Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-01-28
LATE NEWS NOTES.


on the night of the 21st, was fatally
burned, from her night dress accidental
ly taking fire.
A portable engine exploded at Gra-
ton, N. T., on the 22d, killing two men.
An explosion of natural gas near
Pittsburg, on the 22d, resulted in the
serious injury of five men.
A dispatch from Australia says that
the manager and accountant of q branch
OF the Union bank of Australia, at Roe
burne, were found murdered in the
bank, having been tomahawked.
Many sentinels and travellers in Spain
have been frozen to death. Peasants
are pursued into the villages by wolves.
The building occupied by Theodore
Kuntz as cabinet shop, on Sycamore
Street, Cleveland, burned on the night
of the Goth. Loss $4,000.
A boy named Robes, II years old,
living near Eagle Point, ILL.,, was whipped
by his mother on the afternoon of the
Goth. after which he went out and hanged
himself.
There is smallpox panic at Perry,
la. A dispatch of the 2Oth reports twelve
cases in the village.
The Bank of Wadena, Minn., owned
by E. s. Chase, made an assignment on
the 21st. Liabilities $4,000.
Nine persons we're injured by an &C.
cident near Sedalia, Mo-, on the 21st.
The cause was broken rail.
A lard rendering tank in the pork
packing establishment of J. E. Booge
& Co.. at Sioux City, Ia., exploded on
the Goth. Two men were fatally in
jured, and one side of the building was
blown out.
The New York court of appeals has
declared the tenement house cigar act
unconstitutional.
Two chicken thieves were shot and
killed by the police of Evansville, Ind,
on the night Of the 10Th.
Fire at Battle Greek, Mich, on the
18th, destroyed the roller skating rink
and six other buildings. Loss $25, 900.
Incendiary.
The Victoria Woolen Mills at Bark
ley, England, were destroyed by fire on
the 10th. Loss $150,00O.
BLACK measles" has broken out among
the log camps of Northern Maine.
broken rail near Venice, No., on
the 9th. threw two cars of passenger
train down an embankment. An ex-
press messenger named Muhlocks, was
killed, and ten other men injured.
A feet of seven coal boats and six
barges broke from their moorings in
the Ohio River near Woods Run, on
the night of the 18th. All but two
sank during the night. Loss $4,000.
Louis Pearsall, IA years old, killed
his little sister at their home in Brook.
lyn, on the 10th. The gun wasn't
loaded.
Steubenville, O., had q $25O.O00 cy~
clone on the night of the 18th.
Edmond About, the French journal
list, died in Paris on the 18th. He wa.
81 years old.
The boiler of a saw.mil at Good
spring Station, Pa, exploded on the
18th, killing three men and injurine
two others.
Taylor Bollard, q farmer living nea,
franklin, Ind, who refused to trust hii
money to banks, was murdered on thu
night of the 10th, and his house robbed
of 81 900.
William Meinken, who escaped from
jail at Binghamton, N. T., wac recaptur
ed at Oswego on the 18th.
Fire among the big warehouses q
Glasgow, Scotland, on the 18th, causef
| q loss of E15O,OOO.
The anniversary of the coronation O
Emperor William was celebrated al
Berlin on the 18th, with elaborate oere
monies.
Fires on the 18th: Three building,
including the City Opera House, at Be
lott, Kas., $4,000; seven buildings q
Dodge City, Kas., $4,000; the Ba,
State Sugar Refinery and the STANDARD
Dye Works, Boston; loss not given.