Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-12-19

i !. ~ ...nsruptey of GleaM God Coal Compsn,
ollawana i2 onS a.anaonnced.. viii
liabilities 81 ~, 6,oo6. Jay Gould is said Il
have large amount Of stock in it, and tn
Erie RaiMs, Company hold about $3.50, 900 o
to bonds.
A FIRE in Ottawa, Canada, Sunday nigh
destroyed ladders clothing store and min
other stores adjoining. Loss $4,000.
Ir is reported that on Tuesday night, a
.Williamstow7,, in Grant county, Ky, Genera
Leslie Coombs was shot through the heart ant
killed by desperate named George Merrel]
but not before he got pistol ball in his owl
thigh. The report says that Morrell fire.
upon one Alexander Miller, 1t WiIliamstown
the night previous.
MORE developments against certain Fedora
officials for blackmailing foreign mine-ownerl
are announced from Salt Lake City.
Two Of the cons Of the sexton OF DR.. Tai
madge's Church, New York city, were arreste,
on Sunday, charged with robbing the none,
boxes to the extent OF $Ceo. The pilfering ha
been carried ON three months.
CApx OF Coop HorK advices, by mail, stat
that fierce battle occurred in the interior be
tween the Krell people and Tamboukies, t.
which the latter we're whipped, and iron
400 to 1000 elaught,resl. Many OF the M
tives were armed with Enfield aud other Eu
ropean arms.
JESSE HUNT, prominent citizen Of Balti
more, died on Sunday, aged eighty years.
An attempt was made on Saturday night t,
burn the Howard Theatre, Boston.
The vacant editorial chair of the New Yorl
Tribune has, it Is stated, been rendered I,
Viee-President Colfax.
A TERRIFIC westerly gale throughout Eng
land, Ireland and Wales, on Sunday, inflicted
great damage. In London many building
were blown down, large numbers OF pedestrl
ans dashed violently to the ground, and many
persons injured by falling street lamps ant
signs. At Plymouth eight ships were blowr
ashore, and at Devonport gunnery ship and
three merchantmen were str anded. In Wales
and Ireland the storm was accompanied by
lightning and rain. Many towns were flooded.
everal vessels are ashore in Cork harbor
The damage there is very great. Three pin,
nacles Of the tower Of st. Thomas Church
were blown down while the congregation was
at worship and falling on the roof crushed
through INTO the body Of the church. The
congregation, panic stricken, rushed from the
building. None wero killed. Many huts nsed
by troops at Aldershot were destroyed. The
chapel Of Oriel College. Oxford University, was
badly damaged. The freight depot Of the
Great Western Railway was entirely demol-
shcd.
Ten persons at Columbus, Indiana, held
ticket number 6,450, which drew $4,000 at
Louisville, on Saturday.
TIE steamer Thomas H. Allen sunk near
Duvalrs Bluff, in the Mississippi river, on
Sunday night, with a cargo valued at $50, 900.
Vessel and cargo total loss.
THE Memphis Packet Compapy's steamer
Frank p. Gracey struck a snag near Slim
Island, and sunk. She has cargo of 400 bales
Of cotton.
A'TwxNTY THOUSAND dollar robbery is re.
ported from Cairo. No clue to the thief or
thieves.
A FIRE at Howard, ILL.,, on Sunday night,
destroyed Fish's grocery store, dwelling house
and tho contents of two other stores, one har-
ness shop, Mrs. Rathbun's millinery shop and
dwelling house. Loss about SO, 900, no in
'surance.
President THEIRS has reconciled tho hos
tile faction in the French Assembly by the ap-
pointment Of Gaudard as Minister. of the In
terror, Leonsay Minister Of Finance, Fourbon
Minister Of Public Works, and Col. Mont Pre-.
tect Of the Department Of the Seine.
A. OAKEY HALL is not to become editor of
the New York Herald.
! SAMUEL N. PIKE, well-known merchant,
formerly OF Cincinnati, died suddenly at his
Office, ih.N New York, on Saturday; Of anoplexy.
NETTING Of graduates of Harvard Univer-
sity was held in New York on Saturday night,
Ut which committees were appointed to appeal
to graduates Of that city and state for the pur-
pose Of raising 800, ,OO0.to assist rsimburs sing
that university for its losses by the Boston
fire. Rev. D. B. Bellows, rockingham, o.
good and VIM. g. Choate made addresses.
The furniture establishment of F. Comstock
&C.,, in st. Louis, was burned on Sunday.
Loes 500, ,00O-iDsurahce 5000.
: THos. L. STEWART, short. hand reporter.
lately connected with the Democrat, formerly
from Toronto and Chicago, WAS found dead on
tho corner OF Seventh and Pere streets, st.
Louis, early on Saturday morning. Cause OF
death unknown.
TIE epizootie' has broken out in Kansas
City, and several other towns in central and
western Missouri.
HENRY BATRENBURa has sued tho BROOKLYN
City Railway for $4,000 for injuries by being
run over by cars.
Abroad.
TIE Daily News publishes letter from Gar
ibaldi to IN Italian friend, in which the Gen.
eral says Re joined France in 1870 purely fr, n
devotion toDemocratic principles, yet he feels
= pang Of sorrow because he had to fight
against those noble Germans who, IN their
progress toward truth, are struggling against
the hodra Of Jesuitism. He cQnfcsscs with
shame that Italy is going back to the inquisi.
ton.
The horse disease has broken ont in Cuba.
IT is again announced that the Pope will
not leave Rome.
FRIENDS OF the Tichborne claimant held O
meeting in London Wednesday evening.
THE Austrian Reichsrath reassembled or
Thursday.
News has been received of Herr Mouch, thu
German explorer Of Africa. He had arrived
at Guitemane on his way home, and was il
good health.
The Lott in the French Assembly is mucl
consurcd for raising inopportunely the ques
ton OF dissolution and thus giving the Ger
mans pretext for rejecting tho guarantee fol
the payment Of the war indemnity, and an cx
c1sc for refusing to evacuate the country.
The steamer CITY Of Bristol has arrived Al
| Queenstown.
A BODY Of Cariis:s entered the town O
blanresa, in the province of Barcelona. n,
Monday, but were met by the troops stationed
there, and rcpulsed after sharp fight.
BISMARCK will return to Berlin before .th,
holidays.
VlscoUNrEss BEAcoNsrrELD, wife of Disracli
is seriously i'll.
PARIS dispatch says "A manifest,
| signed by Gambctta, Crcmicnx, Louis Blanc
tlninct. and eight y-six members of the OK
| trc'nc and moderate Left. il published. L
demands pacific and legal dissolution Of tn,
National Assembly, IN the only means 0
| "verti,'g frcs!, dangers to the country. as
'livisi"n in the Assembly renders the Govern
ment powerlcss."
The Egaltc newspaper, OF MalseiiIes, La
been suppressed for violating the press law.