Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1877-01-04
Miscellaneous News Items,

Seven inches of snow fell at Louis
vile, Ky., OH the 30th.
The armistice in Turkey has been
prolonged until March lst.
1t is now reported from Asiatic Tur.
key that the plague has re-apreared at Bag
dad.
A strike on the Grand Trunk rail-
way in Canada stopped all trains, on the 1st
inst.
Four hundred thousand dollars worth
Of silks laces and jewelry in one uptown New
York church, last Sunday.
A photograph gallery in New York
burned on the 2Sth and over $50, 900 dollars
worth OF property destroyed.
The Russian army is reported to be
in very bad condition. The troops are
decimated by typhus and marsh fevers.
Chapman, Stone & Co., of New York,
one of the heaviest firms in the Japanese
trade, have failed with liabilities approaching
s5OO,O
The Army and Navy Journal &C.
knowledges the receipts Of the subscriptions
for the widows OF Custer's command aggregat-
ing $ll,Ol5.
The forecasts of tho weather pub
lished by the Chief Signal officer, hitherto
styled Probabilities" i" will hereafter be known
as 'Indications."
In 4 sparring exhibition in Boston,
last week, between r. j. McDcrmott and D.
Davidson, the latter received injuries from
which lie died in the hall.
A shipment of war munitions was
made from New Haven last week for the
Turkish government. The value of the cargo
was million and a half.
The New York Graphic is informed
that Vanderbilts will bequeaths sixty four
dollars 1851 10 each newspaper in the United
States to pay for ''ante mortem obituaries, and
other bother"
The ordinance stores have been Or
dered removed from the st. Louis arsenal !;
the cannon to Rock Island and the guns, pis-
tolls, ETC., to New York. The arsenal will
hereafter he used as cavalry recruiting
station.
There have been several snow slides
in Little Cottonwood cannon on the U. P.
railroad, within the past three weeks, carry.
ing away several hundred feet of snow sheds
over the railway. One occurred above Alta,
who were sufocated.
1t is affirmed that the Porte has de-
clared its willingness to make concessions
and offer ample securities to the powers, but
it unswervingly refuses to sanction the occu.
patton of its provinces by any troops what
ovop II h no ova,, rot,,ood ;ts onnoon+ m occ,
patton by English troops.
In compensation for the destruction
Of the American chapel at Yen Pin Fue, a
year ago, an apology was sent to the United
States Counsel, q sum of money for books and
other property destroyed, the chapel rebuilt
and delivered to the missionaries, and proc
lamation issued explaining the rights OF for
eigners to reside in the interior.
A dispatch from C0nstantinople of
the Goth, says the Porte is still firmly resolved
not to make any concession which is contrary
to the maintenance of the integrity of the
empire, nor to grant the broad administrative
authority OF the provinces nor disarmaments
of Mussulmans. 1t isexpected, however, that
the armistice will be prolonged.
1t having been reported that the
Adams Express company haslost oversl ,OoO,.
600 by fire in safes burned on the Erie rail.
road, have issued a denial. They say they
have lost no safes on the Erie road by fire o.
otherwise, and that they do not and neve,
have run on the Erie road also that they
have suffered no loss of late on any railroad.
Senator Logan lately said to some
body, who told Troy Times correspondent
"What could do without my witeg Iwould
be nothing without that woman" Mrs. Lo
gan attends to her husbands private CORES.
pondence, and her ,chirography is so like hi.
that many letter signed by her hand, "Joh1
A. Logan" is carefully preserved by the re.
cipient as the autograph ofthe Senator.
Coles Morris, the missing New Yorl
lawyer, who was reported as defaulter, wa.
found shut up in his elegant quarters up
town, sick, and apparently monomaniac OF
the subject Of poverty, tearing he will becom.
q pauper, though surrounded with evidence,
OF wealth. His firm published . card, an
nouncing his business to be all straight ant
expressing belief in his entire integrity. HI
is reported very wealthy.
| Great Britain has squarely backet
down from its position on the extradition
criminals of the United States twill be re
membered that the question Was It issue i
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