Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-07-03

eighty seven years or age ana worth So.
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MOSES M. BANa, of Utah, was on the 9th
appointed Chief Of the Accounts Division In
the General Land Office at Washington
Mrs. LUCY W. HAYES, wife OF ex-Preside MT
Rutherford B. Hayes, died at her home In
Fremont, O., at 6:30 O'clock on the morning
OF the 25th. Mrs. Hayes was born AUGUST IS.
1881 at Chillioothe, O., and was the Youngest
child and only daughter Of DR.. James Webb,
She'was married December 80 1889 to Mr..
Hayes and he and four sons and one daugh-
ter survive her.
OHIO Republicans met In State conven-
ton at Columbus on the 25th ind organized
by electing w. G. Cooper, of Mount Vernon.
as chairman. Resolutions were adopted
expressing the sorrow OF the convention at
the death OF Mrs. r. B. Hayes.
J. 8. GLADDEN., leading citizen of Buck
ner, Ark, died on the Goth, and ten minutes
later his wife died of grief.
The Ohio Republican State convention in
session on the Goth at Columbus renomi.
mated Governor Foraker for Governor, E.
L. Lampson for Lieutenant Governor, John
q. Brown for Treasurer, D. X. Watson for
Attorney: General, and F. J. Dickinson for
Judge OF Supreme Court The platform
Harrison, declares for protection to home
Industries, indorses the administration Of
State affairs, and declares the LIQUOR laws
| OF the State to be wise and just.
THE Pennsylvania Prohibitionists have
decided on August rs as the day for holding
their State convention.
GENERAL SIMON CAMERON d.od at his
home In Donegal, Lancaster County, Pa :,
ut eight O'Clock on the evening of tho 26th
aged ninety years MI. Cameron was first
elected United States Senator in 1s45 and
reelected in 1856. When Mr. Lincoln
formed his Cabinet he made Mr. Cameron
Secretary of War. In 1862 he was appointed
Minister to Russia, but returned to tho
United States the same year. He was re-
elected to the Senate in 1866 and again in
1873 In 1877 he resigned his seat which Is
now held by his son. J. Donald Cameron
PRESIDENT HARRISON on the 18th ap-
pointed William Walter Phelps. of New
Jersey, United States Minister to Germany.
CHIEF ENGINEER WILLIAM H. HUNT, of the
retired list OF the navy, died ut Washington
on the 18th, aged tifty-seven years
GEORGE DoR1Na BRowN, u we'll known
landscape painter. died suddenly on the
goth at his home In Maiden, Mass, of apo
plexy.
Iowa Democrats decided on the 9th to
hold their annual State convention at
Sioux City on September Is
WILLIAM HENRY WOODS, mining presi-
dent and railway expert, died suddenly on
the 9th In his office at New York
JOHN P. WE'RE, who was Representative
in Congress from 1858 to 1869, died in Phil
delphia on the 9th, aged seventy-three
years
The South Dakota Republican Central
Committee on the 9th called a convention
for August % for the nomination of two
Congressman, Governor and other State
officers. The total number of delegates in
the convention will be 44S
MRS. FELICIA G. PORTER, one of the best
known and most highly esteemed women
in Tennessee, died at Nashville on the eth
in her sixty-ninth year She was the
youngest daughter of the late Felix Grundy,
ex-United States Senator, and Attorney
General in the Van Buren, Cabinet
FOREIGN.
SEVENTEEN workmen were intombed on
the ed in mine at Newcastle, New South
Wales.
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