Mower County transcript., 1888-11-14

E# 0EVEhE gales pC0Y8ll0U on tu6 OGu on Cu0
coast OF Great Britain. Many WRECKS OF
vessels were reported, but no lives were
known to be lost.
AREsRRvo1R at Montreux. on the lake
Of Geneva, In Switzerland, used to work
an electric railway, burst on the 6th de.
stroying numerous houses and drowning
many persons.
To A deputation from Walsail which
waited upon him ut Birmingham, Eng. on
the 9th Mr.. Gladstone said he considered
it his duty to remain in public life until
the Irish question was definitely settled.
ADv1cEs of the 9th from Brazil say that
the coffee crop Of this year was imperfect
in quality, poorly gathered, aud would
cost three cents pound more than hereto
fore. .s s.85. szfzs
The British Parliament reassembled on
the 9th. In the House OF Lords Lord Sails
bury stated that England had assented to
cooperate with Germany to prevent the
export OF slaves and the import Of arms
on the coast of East Africa. France would
also cooperate The combined fleet would
form q blockade and have the right to
search vessels sailing under any flag
FERRY steamer was sunk on the 7th in
a collision at Calcutta, India and sixty
persons were drowned. 50
A TERRIBLE railway accident occurred
on the 9TH on the Southern Russian line
near Kovel, Russia, and many persons
were killed.
DISPATCHES Of the 7th say that among
the thirty-eight violin competitors at the
Paris conservato. re there appeared thir-
teen young girls. Eight Of these received
prizes, and the first prize was unau NOUS
~ awarded to Mile. Dantin, aged fifteen.
IT was announced on the 7th that the ex-
port Of bananas from the Island of
Jamaica to the United States the past
season amounted to nearly two hundred
thousand lunches.
ADv1CEs Of the 9TH say that Paris firm
had produced porous glass for window
panes. The pores were too fine to admit
draught but they assisted in ventilation
A DISPATCH of the 7th from Melbourne
announced that a fire destroyed whole
block of buildings at Brokenhill, causing q
loss Of $500, ,O00
The rabbit pest in Australia was on the
9TH said to be so formidable that tho Gov
ernment was building fence Of wire Mt
| ting eight thousand miles long to divide
New South Wales from Queensland and
bar the pests out. The Government still
kept standing its offer Of $1OO, 600 to any
man who would discover something that
would exterminate the pests.
MICHAEL DINwooDIE, who disappeared
from Toronto, Ont, thirty years ago under
circumstances which led to the belief that
he had been murdered, turned up on the
Sth and was looking for his relatives he
had been among the mines of Central
America and had made a large fortune.
Mrs. SCoTT, of Dawn township, Ont,
driven insane by her husband, who habit
ually came home aud abused her, beat him
tn N00t <hn IN ho low n ho1
in drunken stupor.
SIX inches of snow fell on the 9th at
Quebec, Can.
ANOTHER woman was mysteriously mur-
dered in London on the 9th and her body
was frightfclly mutilated.
SIX persons were killed and twenty in
jured on the 9th by the collapse Of house
in London, Eng.
ADv1cEs of the 9th from Cairo say that
seventy thousand folio xers of the Mahdi
attacked the town of Sedai, west Of Oar
foor. The garrison repulsad the assail-
ants and killed three thousand, but the
Mahdists reattacked and captured the
town.
The Paris Commune on the 9th adopted
NJ. Labordere's proposal to submit the
new constitution of France to q popular
vote
NANsES, curator at the museum at Ber.
gen, who, with four Norwegian athletes,
started from Copenhagen in May to ex-
plore the interior of Greenland. succeeded
in safely crossing the inland ice and ar
rived at Godthaab on the 9th.
The coal mines at Salgotaria, Austria,
were flooded on the 9th, and twenty miners
were drowned
A TEHE BE gale and snow storm ragged
along the lower St. Lawrence river on the
9th. Numerous craft were out in the
Storm. and it was feared that many per.
| sons perished.