Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-02-17
GENERAL MATrERs.


Sir Baldwin Wake Walker, surveyor
general Of the British army, is dead.
A street railway is being laid in Ma.
zattan, the first ON the Mexican Pacific coast.
The Legislative Council Of Montana,
II to l, has voted to grant q subsidy of 93,-
bOO. .O0O to the Northern Pacific railroad.
The report that the headquarters of
the department Of the Platte were to be re.
moved from Omaha is denied on reliable au-
thority.
The Chicago. Milwaukee and St. Paul
railway earned s527,o0 in January of this
year and s466, i0l in the corresponding month
Of last year.
The liberal members of the Hungarian
Diet have unanimously agreed to support a
OIL lor the erection ofa national monument to
the deceased statesman, NJ. Desk.
The Kentucky House, on the 9Th
passed the bill providing tor State Centen-
NAL Board, and appropriating 5000 for cen.
tenuial purposes, by vote of GO ayes to 2S
nays.
Tie Prussian cabinet have decided to
push the transfer OF the Prussian railways to
the empire. and it is thought the arrangement
will be ratified before the close of the present
session OF the Reichstag.
Washington Telegram, 18th: During
January the demand for postage stamps, pos
tai cards aud stamped envelopes reached the
unprecedented amount Of 9s,5Oo, 700 worth.
This figure is considered an indication of
rapid revival Ut business throughout the coun-
Try.
The Ohio State Centennial Educational
Committee request the State managers to make
IN appropriation of one thousand dollars to
erect three sample school buildings upou the
centennial grounds, provided other States will
contribute an additional amount sufficient to
erect said buildings.
The Secretary of War, in answer to
the inquiry of the House committee. gives it
as his opinion that the best aud most econom-
ieal way to protect the Texas border from Mex
lean raids IL to I'LL by recruiting the military
companies now stationed along the Rio Grande
up to their maximum strength.
The Congressional temperance society,
on the lath. elected T.. ". Ferry, president;
w. L. Ballou, vice president, aud J. W.
Chickering, secretary. A public meeting
will be held Sunday evening, the 26th, the
4ad anniversary, in the Congregational churcl.
Julius H. seeleye was requested to deliver the
address.
The first proceedings ia the case Of
Gen. Bascock ior connection with the crooked
whisky conspiracy were had at St. Louis on
the lst. This was upon motion to vacate the
writ compelling the telegraph company t.
produce the various telegrams that passed be-
tween Bahcock and John Mcdonald, joyce
ana Als. Joyce, over various signatures, dur
Ing several months Of last year. After arxu.
ment Judge Dillon overruled the motion.
A special from Berlin says the repor:
that Germany has declined to make any rep.
resentations to Spain in regard to Cuba Is In.
correct. The German government has not an.
swered the communication Of the Uaited
States, which did'not require or invite an an
swer, but there is every reason to believe that
Germany is not unwilling to impress upon
Spain the Justice Of American complaints, and
the advisability ofmaking some redress.
4 big fight is in progress in Milwaukee
betweens the bulls and bears IN wheat, and
among other faots developed y that an unpse.
cedented quantity ty-over four million bushels
o! wheat Il now held dinwarehouses. a reporl
has been started that winter wheat looks poog