Mower County transcript., 1897-06-23

Inc steam OOluer SuSannaA0 O'helly
has foundered in q hurricane which has
passed over Belfast Lough. Ten mem
bers of the crew were drowned.
Colonel Anton Mills, Third cav
airy, who has been on duty at San
Antonio, Tex, several years in connec-
tion with the Mexican boundary survey,
will be nominated to be brigadier gen.
eral of the army. It is understood that
he will be retired shortly.
Friday, June Is.
The soda fountain trust rs In bad
way financially and it's dissolution is
predicted.
Ex-County Clerk George Hobson of
Cincinnati has been convicted of en-
bezzlement.
The Winnipeg oarsmen who will
compete at the Henley regatta on July
ID and the following days have arrived
at Henley.
There is deficit Of s., 500,O 900 in the
Pennsylvania state treasury, brought
about by Legislative appropriations in
excess Of receipts.
Ed Kilgore, a contractor and builder,
met his death at the hands of Miss
Fanny jackson at Paris, Tex. She ac-
cused him Of slander.
A saddle horse, the finest that could
be bought there, has been sent to Gen.
eral Weyler from Kansas City. The
price paid is said to have been $500.
Saturday, June 10.
Julia Marlowe and her husband, Rob-
ert Tabor, will star separately next
season.
In a cyclone at Asnieres, France,
three persons were killed and 20 seri-
ously injured.
The National Association of Burial
Case Manufacturers has gone out of ex-
istenoe after life of 20 years.
Giuseppe Verdi, the celebrated COM
poser, now in the SD year of his ago. is
reported seriously i'll at Rome.
A dispatch from Paris announces the
marriage Of Puvis de Chavannes, the
famous painter, and Princess Cantacu-
Zene.
The senate passed bills for public
buildings at Cleveland, O., to cost $2,-
700, 900, and at McKeesport, Pa, to cost
$500, 1000.
Hon. John NJ. Francis, senior proprie-
tor and editor-in-chief of the Troy IN.
" Times and ex-minister Of the United
States to Austria, Greece and Portugal,
is dead.
Monday, June FL.
G. H. Anderson of Denver has low
cred the road record for 100 miles from
6:31 to 6:30:30.
The 18th acknowledgements Of the
Northeastern Saengerbund is in session
at Philadelphia.
President Mckinley will attempt to
revive the abandoned arbitration treaty
with Great Britain.
Edward F. Thomas, a private banker
and postmaster at Cobb, Wis, is said to
be an embezzler to the amount Of $780,
600.
From Chicago to Pittsburg in 8
hours and rs minutes by rail is the lat.
est time-beating record Of the Pennsyl-
vania. 1t was made by an engine in
every day use.
Suits aggregating half million have
been begun against stockholders OF the
defunct Capital National bank Of Lin
coin, Neb., for the return Of unearned
dividends claimed to have been paid out
of money Of depositors.
Tuesday, June 22.
Francois Coppee, the French poet,
now in his Goth year, is dying.
E. G. Burleigh (Rep.) of Augusta has
been elected to congress from the Third
Maine district to succeed Seth L. Milli-
ken, deceased.
Captain Boycott is dead. He was
about 55 years of age and became ia.
NOUS through being the first man SUBJ
jected to the "boycott" in Ireland.
John I. Blair, New Jerseys greatest
and most generous millionaire, is dying
at the age Of 95 years. His property is
estimated at $50, 900, 900, all of which he
accumulated himself.
A. s. Austin, the California lawyer,
who asserted that he could furnish evi.
aence that would save Theodore Dur
:ant from the gallows, has been ad-
Judged insane.