Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-01-30

u'cee0Ioe attempting to poison Eugene Van
Ness IN the month Of June, 1871, was COM
menccd in the Circuit Court Of Anne Arundsl
county on Monday.
ANOTHER subsidy bill in the interest Of The
American Steam hip Company ofsphilsdelphia
was introduced in the House on Monday. It
directs she- Postmaster.6 General to contract
= with this company for carrying the mails be-
tween Philadelphia and, liverpool, twenty.six
trips, at sl56, ,60o annually. -
ACCORDING to the prodacers'' reports, the
production III sdrude petroleum III the Penn
sylvania oil region during November was 81, ,a8o
barrels, and tho stock on hand at the close of
that month, $500 barrels. } ,.,.. ::
TIE temperance retormers carried the mum.
cipaf election in Princeton, Ill on Monday, by
an increased majority.
A SENSATION in the shape Of aa affair Of
honor is on the tapis In WashinEton, and is
expected to trcnspirs directly. Tho cause Of
the threatened difficulty is an article published
IN the Sunday Capital Of that city, Sunday,
and the parties to it are Count Corti. the
Italian Minister, and Colonel Dom Piatt, edi-
sor and proprietor OF the newspaper mem
toned. This paper was quite cutting in its
ron'cai illusions to members OF the Diplomatic
Corps generally, and particularly so toward
tho Italian Minister. The latter has chal-
'enged Don Piatt, who it is thought, will &C.
cept.
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hEcRETAHt Boutwell,, in = recent conver.
alton on the subject Of the public debt, said
ne would not be greatly astonished if there
were not further apparent increases OF the in
'debtedness Of government hereafter. Mr..
Boutwell,, it is stated, still adheres to his opin-
Ion OF last year, that it was unwiso to reduce
the taxes to such an extent as was done last
winter, through the efforts, mainly, OF Senator
Sherman.
A LARGE storehouse belonging to the Green.
deaf Machine Works At Indianapolis, was
burned on Saturday. Loss $4,000.
DISPATCHES from Queenstown, Birmingham
and Southampton, report that tempest Of
unprecedented violence ragged all Thursday
night. The storm was accompanied by ter
rihc thunder and lightning, and caused great
alarm to the inhabitants. Friday morning
the Wind was blowing gale, and sleet and
snsw we're falling.
The residences of Hon. Polk Sharon and
Chris. Reyhert, in Terre Haute, Ind, were
destroyed by fire on Thursday.
THURSDAY night Simpson l.. Caldwell, = Ia
borsr, murdered his employer, R. H. johnson,
near Coldwater. Mississippi, and rsbbsls bis
wife Of eleven hundred dollars, He has been
arrested.
Il NAsHvlIlE dispatch announces the burn.
ing OF the sunken steamer r. C. Gray, near
GAINESVILLE.
A FIRE at Mount Clemens, Mich,, one day
last week, destroyed the brewery OF Mr.. Lutz.
Loss 5000.
AT sthe Liberty Copper Mines, In Frederick
County, Maryland, recently, 4 soaffo,d gave
way, and twenty-six miners were plunged into
pit several Hundred feet deep. Eight Of
them were badly injured. ..
MAYOR JEWELL, Of Wyandotte, Mich., who
abscondeda short time since with young girl
OF that city, returned one day this week aud
rendered his resignation. Oliver Colborn has
been chosen his successor.
DlsPATCHBs have been received in Washing.
ton announcing that two English war steamer,
have been sent to the Sandwich Islands to pro.
tect the interests Of British residents there.
Our government has one vessel in the vicinity
and has ordered another there.
Gov. MORGAN, u New York, is reported to
ave said that he has no expectation of being
appointed Secretary Of the Treasury, but de-
clired to say what he would do if the appoint
ment was rendered to him. s.,
GEN. ScHoF1ELD is reported to have said
that his visit to the Sandwich Islands at the
present time las no political significance
Whatever, and the report that he had gone on
secret mission is pure invention. General
Schodeid goes upon his own volition, not at
the suggestion of the decentralization. The
statement that tho President is looking to the
acquisition Of the islands is also authoritative.
ly denied.
The bodies at all of the victims of the Cen.
trc street fire, in New York city, have been
recovered
Gov. DIX and Lieut.. Gov. Robinson were
inaugurated at Albany on Wednesday.
Mrs. MARY Ann LAXPLEY, aged ~ years OF
age, was found dying in her house, Thursday
night, in the eastern section of Baltimore.
brutaly murdered.
Van VALKEsBuRo's collar factory, in Troy,
N T., was entirely, and some adjoining build
'nss partially burned, last night. Total losses
about $4,000.
MR. W. II. HURLBERT, Of the World edito.
rial stan, has departed on tour through
Central and South America, during which he
Will write descriptive letters to his paper, and
series OF articles for Harper's Magazine.
AUGUSTINE DAILY, manager Of the late Fifth
Avenue theatre, will open the Globe theatre.
Dalys losses bv tho Fifth Avenue fire will
reach $1Oo, 900.
The steamer Erni, ON Thursday, brought to
Now York an additional number of destitute
Italian emisrants. They complain that they
were unable to snbsist in their own country,
and had received favorable Inducements for
immigration.
The New York Chamber Of Commerce ha
passed resolution urging the Legislature to
enlarge the Erie and Oswcgo cllanals, also
Congressional action upon the same subject.
IHE Erie director is pressing the old suit
instituted by Fisk against Commodore Van
derbilt, for the recovery of four millions and a
half OF dollars.
IT il stated that alvices have been received
at the Russian legation that an understanding
has been arrived at between England and Rms.
il with regard to tho war against the Khivas.
Prince Gortscbakoh has given assurance to
the British Minister at st. Petersburg tnat
Russia has no hostile designs on Afghanistar
that the Russian expeditions commanded by
General Kaufman was sent to punish the
Khan OF Khiva who still refused to surrender
E'iss,an prisoners. The British Government
expressed itfelf satisfied with this explanation
The barqus Aurora was wrecked at Rogers
Hollow, Mass, Friday morning.
}. II CROWLEY, master Of transportation,
a'"l five men were injured by an accident on
the Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad on
To-day. by another accident on the same
road, near Saltwater, conductor Tyler had his
h'p broken and q brakeman bis ankle &C.
"i'y burned.
luz people OF visalia, California, have made
H.: Ia ir share Of the subscriptions for a mar.
=" gauge ra{lroad from that city to Stockton.
T.. MoUITE., New Orleans tobacco mcr-
ch t, snicided Ia II city railroad car, in that
c, Y. day or two since.
AIRY ANN NAME, n widow woman aged Al,
Wa killed by John Murphy, hor son-i''-iaw,
,;,ir,ng u drunken row in Newark, N. j., on
Thursday night,