Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-06-20
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Ire IreSlucnt has nOmlllateu NH'lm IL.
C,e.s!rough Assistant Secretary of Legation at
London. vice Max Woodruff resigned.
A FIRE at Urbana. Ohio, Friday night, do
s,royo,i the hub and spoke factory Of Hurtl l.
Grass. Loss $4,000. No insurance.
\ LAnoREn named Adam Bender was buried
i'll a we'll at Fort Wayne, Ind., on Friday. He
leaves q wife and five children.
rnE Continental Hotel at Long Branch has
heon sold to Mr.. BenI ctt, for Lelands. for
S,5OOOn.
WHEAT harvesting is progressing in Cali
f'rnia. Tho yield is large, aud the quality un-
eNeertionahIe. Tho average will be the
largest ever gathered.
Robert II Milroy has becn confirmed Su-
reuntendent of Indian Affairs for Washington
Territory, and john NJ. Thatcher, Assistant
Commissioner of Patents.
OSE and one-half tons is the average
amount of silver bullion received at Omaha
duly by express from the West, mostly from
Salt Lake City.
TnE cornerstone of tho new Court Honse at
Indianapolis was laid on Tuesday, with inn
posil & ceremonies. The structure will cost
;.G00,000.
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heavy thunderstorm passed north OF there
about dark Thursday evening, and that tho
storm of the last few days did great damage
lii some Of the adjoining counties.
TnE bonded indebtedness Of counties in tho
State of Kansas for railroads, already
amounts to the enormous sum Of $6O, ,OOC 900.
rHE amount of appropriations involved in
the.sundry civil appropriation bill is upward Of
sl2,000.0OO.
TIE ministerial investigators having acquit-
ted DR.. Huston, tho Baltimore libertine, he
Will, it is stated, press his suit for libel against
the Baltimore Amo1can.
GRAND CONCERT was given in Spnserfest
Hall, at st. Louis on Thursday evening.
Fully fifteen thousand people wore present.
The concert was rendered by 1,500 male sing
CTS aud an orchestra of l63 performers.
Tux body OF VIM L. Williams, a prominent
business man Of Cleveland, who was drowned
in the lake at that place, while bathing, several
days. .siuce, has been recovered.
On Wednesday afternoon race of mile
heats, three in five, took place at Suffolk Park,
Philadelphia, between Jay Gould and Lucy.
The race was won by Jay Gould in three
straight heats. Time, 2:24A1, 2:281, 225
The New York Superintendent OF Public In
struction has decided against excluding chill
dren from the public schools tor refusal to
read the Bible. J..
HENRY ALBRIGHT was shot and probably
Killed by H. McCushlin, near Indianapolis, ON
Friday. family quarrel led to the affair,
Both are farmers. McCusllin waylaid his VIC
tim.
DodaETr Il Co., wholesale confectioners Of
indianapolis, have just discovered loss uf
some 5000 through the defalcation of their
bookkcener.
THOMAS M1rcuE1I,, q 1aborer employed in
the Junction iron mine, near Nesaunee, Mich,
was almost instantly killed ON Friday. by =
blow from the lever of a brake, which was let
Off before he could get clear.
HMLsroRM OF extraordinary severity pass
edover North Adams, Mass, on Thursday.
Some Of the hail stones were from seven to
eight and q half inches in circumference, and
hundreds OF p"nss OF glass were broken.
The Pacific Coast Wrecking Company have
received advices from the expedition sent to
the coast of Ecuador to raise the treasure
sunk on the Spanish frigatc Leocoda. They
nave commenced raising it with q prospect Of
complete success
GOLDSMITH MAID and Lucy trotted at Phila-
delpha, on the Suffolk Park course, Friday.
The time mado by the Maid was 2:22sz, 2:221l,
2:2219. Jay Gould was trotted out between
the heats and made 2:231z.
