Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-12-26

JOHN s. WHITTIER, tine Quaker poet,
celebrated his eighty first birthday on tho
18th ut Oak Knoll, near Danvera, Mass. hi
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND on the 18th nomi-
mated Leon q. B4ileyto be United States
Attorney for the DISTRICT Of Indiana, to
succeed Mr.. Sellers. resigned.
CHARLEs s, ROGERS one Of the most
noted comedians in the ,untry, died on
the Chioago and New York United train
on tho 18th little while before Ii reached
Pittsburgh, Pa. His complaint was CON
sumption. VI \.
w. w. SMITH, ono Of the Justices Of the
Arkansas Supreme Court, died on the 18th
OF Little Rock Of consumption, aged fifty
years
/. Hon. FINLEY BERGER, Register Of the
Treasury of the United States from 1852 to
1890 died at Rushville, Ind, on the 10th,
aged eighty two years
REV. Isaac ERRETT, head of the Disciple
church In America, died at Cincinnati, O.,
on the 10TH s
THE official count OF the vote OF Mime.
sofa, completed on the 10Th, shows that
III rrison received 142, 493 votes; Cleve-
land, 1O4. 1856; Fisk, 1871. Harrison's plu-
rality, 1871
SAMUEL MILLER, nged ninety six, and
Anna Hagan, aged seventy-one years, werc
married on the 10th ut Jeffersonville, Ind.
MIS- MARGARET HOLLAND CAREY, famil-
iarly known as Mother Carey, died at
Wheeling. w. Va, on tie Goth, in the one
hundred and eleventh year Of her age
A pILr. TO punish fraud and cor upton
at primary elections was passed. by tho
South Carolina Legislature on the Goth.
J. N. MATTHEW'S, ed tor and proprietor
Of the Buffalo IN. " E1prsss, died on tho
Goth. e.:
FoREiGN.
The steamer Jasper, from Workington
for Glasgow. was foundered of the Wig
town coast on the 18th, and her crew, num-
boring eleven persons, were drowned.
MAIL bag containing $3.50 In cash and
other valuable letters was stolen from the
Grand Trunk railway station ut Ottawa,
Ont, on the 18th. -
Mr.. THOMPSON, the African explorer,
sent word to London on the 18th that it
was only too probable that the Mahdi had
Ga ptured Emin Bey. He expressed un.
hesitatingly the conviction that Stanley
never reached E,nin, but was annihilated
with his whole party in the region to the
west Of the Albert Nyanza. b.
A Paris Spectator In copper named Bex
disappeared on the 18th, talkng with him
! II, O0O, 600 francs. Il, @=s2
The Honorable Artillery Company, the
oldest military organization In the world,
was disbanled in London on the 18th.
EVICTION notices were served on the
18th on sixtv-four tenants ON the Marquis
of Lansdowne's Luggacurran estates in
Ireland. & ST. r. zsa*
ADv1cEs of the 18th say that q fierce
blizzard had been raging In Canada for
two days. Trains on railways were block
AIDED by snow, alAl fifteen persons lost
their lives near Montreal by the breaking
up Of the ice on the river which they
were driving on, and several other per-
sons were buried in the snow.
The civil-service stores in London were
nearly destroyed by fire on the 18th. Loss,
$500 900. a
ADvIoEs of the 18th say that Legitimist
gun-boats had bombarded Cape Hayti. do
ing great damage to the town and killing
over twenty persons
AN extensive business in forged bank
notes was discovered In London on the
18th. ". -
THE Countess Costa was stabbed to
de tn IN carriage at Florence, Italy, on
the 10Th by Captain in the army, who
then comm tied suicide by shooting him.
self with revolver. 2-} =, =.
IT was reported from Samoa on the 10th
th at the natives under Mataafa had sue.
ceeded in capturing Atna after q long
bat tie with Tamasse's forces. The losses
included one hundred killed and several
hundred wounded j.. "a
THE Radicals and peasants in the vicinity
Of Belgrade, servia, on the 18th, cele-
brated their recent victories at the polls
by setting fire to the homes of their poljt.
ioal opponents. - --.
THE British and Egyptian forces at
Suakim made an attack on the rebel posi-
ton on the 10th, driving the enemy from
their intrenchments with the loss Of four
hundred men. 4