Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-10-24
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN,

ADv1CEs from C0nstantinople of the 18th,
give particulars of the destruction by an earth
quake Of six villages on the peninsula between
Chesme, Asia Minor, and Vourla, on the south
ern coast of the Gulf of Smyrna. Upwards
of 1000 persons persisted. Twenty thousand
persons were rendered homeless.
On the 18th 5000 armed peasants assembled
at Mimic, province Of Vienna,
Portugal. and shouted for republic. Troops
sent to dlsperse them were defeated by the
mob after severe fighting and reinforcements
have been sent from Op0rto.
The delegates of $4,000 miners at Wegau,
Eng, on the 18th demanded an immediate I'D.
vance of Is per cent. in wages.
The village Of Ageno, Italy, burned on the
18th. One thousand people are homeless.
A CATTLE plague has broken out in Breslau,
Prussia.
On the 18th at st. Petersburg, Russia, 6s
members Of the Nihiist Red Cross Society were
sentenced to Siberia.
AN express safe at Port Hope, Ont, was
opened on the 18th and robbed Of package
containing $40. 900. The package had been in
the safe just fifteen minutes.
PRIME MINISTER FERRY, Of France, on the
10th, predicted that the French embargo on
The remnant of Cetewayo's band in the at
tempt to rescue that general from his ambush,
in Ink]anka Bush, Zululand, was almost anni-
hilated by Chief Usihehu, and Cetewayo sur
rendered and asks English protection.
TR1CH1Nos1s has broken out at Ermsleben,
Pruss1an Saxony. Over 180 cases and deaths
were reported on the 10th.
An English swell who had thrown bouquet
in which was concealed note, from private
box to the American actress, Minnie Palmer, at
at a performance in London, England. on the
18th, was publicly boxed and pitched from the
theater by Minnie's husband.
A FALSE alarm of fire caused panic in the
Jewish synagogue at Ziwonka, Russia, on the
18th, and fifty women were crushed to death
IRVING BISHOP, the mind reader, made sew.
eral failures at an exhibition in Dublin, Ire
land, on the 18th, and was taken seriously i'll
with congestion of the brain.
DIR. Koch, German physician sent to Egypt
to examine into the causes of cholera. reports
that the disease is due to living thread-ike
organisms.
The firm of Zembrona & Co., one of tht
wealthiest in Monterey, Mexico, failed on tht
18th. Liabilities about $500, ,OOO.
The Spanish ambassador to France has re-
signed.
A RUSSIAN has been arrested for sketchine
forts on the German frontier.
On the 18th inst. eleven trading schooners
unknown nationality, drove of the Amer cal
guardship Leon, belonging to the Alaska Com
mercial Company, stationed at the Island Of
Tjulenii, landed sixty armed men, including
some Japanese, and took possession of the
island. The unknown traders will receive gov
ernment attention.
A DISPATCH of the 18th says Chilian force
Of 280 men surprised q band of Monteneros
near Frias, killing $50 men and capturing 80
horses. The Chilians suffered no loss.
A DISPATCH from Cairo, Of the 18th, says al
implicated in the recent rebellion are granted
amnesty, except those convicted of murder
and outrage.
IT was reported on the 18th that the BIacl
Flags in Tonquin had quarrelei with the slliei
of the Chinese regulars.