Mower County transcript., 1871-12-14
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ALDERMAN STEWART, Of BROOKLYN, was shot
and fatally wounded, on Monday night, by a
rough named Kelly
4 BrruLAR was caught on Monday morning
in the act Of robbmg Tiffany 4 Co. Of $4,000
worth of watches.
A LITTLE son of James G. Speer, of Peoria
broke through tho ice OH tho lake ut that
place, on Sunday, and was drowned.
The German military authorities at Epernay
executed two Frenchmen who killed q Ger
man sentinel.
The thermometer at Quebec marked ton
degrees below zero Tuesday morning. The
River St. Charles is frozen over.
AsTATE of anarchy prevails throughout tho
entire Republic of Mexico. The journals
are filed with accounts of pronunciamentos,
and the soldiers are growing revolutionary
The body found IN the North River, at New
York, on Friday, was recognized as that of
Madame Rhodes, wealthy lady Of New Or
leans.
FRED RGMER, proprietor of the Artic House,
Chicago, was severely and probably fatally
burned Monday morning in attempting to kim
die a fire with Diamond oil.
AT Keosauga, Iowa, on Friday, Craig 4
Blackmore's store, the Republican Office and
Masonic Lodge, all located in Craig's building
wore burned. Loss $l4, ,0OO-insured for s5,.
600.
A WOMAN named Henslee, vito of farmer
near Minear, Tazewell county, Ills, was found
dead in her house last Friday. Her head was
terribly man6led by some murderous instru-
ment.
ANOTHER snow slide is reported in the Cot
tonwood district, by which four men lost their
lives. Tho snow at Alta City is ten feet deep,
and at last accounts it was still storming furi-
ously. The sun has not been seen since the
10th inst.
Ten new cases and four deaths from small
pox occurred in New York on Monday. There
were 1853 deaths from that disease in Philadel-
phia last week, and 81 new cases were reported
there yesterday.
Hon. WILLIAM M1LLwARD, formerly NOM
Der of Congress from the Fourth District of
Philadelphia, and United States Marshal dur
ing the war, died on Tuesday morning at
Kirkwood, Delaware.
In the New York Supreme Court, Judge
Spencer decided that marriage followed by
the cohabitation of the parties and mutual
public acknowledgment as husband and wife,
is valid marriage according to tho laws of
this state.
An indignation meeting of the depositors
of the Stuyvesant Bank was held in New York
on Monday evening, at which the President,
Mr.. Collamer, admitted that 1886, 6,OCO was
loaned to Mr.. Hartman. the security to meet
which was only $685.
SENATOR SCOTT, from tho Ku Klux Commit
tee, has recommended to the President that
martial law be at once declared in the coun-
ties of Jackson and Calhoun, Florida, and it is
probable that proclamation in accordance
with tho recommendation will be issued soon.
The Bedford, Ind, graded school building
burned down Friday morning at two o'clock.
LOSS, s27, 900. The cause of the fire is un-
known. No insurance. The building was
erected last summer, and was very substan-
tial structure. School had been going only
about two months.
The Treasurer of the New York Chamber of
Commerce Committee for the relief of the
sufferers at Chicago and the Northwest, report
additional subscriptions froi the 2Oth to the
25th inst, amounting to S2,162, making a
grand total collection by the committee of
$9O8, ,473.
The annual reportof the State Treasurer of
Ohio, shows that tho total receipts of tho
State for the year ending November 10th
amounted to 6,O4O, ,223, and the disbursements
to s5,292, ,O46-$2, 161, 1897 from the general
revenue fund, 81 ,641 377 from the sinking
fund, and 81, ,45S, 1913 from the common school
fund.
COL W. F. STOCKING, of New York, and
Miss Hattie Miller, daughter Of Justice Miller,
Of the U. S. Supreme Court, were married in
Washington on Tuesday. Among those pres
ent at the wedding were the President and
Mrs Grant, the Chief Justice and all the JUS
tices of the Supreme Court, with their wives.
The Senate Finance Committee is divided
on the question Of abolshing the income tax,
but the majority favor the sweeping away of
all internal revenue taxes, except on wbiskey,
beer and tobacco, and stamps. Senator Nor
rill is preparing new full list, and proposes
to add to the present list many articles up
on which small amounts of duties are col
lected.
Ir is said that the prospective arrest Of P.
B. Sweeney will result in an investigation by
Jackson Schultz into the affairs Of the Nassau
Bank, from which it would appear that large
amount was deposited therein to the credit of
Jas. NJ. Sweeney, at the same time Woodward
deposited for Tweed in tho Broadway Bank !;
and that these moneys we're really for Peter
B. Sweeney.
AaENT1EMAN prominently connected with
the government states that we have no quar-
rel with the Spanish authorities, and that the
return of the North Atlantic squadron to Gu
ba quarters was from prudential consideration
onl. The Government will hereafter, and un-
til better condition Of things shall exist in
the Island of Cuba, keep strong naval arma-
ment in Cuban waters.
ELLIOTT, the colored member Of Congress
from South Carolina, while in an oyster sa-
loon the other evening, was grossly insulted
by young white man, who was taking lunch
huence Of liquor. Ascertalning that this young
man. who could not eat in the presence of
negro, was government clerk, he made rep
resentations of the latter's conduct at the
der artment where he was employed, and the
clerk was discharged.
A HURRICANE visited the northern side of the
island OF Cape Breton on the 25th ult, doing
immense damage to shipping. The gale be-
gan at eight o'clock and lasted until five the
next morning. The tide was four feet higher
than was ever known before. The public
wharf at Port Hood was swept away, and in
the villages several houses we're blown down.
The brig Jabez, from Charlottetown, was
wrecked on Fox Island, and only one man
saved. Ten schooners we're wrecked in the
Strait Of Caus, and it is feared there has been
considerable loss by the gale.
WEEK ago Sunday morning, at Champaign,
Illinois, the dead and mangled body of Mrs.
Mary A. Hudson was discovered behind hay
stack in the outskirts of tho town, with every
evidence of her having been murdered. The
body was taken to the house of her brother,
James Howard. An inquest was held, but the
jury failed to fix the crime on any persons
The Champaign Union, just received, says
that Howard tho murdered woman's brother,
is suspected. and that q man named Lane, of
SadOms, for whom she formerly kept house,
and who is now under arrest for counterfeit
ing, is also under suspicion
Foreign.
The cholera has disappeared from Hall
fax.
The Germans have commenced to build
Notifications in the passes of the Vosgeu
PRINCE MErrERS1cH has asked permission
to resign his post at the head of the Austrian
Legation in Paris, which he has held since
1852
A DISPATCH from Luzerne, Switzerland, an
nounces that Count Gergenti, -ln-law of
ex-Queen Isabella of Spain, has committed
suicide in that city.
The announcement of the execution of the
medical students in Havana for profaning the
cemetery where the remains Of Castanon we're
inferred, created a profound sensation in
Madrid.
A.coLL1s1oN occurred Sunday night of the
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