Mower County transcript., 1894-03-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Wednesday. Marbh Z.

NEWS Of The WEEK.
Wednesday. Marbh :.
The new battleship Indiana has
started on her preliminary trial trip.
The postal appropriations bill, AZ re~
ported to the house, carries $87, ,47O, 500.
President Cleveland has returned to
Washington. Hon. Michael Doran Of
Minnesota was also one of the arrivals.
Mellette Is. d. lodge Of United Work
men initiated 81 new mem bers, followed
by grand supper. The Dakota iuris-
diction now numbers 1885 members.
Jesse Pomeroy, the famous boy mur-
derer, who is serving a life sentence in
the Charlestown Mass state prison, has
been caught in another attempt to es-
cape. @ -~.,
Senator White was not installed ON
the United States supreme court bench,
as he has decided to remain in the SEN
ate while longer.
The diplomatic and consular appro-
priation bill was presented to the honse.
1t appropriates q total of 81, ,51S, ,738,
which is $46, 706 less than the amount of
the last bill.
Thursday March Z.
London police are excited over the
finding Of a supposed bomb at the Bow
street station.
The preliminary trial of the battleship
Indiana occurred Wednesday and was
declared very successful.
Bondsmen of ex-Treasurer Woodruff
of Arkansas, have decided to settle
his shortage of $4,000.
Ellen E. Moonlight, wife of ex-
Governor Moonlight, minister to Bolivia,
died at Leavenworth, Kan, Wednes-
day.
Admiral Benham has cabled the navy
department. from Rio that he transferred
his flag from the New York to the San
Francico.
Hurley, S. D., is to have two flour
mills this season and other important
improvements. One mill is in process
of erection.
Senator Chandler of New Hampshire
is out in letter announcing himself a
candidate for reelection to the United
States senate.
Governor Lewelling has removed
John w. Willets from the state board
of pardons. No cause assigned. Willis
is Populist and was candidate for
governor in 1890.
Friday, March 8.
Potter Palmer is seriously ill.
Korea is preparing to apply for ad-
mission to the universal postal union.
Smallpox has been discovered in a
Brooklyn tenement. There were seven
cases.
The third jury in the Wisconsin roster
cases has been secured, and the trial is
again in progress.
John Redmond has issued an address
to the Irish people in which he accuses
Gladstone of deserting the Irish cause;
The Spanish cabinet has resigned and
the queen regent has charged Premier
Sagasta with the work of forming new
ministry.
The first cabinet council under the
presidency of Lord Roseberry was held
at noon. It was principally devoted to
drafting the queens speech.
Albert Bierstadt, the famous Ameri-
can landscape painter, has married Mrs.
Mary Stewart, widow of David Stewart
and daughter of the late Edward Hicks
of Brooklyn.
Saturday, March 10.
The Kearsarge investigation has been
finished.
British are rushing the forti cations
at Esquimalt.
Boundless, the American Derby win
ner. is lame, and will probably never
race again.
Phil Armour will give half million
to endow training school for boys at
San Francisco.
Rev. Charles Mackin died at Chicago.
He was "a years old and for 80 years
had been clergyman.
Miss Jennie Lander of Mansfield, o.,
has been installed at the White House as
governess of Little Ruth Cleveland.
The Grant Locomotive works at Chi
cago, now idle and in the hands of as
signees, will probably resume work in
the early months of summer.
It is rumored that E. c.. Wall, Demo-
cratic committeeman from Wisconsin,
will succeed the late Judge McDill as
interstate commerce commissioner.
It is reported that Admiral Da Cana
considers the insurgent cause hopeless
and will seek an opportunity to sur
render to foreign commander.
Monday, March 12.
New York banks now hold $75, $685.
325 in excess of the requirements of the
rs per cent rule.
Rev. Alanson T. Wood, a pioneer
Presbyterian minister of Nebraska,
dropped dead in an Omaha church
Sunday.
Emma Managers, aged 10, a prominent
young lady of Raymond, Ills, suicided
Sunday by taking strychnine. No
cause known.
A cablegram received at the navy de-
partment states that the last vestige of
yellow fever has disappeared from the
Newark and the vessel has been re-
leased from quarantine at Montevideo.