Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-02-05
THE NEWS. S,
The East.

IHE New York Cheap Transportation Con-
vrntion adopted resolution protesting
against au increase by the Legislature Of tho
per capita tax on emiGrants, Tho Committee
on Railroad Transportation reported favora.
lily on the projected Peoples Freight Railway
from New York to the Mississippi river.
The eleventh annual report OF tho Mnss"'
chusetts Agricultural College represents tho
college to be iii a. state Of prosperity. A"e
expenses Of ,lIc college are about s3','"o per-
annnn, and the income nom tho enoo~me"e
fund in the state Treasury is fl5,ooO. Inc
total annual receipts from other sources are
about $1,000. There is thus an annual de.
tcit of IS 900, and, ss no appropriation he's
been ma.'r since 1871, the indebtedness now
amounts to $4,000. = =, = =: = 49,.
rmoM reports received nom the various
mining points in THO Schuylkill region. II is
estimated that about pRc-.third OF tho COL
l!cr,cs have resumed work since chr fipal net.
,l,mcnt cf the basis question on Saturday.
The rcste; assigned Tor the small number Of
miners thas have thus fur resumed is ,hs,
there arc few orders to fl, at this season.
there bcips good supply Of coal, and many
operators being engaged in repairing their
WORKS andT1nachintry.
:NuMENr is to be erected in Central
Tark, New York, in memory Of tho late James
I. Brady
ThE New York Times reviews the exports for
tho past year, aud says that Great Britain and
hcr dependencies must have absorbed at least
cnc-hstf Of the domestic exports for the last
i"aacial year.
Ls..1 1p.l>
Msssacilus. It's Senate, have reported that the
resolutions passed in 1872. ccnsurins Senator
Summer, ought to be rescinGcd
The sixth annual meeting O! the Anne, ican
Branch O! the Evangelical Alliance was held
on Monday evening. at st. Paui's Church, iu
New io,k city. William E. Dodge was elected
PRECEDENT. In tho revision OF the constitution
the name Ut tic. .Aliauca Was altered from
that OF American to that Of the Evangelical
Aliia-ce OF the United States of America
The annual report was real, and, after ad.
dresses from prominent clersymen, the meet
ing adjourned.
ALEXANDER y. HAMILTON, City Treasurer Of
Jersey City, is missing. 1t is aIlesad that he
has acd viii several Thousand dollars Of city
money and ono hundred thousand dollars O.
water bonds. The official bond OF Ham lton
cannot be found.
A. ". MUERER, sexton OF Trinity ChuI cb,
New York, was arrested on Monday, and held
to bail in $4,000, tor alleged completely in 4
number CT thctts by ono Mickey, OF Brooklyn.
Other stolen property is said to have been
iound in the clutch.
CASES Of starvation and suffering are re-
ported from Philsdelphia.
AwoMAN named Sarah Arlington starved to
death in New York few days since.
The corner Stone OF the new Tribune build.
ns WAS laid III New York on Saturday.
PATRICK CRIMMINs was sutfocated in = gaso.
line vault at the Newport (R. I.) torpedo
station, on Thursday last.
NEW York roughs have adopted the sand
bag fer telling victims.
The workinsmcn and women OF Fall River,
Mass, held meeting few days sincs to de-.
mard the enactment OF a ten.hour law.
BOY named David White, aged eleven
wears, banged himself with q book-strap,
while returning from school in New York. q
few days ago.
he Bsston correspondent Of the New Y"rh
Tribune writes that DR.. Wynan has concluded
work on the autopsy OF Prof. Agassiz, and
reports that the cause OF his death was dis.
case AMI obstruction OF the arteries OF the
brain. The greatest weight OF the braiu il
estimated at Sc S avoirdupos
An attempt was made to burn St. Brdgct'e
Church in New York few days sine. The
pastor does not believe that the incendiaries
were enemies Of the church, but that there
misguided aim was to secure employment,
knowing that large congregation like his
wolld he sure to rebuild at once
Mr.. NATHAN HAvESs, Of Islip, N. Y, while
running bis nets under ice on The bay, with
John Mcdonald, Lis brother-in-law, on Thurs.
dav afternoon, broke through the ice. Nc.
Donald went TO his assistance, and he to,
broke through. BIZ th we're drowned.
THOMAS DAVIS, a billiard. room proprietor
III New York city, was recently robbed 1T 81. 500
in United States Treasury notes, and $500
gold watch and chain, by his brother Gus.
FRANK INGRAM fell from scaffold a dis.
tance OF twenty-five feet while at work on the
United States gunboat Quinnebaug, in Phila.
dclphia, Oh Wednesday last, aud was iustantl,
killed.