Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-04-29
MINOR VIEWS NOTES,

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MINOR NEWS NOTES.
The Danish ministry OF war have
had placed at their disposal the sum
of $25O,OOO for the purpose OF fortify-
ing the coast OF Denmark
News has been received from Cam
bodla, by way OF Saigon, to the effect
that the insurgents have surprised a
French post, captured several guns and
massacred many Europeans.
Frank Laloude Was drowned while
engaged in rafting logs on the Chocalay
River, near Marquette, Mich., on the
22d. He was 80 years OF age.
At Detroit, on the 23d, a man, in
attempting to steal ride on a Grand
Haven train, was run over and his
body cut in two. A policeman refused
to allow the body to be removed until
the arrival OF the coroner, and the line
was blocked for several hours.
Six bodies have been found in the
ruins OF the Vicksburg, Miss, fire.
The trial ofCunninghama and Burton,
charged with high treason and felony
, IN causing the explosion in the Tower
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May.
The Louis Cook Manufacturing Com
pany, of Cincinnati, one of the largest
carriage manufacturing institutions in
the West, made an assignment on the
22d, with liabilities Of 100000.
The Ohio Legislature has passed an
act requiring all executions to take
place within the walls of the peniten-
tiary.
Vicksburg, Miss, was the scene OF a
heavy fire on the night Of the 21st.
: Maurice, Meyer 4 Co. and Mrs. Bloom,
both dry goods; William Brusen,
. hardware; Warner & Searless, clothing;
Baum & Co., ,stationers; Robert Ernst
jeweler; A. Trescat, hardware and
wagon materials; Joseph Podesta
wholesale liquor; William Chamber
lain, insurance; United States Signal
office, telephone exchange, three resi-:
dences on Mulberry Street, the Herald
office, and the Western Union office
were burned out. The loss is $3.50, 900
The fire caught from a gas-jet on a
swinging bracket.
Fire occurred early on the morn
ing Of the 22d, in the Pullman Palace
Car Company's shops used for repair
ing cars at Philadelphia. The building
and contents, together with a large
frame building belonging to the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company, We're de
stroyed Loss, $50, 900; insured.
4 sand bank caved in along Trinity
River at Fort Worth, Tex, on tn,
22d, where gang of men were layin.
for hro +r,. II,
man named Conwell and two negroe.
We're buried. Conwell lived tel
minutes after he was taken out. On,
OF the negroes, named Harris, wa
taken out dead. but the other was no
injured.
Louis Westphal, an S-year-old lad
was drowned in the harbor at Michigan
City, Ind, on the night OF the list
The body was recovered with drag
nets.
Six Of the Buzzard gang were CAP
tured on Forest Mountain, Pa, o.
the 22d, among them being colore,
preacher. All were Jailed.
i At Sharpsburg, Pa, on the 23d a
entire block OF buildings was de
stroyed by fire. Twenty families hav
been rendered homeless. The loss
$4,000
Psrryville, a Tennessee river towr
in Decatur County, was annihilate
on the night OF the 21st, by an il
cendiary fire started by person seel
ing revenge on the inhabitants. tn
property lost embraced a large hote
the river warehouse full of valuab
, freight and many fine residence
Nothing remains Of the thriving litt
town.
A disastrous flood. caused by W;
terspout, is reported from Kingma,
Kas. on the 21st. The Ninnesca
J River rose FIVE feet in half an hou
Many houses, with their inmates, WEI
carried away, and a large number
people are though ghU to be drowned.
A terrific explosion OF gas occurre
!, in the Phoenix Colliery, at Pittsto
: Pa, on the morning OF the 21s
About 100 men were in the mine
the time, and many OF them we
severely burned, though none were +
tally hurt.
w B. Fenton. switchman, ",
caught in q frog at the Michigan Ce
trail yards at Grand Rapids, Mich, {
: the Goth, and killed by an engine.
: \ terrific gas explosion occurred
I South London, Eng. on the got
Several persons We're injured and tv
] houses shattered. The leakage OF g
| IS burning in the streets. The men a
digging to cut off the main pipe to .,
vent further damage.
During q horse-race at Ferd, Indls
Territory, two cattlemen, Frank Wa
son and Francis Copeland, became
volved in a quarrel. They fired
each other with Winchester rifles al
both were killed
, Annie Hubert, Bohemian dome
tic employed by a family in Hobt
Street, Chicago, was On the evening
the 18th, killed by her jealous low.
William Hass, stock-yard butch,
who then inflicted two serious woun
upon himself.
Laura Keegaa. OF Cleveland. II
tated by the marriage of Edwa
Thomas, proprietor of the Adelt
Theater, attempted his life with
volver, on the 18th; and then