Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-02-06
FOREIGN.

FOREIGN.
In consequence OF the election of Gen.
eral Boulanger to tho Chamber Of Depu-
designations on the 2Sth, but President
Garnet declined to accept them.
ADvloEs Of the Goth from Tonquin an
nounce the death Of the King Of AMMAN.
EDWARD STANHoPE, England's M mister
of War, IN a speech in London on the Goth
prophesied the speedy outbreak in Europe
Of ''the fercest aud most horr. BILE war ever
known"
A COMPANY with $500, 900 capital was
formed on the goth in Toronto, Can, to do
velop the Labrador fisheries.
By the ice giving way on the Goth on
Like Rideau, near Sunbury, Ont, sixteen
teamsters and their twenty horses were
drowned
THE British ship Sir Walter Raleigh,
laden with wool from Sydney, N. s. W.,
went aground on the Goth ult near Bou-
logne. AMI five of the crew were drowned.
ARcHDUKE RUDOLPH, the he r apparent
to the throne of Austria, died suddenly on
the 9Oth ult of apoplexy at Mierling, near
Baden, aged thirtyone ye'rs.
ADv1CEs received at Auckland, New
zealand, on the 3Jtn ult. from Samoa an
nounred that the Germans there had begun
systematic warfare on the native sympa-
thizers with Mataafa. 1t was also said
that all factions of the Samoans, including
the followers Of Tamasese, who had hither-
to been favored by the Germans, would
unite against the foreign foe. No par
ticulars had been received. but it was be-
lieved the next mail would bring news Of
serious conflict in the island.
I Carr r. m xx,bolo.o1, 1v1, 4,
merchants at Toronto, assigned on tho 3lst
ult., with estimated lab lities of q quarter
of a mill on dollars and small assets
ApvIcEs Of the 31st ult. from Samoa
were that the Germans intended to search
all vessels arriving there. They had sup
pressed newspaper, imprisoned and sub
sequently released an English tourist and
issued proclamation placing the Apia
police force under German control. Ma
taafa, the Samoan King. had six thousand
followers, and his army was said to be
constantly increasing.
AT Dublin on the 3lst ult. John O'Con-
nor and Thomas Condor, members OF
Parliament for Tirperary, were sentenced
to Imprisonment for four months for in
citing tenants not to pay rent
Rev. FATHER CoRNYN was found dead in
his study on the 3lst ult at Strathroy,
Ont, with gunshot wound in his head
and the gun by his side. He had been i'll,
and committed suicide.
ADvICEs of the 3lst ult from San Do
mingo say that continuous rains had on.
t!rely destroyed the sugar crop of tina,
country.
The residence Of Colonel White, Score.
tary of the American Legation at London,
was entered by burglars early on the
morning of the 31st ult. and $35, 600 worth
of jewelry and other valuables were car
ried off.
EDITOR O'BR1EN was lodged in Jail at
Clonmel, ireland, on the 31st ult He re.
fused to remove his clothes In order to n
the prison garb, and the warlers I'm.
dressed him by force. His beard was
shaven off.
The Canadian Parliament was opened
at Ottawa on the 31st ult. by Governor
General Stanley.
A COMMITTEE appointed to inquire into
the condition of the British navy reported
on the 31st ult that the ships, with few
exceptions, were unsuitable for modern
warefare, and. indeed. wholly deficient
THERE was renewal of the ri0ting and
throwing Of stones at Tirperary, Ireland,
on the 1st and nine civilians and thirteen
olicemen were div injured.
THREE THOUSAND seamen and fremen
were on strike IN Glasgow on tue 1st, and
only W steamers sailed, being manned
by Off ais
A FREIGHT train was precipitated down
| m untain side on the 1st near Calgary,
n. w. T., and seven men were killed.