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

elghty.thlrd birthday, at Newport, N. T., on the
50.
PHELP L. JONES. IN eccentric millionaire and
retired physician of New York, died on the 81.
SINCE the reduction of the New York Herald
to 2 cents, tho newsdealers have waged war
against it on the ground that their profits on
the paper were too small. As = counter blow
the Herald erects its own newsstands in that
city.
CANTERBURY l. HASKELL, boot ard shoe
manufacturers. Boston, Mass, suspended on
the Sd. Liabilities $180,0U0.
The actor, John c. Leach, recovered $14,-
400 damages in = suit against Josh Hart for
bresch of contract.
HEAVY storm of rain and snow prevailed in
eastern Vermont on the I'd, continuing about
twelve hours.
THE publio debt statement on October 1st
showed reduction during the month of Sep
tember Of $14, 7O7, ,229. The total debt is
81, ,S69, 245, ,232.
The two-oent postal law went into effect
October 1st.
Co1MAN Bros, dealers in clothing, New
Liabilities 100000.
JONES d HOUSE, butchers of Batavia. N. Y,
closed shop on the list. Liabilities $4,000.
Snow fell in Pennington, Me-, to the depth
of three inches on the 29th.
The United States authorities are afte
steamers plying on inland waters in Wisconsin,,
q number not having paid the required "hos-
pltal tax" The aggregate is about $4,000.
On the 28th the Creighton cattle ranch in
Nebraska was sold to the Bay State Live Cat
tie Company for $500, 900.
OK the 28th the fve-year. old Jay-Eye-see
won the purse of $4,000 at Fleetwood Psrk,
N. Y. in three straight heats, beating the
champion, st. Julien; time, 2:201, 2:18115,
2:19.
The total voting population of Virginia is
estimated at 1884 900, of which 128, 900 are COL
ored.
The meeting OF the Salvation Army corps at
New Brunswick, NJ on the 29th, wound up
in row, in which pistols were used, but for
tunately no one was seriously injured.
The baseball season closed on the 28th and
the league pennant for 1883 was captured by
the Bostons with 63 games won and IS lost;
Chicago second-59 won and 80 lost; Provi-
dence third-58 won and 40 lost, and Cleveland
fourth-55 won and 43 lost.
On the 28th the Western Union Telegraph
Company announced reduction in wages of
operators of from $5 to $40 per month.
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| decided that the Western Union Telegraph
Company must pay the taxes imposed by the
state Of New York. The total amount is over
$600, 900.
An electric, manufacturing and miscellane-
oua stock exchange was opened in New York
city on the 28th, for the sale of stocks Of cor
porati0ns not listed on the stock exchange.
A FATAL hog disease resembling cholera, il
making inroade on the porkers Of Miami Val
ley, Ohio.
Snow fell at Minneapolis, Mlnn., Marshfeld,
Wiz, and Cheboygan, Mlch., on the 28th.
An anti monopoly telegraph company, which
| will send messages for one cent . word, was
organized at Chicago, ILL.,, on the 9th.
UMPIRE McCUNE. of the trades tribunal, on
! the 9th decided that the rate for mining coal
shall be 81 cents from October LIST, 1883, to
April 1st 1884. The miners wanted so, and
the company wanted to pay only 81.
The Pennsylvania school state association,
on the 2Sth decided to suspend operations for
60 days.
A MICRO ITO years Of age, named George
Leaeur, and said to be descendant of an Al
rican king, died at New Orleans, La, on the
28th.
The New York Sun will increase its size to
eight pages
TIE Huntingdon Car and Car-wheel Works
failed on the 28th. Liabilities S2O0,0OO.
The drug house of Junkermann Il Haas,
Dubuque, H., went to the wall on the 2Sth.
Liabilities, s11s,0o0.
ON the 25th the Ncw York Herald reduced to
cents. The news dealers on the 26th
kicked against the wholesale reduction of the
New York morning dailies and refused to
handle the papers 1t the present prices. Their
commissions have beOn reduced from ~ cents
per copy TO Il cent.
ON the 26th three diplomas were awarded to
American exhibitors in the electrical exhibition
held At Vienna, Austris.