Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1880-03-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
r1RfDtsAsfER IN MOSCOW.

FIRE DISASTER IN MOSCOW.
st. Petersburg adpiees Of March 10,
state that great fire occurred March 8, at the
weaving works In Moscow. The entire buid
ding was{deAtroyed. Twenty-four persons
burned TO death and twenty. nine injured.
DEAD. -..
At Charleston, s.. c., ions the 10th OF
March, Isaac w. Hoyne. appointment resident
of that city. died, aged 70 years. He had been
for 20 years preceding his death, ,reconstruc-
ton attorney general of South Carolina, and
was grandson of Isaac Hoyne, who was
hung by the British during their occupation
Of Charleston in.the Revolutionary war. stE y
tRXn. ROAD COLLISION. - - : ! !
A collislon occurred on the Chicago,
Rock Island s. Pacific railroad at Englewood
on the mornihg Of March II, between the west
bound express and freight train. Jacob Sci
bert brakeman was injured, probably fatally,
and his son aged IS was killed: Anew others
were slightly injured. ~ 49, -. >: r. =,
FIRE At, EAU; CLAIRES nj 3 o n,
There was destructive confagration
at Eau Claire, Wis. at 8 o'clock on the after,
noon of March II, destroying, the fac resi-
denee of Hon. Alex Megget, together with two
adjoining residences. and barn. Total loss is
estimated at about $4,000. Insured in the
Home, Of New York, for $7,1Q0 and the Phe-,
nix, of Hartford. fer$4, 900. W: ..sy' =
POSTMASTER ARRESTED.
W. OfBigelow, postmaster at Annapo-
lis, Maryland, was arrested March TO- on a
charge Of robbing the office on the morning
of March l. The back door was found broken
open and 5000 worth of stamps gone. nves-
tigation resulted in the arrest Of Bigelow.
He denies the charge. The office was turned
over to his bondsmen, who placed the assis-
tant postmaster in charge. ~ . ~,~.- '.
8; WHAT NIH1LIsTs SAY. $3.50.
A Berlin dispatch of March IA, reports
that Gen. Melikoff has received notice from
the Nihilist executive committee stating that
Vladetsky's attempt on his life was not made
by order of the committee, that they had not
yet decided to kilthim, and if the recent at
tempt had been made by their directions they
would have provided better weapons and
means of fight for his assailant.
CATHOLIC PROMOTIONS.
A cable dispatch from Rome to the
New York Freeman's journal, announced
March, Is. that the Pope approved and named
Right Rev. Michael Heiss, now Bishop Of La
Crosse, Wis, as co-adjutor, with the right of
succeeding to the archbishop Of Milwaukee
and approved and named Rev. John A. Wat
terson, president of Mt. st. Mary's college,
Emmetsburg, Nd, to be bishop of Columbus,
ACTION OF M1LLERs.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, advices of
March IA, state that the most determined of
those millers who have been keeping their
mills idle awaiting lower prices for wheat, or
higher prices for flour, announce their inten-
ton Of resuming operations during the CON-
ing week. There was better demand last.
week for some of the special brands in the
local market, with Indications of slight
improvement generally.
FRACTIONAL SILVER COIN.
A statement from Washington of
March II, Is to the effect that there is a search
ty of fractional silver coin caused by its pres
entation for redemption under the recent law,
There are $21OO0OOO worth Of such coin in
the treasury, which will be exchanged at all
sub-treasuries for United States notes. when
Congress. It will be sent free of cost in sums
of 500 and upwards to any part of the couu-
try.
To-. CAR THIEVES.
The police of Chicago have captured
an extensive gang of railroad freight car rob-
bers, whose depredatiens within two months
have, it is believed, amounted to thirty or forty
Thousand dollars. The sufferers have been the
Lake Shore, the Chicago, Burlington & Quiucy
G. K. Land P.roads. A large quantity of the
plumber has been recovered. Tim Moore, q
notorious crook, heads the gang. Their plan
was to rob the cars while on the track here
under the pretense Of being employees of the
road. o.
THE LOUISIANA EXODUS.
The Senate exodus committee, March
10. examined George T. Ruby, colored, editor
of the New Orleans observer. He testified the
Louisiana exodus movement originated among
the plantation laborers md was the result of
prosecutions Of political mobs of 1S74-75 Or
ganizing as colonization council in August.
1876, it spread rapidly from parish to parish
and permeated the State, particularly the Sec
tons known as the cotton belt where outrages
had been most frequent, Political leaders:
had nothing to do with it. -. B..
pER1s1lING WITH COLD.
The latest advlces from British Column
bia are of the most distressing character. The
Victoria Dispatch says, cattle, sheep, horses
and pack trains are dying with great rapidity
All through Nicola, Kamloops, Orkanagan
and Lfllovet, the destruction of stock is going
on. Nearly all the live stock will perish be-;
fore spring. The loss is roughly es-
timated at one million dollars. Scores of stock
raisers will be reduced from atluence to power.
ty. Tie snow lies from three to five feet in
depth aud gives no evidence Of thaw.
-: - THE UTE INDIANS. i AIT f.
The President sent to the, Senate, On
March 9, a message Transmitting 6 d report
from the secretary of the interior containing
the agreement siguedsby the chiefs and head
men Of the Ute Indiaris' now In Washington
The stipulations of this agreement appear to
the Presidential reasonable and gust and The
objects to be accomplished by Ha execution,
so eminently desirable to both the whites and
Indians. thatit has his cordial approval, and
he earnestly recommends it to Congress
for favorsble consideration and appropriate
action =.
=. KEARNEY GUILTY. ! -.
In the police court at San Francisco,
March Is, Judge Rix delivered, a.lengtIS ID.
dress id the case of Dennis Kearnsy on the
charge of vulgar and threatening language
He held defendant guilty on the ground that
1t was calculated to provoke a breach of, peace,
The seaond charge that of threateningto xill
any person who should plot against his life
the court held could not bcconsidered a crime
as the circumstances, under which killing
would be justified were recited is qualify
ing threat. Sentence was reserved till to-
morrow. ,,s
...,g SENATOR SHARON.
Senator Sharon in a speech IN the
United States Senate. March II, in referring
to his great and continued absence from the
Senate said, this absence was caused by the
fact that aftce theelection the operations Of a
friend had involved him to the extent of a mil.
lion of dollars, and his duty to the large inter.
ests depending upon him had demanded his
attention. He regretted this, as he should
have been glad to have taken part in the de.
alterations ofthe Senate lHesaid lie must be
absent four weeks longer. He Is ready to re.
sign whenever his constituents choose to call
for 1t.