Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-03-19

70 Board OF Trade operator, died Of
heart failure on the 18th, aged ~ years.
He was worth over 81, 900, 900.
JUDGE McCoMUs, who, as acting Gov.
ernor of Virginia, signed the death-war-
rant Of John Brown, died on the 18th at
Fort Scott, Kan, aged "a years. Il. d..
Ar Washington on the 18th ex-Con-
gresham w. Preston Taulbee. OF Ken
tuoky, died from the effects Of tho
wounds inflicted by Charles E. Kincaid,
. newspaper man. on Februarys2a. 44s.2,,,s
| HENRY s. HEBARD, the newly appoint
ed postmaster Of Rochester, N. Y, died
on the 18th.
| JUDGE ANDREW J. DAVIS died at
Butte, Mont, on the 12th, aged II years.
His fortune was estimated at from &c.
OO0, 900 to SIC, 100000.
| THE Missouri Democratic State con-
vention will be held at St. Joseph on
June II.
LON v. STEVENS, of Boonville, was on
the 18th appointed State Treasurer OF
Missouri in place OF Mr.. holland, re-.
moved for embezzling $780,
The Rhode Island Republican State
convention met at Providence on the
18th and renominated the present State
officers, with Herbert w. Ladd for Gov.
ernor. The platform Endorses President
Harrison's Administration and Speaker
Reeds course in Congress.
FOREIGN.
The body of a Sister Of Charity
named Piutnizky, woman of 40 years,
was found cut into small pieces in q
sack At Moscow on the Sth.
| REPORTS of tho 10th from Cardiff
stated that $50 miners were killed by
an explosion at the Morfa colliery in
Glamorganshire. Wales.
AT fire on the 10th in the business
portion Of Owen Sound, Ontario, seven
persons were seriously injured by fall.
ing walls.
SIR PETER COATES, of the well-known
thread-making firm of J. & P. Coates,
died in London on the 10th.
BROWN Il W1NGRovE, meters and re-.
fners and dealers in bullion at London,
failed on the 10th, with liabilities Of
$500, 900.
IT was reported on the 18th that the
ex-Empress Charlotte, widow Of the un.
fortunate Macmillan, had nearly recov.
cred from the insanity which had at.
flicted her since her misfortunes with
her royal husband in Mexico.
FIVE THOUSAND miners of Noting.
ham, Eng, struck on the 12th for more
wages.
THE National Bank and the Bank Of
Brazil, at Rio Janeiro, began on the 18th
to issue paper money, redeemable in
gold.
In a wreck on the 18th near Penn.
broke, Ont. caused by spreading rails,
two persons received fatal injuries and
many were badly hurt.
| PARIS advices of the 18th state that
in the campaign against King Dahomey,
which had just ended, 1000 Dahomians,
including one female General, were
killed.
| IT was ascertained on the 18th that
eighty-eight miners lost their lives by
the recent explosion at the Morsa col.
liery in Glanmorganshire, Wales.
| THE international chess tourney
which was conducted by correspond.
ence between the United States and
Canada, sixty players on a side, was
concluded at Ottawa on the 18th, the
Americans winning by thirteen points.
! THE influenza was raging with great
violence on the 18th throughout the
State of Hidalgo, in Mexico.
| In the City of Mexico on the 18th the
police arrested four Mexicans on a
| charge Of HAVING circulated connterfait
United States SIS gold pieces in Mexico.
| ADv1cEs of the 18th from Peru say
that in political riots in the province OF
| Ayacucho over 100 persons were killed.