Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-01-11
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Two failures Of brokers arc reported in New
York-ono not very heavy the othcr is said
to have bccn on account Of being short mil
lion and quarter Of gold.
The National Bank of Plattsmouth, Neb.,
and Wachita and Emporia, Kansas, with =
capital of e5O, 600 each, have been authorized
to commence business.
The Commissioners Of the Llnatic Asylum
Of New Jegsey have purchased one hundred
acres Of land, and expect to expend 900, 900
for = new asylum,in Morris county.
1aE residence Of the Russian Minister n
Washington, was on Tuesday night entered by
burglars, and robbed of 4 considerable amount
of salverware.
Rev. T. NJ. 0ooDvE1Low, who resided at
Dunton, Cook county, was thrown from a
sloigh, on Friday, ID the vicinity OF Elk Grove,
H., and instantly Killed.
DENNIS MoCAlrnl WAS kicked to death o.,
Church street, New York, ON Tuesday MORN
Ing, by three unknown roughs while poace-
ably going home.
VIZ. T. Moonr, = inmate in tho Washing
tOnian Home, in Chicago, committed suicide
On Monday, by taking an ounce Of lauda-
mum.
On Monday, At Albany, during scuifle, a
boy named Helrord, aged fourteen years, shot
aud killed William Trunnell, aged eighteen
years. HefHord is in custody.
In Now York, On Tuesday, passenger in a
broadway car was shockingly beaten by pick
pockets while trying to prevent them tilching
lady's wallet.
The storm in California. Oregon and Ne
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raining almost necessarily. the rivers every
where overfowing, a:d the mails, telegraph
and travel interrupted.
Van MORT, successor Of Tweed, has tlis-
charged sixty sinecurists, known as water po-
lice, drawing each . thousand dollars per
annum. A similar number Of sewer inspectors
will soon follow.
An old lady named Nagle was instantly
killed ON the track of the Chicago, Columbus
and Indiana Railroad, in Chicago, ON Monday,
by being run over 1t tho Madison street
crossing.
The Secretary Of the Treasury will shortly
issue = circular containing new and more
stringent rules for the keeping and Disturbing
Of public moneys by government officials,
which will supercede those previously issued
upon this subject.
The State Department has information that
Gen. Gorlon, recently in temporary charge
Of the Russian legation at Washington, has,
BY an order Of his government, transferred
that trust to Valerien SchirkoR, Secretary of
the legssion.
The Postmaster General openly announces
himself against the system Of civil service re-
form lately reported by the Commissioners,
andy int, of
says that he believes in the old-fashi lned
doctrines on the subject.
The Phoenix Insurance Company, OF Hart
ford, one Of the strongest Of American COM
panies, has ceased issuing policies in Chicago,
Council in fixing the fire limits and enforcing
the ordnance relative to building.
INthe double murder case at Harbor Grace.
N. F., the girl Hamilton confessed that Geo.
han murdered his wife by knocking her down
and then smothering her with feather bed.
He then shot her brother, Saysfs Hamilton.
She says she helped to dispose Of tho bodies.
TIE New York News states that the party
to whom tho policy dealers paid money to keep
the police from raiding ON them has ab-
seconded, being charged with defraudiug the
city, and Is said to be ono Of the principals in
the voucher robbery.
A AGERxAx named Fred. Bredbarth, at Chi
oago, on Friday, cut himself eighteen times in
the head with = hatchet. in m endeavor to
commit suicide. 1t is said that the brain &C.
tually protruded, and yet he did not shuttle of
the mortal coil.
SEVERAL prominent French Internationalists
had = secret n,ee ting in New York on Satur-
day evening, Gen. Cecilia presiding. Letters
from Communists in Marseilles. Paris ard
London were read. A letter from Marseilles
e6ectually contrsdicted the report Of Carl
4Arx's death. u
A CONFEDERATION In New Orleans on Satur-
day night destroyed sixty buildings, en-
bracing two squares, in the wealthiest portion
along tho river ftont to and including Sanders
saloon and store; from the river to McKenna's
saloon alongside of Desiard street. Loss
$6OO, ,0O0-in rance eSOO, 900.
.BR1oHAN YouNo, trustee in trust of the
Church of Jesus Christ Of the Latter Day
SAINTS, has brought case before the United
states Supreme Court, which went against
lm there. on an account rendered against tho
Deseret lrrigsting Company, the Judgment
being fersomething over 90 900.
IT IL understo0d, was when it ascertaiued
that Catacazy had been definitely recalled, the
President directed that the Grand Duke be in
vited to revisit Washington. The invitation
was necessarily declined from the exigencies
connected with tho services of the Russian
squadron, in which the Grand Duke is .
lieutenant.
The st. Joseph Herald thinks the cold
weather of last week gave pretty close call
to the peach crop Of 1874 in the fruit bel: If it
didn't settle It. The thermometer in different
localities hereabout marked from II to l8 de-
grees below ZERO. Eight degrees below zero
kills someof the buds 10 degrees below kill
more; Is degrees below uses up large pro-
portion Of the tender varieties; l8 degrees be-
low is \ very thorough wipe out Of the crop.
SENTENCES were pro nounced in Columbus
8: c., on Thursday, upon parties convicted Of
completely in Ku Kiux outrsges, ~ follows {:
John W. Mitchell, five years. imprisonment
and fine of 81, 900; Sheerars Childers. VIII
Ian Montgomery, Evans Murphy, Hezekiah
Porter, P. H. Mitchell, sylvanus Shearer,
iI hugh shearer, Wnliam shearer, and James B.
fine Of S1OO. DR.. Thomas B. Whitesides, one
years imprisonment and fino of 500; John
:. Miller, three months imprisonment and .
fine OF go.
A FIFTY THoUsAND DOLLAR confagration oc-
CURED in Quebec ON Thursday.
Tn sale Of photographs Of tho executed
Communists has been prohibited in France.
RuxoR has it that the Prince do Joinyille il
about to resign his seat in tho Assembly to
strengthen the position of the Duke d'Aumale.
PARIS papers assert that Bismarck is seeking
a pretext for tho reoccupation OF the evacu-
ated French provinces.
SEVERAL engagements have lately taken
place in Cuba between the Spanish troops aud
rebels under Modesto Diaz.
A DISPATCH from Constantinople announces
that four Greek brigs have been wrecked in
the Black Sea, and al on board persisted.
The Notifications around Matamoras are
being strengthened in anticipation Of an At
tack by the revolutionists.
Ir il stated that French squadron win pro
Good Immediately to Greece to support the
claims of French cisizcns to the silver mines
of Lauvari,m.
TIE ship Pyce, from Wilmington, with ,
cargo of 1900 barrels Of turpentine, was
totally destroyed by fire while lying At South
End, on the Thames.
THERE is considerable talk in London Of
transferring the property and control of the
Atlantic cable lines to the Joint governments
OF Great Britain and the United States. The
proposition is received with favor, anticipat-
ing that 1t might result in . reduction of the
present exhorbitant rates Of tariff.
THE hoor OF the courtroom, at Kittys-