Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24
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TIE Official report of the Investigations
into the affairs Of the City Of Glasgow Bank.
Just issue1, IS worse than the most gloomy
forebodings< The loss shown in the balance
sheet is f5,l9o,9sS. This loss, with the ad-
dition of 100000 capital, the shareholders
will have to make good. 4, GALL 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, Nimq hilh wit 80, oQspi4cAess
and sharple'ss hAl with $4,000 spihdle.,
have ceased running. Herrocks, Miller 4
Co., the best known firm in the north of
England, have adopted measures to restrict
production in their mills.
THE Ameer of Afghauistan is endeavor
ing to raise 4 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 14,h says:
Heugh, Balfour. 4 Co.'S. liahilities are now
estimated at oyer 9lo,OOO,O60. Six of the
largest firms of Blackburn are creditors and
lose from $25 900 to 100000 each.
AN understanding has been reached re-
garding 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troops will be withdrawn from Bosnia.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 c. WELLINGTON, coal dealer,
Boston, Mass, has failed, liabilities, $l74,.
900; assets S., 900.
ADMIRAL PAuLD1NG, 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 bankruptcy.-~~~-~-
THE two.mile sculling race for purse Of
s., 900 between Edward Morris and Fred
Plasted, was sculled over the Fulton course,
at Pittsburg, Pa, on the 18th inst, and won
by the former who crossed the line about
three lengths ahead of his opponent. Time
Is AS. <"
IT has been. ordered that work in the
mines at Pottsville, Pa, be commenced.
Additional allotment to the Philadelphia
and Reading companies being about ITO, 900
tons, it will give miners another weeks
work for October. After finishing the extra
allottments, it is likely work will be contin-
ued without interruption until the Novem.
Der quota of 343,500 tons is filled, requiring
two weeks wo
Ign, 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 a government
official. The amount OF his defalcation is
supposed to be large.
THE Vermont legislature on the 18th inst
reelected Justin!,J. Morril to. thh- United
States senate.
ARTHUR CHENEY, manager of the Globe
theater, Boston, died at South Manchester,
Conn.,, on the 18th inst.
The defaulting mill cashier, George T..
Hathaway, was arraigned at Taunton, Mass,
on the 14th, and senss9fed to. tep, years in
fusely.
THE First National bank OF Tomaqua,
Pa, has suspended, owing to the failure Of
Chas. T. Schooner, of Phila., who was a
principal stakeholder. Assets $4,000.
THE 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.
Had, Idaho, that 40 or 80 persons,
sentenced to fine and Imprisonment,
for cutting timber for the Utah and
and Northern railroad are pa1doned BY. the
secretary of the navy, and fines RENTED
the railroad company to pay for the timber
The California constitutional convention
at San Francisco, on the 10th inst, adopted
a memorial to the president and senate Of
the United States, to SO modify the Burlin
game treaty as to prohibit Chinese ,immigra
ton. i ia2s fsSs :sfIj
| FATHER r. C. CHRISTIE, well-knowu
Catholic priest, who made an enviable wal
record as chaplain of Pennsylvania troops
died at St. Francis Hospital, Columbus, O..
on the 10Th inst. His remains were taken
to Edenburg, Pa fof burial: j
81 burke, a. stock bidder has entered
suit against the Consolidated Virginia min
ing company and the Pacific mill and min
ing company, to recover SIG, 900, alleged tt
have been wrongfully diverted from the
stockholders of the Consolidated Virginis
by manipulation Of ore and retention so
failing of the company.
A SEVERE storm prevailed west of th1
Rocky mountains on the 18th and 18th inst.
interfering with business communication
Snow fell at Virginia City, Nevada, and rair
, fell throughout California.
A GANG Of thirty tramps who encamped
uear Terre Haute, Ind, and were commit
ting depredations, was scattered by the au
thoritjes on the 18th inst, after a desperate
fight.
WASHINGTON. ?.>st -.
GREEN c. CHANDLER has been appointed
United States district attorney for the north
ern distdctofM ississippi. :
The secretary of the treasuary has ap
pointed special committee to visit tn.
bond paper manufacturing establishments
with the view to obtain the fibre paper fol
bonds and notes at CHEAPER than presen
rates.
| GEN. HOWARD telegraphs from. Fort Van
eouver, that a Umatilla Indian was murder
ed on the 10Th ult. by white men, and tina
the Umatillas have within three weeks los
500 horses taken by whites. He asks: "Can
not the United States district attorney b.