Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-11-23
Miscellaneous NeWa Items.

Lamb 4 Co. 8 large saW.mill at Clin.
ton, Iowa, was destroyed by fire, last week.
Loss, $4,000.
The American bark Idula Burney
and the brig Viteran were lost in the late
hurricane at St. Thomas.
The total of Centennial exhibition
receipts from all sources for the entire six
months was 81 ,3os, ,735.
The North British Mercantile insur.
ticnal board OF underwriters.
A German colony for the Eau Claire
river arrived in New York on the 10th and Is
now locating in Wisconsin.
The libel suit of John L. Gibson
against the Cincinnati Commercial has been
decided in favor Of the plaintiff for s, 1915.
A bill in the Vermont legislature to
accord women the same rights as men, was
defeated in the house by vote of II to As.
The Georgia medical society and the
city council OF Savannah have declared the
yellow fever epidemic at an end.
A rumOr in New York that the en-.
tire Brooklyn navy yard had been ordered
placed on war footing, caused considerable
excitement, last week.
A trial is now in progress in Wash.
ington courts to allow Admiral Porter prize
money for the capture OF Richmond. About
81 ,50O, 600 is involved in the controversy.
Newfoundland advices report sever.
al shipwrecks with loss OF crews. A brig
drifted into Craw Harbor, Fortune Bay, with
four Of the crew dead and lashed to the rig
ging.
The report of the department of ad
missions to the Centennial announces the
number OF paid admissions to the exhibition
during the six months from May 10th to Nov.
10th to he 800, ,325, the total receipts for
gate money being q, ,8l2,7 ,74o75. The average
daily total admissions were 81 ,6e8, and the
average daily receipts So, 1855.
The Cologne Gazette's Paris CORES.
pondent says: A principal obstacle of wal
seems to have been removed. The Rothschilda
are said to have promised to advance Russia q
money loan, not to be made public. Russia'a
condition is said on change to be so favorable
that the Rothschilds can easily dispose Of the
loan privately.
A London dispatch of the 14th says,
''should Russia persist in her warlike policy,
there is reason to believe she will be perfectly
isolated. Germany is understood to b<
pledged to observance ofneutrality a. against
Austria, with an engagement to watch thu
Polish provinces, presumably to assist in re-
pressing any Polish rising" ,... ....
Gen. Carlin, commanding at Stand
ing Rock, about month ago sent two Indians
Long Feather and Bear Face, with messag,
to Sitting Bull, giving him terms OF ofsurrender
They took the message to Sitting Bull, ant
Afterwards to Col. Miles, to try to make peace
They were present at the battle and all tn
talks prior to it, and reports tho hostile
anxious for peace, but afraid to accept tn
terms offered. p: -.
| A dispatch of the 18th states that th,
Car has ordered the mobilization of part Q
the Russian army. A circular Of Prince Gort
schakof, the Russian Premier, to Russian rep
resenta*ives abroad, explaining this measure
says the Car does not wish war, and will,
possible, avoid it. He Is, however, deter
mined that the principles Of justice, whic
have been recognised a. necessary by th
whole Of Europe shall be carried out in Tul
key under efhcacious guarantees.
Following is a translation of a proc
lamation issued by Captain General lowell,
and Marines Campos, general-in-chief OF th
> Spanish army in Cuba: "Article l. Dt
serters from our army who are actually i
the ranks Of the enemy will be pardoned
they surrender to the proper authoritie
They will resume their places in the arm,
which they will serve until the lagitima1
term Of their service has expired. "Artic