Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-03-21
NEWS ITEMS.
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The new silver dollars have mad,
their appearance in St. Paul. 49,"
/ Miss Thompson, the lady whos'
horse was shod with. gold, has beer
placed in an insane asylum. .4.. E
Since 1875 the amount paid 10 Law,
yers for counsel by the New York &
Erie Railway comes to 100000. .
Joseph La Paige, who murdered
Josie A. Langmaid at Pembroke, N
H., on the 4th day of Oct., 1875, wa,
executed on Friday last. e. =
! The electrician who has charge of
lighting the capitol building at Wash,
ington, is represented as saying that i,
costs $4o0 an hour to light the capitol
/ A little boy named johnson, at Au,
dubon, was, while playing with his
brother, struck in the wrist with an az
and had his hand nearly severed.
John H. Camp, formerly whole.
sale dry goods merchant of St. Paul,
owns on line of the St. Paul &
Pacific and Northern Pacific railroads
10000 acres.
The Senate committee at Washing,
ton have made unanimous report in
favor of the extension of the time to
build the Northern Pacific railroad for
eight years. Good.
The town Of Mendoza, opposite Fort
Smelling, voted almost unanimously
against license in the recent town
election. In war times Mendoza was
noted for drunkenness and disorder.
The suit of the trustees of the St
Paul Il Pacific railroad against the St.
Paul & Pacific Railroad Company has
been decided in favor Of the trustees,
and they are required to take possess
ion of the road.
Pensacola, March 24.-A negro
who gross] ]y assaulted child aged five
years, causing its death, was last
night ]ynched by MOB. The Sher-
ifs posse resisted the ]ynchers, killing
one and woundine five dangerously.
Mr.. Charles E. Fitch, of the Dem.
ocrat and Chronicle, Rochester, N. Y,
declines nomination for Congress be-
cause "both the holding and seeking of
political Office are incompatible with
Independent journalism, and his am
bltion is bounded BY his profession" :
At Owatonna, Minnesota, there was
a hot contest over the license question
at the election of the 18th inst. Re-
suit. for lic7nSo 248 against lieeuse
434. Majority against license 1856.
License was also voted down at Aus
tin, the county seat of Mower county.
John jacobson, lad about fifteen
years Of age, living in the eastern part
of the town of Round Prairie, Todd
county, was recently fatally wounded
by carelessly handling gun. He was
drawing it toward him by the muzzle,
when the hammer caught and fred the
weapon.
Wlnona, Mimi, March 14.-Last
night Conrad Euderlein was cleaning
his gun by firing powder from it. The
charge struck Mrs, ,'Chsrles Byersted
in the face, burning her badly and
destroying the sight of one eye. She
was lying on a sofa, about eight feet
from the muzzle. T..
Deadwood, D. T., March 16.-The
heaviest snow storm experienced since
the settlement Of d: the Black Hills by
white men, commenced on the 7th and
and continued until the 18th. Snow
10 the city, on level, is over FIVE feet
deep. All mail.and telegraph commu<
nicatirns have been interrupted.
A bill has been introduced in the
Pennsylvania house Of representatives
which makes cremation of human
body a misdemeanor and provides for
q fine of not less than $500 nor more
than $1,000, with imptisonment,s and
makes it the duty of .constables,;
sheriffs and other officers to enforce
the act under penalty of prosecution.
st. Paul Dispatch. ;--s : = y. :, ! !:
Some additional facts in relation TO
to the briberies of the book>ring lob
byist are daily coming out through the
jealousies of some of the lads who
failed to get their share Of the sHag..
They will all be fled away for future
reference, and if the carrion crows
come back next year they will meet
with q hot welcome. s5fs,. j. + ss9s..:. Bur-.
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Hon. John p. Leonard, member Of
congress from Louisiena,s died in IHa>
vana on Friday last of: yellow fever.
His mission there was to investigate
and report to the government che facts
in regard 70 alleged kidnapping and
sale ofcolored citizens: of the United
States. Mr.. Leonard mae native 81
West Chester.
IcincInnati Star. /. 81. s s..;s
The history Of odern times records
very few such terrible scourges IS the
famine ins s1ndia Notwith.tandin Ill
that has been done g amelIorste the
suffering % Of the PEOPLE nearly Two
millions are believed o haYe died lrom
starvation. here q stin great spifer~
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