Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-11-25

feating them handsomely, killing 1900
Servians and capturing 10 guns and 3l6
horres. Prince Alexander commanded the
Bulgarians.
A dispatch from Calcutta, by way OF
London cable, I'D, says that 5000 people
have been drowned and $50 villages sub
merged in Orissa by cyclone, and that
! 1,sA square miles In the Moorshedabad and
Huddea districts have been devastated.
A terrible cyclone swept over the Philip.
pine islands on the 31st. Eight thousand
buildings, including churches and school
houses, were destroyed, and twenty-five
persons killed.
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
The Merrill & Abbotsford Railway COM.
pany has fled articles of association with.
the secretary of state at Madison, Wis, tho
object being to construct road from Mer
rill to Abbotsford, Wis, distance of thir
ty-eight miles. The capital stock is $780,.
600, and the directors for the first year are:
81. W. Wright, w. A. Scott aud P. B.
Champagne of Merrill; ]. II. Coolidge of
Eau Claire, and Fred Rictbrock, A. A.
Krause and T. A. Malcolm of Milwaukee.
The Dakota State Canvassing board met
at Yankton, D. T., on the 2lst, to canvass
the votes cast at the recent election. The
official canvass gives 25,132 for the consti-
tuition, and ,52 against; for prohibition,
1859: against prohibition, 1928; for min
ority representation, 1850; against it,
11,253. The state ticket runs about the
same as the constitution, the straight Re-
publican being elected by about 1900 ma
jority. For the capital Huron received
1914 Pierre 1O,3o7, Sioux Falls 1897
Alexandria 1874, scattering 6Os. Huron
takes the capital by 1889 plurality. Two
counties, Butte and Walworth, failed to
send returns
Chas. H. Clark of uRichfield township,
near Minneapolis, died suddenly on the
morning of the 21st, of paralysis. Mr..
Clark has for many years been active in
Minneapolis affairs and was secretary of
the agricultural society when Col. King
held his great exhibitions. For ten years
past he was deputy collector of internal
revenue at Minneapolis, only resigning q
few months ago.
The wife of Judge Sanborn of Madison,
Wis, who committed suicide four days ago,
attempted to follow her husband by the
same route on the 10th inst. She took
laudanum but was discovered in time to be
saved. The judges first wife died in the
insane asylum three years ago.
Herbert R. Jones, assistant claim agent
for the Chicago, st. Paul & Omaha road, at
st. Paul, has been arrested at Green Bay
and taken to Milwaukee,, charged with en-
bezzling $500 of government funds while in
the banking business in Green Bay, where
he failed.
Judge A. L. Sanborn, probate judge at
Madison, Wis, committed suicide by tax
ing laudanum a few days ago. His body
was found in the woods on the 10th. Since
the drowning of his son eight years ago he
had been subject to temporary fits of in
sanity.
Judge Church has taken the oath of Office
at Huron, D. T., thus supersoding Judge
Smith. Judge Smith was ujust about to
hold term of court in Grant county and
that term now goes over. Judge Church
promises to hold special term.
John Toohey, Of Stanton, Goodhue coun-
ty, Minn., undertook to shoot Miss Maggie
Ahern because she would not marry him.
One ball hit Maggie's hand when her broth
or appeared and disarmed the fiery lover.
Four miners were instantly killed at Ash
land, Wis, on the 18th. They entered the
Colby iron mine to go to work, when a
large amount of ore fell and crushed them
to death.
There is row in Hedder county and the
county commissioners have been petitioned
to suspend the register of deeds, county
clerk and sheriff. Malfeasance in office is
alleged.
The resignation Of D. B. Searle as U. 8
district attorney for Minnesota, has been
accepted by the president and it is expect
ed that Geo. N. Baxter of Faribault, will
be appointed his successor.
Ben. W. Woodmansee, superintendent of
Commodore Kittson's Midway stable,
has gone to California, accompaniedlby his
family, to pass the winter for his health.
Edward Vanderlinde was arrested at
Bismarck, D. T., on the 10Th for killing a
man at Muskegon, Mich, on Oct. 10th. He
admits the act, but claims self defense.
James r. Gee, while skating on lake
near Detroit, Mimi, broke through the ice
and was drowned. He leaves a wife and
nine children In poor circumstances.
The Democrats of Dakota are preparing
to establish morning daily paper which
shall be a central organ of the party. 1t
will probably be located at Aberdeen.
Hon. NJ. II. Dunnell and wife, celebrated
the 35th anniversary of their marriage by q
brilliant social reception at their residence
in Owatonna, MINI.
United States Paymaster Sharp has been
directed to move from Yankton, d. T.,
where he has been stationed eight years, to
Leavenworth.
If the last Washington gossip is worth
anything, as it probably is not, Barney
Caulfield is soon to be governor Of Dakota
J.J. Rhodes, one of the prominent citi-
zens of Hastings, Minn., who settled there
over 80 years ago is dead.
Troops have been ordered from Fort
Keogh to suppress the alleged Cheyenne
disturbance ON Tongue river.
At st. Paul, Sunday night, the pork pack.
ing house of Haas Bros. burned. Loss
$500; insurance $1,000.
The daily Republican and Weekly Capt.
tai at Mitchell, D. T., have consolidated.
The Youths Companion
will be sent free to January 1st, 1886, and q
full years subscription from that date, to
January, 1887, 70 Ill who ssnd $1.75 now
for q years subscription. The YOUTH's
COMPANION is . weekly paper, and has
nearly $50 600 Subscribers.
A Heap Of Clam shells.
Near Astoria, Oregon, according to
the San Francisco Alta, there is . de.
post of clam shells which covers ar
area of over four acres, and is piled in
places to depth of ten feet. The
amount of shells is incalculable. Ove1
900 loads have been hauled aWav t(