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

LATE NEWS NOTES -~'~~~~.
A brakeman was killed in a. collision
near P'aoli, 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 a.
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-
Der, 1883, was concluded at Council
Bluffs, Ia, 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 10th, 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, Ga. burned on the 10Th, were
valued at 100000.
Robbers entered. D. Donaldson &
Co.'s bank at COLUMBUS, o., at noon
on the 9th and secured 81 500. The
proprietor was in the: bank at the
time and thought he either had fallen
asleep or had been chloroformed. --y
A fire at Atlanta, Co., on the 18th,
partially destroyed James Bank
block, causing loss Of sec, 600. @
The paraMne factory at Elizabeth
port, n. j., was fired on the morning
Of the l 8th by bursting still. The
Enlistment was totally destroyed
Loss 100000; no insurance. It. EN-
ployed fifty hands, and was owned
|aby ieoplilius M. MI i.
Matt Roberts and Frank Smith,
convicts at Waco, Tex, were shot
dead on the 8th, while trying to es-
cape. E
Dick Brannon, Texas desperate,
has received a life sentence. for rob-
bling the Southwick, Tex, post office.
| James Mccullough, who was injured
by an explosion of gasoline, at Brad
dock, Pa, died in great agony on the
18th. 5=t%<a ::
James England was murdered by
| George Jones in g. quarrel over a game
OF cards at Birds Point, Mo-, on the
| 18th. Both are colored.
George Hawkins, engineer in saw
mill at Anderson, Ind, was killed on
the 18th, by being caught in a 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. 49, -
While on the way home on the
| night of the 18th, r. H. Latimer, SUI
perintendent of the Youghslope Mines,
| at West Newton, was attacked by
striking miners, who concealed them
selves along the roadside and assaulted
him with q 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 7, 1888, He had been on a
prolonged spree and came home, called
his wife down cellar and cut her throat
with a razor. He was arrested almost
in the act. 49,.
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. III &s
The post Office block at Ishpeming,
Mich, was destroyed by fire on the
18th, causing a loss of $25, 900, fully
covered by insurance. a.. =,
Frank Strong, a notorious cattle
thief, was run down and surrounded
by q sheriff's posse on Wild Horse
Creek, Chickasaw Nation, on the 18th.
Strong and his party showed fight,
and the leader was killed. -
onLepowski and Joseph Schenk,
| partners in business at st. Paul,
| quarreled on the 10th. Schenk shot
Lepowski through the head, killing him.
| A dispatch from Ekoutsk, Siberia,
received at St. Petersburg on the
10th, states that the polar scientific
| expedition, under Baron Toll, is snow
bound near the coast. It is feared
| that most of the party have persisted.
John r. Whitaker. an old resident
of St. Paul, shot and killed himself on
the 18th, leaving large family OF
children. s,s. III. -'..=s =:s
A party of twenty four Chinese have
arrived at New York, bound to British
Columbia, and will not lie allowed to
LAND on either coast s-.sss,ss..
Frank T. Tousey, q publisher Of New
York, has made ali assignment. giving
| preferences for $40, 600. @s
1 Zebehr Pasha, whom Gen. Gordon
desired to make governor Of Khar-
tqum, has been sent on board Brit
lsish frigate at Alexandriia, documents
having been found IN his house estab-
fishing his completely with the Mahdi.
The attempt of President Barrios TO
make himself dictator OF Central
America caused the United States ia
order southwark the Wachusetts and
Shenandoah and three more war-yes-
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