Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24
NEWS. N BRIEF. :,
alNER1L BoRx1aN 1OvEs

THE ohclA report OF the Investigations
Into the affairs of the City of Glasgow Bank,
Just Issued, is worse than the most gloomy
forebodings. The loss shown in the balance
sheet is t5,l9o,9SS. This loss, with the adj
dition of II ,0C0, 900 capital. the shareholders
will have to make good. a call for $500
per share is anticipated, which it is thought
half the stockholders will be unable 20
meet. The remainder Of the shareholders
will thus ultimately be compelled to pay
double.
The glut OF cotton goods in Lancashire,
England, is simply unprecedented. At
Preston, Nimuaos hills with sc, Op spiA,hes.
and sharple's mil with $4,000 spihdles,
have ceased running. uerrocks Miller &
Co., the best known firm in the north of
England, have adopted measures to restrict
production in their mills.
THE Ameer of Afghanistan is endeavor
ing to raise religious war among the
Mohammedans of central Asia, against
England.
DIFFERENCES have arisen between the
English and Russian delegates on the Ser.
Wan boundary commission.
! SIMULTANEOUSLY with the presentation Of
his credentials, the Ottoman ambassador to
Vienna was ordered to declare to Count
Andrassy that the porte would be compelled
to oppose, by arms, the advance of Austrian
troops upon Novi Bazaar.
A LONDON dispatch of the l4th says
| Heugh Balfour 4 Co.'S. liabilities are now
estimated at over 3lO,OOO,OOO Six of the
largest firms of Blackburn are creditors and
lose from $250 900 to 100000 each
! AN understanding has been reached re-
sarding the reduction of the Austrian army
OF occupation in Bosnia. Eighty thousand
troops will be withdrawn from Bosnia The
remaining divisions will be reduced to a
peace footing.
THE EAST
AUSTIN {. WELLINGTON, coal dealer,
Boston, Mass, has failed, liabileties, STA,
900; assets $4,000.
ADMIRAL PAvLplNG, senior flag officer on
the retired list Of the navy, son of the cap.
ter Of Major Andre, and last surviving
officer of the battle Of Champlain died on
the Goth inst at Huntington, L. l.
DUNCAN, SHERMAN 4 Co., have received
their discharge in bankruptcv.'~~
THE two.mile sculling race for purse OF
$4,000 between Edward Morris and Fred
Plaisted, was sculled over the Fulton course,
at Pittsburg, Pa, on TIE 18th inst, and won
by the former who crossed the line about
three lengths ahead Of his opponent. Time
13:4;1.
IT has been, ordered that work in the
mines at Pottsville, Pa, be commenced.
Additional allotment to the Philadelphia
and Reading companies being about 10, 900
/ tons, it will give miners another week s
work for October. After finishing the extra
i allottments, it is likely work will be contn.
ued without interruption until the Novem.
Der quota OF $500 tons is filled, requiring
i two weeks wo
QUITE a sensation was caused at Brook.
lyn, n. y, on the 10th, by the resignation
of assistant district attorney Hoxie. He
accompanied his resignation with written
confession that he had lost in Wall street
moneys entrusted to him as government
official. The amount OF his dtfalrarion is
supposed to be large.
THE Vermont legislature on the 18th inst.
reelected Justin. u. Morril to the United
States senate.
ARTHUR CHENEY, manager of the Globe
theater, Boston, died at South Manchester,
Conn, on the 10Th inst.
The defaulting mill cashier, George T.
Hathaway, was arraigned at Taunton, Mass,
on the 14th, and sentenced to tep years in
the state prison TN e prisoner wept pro.
: fusely.
TIE First National bank Of Tomaqua,
Pa, has suspended, owing to the failure of
Chas. 7. Schooner, of Phila, who was a
principal stakeholder. Assets $150,00O.
TIE WEST.
THE exposition which closed at Chicago
on the 10th instant, was the most largely
attended Of any previously held.
ROBERT HARRIS, well.known Chicago
railroad man, has been appointed general
manager of the New York, Lake Erie and
western railroad.
News has been received from Ma
lad, Idaho, that 40 or 50 persons
sentenced to fine and Imprisonment
for cutting timber for the Utah ane
and Northern railroad are pardoned BY tn
secretary of the navy, and fines RENTED
the railroad company to pay for the timber
THE California constitutional conventio,
at San Francisco, on the 10th inst, adopted
a memorial to the president and senate 0
the United States, to SO modify the Burlin
game treaty as to prohibit Chinese immigra
ton. 'sG
) FATHER r. C. CHRISTIE, well-kuow,
} Catholic priest, who made an enviable wa
= record as chaplain of Pennsylvania troops
! died at St. Francis Hospital, Columbus, O.
on the 10Th inst. His remains were take1
to Edenburg, Pa, for burial.
S.H.sB BURKE, a stockholder.s has entere
!. suit against the Consolidated Virginia mi,
7 ing company and the Pacific mill and mir
E ing company, to recover $4,000, alleged t
: have been wrongfully diverted from tn
6 stockholders of the Consolidated Virgin
by manipulation of ore and retention Q
failing of the company.
A SEVERE storm prevailed west of tn
l Rocky mountains on the 18th and 18th inst
interfering with business communication
Snow fell at Virginia City, Nevada, and raj
:, fell throughout California.
t A GANG of thirty tramps who encampe
I uear Terre Haute, Ind, and were conmi
ting depredations, was scattered by the al
!. thoritjes on the 18th inst, after desperat
fight.
0 WASHINGTON. ;...r
, GREEN c. CHANDLER has been appointe
!, United States district attorney for the nertf
4 ern district of mississippi.
e The secretary of the treasuary has ~
t pointed special committee to visit til
: bond paper manufacturing establishment
4 with the view to obtain the fibre paper fc
u bonds and not.s a. cbsone[ thon nrase,
rates.
Gen. HOWARD telegraphs from Fort Va,
& couver, that a Umatilla Indian was murde
}. ed on the 29th ult. by white men, and tn.
# the Uma,illas have within three weeks lo
J. 800 horses taken by whites. He asks "Ca,