Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-09-25
VOLUME vi.
Monday morning. on account OF the .trinyr,,c

Monday morning. on account OF the .tril,.r,,c
Of the money market.
RETURNS from i6t towns in Maine !nstS up:
Dinghy, 6.lH: Titrrn,h, :j!,GI9: Williams.
lob; total 59,GGG. DnSh\,:s majority, TO-
GU2. The towns and precinct Yet t" be heard
from will hot materially change these ,cSultS
a TELEGRAM from i special agent engage!
in examining the account Of lutvrral krv,nnr
Col rrtor Harper. in Illinois, states that the
amount of the d,falra'inn is SloG,7lS, of which
sI,9lS is y def icrcy in stamps aid on lists.
Tue improvements ct the White Nnusc
VIII cL have been going forward all summer
are now nearly completed, AMI the building
will be ready ior occupancy i'll week. The
President and family will not r,turn, however,
until the first week in October.
ADylrE> from the Indian Territory say the
negroes there, numbering soiMc $4,000, form.
crly slaves at lu,ltaus, are moving to secure !.
territorial organization t"r their own pro,-r-
ton, and will soon hold Il { invention in thu
Choctaw Nation to consider the subject
THE n. Y. Express anEounc, $ the failure OF
the Electric Lie Insurance Company, with !,
deficiency of nearly $lOO. 900.
\ COUNTRY hoy ut Niagara Falls on Friday
crossed tho river upon u rurr during gale
and performed several gymnastic fcats, rival
nE professional 1opc-wa'kcrS.
DURING :. thunder storm on Saturday light
ming struck the rod on the residence OF G.. G
Eddy, Il merchant OF NcSauncc, Mich, pass
ing down the rod and leaving it at the peak
and passing into thu h"use, penetrating every
loom. Mr. Eddy, his wife and a child ". r.
asleep in one room. The fluid passed over
them, intlctinS severe injuries, Mr.. Eddy re-
cciving heavy shock, and is III q 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.
TuE square of buildings 1T Havana known
as Plaza Vaspor, were burned Saturday night,
causing a loss of 100000. Twenty persons
pcrishc,. in the flames.
THREE locomotives were demolished, an
engineer killed, and considcrab track torn
up, by series Of collisions between the cast
ward and wcstward-bouud express trains
ami Il freight train, caused by a misplaced
switch, on the Pennsylvania Rail,oad, near
Wllmore.
Il COUNTERFEIT OF the new fifty cent cur.
rency Is in circulation, and is said to have
made its appearance two days alter the issue
OF the genuine.
TIE President has appointed Alexander Il.
Shepard Governor of the District OF Colunl-
bia, vice Henry d. Cooke, resigned.
SATURDAY evening there were no lcss than
five fatal accidents on tho Pennsylvania Rail-
road within thirty miles cast of PittsburS.
limits.
ported from Ii xnSton, Ky. The old Broa,l-
way Hotel, with the portion recently rebuilt,
was burned.
A NLw Jewish temple was dedicated at Pllila-
.lclpllia, on Sunday, in tho presence OF five
thousand people.
a REGATTA took place at Sarto:,, i hurs-
day, i'll which 10 l,pol-sciiinS WAS allowed, and
in which the senior single scnll race was won
by Courtney, OF the Union Springs Club, and
the pair cared race by the two Lambs, OF the
Acronaut Club, OF Toronto.
A BILL Of s45O,ODO was presented, on
Wednesday, by legal firm fo7 defending New
York city in 4 suit a"anst the Excise Com.
miSsiOncrs.
TIE Attorney General states that the recent
Ku-Klux outragcs in Kentucky will have the
effect to stay the partloninS of convicted Ku-
klux now imprisoned.
AN incrntliary at Marhlchcad, Mass, Thurs
day forenoon, burned painc's stables and six
horses, the MaHatang House, the National
H.,
IT has been decided to bring Irving to New
York from San Francisco to SEQ what he knows
OF the Nathan murder.
Col. RoBB, one Of the commissioners into .
uuirc into drprc(ations committed on per-
sons and property CT American citizens If tho
lilo Grandc border, has recently received til.
nlcronS letters that srch acts arc constantly
occurring, and that since tho commissioners
left that section last spring, large drovrs OF
cattle have been driven to the American side,
from ranches between Brownsville and Brazos
do Santiago, and between Brownsville and
Rio Grantlc City.
TIE bond for $15 .O00, 900, tho amount Of the
Geneva award, is held now by the Secretary OF
State in that Department., aud is not placed
for safe excepting in the Treasury. The bond
IS made payable t" the order Of the Secretary
Of State. This bond is for the largest amount
Of money ever issued by any government in Il
single transaction. PhothSrapl,s "f the bond
and certificate "fd"posit were completed at he
Treasury Thursday, and COPIES sent to the
President and each member Of the Cabinet.
TIE exposure Of tho sl5.on0.0HO cotton
claims, in the Geographic dispatches. has
greatly alarmed some vi the largest claimants
who are now in Washington, and the holder
OF the Confederate records having suddenly
lisapr cared from his accustomed, where.
abouts, it i. surmiscd that they ha:. found
HIM ont and made Oycrtur.s or the SuDprC 4.
sion of tho information in his posstssion His
disappearance is singular enough to excite the
suspicion. 1t is believed, however, that tho
Govcrnm> mt will yet succeed in obta ming IL,
records.
TIE post-otlicc authorities have been in
formed by tho government Of Germany tina
! newspaper taxes arc no longer collected iron
persons i'll the kingdom Of Prussia.
A DISPATCH from Australia reports grca
fire in Auckland, New Zealand. Fi,ty-ci;;h
buildings wore burned, and tho total loss il
! estimate at $40, 1000.