Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-10
NEWS IN BRIEF.
GENERAL FOREIGN MOTIFS.

LOnOOn on the 9th inst.
LORD CHELMSFORD, formerly lord chan
cellor of England, is dead.
The Prussian field marshall, Count Won
Meltke has rendered his resignation. The
matter will be decided when the emperor
resumes control Of the government.
HEAVY failures in Great Britain: Smith,
Fleming \ Co., East India merchants; liza
bilities over $loO0o,Goo. Potter, Wilson 4
Co., Glasgow shipowners: liabilities estimat
ed ut 5000
Tar whole OF Bosnia and Herzegovina
is subdu.l and in Austrian hands.
JACAMEl., West Indies, was visited bv an.
other hurricane Oh the 25th Of last month.
Two vessels and all the lighters in the har-
Dor were lost and many houses destroyed.
a DISPATCH from kasanlie states that
movement against Cabul will begin imme-
diately. A similar dispatch reports that no
has yet been received from
che Ameer. Natives bring down word that
the Ameer is collecting his forces from all
quarters to oppose the advances of the Eng.
lish.
ADvIcEs from Casabianea, Morocco, re-
port $50 deaths there from cholera out of Il
population of 1000, between the 18th and
10Th OF September, and from sixty to seven
ty daily ut Fee and Mequinez.
THE City Of Glasgow bank closed its doors
on the I'd. Its liabilities are stated to be $50.
0,ooO. The liability of the shareholders is
unlimited. The bank was established in
1889, and had fifty or sixty branches. This
is the heaviest bank failure In Scotland
since 1857, when this concern also suspend
ed. Much stock is held by ladies and gen.
uemen, who retired on a moderate compe-
tence and now find themselves reduced
from circumstances Of comfort to absolute
poverty.
A BOAT race for two hundred pounds
took place on the 1st, on the Thames, be-.
Cannon and Howdon. The course was
from Putney to Mortlake. Howdon won bv
four lengths.
JUDGE WILLIAM kHoGH, of the Court of
Common Pleas in Ireland, is dead.
1T 10 reported that Prince Dondouka
ko1zakof, the Russian governor of Bulga-
ria, has refused to recognize the nineteenth
article of the treaty of Berlin entrustine
the administration of the fin ances of eastern
Roumelia to the International commission
! appointed for the organization of that prov.
ince.
WASHINGTON.
MRS. GRN. SHERMAN returned to Wash.
ington on the 9th, from Atlantic City, quite
recovered from her recent il ness. She was
, accompanied by her daughter
ACTING Postmaster General Tyner has
ordered that no fines be imposed upon mail
contractors or deductions made from their
pay because of the failure or irregularity in
service in Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky,
Tennessee. Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas,
on account of quarantine regulations.
THE adjutant.general of the army will in
a few days issue an order further explain
ing the posse comtiatus clause in the army
bill. 1t will state that officers can detail
troops under their command to protect
United States property whenever it is in
jeopardy, or there is any danger of its de-
struction. Another case in which troops
; can be used, that will be cited, will be for
the purpose OF putting down an expedition
formed in the United States for the purpose
of visiting with hostile intent any foreign
country.
On the I'd inst. J. NJ. 7. Partel, of Wash.
! ington, at the Columbia rifle range made As
consecutive bulls eyes at 500 yards, bulls
eyes and one center at 900 yards and Is con.
secutive bulls eyes at 1000 yards, making a
score OF 224 out of possible 225.
The commissioner of internal revenue
has ordered the discontinuance of the rein.
spection of spirits in Cincinnati, Chicago,
St. Louis, Peoria, Pekin, Terre Haute and
Milwaukee, ordered some weeks ago on &C
count of complaints made by certain Chi
cago distillers. No discrepancies of any
Importance have been brought to light BY
the new inspection. The gaugers employed
, on this work have been ordered to return
to their proper districts.
The public debt statement for September
! shows decrease in the debt for the month
| OF So, 1876, 534, and following balances in the
treasury: Currency, $l0,0OO,OOO; special
deposit of legal tenders for redemption of
certificates of deposit, $40,71O,00O; coin,
1921, $50 ,646; including coin certificates,
$34, 674 $40; outstanding legal tenders $685..
6S1.O16,
DURING religious services at the Wash.
ington Reform school on the evening of the
goth ult., number of the boys were stimuli
taneously attacked with violent vomiting.
They were removed to their sleeping apart.
ments where they suffered from vomiting
and purging. 1t is thought that the vege.
tables or the meat they ate at dinner was
poisoned. The superintendent was also
similarly anected.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
AT steeple chase at Montreal, Canada
on the 5th inst, Dr.. Murcott, of Ottawa, wat
thrown from his horse and killed, Mr.. Pen.
neston had an arm broken and Mr.. McLaugh'
lin wrist fractured.
AT Xaviers church, New York, on the 9Th
inst, man named Carpenter plunged q
large knife into the body of Mary Logan
Carpenter intended to murder his divorced
wife, but mlstook Miss Logan for her, an
inflicted the serious wound as stated.
The Passaic, N. j., rolling mills were con.
sumed by fire on the 9TH inst, causing loss
of $4,000. Three fremen were severely
injured. Four hundred and fifty men are
thrown out of employment.
AT Chicago, on the night of the 4th inst,
Officer Race, of the police force, saw man
on State street driving wagon, and having
suspicious that something was wrong, at.
tempted to investigate the matter, when the
man drew pistol and shot him dead. 1t
was afterwards discovered that the man was
one of gang who had just burglarized the
dry goods store of E. F. Jeffray.
AN incendiary OF Pensacola, Fla, on the
night of the Sd, burned the block extending
from Carr & Jolly's saloon to Kahn's cloth
ing store. Loss $4,000; insurance $25, 900.
The Gregory House, Lake Mahopac, N.
Y, was totally burned on the Sd inst. loss
500, 600; insurance, $4,000.
AT Foreman Station, Mich, on the Sd
inst. saw-mill boiler exploded, killing
James Foreman and wounding four other
persons seriously. The building was totally
destroyed.
A LARGE gang of counterfeiters have
been arrested in the mountains of Ken.
tuckY.