Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-04-13
AUSTIN COUNTY MINNESOTA THURSDAY APRIL 49, 1876
New England States had the worst


snow storm of the season on the 6th. Twenty
inches Of snow fell.
The Turkish budget Of the 7th inst.
indicates rapidly increasing complications in
the Herzegovina rebellion.
The annual boat race on the Thames
between the Oxford and Cambridge Univer-
sity crews was won by the latter.
The world will be glad to learn that
the Bismarck election passed of quietly and
| that John A. Mclean was reelected mayor.
A ferry boat being drawn across the
river Dee, in Scotland, on the 5th, was capsiz-
ed by the current and thirty persons drowned.
Reports from the city of Mexico
state that a hundred people were killed by
the police ci that city for rejoicing over the
revolutio r..
The coal operators of Cleavland.
Ohio, are preparing to resume work, displac-
ing the old workmen with green hands, : and
serious trouble il anticipated.
"A large sale of short.horn cattle
took place at Liberty, Iowa, on the 9Th, bring
ing an average price of $3.50 per head. The
number sold was one hundred and sixty.
Orders were received at New York
and Boston to cut off the water, light, and
fuel supply Of the government Offices because
the appropriation for the same was ex-
hausted.
A supply train which returned from
the Black Hills to Bismarck on the Sd, brings
more favorable reports from the mines. o
the two hundred Bismarckers there ''not one
is dissatisfied" they say.
The St. Louis Globe Democrat,
speaking Of the investigation into the charge
that the postmaster Of that city made political
assessments on employees, says it was farce,
and demands further search for evidence.
The revolution goes bravely on in
Mexico. Matamoras was captured on the Sd,
after sharp fight of thirty minutes. The
revolutionists captured $50 men, II pieces of
artillery and 7l2 stand OF small arms The
casualties were killed and IL wounded.
Dispatches from London represents
bad state of affairs in Turkey. The insur-
rectionists are increasing in number, and the
inactivity of the government is almost sure
to precipitate a general revolution, unless
other powers take more decided steps to pre-
vent.
The Judge before whom Frank Moul.
ton brought his suit for $50, 900 against Hen
ry Ward Beecher having decided against the
former, ruling out the case before trial, Moul-
ton has determined to appeal to the supreme
court, and the argument will he made in
May.
The Bosnian insurgents are guilty of
the most horrible atrocities on record, if all
reports are true. Men, women and children
have been burned at the stake for refusing
to take sides in the troubles, and whole villages
have been destroyed by fire. Two hundred
innocent persons were killed in one town
alone.
The appropriation for water, fuel
and lights for public buildings having been
exhausted, Secretary Bristow ordered all lights
and water turned off and fires put ont in all
the government buildings of the country
The matter had frequently been brought to
the notice of the proper committee, which
took no action. There is fine of $4,000 for
over-drawing the appropriation in every case.
The National Campaign.
The Democratic State Convention
for Missouri has been called to meet at Jefer-
son City May, 3lst.
The Ohio mass convention to ap-
point delegates to the indianapolis greenback
convention, was attended. by about twenty
five persons.
A large vote was polled at the Con-
necticut election, resulting in the election of
1ngersoll, the Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor, and Waite, Republican, for congress-
man.
The colored national convention at
Nashville was we'll attended Speeches were
made by Pinchbak and other prominent COL
ored men, most Of whom advocated new de-
parture by cutting loose from the Republican
party and hereafter voting for the best men
regardless Of party lines.
The National colored convention at
Nashville did not make the new departure
expected Of it but passed resolutions Of the
strongest confidence in the Republican party,
and Of Grant and Morton. Dishonesty, how
ever, they condemn, and deplore the action
Of the U. S. Senate in relation to Pinchback's
seat.