Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-09-02

OVER COUNTY, MIMI,
York, the shorts badly squeezed, there be-
ing jump Of the August twenty eight
points at one time.
Two policemen were shot and killed at
midnight at Geneva, ILL.,, Thursday. Those
who committed the deed have not been dis
covered.
$4,000 600 were paid out for pensions
during August, and the decrease of tho
public debt for that month will be less than
usual
old has been sentenced to two years in the
penitentiary for horse stealing.
A thunder storm occurring August 18th,
damaged the tobacco crop in the vicinity Of
Hartford, Conn, to the extent of $150, 600.
The Chicago & Northwestern railroad has
declared dividend Of ~ per cent. on pre-
ferred stock, payable Sept. 25.
The knights of Labor have been ordered
to raise the siege against the Wabash and
Missouri Pacific roads. e
~-Ex U. s. Senator Edgar 8. coweu, Of
Virginia, died at his reside1ce at Green's
burg, August29th.
John Sherman opened the Republican
side of the Ohio campaign on Wednesday
at Mt Gilead.
Gov. Hoadley will open the Ohio Cam
paign for the Democrats, at Hamilton,
Sept. 5th.
Five thousand people attended the fun
eral OF Ex-Gov. Fenton at jamestown, N.
Y, August %.
President Cleveland will not return to
Washington until September 18th.
RECENT APPOINTMENTS.
The following Iowa postmasters were ap-
pointed Thursday. At Kingston, James W.
ellison; Gravitz. Samuel Robinson, Morn
ing Sun, W. A. Mccormick; Winfield, John
W. Hanna; Pleasant Grove, James P.
Minard; Danville, Alice NJ. Wright; Bona
parte, w. A. Packer: Brighton, Thomas
Buck; Steamboat Rock, Henry Suckins;
Estherville, Peter Johnson.
August . the acting postmaster general
removed sixty seven Republican postmast-
ers and appointed one hundred Democrats,
among whom were the following: Iowa,
Macedonia, Marion Ashley; Calmar, W.
L. Bass. Minnesota, Heron Lake, E. B.
Briggs, vice Force resigned. Dakota, 1ro-
quoise, c. F. Zimmerman, vice Umphreys,
resigned; Egan, H. E. Heron, vice Ian
| ming resigned.
The following postmasters were ap-
pointed August 18th: Dakota-Stanton,
Mrs. l.. A. Frazer; Iowa-Western College,
Jacob Kaufman; Ossian, James Malloy.
THE OLD WORLD.
The Paris La France states that all
Spanish officers now on furlough have been
ordered to rejoin their regiments The
same paper is authority for the statement
that several large Spanish mercantile
houses have Cancelled all their outstanding
orders for German goods. The members Of
the Spanish colony at Paris are indignant
at Germany's occupation Of the Carolines
and protest against what they call Bis
marcks usurpation and perfidy.
1t is stated at Berlin that Emperor Will
liam OF Germany, through feeling Of SYM
pathy with King Alfonso, has made per-
sonal interference in order to obtain a
settlement of the Caroline affairs favorable
to Spain. Firms in Wurzburg and Elber-
field have received notices from commercial
houses in Spain severing business connec-
tions with them.
The Borsen Courier has dispatch from
Constantinople which says that Russia is
making overtures for an alliance with
Turkey, holding out as an inducement
prospect of Turkeys recovering possession
Turkish ministers, the dispatch says, are
| divided as to the acceptance Of tho pro-
posal.
The Irish agricultural statistics show that
there are 5000 900 acres of land under crop
in Ireland, an increase Of $1,000 over the
acreage OF 1884; that there arc II, 0,25O,O ,OOO
acres Of grass land, a decrease of 100000
acres, and that bog, barren, and mountain
land has increased q, 900 acres.
The American minister to Belgium de-
clines to interfere in the case of Chateau
nef, who was arrested at Brussels in con-
nection with the murder of Mdlle. Menetret
| in Paris, and who claims to be a natural
lied American citizen.
A physician who attended Mr.. Gladstone
| says that his complaint is Of chronic ma
ture and not susceptible to any radical
| cure, and that he can never recover his Or
atorical power.
| A British man-ofwar has left Alden to
occupy Ambo, situated on Tajourah bay,
east Africa. The object is to anticipate
the occupation Of the place by France.
assembled at Hackney, England, and
passed resolutions demanding that the gov
ernment assist them to emigrate.
The belief is gaining ground that Gen.
Gordon escaped from Khartoum and made
his way to the equator. A new party is
| shortly to start out to find him.
| The wheat crop for this year in Italy is
reported in an official document to the de-
partment Of state, to be about 20 per cent
less than the average crop.
The Lord Mayor of Dublin will give a
banquet at the Mansion house next Tues
day to Mr.. Parneu and his Irish coll. >gues
| in the house Of commons.
John w. Foster, United States minister
to Spain, made his adieu to King Alfonso
August 18th. Mr.. Foster is about to return
to the United States.
August 25, a native craft, loaded with
pilgrims was wrecked in the gulf OF Alden,
and 100 Of its passengers were drowned
Judge Stallo, successor to William Wal
dorf Astor as United States minister to
Italy, arrived at Rome on the 18th of