Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-11-21
NEWS In BRIEF.

NEWS IN BRIEF.
a1H1RAL ToRRIaN MOTHS.
Tan Macedonian Instruction il spread.
ng towards Epirus and Thessaly. For many,
he political tendency is mere pretext for
obbery and plumber. The porte has sent
wenty.three battalions with five batteries
o subdue the insurrection.
LORD RosEBERRY has been elected lord
rector OF Aberdeen University by MAORI.
y of four over Cross, home secretary.
ON the 18th instant a. King Humbert, of
Italy, was entering Naples, a poorly clad
man attempted to assassinate him with q
poignard. The king received a slight
scratch. Siguor Cairole, chief of the minis.
try, was wounded in the thigh.
JOIN Tomas Il Co., chemical manufac.
turers, Jarrow.on.Tyne, with paid.up CAPT.
tai OF $5OO,oOo, have failed; assets will
probably realize % per cent. Young, Listen
y Co. ship owners, insurance brokers and
sail makers have also failed. Liabilities
$50O,OOO. Wilhelm, Preston 4 Co., of Ham.
burg, one of the largest houses in the China
trade have suspended. James Forest &
Co., cotton spinners, of Blackburn, have
failed. Liabilities estimated at ST., 900.
A DISPATCH from Thull states that the
Afghans are rapidly massing on the hills
commanding the Ghuzuee and Cabul roads,
THERE have been violent storms through.
out Central Italy, and the damage caused
by them is almost unparalleled. Travel on
all railways between Rome and the north is
interrupted.
THK vatican, it is said, has decided on 8
complete separation from the Ultramontane
party in the German reichstag.
THE French budget committee reduced
the estimated expenditures of the next
budget 81, 900 francs. The estimate TO,
the army is 54s, 900, 900 francs, an increase Of
100000 francs.
GENERAL LoMAKINE's Russian expedi
ton, marching from the Caspian sea in the
direction of Merov, Turkistan, by constant
lighting, reached the upper Attuck valley
A Russian corps, 5000 strong, also stands
on the road to Balka and Herat.
A TELEGRAM from Berlin states that Ger
many will occupy the whole Samoan archi
pelago.
A PARIS correspondent states the GA,
has personally written in reply to Minister
Wsddington's recent circular, declaring hi.
firm intention to adhere to the treaty O.
Berlin. This is considered very hopefu
sign OF peace, and also an indication of tn,
declining influence of Prince Gortschakoff
A DISPATCH from St. Petersburg says tn,
Golos considers Lord Beaconsfeld's speecl
pacific, though it shows that the basis of hi
policy is still enmity to Russia.
A. II. WEBSTER, prominent lumberma,
of East Saginaw, Mich, has failed. Liabili
ties $4,000; assets unknown.
HON. JOHN w. MERRErT, formerly edito
of the Springfield, ILL.,, Register, Salem Advo
cate, and other papers, and one of the oldes
Journalists in the west, died at Salem, I'LL
on the 10th inst.
COMPETITION in eastward bound passen
ger rates, which it is asserted, have beef
secretly cut for three or four months past
have finally forced prices down to the low
est figure known for years. At Cincinnati
on the 18th instant the Atlantic and Grea
Western announced New York and Phila
delphia tickets at$1.oo each, Pittsburg $2.75
with fares to some common points in Obi,
at nominal sum. At St. Louis the Van
dalia line cut rates to New York from 81
to $40 and was Immediately followed by tn,
Wabash railroad.
AT GAINESVILLE, Ohio, early on the mornin
of the 14th instant, a policeman on tn
bridge had his suspicious aroused at tn
movement OF patty in a wagon and orde,
| ed them to halt, but the driver whipped u,
his horses and escaped. The officer procu1
ed assistance and followed them some fou,
teen miles, when the whole party jumpe
from the wagon and escaped to the wood.
The vehicle was found to contain the bodie
OF four prominent citizens who had bee
buried in Woodlawn cemetery during tn
preceding week. Policeman Still receive
| pistol wound from the men in the WACO
during the chase.
DoDD BROWN & Co., the collapsed S
Louis firm, have accepted compromise q
$40 on the dollar.
The ninth annual convention of til
Womau's Suffrage Association met at I,
dlanapolis, Ind, on the 18th inst, with del
gates from thirteen states present. The or,
ceedings on the 18th were mainly of a bushes
character, and reports by state delegate
showing the progress of the work in the
respective localities.
THE national and international CONVEX
ton, held for the purpose of extending OF
f'reign trade, especially to encourage
reciprocal trade on the American contine,
between Canada, the United States, sout
American states, Mexico and Cuba. met
Farwen Hall, Chicago, on the 18th instan
Over three hundred delegates were presen
nearly every city in the Union being repr
scented.
TWO hundred and sixty six miners we,
discharged from the Consolidated Virgin
mine, of which 1913 had been employed 9
1850 foot level and So from 1850 leve
There are but three men left on each shi
on each level, to keep the works in orde
1t is said that the cost of extraction of OF
1t too great to leave q margin at present.
HENRY W. LARK1N, formerly one of Il
Proprietors of the Sacramento Union. die
at San Francisco on the 18th, aged 50.
JUDGE MEYER, of the Common Pie,
Court, at Canton, Ohio, on the 18th ins
sentenced George Fessler, defaulting trea
urer of Stark county, to twelve years in IL
penitentiary at hard labor, and to pay fin
OF $4,000 and costs Of. prosecution.
N. B. JUDD, at one time chairman of Ii
Illinois Republican central committee
collector Of the port of Chicago, and mini
ter to Berlin under Lincoln, died at Chicae
on the 18th inst, aged 6 years.
THE EAST.
THE board of control of the Pennsylvani
coal companies, all interests being repr,
sented, unanimously agreed to make tn
entire quota for the year 1900, 900 ton.
allowing several interests to ship their quot
in such times of November and Decembe
as may best suit their particular requir,
ments.