Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-11-28
NEWS IN BRIEF.
GENERAL FOREIGN MOTIFS.

GENERAL FOREIGN MOTIFS.
KING HUMBERr has conferred on signor
Carroll the military gold medallion bravery.
THE Times In its military article says:
Many reasons make it appear probable that
4 winter campaign viii close with the occu'
patton of Doks, Khurum and Pishen valleys.
Winter ID drawing near, the cold is intense
and fuel and forage in the mountainous
scarce. So for prudential reasons
the Indian government will not care to
entangle their armies too fur in the hills at
this season, until their communications are
more secure, and their coMmissariat and
transport arrangements on more approved
footing.
THE British forces captured fort Ali
Musjid from the Afehans on the 2lst inst.
The number OF killed and wounded in the
operations at Khyber Pass is estimated At
500.
TIKI failure Of Mitchell Bros, flax spin
ners and power loom weavers OF Belfast,
Ireland, is announced. Liabilities, $4,000.
Two of the largest slate manufactures in
Wales have closed. Most OF the quarries
are reducing forces and lowering wages.
THE British force, advancing from Duet.
tab, has arrived at kushlak, ten miles dis
tant. The cold is intense. About 100 men
are sick in each regiment. Warm clothes
are urgently required. Anxiety is felt re-
garding the weather. A proclamation Of
the viceroy has been read to the Belooch
chiefs stating that the war will only be
waged against the ameer, and advising the
people to remain At their homes. The Duet
tab column numbers $3.50 men. A division
commanded by Lieut.. Gen. Donald Stewart,
numbering $3.50 men. has left Moolhan for
Que ttah.
APPALLING distress and restitution exists
among the mechanics and laborers of Shelf
field, England, in consequence of business
depression. Hundreds exist in tenements
without clothing or furniture, all having
been sold or pawned to procure food. They
are without fuel and dependent upon the
charity of their neighbors. The mayor has
called public meeting to devise measures
of relief.
No reply was received by the English
government from the Afghan ameer, and
the British troops in India nave according
ly been ordered to advance into Afghanis
tan. A dispatch dated Peshawur, Nov. 90
says: "Traveling from Thull yesterday
passed the khurum force advancing. Thir
ty miles of the road was covered with troops
elephants, camels and cattle. The Peshawul
force is marching on Jumrod.
A DISPATCH from Berlin says Russia it
making great efforts to obtain an extension
of the term of occupation of Turkey, but
all the powers oppose it. The National lei
tung reports Count Schouvalotf will be ap
, pointed ambassador at Vienna, aud NJ. Vor
| Novikoff, now ambassador there, will bt
transferred to London.
| THIRTEEN of the oldest and most influen
tial citizens of Lemberg were MORALLY
wounded during disturbance caused by
the collision between the olice and thu
procession in honor o. Deputy Hausner
~hich had been prohibited.
THE WEST.
! THR committee Of the Illinois state boart
of agriculture, completed arrangements fol-
the fat stock show to be held in the exposi
ton building, Chicago, Dec. End to 9TH. Reso
lutions were adopted favoring the resembling
of the rule making any animal entered
ineligible to any future exhibition, SO far a
it refers to steers three years old and under
Also favoring change of the rule so tina
the ownership of animals must have beer
vested in the exhibitor only thirty day
prior to December LIST. Parties entering ia
or breeding animals for exhibition onl,
: will pay the regular entry fees and the ex
pense necessary for the preparation OF quar-
tiers.
! NJ. TENBosH & Co., shipping and commits
sion merchants, San Francisco, CAL, hav'
suspended. Liabilities about $4,000, o,
account of English ships chartered under
orders of Dresback s. Co., who recent,
I failed. Decline in freig hts the cause of sus
pension.
The October yield of precious metals OF
the Pacific coast is estimated at $3.50, 100
: The ightest month for years.
! DURING the past 80 days, II whalers hav
arrived at San Francisco from the nort]
bringing 200 barrels OF oil, 60, 800 pounds o
; whalebone, and $4,000 pounds of ivory
The Siberia is the only vessel now expected
and she will not add materially to the abov
totals. The catch is usually light.
| AT Cambridge, Ohio, on the 18th instant
in the case of Eliza Britton against the Mu
tual Life Insurance company, the jury re
turned verdict for the plaintiff for S., 1888
being 5000 policy with interest, less tn
! amount of note given for premium will
interest. No money was ever paid for thi'
risk, and the policy was surrendered an,
note returned four months before the al
sured's death. The decision was given OF
account of an extension of time on the note
I Col. JAMES MADISON STRONG, membe
OF the constitutional committee from Mari
posa and MERGED district, and pionee,
cotton grower of California, died at Sacra
meuto on the 10th inst.
Hon. JOHN w. MERRITT, formerly edito
of the Springfield, ILL.,, Reg;ster, Salem Advo
cate, and other papers, and one of the oldes
, journalists in the west, died at Salem, Ill
on the 10th inst.
/ REV. ALEXANDER REED, D. D., q vel
known clergyman, late of Philadelphia
died at Denver, Col, early on the 18th.
WASHINGTON.
! A SUIT has been brought by the attorne,
of Col. VIM. 3. Moore, late supervising
special agent of the treasury, to recover
damages to the amount of $4,000 from
Gen. N. V. Boynton. Col. Moore was re
moved from his Office about a year ago upo1
presentation to President Hayes, as is al
legged, of certain letters written by Col
Moore to President Grant, relative to Secre
| tary Bristow.