Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-11-09
Miscellaneous News Items.


Savannah kilograms Of the 4th inst,
reported yellow fever as still raging.
The Producers & Manufacturers
Bank, of Titusville, Pa, has closed its doors.
Uriah Hawley, for many years spe-
cial agent Of the postofice department, is dead.
A commissioner Of the government
with about ninety Sioux Indians has gone to
the Indian Territory on tour Of inspection.
The conference of railroad managers
in New York adjourned without an agree
ment, consequently there will probably be no
farther rise in freight rates to the east at
present.
Tho shipment Of gold from England
to the United States still continues, from $780,
600 to 81 ,0OO, 900 daily being drawn from the
Bank of England for that purpose.
The Pennsylvania railroad last week
had the first accident it has experienced since
the opening OF the Centennial .exhibitionand,
fortunately, a local passenger and freight
train was the unfortunate object
A dispatch from Paratchin reports
that the Servian army can hardly I've said to
exist. 1t is utterly discouraged. The roads
are covered with snow. Fugitives and SOL
diers are dying like rotten sheep.
The accumulation of wheat in the
great markets of the west, indicates the ex.
istence Of strong faith among western deal
ers of future enhanced value in the east
equal t. any advance that may be made in
ireights.
On the 3lst inst, the czar of Russia
notified the minister to Turkey to demand
full and complete answer to the demands
Of the car within forty y-eight hours, other
wise all diplomatic relations will be broken
of. The Servians had been again rallied, and
Prince Milan had gone to the front.
The Vienna correspondent of the
London Times says it is certain that Russia is
preparing for all eventualities. Russian Of
icials who have hitherto been anxious to deny
all military preparations now maintain that
the whole army is on war footing. This
sudden trankness may possibly he by COM
mand.
A curious eccentricity of trade is the
departure OF ship from Montreal Oh Thursday
loaded with Canadian manufactures, mostly o
wood and iron, and including furniture, farm
implements, steam eng ines, and many Other
articles Of utility, which have already found 8
market i'll Australia. The shipment is under.
stood to be the pioneer OF an extensive trade
for which arrangements have already beel
made.
A queer sort of a creature is the
Heathen Chinee. There was false alarm O
fire in the Chinese theatre at at San Francis.
co, last week, and Of course grand rush for
the door. After the panic the police pulled
out from the hall twenty dead and as many
wounded-a rather disagreeable job in which
almond-eyed John refused to take any part
but insisted that the show should proceed
And it did proceed until stopped by the au
thorities. "
A New York Herald special from
Philadelphia reports the receipt OF informa
) ton from Sweden Of the discovery Of an opeI
way to the Arctic Sea. Professor Vanduskiold
started on an exploring expedition tron
Hammerfest, Sweden, in August, and dem
onstrated the correctness Of his theory re-
garding an open way to the Arctic Sea. H,
reports having encountered no obstacles, and