Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-02-12
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THE fourth week of the deadlock in
tho Iowa House began on the Sd with
no signs that the end of the contest was
approaching.
WILLIAM HILL, who in 1885 estab-
lished the first newspaper at Blooming
ton, ILL.,, died in that city on the 4th,
aged so years. Dr..
The gubernatorial contest in West
Virginia was settled for the presen on
the 4th by the Legislature seatlng
Fleming (Dem.), who received 43 votes
to 40 for General Golf. ,'I ..-
ELL JONES, the widoly-known Quaker
preacher and noted philanthropist, died
at his home in South China, Me-. on the
4th, aged S3 years.
The oldest native Of Warren County,
ILL.,, Mrs. Craig Hanna, the first female
white person born in that county. was
buried at Monmouth on the 4th.
The Prohibitionists of Missouri in
State convention on the 18th at Sedalia
adopted platform denouncing the
maintenance of the liquor Traffic, the
high-license laws of Missouri and the
local option law, State and National.
JOHN Il. REYBURN was on the 5th
nominated by the Republicans of tAe
Fourth Pennsylvania Congressional
district to succeed the late Congressman
William D. Kelley.
IMPRESSIVE funeral services woro held
on the 9Th in the east room of the
White House at Washington over the
remains of Mrs. Tracy and Miss Mary
Tracy, the wife and daughter of the
Secretary of the Navy. The large as
semblage present included every proml-
nent Government and foreign official at
Washington.
THE death of Rear Admiral Stephen
B. Quackenboss, United States navy
(retired), occurred at his home in Wash
ington on the 5th, at the age of 81 years.
E. l.. LAMpsoN, the Republican Lou
tenant-Governor of Ohio, who was GUST
ed from his position by the Democratic
majority in the Senate, decided on the
5th not to carry the case to the Supreme
Court.
A. b. FLEMING was on the 9th inau-
gurated Governor of West Virginia.
FOREIGN.
PORTUGUESE newspapers were on the
1st advising their countrymen to muir
der members of the English colony at
Lisbon in the event of war with Great
Britain.
MEXICO on the 1st officially recognized
the United States of Brazil
TIE car shed of the Canadian Pacific
Railway Company at Ottawa, Ont, with
six cars, was destroyed by fire on the Sd.
Loss, 100000
IT was announced on the Sd that
Henry NJ. Stanley, the explorer, would
remain at Cairo, Egypt, until March.
THE trial of the suit for libel brought
by Mr.. Parnell against the London
Times was compromised on the Sd, the
Times paying Mr.. Parnell $4,000 dam
ages.
that waterspout near Marking caused
the loss of one hundred lives.
DISPATCHES of the 4th say that vic,
lent earthquake destroyed several
houses at Nagano, Japan.
ADv1cEs of the 18th say that $4,000
in specie and bonds were stolen from the
steamer La Plata on her recent voyage
from Buenos Ayres to Antwerp.
TIE owners of docks, wharves and
warehouses in London on the 4th formed
union to combat the tyranny Of the Ia
borers' unions.
CATHERINE HENZY, aged 100 years,
died in Kingston, Ont, on the 9th Of
influenza.
THREE hundred miners were buried
by an explosion in a colliery at Mon
mouthshire, Eng, on the 9th, and $50 Of
them lost their lives.
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