Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-11-07
NEWS IN BRIEF. ).
a1NRnA1 FOREIGN RorEs.


70, otherwise the English forces will imme-
liately invade Afghanistsn.
BARON Won WYDRNBRUCK, who WAS
Austrian minister at Washington, during
the reign of Emperor Maximillian in Mex
leo, is dead.
Two wings OF the college at Maynooth.
Ireland, were destroyed by fire on the LIST
inst. Library slightly damaged. Loss es.
timated at $4,000. The students lost all
their personal property.
THE British revenue cutter Fanny was
run into and sunk off Tuskar, on the 3lst
ult., by the steamer Helvetia. Seventeen Of
the Fanny's crew persisted.
\ CONsTANTINOPLE. dispatch states that
the Greek minister there has received in.
formation that the British note urging the
strict adherence of the powers to the treaty
of Berlin will recommend mediation on the
Greek frontier question.
A DISPATCH from Simla states that the
English ultimatum will summon the Ameer
to give guarantees for the future good un-
derstanding. 1t is not thought that the
ultlmatum will cause any delay, as the an
swer of the Ameer must be received within
fortnight or three weeks, and the prepare
ton of the army will in the meantime be
unrelaxed.
GENERAL TODLEBEN has arrived at Hule
Bourgas and ordered the repair of the
bridges and the construction of barracks for
winter quarters. "
THE Pail Mall Gazette editorially declares
that the treaty of Berlin is failure; that it
will be impossible by it to arrive at a pacific
solution, and the sooner this fact is recog.
nized the better.
The Porte asked Prince Labanoff to ex-
plain the return of the Russian troops to
the position recently evacuated by them,
and also the refusal to reinstate the Turkish
authorities in the district between Tchorlu
and Adrianople. Sixty thousand Russians
entered Roumelia by way of Bourgas.
In & circular to the signatory powers in
regard to the new rebellion south OF the
Balkans the porte describes the condition
of the Mussplmsns in Bulgaria and Rou-
melia as intolerable and declares foreign
power is cooperating with the Slavonic
committees at Sofia, and aiming at the es-
Enlistment of new independent state.
In another note addressed to Prince
Labanoff, the Russian ambassador at Con-
stantinople, the porte charges Russia with
connivance at the plans of the rebels and
demands her aid in suppressing the rebel
lion begun under the eyes of the Russian
troops.
THE WEST.
DELEGATES from various divisions of the
Ancient Order of Hibernians, state of Cali.
fornia, met at Oakland on the night OF the
End inst, declared vacant the offices of the
state delegate, secretary and treasurer, and
selected John Reeney delegate, J. G. Spill
lave secretary and WI. O'Connell, treasur
, er, for the unexpired term. The meeting
endorsed as the only legitimate nationa
officers of the order in the United States
P. Gibney, national delegate, P. Campbell
national secretary and James Lsngan, ma
tional treasurer.
CAPT. PRATT, of the regular army, de
tailed tor the work, has taken forty-nine
Indian children gathered from six
agencies, to Hampton, Va, where the chill
dren will be placed at school at the govern
ment expense. The children average abou
Is years of age.
j. J. SHEARER, of Greenville, Michigan
who committed an aggravated assault on
Congressman Ellsworth, last spring, wa:
sentenced to pay fine of 5000 and be i'm.
prisoned in the Detroit house of correction
six months, by Judge Lovel, of Stanton.
FRANK Robert was hanged at Virginia.
Montana. on the 3lst ult, for the murder of
one Morris. in the Crow reservation.
THE Miles polygany case at Salt Lake
City was closed on the 31st ult. The de-
fendent was held for the action of the grand
jury in 81 800.
AFrEh two weeks severe raiding by the
police, II out of IA notorious gambling
houses in st. Louis closed their doors.
The main line of the Indianapolis, Bloom
ingten and Western railroad company, ex
tending from Indianapolis to Pekin, I'LL.
was sold at Chicago on the 3Oth inst fol-
81 ,0oO,o0o. The property was purchased OF
behalf of Austin Corbin, Giles E. Tainto1
and Josiah B. Blossom, the bondholders
purchasing committee of New York city.
AFFAIRS on the Mexican border are rep
resented as more peaceable. 1t is asserted
that there is larger number of incursion!
into Mexico by the Indians than there is O.
Mexicans into Texas.
THE Cincinnati Enquirer publishes stat
istics and approximate estimates of thu
corn crop of 1873, as follower In 81 coun
ties in Ohio the number of acres planted i.
1885, 900; the yield of bushels, g., S65, 900
being an increase over last year of abou
1900, 900 bushels. In forty-eight countie.
in Indiana, the number of acres planted il
2,028,0OO; the yield in bushels 1890, 900
being about 2,000, 900 decrease. In ter
counties in Kentucky the number of acres
is LIS, 600, and the yield in bushels, 3,0o3,
600, being 100000 decrease.
WARRINGTON.
IT is understood that Georgetown Height.
have been selected as the site for q new
naval observatory.
!! THEODORE NJ. VAIL. general superintend.
ent of the railway mail service, has rendered
his resignation to take effect upon the ap.
poihtment of q successor. w. r. Thomp
son, of Toledo, is named at the postcffice
department as the probable successor.
The secretary of theinterior has received
from Governor Lew Wallace, of New Mexi
co, q letter informing him that since the
publication of the presidents proclama
ton, lawlessness existingin the territory on
the governors arrival has almost entirely
subsidized, and that he has every reason to
believe that no further trouble need be an
tieipated. = ~r~ - ~
THE president has signed the commits.
sion of Ralbert E. Paine, of Wisconsin, to
be com missioner of patents, vice Ellis Spear
resigned. Gen. Paine entered at once upon
his hoiel duties. IS rss - ~ : -
8 TIE German American national bank at
Warrington has failed. The cause Of the
failure was the inability of the bank to rea.
lise upon real estate mortgages. The nation
al bank examiner, now in charge, states that
it is probable the depositers will be paid in
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