Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-19

the capital stock to be between 1870 ONl
and $500, 600. There are but seven castor-
oil manufacturing plants in the country.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
CAPTAIN FRANCIS ALEXANDER, we'll
known shtp-butlder, died at bis home on
Staten Island, N Y, on tho 10th. The lat~
ter years OF his lie had been devoted to IN
creasing the trade between Gulf of Mexico
ports md the United States
PRESIDENT HARRISON on the 10Th nom.
mated Thomas J. Morgan, OF Rhode Island,
to be Commissioner OF Indian Affairs vice
John H. Oberly, resigned
PRESIDENT HARRISON will leave Washinp-
ton the latter part OF June for Deer Park.
Md, where he will spend his summer vaca
tion
MRS. ESTHER RHoADs, the Oldest resident
OF Bartholomew County, Ind, died at Harris
Vile on the 18th, aged ono hundred and
one years.
HE National Democratic Committee met
In New York OH the 18th and elected Calvin
s. Brice as chairman
WILLIAM W. SIMPSON, postmaster at Sill
yer springs, Md., eighty-six years of age,
was married on the 18th to Miss Winnie r.
Willis, who Is but nineteen years of age.
IOWA Republicans will meet in State con-
vention at Des Moines on August Il to nomi.
nate State officers
CHARLES WILLIAMSON, a survivor Of the
war OF 1912, died at his home in Winona.
MIMI, on the 18th, aged ninety-nine years
DR. ANDREW SlMoNDs, reputed to be the
richest man in South Carolina died on the
18th at Charleston. He was worth 49, OOO. :
co.,
The Kentucky Republicans will hold a
State convention July to nominate a can
dldate for Treasurer In place OF John Bar
rett, who has declined to rum
FOREIGN.
EMIGRATION AGENT BoURKE, OF Bellmullet
Ireland, was on the Sth charged with send
ing pauper families to this country On
money supplied by the British Government
AMERICAN boodlers in Canada were great
ly alarmed on the Sth over the statement
that the Weldon bill was retroactive and
that they might be turned over to the
American authorizes
HE town OF Sebaraz, in Austrian Galicia,
was almost entirely destroyed by fire on
the 10th, and many lives were lost
AT Vile Nouville, France a rejected
sutton murdered a farmers daughter. the
father, mother and man servant on the
10th.
The Dominion Government decided on the
10th to remove tho export duty on logs
eleven inches and under cut in Canada bv
American lumbermen and hauled to mills
on the American side
IHE outlook for the Russian harvest was
reported to be bad on the 10Th
IHE Russian authorities On the 10th sem
fenced fOrty-One students Of the Cracow
University to three days imprisonment and
to pay fines of five hundred forms for sing
ing Polish airs while on an excursion to
Oitkotf
A PLOT was discovered at Belgrade on the
18th to dethrone the young King OF Servia
AN excursion train laden with Sunday
school scholars was wrecked on the 18th
near Armagh, Ireland. and seventy-two
persons were killed and many others in
jured Most of the killed ranged from six
teen to twenty years Of age.
A LETTER received at Zanzibar on the 18th
from Ururi. on Lake Victoria Nyanza
stated that Stanley, the explorer, was there
on the I'd OF December last
j. & H. TAYLOR. dealers in railway and
engineering supplies at Montreal, Can,
failed on the 18th for S135. 900.
AT the races on the 18th at Bellerbeck,
Eng, the crowd became so excited that
they pushed one another on to the course.
and many were run down by the racers and
four were killed
SIX THOUSAND dock ]aborers at Glasgow,
Scotland struck on the 18th for higher
wages.
The Canadian order Of Odd-Fellows in
session on the 18th at Toronto voted down
a motion to provide for the eligibility OF
colored men for membership in the order.
LORD ADELDERr PERCY CECIL, the evan
gelist, was drowned on the 18Th in the Bay
of Quinto, near Adolphustown, Ont. Lord
Cecil was a son Of the second Marquis OF
Exeter, and was born in 1871.