Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-01-04
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POLITICAL 81
The identi dcatien OF Prssdi ent Arthur adj
Iministr stion With the reform Of tho civil scr
ylce took shape An Fsbruary nnd March. Sens
2at,,r Psnsileton's bill was passed Jan ~ ;
early 10 March the pTesi.i dent appointed Dor
man. 3. atom OF Ne W York, Joi1n ne Gregory
| of Illinois. and - %. ThoTnan of Ohio. OWL
service commits sioners. i March 8, Seua-
tor s. DAVID Davis reared from the vlce
presidency, and Senator Edmunds elected to
saicceed him. March 4 congress adjourned
EJonn ", Foster was sent as minister to Spain
IhomasIW. Palmer OF Detroit was elected 10
the Senate. Alril 8 Walter C Gresham was
appointed postmaster neral To- SUCCEED T OF
Howe, dectased. May II Waiter Evans
was appointed commissioner az inter1aa
| revenue 10 succeed Green B. Raum.s In August
Presidents Arthur came West, gong by nav d
the Onion Pacific TO the Yellowstone park.
Dec. y, tho orty-eighth congress met and j.
9. CarlisleOf Kentucky was elected speaker.
ION the 18th the Republican national committee
met at Washington and elected Senator Sabin
chairman, to succeed Marshall Jewell, de-
ceasetl, and Chicago was selected for the next
tn The States several notable chan ges have
! taken place. Jan. 4, GOV. Butler was iu-
augurated at Boston. James s. Boynton was
sworn in as governor of Georgia, to succeed
AL xander H. Stephens, deceased. Arril II,
Fl. D. Mcdaniel was. nominated for governor,
aud }onstAe 24th WAS alectsa, to succeed Bsyn-
ton. f$ May %, Proctor Knntt WAS nominatedfo
lgovernnrS5of Kentucky .saIid later was elected.
Nov IS Judge Hoadly. Democrat, was
elected governor Of ONO; Buren, g. Sher-
man, Republican. Of Iowa; George D Robin
son. Republican, of Massachuset S; Robert Nc
Lane, Democrat, Of Ma yiand: Loon Alb
bett, Democrat Of New Jers y; and L. E. Hub
bard, Republican. Of Minnesota mes
the 6rcyn rid tnt. hoo 2,,a,,
or less memorable. Mrs Langtry n,ads her
first appearances in5the West at Chicago, on
Jauua1y LII After an extended tour through
the M country. IN which she experienced
Hrr Earnings are said. to have been neatly
$2UO,OOOlh This country. Ii October Henry
irving and Ellen Terry landed in New York
aud the former appeared the follow
ing week i'll Tho Bells receiving a
welcome hso: from people and press ,. such
|sstof MARY 4 anderson gaiS fo nondon, ID Oc-
tober, aud has played ste 4dily at the Lyeeun.
Mapleson aud Abbey have brought large aid
Ugh priced operate performers from Europe.
inc uding Patti, Gereter and Sembrich, and
ropolitan and the Academy Of Music in New
York. ~
Jan 6, in a billiard match, cushion carroms,
at New York, Maurice Daily def atsd William
i.ztnn; ag gsn Da!y, 4 s-23; Sext 2, 4
IAN and Clarence Whistler, best two
ut of three falls, GrRco- Roman and
catch-as catch can, was won by Graham. In
the GrRco Roman wrestling match, tae 27th,
for $500 aud championship, at St. Louis, be-
Feb Muldoon downed Bibby in a
wrestling match at s. L,uis. On the
Esd Carver beat Bocarlus at Louisville:
score, o3 to 81. March IL the National league
and Am rican Base Ball associations ma 10 up
a G 1psnsd On he a WITH veoT o9 for
beats the bet record at billiarls,
It Chicsgo. May IA, Sullivan knocked ont
Mitchell in tbree rounds in Now York. July
70. the Pullman regatta onened at Pull man, lii.
August &, Sullivan. liz a glove hgut al tho Maai-
,on Square Gardeu, New York city, knock
nut Herbert A. S'ade IN two and a-ha:f
rounds. On the IS h Will am Ryan, John
Morrissey's tran"r III his ca ly days, died at
Fort Edward. B:'st,n won tue league cham
pionshlp; the Athletic, of Philadelphia, the
A. &c, icen aud he Toledo nine the Northwe
ern championship.
