Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-12-19

OoMPLHTn returns Tor Presidontia elect.
ors received on the 1lth by the State Dc.
.partment showed an average majority IN
West Virginia for Cleveland electors. on
tho tace Of the returns Of $50.
CoLoROw, the Southern Ute chief and
leader In the Mceker massacre and In the
Colorow war OF 1857, died Of pneumonia
on the 12th at Fort Duchesne, U. T., aged
seventy years. '=.'''
CHAPLAIN GEORGE W. DURnANrs, United
States Navy, died at Was hington on tho
18th, aged seventy-sev years.
On the evening Of the 18th Vice. Presi-
dent-elect Morton and his wife arrived in
Indianapolis. Ind. on visit to President
elect Harrison.
WILl1AM DAVENPORT, Of Eric, Pa,
founder and president OF the Erie car
wheel works, died suddenly on the 18th at
Buffalo, N. Y. @
GENERAL JAMES G. LAss died in New
York City on tho 18th. General Lane
served with distinction throughout the
civil war, taking part in sixteen battles.
He was born In New York in 1923.
DAVID STEWART, aged fifty.flve years,
one Of Pittsburgh's millionaire iron men
and partner Of Andrew Carnegie,
heart disease
V1oE-PREs1pENr.nLEor MoRToN, who was
the guest Of General Harrison, was given q
public reception by the citizens OF Indian.
apolis on the evening Of the 18th In Tom
linson Hail. g. 'e @5%' '.'.
ANNA LANGLEY, aged eighteen years,
who was said to have beon tho tallest girl
In the country, died in New York City on
the l4th. She was seven feet two inches
in height. * @' =
FOREIGN.
MANY cattle In the Northwest territory,
Canada, were on the nth dying of con.
tagious disease called anthrax.
DEPUTY WARDEN O'KeErs and child
were suffocated in a fire on the 18th at
Dorchester Nova Scotia) penitentiary,
and several convicts escaped.
DURING q performance on the nth OF
Hohenmauth, Bohemia, female lion.
tanner was attacked by the brutes and
killed.
ALL the Spanish Treasury ofacials were
imprisoned on the 18th pending an inquiry
IN the robbery Of $4,000 from tho Gov
eminent deposit bank in Madrid.
SIX Gypsies were frozen to death in Bos-
kowitz, Austria, on the 10Th.
GAS escaping from the mains In Quebec,
Can, exploded on tho 18th, wrecking sew
eral houses and seriously injuring some OF
the inmates.
ADvICEs Of the 18th say that the French
had destroyed band Of Chinese pirates at
BAG Mini, Tonquin. Eleven Of the band
were taken prisoners and shot, aud part
Of the town was destroyed by fire in the
effort to break up their haunts.
COLONEL F1rz G1BBoN TRANT, deputy
of the Lord Lieutenant Of Ireland, served
notices of eviction upon nineteen families
on the 18th, and had warned the work.
house to provide for them.
Mr.. b HAMMER, Minister of Finance,
was on the 18th elected President Of Swift
zerland, and Mr.. Buchonnet Minister OF
Justice and Police, was chosen Vice-Presi-
dent
DURING q target practice on board q
French iron clad in the Gulf of Juan on
the 18th gun exploded aud killed an off,
Ger and five men.
ALFRED KERsoN, will am Cummings,
drowned on the 18th by the wrecking of q
boat at Sambro, N. 8.
In the German Reichstag on the 18th a
resolution for the Suppression Of the East
African slave trade was adopted.
IT was announced in London on the
18th that Henry N. Stanley, the explorer,
and Emin Pasha were prisoners OF the
Mahdi, who threatened to KIM them unless
Egypt agreed to abandon Sualxim
ALBREcK's wooden mill at Neumanster.
Germany, was burned on the 18th, fifteen
persons perishing in the flames aud ten
others being fatally injured.
IT was announced on the 18th that the
Panama Canal Company was bankrupt.
NJ. De Lesseps had resigned, but still
hoped for the success OF the scheme
FRED ACKL1N, Of Ferry Point, Ont. who
had become madly in love with his own
sister, q married woman with six children,
eloped with her on the 14th, leaving wife
and three children.