Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-01-08

The Montana Republican House and
Senate met in joint session on the LIST
and formally elected w. +. Sanders one
of the United States Senators.
Mrs. POLLY FRENCH celebrated her
one hundredth birthday at East Tenn
pleton, Mass, on the 31st ult.
THE Legislature of Massachusetts
convened at Boston on the 1st. -.
THE Virginia Legislature convened at
Richmond on the 1st, and Governor P.
w. Mckinney was inaugurated. at,
HoRAT1o ALLEN, who invented the
Allen paper wheel, and who ran the
first locomotive ever propelled over a
track in this country, died on the I'd at
his home near South Orange, N. j.,
aged lightweight years.
The Montana Legislature on the I'd
elected Thomas c. Power as colleague of
Colonel Sanders in the United States
Senate.
Hon; GEORGE H. BOXER, ex-United
States Minister to Turkey and Russia,
died at his home in Philadelphia on
the I'd.
JOSEPH SHAvEY died on the I'd at
Huntington, Ind, aged ninty nine
years.
In his annual message to the Massa-
chusetts Legislature on the I'd Governor
Brackett commended the Australian
system OF voting, which was employed
at the last election, and recommended
the extension of similar method to the
primaries.
FOREIGN.
Mr. GLADSTONE celebrated his eight
ieth birthday at Hawarden on the Goth.
Over two hundred kilograms and five
hundred letters of congratulation were
rece we'd.
HIS MAJESTY CARLOS l. was formally
proclaimed King of Portugal at Lisbon
on the 2Sth.
THERESA, the daughter of King
Francis L., of Sicily, and the ex- Empress
of Brazil, died suddenly on the 2sth at
Oporto, Portugal.
ADv1cEs of the 30th ult. say that hun
dreds of the foreign residents of Brazil
had protested against the naturalization
scheme of the Provisional Republican
Government, by which they were to be
forced to become Brazilian citizens.
MIR. Sol WHITE, the most prominent
annexationist in Canada, was on the
soth ult. nominated for mayor of Wind
sor, Ont.
AT a tiremen's exhibit on the 3Cth
ult. at Havana, Cuba, twenty-five fire.
men were injured, three Of them fatally.
DIR. w. 0. LIvINGsToNE, the only sur
viving son of David Livingstone, the
famous African explorer, died on the
3Oth ult. at St. Adams, Eng, aged thir-
ty-nine years.
L. A. BERGAv1N, wholesale dry
goods dealer at Quebec, Can, failed on
the 30th ult. for 500, 000
M. RoTusCI11ID on the 30th ult. pre-
sented 100000 francs to the municipality
to be devoted to the relief of the poor of
Paris afflicted with influenza.
A FIRE occurred at the industrial
school in Westham, Eng, on the 31st
ult., and twenty-six lives were lost
The whole list of casualties in the
Old World during the year 1889, where
the loss of life was important enough to
be telegraphed, including those who
persisted by disease and battle, was
90, $50, against sc, 107 in 1888.
The royal palace of King Leopold,
near Brussels, was burned on the 1st,
together with all the private papers OF
the King and the Queens Jewels
THIRTY-Two officers were arrested at
St. Petersburgh on the I'd charged with
being members of the secret society
whose object is to abolish the aristoc-
racy and to establish a constitutional
monarchy.
SENIOR AGAIARRE, a noted Spanish
tenor, died at Madrid on the I'd of in
fiuenza.