NORTHWESTERN EVENTS
The year has baen esp -c'aiiy eventual in the
Northwest. In Minnesota Senator Window
WIS defeated for reelection, and D. NJ. sabin
o!oc'eu ou VIC CHenty- ulAtu paliob, E6p. q.
The capital of Dakota, after long
and arduous struggle, was removed to
Bismarck by Gov. Oriway and The capital
commission chosen t:r ,nSh his ms rumental-
ity. The Northern Pacific road Was completed
md formally opened Sept. 8. St Paul and
Mnnearo il, Oh Sept 3, celebrated this
event with q m|guifcence aud enhu-
.lasm never be 0 shown in the two
cities. President Wizard. ACCOMPANIED by
numerous guests, among whom we're G-n.
Gran. and ex-Secre; aries Evarts and Schurz
was accorded grand walton. ending with Il
banquet given by tho city Of St. Paul at the
Lafayetts hotel, Lake Minne'onka. The last
spike was driven Sept s. at point sixty
miles west Of Helena, with appropriate aud
elaborate ceremonies. The Yellowstone
park was this year opsned to tho pnblic BY
railroad, ana Rufus Hatch, with special train
airing large number of invited guests,
spent fortnight there. The Canadian Pacific
was pushed on to the Rocky noun aius. Rich
discoveries of gold in the tour d'AIene
nlnes have stimulated cron dad cmigrai ton
thlther The crops throughout Minneso'a and
Dakota We're generally good Early frosrs
damaged VIII at in some parts Of tue Red River
valley. The improvement Of thu miasral
region north Of Duluth was .un IN the
building o: the Iron Ra sc railroad, which Is
to tap that hithereto unknown seclIon of the
State One Of The important events is the
Complexion Of tbs III tn,tooa railroad yiaduct at
Minneapolis, the first stone bridge across the
| Mississippi
One Of the most blood curiling crimes of the
past year was the killing Of Richard Pierce of
ST Paul the night of Jan. l. Great excitement
was caused BY the alta r, which was only
alayed By the discovery OF tho supposed dead
man in the pineries and his return home. The
number Of murders in the United States is
probably larger for 1853 than any preceding
year. Only two. celebrated crimes can
be mentioned June & Armistesd Barksda g
killed his cousin, Scott Clayton, at Lawrence.
burg, Va, aud y few days later committed
| suicide in remorse. Mar-h /, jimmie Elliott,
| the puusilist, was shot and killed in Chicago
! byewJere Dunn q notorious sporting man.
| March 8, George onkling shot and killed W.
H. Hayerstick, his sisters paramour in New
York; C,mkllng was let of on bail and is
LIVING in Nevada. At Harrcdsburg. Ky, April
~. Consressnaau Phil Thompson shot and
killed instantly Waller H. Davis, whom he
charged with ssduciag his wife. Thompson
was acquitted. April "a, mob at DEVILS
Lake killed the two Ward brothers. At Union
town, Pa, June Is, James Mutt killed Dukes
who murdered his father, Capt. Mutt, in an
alteration over Sian ,er against Miss
Pittsburg. Sept 8, the body Of Rose Amber
| Clark was found at Stanford, Conn. The MUIR
derer escaped On the 25th of tho same
| month, Ada Atkinson was brn'ally murdered
i by Melting ut oxford, lud. Nelilng Was suose-
l quently Iynched
Other notable crimes were the robbery OF
he City bank, New York, OF S48, 900 BY
Cashier Shaw and Assistant Cashier Beach
tile abatiction OF Zereida Garrison ut 81 Louis
the robbery at Panama Of $4,000 sent by the
government to the United states feet ia the
Pacific; O. g. Owen. s'ea ing 5000, 900 from
the st. Louis bank; the robbery of $2O, 600 10
diamonds at Springfield. ILL.,; the assault on
La y Fiorende Dixie in he grounds at Wind
sor; robbery OF the q 4ited States e1-
press company Of $4,000 at Des Moines
murder OF two men in the posse that captured
the Bsrber brothers in Iowa; the defalcation O.
lIreasnrer Polk OF Tennessee to the amount o.
100000; the murder Of Brandy b!