Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1877-04-26
Miscellaneous.

The Straits of Mackinaw are open.
Nine coaches loaded with passengers,
left Bismarck for the Black Hills on the Esd.
A commission of japanese are in Ken
tucky buying fast horses to export to their
country.
The declaration of war by Russia against
Turkey is expected daily. Peace seems to be
impossible.
The Omaha Board of Trade report that
there are no apprehensions Of grasshoppcr
ravages in Nebraska.
The first boat through Lake Pepin this
season reached st. Paul on the evening Of the
17th The river was closed $50 days.
A terrible famine is in progress in u
portion Of China, an account of the calamity
stating that thousands are dying daily"
Five thousand persons at Columbus,
Ohio, have signed the total abstinence
pledges as the result of the Murphy move.
ment."
A barge Of the Diamond 10 line, load
cd with 1900 bushels Of wheat was sunk at
Brownsville, MIMI, on the 18th, and will be
almost total loss.
The Chinese authorities have offered
active assistance to Japan in suppressing the
insurrection in that country. The offer was
declined with thanks.
The Spanish Envoy and the Secretary
Of Legation at Hong Kong recently fought a
duel about woman. Seven shots were ex-
changed and nobody hurt.
Two Boston boys quarreled on the 21st
and ono went homo and got revolver, shoot
ing and killing his comrade. The murdered
boy was seven, and the murderer six years old.
A serious collision occurred between
two passenger trains near Lynn, Massachu-
setts, on the a0th. The air brakes prevented
loss Of life, and only ono passenger was in.
jured.
The territorial road as now laid out
from Bismarck to the Black Hills is 220 miles
in length as shown by the odometer. Two
hundred persons left Bismarck for the Hills, on
the 20th.
Christian Schoelter, an Iowa City,
Iowa, defaulter, was arrested at Denver, Co..,
Saturday. Schoelter, who has wife and
twelve children in Iowa, has married q young
girl in Denver.
A stroke Of lightning set fire to an oil
tank near Troutman, Pa. The tank contained
25,O00 barrels Of oil. The burning oil ran
down . creek and eleven other oil tanks to.
gether with the town Of Troutman were de-
stroyed. .......
A temperance organization was formed
in Washington City Sunday night, under the
name Of Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes Temper
ance Society. Resolutions were adopted en-.
dorsing the sentiments Of Mrs. Hayes regard
ing the use Of intoxicating liquors at State
dinners and similar occasions.
The Chicago Times has nearly seven
columns Of crop reports from the great wheat
growing section Of the Mississippi and Ohio
valleys, concerning the condition of winter
wheat, Of which the following brief analysis
may be made: A larger acreage than usual has
been sown in al quarters with .nne prospects,
Of IN abundant harvest. The southwest 4
especially hopeful, and the northwest has no
fears except for the grasshoppers, which, It h
thought win be less destructive than hereto.
fore. The Kansas farmers think they have
hatched 90 early that they win not bs able Ia
await the coming crops. The Tines spublishes
from California in eject that the wheat crop i
shout 100000 tons, which was the crop d
1874, but the prediction u that this year moi
more than halt . million tons Win bs raised
and that the effects, together With the bod
!sondition of the stock market, wnl be disas.
trous to the State.