Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-07-08
HISTORY OF 4 WEEK.

! his home and opening the grave put the
baby in a box and mailing on lid buried it.
| he then went home and told lis mother.
She fastened to the rescue but the baby
was found dead with its skull and right arm
| broken.
Stoughton, Wis, was the scene of most
| disastrous confagration last Sunday morn
ing. The fire originated in box factory
and destroyed ten out of the thirteen
large tobacco warehouses in the place, the
Milwaukee & St. Paul depot and twenty
freight cars loaded with wheat and mer-
chandise. The loss is placed at over half
| million,
The car drivers and conductors on the
West Side, Chicago are on a strike to the
number of 1000. The company discharged
| 16 of the employees and the others struck
| to compel their reinstatement.
| The strike of the street car drivers in
Chicago has become so serious that the
| entire police force has been called into
requisition to protect the new drivers and
conductors.
The great stallion race1betweer Maxey
Ohio, on the 4th. Phallas won in 2:14,
2:15s4, and 2:2oA. The purse was $4,000.
The marble statue of the late President
Garfield presented by the State of Ohio to
| the National Statuary hall at Washington
has been unveiled without ceremony.
Crop reports from Kansas are very
gloomy. Great storms of wind and rain
! have ruined a million bushels of wheat in
that State during the past week.
j. c. Mackin the Chicago politician who
| was accused of stuffing the ballot box last
fall has been sentenced to five years in the
penitentiary for perjury.
| Mrs. Dudly, the woman who shot
O'Donovan Rosa in New York has been
acquitted on the ground of insanity.
The census just taken of Buffalo, New
York, shows population of 20e, 800 against
155, $50 in 1880.
Fresh Indian troubles in Colorado are
imminent.
RECENT APPOINTMENTS.
| The postmaster general has decided to
set apart the two weeks following the
Fourth of July for the purpose of disposing
of the large number of cases of presidential
| postofices which have been prepared for
| consideration, and for the transaction of
other necessary and pressing business; and
| therefore announces to intending applicants
that he cannot, during that time, hear
personal applications for appointments.
VIM. Dorsheimer has been appointed dis
trict attorney for the southern district of
New York vice Elihu B. Root resigned and
Martin T. Mcmahon U. S. Marshal vice Joel
B. Erhart. Dorsheimer was endorsed by
Tammany though he is not an absolute
member of that organization.
1t is reported that the president proposes
to take rest and make no more important
appointments until the 1st of October. The
story is doubted by the ''outs'' and hoped
to be true by the ''ins.''
It is announced that the U. S. government
will not recall Kelley the new minister to
Austria and if that country rejects him we
will 60 without a representative there.
Malcolm Hay has resigned his position as
assistant postmaster general, his resignation
taking effect July 9th. Ex-Congressman
Stevenson of Illinois succeeds him.
Thomas E. Nash, of Centralia, Wis, has
been appointed chief clerk of the postoftice
department., to succeed C.. NJ. Walker, of
Indiana, resigned.
Darius H. Ingraham of Maine, has been
appointed consul at Cadiz and J. T. Lea
of Maryland, Secretary of legation at
Austria.
Ex-Gov. Noyes, of Ohio, has been ap-
appointed government director of the
Union Pacific railroad.
James B. Hays of Maysville, Wisconsin,
has been appointed chief justice of Idaho.
Samuel T. Hauser Of Helena has been ap-
pointed Governor of Montana.
Judge Lambert Tree of Chicago has been
! appointed minister to Belgium.
GEN. GRANTS CONDITION.
Gen. Grants condition grows less favora-
bic every day, showing that the end is ap-
preaching. The removal to Mount Nc
Gregor may have prolonged his life but the
| relief was but temporary. On Wednesday
in reply to something which was said he
wrote: 'The atmosphere here enables
| me to live in comparative comfort while
| nature takes its course with my disease.
have no idea that should have been able
to come here now had remained in the CITY,
It is doubtful indeed whether | would have
been alive now. would be much better
| able to move back than to come at the
time I did" Having written the above,
| and while the Doctor was reading it, the gen.
| eral in writing, asked DR.. Douglas if he
would like his signature to the above as
the patients Endorsement of his doctors
judgment. DR.. Douglas assented, and the
general then added the signature 'sU. s.
Grant," and affixed the date ''June 30,
| 1885"
Gen. Grants condition on the End inst,
| was little more favorable.
Gen. Grant did some more writing on his
| book on the 3rd of July and really seemed
better. His family now think he will live
until fall.
| General Grant grows weaker daily and at
the consultation of the doctors on the 5th
| the change for the worse during the past
week was very perceptible.
AFFAIRS IN MANITOBA.
WINNIPEG, June GA most important
decision was given in the Manitoba court
! to-day. 1t will affect proceedings in Riel's
| and other half-breed trials. The dominion
| act of 1880 provides for an appeal to the
Manitoba court from the sentence of
stipendiary magistrates. in the North
west Territories. Unlike procedure in all
| other courts of justice in Canada, there can
be no grand jury in territories. Hence
it was contended that any conviction in
the territories would be illegal. 4 man
named Connors, who recently murder d
| Jew at Moose Jaw, was broguht before
| a stipendiary magistrate at Regina, tried
before jury; of six as the law provides,
without bill being returned by grand
| jury, was convicted and sentenced to death.
An appeal was made to the Manitoba court
to have the sentence uuashed on the ground