Mower County transcript., 1892-02-10
EVENTS OF 4 WEEK.

EVENTS OF 4 WEEK.
Nsws OF Current Intsrsst Aiven Bris1
Duluth elected democratic mayor
and republican council Tuesday.
Twenty persons lost their lives a. :
result Of the election riots In Hungary
last week. s8 5=s
The Wisconsin Central railroad g
auditing department. will bs removed
from Chicago to st. Paul.
The Ohio Legislature has passed .
resolution to investigate the matter of
Senator Brioe's residence,
It is again stated that Henry Willard
will resign ~ president Of the Edison
General Electric company.
The caucus Of democratic congress-
men to decide on = silver policy has been
postponed for tho present.
Russell Sage has lost his 81 ,OO0, 900 suit
against the st. Paul, Saltwater & Tay-
lor's Falls railroad company, in . st.
Louis court.
John Boyd has been arrested in
Georgia, charged with wrecking train
on the Western Railroad OF Georgia
near Statesville, last fall. Twenty lives
were lost in the wreck.
sRussel Sage, Jr., who has been seri-
ously i'll ever since the tragedy wherein
his uncle 50 narrowly escaped death, is
now lying at deaths door in New York.
His death may be expected at any time.
Furious storms are raging on the
Baltic sea. II
Sir Morrell Mackenzie, the noted
English physician is dead.
The court house at Appomattox,
where Lee surrendered, has been de-
stroyed by fire. , -.....
Two families of emigrants were
frozen to death during the recent bliz-
zard in Oklahoma.
The house committee on public build.
ings has decided that cities desiring pub
lie building appropriations must furnish
sites free.
Street car strikers blew up car con-
tanning scab workmen at PHILADELPHIA
Wednesday. They put dynamite on
the track.
The Wisconsin supreme court has
given the attorney general leave to file
suit to test the apportionment made by
the last Legislature.
The Greek government intends to
raise loan of seventy millions of francs
at 5 per cent. to pay off the railway
coupons falling due.
The navy department is endeavoring
to head off several colliers that were
started out from New York during the
recent Chilian war preparations for the
Pacific. There were four ships in all.
carrying total of $4,000 tons of coal.
One of them has been intercepted at
Montevideo and ordered to discharge
her cargo there and return to the United
States.
Chicago is having an egg famine.
Governor Flower has signed the bill
allowing reporters to be present at
electrocutions.
The will of Cardinal Manning shows
that he had only E1OO at the time of his
death. He had disposed of all his in
come in charity. -.
Governor Flower has commuted the
sentence of Nicola Trezza, who is now
imprisonment for life.
The sash, door and blind mon of the
Northwest, who have been in s..sion at
Chicago, adjourned without, accom-
plishing their object Of forming trust.
Judge MARITIME has dismissed the in
dictments for ,misdemeanol found
against the editors of the different daily
newspapers of New York who pub
lished the details of the electrocutions.
The New York chamber of commerce
has appointed committee of fifty to
appeal to the citizens of New York and
the United States for contributions to
the Russian relief fund.
Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British
minister. and Postmaster General
Wanamaker have signed parcel post
convention between the United States
and British Guiana. The convention
will go into effect April l, 1892.
Sixty people were killed in election
riots in Guatemala Jan. 10.
George Painter has been convicted of
the murder Of his wife in Chicago.
A block of stores was burned at
Larned, Kan, Sunday. Loss, 1925, 900.
st. Paul is being flooded with circu-
lars by New York ''green goods" men.
An unknown man is defacing monu-
ments in Woodlawn and other New
York cemeteries. He is dubbed" Jack
the Sculptor"
Charles McIlvaine was electrocuted
at Sing Sing Monday for the murder of
a groceryman in 1889. He was only 10
years old when the crime was COM
mitted.
London board of trade reports show
English imports to have increased
ga, 740, 600 while exports decreased $780,
600, as compared with those of Jan
uary, 1891. Il
A bill extending the mining laws Of
Missouri over the Indian Territory has
been reported to the house. This action
was precipitated by the recent mining
accident at Krebs.
Ex-Canadian Premier Alexander
MackenZie's condition is very critical.
He is delerious and resting very badly.
His medical attendant entertains very
little hope for his recovery.
Memphis had million dollar fire on
Monday night.
Joseph Chamberlain succeeds Hart