Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-09-25
Monday morning, on account Of the strimscnc


Of the money market.
RETURNS from lGG towns in Maine tunts up:
Dinghy, 1914: Titcomh, 32,Gi9; Williams,
1913; total 59,G66. Dins'y's majority, TO-
Coz. The towns aud precinct Yet to he heard
from will hot materially Change these ,rSnlts.
A TELEGRAM from special agent engaged
in examining the account Of internal Revenue
Collector Harper, in Illinois, states that the
amount Of the defalcation is $l0G,7lS, Of which
1898 is u rti:icrcy in stamps aid OH lists.
Tue improvements OF tho White House
wk cL have been going forward all summer,
arc how nearly completed, AMI tho building
will be ready Tor occupancy in 4 week. The
President aud family will not r. turn, however,
until tho first week in October.
ADylcEs from the Indian Territory say the
negroes there, numbering somc $4,000, form.
crly slaves OF Indians, are moving to secure i
territorial organization ior their own prot,c.
ton, and Will soon hold 4 invention in the
Chuctaw Nation to consider the subject.
The N. Y. Express announces the failure OF
the Electric lite Insurance Company, with y
deficiency of nearly SlO0: QUO.
A COUNTRY boy ut Niagara Falls on Friday
crossed tho river upon a ropo during gallo
and performed several gyn,nastic fcats, rival
ng professional 1opc-wa,kcrs.
DURING thunder storm on Saturday light
ming struck the rod on the residence OF G. G
Eddy, a merchant of Ncgaunec, Mich, pass
ing down the rod and leaving it at the peak
aud passing into the house, penetrating every
room. Mr.. Eddy, his wife and a child were
1,ofo i'm TN,n &Y,i<I
them, intlicting severe injuries, Mr.. Eddy re-
cciving heavy shock, and is IN a critical con-
di:ion. The child was at first supposed to be
dead, but is now recovering. Mrs. Eddy is
not dangerously injured. The house was
completely demolished.
The square of buildings at Havana known
as Plaza Vaspor, were burned Saturday night,
causing loss Of s, 100000. Twenty persons
persisted in the flames.
THREE locomotives were demolished, an
engineer killed, and considcrab track torn
up, by series of collisions between the cast
ward and wcstwartl-bouud express trains
an'i freight train, caused by misplaced
switch, on the Pennsylvania Railload, near
Wilmore.
A COUNTERFEIT OF the new fifty cent cur
rcncy Is in circulation, and is said to have
made its appearance two days alter tho issue
OF the genuine.
THE President has appointed Alexander H.
Shepard Governor of the District OF Column
bia, vice Henry D. Cooke, resigned.
SATURDAY evening there were no legs than
five fatal accidents on tho Pennsylvania Rail-
road within thirty miles cast OF PittsburS.
Three of the accidents occurred within tho city
limits.
A ONE nCSDRED THOUSAND dollar fire is re-
ported from Ii xinSt"n. KY. The old Broad
way Hotel, with: the portion recently rebuilt,
was burned.
A NEW Jewish temple was dedicated at Pllila-
lclphia, on Sunday, in tue presence OF five
thousand people.
ARtoArrA took place at sartosa, + hurs-
day, in which no pool-scIlinS was allowed, and
in which the senior single scull race was won
by Courtney, OF the Union Springs Club, aud
the pair cared race by the two Lambs, Of the
Acronaut Club, OF Toronto.
A BILL Of $450,0OO was presented, on
Wednesday, by legal firm 70. defending Now
York city in a suit a"ainst the Excise Com.
InissiOncrs.
The Attorney General states that the recent
ku-Klux outragcs in Kentucky will have the
effect to stay the pardoning OF convicted ku-
Klux now imprisoned.
AN inccntiiary at Marblchcad, Mass, Thurs
day forenoon, burned Painc's stables and six
horses, the MaEatang House, the National
Grand Bank, and q dwelling. Loss So, 900.
IT has been decided to bring Irving to New
York from San Francisco to sec what he knows
Of the Nathan murder.
Col. ROBE, one Of tho commissioners into .
quirc into deprcdations committed on per-
| sons aud property Ct American citizens Of tho
Rio Grandc border, has recently received nu.
! nlcrous letters that slch acts arc constantly
! left that section last spring, large drovcs Of
| cattle have been driven to The American side
from ranches between Brownsville and Brazos
I dc Santiago, and between Brownsville and
| Rio Grantlc City.
The bond for SIS. 0oO, 900, tho amount OF the
Geneva award, is held now by the Secretary Of
| State M that Department., aud is not placed
for safo.kecping in the Treasury. The bono
IS made payable to the order Of the Secretary
of State. This bond is for the largest amount
Of money ever issued by amy government in
single Transaction. photographs Of the bono
and certificate ofdepost were completed at III,
Treasury Thursday, and copies sent to til,
President AMI each member of the Cabinet.
| TIVE exposure Of tho $15.OOO.OGO cottol
claims, in the telcgraphic dispatches. ha
greatly alarmed some ot the largest claimant
who are now in Washington, and the holtlc
OF the Confederate records having s,lldcnl
disap! cared from his accustomed! where
abouts, it is surmiscd that they haze foun,
him ont and made oyerturts or the suppress
sion OF tho information in his possession. FIJI
disappearance is singular enough to excite tin
suspicion. 1t is believed, however, that tn
Govcrnm> mt will yet succeed in obta :nlng tn,
records.
The post-otlice authorities have been in
formed by tho government Of Germany tina
newspaper taxes arc no longer collected frou
persons in the kingdom OF Prussia.
A DISPATCH from Australia reports a grca
fire 10 Auckland, New Zealand. Fifty-cini
buildings wore burned, and tho total loss i
estimate d at $40, 900.
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