Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-11-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK. !.
The East.

VOo ea8Cs
JAMES LENNEN has mado confession that
his Eathor-in-law, Patrick Galligan, shot Phil
ip Reid Howard, ut Sonth Jameson, Sunday,
and implying that tho act was done in self
defense.
THz bricklaycrs OF New York who struck
against reduction OF their wages havo re-
turnod to work, at the old rates.
NINE police prccints Of Now York return
over 900 contributed at the polling places
Oh election day for Memphis. lilo police
have contributed $4,000 to the Memphis
police.
AMONG the passengers arrived at Ncw York
l,y the &c orsia arc ]. Booth and J. B. Danch,
of tho steamer Polatis. She also brings tho
boat in which the crew were picked up by tho
whalcr KavenscraiG.
Two HUNDRED AND THIRTY mel, have been
discharged from lumber yards st 0reou
Point ono hundred laborcrs wero discharged
ut Long Island city ono hundred cabinet
makers were discharged in the samo city
four hundred men from Brooklyn city works,
and three hundred men from Prospect Park
improvements. Tho rubber comb factory at
College Point, Long Island,r have reduced
Their timc to four days per week, employing
six huatlrod men.
MANCHESTER, N. II Print Works will do no
more printing until tho 1st Of December.
About five hundred people arc thus thrown
ont ofwork. Tho mills have shut down this
week, and it is understood will run only four
days per week hereafter. The mills OF tho
Great Falls Manufacturing Company will be
run OH three. .faurths time. Amsbury Wooden
Company have commenced running on half
time. Salisbury mills arc running throe-
quarter tune. Merrimac Company have shut
down tor tho month Of November, Owing to
tho reduction OF thor wages, = large number
Of laborcrs on The Maine Central bridge At
Watervl,o have quit work, leaving very few
employed at that point. The Maine Central
Railroad has just discharged three hundred
workmen.
The total number of immigrants arrived in
America during the quarter was 2O1 $40, OF
whom l23, ,929 were males, and Y, ,584 females.
Of the whole number, 13s, ,30l landed at New
York, 1889 at San Francisco. 8.69A ut Balti-
more, 2,43i at Portland, and 1.0SS at New
Orleans. Nationalities-From England, 29,-
PIG; Ireland, 45,979; Scotland, 5,6s9; Wales,
473; Isle Of Man 2; Jersey Island, IL; total
from British Isles: 81, $50; from Germany, 6l,-
l57; Anstr =, 1851; Sweden, 7,1Os; Norway,
1o.9oi; Denmark, 3.AS2; Netherlands, 2,627.
The West.
SUITS have been commenced by tho railroad
and warehouse commission against the Chi.
cagO and Northwestern, and the Illinois Con-
trail railroad companies for violation of the
railroad law. 1t is understood that suits will
also be instituted against several other roads
as soon Az tho Attorney General can prepare
papers in the cases.
The st. Louis Republican has special
from Fort Sill which says the Indians burned
Whalley's rancho, Monday, and murdered one
man and drove away considerable stock. Two
men belonging to = surveying party are ye-
ported killed, thirty five miles from Fort Rich
ardson, ON Saturday. The Mcssaldo Apeches,
from New Mexico, are raiding in Texas md
committing murders. The Co:nanches on the
reservation near this post have not aud can
not deliver mp the Ave mon stipulated for Ut
tho Fort Sill Council, and in ousequcnco thoir
annuity goods and food will be withheld,
which, it is expected, will drive them to tho
war path.
ADvIcEs from Tuscon, Arizona, to the list Of
November, state that Cochisc refused to stop
raiding into New and Old Mexico, and will not
submit to good discipline. Having his tribe
counted, they coutinue to draw regular gov
crnment ratiOns, whether on or of tho reser-
vation.
Two shocks OF earthquake were felt in Vii.
ginia City on Saturday.
APPREHENs1oSs are felt that there will be
great scarcity Of breadstuf3s in the territory
Of Arizona. before the next harvest.
GENERAL order has been issued reducing
wages OF the Union Pacific employees ten DO
cent.
ALL tie sailors OF the ship Sunrise, at San
Francisco; witnesses against Capt. Clark and
his mate, Harris, have. been ro-arrested. and
placed in Jail.
WHILE digging an srtesian well at Oskaloo.
sa' Mahaska county, Iowa. Thursday, the
foreman struck vein Of coal twenty feet thick.
IOWA has becr divided into three Catholic
diocescs: Dubuque, Burlington and Des
Moines. Bishop Hennessy, the prese ut in
cumbcnt, remains Bishop OF Dubuque.
JAMES MoRToN, who attempted to assassi-
nate Capt. Moore, Of tho Quartermaster d.
partment Of the United States army at Jef9er-
sonv'lle, Ind, two months ago, has been
sentenced to ton years imprisonment.
AN iron manufacturing company is organ.
izcd at Ogden, Utah, under tho auspices of
prominent men OF Pcnns, lvania, Parties have
sono for the necessary machinery.
THREE quite severe shocks OF earthquake
wcre felt at Austin, Nevada, recently. No
damage dono.
PARTIES in San Francisco arc moving for
the purpose OF constructing a telegraph wire
from Tucson, Arizona, to Guayamas, Mexico,
The anti-Chinese Convention 1T San Fran
CISCO has been postponed for the present.
A DEPLoRABLE accident happened on tho
River Jordan, near Salt Lake. John Madiott
and VIM. Flint, young moD, were in boat
duck shooting. As Flint was in the act of FIR.
ing, Madlctt, who was sitting with his back to
Flint, suddenly rose up and received the whole
charge in his head, killing him instantly.
The value OF ore from the Littio Cotton
wood last month was over 81, 0OO, 600.
IHE Governor OF Iowa has officially an
nounced Dcs Moines and Burlington O. cite,
Of the first class.
A LARGE number Of Pennsylvania coal
miners have arrived at Des Moines and gone
to work.
Col. BuDloSo. q. s. Collector for the sctla-
la district OF Missouri, is arrested for embez-
element.
THE Governor Of the Choctaw nation.
judges OF the Supreme Court, members OF
tho Legislature and their friends, numbering
about fifty, arc on an excursion to SedaDis.
Mo-, as guests of tho Missouri, Kansas and
Texas Railroad.
SHERIFF coorEn, OF Madison county, ILL.,,
denies that acquisitions tor Tom Allen. Mike
McCoo'e. Arthur Chambers, Bill Blake. and
others, wLo participated in the fight in that
county some weeks ago, have been iss,,.,l hx
Gov. Eevcrjdsc.
The South.
JOHN OLNEY. ag-d GO. committed suic,d.
Friday, at Richmond, VI. The alleged
cause was that life WAS burden to himeeli
and family. and death sweet, according to til.
Bible.
TIE Grand Chapter OF Tennessee on Frida,
elected the following officers for tho ensdine
year: Jos. NJ. Anderson, G. H. p; WIN. F.
Foster, D. g. H. r.; II. A. Caldwell, G. K; J.
B. Morrs, G. g.; Jno. McClelland, G. r.; Jno
Fr'zzc!l, G. Secretary.
GREAT excitement. was created Saturday by
an alarm proceeding from tho residence Of tho
cashier OF the Bank OF Delaware, in Whining
'"'' De'' caused by an attempt Of tivo masked
men 10 gag and bind the family of tho cash;or