Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-02-01
General News Gossip.

General News Gossip.
James Griffen, young farmer of York
township, Ohio, near Bellaire, invited his
usighbors to butchering the 10th. After
the party gathered a fire was started with
logs from an old cabin that had been torn
down Last spring, and tbs logs piled up for
future u>e. After the FIRE had been burning
for some time a young MAJ noticed that
one Of the logs was hollow, and taking a
poker, he gave it punch. 10 the surprise
and sstsnlsbm ent of all present some 800
logs were rapidly pulled off the fire, and a
general search was made. Gold pieces OF
all denominations we're found rangiAg from,
81 to $40. and the total sum was something
over $1,000. Who owned it nobody knows.
The announcement is made that nearly
all the rail mills, iron works, furnaces,
and stove foundries of st. Louis, are either
closed Or running at halt their capacity;
that all slass WORKS are closed and there is
great depression among all classes, throw
Ing perhaps 5000 men out OF employment
and Withdrawing very large SUM of
money from circulation, which has hereto
fore been paid for wages.
J.. B. and W. Fl. Anderson, grain dealers
millers. bankers, Of Menden, Mich, have
failed. They had been in business there
sixteen years and were considered solid.
The business was quite extensive. No
statement is furnished. A large amount of
money reported locked up in the Cadillac
failure the last two months was prob
ably the cause of the firms embarfass.
ment.
Bradstreef's Journal furnishes the follow
ing: There Was 80 failures in the United
States reported to Bradstreet's during the
week, ending the 26sh, II less than the pre-
:eding week 81 mors than the correspond
ing week OF 1888. and los more than the
same week OF 1882. Aoou5 80 per cent.
were those OF SIN I'll traders whose capital
was less than 5000.
Frank s. Heath, late proprietor of the
Cory, Pa, Herald, and chairman of the
Pennsylvania state greenback committee of
1882, has been arrested on charge of send
ing indecent matter, advice to abortionists,
etc, through the mail. He gave bail in
N,500 to appear bsfore the Usited States
court in February.
Several railroads, including the Burling-
ton, Alton and St. Paul. are declining to
lake grain for transportation to Chicago,
unless for sale on track, because all the
eleya' ors are full. Warehouses apable of
holding 45O 600 bushels were made regu lar
on the 23'i. 1 here are 800, 900 bushels on
the tr;acR in Chicago.
G. s. Benham, who is six feet TALL threat
ems to whip e ii cor Dana, of the New York
Sun for saying he had fad the city leaving
b20o, 1000 liabilities He had only gone to
San Francisco on a wedding trip, and for
got to take care OF cartain mining stock con-
tracts. Benbana has PAID up everything.
1t is understood that an attennp pit will soon
bemade by the New England ,riends OF
Cakes Ames, whose son lieutenant gov
erner OF M .ssachusetts, to have expunGed
from the records of congress the resolution
of cenbure passed upon him by congress for
The part he took in the Credit Mobilier.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Rail
road company wil return members of the
Dairyman's assoc alton who attend the
convention in FaribauLt Feb. aud al
one-fifth the regular rate Of fare upon their
showing q certificate from the secretary of
the association Of their attendance.
In the United States district court, at st.
Paul, criminal information was fled against
Hugh Duffy, charging him with selling
liquor at Vermi'lion without paying the
fenced to thirty days imprisonment and
$10O fine, and oommitted until paid.
81 Joseph Kahn, who has done business in
Detroit for the past thirty years as private
banker, money Lender, real estate and
steamship agent, has suspended payment.
His cnstomers are mainly among the Ger
man working people, of whom great num-
beys had dep sits with him. .-'.
The Northern Pacific has. received its
four new dining cars, making fourteen in
all now owned by the company. Only
eleven OF these are now in use, but the 9th.
ers will be put en as soon as the service is ex-
tended from W allula junction to Portland.
James Gordon Benefits old yacht Dauat
less, owned by Albert and George Nicker-
son, Of Boston, " lie bound from Boston
to the Medi,err anean, put in at Fsyal ia q
Ieaky condition. = ....=.s>
The national executive eomnaittee of the
Prohibition party have decided to hold q
national Convention to nominate pres1den-
tial candidates at Pittsburg, Pa, early ia
May. ~ - ON g. III, ii 8s
Good !. window dressers'' get So, 600 year
from New i o. EdTy goods houses. In Chi-
caGo ~, 200 and g, $40 are paid for the same
services. . @-- t,ss:- <z5 #ss&S Il.
The frigate Celezado, which has cost 81.
4lo,60S. has been condemned at the Brook
Ign navy gard, and aa will be sold at auc-
ton. # s "a. s. i .s* 81 ls 81
The liabilities Of Geesgs e. Collins, state
prison contractor, Concord n. II, are $$loO,
100 and sssets s.. 600, 3 SsS5