Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-02-26
The twenty-second annu&l convention
Of the National Woman Suffrage Assoc
citation convened at Washington on the

Of the National Woman Suffrage Asso-
citation convened at Washington on the
18th. .. 5<
PRESIDENT HARR1soN, accompanied by
Congressman Dalzell, Andrew Carnegie
and j. B. Scott, OF Johnstown, Pa. r.
rived at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 10th to
attend the opening Of the Carnegie free
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THE deadlock in the Iowa House was
broken on the 10th by arrangement of
the parties. Mr.. Hamilton dem. was
elected speaker, while the Republicans
secured the speaker pro tenn, the chief
clerk, his first assistant, and important
committee chairmanships.
JOHN r. LETT, said to be the Oldest
resident Of Southern Indiana, cxpired
at Columbus on the 20th at the age of
% years.
SAMUEL BAYLEss, who went twenty
one days without food or liquids owing
to his inability to swallow because of
consumption OF the throat, died at Fort
Wayne, Ind, on the 20th.
THE Montana Legislature adjourned
on the Goth, having been in session
ninety days without passing bill.
THE Prohibitionists OF Indiana met in
State convention at Indianapolis on the
2Oth and nominated ticket headed by
R. M. Blount of Marion County, for
Secretary of State.
FOREIGN.
The report Of the loss of the steamer
Dubury and 400 Chinese passengers in
the China sea during recent typhoon
was confirmed on the 18th.
ADv1cEs of the 18th say that floods
in Australia had destroyed large
amount Of property and caused the loss
OF over forty lives.
JUSTICE DRAKE, of the British Co.
lumbar Supreme Court, rendered de-
cision on the 18th which declares that
the Government of the United States
has no jurisdiction over Behring sea
outside Of the marine league limit.
ADv1cEs OF the 18th say that while
the steamship Victoria was on her way
from Colombo to Alden twelve mon fell
into the sea while attempting to lower
boat and all were devoured by sharks
in full sight of the passengers.
COUNT ANDRAssY, the Austrian states
man, died on the 18th near Vienna,
aged 81 years.
COLLINS, an American, won the great
annual sprinting match at Sheffield,
Eng, on the 18th.
THE English steamer Coral Queen was
sunk off the River Tees on the 18th and
sixteen lives were lost.
AN explosion in colliery near Decize,
France, on the 10th caused the loss of
many lives. Thirty-four bodies had
been recovered.
FRANK FA1RCH1LD, Norman Scof1eld
and George Bailey, all under Is years OF
age, broke through the ice on Little
lake at Port Dover, Ont, on the 10th
while skating and were drowned.
The steamer High Gate collided with
the ship Sovereign in fog of Lundy
island, Eng, on tho 10th, and six per-
sons were drowned.
JOSEPH GILL1s B1eGAR, the we'll.
known home-rule member Of Parlla-
ment, died suddenly on the 10th at Clap
ham, a suburb of London, of heart dis
ease. He participated in the debate in
the House Of Commons the night pre-
vious He was SO years old. y
THE four children of John Lesion lost
their lives on the Goth in the burning OF
a residence at Kingston, Ont, and Mr..
Lesion was probably fatally injured.
AN order was issued at Berlin on the
Goth prohibiting tho circulation in Ger
many of the Volksanwalt, paper pub.
lished in Cincinnati, o.
In the elections in Germany on the
20th the Socialists made heavy gains,
the Government losing fifteen members
of the Reichstag.