Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-01-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
FOREIGN.

FRANCIS HALL, noted engraver, died at
Londop, Eng, on the 10th.
S1ss1, brigand chief, was killed in Sar-
DINA while resisting arrest on the 18th.
A MONTHLY line of steamers is to be estab-
llshed between Trieste, Austria, and New York,
| after February LIST. new line of steamers is
contemplated for the trip from Trieste to New
Orleans.
ELEVEN employees of the Gamant colliery,
| in Wales, were hurled to the bottom of the
smart by tile breaking of rope and killed.
Two brokers at Glasgow, Scotland, failed on
the 10th. Liabilities E5O,OOO.
DISPATCH to the Austrian consul at Khar.
| toum. dated the 16tb, says all the higher
Egyptian officials at Ell Obeid have been mas.
| sacred Also that Khartoum was captured by
Ell Mahdi. -
PARIS advices on the 18th represent consider
! able excitement among certain classes there
since the United States is talking Ct prohibit
| ing importation of certain articles from that
country IN retaliation for the prohibition by
france OF importation of American hog meat.
The Turkish contingent is to be increased
and will form the thrd brigade of the Egyptian
army.
| COMPANY Of capitalists will ask for char
ter of incorporation to construct q tunnel under
st. Clair River from Sarnia to Port Huron.
On the 14th at Kingston, Ont., Cornelius
Mcmahon and James Murphy we're killed by an
I explosion of dualine.
The steamer Hwai Vain was wrecked on the
! 18th on the Hieshan Islands. China. Out of q
! crew of 2O3 natives and six Europeans, five ma
tlVes we're rescued.
IHE Catholice of England have completed
arrangements for the erection of cathedral in
Westminster, Eng, to cost f500,0OO.
The Austrian government has founded an
| art school at Rome, Italy, for the study OF
medieval art.
On the 18th the body of Don Fenip Salazar-
ollector of customs at Matamoras, Mex, was
found IN the river near that city. It is SUI :
| posed be was murdered.
AN explosion of fre-damp in the Ferfay
fFrance) coal mine killed seven men and ipjur-
| ed five.
A MASS meeting of 4,o0O unemployed work,
men. and number Of women, assembled at
Paris on the 18th. Revolution was suggested
as the only remedy for the present stagnation.
Representatives of trades unions thought an
appeal to the chambers would solve the diff
Guilty and the meeting peaceably adjourned.
ADv1cEs from Hong Kong, China, of the
18th, are to the effect that China has blockaded
| Canton River, and Issued calls for volunteers
! to the army.
AT Ke]. Prussia, on the 11tt, another iron
clad for the Chinese navy was launched.
| Ok the 18th, Mrs. Carey, wife of the assas-
| slnated informer, requested England to furnish
her safe employ ment in that country.
On the 18th, at Liverpool, England, John
Herd, Jr., and N. J. Mullins, were arrested
charged with swindling the Northwestern
Bank out Of $4,000 by hypothecating grain
securities second time.
FIRE at Ostende, Belgium, on the 18th, de.
stroyed warehouse and railroad buildings. A
fireman was killed by falling walls.
AT Vienna, OH the 10th, Hugo 6chencke was
arrested charged with numbering four girls af.
ter he had secured their money and effects un.
! der promise of marriage.
On the 10th three villains entered the bus;.
ness place of man named Eisert, at Vienna,
and murdered and robbed him. His two child.
| rem and their gOverness came upon the scene
| and one of the children was killed, ana the 9th.
er and the goverDess seriously wounded.
STEAMSHIPS are not desirable property in
London, Eng, judging from the fact that at an
auction sale on the 10th the .'City of Paris >
received no bid and the "Cjty of New York >
one bid Of e26,00O, which was refused.
| A HEAVY rain storm at St. John, N B., Oh
the 10th caused considerable damage: te)e-
graphic communication was suspended bv the
breaking of tho poles, and vessels in the har.
| Dor were afraid to venture out