Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-08-17


wheat crop at 100, 600 bushels.
Fifteen thousand persons attended the
Spirtualism camp meeting at Nsshaminy
Falls, Penn, on the 9Th.
A charter has been issued to the Kingston
Coal company of Luzerne county, Pc, with
$1,000,000 capital.
A groundless rumor of the failure of Vii
lard created some excitement OF Mon
day
Judge Hilton is going to build hotel at
Long Branch larger than any there. 81
The Minnesota wheelman's meet opens
| August so, at Minneapolis.
| THE CRIMINAL RECORD.
About yeak ago middle-aged man
named John Lereque, scenic painter
married Mrs Glro1, a wealthy widow o
New York City. Six weeks ago he eloped
with his step.daughter Annie, a pretty
girl of eighteen years, taking $4,000 of his
wife's wealth. In Chicago the girl left hel
aged love and went to Milwaukee with 9
| young man named Hensen. Lereque fol.
| lowing and all three were arrested in the
| Cream city.
! Dukes, who killed Capt. Mutt December
last, was acquitted in the following March,
! and afterward shot dead by Capt. Nuts
son, left lengthy posthumous statement,
giving the story Of his connection with the
tragedy. First he gives with the utm ost
lninuteness his account of the struggle in
his room, in which Mutt was killed. He
claims that Mutt was the aggressor in every
phase.
George Knox, respectable negro of
Hickman, KY, was shot and killed by Tom
Gill, another negro from Obion county,
Tenn. The evidence shows unprovoked
murder. Gill wish ed to borrow Knox's
horse and buggy at a negro barbecue, and
on refusal G. K nox, drew pistol and shot
him.
woman calling herself Mrs. Andrews
was found horribly murdered in room
which she had hired in Minneapolis. The
body was not found for nearly week
Suspicious are entertained of Henry Moore
and wife, who occupied adjoining apart
ments, and disappeared about the time of
the murder.
Two tramps took a team away from q
boy in Gilman, Ia, and after severely beat
ing him, drove about the country. They
We're pursued and captured on the 9Th inst,
tramps were terribly afraid they would be
hung.
Financial matters are still teverish at In
dianapolis. The first national has re-
sumed business, but the Indiana banking
company still keeps the blinds down.
Robert Franklin of Illinois, arrived in
New York from Washington territory,
having been robbed On the train OF all his
money, $2,70O.
AT Castleton, N. Y, Albert Vass vas
tarred and feathered for counting MRS. Hoff-
man without Mr.. Hoffman's consent.
Wells, Fargo & Co.'S express has been held
up again by Arizona Froad agents, with g
loss of one life and So, 200.
Stephen P. Taintor, aged sixty, an old
resident of Milwaukee, committed suicide
by drowning in the lake.
CASUALTIES OF THE WEEK.
AT Muskegon, Mich, 100000 feet of lum-
Der of the Peninsula manufacturing CON-
dany burned; also, the company's factory
and dry kiln and four box cars of the Gin
cinnatl Il Western Michigan railway. The
loss is net computed. The lumber COM
pany carried 81 900 insurance.
AT Des Moines Henry tBelefsh sixty-hye
years old, while crossing the Rock Island
track in buggy with his daughter Kate,
seventeen years old, was killed, and the
daughter severely injured.
A fire recently destroyed the large tin
ware factory of Matthai, Ingram & Co., in
Baltimore, with all machinery and sto ok.
Loss, $95, 600: insurance, $4,000,
Two Norwegian barks collided off Dover
recently. One was so badly injured she
sank, carrying down thirteen of the crew.
The Methodist church, Mobiles & Gibson's
hotel and nine stores at Medford, Ont,
were burned on the 18th. Loss, $4,000.
Further reports from Iowa show the DAM
age from the hail storm to be widespread
and disastrous.
PERSONAL PARA GRAPHS.
Deputy Auditor Hult of Ramsey county,
Mimi, died the 8th inst, of heart disease,
with which he has been troubled for some
time. Mr.. Hut was thirty-seven years of
age, native of Sweden and leaves q wife
and two children. He was a prominent
member of the Odd Fellows and also of the
Ancient Order Of United Workmen and his
widow will receive benefit to the amount of
81, 600 from each organization.
William Blacks last novel, which, des-
pite the Princess of Thule, is considered by
many people TO- be- his best, has caused
much discussion concerning the pronuncia-
ton of the heroine's name. Mr.. Black pro-
nour ces it ''Yo-lawned." J.,
Charles NJ. Russell New York broker,
end Miss Elise De Forest DAUGHTER of James