Mower County transcript., 1897-05-12

SUMMARY OF THE WEEKS NEWS
+ Wednesday. May +. >.&#
Rear Admiral Meade (reti ired) is dead.
Use Patchen has been sold to j. W..
Marks of Chicago for $4,000. st 7.
Pueblo, COL, will prohibit the kinet.
oscope exhibition by ordinance, y "a.
The Chicago drainage canal bill was
passed by the Illinois house by vote
of 81 to 80. .,. j.. -, w.. -. y Il
The Iowa state dental association is
in session at Des Moines. The attend.
ance is about 100. .. 49,. P. ,>.-
Ex.United' States Senator Coke of
Texas has suffered stroke of apoplexy.
His recovery is doubtful. " 80
The 10th annual convention of the
National Association of Railway Sur
geons is in session at Chicago.
The fourth triennial meeting of the
American Congress of Physicians and
Surgeons is in progress at Washington.
Fire at Caldwell, Noble connty, O.,
destroyed $500 worth of property in
the center of the business portion of
the town. .
Advices from upper East Tennessee
and Southern Kentucky, show that
general strike in all the coal mines in
that section will probably occur in the
next few days. Already 1850 are out.
Thursday, May 6.
Alderman Drew of Minneapolis,
charged with accepting bribe, has
been acquitted.
In the British house of commons the
miners eight hour bill was rejected
by vote of 227 to 1856.
It is semi-officially denied that the
German imperial chancellor, Prince
Hohenlohe. has resigned.
Charlemagne Tower of Philadelphia,
the newly appointed minister to Aus
tria- Hungary, has sailed for his new
post.
Major General Nelson A. Miles,
bound for Greece, was passenger on
board the American line steamer ST..
Paul.
Premier Greenway Of Manitoba is
active in a project to build an air line
between Duluth and Winnipeg as a
link in new transcontinental railway.
Friday, May Z.
James F. Tyner of Indiana has been
appointed assistant attorney general
for the postoffce department..
Munroe Salisbury, the well known
horseman, has been declared insolvent
by the superior court of Alameda coun-
ty, Cal.
The directors Of the Chicago and
Alton reduced the annual dividend on
the stock from s per cent to per cent
per annum.
General Shafter, who it was once
thought might be sent to St. Paul, has
been assigned to the command of the
Department of Columbia.
An attempt was maae to wreck the
incoming Cheyenne and Northern pas.
senger train by misplacing switch il
the yards at northern entrance to
Cheyenne.
saturday, May B..
Madison plumbers want an increase
Of 20 per cent in wages
The United States revenue cutter
Bear has sailed on her annual cruise to
the Arctic.
A. G. spaulding, known as the
''father Of the greenback, is dead at
Buffalo, N. Y.
By the unanimous opinion of the
judges Princeton won the annual de-
bate with Yale.
Charles Button, a capitalist, and
formerly of the wholesale drug firm Of
Greene & Button, dropped dead while
entering his carriage at Milwaukee.
The iquidating trustees of the
Standard Oil trust have declared a
quarterly dividend of per cent, and
an extra dividend Of 7per cent, pay
able June 15.
Actions brought by the Wisconsin
Central Railroad company to eject
about 40 settlers that have been fight.
ing for the lands south of Ashland near
Marenego and Sanborn are on trial in
the circuit court at Ashland.
Monday, May 10.
General Wheaton formally retired
from the army on Saturday, after Al
years Of service.
Messrs. Stevenson, Wolcott- and
Paine, the monetary commissioners,
have sailed for Europe.
The Mallory line steamer Leona,
New York to Galveston, took fire at
sea. Escape of the steerage passengers
was cut off and 13 perished, together
with three of the crew.
Mrs. Elizabeth O'Sheridan, aged 70,
mother of Mary Grant O'Sheridan, q
talented Madison wis., poetess, was
instantly killed by the cars at rail.
road crossing near her home.
The Spanish queen regent has issued
a decree authorizing the raising of
e8, 900, 900 to be secured by the customs
duties of Spain to meet the cost Of mil
itary operations in Cuba and the Phil.
ippine islands.