Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-03-25
LATE NEWS NOTES

brakeman was killed IN a COLLISION
near Paoli, Pa, on the 10Th.
A freight train on the Pennsylvania
road broke in two on the east slope Of
the Alleghanies, on the 10Th, and O.
portion Of it ran into another train in
front. One man was killed and several
injured.
Louis Bradshaw, aged Ia, committed
suicide at Kansas City, Mo-, on the
10Th, because his parents insisted on
his going to school.
The Cambria County bank of
Johnston, Pa, closed it's doors on the
10th. It's liabilities are said to be
about $4,000.
The trial OF E. B. Cross for the MUIR
der OF Dr. A. B. McKune, in Septem-
ber, 1888, was concluded at Council
Bluffs, 1a., on the 10Th, and a verdict
OF guilty was rendered, fixing punish
ment by death.
Ten business houses at West Plains,
Howell County, Mo-, were destroyed
by fire on the 10th, causing loss of
$4,000.
Fire in the glass works of Francis
Storms, in East Brooklyn, N. Y, on
the 18th, caused loss of $75, 900,
partly insured. Two hundred and
fifty men are temporarily out of en-
ployment.
A block OF business buildings at Au-
gusta, Ca, burned on the 10Th, were
valued at 100000.
Robbers entered d. Donaldson &
Co.'s bank at Columbus, O., at noon
on the 10Th and secured 81, 800. The
proprietor was in the bank at the
time and thought he either had fallen
asleep or had been chloroformed.
A fire at Atlanta, Ca, on the 18th,
partially destroyed James Bank
block, causing q loss of 100000.
The paraffine factory at Elizabeth
port, N. j., was fired on the morning
OF the 18th by a bursting still. The
establishment was totally destroyed
Loss $2OO,OOO; no insurance. It en-
ployed fifty hands, and was owned
|by H,eophilius NJ. Marc: sssssss -
Matt Roberts and Frank Smith,
convicts at Waco, Tex, were shot
dead on the 18th, while trying to es-
cape.
Dick Brannon, a Texas desperate,
has received a life sentence, for rob-
bing the Southwick, Tex, post-ofiice.
James Mccullough, who was injured
by an explosion of gasoline, at Brad
dock, Pa, died in great agony on the
! 18th.
James England was murdered by
George Jones in quarrel over a game
OF cards at Birds Point, Mo-, on the
! 18th Both are colored.
| George Hawkins, engineer in q saw
mill at Anderson, Ind, was killed on
! the 18th, by being caught in pulley.
! He was frightfully mangled.
) The convention OF striking miners
at Straitsville, o., with delegates from
! the Hooking valley mines, decided on
! the 18th to accept SO cents per ton.
This ends the strike begun last April
William, Hubbell, OF Whitney Coun-
y, Ind, in an insane fit, on the 18th,
killed his wife with a revolver. and
then turned the weapon on himself
with fatal effect.
While on the way home on the
night OF the 18th, r. H. Latimer, sr-
perintendent of the Youghslope Mines,
at West Newton, was attacked by
striking miners, who concealed them.
selves along the roadside and assaulted
him with a volley Of stones and brick.
bats. The assault was entirely unex-
pected and Latimer was so badly in
jured that he will probably die.
Charles Briggs, the wife murderer,
was hanged in the corridor OF the
county prison at Philadelphia on the
morning of the 18th. Briggs killed his
wife July Z, 1888. He had been on a
prolonged spree and came home, called
his wife down cellar and cut her throat
with q razor. He was arrested almost
in the act.
j. Spargo, postmaster at Edinburg
Pa, committed suicide on the night OF
the 10th, by shooting through the
heart. He was short in his accounts
and took this means OF escaping dis
grace.
The post Office block at Ishpeming
Mich, was destroyed by fire on the
18th, causing a loss of $25, 900, fully
covered by insurance.
Frank Strong, a notorious cattle
thief, was run down and surrounded
by sheriff's posse on Wild Horse
Creek, Chickasaw Nation, on the 5th
StLoi'S anu Ills pdIlE sIONcu lSul
and the leader was killed.
Anton Lepowskia and Joseph Schenk
partners in business at St. Paul
quarreled on the 10th. Schenk shot
Lepowski through the head, killing him
A dispatch from Irkoutsk, Siberia
received at st. Petersburg on the
18th, states that the polar scientific
expedition, under Baron Toll, is snow
bound near the coast. 1t is feared
that most OF the party have perished
/ John F. Whitaker. an old resident
OF St. Paul, shot and killed himself or
the 18th, leaving a large family O
children.
4 party OF twenty-four Chinese hav,
arrived at New York, bound to British
Columbia, and will not be allowed tt
land on either coast.
FrankP. Tousey, publisher OF New
York, has made an assignment, givin:
preferences for $4,000.
Zebehr Pasha, whom Gen. Gordon
desired to make governor OF Khar
toum, has been sent on board Brit
ish frigate at Alexandria. document
having been found in his house estab
fishing his completely with the Mahdi
The attempt of President Barrios t,
make himself dictator OF Contra
America caused the United States t.
order southwark the Wachusetts an.
Shenandoah. and three more war-ves
sells are to be held in readiness to sal
thither,