Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-04-15
MINOR NEWS NOTES,


burg. Loss 100000.
The movement of troops to the front
in Manitoba has been stopped. Ac-
cording to an official circular the gov
ernment intends to seeiI acommission
can adjust matters peaceably by in
quiring into the alleged wrongs OF the
half-breeds
Thomas McClintock, OF Chicago,
was robbed of $5, 1000 in Pittsburg, on
the night Of the 7th.
The Western Nail Association had a
meeting in Pittsburg, on the 9Th, but
took no action.
Edwin Hecker committed suicide at
Summerield, Ill.,, on the 9Th. Drink
was the cause.
Nelson Edwards, a dentist in New
York City, committed suicide on the
9Th, by cutting his throat with razor
Cyrus w. Field, the New York mill
ionaire, retired from active business
on the 9Th, after fifty years OF work at
his trade of fortune-making.
; Richard Grant White, the eminent
Shakespearian scholar and writer, died
at New York on the 9Th, aged So
years.
The employees in the Mccormick
Reaper Works, at Chicago, went out
on strike on the 7th, to the number
of 1900. The cause is alleged to be
an attempt to reduce wages in one of
the departments.
Carter Harrison was reelected may
or OF Chicago on the 7th.
Henry Irving and Ellen Terry sailed
for England on the steamer Arizona,
on the 7th inst.
John D. Mckee, a Pittsburg oil
broker, committed suicide on the even
ing of the 7th, on account of ill-health
! The additional troops for ASH inwall
left New York on the 7th. A dispatch
, from Commander Kane at Colon re-
! ported that there was nothing new in
the situation there.
! A Madrid dispatch OF the 7th says:
"There were forty new cases Of sup
posed cholera at Jativa last week and
twenty deaths. Yesterday there were
thirty new cases and seven Deaths"
Rverson & Brown. New York livery
stable men, suspended on the 7th.
Liabilities, S5OO,OOO
! At 10 o'clock on the night of the
5th, man, name unknown, under
the influence of liquor, walked off the
wharf boat into the river at Cairo, Ill.,,
! and was drowned.
At a fire in a Halifax board
i ing house, on the 9TH, James
Fuller was burned to death. Sew
en- fishermen who were sleeping
in the upper part of the house
escaped by jumping from a window to
the arm OF a telephone pole, and then
sliding to the ground.
Ex-Secretary of State Frelinghuysen
IS very Ill at Newark, ". j., and his
life is despaired OF.
There is great indignation among
the settlers on the Crow reservation
lands in Dakota, over the news from
Washington that the lands are to be
withdrawn.
Early on the morning of the 4th, the
charred remains of three Chinese were
found in the ruins of fire which part.
" destroyed building and contents
in the heart OF Chinatown, San Fran
cisco The loss is about $4,000,
fully insured. One of the corpses had
its throat cut. 1t is believed he pre-.
ferred suicide to suffocation.
Fire at Vicksburg, on the 4rh, de.
| stroyed four buildings near the public
square. The losses aggregate in the
neighborhood OF 5000, 900.
A swinging sign was blown down at
pittsburg on the 5th, killing a lady
and seriously injuring two other per.
sons.
Ex-Congressman Finerty. attempt
ed to make a speech in the Seventeenth
Ward, Chicago, on the night of the 5th
but the audience appeared to be dis
satisfied about something and threw
rotten eggs at him. The meeting was
abandoned
The freight house and several cars o
the Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburs
Railroad company at Cape Vincent
n. Y, burned on the 5th. The loss is
estimated at $4,000
| 4 falling plank in the sandwhee
house of the Calumet and Hecla Cop
| per mine, Lake Superior, crushed til,
head of John Brous and badly in