Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-03-21

NASHVILLE ON the 9TH or May 20 elect dele
gates to the National convention.
The Democrats OF Arkansas will hold their
State convention at Little Rock May 30
The Republicans Of California will hold
their State convention ut Sacramento May /.
THE Republicans of the Fifteenth Penn
sylvania district on the 14th nominated
Myron B. Wright for Congress-:
WISCONSIN Democrats will hold their State
convention May at Madison to elect dele
gates to St Louis
The Rt. Rev. George Kelly Dunlap, D. D. I,
Episcopal Bishop OF Arizona and New
Mexico, died on the 18th at Las Vegas
THE Republicans of Kansas will meet at
Wichita on May to elect delegates to the
National convention. The convention for
the nomination OF State officers will be held
at Topeka July "a
The Indiana Prohibition State convention
met ut indianapolis on the 10Th and NOM
mated Rev. J. s Hughes for Governor, and
adopted platform demanding strict pro-
hibition and woman suffrage.
REV. WASHINGTON GARDNER, of Albion.
Mich, was elected Department. Commander
at the enoampment of the Department. of
Michigan, G. A. r., at Lansing on the 10th
The Union Labor party of Illinois will
hold their State convention for the nom-
of April
The Rhode Island Republicans met in
State convention on the 10th at Providence
and nominated Royal G. Taft. of Providence.
for Governor. The platform adopted favors
protection to home labor and homo in
dustry, and Il reduction Of the internal-rev-
enue taxation.
The Nevada State Republican conven ion
will be held ut Winnemucca on the 18th of
May.
SENATOR SPooNER was elected president
of the Wisconsin Republican League at the
convention ct Madison on the 10th.
FOREIGN.
The market place at Cabin, Hungary, was
destroyed by fire on the 18th, and many
persons porished in the flames
A FISHING sloop was wrecked on the 18th
at Lowestoft Eng, and nine persons were
drowned
ADv1cEs of the 18th report extensive
floods in Austro-Hungary. Bridges had
been swept away and large areas converted
into lakes Several villages were sub
merged and large number Of persons had
been drowned.
TERRIFIC snow storm ragged on the 18th
in Canada, and in Montreal and Quebec
business was practically suspended
At meeting of the Irish National League
in Dublin on the 18th it was announced
that 1926, 900 had been received from
America to aid evioted persons
IT was reported on the 14th that fanatics
were burning tho houses OF Professionals at
Santa Barbara Osoampa, In Mexico, and
that priest named Father Frames waa
causing the outragea
The Belfast steamer Galgorm Castle went
ashore on the 14th near Drnmoro, and tho
master and five men were drowned
THE bridge at Sossin, Germany, was
broken by drifting Toe on the l4th, and
fifty persons were thrown into the water
and many were drowned Eleven bodies
had been recovered
The grand Jury at Cork, Ireland, on the
10Th called the attention of the Govern
ment to the impending ruin Of landlords
owing to the great reductions In rent
A TRAIN on the Mexican railway jumped
the track on the 18th near Saltillo, and
one car containing thirty labore1s rolled
down an embankment, killing six and serl-
ously injuring twenty.
The marriage of Prince Oscar, second son
of King Charles, of Sweden, and Miss Ebba
Munck was solemnized at Bournemouth on
the 18th.
The house of Ulderio Roux, at Ste. Sophie,
Can. was destroyed by fire on the 18th,
and his three children and wife, the latter
bed-ridden, persisted in the flames
WEDDING party Of sixteen persons were
crossing the ice on the D. nube at Neus-
tatz, Hungary, on the 18th, when the ice
gave way and all were drowned
The funeral of the late Emperor william
took place in Berlin on the 10th, and was
in all respects IN affair of extraordinary
splendor Almost every civilized nation on
earth was represented Memorial services
were also held in all the leading capitals OF
the world