Mower County transcript., 1894-09-05
NEWS OF THE " EEK.
Tuesday, Aux, %.

55H no CdSu Ut1lduC6 III G00 treasury is
e126, ,498, 130, Of which $54, 969, ,3O5 is.
gold reserve.
Mrs. Cecilia Thaxter, the poetess,
died suddenly at her home, Isle Of
Shoals, N. III.
According to the Society for the Pre-
vention Of Cruelty to Animals there has
been but one mad dog in New York City.
for % years.
The average annual rice product of
China and Japan is 250, 600, 600 pounds;
that Of the United States is only 1885,
100000 pounds.
DR.. Goriansky, Russian physician,
claims to have found that the juice of
raw cranberries given freely, pure or
diluted with an equal part of water, is
an excellent means of relieving thirst
and vomiting in Asiatic cholera.
Wednesday, Aug. 20.
Republicans of the Third Nebraska
district have nominated George D.
Meiklejohn for congress.
Edward Sauerhering was nominated
for congress by the Republicans of the
Second Wisconsin district at Portage.
On Sunday and Monday there were
S49 cases of cholera and III deaths in
Galicia and 43 new cases and a. deaths
in Bukowina.
Commissioner Miller of the internal
revenue bureau has decided that play
ing cards used as advertisements are
not exempt from duty under the new
law. . IT,. .-..- ...
On the Berlin bourse Italian secur-
tiles closed fat on an unconfrmed re-
port that Premier Crispi was dead.
While this report slightly affected busi-
ness on the bourse, it was generally dis
credited.
Thursday, Aug. 80.
Mr.. Morley, chief secretary for Ire
land, is visiting Andrew Carnegie at
Cluny castle. =h
Hon. John Martin McElroy, state
superintendent of education in Ala
bama, is dead.
The Hamburg-American line has
made another cut in steerage rates, re-
ducing the price of a steerage ticket to
Southampton by express steamers from
$15 to $40. ~
The cotton mills of the Exeter IN.
H.)' Manufacturing company, which
have been idle since March, began op-
erations in part on Thursday and will
start with full force on Sept. 10.
The Pittsburg Press club has organ
lied a reception and entertainment
committee for the purpose of looking
after visiting newspaper men during
the coming G. A. R. encampment.
James Capehart, congressman from
the Fourth West Virginia district, was
renominated on the first ballot by the
Democratic conventiol
The police of Milan have arrested an
anarchist in whose possession were pa
pers detailing the plans of a conspiracy
to stab the King of Greece.
-. Friday, Aug. 81. ss..
The cash balance in the treasury is
$126, 875, ,440, of which $50, ,248, ,O2S is gold
reserve. -. E.l.s,. -. h. =.
At Dartmouth the. Vigilant won
easily over the Satanita. The Britannia
did not start. . r.. -.
Ralph Bierd of Wisconsin has been
appointed an inspector of the postoffice
department., with duties in the West.
Justin Huttley Nc Carthy, the son of
Justin Mccarthy, and well known
playwright, was married at Edinburgh,
to Cissy LOTUS, the young character i'm
personator. '....
Awong the American delegates to the
international peace congress now in
session at Antwerp are Drs. Mary Frost
Ormsby, Russell Conway and Judge
Ashman Rousseau. @c
Andrew Carnegie in an article con-
cerning labor in America says that an
American workman can live for less in
America if he chooses than in Great
Britain. provided that he lives frugally.
{, Saturday, Sept. L. '~
John 81. Raney has been nominated
by the Republicans of the Thrice nth
Missouri district.
John J. Collins, leading lawyer of
Boston, has accepted the post of vice
consul at London. .a5 :.
James Johnstone, retired captain
from the United States army, COM
mitted suicide at Glasgow, Scotland.
The government of Holland will send
a reinforcement of 800 troops to Batavia
during the month of September
Mr.. Harrie G. Ancely has been ap-
pointed treasurer of the Southern Rail-
way company, with Office at Washing
ton. g# s
General Armstrong, assistant COM
missioner Of Indian affairs, who has
been making an inspection of schools
and agencies on Indian reservations
near the Pacific coast, has returned to
Washington.
Monday, Sept. 8.
Thomas Evans, the millionaire con-
tractor Of Orange, N J, has bought all
the street railways Of Detroit, paying
1000. 900 for them
The largest and most dangerous gang