Mower County transcript., 1889-11-06

REv. u. DE1YITT ID, 4 ,f tin'' ie !
Brook lyn Tabernacle, sailed on the 83(,th
l8ult.on the stealne q ty os Paris for thu
Holy Land. 55S5 .
E LEWIS ANDREWS, aged one hundred
and nine years, died at Pottersyille, N.
", on the Soth ult. He was bripht and
active up to the day Of his death.
E Il. A. RUssEI.L, q prominent Democrat
Iof Cleveland, announced himself on the
3lst ult. as candidate for the Gov
ernorship Of Ohio. ..5.#
JAMES EDWARD CALHOUN, Of Abbe-
vile, S. g., a cousin OF John G. Calhoun,
the nullifer, died on the Slst ult.., aged
ninety-three years He was the richest
landowner in South Carolina and for
fifty years had led q hermit's life.
FORE'oN. 4
THE general transatlantic line steam
or Vile de Brost burst her boiler in
Tunis bay on the asth and five persons
were killed. .'"@.z3
PRINCE HArzEEIDT, of Germany, was
married at London, Eng, on the 2sth
| to Clara, the adopted daughter of C. p.
Huntington, the American railroad
magnate. I'LL &
In q railway accident on the sSth at
Hatras, India, fifteen persons We're killed
and forty injured. S..,5T
THE rainfall had on the 2Sth de-
stroyed the rich cotton crop in the Yang
Tee valley in China, and a widespread
famine was imminent. The price of
rice had already trebled. #. s-s &
SLIGHT damage was done in Constan-
tinople on the asth by earthquake
shocks, and shocks in Italy caused SER
ious damage and loss of life at Gallipoli.
THE thermometer marked the zero
point on the ssth at Chambard, Can.
THE firm of Robitalle, Bernier &
Bernier, dry-goods dealers at Quebec,
Can, failed on the Goth for $17o, 900.
ADVICEs received in London on the
29th from Scutari stated that two hun
dred houses in that place had been de-
stroyed by fire. ... p. ~.
THE river Pc and its tributaries and
other streams in Italy overfowed their
banks on the s0th ult., and portion of
the city of Verona was flooded.
ADvIcEs of the 30th ult. say that
revolution was in full progress in the
Santa Rosa district of Guatemala and
that the Government was shooting all
the prisoners taken.
The projected marriage between
Prince Murat, of Paris, and Miss Gwen
doline Caldwell, the wealthy Washing
ton woman, was abandoned on the 3Oth
ult., the Prince not liking the money
settlements made by Miss Caldwell.
ADv1cEs of the S0th ult. report the
massacre by natives of Southwestern
New Guinea of Rev. Mr.. Savage, a Lon
don missionary, a number of native
teachers and the crew of cutter belong
ing to the London Missionary Society.
A DISPATCH of the SOth ult from San
Juan del Sur announces the discovery of
new gold-tield in Nicaragua. 1t lies
along the banks of the Princepulka river
one hundred and seventy miles from San
Juan del Norte.
NJ. TscHERNIsCHvEsKI, the novelist
and the father of Nihilism, died in St.
Petersburg on the 31st ult. He was
born at Saratov in 1928.
At Winnipeg, Man, on the s1st ult.
Assistant States Attorney Baker and
Lawyer Howell secured Gillette's story
of the confession about DR.. Cronin:s
murder. which, he said, Burke made to
him while they were confined in the jail
together. Gillette said Burke told him
that the doctor was murdered in the
Carlson cottage with clubs by himself,
Dan and Dennis Coughlin and Pat
Cooney, and that the blood-money was
paid to them in y room over Silvermans
Bank. The murder was committed,
Burke said, because DR.. Cronin had
given away secrets of the Clan-na-Gael.