Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-11-04
HISTORY OF 4 WEEK.

| vember 1st he will hold no interviews with
office-seekers. On Mondays, Wednesdays
and Fridays of the month, from 10 to II g..
m. he will see persons who call on strictly
| public business, and in the afternoons of
the same days he receives those who call to
pay their respects. At all other times dur
| ing the month he will see only cabinet Off
GERS and heads Of departments.
At6:30 Wednesday evening, the 18th,
when a large crowd of people were assem-
bled ON the bridge at East Saginaw, Mich,
to witness the burning of a tug in the river
below, part of the bridge gave way and
sixty persons were precipitated into the
water, fall of eighteen feet. Thirteen
persons are missing but only one body has
been recovered.
! The jury in the Ferdinand Ward case
| found the ''Young Napoleon of Finance"
guilty of larceny in the first degree. Ward
will be sentenced Saturday. The penalty
is ten years, with the discretion of the
| court. The jury was out five hours, and
on first ballot stood eight for conviction,
on the second ten, and on the fourth
| twelve for conviction.
Ferdinand Ward, of the firm of Grant &
Ward, and the man who swindled the
Grant family and the public, was sentenced
to State prison in New York on the 31st of
October. He was taken to Sing Sing i'm
mediately.
At Bennington, Ala, a clothing store
proprietor and livery stable keeper, rivals
for the smiles of charming widow,
emptied the contents Of their pistols into
each other in the presence of the woman in
the case. Both men will die.
A storm ragged off the coast of Labrador,
from the 11th to the 18th. during which 80
vessels of fishing feet were wrecked or
driven ashore and seventy men were lost.
destitute condition.
At Chicago, on the 2Sth, A. j. Burns,
discharged clerk of R. G. Dun & Co., shot
two sisters, wounding them fatally. He mar
rowly escaped lynching Burns was dis
charged for insulting the ladies, and thus
took revenge.
At the internal revenue Office at Louis
vile, KY, the receipts Oct. 9th were
$161, 1863, TIE largest ever made in one day
at that point. The collections represents
4,472 barrels of 1882 whlskey, which came
out of bond.
In the Chicago mayoralty contest, A. c.
Story attorney for Mayor Horrison, has
filed an answer setting forth that if the
votes had been honestly counted his client
would have had 10,0OO majority.
On the 2Sth, James Hodges, Democrat,
was elected mayor of Baltimore, by 1900
majority in vote of 6O,OoO. The city coun-
Gil is Democratic, two to one.
At st Louis, Scott Thomas, moulder
was precipated into pit fourteen feet deep,
containing 10000 pounds of mountain iron,
meeting horrible death.
At Boston, A. A. McCardy in % hours
59% minutes made 25511 miles upon bicy
Gle, beating the "a hours record of Ives and
Rhodes of 241 9-32 miles.
The tug boat Frank Moffat, blew up on
the 1st, in Detroit river not far from De-
troit. Four men we're instantly killed and
several others injured.
In ten counties of New York, under
inspirations Of the Woman's Suffrage
association, women will attempt to vote
next Tuesday, Now 8.
4 The colored janitor of the Philadelphia
Press building killed R. J. Cook, treasurer
of the Press company because he was reprov-
ed for wasting gas.
Henry Ward Beecher has been sued for
breach of contract in failing to fill two
lecture appointments at Sufield, Conn.
The assistant postmaster general made
154 removals on the Goth. There are III 600
that he can still make, if so disposed.
Henry F. Weld, of Massachusetts, an
expert Metallurgist, has been appointed
assayer at Boise City, Idaho.
The Hooking Valley coal miners will de-
mand an advance Of ten cents a ton for
mining, November 1st.