Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-01-30
MISCELLANEUVN.

Inc ice mas commenced breaking up III
st. Louis.
The First National bank of Granville,
| O., has suspended.
Subscriptions 10 the 4 per cent. loan,
Jan. 23d, s408060O.l
Subscriptions to the per cent. loan
January oath, s3,795, 100.
Navigation has been resumed by local
packets from Wheeling, w. Vs.,
A St. Petersburg telegram says the
plague is reported in or near Moscow.
There was an incend1ary fire at Wheel
ing, W. Va, and another at Quincy, ILL.,, Jan.
23d.
A terrible gale with snow is reported
as raging in all parts of the provinces Of New
! Brunswick.
Two men in Cincinnati were killed BY
the falling of wall of burned building.
| Both leave families.
At Washington, D. G. the demand for
silver dollars January Goth, amounted to
$25, 900 for the month $497, OOO]
An Ottawa, Ontario telegram of Jan.
| 81. says large number of counterfeit $500
Dominion notes are in circulation.
William O'Brien and two sons were
burned to death in their camps at Millbury
Brook, New Brunswick few days since.
Gold Bros, proprietors of the Boston
Cloting House, Milwaukee, have made an
assignment. Liabilities 81 GOO, assets $24 600.
A stock panic took place in Montreal,
Jan. %, caused BY the reported failure of one
of the directors of the local board of Toronto.
At HYDE Park Pa, a few nights since
Mrs. Davis and child one year old were
burned to death by the explosion of kerosene
lamp.
At Boone, Iowa, January oath, fire
destroyed the bowling alley of Samuel s.
Ives, who in attempting to save his books
and papers was burned to death.
At Milton, Pa, a confectionery es-
taolisbment was burned Jan. "a. During the
fire an explosion took place which killed one
man and injured several others.
At Paris the manager of the Lonterme,
newspaper has been sentenced to three months
imprisonment and to pay fine of 600 francs
for libelliDg government officers.
A London telegram Of Jan. 9th, saws
it is estimated that one seventh Of the looms
and spindles in Blackburn are stopped and
that from 4, 600 to 5000 operatives are idle and
destitute.
A smash-rp occurred between two
freight trains on the New Jersey Central rail-
road, at TulleytowD, Jan. 25th, killing the con-
ductor and fireman, and smashing four cars,
the locomotive and tender.
a destructive tornado, Sunday evening,
Jan. Goth, struck the town OF Lockport Texas,
demolishing forty houses, including churches,
court house and Masonic hall. A child was
killed aud several persons badly hurt.
In the fear of possible riots and as
saults on the United States treasury building
in New York city, vigor JUS and active meas
ures are being inaugurated to strengthen the
vaults IN which SIX, COX, 600 or more of treas
ure are always stored.
The comptroller of currency has called
for report of the condition of national banks
at the close of business, January l, 1879. The
report is called for at that date for the pur-
pose of obtaining as nearly as possible the
condition of the banks the day of resumption
of specie payments.
A Fort Robinson Nebraska telegram
gives an account of late skirmish between
United States troops and the Cheyenne Indians
and says only nine Cheyennes. all of them
wounded, were captured. The balance of the
party, twenty three In number, were killed.
Seventeen are still unaccounted for. 1t ia
supposed some died from wounds and others
escaped.
The Secretary of the treasury estimates
that it will take s15o.000.O00, to meet the re-
quirements of the new persion law, Just pass
ed both Houses of Congress, but not yet
signed by the President, and says if that
amount should 60 out of the treasury, it win
create deficit. The cabinet has had the bill
under consideration but came to no decision
as to how 1t should be dealt with. ~
At Toledo, O., January Gath, Dayton &
Michigan company's elevator B, with con-
tents, consisting of 100, 1000 bushels of grain,
mostly corn, was destroyed by fire. Ksti-
mated loss $s5 eco. The building is insured
in Cincinnati for s25, Gao. Insurance on grain
$4,000. The fire started In the cup0la and Is
supposed to have been caused by friction In |
the machinery. Is
In New York city January 24th,
Augustus Phillips, alias Oofty Toofty, and his
mistress, Mary Hopeley, quarreled at their
residence, 14s West Sixteenth street, and she |
shot him in the side, 1t Is thought fatally. /
About four hours later PhilliDa attacked fha |