Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-02-25
LATE NEWS NOTES.

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LATE NEWS I0TRs.
Fire at Providence, r. l., on the 10Th
inst, destroyed building known as
the Bridge block. Loss $4,000.
Two cases of trichinosis are reported
at Columbus, o.
An old man named Jackson perished
on the 10Th in q conlagration which
destroyed the Franklin Hall building,
Walingford, Conn.
A. s. Staples -four mill, Rondout,
n. T., burned on the 10th inst. Loss
$4,000.
Mrs. James Russell Lowell died in
London on the 18th.
The J. Leroy Pipe Company's store
and Coon & Co.'s collar shop, Troy,
N. Y, burned on the 10th. Loss $780,
600.
Brazil, Ind, had $4,000 blaze on
the 10Th.
The Knugden Cotton Mills, at Black
burn, Eng, were destroyed by fire on
the 10th. Loss 100000. Two men
were killed by falling walls.
The Gramis block, on Dearborn
Street, Chicago, was totally destroyed by
fire on the 10Th. The lower part of the
building was occupied by the Continen-
tai National Bank, and the National
Bank of Illinois, and the upper stories
were filed with Offices. The losses will
aggregate nearly $25O,000.
The failures in the United States for
the seven days ending on the 10th,
numbered 273.
Chaffe & Powell, cotton merchants,
failed on the 10Th, with liabilities of
$37O,O0O.
The shoe factory Of @. A. Coffin &
Co., Lynn, Mass, and two adjoining
buildings, we're destroyed by fire on the
night of the 17th. Loss $125,OOO.
A dispatch of the 18th from Shang-
hal states that in the naval en-
gagement between the French feet
under Admiral Courbet and five Chinese
men-of-war, the French torpedo boats
sunk two Chinese war ships. T three
others escaped in fog to Chinhai.
The French residents at Shanghai
have been placed under Russian pro-
teotion. The Russian flag is hoisted
over the French concessions.
Bray Brothers, San Francisco grain
commission firm, suspended on the 18th.
The liabilities are placed at $500, 900.
The failure is attributed to defalcation
by one OF their clerks.
George Sexton, Baltimore & Ohio
watchman, was knocked down and killed
at Paw Paw station, near Wheeling, on
the 18th. An unknown tramp was killed
by the same train few minutes later.
An attempt was made to wreck and
rob the passenger train from St. Louis,
near Wayne, between Jefferson and
Te1arkana, Tex, on the night of the
18th, by removing rail. The freight
train in advance of the passenger fell
into the trap and eight freight cars were
wrecked. No one was hurt. There is
no clue to the perpetrators.
Elizabeth Bony, aged 96 years, living
alone near Falmouth, Ky., on the 18TH
inst, barred her doors and windows
and set fire to the house. She perished
in the flames.
The entire business portion of Bisbee,
Arizona, was destroyed by fire on the
l7th. Loss 100000.
A number of business houses in, Mar
shall, ILL.,, we're destroyed by fire on the
morning of the 17th. Loss $4,000.
Fire at Wellsboro, Pa, on the 10Th,
destroyed property to the value of $685.
600.
Shiehan's warehouse in Eufaula, Ala,
burned on the morning of the 10th,
with 1900 bales of cotton. Nothing
was saved. The loss was fully 100000;
insurance not known.
A fire, on the 10Th, in the mill OF
Mills, Speumeyer & Co., Cincinnati, O.,
caused loss of SIS, 600; insurance $780,
600.
The engine boiler at the east shaft ot
the coal mine, Springfield, ILL.,, exploded
on the 10Th, instantly killing the en-.
gineer and fireman aud wrecking the
building.
The Glasgow Mills, Caryville, Fla,
burned on the 14th. Loss $4,000.
An aged and Incorporate woman
named Esther Thomas was burned to
death at Detroit on the morning of the
! l4th.
In County Westmeath, Ireland, on
the morning of the 14th, the dead body
of Peter Kelly was found, with circum'
stances pointing toward murder.
The London policemen, Cole and
Cox, who were injured at the time Of
the recent dynamite explosions, have
received from various sources the aggre
gate sum of about $5, 600 each for thei,
| 4{$1 30 ko kho Iseoe&o~~
A Texas desperate, named Joe Bran
non, wanted for horse stealing, was shot
and killed at Springfield, Mo-. while
resisting arrest, on the 14th.-
| To save his life in q collision nea1
Columbus, O., on the 14th, Richard +
Sheridan, Panhandle conductor
jumped from his train and was killed.
Considerable excitement was caused
in a Washington Hotel, on the night O
the 18th, by the attempt Of Butle,
Malone, son of the senator, to shoot .
colored porter by way of winding up a,
extended iamboree.
B. B. Hotchkiss, inventor of the fa
nous Hotchkiss gun, died in Paris O,
the 14th.
DR.. Leopold Danrosch, the erea
German musicsl director, died suddenl,
at New York on the 18th, at the age O
IS years.
Francis A. Drexel, head of the grea
Philadelphia banking house, died at hi
residence in that city on the 18th. 81,
was 81 years old.
The Union Iron Mills, PittsburR, Ne
sumed work on the 10th. The mill,
give employment to over 100 men.
The -four mills of Darrah Bros,
Co., Big Rapids, Mich, were destroyed
by fire on the 18th. Loss 1900
Dr.. Halmbold, the great ~Buchu'