Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-07-24

Z. G. JORDAN, proprietor of the White
Sulphur Springs at Winchester, Va, died
ON the 18th from the effects OF blood poi-
soning.
WILLIAM B. CARROLL, one of tho Oldest
circus men in this country, and famous at
one time as bareback rider, died on the
10th at Westchester, N. Y, aged seyenty-
four years.
The Demo Gratis in Mississippi met In State
convention on the 10th at Jackson and
nominated ]. NJ Stone for Governor.
The Prohibltlonlsts of Virginia met at
Lynchburg on the 18th and nominated
Thomas Z. Taylor, OF Louden County. for
Governor.
FOREIGN.
PANAMA advices Of tho 18th stated that
the steamer Rapel, belonging to a Val
paraiso line, had been lost, with eleven Of
her crew.
LADY ACTON and Count Won Blumenthal
the former sister Of the German Minister
to the United States, killed themselves in
Munich on the 18th. 1t was said they were
engaged to be married and had had ylo-
lent quarrel
The one hundredth anniversary of tho
fall Of the bastile was celebrated by public
meetings and fetes IN Paris and throughout
tho provinces on the 14th.
The value Of Canadian exports for the
last fiscal year was IS, $50, SIT, an increase
of SS07, $50 over the previous year.
A COLLISION occurred at Grenob!e.
France, on the 18th between a passenger
train and goods train on the Paris, Lyons
& Mediterranean railroad, and twenty per-
sons were killed or injured.
Mr.. LINCOLN, the United States Minister
to England, and his wife, and Mr. Russell
B. Harrison, son of President Harrison.
dlned with the Queen at Windsor on the
18th.
TIE lands Of the Canadian Anthracite
Coal Company, owned principally by Wis.
COnsln lumbermen, were sold to an English
syndicate on the 18th for 81, $4,000
The Mrs Acton who committed suicide
recently by drowning in Tegernsee lake
Bavaria, was not, as stated, Lady Acton,
the sister Of the German Minister at Wash.
ington.
ADv1cEs of the 18th from China say that
on June the Chang Ping and Ping Yueu
districts were flooded by the bursting o: q
water-spout or tornado, and the level coun.
try flooded with nearly thirty-six feot OF
water. Seven villages were deluged, up
wards of six Thousand lives were lost and
nearly ten thousand persons were homeless.
THE elections in Bohemia were completed
ON the 18th. The result showed the retarn
of seventy-three Germans, seventy Con.
servatives, tifty-four young Czechs, forty.
three old Czechs and tour Bishops
VIOLENT storms, accompanied by whirl.
winds, prevailed throughout Austria Hun.
gary on tho 18th. Heavy losses Of life ond
property were reported. Many bridges
were destroyed and railway traffic wal
seriously Interrupted
A F1aHT took place on the 10th at Puerto
del Aguera> Mex. between q party OF
smugglers and force of CUSTOM house
guards, In which two guards and three
smugglers were killed.
A wATERsPoUr destroyed the town o,
Chilapa Mex, on the 10th. Chilapa was
town of four thousand Inhabitants, anG
the capital of the State OF Guerrero
WHEN the Parnell commission met IL
London on the 10th Mr.. Parnell and the
other members of Parliament against
whom charges have been made by the
London Times. through their counsel
withdrew from any further presentation OF
their cases before the commission.
1E snip Inc PREMIER from stanton az.
rived off Quebec on the 10th. Her captain
was dead and two of the sailors down witt
yellow fever.
SHOCK Of earthquake was felt on the
18th on the Island of Arran and the mair
land OF Scotland The shock was so se
we're that houses were violently shaken.
The Emperor OF Brazil attended theat
rical performance in Rio Janeiro on the
18th, and when leaving the theater Port
uguese fired a shot from a revolver at him
The bullet, however, missed. The would
be assassin was arrested.
A FIRE on the 18th In nstantinopls de-
stroyed two hundred houses
SIX men were drowned on the 18th while
attempting to shoot Roche's rapids, nea,
Ottawa, Ont, with raft They were lum
bermen, but their names were unknown