Mower County transcript., 1894-10-10

ton. he comes to I'LL an engagement.
The National Liberal congress at
Frankfort has adopted resolutions indi-
eating great discomfort with Chancellor
Won Caprivi.
The Portuguese government has de-
cided to send two warships to Lourenzo
Marquee, where rebellious natives are
in armed opposition to the Portuguese
authorities.
c. D. Bliss, more Familiarity known
as Pop" Bliss, who played in the Yale
championship team of 1892, has been
engaged to coach the Haverford college
football team.
Thursday, Oct. 4.
Ex-Premier Mercier is unconscious.
Algernon Percy Banks St. Maur. 18th
duke of Somerset, is dead, aged 81
years.
A blockade of the ports of the island
of Madagascar has been proclaimed by
France.
Mayor Smith of St. Paul has issued
an appeal for aid for the sufferers by
cyclone at Leroy, Minn., recently.
Sir Joseph Renals, the senior alder
man, has been elected lord mayor of
London by the aldermen of the city.
Taylor Townsend, desperate negro,
murdered his brother Harry and an
other negro named Philip >Crenshaw,
near Wetumka, Ala.
sThe Western base ball league held it's
annual fall meeting at the Auditorium
hotel, Chicago, Wednesday. The league
pennant was awarded to Sioux City and
routine business was transacted.
Friday, Oct. 8.
Ebenezer M. Byers the wealthy iron
merchant Of Pittsburg, has been de-
clared lunatic.
The Italian minister has obtained q
pledge from Japan that her forces will
not attack Shanghai.
The town of Buchanan, w. Va, was
nearly destroyed by fire at an early
hour Friday morning.
Sioux City was thrown out of the
Western Baseball league in the reor-
ganization which took place Thursday.
Jim Hall has issued a challenge to
Steve O'Donnell offering to fight him
the night Of the Corbett- -Fitzsimmons
contest.
The Chicago w. G. T. U. has entered
upon crusade against the objection.
able theater billboards and the exposure
before the footlights Of scantily clothed
women.
Saturday. Oct. 6.
The Pine City Relief association re-
turns thanks to all who rendered aid
during the recent catastrophe.
Judge Gaynor of New York has
written letter declining the nomina-
tion for the Office of judge of the court
of appeals.
The net cash in the treasury at the
close of business Friday was $780,
21,276, of which $59, ,509, ,020 repre-
sented the gold reserve.
Acting Secretary Sims, of the interior
department, has approved selections of
land for South Dakota institutions
amounting to 1913 acres.
William Dixon's chestnut mare Quirt
ran two Of the fastest half-mile heats
on record at Vallejo, CAL She won the
first heat in 4714, second in 471s.
DR.. Vincenzo Botta, author and
scholar, who fell from a third story
window of his home in New York
Tuesday morning, died Friday as a re.
suit of injuries and shock from the fall.
Monday, Oct. 8.
Intimate friends of Mr.. Gladstone say
that the grand old mans restored vigor
may justify his temperance in politics.
Prof. Hutchins, of the Cornell law
school, has accepted call to the dean
ship of the law school of the University
of Michigan.
In the upper house of the Hungarian
diet the bill granting liberty Of worship
to all religious beliefs was adopted by
majority Of 8.
The Cracow papers declare that the
czar's debility and depressed spirits are
regarded as being more serious than
the specific disease.
AS result of the meeting Ct the
Whisky Trust directors policy of re-
trencnment has been begun which will
save $12, 900 month.
Eastbound freight passing through
the 500 canal for September amounted
to 1,5S2, ,068 tons, and westbound 678,-
$50. The number Of passengers carried
both ways were 4, 102. s
Rear Admiral Benham of the United
States navy was given reception by
the Union League at Philadelphia in
recognition of his services to the nation
during the Brazilian rebellion.
:. -, Tuesday, Oct. 8.
The prime minister, Lord Rosebery.
has returned to London from Dalmany
Park, Scotland. 49, 49,
+ The London newspapers all print
sympathetic articles on the death of
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes.
The Russian cruisers Digit and Via
dimir Monomach have been ordered to
proceed to the Far East.
a dispatch from Vienna says that
paper Of that city reports that the czar
has undergone an operation.
Mrs. Langtry will sail Oct ~ from
Southampton for New York on board
the American line steamer Paris.
The Hungarian house of magnates
has rejected, by q vote Of 100 to lO3,
the government bill providing for legal
recognition of the Jewish religion.