Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-10-24
GENERAL.

). OK the 18th dispatch from New York stated
that j. W. Mackey and James Gordon Bennett
had signed a contract for the laying of two
trans Atlantic cables, to be completed next
June. Also company had been formed to lay
two cables from New York to Liverpool, Eng
land.
Mrs. BRIDGET F1NNEaAN, aged 107 years died
at New York on the 18th. She was born in
County Tyrone, Ireland, in 1776, and came to
America over 80 years ago. She never learned
the English language. always using the Gaelic.
MACE d WEEKS, shoe manufacturers, Phlla-
delphia. Pa, failed on the 18th. Liabilities
about $4,000.
GEN. B. F. BUTLER, as attorney for the
Great Falls Manufacturing Company, has filed
in the department of justice, claim for
100000 damages for property and water
rights which will be used by the government in
effecting the proposed extension Of the water
supply for the District of Columbia.
ADLER Bios. & NEwBAUEn, dry goods, New
York, failed on the 18th. Liabilities $780,
600.
A NEW process of making steel rails without
operation at the Joliet Steel Company's mills,
on the 10th.
MALIGNANT diphtheria is prevalent in the
town of Verona, Dane County.
The Norton & Wilder Glass, Paint and Color
Company. St. Louis, assigned on tho 10th.
Liabilities $5O,00O.
United States decided that the first two Sec
ions of the civil rights bill passed March 8,
1875, are unconstitutional. By this decision
negroes can be excluded from hotels, restau-
rants, theaters, etc., and places the freedman
81 80 In;,>
of enforcing his rights as freeman.
The steamship Atlas arrived in New York on
the 18th, from Port-au-Prince. She left the
latter place on the 10th ult., and at the request
OF British Consul Hunt stopped at Jeremire,
Hayti, to take OH board party of women.
After the first boat load reached the Atlas she
was fred on from the fort. Two women were
killed, the vessel injured, and she was CON-
PEELED to put to sea.
The yard switchmen, of the railroads cen
tering in St. Louis, struck to the number of
600, for higher wages and reduced hours of
work.
The Hampshire Manufacturing Company,
cotton goods, failed on the 18th. Liabilities
about $75, 900.
CHARLES s. KHBoURN, proprietor of cheese
factories at Dundee and Harrington, ILL.,, as
signed for the benefit of his creditors on the
18th. Liabilities $3O,O00.
RYAMs Bros, dealers in clothing, New York
and San Francisco, failed on the 18th. Liza
bilities $3.50, 900.
CHAPMAN, GR1ER & Co., dealers in glass;
ware, Chicago, failed on the 18th. Liabilities
100000.
The first snow of the season fell at Oshkosh,
Wis.,, on the 18TH.
TIE body Of Mrs. 1sadore French, of New
York. was on the 18th cremated in the LIE MoyHe
furnace at Washington, Pa, making the 26th
body thus far scientifically reduced to ashes at
that place.
Mrs. KEYEs, who was reported to have been
killed by her husband at Marsh6eld, in Wis
consin, is recovering. The bullet entered just
above her right eye and came out at the ear.
Domestic trouble caused the shooting.
SECRETARY Fo1aER has accepted the offer Of
Hesing, of Chicago, to compromise the $780,
000 whisky ring judgment against him for $27,
GOO.
EDGAR 4. MARBLE, commissioner of patents,
has resigned, and the position has been ten
dered to Hon. Ben. ButtorWOrth. of Ohio.