Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-11-20

titiou of affairs. There is among all tho
prominent officers OF our Government an
earnestn.ss i'll tho preparations now in
they arise. Instead OF depending ON the
Spanish officials for the transmission Of conf
munications from our Consuls other by letter
or by telegraph, our naval officers will bo in.
structod to enquire diligently and closely into
the condition OF the island, aud promptly ro.
port the facts to tho proper department.. Our
Government is now waiting to hear what the
Spanish Government will do in response to the
earnest protest against tho outrage porpo-
trated upon tho victims OF tho virgiuius.
WHITMAN q. BEsroN, = partner in the bank
Ing house Of Riggs L Co., Washington, CONF
mitted suicide, Thursday, by shooting. He
leaves a wife and four children. Boston was
in easy pecuniary circumstances, but had been
complaining some days OF depression from
Office fatigue.
A PROMINENT official Of tho internal revenue
bureau has written up and presented to tho
President and to Secretary Richardson a
financial plan for putting tho. government in
a position to resume specie payment in gcl,-
cral. Its main feature il the abolition OF all
tho national bank notes. Grecnbacks are to
| take their places.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY FISHER, in bis report as
to the burning Of the steamer Wswassott last
summer, says that thoro il not sufficient evil
dcnco OF misconduct or inattention to duty to
| convict any Of the officers or employees Of tho
| crime Of granddaughter, and he will not inst,-
| tnte any criminal proceedings. Az Is is clear,
from the evidence. the captain, mate and en-.
gineer violated tho law by not being licensed,
he will, unless instructed otherwise, bring
suit to recover the amount Of the penalty, ST.
900 in each case.
The FIRST National Bank, Washington, is
paying thirty cents on the dollar to depositors
who have proved accounts. Depostors will
| receive about fifty-iive per cent. in all, ac-
cording to present indications. One Of the
dcpositors in the banking house OF Jaw Cooke
Co, OF Washington, says proposition has
been made by tho house to pay fifteen per
cent. in money and the remainder in Northern
| creditors.
A GERMAN from Baltimore was arrested at
tho executive mansion endeavOriDg to see the
President in order to obtain from him SIS, ,0O0,-
600, which he claims the President owes him.
He was evidently insane.
RECENT events ut the Iuiian frontiers have
convinced the Commissioner Of Indian Affairs
! that a certain amount Of fear 10 absolutely
necessary to the maintenance Of order among
the red men. The old policy Of allowing them
| to roam at will has still = good many advo-
Gates, more especially among the churches,
but it is understood that strict construction
Of treaty rights will be hereafter observed,
| and, while tho Indian will be treated with all
reasonable Kindness, he will also be taught
that tho Government is in earnest in regard
to civilizing and making them law-abiding
citizens, however unpleasant it may be to the
Indians.
Foreign.
TnE steamship City Of Montreal has arrived
at Queenstown with the disabled steamship
City of Richmond in tow. All we'll.
The shooting Of the crew and passengers
Of the steamship virginius is commented upon
at length by the London morning journals, all
OF which hore that the executions will be
avenged by the Government OF the United
States.
INTELLIGENCE has been received in London
that famine prevails in Greenland, caused
by the failure Of the fisheries. In one village
$50 persons have starved to death.
The Minister OF Justice, at the Hague,
Thursday, informed tho Chamber Of Deputies
that it was necessary to conclude an extradi-
tion treaty between the Government OF the
Netherlands aud tho United States.
The plan Of constructing railway in con-
Dection with the Ashantee expedition has been
given up ~ impracticabie, anu shipment Of
rails from England countermanled.
FROM Spanish sources come reports OF an
insurGent engagement in Cuba, in which the
latter were routed, with a loss OF ovol one
hundred killed.
The German Government has made fur
ther payment Of three millions for bonds oi
| the United States funded loan.
TWENTY dwellings, were burned at st. John,
Friday, rendering thirty families homeless.
NJ. BIscHOFFscHE1M. tho eminent banker, in
Paris, died on Friday.
DoN 1CARL0s has struck medal in com.
memoration OF tho victory claimed by the Car.
lists in the recent battle at Miranda.
| The situation at Versailles il again becom.
ing complicated. The compromise between
the Right and Lett, threatens to fall through
Government and the Right have decided to
insist Oh the unconditional prolougation ol
President McMahon's term for tel years,
The trials of all the persons taken on board
the Virginius have been concluded. Onl,
! eighteen will be saved from death, OF these
several are engineers or fremen, who wert
ignorant OF tho expedition, and four or five
will bo set at liberty. The others will proba.
bly, be condemned to the chain-gang.
A DISPATCH via Jamaica says that on the
10th all tho remaining v:reinius prisoner.
were marched out, and ten detailed to cxecu
tion at time. When these ten were mur
dered, another ten were marched out, ani
their dead bodies tell across those Of thei,
companions.
The committee on the prolongation OF the
powers OF the present government in France
headed by DeRsmusat, on Wednesday, had an
interview with Mcmahon. The latter stated
that hc had nothing to say in any way modi.
flying his message. He instructed them tc
hasten their labors in the best interests o
tho country. He said tho questions relating
to tho discussion Of the Constitution belonged
solely to tho Assembly, though he acknowl
edged that the adoption Of the bills woul(
give stability to tho Government.
! JNo. CRAWFORD has been sworn in a Lien
tenant Governor Of Ontario.
Count Won RooN has been relieved from tn,
Ministry OF War OF Prussia. His successor
will probably be Lieut.. Gen. Won Ksmek.
THERE was serious riot At meeting i,
favor ofbome rule in Kilkenny, Ireland. Thu
mob stoned tho police, who charged upol
thcm, and mado several arrests.
The insurgent forces have opened heav,
fire upon tho land and naval forces of tn
Government.
The Revolutionary government near Ta,u
ca, Mexico, which pronounced against tn
new constitutional reform, has boon disperse,
and the movement suppressed, with loss o
$50 lives.
RorHERAY, British Fishery Commissioner
has Lett Ottawa for Now York ana Washington
He had several interviews with the late an
) present Minister OF Fisheries. The commil
sion shortly meets ct Halifax.
TaE Conservatives at Toronto, Ont hay
nominated Sir John A. Mcdonald to represeu
} the western district Of Toronto in tho Hous
OF Commons. Tho seat became vacant
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