Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-15

ed Asa Matthews, Speaker of the illinois
House Of Representatives, to be First Comp
roller Of the Treasury.
GENERAL WILLIAM S1BLEY HARVEY, a hero
of the Black Hawk and Mexican wars, and
the oldest officer in the United States army.
died at Orlands, Fla, on the 9th, aged
eighty mine years.
PRESIDENT HARRISON on tho 9th appointed
Frank @. Loveland to be pension agent at
New York City, vice Franz Sigel, resigned.
WILLIAM D. OCoNNou, assistant general
superintendent of tho ife-saving service,
died in Washington on the 9th, after a long
illness from paralysis.
FOREIGN.
ORDERS were issued at Dublin on the 18th
for the release from Jail Of William O'Brieu
and Timothy Harrington.
The opening OF the Paris exposition took
place OIL the afternoon of the 9th.
Two nc ELS, half dozen stores, the Jew
ish synagogue and other buildings at VIM
nipeg, Man., were burned on the 9th.
Six men were drowned by the capsizing
OF sloop on the 9th near St. John, N. B.
JOSE R1vA GALBAN, a Spaniard, died on the
7th at Bordeaux, France, at the age of one
hundred and eighteen years
COUNT ToLsToI, the Russian Minister of
the Interior, died on the 18th at st. Peters,
burg
CONSUL CRowELL at Annoy, China, re-
ported on the 7uh that this years crop OF
Annoy oolong tea was very inferior, dirty and
adulterated, and that most of it was
shipped to New York, where honest in
spection would prevent it's landing.
ELEVEN unidentified victims of the recent
Grand Trunk wreck were given public
hrr of INT fho
immense crowd was in attendance.
ENORMOUS deposits OF copper were found
in the State OF Chiapa, near the City of
Mexico, on the Sth.
In conflict on the Sth at Essen, Ger
many, between striking miners and the
military, the soldiers fired upon the strik-
ers; killing three men and wo,,nding five
others.
\ VICES Of the 9th from Rome say that in
recent battle between Abyssinians and
devishes thirty thousand soldiers were left
dead on the field, -
The rice output in the Indies was on the
9th reported GUS, 800 bags short Of last year,
and stocks in England and the European
continent were said to be less than two
thirds the amount on hand at tho same
dates during the past two years.
NEAR buckingham, Que, on the 9th an
Episcopal clergyman named Evans was
drowned by the upsetting OF a boat.
ADv1cEs of the 9th announce the death of
Father Damien the celebrated leper priest,
at Molokai Sandwich Islands For the last
sixteen years he had been laboring III tho
leper settlements.
LATEST NEWS.
DURING tho seven days ended on the 10th
there were. ia business failures in the
United States, against 151 the evious seven
days The total of failures in the United
States January to date was 1870, against
4,C69 in 1885,
JOHN p. SALISBURY, Secretary of State of
Delaware died at his home in Dover on the
10th, aged thirty-six years.
VIOLENT wind and rain storm on the
10th did great damage in Pittsburgh, Pa,
and vicinity, and several lives were lost
MRS. JAMES H. McGAuAN, wife of Bap-
fist minister at johnson Creek N Y, was
fatally burned on the 10th by the explosion
OF a gasoline stove.
AN order was issued on the 10th by the
Window Glass Workers Association that
alien glass workers who come to this coun-
try for work hereafter shall be blacklisted
Mrs. HANNAH WHISTLER, who died on the
10th near Loeansport, Ind, was the mother
OF thirteen children and had sixty-nine
grandchildren.
The thirty fourth session Of the Southern
Baptist Association assembled at Memphis.
Tenn, ON the 10TH
A FIND of gold Of great value was made
On the 10th only few miles from lshpem-
ing, Mich, but several miles from where
gold had been found before.
SOME boys fishing on the 10th at Shelby
vile, ILL.,, found a soap box containing the
remains of a man. There was no clew to
the mystery.
r. t. CRUN1P, millionaire of Columbus,
Ind, entered plea of guilty on the 10th to
the charge OF renting rooms for gambling
purposes
MANY horses in the vicinity of Danville,
ILL.,, were suffering from CHAMBERS on the
10th. Two had been killed and others were
quarantined.
COLONEL CHARLES E. FISHER, president
and manager of the Manhattan Gait le Com
pany at Cheyenne, Wy. IT,, died on the 10th
of pneumonia. He served through the war
an officer of artillery.
SOME rye straw shcaves took fire on the
10th in a saddlery concern at Cincinnati,
and while extinguishing the blaze ten fire.
men were sutfocated by the smoke and had
to be carried to the engine houses
AT Birmingham. Ala, Mrs. Barker and
her daughter were burned to death on the
10th.
TORNADO swept over New York City on
the 10th, doing considerable damage, but
no one was seriously injured The storm
also swept across Long Island, and build
ings were blown down, huge piles of lum-
Der scattered and several persons injured
Great numbers Of animals were killed
In a fight on the 10th between cowboys
and Indians near Fort Wingate, N. NJ,
three of the latter were killed,
"DAvE"' WALKER, the aged chief of the
Bald Knobbers, "Bill'' Walker, his son, and
John Matthews, members of the order, were
Hanged at Ozark, Mo-, on the 10th. The
scene at the execution was horrible, the
ropes breaking and the men having to be
carried up to the scatfold and swung off q
second time.