Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-04-02
GENERAL

| MILWAUKEE Republican municipal ticket
nominated on the Goth: Emil Wallber, mayor
| Lem Ellsworth. comptroller; C. W. Milbraith
| city treasurer; Robert Luscombe, city attorney
The President, on the 26th, sent to the Sen
ate the nomination of Aaron A. Sargent, envo,
extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary K
Germany, to be envoy extraordinary and min
lister plenipotentiary to Russia, Nce:Wm.a H
Hunt, deceased. 80 .
VIM. BUTLER l. Co., paper manufacturers
Philade}phia, failed on the Goth. Liabilities
500, 900.
MISS ADA KURTz was sworn in as deput,
| sheriff at Franklin County, Pa, on the Goth.
JAMES MUTT, the hero of the Uniontown. Pa.
tragedy, will try farming in Kansas.
EASTERN mill owners and scientists are inter.
| in from twenty-three to thirty eight minutes
Under the present process, ten days are re.
! quired.
WARNER WILLIAMS, aged years, known az
'sIhe Baby Giant" died at Anita, Ia., on the
28th. He weighed 200 pounds.
MRS. J. W. SUMMERS Gillian de Garmo), 8
we'll known actress, formerly playing with Nat
Goodwin, died at Bloomington, ILL.,. on thf
25th.
The James D. Frary d Son, Cutlery Com
pany, Bridgeport, Conn.,, went to the wall. di
the 25th. Liabilities 100000.
DEMOCRATIC nominees for the Milwaukee
| municipal offices are: For mayor, Samuel
| Dixon; comptroller, Ferdinand Kuehn; treas.
urer. William Mayworm; city attorney, P. J.
Somers.
FREEBoRN WELSH. Wisconsin pioneer, died
at Elkhorn, on the 29d, aged 76 years.
Fl. }. BLYTHE, an attorney of Lawrence,
Kas., has fallen heir to an estate valued at
So, 900, 900.
INDICATIONS of oil have been noted in well
near Angola, Ind. Sheep which drank the
water, on the oath, died in few hours.
HEAVY rains caused sharp rise in the Pecar
topica River on the 23d, and Dodgeville. and
Caiamlne, in Lafayette County, Wis.,, were
flooded. = -" -
A YOUNG girl named Morris, the belle of Po-
cahontas, Va, whose father was one Of the
mine disaster victims, offered, on the Oath, to
marry the man who would lead band Of>ex-
plorers to rescue the dead.
The Republicans of Youngstown, O., on the
23d. nominated Walter L. Campbell for
mayor. The nominee is AZ years old, and has
been blind since his fifth year. a"--
DIR. EZRA ABBOTT, of Boston, Mass, noted
biblical and historical student, died on the
21st. - :
JOHN J. Cisco, ex-assistant United States
| treasurer, died at New York on the 2Sd.
The cattle disease in Kansas is not the dread
foot.and-mouth disease but caused by ergot in
the hay. =
The obituary record of the 21st, embraced
Geo. Brown, Sr., IN old resident of Sussex,
Wis. Geo. Fuller q prominent Boston artist,
Edward B. Watkinson, president Of the Con-
necticut Trust Company at Hartford.
'"UNCLE RUFUS HATCH's Yellowstone Park
Improvement Company was placed in the
hands of receiver. Liabilities $21O,0OO.
Jos. H. MooRE's pottery at Trenton, N. J.,
was placed in the hands of the sheriff on the
| 21st. on Judgments aggregating $95, 1000.
THERE were 213. business failures in the
United States and Canada during tho week
ending on the 21st, against zig the previous
| week.
Mrs. E. ). JEWELL. of Sun Prairie, was found
dead in bed, at Madison, Wis, on the morning
Of the 21st.
The Gill Car Manufacturing Company Of
| abilities Of 5 259, 700. - 1''.'' "i'1
The lower house Of the Ohio Legislature has
passed bill making dealings in futuves illegal
! and punishable by fine and imprisonment.
]. FAECHoN, of Prairie du Chen, assigned
on the 2Oth. His liabilities aggregate O,OO0.
CHARLES LANaHEMER. widely known az
Chickens Dutchman," died on the 10th. in the
Philadelphia peniten6ary.
Two Philadelphia newspaper reporters ex-
posed Henry 9. Gordon, the spiritulistic
medium, on the 18th.