Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-02-11
LATE NEWS NOTES.

clerk in DR.. Utt's drug store, st Cuba,
NO., shot and instantly killed Howard
Martin. Deceased, while drunk, went
to the drug store and demanded whisky.
It was refused, whereupon he assaulted
Green, and the latter then fred the ia
tai shot. Both parties are highly re-
spectacle.
DR.. s. j. Allen, the young Vermont
surgeon who shot Dell Hansel, in a sa-
loon in Boston last May, received SEN
tence of five years in state prison on the
4th. He will be remembered in the far
West as asurgeon in Clusters command.
Edward Arnot, well-known Chicago
actor, committed suicide on the 9Th at
his home in that city.
The -four mills of Howard, Robson &
Co., at Watertown, Ont, burned on the
4th. Loss $4,000.
A loss of $4,000 was caused on the
4th by the burning of the north dormi.
tory of the Amherst (Mass.) Agricultural
College.
J. s. Lockard, a prominent merchant
of Avondale, O., whose store had been
closed by the sheriff, committed suicide
on the Sd inst, by cutting his throat.
A 10-yearold boy named Manning
was drowned in a we'll at Negaunee
Mich, on the Sd.
Smith, Wilson and Cicero Jefferson,
the murderers of Hiram Jefferson, were
taken from jail at Audubon, Ia, on the
4th and lynched. Jellerson confessed
having murdered his father.
! v,oooonror froiv Vuoos h10xor fpov,, ~ 4
track near Georgetown, COL, on the
4th, during q severe wind storm. Out
of twenty passengers, eighteen we're in
jured.
A block of buildings on Wooste,
Street, New York, was gutted by fire or
the 4th. Loss 81, 100000.
The Major & Knapp Engraving Com
pany's building, corner of Barclay anc
Church Streets, New York, burned OF
the 4th. Loss $35O,O0O.
William Pierson was killed by ,
switch engine at Detroit on the Sd.
George s. Titman, jeweler, New
York, made an assignment on the 2d
Preferences $4,000.
A boiler in Snyder's brewery, Louis
vile, KY, exploded on the I'd, killing
John Bush and injuring a number o
other employees.
Mrs. Goff, of Cincinnati, was almos
instantly killed, on the 31st, by the ex
plosion of q coal stove. The house wa
totally wrecked.
w. 81. Phisholm, superintendent of
Touring mill at Waukegan, ILL.,, wa
killed on the 31st, by catching his cloth
ing on revolving shaft.
The drug house of J. s. Berdsall {
Co., Cincinnati, was damaged to the ex
tent of $4,000 by fire on the 31st.
Jacob Fahrenkrug snapped an empt
gun at his elder brother at Chicago, OF
the 31st. The latter returned the iok
and blew his brothers head of.
| At Auburn, N. Y, on the 30th, Jane
Sampson was repairing the interior O
one of q battery of two boilers, whel
the fireman turned the steam on, sup
posing it was cut off from the boiler un
der repair. Sampson was horribl,
scalded and died in an hour.
At Boston, on the 3Oth, John L. Sui
Ivan was fined $115 in the municipa
court for fast driving and unnecessar.
cruelty in beating horse.
Lafayette Welton was hanged at Coz
ming, Ark, on the 3Oth, for the murde
of Franklin Hale. The crime was com
mitted four years ago.
A dispatch of the 3Oth, from Sydney
New South Wales, states that an express
train between Sydney and Wagg
WagRa, while running at q high rate q
speed, was precipitated into q creek b.
the weakness of bridge. Forty paf
sengers were killed.