Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-01-02


a National Scientific Association was
formed on the 27t', DIR. James Fla /, State
Goologist Of New York, being elccled
president. %3" %s, II E.E 81 '19
= JOHN T. YArEs, Of Seneca, Kan. ex~
justice OF the peace, persisted in O. snow
storm on the 9th on his way home in O
buggy. ~ . H.. / HI
MARTIN WELSH hanged himself on tho
9th at Youngstown, O., while out OF work
and Respondent. 1884,. @t :"
Six prisoners who recently broke jail at
Lafayette, Ind, were recaptured on tho
21th. 49,, .,s.S TN
THE Daily Commercial OF Chattanooga,
Tenn, and the Wing, Of Richmond, Va,
suspended publication on the 9th.
THE National Academy Of Theology was
organized on the 9Th at New York, its OBJ
ject being the prosecution of theology as o.
science. Prof James Strang, D. D., of
drew Theological Seminary, was chosen
president.
diator on the 9th between her husband
and another man Mrs. w. P. Fleece accl~
dentally got In the way OF hex husbands
gun and was killed
PEERS ONAL AND POLITICAL.
GEORGE w. MARVIN Iied in Manchester,
N. H., on the 2lst, aged seventy nine
years He was in the Thirty first and
Ihrty third Congresses
Hon. s. e. SEwsrr, l. ,vell-kuown aboli-
ZIONIST, who was associated with w llian
Lloyd Garrison and aided in the defeuse
OF John Brown, died at Boston on the 2lst,
aged eighty-nine years.
Elk CONGEEssAIAN Thomas EPRyGes died
at his residence in Utica, N. Y, on the :,3d
from apol .exy.
Mas MAKGAREr CAREY, aged one hun
dred and eleven years, died GA the aitfl at
Wheeling, W. Va
Il. BoAKDMAN SMITH, an ex-Congress-
man, died on tho 26th at his homo III Ell
mira, n. Y, aged sixtySwo years.
MICHAEL KELLEY, ono Of the most noted
brewers in tho country, died in Chicago on
the 20th, aged sixty years.
THE funeral of Mrs T. T. Putnam, widely
known as "Margery Deane,' was held on
the 27th in Belmont Memorial Chapel vt
Newport, 4. /.
FOREIGN.
D1spATcuEs Of tho 22d say that the Sui
tan Of Zanzibar had issued decree pro-
claiming that 1nurderers should forfeit
their lives and that thieves should lose
their left hands
ADvlCEs of the I'd say that the dispute
with HayN had been settled by tho giving
up OF tno seized vessel, the Haytlan Re-
public, to the United States war ships.
ApvlCEs of the 22d from Australia say
that & great hurricane had swept over
Clermont. running r. rdens, vineyards and
orchards. and that fire at Broken Hill de-
stroyed sixty buildings
ADv1cEs Of the ED say that a fire at
Saigo, China, swept away seven hundred
houses, leaving many pers as homeless
LAwREScE OIJpHANT the we'll known
writer, died ON the Esd in London, from
cancer Of The lungs.
The Abbaw f1our mills al Waltham Eng
were turned on the 25th. Loss, $3.50 ON
AT tho request OF tho Emperor of Ger
many no mere horse-racing will take place
in that country on Sunday.
TIE British steamer Storm Queen found
cred the 2eth in the Bay Of Biscuy,
and her captain and five other persons
were drowned
GENERAL Louis MEl1KofF, the famous
Russ an officer, died on the Goth at Nice,
| aged sixty four years.
AT meeting in Paris on tho 9th Of four
thousand bondholders of the Panama Cam,
Company q re olution was unanimously
adopted EXPRESSING confidence in N. Ere
Lesscps and volunteering to forego the II.
terest on coupons and the redemption al
bonds until the canal is opened for traftlo
ADVlcEs of the 9th say that Austrian
and Italian peasants were emigrating to
Braz in large numbers.
SEVERAL shocks Of earthquake were fels
on the eth in the eastern and southeast
ern part Of Spa Il.
EXPLORING schooners reported at Viz
toria, c., on the 9th that there is great
, abun 'ance Of fish on Black Coal Banks,
of Queen Charlotte's Island, and that the
coasts are dotted with natural harbors, in
which the anchorage is excellent