Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-02-22
ond railway bridge over the Mississippi iron
Rock Island to DaYaflnnrt .88s. Iss ss..ss.

0Hd. EttlWay DflQSe OYeTS Tho MlHStSslppl lIOA
Rock Island to Davenport. ~
S33 The Green Bay, Winona & ST. Paul has or
dered a 20 per cent reduction Of wages on gu
employees in the locomotive department ef the
road The reduction takes effect the LIST proz-
imo. &$3s 8.S5 s35$.5 ss# 58$
The official report Of the Omaha for 1851
shows gross earnings Of ~, 04, 05O, 81 and tax
citic, with headquarters at Portland, aTEiYed u
st Paul He viii go west with mr.. Mnir and
party. II 5sES'3S 81 3554
On the 18th inst the party OF commissioners
appointed by the Winona, Alma & North Wis
consin railway will start out from East Dn-
bupue to condemn land for right of way,
where the owners have refused to sell on reas-
enable terms. AL the land heretofore pur-
chased has been promptly paid for at satlsfac-
tory prices. .3ss as n. Il 3g z
A mi3ed train on the Southern Central drop
ped into the Seneca river at Weedsport Floods
had weakened the bridge. Burr Ridgeway,
engineer; John Straight fireman, ard Timothy
* Danahay, brakeman, were in the cab OF the
engine at the time and we're drowned. Inc
engine went under water. The passenger car
remained on the track -,5. 81 s'za}ss &.
The Criminal Calendar. = :
Portland, Greg, is infested by an organized
band of river pirates.
Mrs. Uhler, whose brother killed her para
mour, Haverstick, at New York, is dead.
Leander Anderson, charged with selling
liquor to Indians, was fined $25 by Judge Mel
son in the United States district court =
Skilled cracksmen stole from the Office Of DR..
tic collection in Ohio, embracing every coin is
sued by the United States except seven pieces
The coroner's jury in the shooting of gam
blers at Hot Springs, Ark, returned verdict
that John Flynn came to his death at the hands
Of Doran, the two Pr1,itts, Alison Howell, Lu-
cius Tanning and Tom Dale.
A tcamster named Robert Robertson entered
the room of Anna Ford in st. Louis, and com
menced moving her furniture. Mrs. Ford
with the aid Of a colored man, elected Robert
son. The latter got knife and entered the
house, when the woman shot him twice, NOR
tally wounding him.
The jury in the case of David c. Keller, pilot
of the steamer Sciota, sunk by collision with
the John Tomas July 4, 1882, at Wings junction
the 18th returned a verdict in the United
States court at Parkersburg, ". Va, of guilty
of voluntary manslaughter, with recommend
to mercy. Fifty-four lives wore lost by this
famous collision.
A desperate fight occurred about twenty
miles from Matamoras, Mexico, between GUS
toms officers and guards and gang OF SNUG
glers, in which Mai. Palaclas and one OF hls
men were badly wounded, two smugslers kill
ed, and several wounded The rest of the
smugglers fled, leaving behind $1,000 in dry
goods and a number Of horses and mules.
The Miles City Journal gives particulars OF
the ASCENDING of Sam Camp, leaving a large
number of creditors to mourn, among them the
laborers employed by him on the Tongue river
ditch, and Miles 4 Strevell, $l2S. 30: Leighton,
Jordan & Co., S4G3, "a; j. W. Watson, $500;
A. ". Sleeper, 1888: 81, making total of 81 ,O02.
81 for merchandise.
Hon. James B. Davis, member of the Texas
legislature, in a wild frenzy supposed to have
boon caused by excessive drink, escaped from
his room at the Junction hotel, Whitesboro
Tex, late Monday night, the 18th, with nothing
OIL his person but nndergarments Every ex-
eTtion to find him was without avail till Tues
day morning when his body WAS discovered stuff
in death, lying face dowlfin the road a mile
south OF town.
Jasper Shearen was shot and killed by his
cousin and brotiler-in-law, George W. Rawley
in Boyle county, ky The killing originated IL
tense. Rawley' father killed Shearin's brother
year ago, and recently met. An ARRAY en-.
sued in which Shearin was killed. The Rawley
family for the past thirty years have figured ir
bloody affairs, in which no less than ten mer
have been killed
Recently the associated press sent out re.
port from Sioux City that the man hanged by q
yigilants committee ct Bassett was not ki6
Wade, the leader of the Nebraska horse thieves
On the l4th the coroners jury at Long Pine
the county seat, declared it was Kid Wade
The remains of the Kid were also identified by
the sheriff and others The reign of terror
continues in the Niobrara country. Several
prominent citizens have been implicated by the
death confession of the Kid and have been no
tilted by the vigilant commute to clear thei1
skirts Immediately or leave the country.
Sheriff Carter of Cherry county, Neb. was
recently notified by the vigilance committee te
leave the country immediately. The vigilantes
claim he is in collision with the Nebraska
horse thieves beyond a doubt Sheriff Garter
announces fixed determination to stay, denies
the charges made against him and has swor1
in a posse OF thirty men for his protection
The sheriff and his men are all armed to thu
teeth awaiting the hostilities The leader q
the yigilantes has posted up notice that Nc
man living can escape their vengeance, least Of
all Sheriff Carter: Further developments ar.
anxiously awaited