Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-11-20

THE WORLDS DoINGs.
ArporN'r,tEsir,l.

lincoln, was announced Nov. IL, as Assistant
Secretary ofstate, ct the Department In place
II Mr.. Seward resigned. Mr.. Stewards retiSo-
nent e in obedience to controlling domestic
,onsid erations. ~, * x5..s-..,
ffss TENEMENT HOUSE BURNED. IL ". 4 !
EARLY on the morning of Nov. n a
house In New York was burned
Joseph Batzkie, no lived on the fourth door,
unable to escape by root or stairs, threw him.
Ielf from window and was killed. His ser-
tire family consisting OF wife and two chill
dren and mother. in law. we're suffocated-
.gglta.s,s!. .6uRDER.
At Lancaster, Ohio, on the night Of
Nov. 10, John Graf, . German, was attacked
BY highway.men three In number when on
his way home, and terribly beaten and robbed
Of about thirty dollars. He was found soon
after, insensible but recovered consciousness
and named Jack ROUGH as one of his assatl-
ants. He died soon after. His age was 60
years. Arrests have been made.
-s~'s- TUNERAr. OF MRS. EATON.
~ The funeral Of Mrs. Margaret Eaton,
widow Of Gen. John H. Eaton, secretary Of
war under President Jackson, took place In
Washington, D. c. Nov. II, and was largely
attended Among the floral offerings were
bouquets from Mrs. Hayes and Secretary Nc
Crary. Tie President In note to the family
regretted his inability to be present at the fu.
neral and rendered his deepest sympathy.
$3.50. =. ~ . e.. SUICIDE.
. In Sherman, Texas, ON the night of
Nov. l4th W. r. Greenlow one of the wealth
lest and most prominent citizens OF that place
,committed suicide by taking morphine. The
cause iassid to be criminal intimacy between
HIS wife, one Of the most beautiful women In
Sherman, md Rev. Conrad Haney, one Of the
most noted and eloquent ministers in Texas.
The city is said to, be- greatly excited over the
affair, and threats against the personal safety
of the sanity seducer have been made.
FouNDERED.
The steamer G. e.. Breed, bound from
Detroit to Buffalo, with $4,000 bushels Of
wheat capsized and toundered last week 90
miles east of Point au Pelee, Lake Erie. The
crew, consisting of the captain and seven men
are all supposed to be lost, with the exception
of Frank Davis, who was at the wheel, and
was picked up by the propeller Milwaukee,
after being nearly thirteen hours In the water.
The lost schooner was commanded by Capt
Rose, Of Detroit. Jas. 6mith.of Buffalo, ia
mate. : .
SHOT BY HIS vIcTIM. ]
Charles Scheurer was shot and instant
ly killed at his boarding house In Newport
Ky~ on the morning Of Nov. IA, by Miss Anna
Hof. She called on him accompanied by her
brother, and demanded that he fulfill his prom.
lse to marry her. He contemptuously refused
and she fred pistol, which she held under
herBhawl. aud he fell dead Miss Hof gave
herself up. She says he ruined her under
promise of marriage, and she does not regret
her act. Scheurer was a saloon keeper In
Cincinnati
p MURDER AND ARSON
The blacksmith shop Of Wilson and
pougherty burned at Frankfort, Kentucky
Nov. IA. The remains OF child OF NJ. A.
Jones we're found in the ruins Supposed
Wilson, who is an ex-prison convict, murder.
ed the child and fred the place to destroy the
evidence OF his guilt 1t is thought the re-
mains Of HeEskiah Gardiner, who disappeared
last Saturday are also in the ruins of the shop
The lynching of Wilson Is threatened The
governor has been asked to call out the mill.
tia.
- GOLD AND SILVER.
Tie Treasury Department has just pur.
chased $4,000 ounces Of fine silver for the
Philadelphia and San Francisco minis. Five
hundred and ffty.one thousand ounces Of
standard gold bullion, being portion of that
received from Europe, has been ordered by
the treasury department from the assay
Office, in New York City, to the Philadelphia
mint for coinage into gold coins. The value
of the bullion is about ten million two hun.
dred and fifty thousand dellars. The director
Of the mint says that until further orders the
coinage OF gold by the United States mints
will be confined to eagles and half eagles.
..a.. pPTHER1A. IN RUSSIA.
Dlptberia, which tor several years has
made great ravages In Russia, seems to be
gaining more and more ground. The Novoc
Vrtnya says no disease has attained such
hightful proportions In the same region. The
percentage of mortality far exceeds that Of
the births. In the small district Of Mirgarod
In which the epidemic has been raging since
1876, there were IA died by the disease. In
1915 and 1877 there died over 1900 persons.
In Odessa since May astadiphtheria has snatch.
ed away IS per cent. OF the children, and In
sevastapol In the course Of four months one
half Of the infant population fell victims to the
disease.
CYCLONE AT SEA.
The Norwegian bark, Vista, from New
York for Queenstown. reached Halifax, Nov.
II. The vessel left New York on Ocl.. 25th,
and on the 29th she encountered o revolving
cyclone, in which she was struck by two
heavy seas which carried away her rigging,
foretOpmast, maintopmast and mizentopmast,
with all the yards and gear attached, with the
exception of the main and msintopssil yards
and pbboom.: She sprung her foremost, stove
the bulwarks and the boats; destroyed fore
house and galley, and broke the hatch Water
got into tho vessel and damaged the cargo Of
grain considerably. Ono seaman had . leg
broken and another was washed overheard
but the returning wave bore him to the deck
again. The gale continued until the
NEW. YORK ELECTION.
The New York Sun has received off,
cial returns from fifty Of the sixty counties In
the State. A close comparison between these
and the unofficial returns from the other ton
counties, indicates that Hoskins, Republican
candidate for Lieutenant Governor, has defeat
I'd Clarksoa N. Potter by about 400 majority.
Carr, Republican candidate for secretary of
state, = elected ~ nearly the same majority,
and that Wadsworth, Republican candidate
for comptroller, will have an increased major.
ty oyer that of Hosklns, and that Ward and
Wendell, Republicans, are also elected as at
torney general and treasurer. The majority
tor Horstio Seymour, Jr, Democratic candi
date for engineer and surveyor, win be tQYagd
10000 John Kelley's vote is inefeased avsf
previous estimates, and will reach 76Q01.::
y ~ REsCUED. @i'tSs +
The steamship Minnesota, arrived from
New. York at London, Nov. IS. She bad on
board the crewufDslk the Royal Arch, rescued
HON that vessel when 1t was in a sinking con-
diton. The men had been It the pumps sew
eral daya One had been washed orerboard
The vessel sent . boat to their rescue, but the
watsf was 20 rough the men were compelled
to jump into the ses and were hauled Into the
boat BY limo. y II, k:e ~, "iS&
i @TE THE AYHNaEn. sts
s. ". 3. Coombs, Of Hopkinayille, Ky.
Wa shot and killed on the evening Of Nov.
lA 1t go o'clock on the mainstseet. tOoombs
s6ducsd lefguson's sister under pronise OF
marriage and having refused to comply With
the promise, Ferguson approached him with
ahot gun st the hour named and emptied:
the contents Of both barrels into his body