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

ARA1LRoAD accident occurred near Browns.
willie, Texas, few days ago, by wllicl. a pas
sengcr, Mrs. Agnes Mckcnna, ha'l her collar
bono broken. car loaded with laborcrs
from Chicago was demolished. hut, save slight
bruises AMI cuts. mono wore injured. Tho en-.
ginccr discovered tho obstruction III tmo to
apply the air brakes, and check tho speed of
his train. elso all would probably have been
killed or wounded.
TUE supposed railway robbers arrested in
Kansas, turn out to bo horse thieves.
Tue results of the late election in Arkansas
will make tho Legislature stlnd-Scnatc, Rc-
pu6Iicanr, Is; Democrats, II. House, Rupu,,-
licans, %; Democrats, SIS.
AT Dcnnison, Texas, recently. a man start
ed out of = saloon with q knife i'll bis hand.
rcmar rk'ng that bo would meet some one in
less than ten minutes. Ic was soon after
onnd with pistol shot through, his shoulder.
YELLOW FEVER has broken out a. lin in
Bainbr'dgc, Ga. Tho doath OF Lewis, the
mayo: Of the city, is announced.
AN enthusiastic Cuban mectin was held in
Now Orleans, Sunday. The Surveyor OF the
port and other prominent federal officials par.
ticipatcd. Resolutions wcro adopted con-
demning tho barbarlty OF the Spaniards, an.,
calling on tho Federal Government to recog.
nize tho Cubaus as bcl,irorcnts, and requr
ing indemnity and apology for tho recent out.
srageso on American citizens.
Nick MORRISON, small country merchant,
at Shelby City. Ky., hots Geo. Geocl,, at his
store, with double barrel shot gun, seudine
six balls through Geoch's brain.
TnE Masonic Grand Lodge Of Tennessee as
sombIcd At Nashville, Monday. There was a
very full attendance, $50 subordinate lodges
being represented.
At Large.
EDWARD N. WHITE, son Of Gen. Julius
White, Minister OF tho Argentine Republic,
died at his home in South Evanston, from a
cold contracted wllic on visit to the cast to
meet his father and sister who had just 70
turned from South American trip.
Mn. E. W. AALFoRD has resigned his Posi-
t,on as managing editor of the Chicago Inter-
Ocean, and will return to the indianapolis
Journal.
Br an order from the Navy Department, all
sailors on board Of tho United States receiving
ship Sabine, at Portsmouth, N. H., have been
dispatched to New York for service on United
States steamers in Cuban waters.
The Anti-Chinese committee Of San Fran.
cisco adopted = set Of resolutions in favor ol
the abrogation OF the Chinese treaty agains,
Chinese immigration and labor, and I'd.
journcd.
TIE American Ircn and Steel Association
meet At Philadelphia on the Goth, to consider
the present condition OF the iron trade, and Ia
take action regarding the future work Of the
Association.
The Directors OF the Pacific Mail Steamship
Company are making an investigation to as.
certain where COOS the seven million dollars
earned aud spent annually by the company.
President bradbury hopes to obtain loan Of
five bundled thousand dollars upon the COM
pany's 3 real estate in California.
TEE New York Sun says il is said among
Spanish residents in that city that in addition
to those whose execution has already been re-
ported, every toul found on board the Vir
ginius at the time Of her capture has been put
to death. According to this statement not one
American witness Of the affair is lett alive.
A REL1Er fund is being raised in Iowa for
the destitute homesteaders in Osccola and
Lyon counties. It is believed they are me silly
men who served in the lato war of tho re.
bellion.
In the United States Circuit Court at Indian
apolis, in the case OF Henry Horst vs. the In.
diaDapois and st. Louis Railroad COMPANY
for damages sustained by being thrown from
hox Car while riding on their road, the jury
rendered verdict for the plaintiff of S., ,OOO
The case has excited unusual interest, as the
plaintiff was riding on pass, and tho ques'
ton was involved whether railroad companies
arc liable for damages sustained by persons
travelling on passes.
The mail train east On the Detroit and Mil.
wankeo Railroad, Tuesday. ran into wood.
train, which was on switch at Cooporsvillc
but not quito clear OF tho main track. Doth
locomotives were badly smashed, and the
fireman OF the wootl-train 30 seriously in.
jurctl that he has since died. His namo wat
Comet.
ARRANGEMENTS arc IN progress for holding
public meet ting in New York, to give express
sion to the popular sentiment in regard to the
late events in Cuba.
The officers of the German steamship.
Koenig wilhelm and Cambria received large
number of applications from emigrants, which
came over in them, to work their passag,
Offering all tho money left for the privilege
Such thing has never occurred before. AMI
tho officers have taken as many as possible
though they have been able to employ only
very few Of the numerous applicants. s.
many men are out oil employment that new',
arrived immigrants have been unable TO pro
curo work, and the panic has thus proven
serious bar to immigration.
ADvIcEs from the Cherokee nation say that
Cherokee desperate named r. J. Foreman wa
assassinated At Talfehua, in a fight betwee,
several parties. Before Foreman died h
killed two Of his assallants, ono OF them
member Of the Cherokee Legislature.
TnE official canvass OF tho Ohio electio,
gives J. n. Beck, for Supreme Judge, "a. ~
majority over b. F. Hall; Alonzo Abernethy
for Superintendent OF Public instruction, q,
7l8 majority over D. W. Arthur.
TIE population Of Iowa, rs returned b1 III,
last census, is ,25l 1888.
On the llth instant Judge Andrew G. Mil
lcr. OF the U. $. Circuit Coart for tho Eastcrl
District III Wisconsin, resigned his position
after having filed it for thir.y five years, snc
November 8lh, 1888. Judge Miller was an
pointed Judge OF tho Territorial Court b
President Van Buren, and was reappointcd t.
tho position he has just resigned, by Prcsi
dent James X. Polk. He has served, iu hi
judicial capacity. under ten Presidents. 1t j
stated that this is the longest judicial servic
in the country with the exception of that q
Chief Justice Taney, who was appointed b
Jackson and served until Lincoln,s time
Judge Miller is ~ years OF age, and a thor
ough Democrat. Naturally, during his lon,
career, he has rendered many decisions whcl
have attracted general attention for tEei
knowledge and research of tho law. His sue
ccssor has not yet been determined upon, bu
the name Of Hon. Winfield Smith. ex-stat
Attorney, is prominently mentioned.
Washington.
WALTER STUART. who says he has cvory re.
son to believe that his brother, Col. q. !
Stuart, is among the slaughtered passenger
OF the Vireinius, offers to pay iberally for On
Information concerning his fatc, and make
the following proposition to the Cuban patr
OTIS OF Now York: 81 will subscribe $780,
70 every $4,000 that they will raise. Iwi