Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-11-20

that q. q. Lampson tkep.) was elected
Lieu Governor Of Ohio ia Tho "a.
cent election BY the close margin 81
forty-two votes In q total Of. over 75O 600.
The pluralities for the other Republican
cand idates, except Governor. ranged
from 500 to- 4, 900. s5 81.
AFTER . fast Of forty DAYS Joseph
Plummer, aged eighty-four yenrs. died
on the 18th near Sanford, XIV.
CHARLES DEANE, the well-known au-
thor, formerly Q prominent business
man Of Boston, died at his home in
Cambridge, Mass, on the 18th. aged
seventy six years. Il. .E b -5.##==
AN organization to be known as the
National Reform party" was perfected
in Chicago on the 14th.
Mrs. LOUISA ZERINA JORDAN, q WE'LL
known actress Of the last generation,
died at New York on the 14th in her
nty-eighth year.
CHIEF JUSTICE w. N. III. SMITH. OF the
North Carolina Supreme Court, died at
Raleigh on the 14th. n, NJ 5s ..5....
JOHN DAWSON, Of Terre Haute,z Ind,
celebrated the one hundred tn anniyer-
sary of his birth on the 18TH. He has
thirty grandchildren, sixty-four great
grandchildren and seven great-great-
grandchildren, nearly all Of whom
were present at the celebration.
SAMUEL CLEMENS died at Manchester
H., on the 18th, at the age Of ninety-six
years. Et : .l,,. s:.s
The official count for State Treasurer
at the recent election in Pennsylvania
was on the 18th given as follows: Boyer
(Rep.), Sal, 244; Bigler (Denl.), 2sO,3ls;
Johnston (Pro.), 81, 401; scattering, SO.
Boyec's plurality, 6o,926. @=z
WILLARD POWERS FILLMORE, son of
the late Willard Fillmore, thirteenth
President of the United States, died in
Buffalo, n. Y, on the 18th, aged sixty
years. 49,
FOREIGN. -
The British Minister at Zanzibar re-
ceived a letter from Stanley on the 18th
in which the explorer said he hoped to
reach Zanzibar about the middle of Jan
uary next
ADvIcEs of the 18th from China say
that the Yangtsze river had overflowed
its banks, and ten thousand families
were homeless around Ming Pc, and five
hundred families were drowned at Wen
chow.
ADvIcEs of the 18th from South
Africa report great distress in the Trans
vaal, resulting from drought and fam
inc.
A BRANCH of the Knights of Labor
was formed on the 18th by the rope
workers of Belfast, Ireland.
THE eighth annual Baptist congress of
America commenced at Toronto, Can,
on the 18th.
AMBROSE D. MANN, Secretary of
State under President Pierce, died on
the 18th in Paris, aged eighty-nine
years.
A DAM gave way near Alton, Ont, on.
the 18th. wrecking six mills and several
dwellings, and an old man named Harris
and his wife were drowned.
By the caving in of pit on the 18th
in coal mine at Ratibor, Prussian 81.
lesia, twenty miners lost their lives.
AN explosion occurred on the 14th in
the royal powder factory at Hanau, Ger
many, killing eightpersons and injuring
twenty-eight others. Ese J. 4
A. w. NORRIS & Bro, proprietors Of
the j. A. Converse plaster and cordage
works at Montreal, Can, failed on the
18th for 81, 100000.
A NEW coal bed, estimated to contain
about ten million tons, was discovered
on the 18th at North Sydney, n. S.
ADvlcEs of the 18th say that revolu-
ton has broken out in Brazil, and that
the movement aimed at the overthrow
of the Government and the proclamation
of a republic, and was supported by tho
army.