Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-02-27

PAo!nAoA IA NoW 4oiA, oo,ooV % whom are
women. ta
George Oliver, aged thirty, probably fatally
stabbed his wife in Boston and then fatally cut
his own shroat.
Alex. Boyd of New York has sued his wife
for half of her estate, which she promised him
when they were married. '.@t
Mrs. James Russell Lowell died in London at
o'clock on Thursday, the 10Th inst. The fu-
neral WILL be strictly private.
Edward S. Gould. the author and philologist,
was struck down by horse while crossing
Broadway N. y, crushing his skull.
The main portion of the Mansion house, on
the old Waldo Adams estate at East Watertown,
Conn, was burned recently. The house was
valued at $4,000.
The Arkansas senate defeated, by a vote Of
20 to 10, the bill regulating railroad freights,
the main feature Of which forbids charging
more for short than for long hsuls.
A West Point cadet named Wright, who re.
Gently resigned from the military academy be-
cause he was unable. to keep up with his class
has been confirmed by the senate as a second
lieutenant in the army.
vile, Ga, after being heartily welcomed by
citizens, caused universal Indignation by start
ing away singing, s'We'u hang JEFF Davis to q
sour apple tree" The citizens got ahead o.
them by wire and they received no more cor
dial receptions.
Secretary Teller is virtually charged with
suppressng OF destroying documents called
for by Senator Hill regarding land frauds in
Now Mexico. If the story told in connection
with them is true it will possibly afford material
for some one to move the expulsion of Mr..
Teller from the senate
A destructive fire occurred on Chestnut
street, Philadelphia, between Second and
Front streets, a locality devoted entirely to
large warehouses and business houses. Nine
large business houses were almost completely
burned out; six damaged, while four others in
Cured losses Which many thousand dollars
cannot repair.
The Grannis Block, Dearborn street, Chica-
go, was burned recently. Tho Grannu
block was erected three years ago by W. G.. D
Grannis president of the Union National banb
at a cost Of about $4,000 The building was
insured for $l20,C00. Its tenants were for thu
most part prominent in their professions, hav.
ing Offices expressly fitted up, which fact
weu toward $75, 1000
Gen. Sir Herbert Stewart, who was wounded
at the battle of Abu- Klea, died on the 10th inst
at Gakdul Wells, to which place he had beer
removed His death caste a gloom over the
cEtireBritish army. Surgeons stated that Gen.
Stewards wound was of such Q character that
recovery was hopeless from the first. LORD
Wolseley's dispatch says: Gen. Stewart will
be buried at the entrance of tho valley leading
to GakduL No brave soldier or more brilliant
leader over wore the queens uniform. Eng
land can i'll afford to lose this young gener Il
ia postofices Observation-Disclosures: Cumber-
land, Burleigh. COUNTY; Murray, Brown coun-
Montana: Winnecook. Meagher county. Post
masters Commissioned--Willia B. Fish. Ana
mosa, Iowa; g. G. Coolbaugh, Hamburger,
Iowa: Daniel E. Sweet Pipestone, Mimi
Charles A. Spencer, sheboygan Falls, Wis
Nehemiah Davis, Jr., Fairmont, Oak. William
+ Hughes shes R Rose; Oak i s; M Haskins,
Neb.; josiah shull, Drumn1ond, Mont vii.
liam Napier, Frenchtown, Neb. IF D. Schol-
ten, Delavan, Mimi; Ada B. Cumberland,
Cumberland, Oak Henry q. Murray, Murray.
Oak; Catherine Reuter-, Belle River, Mimi
Ralph Barry, Winnecook, MINI.
A printed protest of large proportions agains,
permitting Masonic societies to participate in
the dedication of the Washington monument,
has been received by the congressional COM
mittee charged with the arrangement Tho
signers claim to have Il, 600 signatures. The
protestants say the Masonic order has no moro
right to any such distinction than the Hiber-
sent by the pope for the monument was, they
say, broken up and thrown into the Potomac
WHY. they ask, are Catholics snubbed and
Freemasons honored? The Masonic order,
they by, lis Of foreign birth, is entirely un-
Amer1can and unrepnblican. Its public dis
plays are pompous and barbaric, it's titles ex-
travagant and lordly, its constitution despotic,
it's oaths extra judicial which, they say,
should be suppressed BY law. They pray that
only euch ceremonies rs are national in their
scope and American in their character be per-
mitted The protest came too late for action
BY the committee 5 7tas 7 a. n 81 # & W.
Il is announced that il vie1 81 the fall q
Khartoum and the death Of Gen, Gordon hav-
ing rendered the main object Of Gen. