Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-04-03


IT was announced from Washington on
| the 2Sth that most OF the railway mail am.
ployes who were removed by the Demo-
cratic administration woulG be returned =
their old places at once.
PRESIDENT HARRISON on the Goth ult, an
pointed ]. Otis Humphrey of Illinois All.
tired NJ. Wilson OF Arkansas and eX-Gove1n-
or George D. Robinson Of Massachusetts q
| commission to treat with the Cherokee and
other Indians with relation to the onenlnp
OF the Oklahoma country.
| PROF. q. II. MITCHELL, Of Marietta, q q
| distinguished mathematician and astrono-
mer, died on the Goth ult or pneumonia
FOREIGN. "
KING CHARLES nephew, Prince Ferdinand
was on the Goth proclaimed Crown Prince
of ROumania.
w. A. HARVEY, a book-keeper at Guelph
Ont, was arrested on the Goth tor emboz-
cling $4,000 from his employer, j. W. Lyon,
He was released on BAIL and going home
fatally shot his wife and two daughters. Ho
was arrested in an insane condition.
The Governor OF Lower California re-
ported on the Goth that the discoveries mt
the Santa Clara placers had been exagger-
ated, and only practical miners were find
ing gold
The Spanish mail steamer Mindan1c WA
sunk by collision with another steamer OIL
Manila on the Goth, and thirty OF her crew
and passengers were drowned
The Holland Ministry decided OIL the 26th
that King William was no longer in condi-
tlon to reign and announced that q regent
would be appointed.
IT was stated on the 27th that the popu-
lation OF the province Of Quebec, exclusive
OF Montreal, had decreased 800, $40 in five
years
THE discovery was made on the 9th that
the boundary limo between California and
Lower California, as fixed by the treaty OF
Guadaloupe, should be sixty miles south Of
the line now recognized, and that therefore
Ensenada and the alleged gold fields are
within United States Territory
JOHN BRIGHT, the eminent English states
man, died in London on the morning of the
eth, aged seventy eight years. In August
1857, Mr.. Bright was elected to Parliament
from Birmingham, which borough he had
since continued to represent He was
especially distinguished MS a speaker OF re-
m,ukable eloquence and power He was
during the civil war in this country warm
and avowed friend of the Union cause
In the British House Of Lords on the 2sth
the Marquis OF Salisbury, speaking of the
late John Bright, said: He had special
qualities for which he will be admired and
noted in history He was the greatest
master OF English OratOry in the present
generation. He possessed singular rec
titude of character. He was inspired by
pure patriotism from the beginning OF his
career to its close"
DR.. r. P. HOWARD, dean of the faculty of
medicine of McGill University at Montreal,
Can, died on the 2Sth He was secretary Of
the Montreal General Hospital for thirty
years.
ADv1CEs of the 2Sth say that party andcd
from the German man. of-war Schwabc and
burned Kondutchi after conflict with tho
natives Opposition to the Germans was
everywhere decreasing in Zanzibar.
IT was>stated on the 2Sth that the Gliscov-
cry of the illicit manufacture of bombs at
Zurich furnished a clew to a gigantic plot
existing throughout Russia far new series
OF attempts upon the life OF the Car. Nu-
merous arrests had been made.
THIRTEEN tenants were evicted from their
holdings ut Clongorey, Ireland on the 18th
ult., and after the tenants had been driven
from the houses twelve OF the buildings
were destroyed by the agent.
The French Cabinet decided on the 18th
ult. by unanimous vote of It's members to
prosecute General Boulanger
DISPATCHES of the Goth ult from Samoa
say that the American men-of-war Trenton.
Vandalia and Nipsic, and the German men
Of war Adler, Olga and Eber were driven on
a reef during violent storm and totally
wrecked. or the American crews four
officers and forty-six men were drowned,
and of the German crews nine officers and
eighty seven men lost their lives
The President of Mexico said on the Goth
ult. that the dispatch about the alleged
error in the boundary line between the
United States and Lower California was q
"canard unworthy of attention