The will of tho late ex-Mayor Samuel Smith,
of Brooklyn. is one of the most comprehensive
on record. The estate IS worth over 51,00O,-
o''0 and Is divided in sums of $500 and upward
among about fifty relations, and 81 900 to q re-
llS'ous organization.
\ D1sPArcH from Moore,ead, Minn,. savs
: the first engine and train crossed the bridge
into Dakota Territory, at o'clock r. NJ. on
Saturday. The formal testing of the bridge
will take place in few days.
SECRETARY boutwell, has condomned tha
block between Seventh and Eighth streets and
Washington and Christy avenues in st. Louis.
. as site for the Government buildings, in ad-
dition to the sites heretofore authorized to be
condemned.
OSE MILLION FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND cubic
yards of gold-bearing cement was thrown down
l'y siuSe blast of two hundred and fifty
pounds OF giant powder at Dutch fiat on
Monday. SO says telegram from San Fran
cisco.
AT Manchester. N. H., on Tuesday, Mrs.
Woiford and Miss Anne Therien were bound
ovcc IN the sum Of $500 each, on charge of
attempting to poison Daniel Wolford. husband
of the former, with oxide acid administered
with medicine. Neither Of the women deny
the charge. Wolford is about sixty years Of
age.
HE party which started out from Grand
View, Iowa, On Thursday last. to capture the
wild man who has frightened so many laborers
m tGo lin
lis dead body in s.ough. The body was COW
cred only by few rage. He was an insane
Muldtto, name unknown.
A RAIN storm in Iowa wrought much dam.
age, on Wednesday. The Dubuque and South
western lsailroal is badly washed out at vari-
GUS places between Monticello and Cedar
Rapids. hIany culverts and bridges are gone.
The Chicago and Northwestern Railroad snf-
Tered severely. In the vicinity of Bertram and
Bairsto"n, one hundred rods Of the track was
washed away in one place. Three blidges were
washci ,;: out on the Burlington, Cedar Rapids
and Alnncgota Road near Shellsburg.
AN official statement, prepared by the Comp.
trol!er, shows that On May 31st the outstand-
ing debt of New York was Sill, ,83s, 1888.
There has been no interest paid on the city
debt during the year. The total county debt
amounts to 532 .G83, 500. The total city and
county debt amounts to &124, ,451 ,258. .86. In
the county debt there has been in i've months
a net increase of 81 ,554 SOC, 80 that the city
and county debts show an increase during the
current year OF s12,61S,7ll.
The New York Bulletin publishes tables
showing that the gold balances in the treasure
and those in the sub-treasury arc actually
siinrt 81 ,OOG,OO0 and that this s21 COG. 900 has
not teen accounted for in any treasury exhibit
heretofore published. The Bulletin saws that
un Apll n, the balance in tho treasury was
5i23, $3.50 on May l, the amount was S1O8,-
J53, 755, while the amount held at tho sub
treasury had decreased s3,O00, 900 between The
same dates, showing that no gold had been
transferred here. No explanation of this de-
ticicncy is given In the last treasury exhibit.
AT Plymouth, Ind, on Saturday, party of
from forty to fifty young men proceeded to
iose Of iIl-fame kept by one Locke, and de-
f,lrc;ed tho windows and furniture, and eyery-
tl,ils.; tley could lay hold of. Thence thev
proceeded to another house, kept by q woman
named Dunham, and gave the inmates fifteen
minutes to leave the premises, which they did.
The mob then demolished the whole house.
lcaviny nothing but the roof standing. In all
they demolished Elk houses of tho same class.
At some of the houses the male occupants
"c'': Hclzedand cowhided.
"toRGE Dunn, an adroit swindler, who
fe''ze" at least $4,000 by his operations the
T"F' fonr years, has been arrested and COM
i'.'lo tn' "a ior trial ID New York city. His plan
,'''9 'e' II l." rcprcscnt himself AZ a waa)thv
]i''utu ] proprietor In Columbia county. anx-
ic''s 70 putchatt bOOded stock A. Ia +. :.