Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-02-27
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the effect OF the amputation Of one Of his
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
IHE President and Mrs. Cleveland wore
entertained at dinner on the 10Th by Secree
tary and Mrs Villas. 1t was the last of the
Cabinet dinners OF the present Administra
ton. -
PROF. JOSEPH MEsMER, talented must
clan, died at Austin, Tex on the 10Th in the
ninety fifth year of his age. 49,
JOHN B. BASS died on the Goth Mt O,,1ncv
Mass, aged sixty-one years, from the effect
or rifle bull ct wound in the leg received
In the battle of Pea Ridge, Ark, during the
civil war.
DR. d. W. BLISS, who attended President
Garfield during his illness, died on the Dist
at his residence In Washington aged sixty
two years.
MIR. AND Mrs. JOHN RHEL1No, of Fort
Wayne Ind, celebrated their golden we'd
ding on the 2lst.
SENATOR kENNA was reelected to the
United States Senate on the 2lst by the West
Virginia Legislature.
The Michigan Republicans in State con-
vention on the Dist at Detroit nominated
Judge o. B. Grant for Supreme Judge, and
renomtnated Regents Cocker and Draper
CAPTAIN BEN RICHARDSON, the eccentric
millionaire Of New York, who owned Wash
1ngtons chariot and used to ride through
the streets in it on holidays, died on the
2lst
JAMES G. FLOOD, the California bonanza
king, died at the Grand Hotel at Heidelberg
at ten o'clock on the morning of the 21st
He had been In Germany for some time but
had been steadily wasting away and his
end was not unexpected He was sixty
three years old
HENRY AUSTIN WHITNEY, president of the
Boston 4 Providence Railway Company
died on the 2lst at his home in Boston.
The Rhode Island Prohibitionists met in
State convention at Providence on the ed
and nominated a ticket, with H. H. Rich
ardson, OF Darlington, for Governor
FOREIGN.
| AN elegantly dressed swindler. who ar
rived at Iberville, Can, from California a
few days ago, skipped out on the 10th after
swindling a wealthy farmer named Dumas
out OF $40, 600 by claiming to be Dumas son,
who mysteriously disappeared forty years
ago.
Two EXPRESS trains on the Grand Trunk
road were in collision on the 10Th near Ste
Hyacinthe, Que, resulting in heavy damage
to rolling stock.
The British ship St. Joseph, bound from
Fleetwood, Eng, to New York, was, with
her crew of twenty-five men, given ND as
lost on the Goth
BERLIN advices Of the Goth say that Ger
many will demand of the United States Gov
eminent that it arrest and punish Klein the
American whom Germany charges with hav-
ing led the Mataafaites in Samoa at the time
of the repulse OF the Germans in December
| last
IT was announced on the Dist that the
British ship Anglo-Indian had been burned
at Tamsui, China, by natives, and that Cap
tain Cattanach and twenty three men per-
ished
The British Parliament was formally
opened on the 21st The Queens speech
contained little Of interest save sugges-
ton in favor of increased appropriations
for the National defense.
The Sultan of Zanzibar on the 2lst issued
an edict forbidding import and export trade
In arms and ammunition. British residents
had been notified by their Consul to strictly
obey the order
| PLANTER MODESTO RUIsE, who was capt.
ured recently by bandits in the Remedies
district of Cuba, was released on thu 2lst on
the payment of a ransom OF $50,
ADv1cEs of the ed say that two Chinese
vessels collided off Klang straits, and forty
persons were drowned
ANTONIO SELLEN, the Cuban poet, died on
| the 22d ut Havana.
DISPATCHES Of the 22d from Switzerland
| say that heavy snow storms had prevailed
in the Bernese Oberland, and many houses
had been wrecked and their inmates killed
by avalanches in the canton of Solothurn.
Tlrr, >~,;11 ;~.k>
22d asked the Government to increase the
duty on American flour from fifty cents to
one dollar per barrel
LATEST NEWS.
Two masked men boarded the engine Of
train No. Z, on the Southern Pacific rail
way, near Pixley, CAL, on the night Of
the 22d, took the engineer and fireman
back to the express Car and compelled the
messenger to come out. They robbed the
car of about $500, killed a passenger named
Bentley, and made their escape
JAMES RUDDEL, a farmer, living near
Carman, Manitoba, while driving sheep
into the barn with a fork handle, on the
|23d, accidentally fell forward on the tines
! Of the fork, which ran into his side peIe-
|trating the lung. There are no hopes Of
his recovery.
| AvALANcHEs, on the 23d, destroyed the
village of Nivollett, and four persons and
Injured many others in St Michel,
Savoy.
A MISPLACED switch on the morning of
23d derailed the morning train from Ban
gor to St. John, near K ngman, Me- The
mail car, baggage, pullman and smoker
caught fire and were entirely consumed.
Three of the train men were killed but
none of the passengers were hurt.
A PASSENGER train on the Northern
Central railroad was thrown from the
track by broken rail near RAlston, Pa,
lon the night Of the 23d. About fifteen
passengers were injured, none Of them
seriously. The conductor was fatally
hurt.
OLAF Hanson and Nels Oleson were
found dead in OlAf's room in Chicago on
the 24th. 1t is supposed they went home
drunk and after extinguishing the light
turned the gas on again and forgot all
|about it,
NARREaANG g. Co.'s jowelry store Aber-
|deen, OAK, wa robbed Of $4,000 worth Of
goods on the night Of the 23d.
EDWARD MoMERIoT, known throu 3hout
| A .l1o SGKinu ~ MOnnSh{n.