Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-03-05

THE first State convention OF the
Union Reform party was held at Provj.
dence, r. T., on the 25th, and ! state
ticket was nominated, with Arnold Il.
Chace, Of Lincoln, for Governor. The
platform declares for the overthrow OF
the saloon, for pure elections and the
punishment Of bribery, for the eduoa,
tion of the masses and for ,ivil-seryios
reform. E5-ss H..
A BILL passed the Maryland Legisla
ture on the 25th which will secure the
election of Democratic congressman in
Ave OF the six districts. Il. ~
: JOHN CALDWELL veteran of the wal
OF 1912, died in the New Jersey Soldiers
Home in Kearney on the Goth, aged loe
years.
THE Legislature Of West Virginia adj
journed on the 2eth, having remained in
session forty-four days.
ALBERT RoLAz GAL1.Ar1N, son Of AL
bert Gallatin, who was Secretary Of the
Treasury under the Presidency of jaime,
Madison, died in New York on the 26th,
aged 81 years.
M. B. WRIGHT was renominated fox
Congress- for the Fifteenth Ponnsvl
vania district at Susquehanna on the
26th.
DIR. MARTIN B. ANDERSON, IL. D..
for thirty-f1ve years president of the
University OF Rochester, N. Y, died or
the Goth at Lake Helen, Fla, aged II
years.
THE Rhode Island Prohibitionist.
met In State convention at Providence
on the Goth and nominate Rev, Johr
Larry for Governor.
PROF. JAMES DRURY, 80 years of age
and widely known throughout Contra
Ohio as a weather prophet, died on tho
26th at Springfield of la grippe.
COMMODORE GEORGE 3. WHITE, chic
OF the Bureau of Yards and Docks o.
the Navy Department., expired on thu
9th ult. at Washington.
GOVERNOR BoIEs and Lieutenant-Gov
ernor Poyneer were duly sworn into of
flee at Des Moines, Ia, on the a7th ult
FOREIGN.
THE schooner Galremham, which LEFT
Halifax January s for the East Indies
was given up for lost on the 22d with
her crew of five men.
RUDOLPH DUBoIs, of st. Alban, Que.
in a quarrel on the 23d with his mother
in-law, Mrs. O. Thibeault, killed he,
with an axe, and then killed his wife
and two little children in the SAINT
manner.
AT the meeting in Toronto, Ont, or
the Oath of the National Law and Orde,
League c. c. Bonney, of Chicago, was
reelected president.
ADvIcEs of the Gath say that 500 O.
the King of Dahomoy's troops attacked
the French posts at Kotonon, Senegal
and the French repulsed them and killed
sixty of their number.
The tobacco warehouses of Henr,
1zurrieta at Cardenas, Cuba, wore burned
by incendiaries on the Oath. Loss, $780,.
900.
By the will of the late M. Chante
loupc, an extensive Canadian brass
founder, made public on the Gath, al
most his entire fortune, estimated al
$500, 900, was left to his employees.
MCCARTNEY & WILSON, wholesale lum.
Der dealers at Toronto, Ont, assigned or
the 25th with liabilities of 500, 400.
SEVENTY murdered bodies of infant.
were found on the 25th on the premises
of Skobislki, whose house was burned
recently at Warsaw, Poland.
THE schooner Oliver Mowat cleared
on the goth at Toronto, Ont, for Brigh.
ton. This was the earliest opening Of
navigation ever known.
YOUNG ABRAHAM LINCOLN, son o:
Robert T. Lincoln, United States Min.
lister to Great Britain, who was reported
to have died at London on the Goth ult.,
was still living on the 27th.