Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-02-01

h PRoF. NATHAN SHEPPARD, OF Saratoga
Springs, N. Y, q noted journalist and cdu-
Gator, fell dead In the New York City post.
Office on tho 9th i3 nj 5I
ANroN HrxBz, who died In Dubuque on
the Path, was the owner Of the first brewery
la Iowa. sH H
III THE Louisiana Republican State conven-
tion, In session on the 25th at Baton 4
Rouge nominated Ex-Governor II. G. War
mouth for Governor and q full State
ticket. A strong protection platform was
adopted and the Blair Education bill was
approved. ls 4. .sl
p. H. NELL, chancellor Of the University Of
Georgia, and for many years president of
the Southern Baptist Association, died ut
his home In Athens, Ga, on the Goth. AZ
GRANT MARTIN, aged fifteen years, and
Oracle Silvers, aged thirteen years, were
married on the Goth at Paramount, Ill, with
the consent Of the parents Of each
On the 116th ballot ON the 26th thu Re-
! publicans of the Eleventh Michigan Con-
gressional district, in convention at Ish-
| peming, nominated Henry W. Seymour, Of
| Sault Ste. Marie, to succeed the late Seth q
Moffatt sa#'5 w.. '" 4
| Ex-JuDaR JOSEPH NELSON, who became
famous for presiding in the Beecher- Tiltn
trial in 1875. died ut his home In Brook
lyn on the Goth, aged seventy-tive years 4"
AFTER courtship of twenty -one yeas
George W. Allen. Of Jamaica, l. l., J.
wealthy marble dealer, was married Of
the 26th to Miss Kate Ludlam- \
! MRS. ANNA PAEMIEE, who was born In Yer.
mont April 20, 1854, died on the 26th near
Clinton, N Y. Her maiden sister, Thankful
| Stanton, died two years ago, aged ninety
nine years
| A NATIONAL anti-saloon Republican CON-
ference will be held in New York City April
10 and IS next
GEORGE CLARK, president of the St Louis
! Typographical Union, died on the 9th of
pneumonia, aged fifty. ono years
FOREIGN.
BIZ an explosion of gunpowder on tho
oath at Brest, Russian Poland, eleven per-
sons were killed and thirty injured.
The London divorce court decided on the
Oath that q divorce procured in America
was valid in England
| SANTOS SoI1zER, Mexican, was lynched
on the Oath at Collins, Mex, for the sup
posed murder of Jacob Stafford
THE discovery was made at Victoria,
b G., ON the Oath of q powerful Chinese So
uiety whose object was to murder at $500
head.
ADv1cEs Of the 25th say that sixty five
men lost their lives by an explosion in
the Wellington tB o. coal mine OF these
twenty-six were white men and thirty-n mine
Chinese
TIE house Of Alexander Beaton, promi-
, nent resident OF Boulandere, N. g.. was de-
stroyed by FIRE ON the 25th, and his wife
and grandohild were burned to death.
THE post-oflce at AnaP2ln. N s., wal
robbed Of $40, 900 on the 25th
The Ontario Legislature convened on thu
25th at Toronto
IT was stated on the 26th that warrant,
had been secretly obtained for the arrest Of
six irish members of Parliament and
magistrates who were In hiding.
TEE Greek Minister at London was on thu
. 26th ordered to proceed to Washington tt
induce the American Government to abolish
, the duty on curranta
, TIE tenants of Donegal, Ireland, on tn,
26th resolved to resist the payment O.
rents, and were arming and threatening Il
Z destroy oil bridges in the country.
: HEAVY snow-storms prevailed Throughout
Canada on the Goth, completely .blockadini
railways
TIE French merchant steamer Suez wa
. run into off the mouth Of the Tagus by
: German steamer ON the 9th and Wen
down In few minutes. nineteen OF tn,
, officers and crew being drowned.
b ADv1cEs Of the 9th from Tonquin 60
: that eighteen French soldiers had been sho
. for desertion .-.
A GREAT storm was raging on the 9th a
< Vienna. Much damage had been done AM
many persons had been injured.
A STATE banquet was given in Sydney, n
, s. W., on the 9th in oommemoration Q
t the founding of the colony one hundre
: years ago.
r ADv1cEs of the 9th say that twenty-etgh
2 persons lost their lives by the recent loss Q
? the bark Lizzie Perry of the coast OF Bal
badoeR
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