Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-08-21


tunnel burned, loss covered by insurance Of
$4,000; at Parkers Landing, Pa, three oil
tanks burned, two contained 5000 barrels,
the third burst with terrific force. The con-
cussion shattered every pane Of glass on Rive
avenue, and knocked twelve people senscless..
The burning oil rushed into the river, and the
river became sheet of flames. The greatest
CONSERVATION prevailed, everyone fleeing to
the hills for safety. The wind suddenly
changed and the town was saved; $4,000
fire at West Bend, Wis: a $4,000 fire at De
troit, Mich. -
Il. Sc, vIRTUOUS ST. LOUIS.
A number of. new or amended laws
particularly affecting stLouis, which passed
the legislature last winter went into effect
Aug. 10. Those of chief interest apply to
gamblers, lottery men and prostitutes. The
lottery law as it now stands makes it fina-
bic offence for a lottery company to advertise
or for newspapers to publish advertisements
of lotteries. The law against gambling is even
more severe than the old one and makes the
act of gambling or joining gambling houses, a
misdemeanor Unable at not over $1,000! The
same penalty applies to women who follow
of these laws are in the hands of police off,
cials aud the police and courts say that they
are going to make desperate onslaught on
the gamblers and lottery men, and intend to
stop all street walking by bawds, close all
designation houses in respectable neighbor-
hoods and restrict prostitution in every posi-
BILE manner. ,..., ~ q,
COIORED ExODv1s. sv4a~r-, -
1t appears that the party Of colorcd
men who passed through East st. Louis, on
the night of August Is, was gotten up by mer-
chants and planters in different places in Mis-
sissippi, with view of giving such negroes
as wish to migrate to Kansas, an opportunity
to 60 there to Judge for themselves and, if they
like it, to stay; but if they dislike it, they can
return, the expenses of the trip being scarcely
more than nominal. It seems that many.
planters apprehend that after the present cot
ton crop is picked there will be an extensive
exodus Of the negroes from the South. Some
of them, therefore, got up this excursion un-
der the belief that the representative cclored
men who might go on it would be dissatisfied
with Kansas and return, and that their un-
favorable accounts would have q strong in
tluence with the negroes generally and pre-.
vent any extensive migratory movement.
Quite number of the whites who took ad-
vantage of the cheap rates obtained, also
joined the party, and considerable numbers of
them have gone to Kansas.
NEWS FROM BEHRING s STRAITS.
Among the passengers by the steamer
| st. Paul from Onalaska to San Francisco, were
Col. H. G. Otis and Capt j. II. Moulton, of the
United States treasury department., who have
| been making tour Of the seal islands in the
interest of the department.. They report that
the revenue cutter Richard Rush had Geen
through Behring's Straits and within 324 miles
| of Wrangel land and within Is miles of East
Cape, near which place Prof. Nordenekjold is
| supposed to be frozen in. Her officers report
| the sea to the northward clear as far as yisi-
| BILE, with no signs OF ice. Tic season in the
| Artir has been unusually favorable for explor-
| alton, winter warm and ice broke up early.
! Lieut. Delong, of the Jeanette, hopes to
reach Wrangel Land before the ice closes
! again and intends to winter there There's
some question as to his reaching there carly
enough, as on the way up the Jeanette will
| visit the coast in the vicinity of East Cape in
| search of tidings of Professor Nordenekjold.
The report of his escape is not credited at the
north No news to that effect had been re-
ceived at Onalaska or St. Michaels and those
on board the Richard Rush-could could obtain
no information concerning him: