Mower County transcript., 1889-07-31
FOREIGN.


Ir was reported on The Goth that the
Queen of England had decided to place hor
burden Of state documents on the shoulders
OF the Prince OF Wales.
By the ta ling OF the Mexican customs
house ut sassily> Sonora, ON the goth twelve
men wero caught in the ruins and throe
were dead when extricuted.
In thu town OF Paks, Hungary. a fire on
the 2lst destroyed four hundred houses
and large number OF persons were left
homeless and destitute.
TtE Vaudol paper mills near Pontarljer
France, were burned on tho 30th. The loss
was enormous
The jury In London in the oaso OF Mr.
William Obr1en against Lord Salisbury for
damages for SANDER returned a verdict
on the Goth in favor OF Lord Salisbury
PARTY OF cowboys ovespowered tho
guard and hanged two Mexican horse.
thieves near Kelly, N. NJ, on the 22d.
IHE sc ooner Alpha arrived on the 22d
at French Village, N. s, leaking badly. Ii
had been struck by sword-tish and a
piece OF the sword still remained sticking
through plank.
HAYT1AN advices OF the ed state that
General H1ppolyte had made several at
temp5s to capture Port au Prince, but w,ls
repulsed with loss.
IT was said on the Esd that the French
Government was about to issue an order
deprivlng General Boulanger. Count Dillon
and Henri Rochefort Of all civil and polti-
cal rights. This action would render them
Ineligible to any office in Frunce and would
also make any property they may own in
France liable to seizure.
In the English House Of Commons on the
I'D 1t was agreed, by a vote OF 23o to 20, to
grant lump sum of E6oo, 600, or, as IN al
ternate, 920, 600 annually, to build railroads
in Ireland
ANNEXATION to the United States had on
the 2Sd become SO popular in Newfound-
land as to cause anxiety in London.
ADv1CEs of the Esd from China say that
recent fire at Iu Chow burned twenty
three hours, destroying oighty seven thou
sand dwellings, Over twelve hundred per-
sons perished in the flames and four hun
dred others were killed
1T was announced on the o3d that buried
city in Honduras, containing relics in PRO-
fusion, had been unearthed two hundred
and fifty miles from the mouth Of the Par
took river among the Peyas Indians.
A wEEcK1NG company on the 24th re-
the cargo OF the bark Midway,
which was wrecked In 1853 of Cape Hen
lopen while bound from London to Phila-
delphia with tin, lead and spelter The
metals were valued at sl5O,0U0
A GREAT sensation was caused on tho
9th in the highest circles of society in
Copenhagen by the suicide Of Count Spare,
member of a prominent Swiss family,
after he had killed his mistress.
NEWS Of the 9th from Ounalaska by tho
steamer Bertha, confirmed recent reports
OF the loss OF three whaling schooners, tho
James A. Hamilton, the Otter and the
Annie. The vessels carried about sixty
officers and men.
BAND of Servian brigands is harassing
the Bulgarian frontier. In a conflict on the
18th with officers five of the brigands and
two gendarmes were killed
The Government OF Switzerland on the
25th expelled all the Russian Nihilists,
French Anarchists and German Socialists
resident there who were not provided with
regular papers from their own countries.
In London on the 25th Mr. and Mrs Will
lam E. Gladstone celebrate j the ffticth an-
niycrsary of their wedding. The Queen
telegraphed her congratulations to the ex-
Premier and his aged wife
BISHOP WALSH, of London, Ont, was ON
the 25th elected Archbishop of Toronto to
fill tho vacancy caused by the death of
Archbishop Lynch
THE probable yield of sugar in the Porto
Principe district "f Cuba during 1889 80 was
on the 25th estimated at Is, $40 hogsheads or
IL, 40 tons.