Mower County transcript., 1899-08-09
NEWS CONVERSATIONS.

The public debt increased S$5, ,267,488
in July. 5Ss$sS -, 7 F. +
Elihu Root has taken the oath as Sec
retary Of war. =
Secretary Hitchcock has issued a
warning to those intending TO- squat"
on Minnesota Indian ...nds.
Our government is reported to have
purchased an island off the Chilian
, coast for ooaling station.
Colonel Hawkins of the Tenth Penn
sylvania regiment, died ON the way
from Manila to San Francisco.
A fast mail train ON the Northwest
ern was wreckedlhear Boone, Ia., and.
four persons killed and seven injured.
John 6afranek of St. Paul and his
musicians, formerly of tho Twelfth
Minnesota. will be accepted as the band
for the Thir1y-fourth infantry.
According to the agreement entered
into by the railroad presidents July 10,
rates on grain and provisions from Chi
cago to the East were materially ad-
vanoed Tuesday.
Thursday, Aug. g.
Between $40 and 400 people lost their
lives in recent hurricane on the JAP
anese coast.
John Walter Smith of Worcester
county has been nominated for governor
by Maryland Democrats.
G. W. Marks has sold his great PAGER,
Joe Patchen. .2-01A, to H. Y. Haws of
Johnstown, Pa The price was &c, 900
cash.
The Yaqui Indians in Mexico are re-
ported killing both Americans and
,, Mexicans. In battles the past week
over hundred OF the YaQuis were
killed.
Iowa Republicans In convention at
Des Moines renominated Governor
Shaw, Lieutenant Governor Milliman,
Superintendent Of Public instruction
Barrett and Railroad Commissioner
Dawson. Judge Sherwin Of Mason City
was named for the supreme bench va
cancy.
Friday, Ans. 1.
New York tailws have wn their
strike.
Eastern shipbuilders havegrated de-
! mands of boilermakers
At the Ocean Grove summer school
Governor Roosevelt roundly denounced
practical. politics
The Shamrock has sailed from Fairlie
for America. It is expected she will be
% days on the trip
A boat which was being used to con-
vey sailors to warship at Budapest
| was capsized aud five Of The men
drowned.
The Deuteche Tages Zeftpng pub.
lished sensational article predicting a
great panic in the German money mar
ket because of speculation.
7 The exports of lumber and products
| of wood from Southern ports during
the fiscal year ended June 80 is beyond
! anything in the history of the trade.
Saturday, ,Aus..b.
|: Mrs. =McKinhy's health Is improving
rapidly. 7@s...'sS@' q
Louis Henderson, q negro, was
lynched At Blakeley, Ga, for attempted
| assault.
Aeronaut E. NJ. East. who went up in
! balloon at Walkes, Mimi, was
drowned in Leech lake.
The 18th annual session Of the Ma
! tiona Fraternal congress viii convene
at the Auditorium hotel Chicago,
Aug. %.
DR.. W. Il Mflburn, the blind chap
lain Of the United States senate, was
prostrated by sunstroke at Anooln,
| Neb. His recovery is expected.
Hanna Hauser, treasurer of tho Her.
! aid Square theater. New York. jumped
from the middle span Of the Brooklyn
bridge and was picked up uninjured.
A corporation to compete with the
National Lead and Oil company, COM
monty called the white lead trust, has
been organized by Pittsburg capitalists.
John Kelly, the Tammany leader and
sporting man, better known as "Smil-
ing John" Kelly, is dead. he is said to
have been Richard CrokerS closest
friend.
Monday, Aux. :.
The bubonic plague has made its re-
| appearance at Calcutta.
Captain Thomas L. Pollock, who was
shot by David Anderson at the Milwau-
kee soldiers home on Friday last, is
dead.
A carbuncle caused the death of
Judge J. P. Williams of Fergus Falls,
Mimi, formerly state railroad commits
sioner
Former Governor w. Y. Atkinson of
Georgia is seriously i'll at his home at
Newman and it is believed his recovery
is impossible.
The Atlanta city. council has de.
manded the resignation of the mayor.
who is charged with drunkenness. If
he does not resign impeachment pro-
ceedings will be brought.
| Miss Jewett of Boston has brought
North the family of F. B. Baker, the
colored postmaster lynched at Lake
City, s. c. She proposes to hold mass
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