Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-01-02

"A Dec. 30th, Green Bay telegram says,
a fire at Fort HARDWOOD destroyed the Grand
Central hotel and barn. -
The liabilities of the Wheeler &; Cos
Pork house, in Cincinnati, O., amount to be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000.
A fire in the Cocheco print works, at
Dover, N. H, damaged the buildings and con.
tents to the amount Of $4,000.
The Emmerson piano factory has been
destroyed by fire. Loss, 100000. IS men
men thrown out of employment.
A statue to Charles sumner was un-
yelled in Boston, Dec. ssd, by the governor.
The statue is in the public garden.
In New York city, December 18th,
gold sold at par, the first time since the sus-
pension Of specie payment in 1862.
President Goven of the Reading rail-
road, gives it as his opinion that there will be
=. Three engines and snow pillow ran of
the track on the New York g. Oswego Mid
land railroad near Fulton and killed two en-
ployes. -,
At Kingsley, Quebec, on Christmas
day, the boiler of the Dominion paper mills
exploded, and two men were killed and FIVE
injured.
The most valuable business houses in
Gardner, ILL.,, were destroyed by fire, ea,ly on
the morning of Dec. Goth. Loss $4,000. In.
cendiary.
The schooner, Ellen, from st. John for
New Haven, has been wrecked on the coast of
Maine. and the captain and three seamen
drowned.
A press telegram from Berlin SAYS the
socialist law IS being enforced with renewed
severity, seventeen publications have leen
prohibited in Leipsic alone.
A correspondent at Kuran says proc.
lamation of the ameer of Afghanistan has
been discovered, dated Nov. 18th. 1t shows
1t had declared holy war against the 6rit sh.
Backwater flooded the suburbs of
Fulton, v. Y, and hundred families have
been obliged to vacate their houses. The
gas works and number of factories were sub.
merged.
About 40 railway postofice clerks,
route agents and local agents, will be dis.
charged, and the pay OF those remaining re.
duced to bring expenditures within the ap.
ropriations.
Reports from all portions of the coun-
try show that tie late polar wave covered q
vast extent of country, north, east and west
In the northwest the thermometer ranged
from zero to 20 below.
At the 23d annual dinner Of the New
England Society in New York city, Dec. %
Secretary Evarts, Secretary Sherman, Senator
Blaine and many other distinguished gentle
men were present and spoke.
The United States consul, at Kingston
Jamaica, confirms the report of the loss Of the
steamer Emily B. Sauder, in hurricane al
sea, and the loss of all on board, passengers
and crew, except two seamen.
The representatives of twelve railroads
including the Chicago & Northwestern, and
decided to abolish the issuing of free passes
to shippers of freights or their agents.
The court house at Marysville, Dekalt
county, Mo-, burned Dec. %. All the county
records excepting those OF the circuit CLERK
and treasury were destroyed. The value o.
property consumed is said to be worth 500,
600.
The assistant treasurers of the United
States have been instructed to make no dis
tinction between coin and legal tender afte1
the first of January. Checks for payment O.
interest on per cent. loan due that day are
being prepared.
| At meeting of prominent Roman
Catholics, in Cincinnati, on the 30th inst, &
committee was appointed to prepare circu
lar for distribution among the members OF the
church, soliciting subscriptions for the fnan
cial relief of Archbishop Pure ell.
The London STANDARDS correspondent
with the Kuram column telegraphs that Gen
| Roberts convoked the principal inhabitants
| of Kuram valley atPeiwar and Ali Khey |, and
| informed them the ameer's rule had passed
away forever, and henceforth they must ioob
to the empress of India.
The suit against the government
brought by the heirs of Stephen A. Douglas
| for certain cotton captured by the United
States government in Mississippi dnriug the
war and sold as abandoned property, settled
| finally in the court of claims, Ly Judgment
! in favor of the claimant.
The suit against the government
brought by the heirs of Stephen A. Douglas
for certain cotton captured by the United
States governmental Mississippi during the
war and sold as abandoned property, has been
settled finally in the court of claims by ajudg.
ment In favor of the claimant.
Major George K Shaw has stated to a
newspaper reporter that he is arranging to
start daily morning paper at MINNEAPOLIS
MIMI, to be called the Minneapolis Daily
Nescs. He has purchased Hoe double cyl.
inder press, and all needed material. The
| new paper will be issued between the 18th,
and goth of Janua'y.
The managers of the Chicago, Milwau-
kee & st. Paul, Chicago & Northwestern,
West Wisconsin, and Minneapolis & St. Louis
roads held meetings in Milwaukee, Dec. 23d,
and on the oath, for the purpose Of making
the customary revision Of freight tariffs for
the winter months. Entire Harmony pre-.
vailed, and tayif was agreed upon which
will go into effect as soon as the agreement is
signed by all the contracting parties.
The managers of the Chicago, s.
Milwaukee Il st. Paul, Chicago & Northwes-
tern, West Wisconsin, and Minneapolis & st..
Louis roads held me etings in Milwaukee, on
the 23d and on the 9th, for the purpose of
making the customary revision of the freight
tariffs for the winter months. Entire har-
mony prevailed, and tariff was agreed upon
which will go into effect as soon as the agree
ment is signed by all the contracting parties
Tie secretary of the interior has tele-
eraphed to the Governor of Washington Ter
ritory with regard to the reported outrages
by citizens upon Indians in the department of
Columbia, instructing the governor to use his
utmost endeavors to prevent any assaults upon
the Indians and further Informing him that
the law officers of the government have been
directed by the attorney general to prosecute
all offenders in such instances. Negotiations
are now in progress at the interior depart
ment with Chief Moses for placing his tribe
npon reservation.
At cabinet meeting on the 18th inst,
there was general congratulation among
those present at the peaceable condition of
things throughout the entire country. One
member of the cabinet remarked that at no
time within his memory was there more har
mony and good feeling in all sections than at