Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-10-13
EVENTS OF THE WEEK.
I domestic News.


B. Frank Howey is tho Republican nomi
nee Tor Governor Of New Jersey. Reports
from Pit tsburg indicate that should ship
ments continue SLACK much longer Chicago
and other Western cities dependent upon
that marketfor their supply will be in
danger of coal famine. The exports, ex-
elusive of specie, from the port of New
York last wsek amounted to s6, ,578, $50. At
Cleveland, Chic, the National Association
Of Undsrtakers elected officers, the presi-
dent being II. Samson of Pennsylvania-
The convention I'D djourned to meet at Pitts
burg the drst Wednesday and Thursday. of
October, The Peabody fund Of tru
stees haYe assigned an extra $4,000 to
South Carolina in view of the devastation
OF Charleston. The Canadian authorities
are discussing the plan Ut amalgamating
the Grand Trunk and Canadian: Pacific
postal highway. Fire destroyed the Har-
lem bath and other properly on the Har-
lem river between One hundred and. six
teenth and Ono hundred and seventeenth
streets; New York, to the value Of &55, 900.
Insurance, $500. Nr. Powderly denies
that be ever consulted with the represen-
talves of the Roman Catholic, or any 9th
or organization, relative to changing the
constitution of the knights of Labor. The
total number OF deaths from TIE La Mas
cotte was 80. rhe jury found the captain,
officers and crew h1ame1ess, but RECON-
mended that the captain Of the Eagle
should have his license revoked. A thief
grabbed 5000 package of money from
Gen. Baezell, in the streets of Pittsburg.
He was Joined by accomplices with loaded
revolvers and fight with their pursuers
ensued. The Baltimore Journal of Com
merce states that the tobacco cropi in Mary
land, Virginia and North Carolina will not
| exceed 40 per cent of an average crop. The
Chicago strikers have issued an appeal to
the public for fair judgment on their ac-
| tion. sThey may strike but there will be
no violence. The business failures of the
United States and Canada during the past
seven days numbered1S9, of which 167 were
in the United States. The parents of Wal
lace, the lynched murderer, refused to take
charge of his dead body, as they utterly
| repudiated their son. 1t is rumored on
Wall street that the Drexel- Morgan inter-
est takes control of the Western Union.
Bradstreet's business review says that
there is heavy increase in the volume of
trade in all branches. Gen. jackson has
| presented his letter OF resignation to Presi-
dent Diaz, of Mexico, and returned to the
United States: An explosion at David
sons coal bank, near Beaver Falls, Pa,
badly and perhaps seriously injured three
parts of New Jersey. Josiah Carter, ex-
town treasurer of Pittsfield, Mass: has
been arrested for embezzling $50, ,OOO Dan
Driscoll, the "Whyo',! gang leader and MUIR
derer of Betsey Garritty is to be hung Dec.
8. An earthquake shock was felt at San
Diego, CAL, on the 8th ; no damage. 10000
| packing house employees are out Of employ
ment at Chicago on the EIGHTEEN hour
question. Anarchist Engel In his speech
| at Chicago, said he became such from read
| ing Henry Georges books. The eighteenth
annual meeting of the American Woman
Suffrage Association will be held in the
hail of the House of Representatives at
Topeka, Kas., Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday, Oct. 26, ~, and %. Capt. Cas-
sius C. Markle of Pittsburg, welf-known
paper manufacturer, has been placed in
custody, his friends alleging that he is in:
sane.