Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-07-13
Miscellaneous News items.

Miscellaneous News Items.
The khedive has furnished the porte
1900 men.
Delavan, Wis, is to have new
chemical fire engine, to cost $1,000.
Grasshoppers have appeared in the
ootton-delds in Polk county, Georgia.
Officers of the Des Moines and Fort
Dodge road are prospecting a branch from
Dallas Centre to Guthrie Centre, via Panora.
One day last week a loaded freight
car became detached from its train at Della
ware, Iowa, and did not come to halt until
It reached Dellli, ten miles distant.
The new postal regulations embraced
in the appropriation bill just passed by Con.
gress, does not change the existing law re.
garding the circulation Of county newspapers.
The admissions to the Centennial
exposition on the 7th, numbered 52,024, of
which 46, ,05l were paid. The whole number
Of visitors since the opening had been 1864.
O5A
Fourth of July accidents were rather
more numerous than usual this year. The
supply Of new arms, legs, fingers, toes and
heads required to mend the losses is some
what astonishing.
The Servians seem to be getting the
worst of the bargain, being beaten at every
point, if reports can be credited. They are
already short OF funds and have resorted to
forced paper currency.
The San Domingo authorities allowed
. man who had come to that island under
protection OF the United Ststes flag to be taken
of BY toroe. The mob fred upon the u. 8.
vessel and tore down the hag
The 9th, 7th and 9Th insts. will long
be remembered tor their torrid heat, from
Maine to California. In Philadelphia, Wash.
fngton, New York, and other eastern cities,
hundreds Of deaths occurred from sunstroke.
The Servians crossed the Turkish
frontier at three points, on the cd, and sim.
ultaneously the prince of Montenegro led his
army into Herzegovina. A perfect agreement
bad been established between the two princi-
palities.
Private advices from Bucharest indi.
cate that within the last fortnight Russia has
sent considerable reinforcements to Bessara.
bia. Australian troops are concentrating near
Agam, in Croatia, and reinfcrcements have
been ordered to Dalmatia.
The war in Turkey is now in full
blast. The principal European powers have
determined to form ring and let the show
goon. The Servians were defeated in the
first engagement with the Turks, leaving 7oC
dead on the field Of battle.
| The centennial celebrations through.
out the whole country were on scale much
beyond the greatest expectations ofthe most
patriotic. The procession in St. Paul M,
several miles in length and was the mos
magnificent affair ever witnessed in th.
northwest.
Two brothers named Richardson, o1
Dundee, Mich, went hunting ON the 4th
When they separated Thomas shot bird
and got into . tree to secure It, when William
came up. Hearing something in the tree b,
shot into the moving leaves and WAS horriaei
to ses his brother fall to the ground, dead. A
There are at present In the arm,
/ t96. $40 troops, located Is follows: 1915 be
longing to detachmsnts 1t West Point; 7,sol
belonging 70 the tAsritoeies; s,7ls IN Texas
~ y other southern States, while n III
1eld Operating against ths Indians there s,
only yel3. Ihs RENAL thing no ~ looatof
4 8 uoetthefu eitiss ard lostts.