Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-04-17

ADAM y. TANNER, Of Canton, o., was on
the 9th appointed Chief Of the Appointments
Division Of the Interior Department. at
Washington.
By the elections held in Rhode Island on
the 9th the General Assembly was assured
to the Republicans, who would elect the
State officers
The funeral of Philo Remington, inventor
OF the rifle that bears his name, was held on
the 9th at lion, N. Y
REAR-ADMIRAI. T. H. PATTERSON (retirad\
died ON the 10th at his home In Washington
aged sixty-nine years.
NATHAN F. DIXON (Rep) was elected
United States Senator ON the 10th bv the
Rhode Island Legislature In Joint assembly
at Providence.
A LICENSE was issued at Pittsburgh, Pa.
on the 18th for the marriage of Samuel r.
Welser, aged seventy-two years, to Edith
Wilson, girl fifteen years old.
Ex-CoNaREssMAN WILLIAM P, CUTLER
died on the 18th at his home in Marietta.
O., at the age of seventy-seven years
MRS. M J. CHASE, of Philadelphia, was on
the 18th elected president of the McAu Mis-
sion In this country
GENERAL EDWARD HATCH, Colonel of the
Ninth United States Cavalry, died ut Fort
Robinson, Mob, on the 18th. He entered
the volunteer service in 1861, and was ap-
pointed Colonel In the regular army in 1866
CALL was issued by Governor Fifer on
the 18th for an election In the Nineteenth
Illinois district on the 2lst of May OF sue
cessor to Congressman Townshend.
l.. ). FARwELL, an Ex-Governor Of Wis
consin, died on the 18th at Grant City. No..
aged seventy years. Hewas noted politi-
clan OF the Northwest forty years ago.
PRESIDENT HARRISON on the 18th appoint
ed Lyman E. Knapp, of Middlebury VT, to
be Governor of Alaska
The elections for members Of the Rhode
Island Legislature were ended on the 18th
and the complexion of that body stands on
joint ballot: Republicans, SO; Democrats 49,
Mrs. LYDIA WATSON, of Leicester, Mass,
died on the 18th, aged one hundred and two
years and three months. She had been re.
markedly we'll and vigorous up to her final
illness.
FOREIGN.
Four Russian officers made wager on
the 9th that they could ride on horseback
from st. Petersburg to Paris in forty-five
days. They will start in May.
A DISPATCH of the 9th from Western India
announced the failure Of the pearl fisheries
owing to the prevalence of cholera
DISPATCHES of the 10th from Spain an.
nounced heavy gales off the coast, inter-
ruptlng Geographic communication delay
! ing mails and steamers, and doing a great
deal OF damage. number OF wrecks were
reported
AN explosion on the 10th in the Erin
colliery at Castrop, Australia, caused the
death OF twenty-five persons.
LONDON advices of the 10th say that the
spring emigration to the United States had
assumed large proportions. All the avail
able steerage space on the several steamers
at Liverpool and ut continental ports had
been taken up for intending emigrants
The movement was more voluntary in char
acter and less the work Of agents than
hitherto and the people were OF the better
class
NJ. MICHoL EUGENE CHEvREUL the distin-
guished French chemist, died in Paris on
the 9th. He was born in Anglers, August l,
1855, and was therefore nearly one hundred
and three years of age.
FIFTY-THREE HUNDRED emigrants sailed
from Bremen and Hamburg on the 18th for
New York
The trial of General Boulanger Count
Dillon and Henri Rochefort was com.
menced before the French Senate on the
12th.
ADvIcEs of the 18th from Mexico say that
four of the men arrested on Il charge of be-
ing implicated in the derailment OF Presi.
dent Diaz's train had been shot.
The Inman steamer City of Chester on
reaching Queenstown on the 18th reported
having sighted the steamer Danmark, OF
the Thingvalla line, on April in disabled
and sinking condition, having apparently
been abandoned in mid-ocean. The Dan.
mark, when she sailed from Christiania,
Norway, for New York, had about seven
hundred persons on board, and tho infer.
ence was that these had either been lost ~
were at sea in the ships boats.
LATEST NEWS.
The street car strike in St. Paul and
Minneapolis still continues. On the 18th
President Lowry issued notice to the
strikers that they cou d return to work on
the 18th at the reduced scale Of wages
and if they would not accept the PROPOSE
ton they could consider themselves dis
charged Several disturbances occurred
in Minneapolis but none in st. Paul. The
cable car men are not involved in the
strike. Mr.. Lowery refused to arbitrate
the difficulties as proposed by committee
of citizens
On the morning of the 18th at st. Louis,
No., Louis Napolet n. the janitor of the