Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-12-17

daughter Maggie, aged II years. Shellen-
berger was living with his secoud wife and
poor Maggie had been M-treated by her
father and stepmother. One day she was
found in the cellar with her throat cut.
Near by lay butcher knife. The first
alarm was given by her father, who with
some stranger had done the deed while they
we're absent in the stable; that she had
committed suicide, or had accidentally
killed herself by falling down stairs. Mrs.
Shellenberger is under indictment and will
also be tried: The principal witness was
Maggle's little brother, aged thirteen. The
motive Of the murder, it is claimed, was to
chileren had an interest from their mother,
the first Mrs. Shellenberger.
A special from Shepherd, Tex,
says: Last night a party of eight or ten
LIEN went to the house of James Connor, a
negro man who lives on Big Greek, and
calling him to the yard seized him, bore
him to the ground, cut his entrails out and
left him for dead. This morning the bloody
living and able to give the the names of the
parties who butchered him. Sheriff Poe
Immediately organized posse and arrested
several of the accused parties and has them
under strong guard. The others escaped.
The friende of those under arrest are des-
perate and the sheriff is man of nerve
6ence h SER serious a' trouble is anticipated; ted
near NJ ''S SHEPHERD % 1p = few "1W Weeks o0SeFS ag9
This is supposed to be the cause of his
assassination.
Train robbers struck a Texas &
Pacific passenger train at water tank
near Bellevue, and one stood guard over
the engine and two went through the cars
and got 10 silver and gold watches and
s1O5 cash. A passenger who had seen the
robbers intimidate the train men notified
the passengers, who succeeded in hiding
81, 600 in money, and diamonds worth
$4,000, giving mostof it to ladies, whom the
robbers did not question. Forty men in
one car let the two robbers commit the
depreciation without hindrance.
At ten o'clock on the MI ght of the
18th, the steamer j. H. White from Vicks-
burg to New Orleans took fire at Blue Stone
Point Coupe, 80 miles from Baton Rouge,
and burned to the waters edge There was
a large passenger list and it is estimated that
from 36 to 60 lives were lost. The cargo was
5000 bales of cotton and 6OOO sacks of seed.
The fire took in the cotton and was uncon-
swiftest boat on the river, and cost $225, 600.
The cargo was valued at $4,000.
A seam of anthracite coal, seven
feet six inches in diameter, has been struck
at Benff, Northwest Territory. This seam
is only one out of six in that locality, the
smallest being three feet in thickness. The
six seams contain coal enough to supply the
entire Northwest Territory for the next Sc
years.
The municipal election at Boston,
Mass, on the 18th, resulted in the election OF
O'Brien, DEM, for mayor, viz: O'Brien
23:S37, Hart, Rep, 1919; McNeill, Labor
1854. The council will stand, Democrats s.
Republicans 80, Independent Democrats 5
The license vote was, yes .223, No. 17.7s6.
NJ. Lewis, an old and respectable
planter, residing south of schulenberg, Tex
was called to his door and shot by an
assassin. Lewis died from the effect Of his
injuries today. His son-in-law, C. D
Slaydon, who is suspected of having com
mitted the crime has disappeared.
" Mrs. Jansen, the woman who was
stabbed by her husband in Chicago, last
Friday, died of her wounds Wednesday
Jansen, the murderer, tried to hang him
self in jail but was cut down before his
attempt was successful.
The day express gong out on the
Pennsylvania road jumped the track nea,
Brinton's Pa, yesterday, wrecking the
trucks in three cars. The passengers were
badly shaken up, but no one was injured.
At Nebraska City the motion for g
new trial in the case of Lee Shellenberger
convicted of the murder of his eleven-yea1
old daughter, was overruled and he wa.
sentenced to be hanged March 25.
Buck Mccarthy; a Cook county, ILL.,,
commissioner, assaulted, brutally, Paul c
Hull, Daily News reporter, who wrote VI
disgraceful supper the commissioner hae
in disreputable beer hall.
The engineers on the entire system
of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad have mad'
q demand for pay for overtime: A con
ference will probably be held and salts
factory conclusion reached.
George Watt, the convict shot b.
Deputy Warden Mexican, in Riversid
prison, Pittsburgh, Saturday evening last
for assaulting one OF the guards with
knife, died Dec. Z.
A boiler in Hazlett & Underhill's dr.,
house and box factory at Cambridge, Mass
exploded injuring seven men, three Q
| whom, it is reported are fatally hurt.
The bank of w. j. Fulton at Park
vile, Mo-, was entered by burglars, the saf
blown open with dynamite, and $4,00
stolen, besides $50 worth OF stamps.
Homer Head, aged 40 years, shot hi
wife, in Attica, N. Y, and then killed him
self. Mrs Head is still living and it
thought she will recover
Four hundred Knights of Labor me
in Chicago Friday evening and adopted rest
lutions denouncing the conviction of th
| eight anarchists as an outrage.
The wholesale hardware house of tn
Shapleigh & Cantwel Hardware Company
St. Louis, was destroyed by fire. Los
$500, 900; insurance, $780, 1000.
A young couple were married a
Manistee, Mich, and during the receptio
which followed the bridegroom droppe
dead of heart disease.
The live stock exchanges of Chicago
Kansas City, Omaha and st. Louis, met
the latter city and discussed the interes
of the cattle trade.
Senator Jones of Florida re-engage
his rooms at the Russell house and declare
his intention of remaining in Detroit
practice his profession.
Dispatches from Columbia, S. C
Missouri City, Mo-, and Independence, Nc
state that slight earthquake shocks were fe
at those places.
A movement is on foot among tt
Knights of Labor looking to the withdraw
of the different trades from the general q
semblies.
/ V.R. Chambers, prominent Bo
ton pork packer, has been arrested for pc
jury, in concealing assets Of his firm fro
. | creditors.
The New York committee of Ant
Saloon republicans met at CORTLAND ar
provided for the thorough organization