Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-10
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"MExroR MownRxr," 81. Prau ces Gr.ht,
the famous portrait painter and president
Of the Royal Acsdsmy died suddenly At
London on tho 5th inst.
LORD CHRlMsFoRD, formerly lord chan.
cellor Of England, is dead.
THE Prussian field marshall, Count Won
Meltke has rendered his resienation. The
matter will be decided when the emperor
resumes control of the goysrnuent. :
HEAVY failures in Great Britain: Smith,
Fleming l. Co., East India merchants; liza.
bilities over $40, 100000. Potter, Wilson 4
Co., Glasgow shipowners; liabilities estimst
ed at $500, 900. - tss, ,
THE whole of .Bosaia aud Herzegovina
is subdued and in Austrian hands.
JAcAhkl, West Indies, was visited by IN.
other hurricane on 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
communication has yet been received from
the Ameer. Natives bring down word that
the Ameer is collecting his forces from all
quarters to oppose the advances of the Eng.
lish. Z = $50
ADv1cEs from Gasabianca, Morocco. re-.
pert $50 deaths there from cholera out of a
population of 1000, between the 18th and
18th Of September, and from sixty to seven
ty daily at Fec and Mequines.
THE City of Glasgow bank closed its doors
on the I'd. Its liabilities are stated to be $50.
100000. The liability of the shareholders il
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 ia held by ladies and gen
tlemen, who retired on moderate compe
tence and now find themselves reduced
from circumstances of comfort to absolute
poverty.
A BOAT race for two hundred pound.
took place on the 1st, on the Thames, be
Cannon and Howdon. The course wa,
from Putney to Mortlake. Howdon won b,
four lengths.
! JUDGE WILLIAM kKOGH, of the Court o
Common Pleas in ireland, is dead.
IT 10 reported that Prince Dondouk,
ko1zakoh, the Russian governor of Bulga
ria, has refused to recognize the nineteenth
article of the treaty Of Berlin entrustin,
the administration of the nances of eastern
Roumelia to the International commissiz
appointed for the organization of that prov
ince.
WASHINGTON.
MRS. GRN. SHERMAN returned to Wash
ington on the 9th, from Atlantic City, quit
recovered from her recent ILL., ness. She wa
accompanied by her daughter.
ACTING Postmaster General Tyner ha,
ordered that no fines be imposed upon mai
contractors or deductions made from thei
pay because of the failure or irregularity i,
service in Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky
Tennessee. Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas
on account of quarantine regulations.
The Acknowledgement of the army will il
a few days issue an order further explain
ing the posse con'tiat1s clause in the arm
bill. 1t will state that officers can detail
troops under their command to protec
United States property whenever it is i,
jeopardy, or there is any danger of it's DE-
struction. Another case in which troop
can be used, that will be cited, will be 70
the purpose of putting down an expedition
formed in the United States for the purpos
of visiting with hostile intent any foreiq
country.
On the I'd inst. J. NJ. T. Partel, of Wash
ington, at the Columbia rifle range made 4
consecutive bulls eyes at 800 yards, 4 bull
eyes and one center at 900 yards and Is COZ
secutive bulls eyes at 1000 yards, making
score Of 224 out of a possible 225.
The commissioner of internal revenu
has ordered the discontinuance of the rein
spection of spirits in Cincinnati, Chicago
st. Louis, Peoria, Pekin, Terre Haute an,
Milwaukee, ordered some weeks ago on &C
count of complaints made by certain Chi
cago distillers. No discrepancies of an,
Importance have been brought to light b,
the new inspection. The gaugers employees
on this work have been ordered to retur,
to their proper districts.
! THE public debt statement for Septembe
shows decrease in the debt for the mont
OF $3,196,534, and following balances in tn
treasury: Currency, $10,000,0 900; specia
deposit OF legal tenders for redemption o
certificates of deposit, $4o,710,0oO; coin
1921, 659,646; including coin certificates
$4,674, $50; outstanding legal tenders $s4s
681.O16, s1s~s~ =
DURING religious services at the Wash
ington Reform school on the evening of tn
18th ult., number of the boys were stimuli
taneously attacked with violent VOMITING
They were removed to their sleeping apar,
ments where they suffered from vomitin
and purging. It is thought that the veg,
tables or the meat they ate at dinner wa
poisoned. The superintendent was ais
similarly anected.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Ar = .steeple chase Ut Montreal, Canad.
on the 9Th inst, DR.. Murcott, of Ottawa, Va
thrown from his horse and killed, Mr.. Per
neston had an arm broken and Mr.. AcLauei
lin . wrist fractured.
AT Aaviers church, New York, on the St
inst, man named Carpenter plunged
large knife into the body Of Mary Logar
Carpenter intended to murder his divorces
wife. but mlstook Miss Logan for her. An
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The Passaic, N. J., rolling mills were COZ
sumed by fire on the 9Th inst, causing los
OF $4,000. Three fremen were severel,
injured. Four hundred and fifty men ar
thrown out of employment. -~~~
AT Chicago, on the night of the 4th inst
Officer Race, of the police force, saw q ma,
on State street driving wagon, and havin,
suspicious thst something was wrong, al
tempted to investigate the matter, when tn
man drew q pistol and shot him dead. /
was Afterwards discovered that the man VA
one OF gang who had just burglarized the
dry goods store of E. F. Jefray.
AN incendiary OF Pensacola, Fla, on tn,
night OF the Sd, burned the block extendin,
from Carr & Jollys saloon 70 kahnss cl6th
ing store. Loss $4,000; insurance 81, 0oo
TIE Gregory House, Lake Nahepac, N
T., was totally burned on the Sd inst. los
500, 900; insurance, 1900.
i AT Foreman Station, Mich, on the Sc
inst. saw.mill boiler exploded, KILN,
James Foreman and wounding four othel
neranna aorinus1v The 1,u:l1:nn ~on - A.1,-