Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-12-05
VOLUME V.

| VOLUME V.
FIRE in San frAhcitSo, Sunday. destroyed
John N. fctrcn's wagon factory and Gallar.lo
L Co.4 oil and jnnk store. Loss about $15, 900.
An old man named Joseph Clark perished in
the flames.
TEE repair shop and warehouse belonging
TO the Chicago and Alton Railroad, at Jackson
vile, ILL.,, was burned Saturday night. Loss
unknown.
r. The principal feature Of the celebration OF
Evacuation Day in New York on Monday, was
tho procession OF veterans Of 1912, under the
escort OF the Sixth Regiment. to tho old fort in
Central Park and the ceremony of hoisting a
flag over the pnrapet. After the close OF tho
cercmonles the veterans partook Of a collation.
at the Sixth Regiments armory.
E>~ THREE men, named Andrew Roshe, Herman
Roshe and Herman Meyers. were found dead
at the old Government camp, about forty
miles north Of Mcpherson Station, on the Loup
Fork, two days ago. They had apparently
been murdered by white men. They were
hunters and trappers who had left Mcpherson
on the 14th. .-..e,.-.-..
GEN. TERRY will take command OF the De-
partmcnt OF Dakota, vacated BY General Han
cock.
The British forces havo been withdrawn
from the island. Of San Juan, in accordance
with the Berlin decision.
TnE revenue fraud case against Win. T..
Weld l. Co., Of Boston, Is said to have been
comprised by the defendants paying to tho
United States Treasury $4,000 The amount
originally claimed by the Government was ono
million four hundred thousand dollars. The
suit against the same finn in New York has
been compromised BY the payment of ono mil
lion two hundred thousand dollars.
s. B. KEYEs h Co., bankers of Cincinnati,
have suspended on account OF the corner IN
Northwestern.
The total vote of Kansas is about one hun
dred and three thousand, an increase of two
thousand in the last two years. This indicates
an increase Of population 1t the rate of over
one Thousand year.
Mrs. JAS. A. OATES, the actress, was married
to Tracy W. Titus, manager Of the Oates
Troupe, Sunday evening, at the Southern Ho-
tel, St. Louis.
DENNIS Dow, aged e5, . farmer in the town.
ship Of Dover, Cuyabogs county, committed
suicide Sunday morning. He was suffering
from alteration OF the mind.
TIE Commissioners to investigate the out
RACES on the Rio Grande border have COM
pleted their report. which is very long, The
i Commissior,er's confined their investigation to
distance of 500 miles from the mouth OF the
Rio Grande, to Rio Gra,,de City; estimating
that the Americans included in the limit have
iby Mexican raids, suffered to the extent Of
i $4,000, 600, to say nothing of the murders
4 coimitted by Mexicans.
SINCE May 18th to Saturday evening there
have been 927 deaths from smallpox in St.
4 Louis.
The revenue marine report, commenting
upon civil service competitive examinations in
that service, says that whstever the result in
\ other branches -of thas service, this COMPETE
j tive examination has been attended by the
best results. 1t has given the service the
best corps Of junior officers it ever possessed,
and has inspired among them vigorous
competitor in pursuit of professional attain
ments.
OK Saturday evening the shoe shop of
Reynolds Bsos., Utica, N. Y, was set ON fire
in the basement, and nearly all destroyed.
/ "a 3oss willprobabag be between $40, 900 and
$50 900. Insurance about $4,000.
TEE building improvements in Dubuque
City the past season aggregate over 81 ,O0O, 600,
which will compare iavorably with those made
in any place Of it's size in the country.
Hon. JOHN A. B1NaHAN, of Ohio, is TO have
foreign mission.
ON Sunday afternoon another body was taken
from the ruins OF the Boston fire, but it has
not been identified. A party Of fremen from
Cambridge have been searching throughout
the day for tho body Of one OF their own num-
Der who is missing.
ANOTHER Livingstone relief party will set
ont about the last of the present month. 1t
will penetrate West Africa from Sierra Leone,
under command of Young English Navy Off
Ger, selected by the Geographical Society,
LyingstoDe's friend, J. Young, of Kelly, has
contributed $40. 600 for its expenses, to which
will be added subscriptions from the public
and the Treasurer Of the Society. Severa
papers were read, all agreeing that Living.
stones recent explorations are along the
tributaries Of the Congo and not the Nile.
A7ELEaRAM from San Francisco states that
the Oregon woo!en mills, at Oregon City, were
burned on Saturday. Loss 1925, insured
fot $50, 900.
JOHN GARR1LY was brutally murdered in
Scranton, on Saturday night. Patrick Gavir
has been arrested on suspicion OF being tn.
murderer.
In New Nork, last year, out of one hundred
aud eighteen cases ofhomicide, only forty-twt
convictions have been obtained.
the New York Times announces the organi
!, zatlon of new reform association to super
sede the Committee Of Seventy, which, it il
alleged, has developed such spirit Of Office
seeking that its further existence is unneces
sary.
BOGUS coupons Of the city of Toronto de
, bentures, signed S. E. Fitzh0nny, Chamber
lain have been received from the United State
for collection. A. F. McCord has been Cham
berlain OF Toronto since its incorporation.
A CIRCULAR ofinstruction to internal revenue
gaugerr, which forbids them charging whole
, sale liquor dealers and distillers with matarial
!, such Is paste, varnish, brushes, &C., used il
, gauging, will soon be issued from the Inter
nal Revenue Bureau.
UNA9ED by past experience, . new Demo
, cratic daily, to be called tho Federal Democrat
to take the place Of the Patriot, will be starte'
in Washington in few weeks. A stock com
panyis now being formed. There are 400
shares at $50 each in the concern, about 500 c
I (which, it is said, have been taken -
The Comptroller of the Currency discusse
at length, in his annual report, the evils inc
dent to Mountaineering the usdty law, containe
> in the currency act, and concludes with bol
=, and earnest recommendation that Congress II
l. peal every act on the statute books, which pre
hitits the loaning Of money by banks or ind
q viduals at usurious rates. Mr.. Knox Gays a
+ such loans are easily evaded.
It THOMAS CAnP was executed at Princeton
Ind, on Friday, for the murder of John l
J. Bilderback.
e DIR. MAY, the American who shot and kiIl(
>, laborer named Naglc some time ago in Lo
6 don, Ms been tried and acquitted.
al M.-ALLEN, IS years Of age, an cmploye
the American Express Company, committe
" suicide at CHICAGO. on Monday evening,