Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-01-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
FOREIGN.

News comes from Rome, Italy, that on the
2Sd. Landucci, . resident of Leghorn, who
bad previously borrowed &1O, 900 from Piazza
Colonna, Of Rome, decoyed Celonna and his
mistress to Leghorn, where be murdered them
and placed the bodies in q sewer.
TIE workmen and officials of the railway
works, Ida, Russia, engaged in riot on the
2Sth, ow!ng to the exactions Of contractors.
GREEN Bros. l. Co.'s foundry, Waterford,
Ont, burned on the 26th., Loss $4,000.
The Orangemen's procession at St. Johns,
N. F., on the 26th, was attacked by mob;
three men we're killed and several mortally
wounded. The military was called upon ia
quell the riot.
OK the oath De Lesseps said in Paris that as
long as he and his sons lived France should
control the Suez canal. &-t
A,srEEL corvette for the Chinese government
was launched on the oath at Kiel, Prussia.
A MARRIED woman named Van Derlinden wae
arrested on the 24th, at Leyden, the Neither
lands, charged with numbering sixteen persons
IN the past few years. The victims were reia-
tlves and were murdered for the insurance on
their iYes. 4 = :
MOODY and Sankey ceased their missionary
labors at stepney, Eng, ON the 23d, where they
had been very successful, and will open after
New Year at Clapham. -
On the 2sd the body of Susan Gibbs, "a
years old, was found in her cabin at Hube,
River, near Toronto, Can. She lived alone,
lars in the house. She had been murdered 70,
her money. - -. ~. .,
The Montreal, Can, Printing Companys es.
| tablishment burned on the 2Sd. Loss $40. .OOO
HE Jewish school and synagoguein Galata, q
snburb m OF Constantinople, burned on the 2sd.
Nineteen oharred uodies were recovered from
the ruins and thirty all tod Ire missing.
Two shocks Of earthquake at Lisbon, Portu.
gal. on the 29d. reminded the people Of thei,
wickedness. Fortunately there was no loss OF
| life. :" ->'' y
GALE destroyed half the town Of Mamote,
Spain, and many personswere injured.
ThE merchants and people Of the City OF
Mexico engaged in small riot on the 22d, on
account Of an attempt to compel them to take
the U. s., nickel, which has depreciated in
value in that land of silver.
FOURTEEN thousand cotton operatives in
Lancashire. Eng, struck on the 20th against
| reduction in wages.
On the 20th Admiral Courbet was gazetted q
grand officer of the Legion Ct Honor.
NEWS from Hong Kong of the 20th says
! Courhet has captured sontay. The French
| loss by the capture Of the outposts was OF.
| tcers and 81 men killed, and 10 officers and
ITO men wounded. ..-.
Or the ten dynamiters on trial at Edinburgh,
Scotland. FIVE were sentenced to life imprison.
| ment and five to seven years.
TIE friends Of O'Donnell intend erecting 9
monument to his memory at Dublin. -
AN informer named Kerrigan is said to have
been murdered on the goth in Cong, County
Mayo, Ireland.
JOHN MAYLAN, recently from the United
| States, was shot and killed on the 20th ir
Clonbar, Ireland. for occupying q farm from
| which another had been evicted.
The French senate, on the 10th, voted g.,
600 900 francs to carry on the Tonquin war
On the 14th. Admiral Courbet after hard fight
| ing, took possession Of the outposts Of Sontay
The steamship Augustine from Manila 70,
Liverpool, burned on the 14th in the Bay Of
of Biscay. Eighty-twopersons were on boart
who took to the four boats; the first was picked
up by an English brig. the second returned K
the burning steamer, the third has not beer
he ard of and the fourth landed at Dartmouth