Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-09-07

A1-faymRseeT w asa>n, now OF The Aan-
sast penitentiary, has been detailed for out
side work, and petitions to be allowed to
cover. his Numbered penitenttary pants with
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CASUALTIES. or TIE WEEK.
The dry kiln oi the Duluth Lumber Co,o
pany at Duluth was burned on the 2oth. The
contained a large quantity of lath
shingles and pickets, which were undergo
lng the drying process. The exact amount
OF it could not be sscertained, but its es-
t1mated between IS, 900 and $4,000. The
pullalng was erected one year ago, at cost
OF Sic, 900, SO that the total loss will foot
up to between $4,000 and $25, 900.
Fire in Petersburg, Ind, destroyed prop
erty valued at $50, 600. Insurance, s45, 600,
Pr1nclpai losers are Fogan & Adams, drugs;
the Press Republican, newspaper; Miss
Frank, millinery; Hammond & Parker;
dry goods; Burn EFT & Son, dry goods; Ell
ward & Ware; drugs; Citizens State bank:
L. Z. Hammond {, Son, dry g.ods; Bett-
meyer d Young, hardware; Moses Frank
dry goods; H. G. Gordon, printing.
A young man named RalnA Johnson.
nephew OF Congressman Price of Ohio, was
thrown in front of 4 reaper BY runao ay
team, near Euclid, Mimi, and was 80 bad.
~ cut that amputatiol- Of his leg was neces-
nary.
E. man engaged as trimmer in the Valley
company's nill, at Eau Claire, named F.
Webber, Was killed by a fving piece Of
board striking him in the abdomen, His
father lives at Usage, Iowa.
The depot at Blunt, Oak, was blown down
on the night OF the 3Ist.
PERSONAL Prs.
A very pleasant presentation was made
at Fort Smelling on the 2sth il ST. It will be
remembered that, at the request Of Gov
Hubbard, Bvt. Lieut.. Col. Gaines Lawson,
Captain in the Twenty fifth infantry, q. s.
a., was detailed to be present at the en-
campments of the state militia at New Ula,
and White Bear last month Recently,
COL Joseph Bobeleter Of New UIm, Lieuts,
Houde and Clyde Of Little Falls, and Lieut..
Ives OF 1t: Peter,&of the Second regiment.
and Capt. McS 'arthy, Of the Emmett Light
artil lery, called at Col. Lawsons quarters
at Fort Smelling; and Capt. Mccarthy, on
Vim encampment, presented him with a
beautiful and costly ield-glass, appropri-
ate}y inscribed. The colonel acknowle ICED
the unexpected testimonial fittingly.
!. Milwaukee Special: Grace CORTLAND, the
Witch OF Wall street." who horsewhipped
young Jones a few: weeks ago for tradusing
her daughter, has commenced an action
against her divoraed husband NJ. B. Davis,
travelling agent for Heller Bros. 6s Co., for
81, 500 alinony, which she alleges is due
her. Mrs. CORTLAND was divorced from
Davis in 1878, tue courts awarded her ST.
800 which she alleges is still unpaid. Miss
Mazle, her daughter, whose name WAS I'm.
pleasantly connected with that of Jones, is
now in Milwaukee.
Bret Harte resides at st. Johns Wood
London, with the chancellor Of the Belgian
legation, MIR. yanderveldt, cult man
whose wife seriously set herself to work to
regulate Mr.. Harte, of whose genius she
had high idea. Mrs. Harte lives in this
country upon her husbands consular
salary, not being able to provide the con.
dlhons to decoy hig fancy forth. Mrs,
Yanderveldt has ten children, is herself
OF literary inclination and is fine at re-
partee.
John q. Flynn, newsboy. who has been
stationed at the northwest corner of Fourth
iASt
thirteen years, has sold out and retired
from business. 1t is understood that he
has accumulated, by the closest economy
and strict attention to business, the hand
some sum of $22, 900. Flynn intends embark.
ing in the hotel business III Denver, Col.
Lord Headly, who accompanied the
Hatch excursion to the Yellowstone, went
into the wilderness ia search of game; &C
companied by two experienced hunters.
he sustained injuries by slipping down 3
prec1plce While pursuing game. He was
ta ken to the Mammoth springs. His injur-
les are painful, but not serious. -.
Mr.. Hitchcock, of Omaha, son of late
United States Senator Hitchcock, and Miss
Jessie crounze, daughter of ex.eongr essnsn
Lorenzo CrounRe, were married at the resi-
dence Of the brides parer at Fort Calhoun,
Aev. :rhe happy pair Will enjoy a bridal
tour to Earopc. = =4.T .1t,%',:
Wolf Mayer, L10e years old, who died
recently in Newark, NJ, was q SOL
dier undel Napoleon in 1895 and again in
1907. he was q hapitual smoker MP 10 the
hour Of his death. L 7
Hon. John Rice, member of assembly
from Erie county, n. T., and prominent
republican politician, died su idenly Of
heart;d disease at Buffalo. y"
RI The Gurrie Minnesotian tells oithe death
OF Pap Mason, sixty-6yo years old, who has
been q stage driver all his life, and for many,
years IN Minnesota. s e.s rs
Seeing familiar name OF knights
at San Francisco Mrs. Is. L.. WI lliams found
q brother she bad not seen for forty-two