Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-04-08
MINOR NEWS NOTES.

MO-, on Cne lSt, consumed hVe DuSl-
ness houses including one in which the
Oddfellows and the Masons had their
headquarters. Loss $4,000; insur-
ance $4,000.
The boiler of David Hulse's saw
mill near Scipio, Ind, exploded on the
1st, and killed Anthony Cleaver, en-
gneer, and fatally injured David Hulse,
Morton Hulse and Alfred Hulse.
Early on the morning OF the I'd,
the powder magazine of the Hazard
Powder Company, at St. Joseph, Mo-,
was struck by lightning and exploded.
The magazine contained eight and
one-haf tons OF powder. The shock
was terrific. All the houses in the
vicinity were partially wrecked.
The United States Senate adjourned
sine die on the I'd inst.
Near Alexander, N. Y, on the I'd,
Mrs. D. S. Young, in fit of passion,
saturated her bedding with kerosene,
fired it and burned herself and two
children.
The Minneapolis (Minn. court house
was destroyed by fire on the I'd inst.
Loss $40, 1000; insurance $35, 1000.
A dispatch from Hong Kong, under
date of the I'd, says the French troops,
after an engagement lasting two days,
have captured Fishers Island, in the
channel between Formosa and the
mainland. The Chinese lost 600 men.
James E. Chandler, president, and
John B. Clemings, cashier, OF the First
National Bank, at Bushnell, Ill.,, were
arrested and taken to Springfield, on
the lst, charged with having embezzled
! $50, 900 or more of the banks funds.
They have been held in bonds of $780,
OOO The investigation of the bank 8
affairs has not yet been completed, but
it is expected the shortage will exceed
the amount named.
The Emery Candle Works, Cincin-
natl, partially burned on the 1st.
Fire in New York on the 3lst dam
aged the stock OF Reynolds & Whit
took, dealers in Masonic goods, to the
extent OF $4,000. Fully insured.
A Pittsburg dispatch of the 31st,
says: "The coal miners strike in the
fourth pool has almost collapsed. A
majority of the pits are now in opera
tion, and before the close of the week
operators confidently assert that the
great army of strikers along the rivers
will return to work. On the railroads
there is no change in the situation,
both sides standing firm."
A Paris dispatch of the 31st, says:
The new French cabinet, as pro
posed by De Freycinet, will prob
ably be asfollows: Minister OF foreign
affairs, De Freycinet; finance, Rouvier;
interior, Falliers; public instruction,
Spuller; justice, Floquet; war, Gen.
Billot; marine, Admiral j Joureguiberry
The names have not been submitted
to the president, and some changes
may be made before the list is finally
made up. Both houses have voted
the first installment of the Tonouin
credit asked for by the old ministry.
At San Antonio, Tex, on the 3lst
George P. Burkhardt, formerly of Chi.
cago, shot and killed his wife and then
attempted suicide.
| A Shanghai dispatch of the 3Oth
says: The British steamer Orestes
from Liverpool for Penang, collided
with and sunk q Chinese steamer
Seventy persons were drowned.
A Medicine-Hat special OF the 3Oti
says: '"The Indians are on the war
path. Settlers are preparing for an
attack. The Indians held pow-wow
yesterday, from which thegovernment
interpreter was excluded. There are
only six police at this post. The set
tiers have applied to the government
for arms, ammunition and reinforce.
ments."
| Bricker Elliot, the 7-year-old son o1
George Elliot, prominent farmer at
Carbondale, ILL.,, on the 3Oth, was lean
ing out of window at his fathers
residence when the sash fell, striking
lim on the back of the neck and
breaking it.
| Prices Oil Mills, a short distance be.
| low Woolwich, Eng, covering twelve
acres of ground, were completely de
stroyed by fire on the morning of the
3Oth. Thousands of people watched
the fire from the river banks and other
positions, and the river was full o
vessels containing spectators. The
flames could be seen for many miles
The loss will exceed 81, 100000.
The four-story brick building, on
Monroe Street, Chicago, occupied by
| the National Printing Company and
Bradner, Smith & Co., paper dealers
burned on the morning OF the 3Oth
The losses are estimated at $37O,OOO
A gang of thieves who had robbed a
store at East Palestine, O., on the
night OF the 9th, escaped by jumping
on freight train. A telegram was
sent to Rochester, Pa, where they
were intercepted by Officer Camp. HI
attempted to arrest them, but was
shot and probably fatally injured
The whole gang escaped.
The Dye Wood Company's works at
Boston burned on the 28th. Loss
$50, 900; insurance, $780, 600.
Fire at Flint, Mich, on the morning
OF the 2sth, destroyed the Flint Hos
Dital. owned bv PiersOn 4 Colharin