; !;
a portion Of the St. Joseph's Academy
Emmettsburg, near Baltimore, $780,
900; the Boston Block and the butter
stOrehOuse of James Sullivan, Lead
vile, COL, 100000.
Aric Johnson, a Swede, was burned
to death and NJ. J. Tobin and Edward
Downey fatally injured in a hotel fire,
at Seattle. w. IT,. on the morning Of
the Goth.
The house of John Mullen, at Bridge
port, Conn.,, was burned to the ground
on the morning OF the Goth. The oc-
cupants escaped in their night clothes
with the exception of Mrs. Mullen
and boarder, named Barnum, who
perished in the flames.
Stephen Jones, a negro murderer,
was hanged in San Francisco on the
goth.