Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-04-18

among the tegtator's children, Edward Cooper
and Sarah Amelia Hewitt aud other relatives.
NINETY. THREE persons have been killed in
New Mexico since the Apache outbreak, of
which twenty-seven were Americans, and it is
believed that many have been killed who are
Lot yet reported. At limo ranche ten we're
killed. Two women were hung up by their
hands aud ripped open. From one child was
taken, which was found mangled at tho
mothers feet. The bodies of the men were
horribly disfgured.
TIE libel suit of Prof. Mclean, of the med.
ical department of the Michigan State Uni
versity, against James E. Scnpps. editor and
principal proprietor OF the Detroit Evening
News, after two weeks trial. was concluded
on the 10th lust., the verdict on all points be-
ing in favor of the plaintiff, the jury award
ing him 800, 900, the leav.ect verdict ever re-
corded in Detroit.
CHAs. H. Rowan, repres entipg the Excelsior
Manufacturing Company at Beaver Dam, Wis,
and J. N. Williams. alias The Mystic Ian.
euage Publisher" at Detroit, n1icb., have
Leen declared engaged iu conducting fraudulent
schemes, aud their names have been placed on
the black list.
GEo. PALEN & Co., wholesale dealers in hides
and leather, New York, have failed. 1iabih-
ties between S400, 900 and 100000.
THE railway companies are beginning to re.
alize the full scope of a decision rendered re-
Gently by the Interior Department in case
brought by man named Perkins against an
Alabama Railway. The substance Of the de
cision is that the title of the settlers is held to
| be good, as as,aidst the claims of railway, Vt
| he shall locate bis homestead prior to the time
when the railroad company shall have definite
! ly located it's right of way, and filed a plat
| thereof in the land office. 1t is said the de.
cision will let loose lot of settlers upon about
! 10000 acres of the St. Paul Company's land in
! Minnesota ard Dakota. The cision estah.
| fishes rule that is practically retroactive and
| future, in which the home stead entries were
| made years ago.
TEE well-known button firm of Williams.
Knight 4 Co., New York, has assigned. Liza
| bilities about S1OO,COO.
AT Ishpeming Mich, man named Ropes
has struck a fine god lead on his pror ty.
| The rock assays $500 ton.
! IT was announced in the Roman Catholic
churches at Lawrence, Mass on the 9Th inst,
that the Augustinian Society would file pc
titon of insolvency with the intention OF
abandoning al! etfolts to reduce its indebted
ness to deposltors jn the Augustiniau Savings
institution by collections. Rev. z. C. McEvoy.
governor of the Augustinian Order, stated that
this course was taken because the attachments
OH Church property would not be removed,
and it was desired by the society that all cred,
! itors should share alike. There are now
twenty-five attachments aggregating $GO OOO
| The 1ndebte 1ness to 7O3 depositors is $685..
900, which, with the mortgages makes the tc
tai liabilities $569,0OO. The society claims that
its assets are 1868, 1000, which consist OF fou'
churches and parsonages and school buildings
If the property be sold by the order of the cour
| the depositors will realize scarcely per cent
| A CABLE message received at Harvard Col
Iege Observatory, from DR.. Kruger. announces
that the object discovered by DR.. Hartwig is
not D'Arrest's comet, as previously announced
but new nebula.
| THE private bank Of P. H. Tompkius, of Ell
Paso, Texas, assigned on the Gth inst. The
assignee aives the liabilities at $250,00O anG
The assets at $4,000. It is stated, however
that the assets Will not realize over $15,O 600 OF
$4,000.
IT isa fact not generally known that James
Gordon Bennett, the originator of the Jean
nette Arctic expedition has settled $4,000 or
the widow of Lieut.. De Long.
| JACOB SHEFER won the billiard champions
ship of the world from Maurice Vignaux. at
Chicago on tue 9Th inst. Sh@fer scored 600 ir
twenty-one innings to 500 by the Frenchman
The game closed the ba'k.)ine tournament
Shefer took first money and championship
| Vignaux second money and DAILY, Sexton ani
Morris third, fourth and fifth, respectively.