Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-11-07
FOREIGN.

LORD CLAUDE HAMILTON left London on
the Goth for America as tho representative
of q wealthy syndicate Interested In
scheme for heating cities. g#
A SECOND break occurred In the Corn
wall canal ut Montreal on the Goth while
workmen were busy repairing the old one,
and it was said that Montreal merchants
would lose $2,00100o.
BARON HlRsCH on the Goth donated
twelve million francs for the education Of
Jews IN Galicia.
IT was reported on tho 30th ult. that an
English syndicate was arranging for the
purchase of all breWeries in this country.
HE twenty fifth anniversary OF the
assumption of the throne by King George
!. was celebrated at Athens Greece, on
the 3oth ult by a banquet at the palace.
IT was reported on the Both u that q
recent accident to tho Cars tram near
st. Petersburg resulted in tho killing Of
tWentyone persons
A TERRIBLE cattle disease was raging on
the 30th nlt. in the PHILIPPINE Islands In
one province alone over sixty-six thou.
sand animals had died.
AFFAIRS in Hayti had assumed so serious
a phase on the 30th ult. that the war-ship
Kearsarge was ordered to Port au Prince
for the protection of American interests.
HIGGINBorHAM's spinning and weaving
mills at Glasgow. Scotland, were destroyed
by fire on the 3lst ult. Loss, $3.50, 600!
IT was stated OH the 3lst ult. that the
largo number of Chinese who were :lrriv-
ing ut British Columbia ports from China
were not destined to remain in Canada,
but were taking this means of smuggling
themselves into the United States.
A BREAK occurred on the 3lst ult in tho
% N-&o 1Do.,1
and the neighboring country was flooded.
AN asteroid tNo 2S1) Of the twelfth
magnitude was discovered ON the LIST by
Dr. Patlisa at Vienna, Austria
FoRE1GN Jews engaged in farming wero
on the 1st ordered to quit Poland within a
month.
ADVlCEs Of the 1st say that collision at
sea between the steamers Carl Weymss
and Ardencaple resulted in the loss of Six
teen lives from the Weymss.
REV. WILLIAM C.. VAN METER. a we'll,
known evangelist and missionary, died on
the lst at Rome, Italy. aged sixty eight
years. He was one OF the founders of the
Howard Mission in New York, and carr ct
On for twenty years the work Of rescaing
children from the slums and finding Chris
tian homes for them throughout the ccun-
try.
ADvlcEs of the lst from India say tina: a
cyclone, accompanied by heavy rains, had
swept over Madras, doing great damage.
SIR John MAcpoNALD III a speech ar a
banquet in Sherbrook, Can, on the lst
said it would be ruinous for Canada to
sever her relations with Great Britain and
unite with tho United States.
IT was announced on the I'd that the thir.
teen whaling vessels that had been stuck
in the ice in tho Arctic sea for scvera:
weeks bad been freed and were out OF
danger.
CoUE1EWs arrived at Zanzibar on the "a
bringing news Of Stanley, whom they met
late in November, 1857. Many OF, tho
escort hal died and the explorer had been
i'll with fever.
AT Middleton, Eng, crowd attacked
the police on the I'd for the purpose of Sc
curing the release Of a prisoner, and SOW
eral persons were fatally injured.
ACCORDING to returns received by tho
Canadian Department of Agriculture on
the I'd over two hundred Mormons em.
grated from Utah to the Canadian North.
west during the past season.