Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-09-26
GENERAL.

SUPERVISING ARCHITECT HILL sent his resig-
nation to Secretary Folger on the 18th, to take
effect on appointment Of his successor.
On the 18th James R.:.Tuggle, cadet at An
napolis from Kentucky, was dismissed for
hazing.
On the 10Th application was made to the in
terror department by c. P. Huntington, for the
Southern Pacific Railroad for 2O,000,000 acres
of land originally given to the Texas Pacific
Railroad, now owned by the Southern Pacific.
On the 18th Anthony & Kuhn, brewers, St.
Louis, NO., failed. Liabilities 100000.
The Edward Barr Iron Company of New
York, failed on the 10Th. Liabilities $62, ,OCO.
BENJAMIN BURGESS l. Sons, sugar dealers,
Boston, Mass, failed on the 10th. Liabilities
Low water in the Mississippi at Minneapolis.
Mnn., caused the stoppage on the 10Th. of sew
eral saw mills and -four mill.
On the 10Th the price of matches was re-
duced by the Diamond Company about so per
cent. and the present prices range from $3.50
to $2.70 per case of three gross boxes.
On the 10th the secretary of the treasury is
sued call for $15 900, 900 per cent. bonds.
: The leather goods firm Of A. & E. Wallach,
Of New York City, assigned on the 18th. Liza
bilities 1926, 1000.
Mr.. P. RowLEY dealer in clothing, Madison.
Wis, failed on the 18th, with liabilities of
$4,000.
The board Of directors Of the Florida Ship
Canal and Transit Company, we're on the 18th
directed to contract for building the ditch.
The canal will be 1876 miles long, 230 feet vide
and 80 feet deep. Its eastern terminus will be
near the mouth Of St. Johns River, and cross
the isthmus at its Harrowest point.
V,A, kIo
rule requiring an exchange to do business of
IL, ,OOO. 900 barrels month to entitle it to q
vote in the conference.
On the 18th Junius Brutus Booth, Jr., the vet:
Gran actor and stage manager, died at Man
| chester. N. H., aged 62 years.
ANOTHER Apache outbreak is reported from
Antelope Springs. Arizona. Eight hestiles at
| tackled ranch occupied by two men, killing
| one of them. Citizens are in pursuit OF the
hostiles.
A JEwELRY house in New York received by
| importation on the 18th the largest diamond
| ever brought to the United States. tits uncut,
| weighs 1887 carats and it's value Is unknown.
AT Columbus. s. c., on the 18th, Secretary
| ofState James Lipscomb and John r. Thomas,
the governors private secretary, engaged in a
fsticuf. Thomas had called Lipscomb liar.
THE National Methodist Lscal Preachers
1
adelphla, beginning October Sd.
The coming trotter, Jay-Ey-See, owned by
J. l. Case, of Racine Wis, trotted mile on
the Narragansett Park CT urse on the 18th, in
2:10A.
PEOPLE at and near Toleno, ILL.,, are using
natural gas from wells about 100 feet deep, fol
purposes of light and heat.
JOSEPH CURTIS, one of the founders Of the
EVENING WISCONSIN, since 1858 one Of the pro-
prietors, of the Rochester IN. w. Union, died
in that city on the 15tE.
CONSIDERABLE criticism was indulged in or
the 18th because Lieut.. Darlington, in com
mand of the relief ship Proteus, crushed by
the ice III the Arctic, did not land provisions
at Littleton Island, before attempting thu
dangerous passage. However, the lleutenan
is said to have obeyed orders from the war de-
partment.
| A GENERAL strike of window glass worker
on the Goth is probable. The manufacturer
insist on reduction and the employees sa;
"no" most emphatically.
PEL1s NANNY, piopeer in the invention o
agricultural machinery, died at Feeport. I'll.
on the 18th.
DISPATCH from Lawrence, NJ lss., dated tn
18th says on account of low water many of th
mills on the Merrimac are temporarily idle.
CHICAGO physicians are of the opinion tha
cholera will visit tile United States next yea
and advise sanitary precautions.
MAMMOTH curling rink is to be built thi
fall in Milwaukee, Wis.
YELLOW fever is raging in the Pacific coas
towns of Mexico.