Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-09-25

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author md publlshcr Of school copy btoka
died at his home Of HYDE Park, Mass on
the 18th, aged seventy four years.
The Democratic State convention of ,nwa
at Sioux City on the 18th nominated Horace
Bestow for Ieutenunt-Go Governor: wi Il.
Brannon for Supreme Judge; Thunna
Irish for superintendent Of Publicf In-
struction, and David Morgan for railroad
Commissioner. The resolutions denonnce
the tariff, oppose prohibition and the
pharmacy law, declare for 500 license
and favor tho Australian system of voting
MRS. ELIZABETH s, MoC1E1LAN, motbAr of
General George B. Mcclellan, died or tho
18th at Philadelphia at the age Of ninety
years. 12'
FOREIGN.
HARRY Howard, otherwise known m
Prot Peynaud, jumped from o tower 10
feet high on the 18th in Montreal I'M tho
presence of 1,5O0 poop 9, and was fatally
hurt the canvas spread to catch him giving
away. u = - Il ?.
IT was reported from London on the 10Th
that Mrs Langtry had secured divorce
from her husband ...,
ADv1cEs Of the 10th from montenegro
stated that twenty-five thousand families
In that country were likely soon to be sut-
fering from famine. -[-4 s
The Bontin sugar refinery at Bordeaux.
france, was burned on the 18th, causing u
loss OF $ss50, COO
The anniversary OF Mexico's independ-
ence was celebrated throughout that coun-
try on the 18th. 5 =. ~ = p.
LABOR agitators in Central America on
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Knights of Labor.
pearance in Bagdad and tho disease wac
spreading in Western Persia l...5.
IT was reported on the 18th that dia.
monds were being found in the State of
Guerrero, Mex.
LETTER signed Jack the Ripper" was
received at a news agency in London on
the 18th In which tho writer stated that in
about week another murder would be
added to the list of Whitechapol horrors.
TERRIBLE accounts of starvation among
the Indians In Manitoba were reported on
the 18th large number had died, and
near Fort Vermil1on a woman killed hcr
sister and ate the body in order to keep
herself alive
IN consequence of the SUCCESS of the
smokeless powder the Italian Government
on tho 18th suspended the manufacture OF
all other kinds Of gunpowder.
ADv1cEs of the 18th say tho province Xii,
IN the southwestern part of Japan had
been visited by one of the greatest disas-
tiers IN the history of the country. Prob
ably moro than fifteen thousand people
were killed, several towns were wiped
completely off the face of the earth and
others wore nearly demolished The catas-
trophe was occasi ned by floods In tho
western part of the province and by
the crumbling OF a mountain which buried
SIX villages under huge macs of rocks and
earth in tho eastern districts Over twenty
thousand persons were receiving relief.
ADv1cEs Of the 10th from China state
that the boiler of a launch burst in the
river at Shanghai and twenty persons were
killed
A wATERsPour burst over the Mexican
city OF Cerro Gordo on the 10th, drowning
several persons and sweeping away horses
and CATTLE
At Windsor, Ont, a man supposed to bs
silas Densmore, of Nashville, Ind, shot his
wife through the heart on the 10Th and
then sent al fllet through his own BRAIN
AT Quebec, Can, on the 10Th several
thousand tons Of rock slid from Cape
Diamond ut the end Of the Dutferin terrace
to Champlain street, three hundred feet
below, demolishing in it's course seven
dwellings, Thirteen dead bodies had been
recovered from the ruins, and fifty more
We're supposed to be buried in the debris
The property loss would exceed 500. O0ns.
EIGHT cotton mills in Preston and four.
teen in Blackburn. Eng, shut down on the
10Th owing to poor business, and as a result
thirty thousand looms and ten million spin
dies were idle.
THERE was heavy fall of snow through.
out Austria on the 10Th and hundreds Of
PEASANTS cottages in the vicinity of Vienna
were completely showed under. Much
damage was done to crops
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