Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-17
DAVIDSON & WHEELER, Publishers.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
GENERAL FOREIGN NOTES.

ate Baboeski Guns have been mounted on
the Constautinople line by the Turks.
us. MINISTER NOl Es, at Paris, up to the
18th had received 81, 900 francs for the ben
tit OF the fever stricken districts of America.
The United States consul at st. Thomas
1eltgraphs concerning the insurrection at
Santa Cruz: THE rioters are apparently
controlled. About 25C are killed. Planters
are searching the country for the rioters
Four-hfths Of the mills, dwellings, cane,
rum and sugar on the plantations is destoy.
ed; also the business houses in Frederik-
staut Many families are destitute and all
business is temporarily suspended"
\ PANIC, occasioned by fight and
sruttliug under the gallery OF the coliseum
theatre at Liverpool on the 18th inst. In
the stampede that followed IS men and lads
and two ladies were sutfocated. Many Oth-
ers were injured.
RUSSIA claims the treaty Of Berlin did not
fix the duration Of Russian occupation of
places outside OF eastern Roumelia, and
therefore the occupation OF such places is
regulated by the treaty Of San Stefano.
The porte's circular, recently delivered to
the powers, reserves the Sultan's sovereign
rights over Bosnia and Herzegovina, and
concludes with solemn warning against
the occupation OF Novi-Bazar as certain to
eause terrible disasters.
\ ST. PETERSBURG dispatch says twenty
three storehouses, thlrty.one WOODEN houses,
and seventy warehouses, valued at over two
smillion roubles, were burned in Blazan,
near Moscow.
\ DESPATCH from Constantinople says !:
- In both Turkish and Greek circles the
idea is gaining ground that war is inevita-
bic. An influential party in Turkish coun-
Gil, headed by Osmau Pasha, even holds
that purely defensive policy is impossible
for purely military reasons. The central
news agency has a report that Russian vi
de1tes are within Is miles of Constantinople.
The British government is anxious and re-
solved to Immediately demand an explana-
ton. Vienna dispatch says Russia is still
urging Roumania to conclude a convention
granting the right OF passage for Russian
troops through her territory for the mini.
mum period of two years. Count Andrassy
has so lar induced Roumelia to withhold
her consent. The Russian army in Roumelia
still amounts, contrary to the treaty, to
$4,000 men.
FIVE Wesleyan missionaries were muir.
dered and eaten by bush natives, near the
Malicola coast, New Zealand. Eighty OF the
tribe were killed by traders and coast ua.
tives in retaliation.
\ CORRESPONDENT of Peru telegrap his
that the Afghan envoy has not urged the
sultan to conclude an alliance with Russia,
but that Russian officers from Central Asia
declare that an understanding exists be.
tween the ameer OF Afghanistan and Russia
::t:,i an Anglo.Russian war is certain.
THERE is IN impression in Hungary that
Austria is in danger OF drifting into war
with Turkey, hence the anxiety to prevent
operations against Novi Bazaar.
WASHINGTON.
TIE New York bank statement for the
week ending October 18th, was the most un.
favorable one issued for some time past, the
surplus reserve being reduced from S. 1885,.
$50 the week previous to IS, 531 900. A
heavy decrease in specie is owing to absorb
ton OF gold by the treasury for customs and
settlements by the syndicate, and legal
tender decrease is due to continued out
flow to assist in moving the crops.
On the 18th instant, the cabinet discussed
tine Illicit distillery troubles in Arkansas
Concerning the request for troops from tha1
state, the attorney general has decided that
the civil authorities must exhaust all means
to enforce the laws before the military car
be called upon. Should it be shown tina,
the civil authorities are powerless to exc
cutethe laws, the President will then issue
his proclamation commanding the offenders
to cease their violations of law, and if mo-
obeyed the military will be employed t.
break up such Illicit stills.
The request of the commissioners of in
ternal revenue to Little Rock, for troops tt
aid him in destroying illicit distilleries, will
be considered by the cabinet. The war de-
partment officials express the opinion that i
will be impossible to furnish the aid asked
FOR without violation of the posse comita
tus clause in the recent army appropriation
bill.
4 CIRCUMSTANCES has been received by
Secretary Sherman from the New YORK
clearing house, against his recent order re
questing senders of national bank currency
intended for redemption to pay the express
sage on it in advance. It is claimed tina
the order bears unequally on the large a!
compared with the small cities and towns
inasmuch Us the greater part Of the cur
rency centers in the former aud is sem
thence for redemption.
IN reply to an inquiry whether under the
new postal regulations bank notes and
greenbacks can be mailed as third class mat
ter, the postoAice department rules thai
thank notes and greenbecks having written
signatures or signatures added by means Of
fac-simile stamp, or other mark or sign added
to the original print engraving, if sought to
be sent in the nails would be subject to lei
ter rates of postage, under section 156 OIL
the postal laws.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
TWENTY or more prisoners, including
some Of the worst burglars in the county,
escaped from the Rochester, N. y. jail on
the 18th inst.
AT Evansville, Ipd., mob took fro IN the
Jail four negros charged with ravshing
white women, and hung them in the jail
yard. An old man named Harrison, father
of one of the victims, who shot and killed a
deputy sheriff, who attempted t. arrest his
son, was cut to pieces by the Infatuated
mob, and his remains thrown into privy
vault.
A FIRE at E1enburg, Pa, on the 18th, 81.
most completely destroyed the town. Loss
$350,000 or 100000.
THE tug Crusader of Oswego, burned and
sank in the middle of the Straits of Mack
mac on the night of the 18th inst
In Cincinnati a Jewish pastor named
Jacob l.. Levinsou, but lately ia the cigar
mandatory business, in the same city, has
absconded forger. Amount $4,000.
The house of John Conquest, about two
miles south OF Clio, Mich, on the night OF
the 9th inst. was burned. The charred re-.
mains of Conquest, his wife and child were
found in the ruins. 1t is supposed they
we're murdered and the house fired.
PRAIRIE fires III Swift county, Min.
nesota, have swept over tract of
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