Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-01-18
rapher ever appointed In this country,
died ct New York on the 18th, aged sixty

uleu " NeW 1oIk ON Une AAtn, aReO Sixty
years
TIM Kentucky Legislature in joint session
on the 18th formally declared Mr.: Beck re-
elected to the United States Senate.
RICHARD M. CONWAY, United States Consul
at Port Hope, Ont, died on the 11th
REV. Dn. A. s. PATTON, editor and owner
Of the Baptist Weekly, died at Brooklyn,
N Y, on the 18th, aged sixty three years.
GOVERNOR WILLIAM LARRABEE, of Iowa,
was inaugurated for a second term on the
18th at Des MoineA
THE Democratic State Editorial Associa-
ton of Indiana met at Indianapolis on tho
18th and elected Daniel Mcdonald, of the
Plymouth Democrat, president for the en-
suing year.
TIE Oregon Democrats will hold their
State convention at Pendleton April next
CHARLES T. BARH1cK, of Washington, died
on the 18th while the wedding supper in
honor of his daughters marriage to Mr.
Nicholson was being enjoyed by the guests
Francis T. NICHOLAS was on the 18th
nominated for Governor by the Louisiana
Democratic State convention ut Baton
Rouge
The Democrats of tho Mississippi Lsgis-
lature on the 18th renominated T. c. Walt
hall for United States Senator
FREDERICK GUsTAvE scHwATKA, who was
one Of the founders of Fellowship IN
the United States, died ut Salem, Orc, on
the 18th, aged ninety-eight years
FOREIGN.
BERLIN advices of the 10th say that STAN
ley, the explorer; had reached Emin Bev in
safety.
THE discovery Of another plot against the
20 Of Of
Petersburg on the 10Th
DIR. PHILIP Cross was hanged at Cork,
Ireland, on the 10th for the murder Of his
wife,
A BERLIN paper stated ON the 10th that
the Powers would soon take steps for the
removal of Prince Ferdinand from the Bull
garian throne
A CARPENTER named Mcdonald was frozen
to death In bed at Winnipeg on the 18th,
the thermometer being so degrees below
zero.
A SCARE was caused at Cork, Ireland, on
the 18th by the fact that the police had
been informed Of plot to wreck the Gov
ernment buildings with dynamite
A SHARP earthquake shock was felt in the
Ottawa (Ont) region the 18th, and
crockery was smashed In many houses.
LONDON advices Of the 1th say that thir-
ty thousand persons in Montenegro had
been deprived Of food by floods The Czar
had sent shipload of corn from Odessa TO
relieve the distress.
A VIENNA dispatch of the 18th says tho
bodies OF fourteen women had been dug
out of the snow near Flume, many were
still missing, and 1t was supposed that they
were buried beneath the snow.
DR. MATTO, Peruvian Commissioner, re-
ported on the i tn that the cholera epidemic
in Chilli was decreasing In Valparaiso
1888 cases occurred betw Gen December Is
and January !, of which GA proved fatal
The mother Of Hon Oliver Mowat, Pre-
mier OF Ontario, died on the l. th at Kings
ton, at the age Of 1902 years
A PANIC occurred ON the 18th in church
In South Tyrol, Eng, through woman
fainting, and eight persons were crushed to
death and many injured
Forty vessels were fog bound on the 10Th
in the Mersey, and English railway trains
were badly demoralzed on account Of the
dense fog Numerous fatalities had oc-
CURED.
Two MEN named Buell. and Hynes at
tempted to thaw out q can of dynamite on
the 18th at Kingston, Ont, and were blown
to pieces @-.t.r
AN outbreak of scarlet fever among the
northern Indian tribes in British, columbia
had on the 13 h caused the death Of large
number Of children
GOLD was found in vast quantities in
Richardson's hills, Hastings County, Ont,
ON the 18th.
A MOVEMENT was started in Montreal on
the 18th to have the Legislature pass law
at its next session declaring the Knights of
Labor an illegal organization.
SEVERAL military officer, Government
officials and teachers were arrested in Sofia
on the 18th On charge of oonspiring
against Prince Ferdinand