Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-03
NEWss1N BRIEF.
GENERAL roRx1ar MOTIFS.


oRN1RALFo NOTES. P
IT is officially denied that Russia had any
thing to do with the Ameer's rejection sof
the British mission.
"a QAEHN VICTORIA and the Prince OF
Wales have transmitted letters to Athens
through Hobart Pasha, favoring moderate
conciliatory arrangements between Greece
and the porte.
THE international peace congress has
adopted resolutions recommending the set
tlement of disputes between nations by arbi'
tration, and declaring war to be brigandage.
DIR. AUGUST HE1NR1CH PETRRMAN, a
well.known German geogrspher suffered a
stroke of apople1y and died on the 9th.
A CONsTANTlNOPLE dispatch reports some
of the leading Russian authorities in eastern
Roumelia openly declare they will resist any
alteration in the administration which they
have established.
A DISPATCH from Airola, Switzerland, at
the southern mouth of st. Gothard tunnel,
reports that three cases of gunpowder for
blasting in the tunnel exploded on the 25th
inst, and that ten workmen were instantly
killed and several terribly injured.
A DISPATCH from from Calcutta says
when the British mission was refused pas.
sage, the commandant of Alimusjid told
Major Cavaguari but for personal friendship
he would shoot him on the spot. War be-
tween England and Afghanstan is believed
to be inevitable.
THE volcano of Cotopaxi is again IN 8
state of eruption, throwing out immense
clouds of smoke and ashes, which can bt
seen from GuaQoquil. The eruption is tn.
years..
A SERIOUS strike has occurred against .
reduction of wages in the factories of col
ored cotton at Tedcliffe, Pekinton and Uns
worth, England. Three thousand looms ar,
idle.
THERE was an intermittent eruption 0
Mount Versuvius on the night of the 23d
which is actively increasing.
RUSSIA has proposed to the powers t,
make collective demand upon the port'
for the immediate surrender of the territor.
ceded Montenegro by the Berlin treaty.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
TIE steamer Adelphi exploded her boil
er at Norwalk, Conn.,, on the 2Sth instant
Ten persons were killed outright and twent,
wounded-some fatally it is thought.
! A CARRIAGE was struck by railwa,
train at q crossing in New York city. o
the occupants, Mary Redwood, Mrs. Stephel
Callahan and Patrick McNamee were kille,
and three children of Mrs. Callahan sc
| riously injured.
| THE Missouri Car company suffered los
OF 100000 by fire on the night of the 26t
| inst.
| AT Providence, R. l., on the night of tn
26th, while Walter NJ. Green and famil
were at the Opera House, the house wa
robbed of diamonds and jewelry valued q
$12,
| MRS. ANNA MITCHELL, colored, was brut
ally murdered near Troy, Ohio, on the 27tt
The body was horribly mutilated, som
twenty cuts being inflicted. The husban
is the supposed murderer, and the motiv
jealousy.
THE whaling bark Legal Tender, whic
has arrived at San Francisco from the Arr
tic regions, reports the bark Florence Hav
anan, and the brig W. Fl. Allen stove by ic
off Point Barrow. The bark Sea Breeze
when last seen, was leaking badly. The tw
first are probably a total loss. Crews ar
al! rescued. The fleet had gone eastward.
| A MAN named Green had both his arm
blown off by the premature discharge of
cannon at Monmouth, ILL.,, on the Goth.
c.. W. PHILLIPS, of Delavan, Wis.,,
prominent citizen and noted sportsman
suicided by hanging, on the Goth.
JAMES RUSSELL, negro rapist, wa
lynched by the citizens of Murfreesboro
Tenn, on the Goth.
In Marion, Ala, on the night of the 24tt
over eleven business houses burned. Los
5000.
The body of an unknown man was feun
hanging to tree, in the western suburbs {
st. Louis, Mo-, on the 18th. Evidently
case of suicide.
BY boiler explosion at the School Stat
Factory, at Allentown, Pa, on the oath il
slant, Frank Kennel, engineer, was instan
~ killed, ex-constable VIM. Hunt badl
wounded, several others injured, and th
engine house and wash house completed
wrecked.
Hon. ADDISON LAFL1N, ex.member {
congress and naval officer of the port {
New York during Grants administratio,
committed suicide at Fitchburg, Mass, o
the oath, by hanging himself in the Carr,
of his house.
A SEVERE storm in Indiana, on the 25t
instant, unroofed houses, blew down II
new Presbyterian church and played have
generally, at Lebanon, Ind, 80 miles mort
OF indianapolis, Damage may reach $40
600. No loss of life reported.
LEONARD S1HLER, q Toledo. Obi.
butcher: who had been drinking heavily fe
two weeks past, shot himself through tn
heart, with revolver, in a saloon. on Ii
morn morning Of the 2sd, producing insta,
The body of woman and a newly Dor
babe was found in the woods near india1
apolis, Ind, on the 22d. The remains we,
Identified as those of the wife of VIM. Me
rick, livery stable keeper. Aerrick ".
arrested. The inference is that, by the al
OF accomplices, he murdered the woma,
and, in the struggle, the child was born.
WASHINGTON.
RUSSELL ERRErT, NJ. c., of Pittsbur,
Pa, is urged as chief of the bureau of e,
craving and printing.
The secretary of the treasury on the 27t
inst. received an anonymous communities
ton from Boston inclosing 81 500, to /
placed to the credit of the conscience fun,
Gov. HAMPTON having requested that Il
state authorities be allowed to collect Unite
States internal revenue taxes in South Car
lima, on account Of the great difficulties 8,
perienced by the revenue officers in Il
performance of that duty. Commission,
Raum, to whom the matter was referre,
replies that the proposition, cannot be e.
tertained. 50 l. &(s J :
The president has appointed Thos. !
Ellis, of Brooklyn, Indian agent at Fo,
Berthold agency, D. T., L. NJ. Kelly, ,
Elgin, ILL.,, at Los Pjnos agency, COL, an
Jos. A. Stephen, Of La Porte, Ind, 1t Stan,
ing Rock agency.
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