Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-03-18
LATE NEWS NOTES

olic Church, the largest and finest in
the city OF Washington was ruined
by fire on the 18th. Loss, $75, 900;
insurance, $4,000. The walls OF the
editice are intact.
Ten buildings at Olean, N. Y, were
destroyed by fire on the 18th. Loss,
$4,000.
Two laborers named Henry Macs
and John Schneidirk were buried un-
der mass of molten metal in roll
ing mill at Joliet, ILL.,, on the 10Th.
Macs was killed and Schneidirk re-
ceived injuries from which he cannot
recover.
Three negroes were lynched at Troy,
Tenn, on the 18th, for being impli-
Gated in the murder of a. white man,
last December.
Sergt. Thomas Plunkett, a Massa-
chusetts veteran, who lost both arms
at the battle of Fredericksburg, died
at West Boylston, Mass, on the
18th.
The contents of the art stone of J.
D. Gill, Springfield, Mass, were dam
aged by fire and smoke on the 18th to
the extent OF $4,000.
Twenty two students of the Philadel-
phia Female Medical College received
their sheepskins on the 18th.
Thomas H. Trippe and James Earle
were killed by a train on the Delaware
& Chesapeake road at Easton, Md, on
the 18th inst.
Jacob Frey committed suicide at
Toledo, O., on the 11th, through des
pondency caused by his wife's death.
William Ellenbaulen and wife were
burned to death in their house at
Haysville, Cam, early on the morning
OF the 11th.
The Massachusetts Senate on the
18th passed to the third reading the
bill prohibiting the sale of intoxicat-
ing liquors between IL P. NJ and 6 A.
NJ.
}. ID. White, a passenger on an East
Tennessee train, was killed on the
18th, by putting his head out of a.
window and having it crushed against
a bridge.
In the Bradley murder trial at
Bloomington, ILL.,, on the 18th, the &C
cused was sentenced to twenty seven
years in the penitentiary for the MUIR
der OF Henry Johnson.
Intelligence has been received of a
| destructive fire at Newburn, N. c., on
the night of the 9th. The Central Ho-
tel and twenty houses and stores were
destroyed. Loss, 500, 900; insurance,
$4,000.
The Castle House block, Wyoming,
ILL.,, containing a hotel and a number
OF stores, burned on the morning of
the 10th. The total loss is $45, 900;
insurance $780,
The Bellevue House, Halifax, N. S.,
owned by the imperial government
and occupied by officers Of the egarrison,
| burned on the night of the 10th. The
loss is $4,000; no insurance,
Last April the Michigan Saw Works,
East Saginaw. burned, causing a
loss of 100000. On the night of the
| 10th, the works were again destroyed
by fire. The total loss is 100000.
The insurance is not definitely known;
but it is over $4,000.
| The trial of the Oklahoma boomers
at Wichita, Kas., has gone over until
the September term of the United
States circuit court. The colony OF
boomers, Capt. Couch says, will move
in few days.
The hame shop OF Hayden & Boyd,
prison contractors, Auburn, N. Y.
burned on the 9th. Loss $4,000;
partially insured. State loss $15,-
900. The shop was probably set on
fire by idle convicts. This leaves but
one contract in force in the prison.
Three mills at the Latin & Rand
Powder Works, four miles from West
Newburgh, N. Y, exploded on the
morning of the 9th, killing two men
and seriously injuring another.
At Detroit, on the night OF the 9Th,
Annie McCrea was removing ashes from
q kitchen range when her dress caught
fire and was burned entirely off. Her
flesh was terribly burned. The doc
tors pronounce recovery impossible.
Rustrau Hollander, aged 80 years,
single, was suffocated, on the 9th, at
the Grand Rapids mich. Veneer Com
pany's factory. He entered a steam
box where the temperature was 200.
and was literally steamed to death.
The United States Hotel at Steuben-
vile. o., burned on the 9th. Loss,
$135,OOO.
A shock from an electric wire at
CINCINNATI, O., on the 9th, killed Jo-
seph Balhman instantly.
The governor of Dakota vetoed the
capital removal bill on the 9th, which
defeats the scheme, as the constitu.
tional majority cannot be had to pass
it over his veto.
A Gloucester, Mass, dispatch of the
9th, reports the loss of the fishing
schooner, Solomon Poole, with all
aboard, numbering fifteen men.
The residence OF Mrs. Jane Shops, at
Pearlington, Miss, burned on the
night OF the sth, while the lady was at
church. Three boys, the Oldest IL
years OF age, perished in the flames.
One man was killed and another
fatally injured by an explosion in the
Itorpedo factory OF the Winchester
Arms Company, New Haven. Conn.,,
on the 7th.
| Western Ohio has pleuro.
pneumonia epidemic.
The employees OF the Missouri Pacific
Railroad at Parsons, Kas., struck on
the 7th.
| A large sawmiH owned by S. O.
Thompson, at Williamsport, Pa.
burned on the 9th. Loss $4,000.
George A. Davis & Co., San francisco
dealers in agricultural implements, as
signed on the 7th. The firm owes