Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-11-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN.

On the 30th a box Of powder and 500 cartridges
we're stolen from train at Limerick Junction,
Ireland. The ammunition was being taken
from Dublin to Templemore County, and the
theft occurred while the guard was at dinner.
On the 3lst dispatch from Paris announced
that De Brszza, the French explorer, had been
killed in the Upper Congo Country, Africa.
A DISPATCH from the city Of Mexico, dated
the 30th, says that immense clouds Of locusts
have appeared in Pueblo.
The steamer Holyhead collided with the
German ship Alhambra, in the English chan
mel, snd about Is miles of Holyhead. Both
vessels sunk. Thirteen OF the Alhambra's
rest we're saved.
On the 9Oth lot Of sheep in Montreal in
tended for shipment, were slaughtered be-
cause they had the "scab."
On the 90th, at a meeting of the Fair Trade
League at London, Eng, moderate duty on
imported wheat was advocated.
An expedition is to start from Brussels on
November 18th, to make explorations in the
Upper Congo country, Africa.
The loss by fire consequent upon the receDt
bombardment Of Port au Prince, Hayti, is esti-
mated at So, 100000
A QUANTITY Of dynamite was maliciously ex-
ploded in the Office Of the chief Of police at
Frankfort on Main, on the 30th. Tie build
was damaged but no one injured.
The cotton house Of Morris Ranger, Liver
pool, Eng, failed on the 30th. Liabilities
10000.
Two explosions occurred in the LoEdon,
Eng, underground railway, on the 3Oth, it is
supposed by dynamite. Several cars were
wrecked and about 40 persons injured, none
fatally.
One hundred and fifty Egyptian soldiers we're
surprised and massacred by Hill tribes in Nubia,
on the 29th.
The sub-manager OF the Preston, Eng, bank
WAS arrested on the Goth for the embezzle-
ment Of 100000.
The Marquis of Lorne, ex-governor general
OF Canads, and bis wife Louise, sailed from
Toronto for London on the 9Th.
The cholera has reappeared at Alexandria
and Cairo, Egypt, and promises to develop
into an epidemic.
lar have recently been shipped to Germany
and now the papers Of that country are de.
ncuncing the fraudulent coin and warning its
inhabitants against receiving it.
SEVEN of the thirteen persons participating
in the recent rising in southern Croatia, were
on the 9th sentenced to Imprisonment fol
from one week to one year.
DISORDERS exist in the penal colonies of 81
IBERIA owing to official corruption. On the 27tt
dispatch from st. Petersburg reported tht
escape Of three prisoners from the Island Of
Sagholien.
SEVENTEEN socialists, indicted for high trea
son, were acquitted at Olmutz, Moravia, on tht
26th.
SMALLPOX 8 raging in the suburbs o.
Prague.
O'DoNNE11's Chicago friends have sent hin
$4,000.
MICHAEL WATERS, land league prisoner
died in the Dublin prison on the 25th.
The Me1icans, by clever strategem, cal
tured Juh and his Apache warriors on the Gath
Ten men lost their lives ly an accident in a,
ron foundry at LIE Creuzot, France, On tn
25th inst.
RICHTER, member of the German reichstag
| was disgraced and sent to prison on the 25th
inst, for insulting the eroyal family several year
ago.
IT is reported that plot exists in which th
French ministry are interested to establish a,
Orleans dynasty in France.