Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-01-25
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Gro. SCHUYLER. . Detroit jeweler, committed
suicide on Friday BY shooting himself in the
mead during fit Of arrangement.
RIoHT Rev. BISHOP JOHN SlcM11L, for
swenty-one years Bishop Of the Roman Cath
ouc Diocese OF Virginia, died in Richmond on
sunday morning, aged sixty-two years.
A DE1AI.cATloN has been discovered in the
Fourth National Ban, Of Providence, II. l.,
which may sweep away its surplus Of ESQ 600.
The cashier and teller are alleged to be the
guilty parties.
C1xvAIIER DE SoNsA LABo was on Fr day
presented to the President, and delivered to
him his credentials as Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister P!enipotentiazy Of His Majest,
the King Of Portugal.
A HALLIDAY dispatch states that fro at the
Windsor and Annapolis railway depot, Sunday
night, destroyed the engine house aud eleven
locomotives. 1t is reported that one man was
buried in the RUNS.
Hon. JAMES NJ. HANNA, formerly State Sen,-
tor, and Supreme Judge Of Indiana, and .
prominent lawyer, died Monday morning At
ms residence near Corryville, Sullivan county.
Ind, after lingering illness.
AT Liberty Centre. on tho Wabash road
Monday morning, = car on = freight traiu
Jumped the track on bridge, by which ten
cars were precip'tated into the river, causing
heavy loss of freight. No one injured.
IAHLoRs oil refinery. at Wyoming, N. Y,
vas destroyed by fire on Saturday morning.
Seven hundred barrels Of crude oil, twenty
five barrels Of distilled and twenty-five barrels
OF refined were consumed. Loss $4,000.
NAn 4 ~ ~
k'e Bosert, were arraisued On = charge of
murder, by poisoning r. F. Burroughs, at
Paterson, N. J., on Thursday. Both pleaded
not guilty. Tho trial will take place in April.
THE Senate on Thursday made the following
combinations: Postmasters-Abraham Aaw-
kins. Rochester, Minnesota; Carroll, White
water, Wisconsin; A. J. Coy, Beaver Dam,
Wlsconsan; d. K. Noyes, Baraboo, Wiscon-
CINCINNATI telegram says Of the Nilsson
opera season just CLOSED, for size and character
OF the audiences, and success in other re-
spects, is unparalleled in tho history Of Gin.
$50, 900.
LONDON journals. in articles ON the assassin
alton Of Fisk. cite the cases Of Richardson
and Crittenden. and attribute the frequency Of
cuCA uoouO " tu0 peCOn3f ClrlllZ3tlOn OF
America. and denounce the laxity Of public
sentiment.
PROCEEDINGS have been inaugurated BY u.
8. District Attorney Glover to condemn the
land known ~ the Postoffce Block, in Chicago.
This, for the present. would seem to settle
the question Of the locality Of tho now govern.
ment buildings.
PETITION has been forwarded to the State
Senate At Albany, setting forth that proofs are
abundant that the election Of Tweed was the
result ot fraud, and praying that his seat be
declared vacant. Evidence Of fraud accom-
pany the petition.
The President has authorized the ADOPTION
OF an additional rule by tho advisory civil serv-
ice board, allowing temporary appointments to
90 made without examination. where necessity
demands it, pending the perfecting Of 4 form
OF civil service examination.
HUNTING camp has been established near
the Republican River, ~ basis of operations
Of General Sheridan and tha Dnka A,ax;.