Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-10-09
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THE WOkLD'S DOINGS.
MURDER AND SUICIDE.

MURDER AND SUICIDE.
In New York city, Sept, 80, John
Sheehan shot Henry Van Geritschen and then
himself. Both will die. sheehan regarded
Gertischen unduly intimate with his wife.
SUICIDES.
Sept. 80, at Chicago, Anton Lanatti
hung himself Cause, domestic trouble. James
T. Hankinson suicided by taking morphine
At Bridgewater, Mass, Henry A. Hall cut his
throat ''"
At Memphis, October s, there were re-
ported new cases OF yellow fever, whites,
colored-5 deaths. Two additional deaths
outside the corporation. Thermometer from
81 to 80. ,:,. 80 a.: ~
PRAIRIE FIRES.
An Oct. 9th dispatch from Lake Ben
ton, Mimi, says prairie fires in that section
have destroyed eight thousand dollars worth
of grain and hay. Several barns and other
buildings have been destroyed.
FoUNDERED AT SEA.
The iron ship Philosopher, which sailed
from Calcutta Sept. I, for Boston, with gen.
eral cargo, the estimated value of which was
100000, is reported foundered when five days
out. She was insured largely in Boston and
New York offices. H.
DROPPED DEAD.
At Cincinnati, o., September
George A.. Peter, an old business man and at
one time quite prominent in local politics,
dropped dead while entering his place of bust
ness. Deceased was II years of age and
had resided in Cincinnati about fifty years.
SUICIDE.
Charles F. Tiffany, convicted Of 5iga-
my at Lawrenceburg, Indiana, and awaiting
transportation to the penitentiary at Jeffer-
sonville, where he was to be confined for three
years, committed suicide on the morning Of
October l, by hanging himself with q linen
towel fastened to one Of the bars Of his cell.
MISSING BALLooN1sTs.
No tidings have yet been received of
the whereabouts of Prof. Wise and his com.
panion, Leo Burr, who left st. Louis
on Sunday, September 2sth, and the
opinion is growing strong that they have met
with the same fate as Donaldson and Green.
wood, who assembled from Chicago two or
three years ago. .-.~
REWARD OFFERED.
The internal revenue officer at Wash
ington has information that Redmond, the
noted North Carolina distiller has intrenched
himself in the mountains of Swayne county
with some thirty desperadoes, who Lave de.
termined to defy the internal revenue officers
and marshaps officers to the last extremity
The government is said to have offered re-
ward of $3.50 for his capture.
WAS HE K1DNAPPED2
There was great excitement at Lavalle
Ind, Oct over the mysterious disappear
ance of George Elder, OF the firm of A. Elder &
Co. Mr.. Elder slept in the store. Not appear:
ing at breakfast or dinner. friends finally
forced open the door and found the show case
rided and about two hundred dollars known
to have been in the safe stolen. All Of Eder'a
clothes were found near his bed except his
shirt, and the supposition is he has been kid.
mapped.
MURRAY's DEBTS.
A meeting of the creditors of Rev. W
II. H. Murray was held at Guilford, Conn.
Sept. 30, and Alfred G. Hull was appointed
trustee. Senator o. 81. Platt who appeared
for two parties who had endorsed Murray's
notes, said he was Of the opinion that Murray's
assets would have paid all creditors had he
been given time, and they had been prudently
managed. Murray was not present, and il
was stated by friend that he (Murray) be-
lieved his creditors to be too disafected to de-
sire his appearance.
PAYING UP.
The First National, bank of New York
and the Bank of Commerce, had the time fo1
the payment of their subscriptions to the pei
cent. loans extended to Oct LIST. They sent
number Of bonds to Europe. They have pait
for all bonds delivered them in this country
and will now make final payment for these il
London. The Office in London has closed
and the treasury agent will turn over thu
bonds to the purchasers. They will either bt
paid for by called bonds or coupons in London
or ready money in this country.
CHICAGO MARKETS. $3.50,
At Chicago, Oct. 6, markets on 'changt
were more active and as whole. more excited
than during the period of the late raise There
was strong and general advance in every al
ticle which amounted in wheat to about
cents, on corn to one cent: and half, oats ]
cent, pork IS cents, lard 10 to 20 cents. Prices
were well sustained and closed firm with 6
fractional reaction. The transactions were
immense in produce and provisions, with con
siderable irregularity in the speculation
There were no failures.
A CYCLONE.
A Vassar, Mich, Free Press special re,
ports that cyclone, accompanied by heavy
rain, passed over the county fair grounds al
Watersville, Tucola county, on the afternoon
of Oct. 8, doing great damage. Cloth tents
were blown to shreds and fences blown down
One tent, where tables were set for q hundred
persons, was blown down, overturning the
stove and large reservoir OF boiling water.
severely scalding six ladies, one of whom, with
an infant few months old, probably fatally,
In the main hall the exhibits were consider.
ably injured by the rain,> .,.,'. ~ =. -
THE ADRIAN HORROR.
Further particulars from Adrian, Mich.
where the terrible disaster on the county fair
oAoNANS oSSNAASN WV, - sotogS tAat tuc tOI4l
number of deaths from the accident so far ia
sixteen. The seriously injured number sew.
enty-fye, some of whom the physicians say
cannot live. The architect of the grand stand
is the person blamed for. the occurrence of
the fatal casualty. The stand was built unu.
sually high to admit space for the exhibition
of wagons and carriages underneath and the
timbers were simply spiked together, instead
of being morticed and braced. r''.:': y "'
STRIKE AT CINCINNATI. " 90
On September 80, about thirty labor
ers employed in the freight houses Of the
Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Cincinnati railroad.
struck. They had been paid. dollar and three
cents day, but demanded q dollar ten: In
an interview with Superintendent Ellison of
the Little Miami railroad, he informed them
that while he would see that they received as
much as the company paid for similar labor
in other places, he could not grant their re-
quest, and should they decide to quit should
not employ them hereafter. - The men were
paid this afternoon and discharged. and ar.