Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-07-03
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afternoon, 4 class of sixteen Eraduat"s. IT.
G. A. Fowler, tho new President Ot the North
western. was formally inauSuratcd. The
trustees. at their election to-day, elected Miss
Francis u. Willard, Of the Wrmen's College,
Professor of aesthetics with u sala:y OF ST.
$40. and an increase or $2OO per year until it
shall reach 81, 400 Henry s. Carvart, Profess
s,,r of Physics Prof. II. F. Fiske, of Lima, N.
y. rrincipa! Of tho Preparatory Department,
with salary Of -, 400 per annum Robert l..
Gunner, Professor Of Elocutiou.
J. II. DANIELS banking house ut Whining
ton, ILL.,, has failed for s275,OOO.
TuE grain crops OF Utah aro very promis-
ing.
The celebrated Emma Mining Company, of
Utah, is bankrupt; deficit eight hundred
and forty thousand dollars.
A. W. WELLEs is appointed store. keeper Of
the Twelfth District ot Wisconsin.
WAsulNarcN's headquarters at Norristown,
N. j., was sold at auction Wednesday, and was
purchased for presentation to the state at the
buying price of s25,OoO. The sash worn by
Washington when Grand Mastor OF q Masonic
lodge in the South sold for II 900.
WAGNER. the Isle of Shoals murderer. and
Two OtnCtS, escApcU lEoul sucAuIeN "Mdtncj
Jail OH Wednesday night
EAUM's produce and shipping warehouse,
Graves planning mill and two small buildings
adjoining, were burned by au iDcendiary fro
at Norfolk. Va, Thursday. Loss $5O, 600
partly insured.
a MAN ynumcl T. d. Hernwick went to
Quincy, Ill.,, some days ago, and commeneed
business a. . commission merchant. On
Wednesday it was discovered that he had
passed forged checks on the banks for several
thousand dollars, and had left the city. His
whereabouts are not known.
The boiler Of switch locomotive exploded
juring tho engineer and fireman, demolishng
small house near the track, and damaging
another house considerably.
The Great Eastern has arrived st Heart
Conten. with the now Atlantic cable.
ALBERT II. Sxrru was executed in priuR.
field, Mass, on Friday, for the murder oi
Charles II. Socket, Of Wcstfeld, committed
on the GOTH of last November.
N. NJ. GRAY and John A. Hecksl,er, two New
York bloods, engaged in = bloodless duel in
Canada tho other day.
u
with number OF leading Catholics in New
York Oh the necessity for religious, in corucc-
t'on with secular education, and the urgency
there was for establishing day schools IN such
parishes as might be able TO sustain them,
fouK persons, one Of them named ]. T. Car
liSlic, under sentence to be hanged. and an.
other, Martin Wyatt, charged with murder.
escaped from the county Jail in Lexington.
No., on Wednesday,.
THos. JAcKsoN's rope walk aud coal shed. At
Reading. Pa, were destroyed by fire, Tues.
day. Loss, $55,OO0.
THROUGH trains to Hannibal, over the MR.
souri,, Kansas and Texas Railroad, commenced
running Monday.
EERNUDA letter announces that family
named Knowles, consisting of q father. moth.
or and two daughters. were murdered in Ham.
ilton, june IL, and tho house robbed Of nj,
valuables.
LlEUT.-CoL. CARL1N, with the Northern Pa
clic surveying expedition, reports a second
attack by the Sioux Indians, June 18th. on
beaver Dam Creek. His loss was one scont
wounded. The Siouxs loss is two killed and
several wounded.
FORTY persons lost their lives by the recent
fires i'll Michsammi and other places on tho
upper Michigan pepinsula.
The fcrtilizing establishment of ], l.. Kcol
Il Co., near Delhi, Ohio, was burned on Tbur,.
day. Loss about $50, 900.
A LARGE number Of guns taken from tho
militia barracks in Dublin, on Tuesday nigh:
have been recovered, by well known Fepiaps
giving information to the authorities.
IT is said company Of Americans have
bccn organized, who propose to purchase
from the Government OF Mexico two or three
OF the Mexican states, with view to tlevelon.
lug their mineral resources. The states al.
legged to bc in view by these parties are Chi
huaiua, Sonora, and Tamauilpas.
WILLIAM 3. HAYS, SR., pork.packer we'll
known throughout the west, died At his resi-.
dcnce in Pittsburg, on Thursday, aged 60.
The cholera has made its appearance in
Louisiana, No., fifty miles south OF Quincy
ILL., Ono white man died Wednesday, and one
white man and four negroes died Thurst]av. of
the fatal disease.
1Iock k1"ER, on Thursday last, overflowcd
the N0l 0lthwostern track between Bcloit and
Hanover, washing away some OF the track
a"o delaying the freight trains. A culvert
WIS also washed away at Or near Edgertou on
the st. Paul road, and freight train of four
teen cars di!ched.
The Rev. Father Peter Geyer, and his
brother, John Geycr, both of Dayton. Ohio.
were drowned In tho Ohio River, At Ripley.
Ohio, Wednesday night, while bathing.
"A LETTER was received at tho Treasury De.
partmenc, on Thursday, from Senator, in
4n'r'ny whether there is any truth in The
report in circulation that il member of either
house RETAINED from drawing his back pay
until the close Of the fiscal year it would lappe
INTO the Treasury, saying that if such was the
law be desired to draw his share before the
3Oth OF the present month He was informed
that it would not so revert to the Treasury in
case l,c left it undrawp.
The foundry. machine shop, blacksmith
shop and erecting shop of tho Litcbtield Car
Works, situated at Litchfeld, ILL.,, was burned
Thursday night. Loss $5O,OOO-partly in
surcd.
PRINCE AzumA, Of Japan, who resigned
from the Annapolis Naval Academy, a short
time ago, owing to i'll health, is now in New
York suG ring from pulmonary complaint.
FIFTY Good Temp'ars have sailed for Lon
don to represent this country at the meeting
July 22d.
In tho New Hampshire House of Represent.
al'vcs the special committee on the subject re-
ported in favor o. giving women the privilege
.Qf voting in school districts.
~, hNcSPress and freight train collided near
Schenectady, on the New York Cent. Al Rail-
road, Wednesday, killing an engineer and in
'"ring three other persons.
THERE were three cases of suI,-stroke at In
'lianapol's on Tuesday, two Of which proved
fatal.
The Warm Spring Indians engaged in the
Alodoc war are to be mustered out Of service
at once.
LONG BRANCH dispatch says the President
has decided to remove Secretary Richardson.
TuE Boston fire department il to be in
creased by'four first.class engines, one truck
aud several hose carts.
The New York Board OF Health arc taking
Mras''rcs against tho prevalence OF cholera.
IHE steamer Juniata, to search for tho
fo'arls, IL manned by one hundred and thirty
men and carries two light guns.
SEvEEAI. persons connected with the late
la'n"'a'Iy ring were arrested Oh Tuesday.
under the recent indictments.
TIE CarIists in Spain have suffered a se-
we're defeat, loosiug sixty killed and three
hundred wounded.