Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-01-23
GENERAL

The estatate left by Chaz. Delmonico, who
recentiv died from exposure on Orange Noun
tain, N. j., Is valued at 81, 500,OOO.
The Chicago elevators held 10000, 900 BUSH
els OF grain on the 18th, and receipts average
1,0O0, 900 bushels week.
The Canadian Pacific Railroad it is said pro-
poses to reduce ennis rant rates from Quebec to
Winnipeg via Port Arthur from $31.5 to
! 1914.
RALPH SELLEw, who died in St. Louis, NO..
| on the 18th, bequeathed $4,000 to various
religious aud charitable institutions in that
| city.
H. F. BouRcHARD, cattle dealer, New
York, assigned on the 9Th. Liabilities $780,
| 600.
In the vicinity of ST.. Johns, N. B., on the
9Th. the mercury dropped to so degrees below
zero.
BLOCH Co.. printers and flag manufacture
ers. Cincinnati, o., assigned on the 10th. LA
biIities 81, 900.
KELLY, G11cHR1sr Il Co., liquor dealers, San
Francisco, CAL, failed on the 10th. Liabilities
| $90, 1000.
On the 18th the Iowa legislature presented
| to Katie Shelly medal for heroic services in
| averting railroad disaster during the great
| flood in the Des Moines River Valley July 6,
| 1881.
| SUNSET Cox will write political history of
the country from the time of James Buchanan
| to the present time.
On the 10Th fatal case of yellow fever was
reported from New York City.
| MCFADDEN & Co., merchants of Corsicaua.
| Tex, failed on the 18th. Liabilities S3O,OOO.
G. CRoMENs. manufacturer of cradles, Con-
cord. N. H., failed on the 18th. Liabilities
| $4,000
! MRS. VALERA STONE, of Maiden, Mass, who
died on the 18th from the effects of fall, has
given over $400,0 to female colleges the past
few years.
SENATOR EDMuNDs was elected president of
the senate and sworn into Office on the 14th.
| On the 14th, John Jesu was admitted into
the Youngstown, o., poor house. He was
merchant worth $4,000 in 1872, but too much
credit aud whisky ruined him.
The men employed in the Mineral Hope and
Old Colony nail mills, Fall River, Mass, struck
! on the 14th, sgalnst a reduction of Is per cent.
The employees of three tobacco factories at
Petersburg, Va, to the number of 1000, struck
on the 14th against reduction Of rs per cent.
| in wages.
BUSINESS failures on the 14th: Nisbet l. Co.,
cotton merchants, Savannah, Ga., liabilities
$100. 900: Mra. A. E. Davis. millinery, Coluu-
bus, O.. liabilities $4,000: D. A. Grant. dealer
in laces, New York, liabilities $1,000.
The committee on postofices and post roads
is considering postal telegraph bill.
J. NJ. FULLER & Co.. grain dealers, New
York City, assigned on the 18th. Liabilities
100000.
E. W. COLEMAN & Co., grain dealers, New
York, assigned on the 18th. Liabilities $780, :
900.
The labor congress, in session at Philadel-
phia, Pa, on the 18th passed resolutions favor
ing protective tariff.
ALABAMA reports damage of 81, ,OOO, 900 to
the orange groves by the recent cold snap.
A New YORK dispatch Of the 18th stated that
the fortune Of ex-senator Coukling was sunk
in the recent drop in Northern Pacific stock.
On the 18th the ice cutters at Hudson, N. Y,
struck for higher wages. .-,
A DISPATCH from Port Deposit, Nd, on the
11tb, reported dangerous ice gorge in the
Susquehanna River, . short distance above
that town.
On the 10th, a Washington dispatch stated
that Brewster Cameron's accounts of his ad-
ministration in the department Of justice are
to be investigated, and gives So reason that
he reported certain marshal receiving fees to
the amount of nearly 819O, 600. while the mar
shals return only shows a little over $50, ,0OO.
i u. WATERMAN. 4 Co., grain dealers, San
! 91.boo, ,o0O. ss"' SIS ,..s.--..-, 80,