Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-10-26
General News GOSSIP.

Investigation Of the affairs Of the Pacific
bank, in Boston, shows that more than q
million and o half of dollars were obtained
from the bank by certain prominent citizens
on securities which are worthless, and must
have been known by them at the time to
De either worthless or Of very little value.
a bill, grantin; women the right of suf-
frage, passed the house Of the Washington
territory Legislature On the 18th inst. The
vote stood II to 7. Hhe result of the vote
caused much excitement among the friends
Of women suffrage,
The assessment rolls of 155 counties in
Texas show an increase of taxable values of
the state of over $95, 100000 above last year,
with fifteen counties to hear from which
will doubtless make tae total increase $780,,
600.
The Internati onal Geodt;c conference ha
been invited to meet with the scientific con.
gross at Washington next year to discuss
the proposition Tor the establishment of q
universal meridian.
Fitzgerald, the pension agent. sues the
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette for $780, 900
libel damages, and the st. Louis-Globe
Democrat for $4,000.
Martin Scherber of New York paid u man
$25 to get him a wife and now she mas
eloped with boy.
A little unknown horse, called Frank
from Boston, trotted mile in oil at New
York,
Eight thousand Germans marched in the
German centennial celebration in Cincin-
natl.
In Ohio the rights of colored people are
fully guaranteed by the common law.
The Furnace company cf Bangor, Mich,.
made voluntary assignment to-day.
Hiram E. Spein of Buffalo, and Mace q
Weeks of Philadelphia have failed.
The Slater fund for educating southern
negroes yielded $50, 600 last year.
at Chico, CAL, horse; Hawk. has been ex-
hibited at fairs there ever since 1858.
Manitoba is ssid to have had 1000 i'm.
migrants during the year.
A $4,000 express package disappears at
Hope, Canada.
The Criminal Record.
Two men giving the names of William
flax, N. s., on the 18th inst, and put up at
came from the states. They gave no names
to the hotel people, and paid weeks board
in advance. Detective Powers watched them
and searched their rooms in their absence,
and discovered Dynamite which was Sc
cured. He then arrested the two men. Both
the prisoners deny the charge against them
and claim the protection of the American
flag. They are evidently Irish Americans,
and denied showing each ether. Both ale
young men. Holmes was asked what pack
ages were in the valises, and replied he did
the valises contained 100 pounds OF dyna-
mite of a powerful nature. Dynamite was
found in the trunk and valise of Bracken.
II. w. Gwinnar, president of the Hoole
Manufacturing company and National
Railroad Publication company, shot him
self in the right ear, in his office in New
York, and died instantly. No motive is
known for the deed. MI. Gwinner was q
native OF Philadelphia and IS years oil d.
He was printer by trade and up to 1850
was foreman of the Charleston Courier. He
afterwards was general auditor of passenger
accounts for the Pennsylvania RAILROAD, and
in 1880 became president ofthe Hoole Man
ufacturing company. He had salary of
SIC, 600 year and large income from roy
alties on patents.
John Carr was convicted in the United
States District court at st Paul of having
in his possession counterfeit silver coin,
with intent to defraud, and was sentenced
to saltwater fer two years. Fred Knoot his
accomplice, who turned States evidence, was
sent over for eighteen months. They were
taken to Saltwater on the afternoon of the
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Masked men entered the house Of Ed.
ward Mclaughlin at Joliet, ILL.,, recently
tortured the farmer and his wife till thew
disclosed The hiding place of 81 GOO ia gold,
and departed, leaving the victims very
nearly dead. :5*E
Henry Mosher, who was lynched nea,