Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-08-01

g. LaHTCAP, 4 wealthy mill owner OF Hazel
Green, Wis.,, died on the 24th.
ELEVEN deaths from dysentery occurred at
Watseka, Ill.,, during tho week ending July
24th.
RICHARD L. Du0DALE, noted literary hight,
died Of heart disease at New York on the 24th,
at the age Of II years. .......
A YOUNG man named Ship found wallet
containing @s1, 900 in large bills under pillow
1t q st. Augustine, Fla. hotel on the 24th, aud
turned it ever to the. landlord. Jerome W.
Green, Of Utica, N. T., was tho owner.
: VIZ. B. AsroR has caught tho yacht fever
and on the 2lst contractad for steel steam
yasht, 295 feet in length, to have : speed of
fourteen knots IN hour, and cost 9S5O, 900.
TIE Arrapahoes and Chsyennes located in
the Indian Territory are going into the cattle
business. They have now some 800 COWS and
heifers and twenty-five blooded bulls, and it
is calculated that in ten years their stock will
be worth S3 600, 600. The government is eI-
pected to assist them in the meantime.
GEN. E. o. c. ORD, on his way from Vera
Cruz to New York, on the steamer City of
Washington, was taken with yellow fever, re-
moved to shore at Havana and died there on
the 21st.
GUM, CURTIS & Co., mercantile and label
printers and stationers, suspended on the 21st.
Liabilities $4,000.
The Manchester Iron and Steel Company,
Pittsburg, Pa., failed on the 21st. Liabilities
81, 900 900.
ARCHBISHOP PuRcE11's will was probated At
Cincinnati, O., on the 20th. He bequeathes all
bis estate that is not subject to the payment Of
his debts, to his successor.
The telegraphers' strike was in active opera
ton on the 21st with the probability that other
operators then at work would join the strik-
ers. The western Union Company in Milwau-
kee, Wis.,, are taking messages subject to de-
lay, and it is alleged forward some by mail.
A CHICAGO man named Smith has invented a
smoke consumer for tug boats, which on trial
| ON the 18th was pronounced success.
Hon. c. H. THoRNE, q well-known demo-
! cratic politician and planter, Of southern Ar
kansas, died at Hot Springs, Ark, on the 18th.
A REUNION Of the descendants Of Rebecca
Nurse, who was hanged for witchcraft atSalem,
in 1892, took place In Tappeyville, Mass, on
the 18th. They decided to erect monument
to her memory.
REPORTS from western cattle oenters indicate
that this years drive will aggregate 1900 ,0Ot
head.
E. W. HoLBRooK Il Co., dry goods, New
1OTk, 1alloQ on the NOCus Al4OAutlo0 @SOVsUUV
On the 18th the members Of the Telegraph
ers' Brotheohood, In accordance with I
resolution when their committee presented th
bill of complaints to the company, having re
ceived no satisfactory answer from the Wester1
Union Company, quit work at IL o'clock No'
York time. The strike embraces all CONNER
cial operators belonging to the brotherhood
from New York to the Rockies and from Main
to the gulf. About 5000 operators are en-
gagged in the strike. Their grievances IS pre-
sented are that eight hours shall constitute
regular days work, and seven hours z night
work; that Sunday shall be deemed holiday
aud all work performed On that day shall b
paid for as extra work; that both male an
female operators shall receive the same con
pensation; and that universal Increase Of
, per cent. on all salaries now paid shau b
!, granted. 1T - .... -."
YE1LowsFEvER infected ships axe frequel
arrivals At the New Orleans quarantine static
: Of late, but as yet the dread scourge has nj
, effected . landing.
HUDSON, N. Y, WAS just one hundred yea1
} old on the 10th, and appropriately celebrate
the day.