Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-22

JUDoE MATTHHws, who suoceads 1ntlUa
Durham as First Comptroller Of the rreas.
ury; Mr. Huston, who succeeds Mr.. Hvatt
as Treasurer OF the United States. and
Frank W. Palmer, who succeeds Mr. Benz
edict as Public Printer, entered unon their
new duties at Washington on the 1Sth,
MRS. MARY =. DICKINSON, mother OF Anna
Dickinson, the lecturer, and Susan E. Dick-
inson, the writer, died on the 18th nj West
Pittson, Pa, ut the age Of ninety-fiye years
EDWARD NJ. B1DDLE, secretary and treas
urer OF the Cumberland Valley railroad.
and the Oldest railway official In the United
States, Z died on the 18th ut his home In
Carlisle, Pa, aged eighty-one wears
The Ohio Republican State convention
will be held at Columbus June Is and &C.
MRS. CATHERINE STOREY. aged eighty
years, was burned to death on the 18th at
Lynn, Mass. a-c.,...@
GENERAL VoLNEY T. HOWARD, prominent
lawyer, died at Santa Monica, CAL, on the
18th, He was born In Maine in 1900, and
was elected to Congress several times from
Texas. ~
WILLIAM W. HARDING for twenty years
publisher of the Philadelphia Enquirer,
died In that city on the 18TH
TnE death of Rear-Admiral Edward
donaldson occurred on the 18th at Balti-
more, Md, at the age Of seventy three
years. He entered the navy in 1885.
MINISTER LINCOLN sailed from New York
for England on the 18th ON the steamer
City OF Paris.
COLONEL FREDERICK GERKER, internal
revenue collector at Philadelphia. died ON
tho 10TH
The Woman's Municipal Suffrage bill.
which had passed the Michigan House, was
defeated in the Senate on the 10th by a vote
of Is to TO-
The New York Legislature adjourned sine
die on the 18th.
PRESIDENT HARRISON made the following
appointments on the 10th: Solomon Htrsch,
OF Oregon, Minister to Turkey; Colonel
Clark E. Carr, OF Illinois, Minister to Dem
mark; Henry W. Severance, OF California,
Consul at Honolulu; John Jarrett, of Penn
sylvania, Consul at Birmingham; Thomas
Sherman, Of Washington, Consul at Liver
pool.
ALLEN THoRND1KE RICE, tie new]y-ap-
pointed United States Minister to Russia,
died suddenly ut the Fifth Avenue Hotel in
New York on the 18th from throat trouble.
Mr.. Rice was thirty-six years of age, was
bachelor, and was very wealthy.
FOREIGN.
TEN THOUSAND weavers employed in the
cotton factories at Thizy, France, struck on
the 18th for higher wages
The immigration to Canada has fallen of
largely this season The whole number up
to the 18th was 9,695, against II, 73S last
year.
The projected American bank in the City
Of Mexico has encountered insurmountable
difficulties, and it was said on the 18th that
it would be unable to perfect its organiza-
ton.
A PLOT was unearthed on the 18th among
the military at ST. Petersburg having for its
object the assassination of the Car, and
large number of arrests had been made.
In dispute on the 18th at Eisenheim,
Germany, over some land the villagers
We're fired upon by the gendarmes and
seven persons were killed
II was reported on the 18th from Rio de
Janeio that there was imminent danger Of
war between Bolivia and Paraguay.
AN enormous landslide occurred on the
14th in the region OF the Spiessback, Swift
zerland, destroying villages, forests and
cattle.
FIVE brigands were hanged in the court
yard of the prison at Sofia, Bulgaria. on
the 18th.
THE subcommittee of the Samoan con-
ference decided on the 18th that the munic-
ipal council OF Apia shall comprise six
members, Germany, England and the
United States each to appoint one. The
other three shall be elected by the residents
OF Apia This decision displeases the Brit
ish commissioners
In the British House of Commons on the
18th Mr. Balfour Chief Secretary for Ire
land, said that there were now ten Irish
members OF Parliament imprisoned in Ire
land.
FIRE on the 10th at St Sauveur, Can
swept over a great district and laid seven
hundred houses in ashes. Over five thou
sand persons were without shelter