Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-04

THE North Dakota Democrats viii
hold their State convention at Grand
Forks July 10. ID. d.
The Kansas Republican State conven.
tion will meet at Topeka September 3.
BISHOP OCoNN0R, of the Catholic do.
desc OF Omaha, Neb., died ON the a7th.
He was 86 years Of age. lib 1879.
THE Prohibition State oonvent ton
Of Illinois in session on tho 2sth at
Bloomington nominated Robert Link
for State Treasurer and Prot Carl
Johann for Superintendent of Public
Instruction.
Four generations Of her descendants
Joined on the asth in celebrating tho
Tooth birthday Of Mrs. Charlotte Smith
at the house of her grandson in Brook
Ign, N. Y. The celebration was wound
up with music and dancing, and in the
latter Mrs. Smith participated.
Rev. FATHER JACOB NAGEL, who was
known as the oldest priest in America,
died at Buffalo, N. Y, on the Goth ult. ,
aged s6 years.
THE Democratic State convention met
at Burlington. VT, on the goth ult and
made the following nominations: For
Governor, H. d. Brigham; Lieutenant
Governor, George W. Smith, Secretary
Of State, G. O. Kimball; Treasurer, D,
A. Pollard; Auditor, Elisha May.
FOREIGN.
DURING storm on the Goth at Alvers-
leben. Germany, q house was UNDER
mined by water and sixteen of the oc-
cupants were drowned. At Suplinger
five persons were killed by ligh ching.
ADv1cEs of the Goth say that the
steamer Oneida was wrecked on Janeck
Island in Behring sea. and seventy
seven Cinnamon were drowned.
THE village OF Repahie, in Armenia,
was destroyed by an earthquake on the
9th. No lives were lost.
AN officer and four sailors were killed
by an explosion of q torpedo factory at
Nikolaiev, Russia, on the 9th.
BY tho upsetting Of boat on the 27th
at Potsdam, Germany, six army officers
and several ladies were drowned. BY
a similar accident at Dantzig seven por-
sons were drowned.
A FARMER living near Cordova Spain,
refused on the 2Sth to grant permission
to servant to visit bull fight, where
upon the servant murdered his master
and four other members of the family.
THE people Of Newfoundland were on
the 2Sth on the verge of revolution and
considered their only remedy to be to
place the country under the protection
of the United States.
In London on the 2Sth Meissonier's
picture, "Napoleon and His Staff, 1914"
was bought by Mr.. Chauchard for $l70.
600, the highest price ever paid for an
oil painting.
A VIOLENT storm visited the western
part of Cuba on the goth ult., and cities
and towns were inundated, hundreds OF
buildings were wrecked, and many per-
sons were drowned and others injured.
Large plantations were destroyed and
store-houses with all their contents
swept away.
The steamer PACKING, plying on the
Woosung river at Shanghai, China, was
destroyed by fire on the s9th ult., and
twenty-five persons persisted. "7'& "
FIFTEEN Nihilists, of both sexes, were
arrested in Paris on the goth ult
charged with conspiring against the life
of the Car.
The various governments of Europe
were on the goth ult. conducting nego-
tiations with Wow to common action
for the suppression of anarchy.
FIVE persons were killed by lightning
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and six children were killed by the fall.
ing of a. swing at q kindergarten in
Reimskindorf.