Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-17
DAVIDSON 4 WHEELER, Psbll.hsss.
NEWS in BRIEF.
CENTRAL FOREIGN NOTES.


THE porte has received information that
the Russians have recommended marching
on Adrianople presumably from the north.
Gen. Todleben forced the Turks to evacu
ate Baboeski. Guns have been mounted on
the Constantinople line by the Turks.
US. MINISTER MOVES, at Paris, up to the
18th had received 81, 900 francs for the ben
tit Of the fever stricken districts of America.
THR United States consul At st. Thomas
telegrsphs concerning the jnsurrection at
Santa Cruz: "The rioters are apparently
controlled. About CSC are killed. Planters
are searching the country for the rioters,
Four-6fths of the mills, dwellings,, cane,
rum and sugar on the plantations is destoy'
ed; also the business houses in Frederik-
stadt Many families are destitute and all
business is temporarily suspended"
4 PANIC, occssioned by fight and
scuttling under the gallery Of the coliseum
theatre at Liverpool on the nth inst. In
the stampede that followed IS men and lads
and two ladies were sutfocsted. 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 Stefauo.
The porte's circular, recently delivered to
the powers, reserves the Sultan's sovereign
rights over Bosnia and Herzegovina, and
concludes with a solemn warning against
the occupation of Novi.Bazar as certain to
cause terrible disasters.
4 ST. PETERSBURG dispatch says twenty.
three storehouses, thirty.one wooden houses
and seventy warehouses, valued at over two
.million roubles, were burned in Blazan,
near Moscow.
A DESPATCH from Constautinople 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 Osman Pasha, even holds
that purely defensive policy is impossible
for purely military reasons. The central
news agency has a report that Russian vi
dettes 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 convention
granting the right of passage for Russian
troops through her territory for the mini
mum period of two years.. Count Andrassy
has so far 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
Maicola coast, New Zealand. Eighty of the
tribe were killed by traders and coast ma
tives in retaliation.
A CORRESPONDENT of Peru telegrap hs
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
and an Anglo-Russian war is certain.
THERE is an 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 81, 436, >.
$50 the week previous to So, 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
the Illicit distillery troubles in Arkansas
Concerning the request for troops from that
state, the attorney general has decided that
the civil authorities must exhaust all means
to enforce the laws before the military can
be called upon. Should it be shown that
the civil authorities are powerless to exc
cutethe laws, the President will then issue
his proclamation commanding the offender.
to cease their violations of law, and if not
obeyed the military will be employed to
break up such illicit stills.
The request of the commissioners of in
ternal revenue to Little Rock, for troops tc
aid him in destroying illicit distilleries, will
be considered by the cabinet. The war de-
partment officials express the opinion that il
will be impossible to furnish the aid asked
for without violation of the posse comita
tus clause in the recent army appropriation
bill.
A REMONsTRANCE has been received by
Secretary Sherman from the New 'Yorh
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 Al
compared with the small cities and towns
inasmuch as the greater part Of the cur
rency centers in the former aud il SEN
thence for redemption.
In reply to an inquiry whether under thu
new postal regulations bank notes and
greenbacks can be mailed as third class mat
ter, the postodice department rules thai
"bank notes and greenbecks having written
signatures or signatures added by means o.
fac-simile stamp, or other mark or sign added
to the original print engraving, if sought t.
be sent in the mails, would be subject to LEI
ter rates of postage, under section .156 O.
the postal laws. w.. .,.
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 10Th inst.
AT Evansville, Ind, mob took fro m the
Jail four negros charged with ravishing
white women, and hung them in the jai
yard. An old man named. Harrison, father
of one of the victims, who shot and killed 8
deputy sheriff, who attempted to arrest hi
son, was cut to pieces by the Infatuated
mob, and his remains thrown into privy
vault. !: = =:
A FIRE at Edenburg, Pa, on the 18th, al
1oko - rT
$350,000 or $40c, 0O0 81 y . ~, Syf -!
The tug Crusader of Oswego, burned and
sank in the middle Of the Straits Of Mack
mac ON the nightof the II tn inst. ,ra4.r. -!
In Cincinnati 9 Jewish pastor named
Jacob l.. Levipson, but lately: In the cigar
mandatory business, in the same city, ha.
absconded q forger. Amount $20, 200. z.1
TIE house of John Conquest, about two
miles south of Clio, Mich, ON the night Of
the 9th inst. was burned. The charred re.