Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-01-21
LATE NEWS NOTES.

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LATE NEWS NOTES.
Some party unknown assaulted John
Winters, of Muskegon, Mich, on the
night of the 14th, inficting wounds
which may prove fatal. A man named
Garroway has been arrested on suspi-
cion.
Oliver Brothers & Phillips, one of
Pittsburgs heavy iron manufacturing
corporations, is reported in financial
straits. The concern is said to owe ST.
100000.
Akron, O., is excited over the appear
ance of strange disease which battles
the doctors. It is reported that 300
employees of Aultman & Miller's mower
works have been prostrated. No deaths
are reported.
Emma Bond is again before the pub.
lie. On the 18th inst, while attending
tho sick bed OF her father, she tainted
and fell in such manner as to produce
concussion of the brain.
William Menken, under sentence of
death for the murder of Katie Broad
hod, ut Binghamton, N. Y, escaped
from jail on the 18th. A reward of ST.
600 is offered for his capture.
The town of Earling, Ia, was almost
totally destroyed by fire on the 18th.
The total loss will reach $4,000.
The New York banking house of John
Cisco & Son was closed by a run on
the 18th. The firms liabilities are es-
timated at $2,5O0,O00.
Police Councillor Rumpf was assas
sinated by Anarchists in front of his
residence in Berlin, on the night of the
18th. The motive of the crime is sup
posed to have been revenge for his &C.
tivity in secvr1ng the conviction of the
Neiderwald conspirators.
At Durand, Ill.,, on the 18th, a party
of men INDUCED in q row in q saloon,
in which all sorts of weapons were used.
Two men were killed.
An explosion in the large chemical
works at Somerset, Pa, on the 14th,
wrecked the works and killed two work
men.
George Zane was shot dead at his
wedding feast on the night of the 18th,
by his brother.
At Collinsville, ILL.,, on the 18th, the
stock bell factory, owned by O. B.
Wilson, was burned to the ground. Loss
100000.
Five business houses at Rockport,
Ind, burned on the 18th. Loss $50, 1000.
Ex-Vice-President Schuyler Colfax
dropped dead in the Omaha Depot at
Mankato, at 1920 on the morning of
the 18th. He arrived over the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul Railway and
walked over to the Omaha Depot. He
almost Immediately expired. His death
is supposed to have been caused by
heart disease. He was 62 years old.
A fire in Yonkers, N. Y, on the morn
ing of the 18th, damaged the building oc.
cupied by Reed & Cormick, manufact-
uring chemists, together with other
firms to the extent of 100000.
George Dean, 10 years old, was run
over and killed by Rock Island train,
at Chicago on the 18th.
Dispatches of the 10Th report a &C.
we're gale along the British coast. Tel
egraph lines are down. A number of
vessels are reported lost, with many
lives.
The boiler in the saw mill of Weigel
& Babst opposite Williamsport, Pa, ex-
ploded on the 18th, killing two men and
severely injuring seven others.
On the morning of the 18th two men
entered the Office of the Genesee House,
Buffalo, bound and gagged the night
clerk, and robbed the safe of $1,000.
A hurricane in the province of Mala-
ga, Spain, on the 18th completed the
ruin of many places that suffered by the
recent earthquake. The camp in which
the fugitives from Penana, had taken
refuge, was destroyed.
A gale at Plymouth, Mass, on the
night of the 18th carried away the stee-
pie the old Pilgrimage Church, be-
sides doing considerable other damage.
Duncan C. Ross, the wrestler, has
closed his beer-jerkery and will preach.
A farmer named John Hinsley hanged
himself near Perdleton, Ind, on the
10th.
Louis Carl, fatally stabbed his son
Charles near Seidersville, Pa, on the
1Osh. The father was beating his wife
and the son interfered, with the above
result.
The trial OF Daniel A. Holcomb, at
Jackson, Mich, for completely in the
Crouch murder, closed on the 10th with
verdict Of acquittal. It il thought the
coming trial OF Judd Crouch viii have
the same result, as the same evidence
will be used against him.
The Farmers Bank OF Elizabethtown,
Pa, was closed by . run on the 10th.
Liabiliaties $50, 900.
Fires on the 10th: The building OF
Henry Martin, Cincinnati, partially de-
stroyed, $4,000; the freight and pas.
senger depot of the Louisville l. Nash
vile road with contents, together with
Linchis hotel, $500, 600.
The fur store of tho Buhl Manufact-
uring Company, Detroit, was burRled
on the night Of the 9th. Twenty.seveu
seal akin saoques, valued at 72;2Q0, we're
carried Oh,