Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-01-15
THE South Dakota Legislature met 80 !

THE South Dakota Legislature met q
Pierre on the 7sn.
AARON CLAFL1N, the widely-known
New York shoe merchant, died at his
home In Brooklyn on the 7th, aged
eighty-three years. .,. ,ss.,,s
ELBRIDaE G. LAPHAM, who In 1881
was elected United States Senator to
succeed Roscoe Conkling, died in Cam
andaigua, n. Y, on the sth, aged seven
ty-six years. r;-~.s.~ Z: &.
REAR-ADM1RAL WILLIAM RADFoRD. y.
8. n, retired, died at his residence in
Washington on the 8th. -"
GEORGE L. WOODS, who was Governor
of Oregon in 1866 and Governor Of Utah
in 1871, died on the 9Th at Portland, Ore.
PNoF. J. II. G. COFFIN, U. s., NJ, the
distinguished mathematician, died at
his home in Washington on the 9th in
his seventy-afth year. ...
JUDGE w. D. KELLEY (Rep.) died in
Washington on the 9th, aged SEVENTH.
six years. He was serving his sixteenth
consecutive term in Congress from
the Fourth Pennsylvania district be-
ing first elected in 1860, and ranked as
the greatest advocate Of protection in
the Nations councils.
The Democrats in tho Ohio Legisla-
ture on the 9th nominated Calvin G..
Brioe for United States Senator.
THE Iowa Prohibitionists held a State
Temperance convention in Des Moines
on the 9th which was largely attended,
and series of resolutions indorsing the
prohibitory law and demanding its re-
tention intact were adopted.
FOREIGN.
A BAND Of Mexican horse thieves am
pushed camping party consisting of
three men, two women and four chill
| dren near Chihuahua on the 9Th and
shot and killed two Of the men.
LONDON advices of the 9Th say that last
years immigration was $4,000 from Ire
land and 254, 900 from the whole of Great
Britain. There was large falling of
in the movement to the United States,
Canada and Australia and an increase in
the immigration to other places.
ADv1cEs of the 7th from China report
the loss of the American ship Cheese
brough with sixteen lives.
The exchange at Brussels, one of the
finest structures in Europe, was burned
by incendiaries on the 7th. Loss, 5,0o0,.
900 francs.
A WATERsPoUT occurred at Marking,
China on the 18th, and hundreds of peo-
pie were drowned. Numerous boats
were destroyed and great damage was
! done.
THE Dowager Empress Augusta, OF
Germany, widow of the late Kaiser
William, died at Berlin on the 7th from
! the effects of severe attack of influ-
enza.
A TELEGRAM OF the sth from Prot. S.
W. Burnham, chief of the eclipse expe-
dition sent from Lick Observatory to
South America, announced that the OBJ
servation of the eclipse of the sun on
December % was entirely successful, and
that the expedition was homeward
bound.
MANY persons broke through the ice
while skating on the Sth at Lubbock,
Eng, and eight were drowned.
LONDON advices of the 9th from tho
curator of the Museum of Egyptian An
tiquities at Boulak announced that the
tomb in which Cleopatra was buried had
been discovered. - t 2
The steamer Iowa from Boston which
arrived in Liverpool on the 9th lost $40
out of 625 head of cattle owing to stormy
weather encountered on the trip.
The Russian Government on the 9th
ordered a census of all foreigners resi-.
dent of the empire, together with a
statement of their professions and their
resources.
CUBA's total sugar crop for 1889 was
49,, 344 tons; that for 1885, e49, 1903 tons.
Local consumption in 1889, $4,000 tons.