Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1877-01-25
THE NEWS.

THE NEWS.
A Summary of the Worlds Work
and Happenings.
! Crimes Criminals and Casualties
Mr. Joseph BurgOmeister, OF La
Cresse, was fatally wounded by an accidental
shot from revolver in the hands Of c. Gross
kept, last week.
Advance: G, G. Goodnow, clerk of
the Land Office at this place, has been ap
| pointed Receiver Of the New Ulm Land Office
His experience will make him competent
! officer.
The total loss to the fishing fleet of
Gloucester, Mass, the Fast year ioots up 2l2
! lives, and ~ vessels, valued ut el6O, 600; in
sured Tor sll6,ooO.
A special from Annapolis says lion.
George Wells for the past i've years President
OF the Farmers and Planters Bank, is \ de-
aulter to some e65, 900.
Personal, lmpersoaal and Political.
The Democrats of New Hampshire
have nominated Daniel Marcy Gr Governor.
Geo. F. Hoar was elected United
States Senator from Massachusetts, on the ftth
joint ballot.
In Tennessee, on the 10th inst,
James 4. Bailey was elected U. 8. Senator on
the 73d ballot.
Fred May positively denies the
charge that he was hit by Benefits bullet.
He says he did not receive scratch.
Ex.Gov. Taylor has returned to the
Wisconsin State treasury from $500 to q, 600
taken by him during his term OF Office.
The Republicans have nominated
Gilman Marston and James Briggs for Con-
gressmen for the first and second districts Of
New Hampshire.
Negotiations have been reopened be-
tween Germany and France, and there is a
probability that Germany will participate in
the Paris exhibition OF 1878.
The executive committee of the
Western Union telegraph company has been
summoned before the committee on the pow
ers and privileges >fthe House.
Charles II. Goubert, former proprie.
tor OF the Gardner House, Of Chicago, having
been arrested tor debt and bailed cut made a
schedule Of his property, showing liabilities
of$ll4, 900; assets 976, 900.
James Gordon Bennett has sent his
check for $500 to the two little girls Of Mark
H. Kellogg, the Herald correspondent who
was killed in the Big Horn slaughter last
June. They liveat La Crosse.
James G. Blaine was elected U. s..
Senator from Maine for both the long and
short term, on the 10th. In Michigan Hon.
7. W. Ferry was reelected unanimously. In
Arkansas A. H. Garland was elected.
Congressman McDougall formally
declined the appointment Of Commissioner Of
Patents, rendered him by the President,
whereupon the President decided to nomi-
nate ior the position Ellis H. Spear, OF Maine,
formerly Deputy Commissioner.
Two South Carolina negroes, one 4
Democrat and the other a Republican, had q
duel at Fair Bluff Each had four shots, and
the result was that one was wounded three
times dangerously, and the other received a
pistol shot in the arm.
The House committee ON Indian af-
fairs has agreed to recommend the passage
Of Seeley's bill to ratity the arrangement
made with the Sioux Indians Tor the relin-
quishment of their title to the Black Hills ter.
ritory, etc.
James Gordon Bennett did not go to
London, as first announced, but has been
heard from in Florida, where he ia travelling
with four friends. Like Charlie Ross, he is
liable to turn up anywhere At any time, and
when he is found he may still he in Europe.
The effect of the late instructions
from the War Department to General Anger,
to preserve the status quo. o.until the reports ol
the Congressional committees are made, are
plainly visible in New Orleans. All danger
OF collision is regarded as past, for the present
at least.
Secretary Chandler denounces rs a de.
liberate forgery the following dispatch which
has been repeatedly published, none such
ever having been written or sent by him.
NEw York, Nov. 8.-To Gov. w. L. Stearns:
Hold Florida tor Hayes and Wheeler. Money
and troops will be sent you.
Isignedl z. CHANDLER.
The Senate and House committees OF
Congress on counting the electoral vote have
agreed upon = report, Senator Morton alone Of
the Republicans not concurring. The tribu-
nal for the decision of controverted questions
will he etripartite, one branch of which will be
composed OF five justices Of the Supreme Court
OF the United States, and the other two OF five
members each of the Senate and House. Its
members are to take special oath to decide
questions according to the constitution Of the
United States and the laws made under it.
The information of this decision occasions
general qualification throughout the country.
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