Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-02-20
GENERAL

AT Lancaster, Pa, on the 18th, Mrs.
scwartz escaped from the smallpox hospital
while delirloue, causing general stampede,
and finally jumping from an attic window.
The Mexcans have appropriated 5000, 900 to
pay the expenses of representing Mexico at the
Worlds exhibition in New Orleans.
SIMON Howard, an Eganville. Ont, mer-
chant, was arrested on the 18th, while on his
bridal tour, by Ann B. Howard, to whom he
had been engaged since 1872.
A CHICAGO spiritualist was exposed as a
fraud at the imperial palace in Vienna on the
18th.
EDWARD P1LLsBURYs SoNs,- New Orleans
cotton merchants failed on the 18th, with lia-
bilities of $14O,0 600.
The Oshkosh bar has brought serious charges
against Judge Pulling, and will vigorously op-
pose bis re election as circuit judge.
SENATOR PAYNE, of Ohio has sent 81, 900
subscription for the benefit of sufferers at
Wheeling, W. Va.
The Baltimore & Ohio has offered the free
use of its railroad and telegraph lines for the
benefit of the food sufferers.
A DISCREPANCY of $4,000 has been found
in the accounts OF Gen. Geo. Cram, surveyor
fraud is charged.
Richard Dawes, champion of England, at the
Milwaukee skating rink on the 12th.
BISHOP G11.MoUR, of Cleveland, has ex-com-
municated the church of St. Procey because
they refused to recognize his authority in set
tIing parish quarrels.
The Congregational ..church Of. Norwalk,
O., indnlged in lively row on the retirement
of its pastor, G. W. Wesselin on the 10th.
The Bankers and Merchants Telegraph
company perfect cd lease of all the Board of
Telegraph lines at Chicago on the 11th.
THE river at Cincinnati had passed laet
years highest point on the 18th.
The banking house of Isaac Hodges closed
its doors at Platteville, Wis, on the 11tb.
HENN1Na & Son, GAINESVILLE boot and shoe
men, have assigned.
Glib LANE died at Oshkosh on the 18th.
y. II. PERRY died at Berlin on the 1th.
The Brooklyn Eagle editor, Thomas Kinsella
died at New York on the 18th.
VIM: HAWKINS, Milwaukee pioneer, died on
the l1th at San Francisco.
Four THOUSAND five hundred bills have been
introduced in the house up to the 10TH
JOHN CARPENTER, Portage pioneer, died on
the 10th, aged 83.
sermon on Wendell, Phillips on the 10th.
rendered her mausoleum at Eastport, L. l., for
the interment of Commodore De Long.
The engineers on the Mexican national rail-
way between Lando, Tex, and Saltillo, Mex,
will hand in their designations in body unless
protection against indefinite imprisonment is
given them when they accidentally run over q
Mexican on his own soil.
The friends of Gov. Murray, Of Utah, are
out with denial of the charges against him,
claiming the Mormon elders and personal enc
| mics are at the bottom OF the trouble.
GEN. GRANTS physician is apprehensive of
his illness ending in paralysis.
The retirement of Gen. Sherman from the
| army was officially announced on the 9Th inst.
ARNOLD GUYorrB1AR, the Swiss naturalist.
died on the 9Th inst.
P1LK1NaToN & Co., st. Paul, dealers in agri-
cultural implements, assigned on the 9Th. Lila
| bihties $75,000.
A DISPATCH Of the 7th reports that Scotch
| syndicate has purchased cattle ranges in Texas,
| investing So, 2,50O,001.
A NEW road was incorporated under the laws
| of Wisconsin on the 7th. The road will be
| built from junction of the Minneapolis and
Manitoba to st. Louis Bay.