Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-01-23

THE inauguration Of Governor Fowle, Of
North G ,rolina, took place at Raleigh on
the 18th. sy<'
Mxs. CLARrssA Cox died on the 18th at
Wakefield, Mass, aged ono hundred and
one years three mon his and eleven days.
JAMES P. EAGLE was inaugurated Gov.
ernor Of Arkansas on the 18th.
ANDREW SnUMAN, who for nearly thirty
three years had been editorially connected
with the c icago Evening JourAal,
twenty-eight years "s its managing editor
announced his retirement on the 18th OF
account of poor health.
Nix. KENNEDY's bill giving women the
right to vote at all municipal elections
was killed in the Ohio House of Represent
atives on the 18th.
A LENGTHY memorial to Congress was
passed by the New Mexico Legislature On
the 18th bv unanimous vote praying for
the admission of that Territory into the
Union.
FOREIGN.
HOUSE in Marseilles, France, occupied
by Italians, collapsed on the 18TH and
seven of the occupants were killed.
The Indian steamer Py"hpeket was run
into by another vessel Off Singapore on
the 18th and sunk. and Of the passengers
and crew fort two were drowned.
NATHAN KENNEDY. wholesale cattle
dealer at Montreal, Can, failed on tho
18th for $50, O0l
AT London on the15t the court granted
decree in favor Of the plaintiff in tn
suit for divorce brought by Mrs Bouci-
cault (Aenes Robertso@ agains: Dion
Bouc caut, tho author and actor.
ADvIcEs Of tho 18th say that an earth
quake in Costa H ca destroyed the capitol
bui ding in San Jose and the cathedral,
which rrqu red ten years of Dor to erect,
ut an expenditure Of 81, 000 600. The. dam.
age throughout the country was estimated
at s., 600 go.
PEDESTRIAN named Green began an at,
tenn t in London ON the 18th to walk fifty.
one hundred miles in ono hundre days,
with the object of beating Wo,ton's rec
ord of five thousand miles.
The bulletin issued on the 18th by the
American Iron Il Steel Association showed
Il decrease in the production of Bessemer
steel rails during the year just passed Of
762 lao net tons, az compared with 1887.
A LETTER written by Stanley from the
interior of Afric. to the Arab Tippoo lib
was received at Brussels on tho 10TH it
was written August H.
HERBERT M1LL1GAN, Of Millhaveu Ont,
lost his life on the 10th while trying to
rescue two drowning lads. His br de Of
two weeks witnessed the scene, and had
become maniac.
ZANZIBAR adv .ces of the 10Th say that
the insurgents captured one huudre ma
tives and three male and two female mis-
| sionaries ut Dares Salem and sold them
into slavery.
If IA IF no mo
in p ocess of erection at Montreal, Que,
| collapsed on the 18th owing to the warm
weather.
ADvlCEs Of the 18th say that the Arabs
had destroyed the German missionary
staff at Tugu, Zanzibar, where mai r.
ity of the slaves captured by Germ IN
man -of-war we're l. dyed One missionary
succeeded in escaping from the Arabs, but
eight others were massacrel.
NINE. d. MURsKA, the once famous
singer, died at Munich on the 18th in ex-
treme Poverty. at the age of forty
years. Her daughter was he rt-broken and
c. mmit.ed suicide by t king poison.
The Spanish Cabinet on the 18th de-
cided to grant amnesty to political, mill
:ary and press offenders.
COTTON warehouse on the Liverpool
docks was burned on the 18th, entailing a
loss of $3.50 COO
A SHOOK of earthquake was felt on tho
18th in a portion of the Leith valley and
in Western Edin burgh. S otllnd.
THOMAS A. STEVENS. who had announced
his intent of penetrating Africa II
search of Henry NJ. Stanley, left London
for q ,nzibar on the 18th.
OVER one hundred miners were buried
by an expulsion OF fire-damp in the Hyde
lllery, near Manchester Eng, on the
tn, and the number of k lied was placed
at thirty Seven bodies had been taken
from tn } mines.
II Par.s on tho 18th Nj de Leaseps was
elected president of the Panama Canal
Company.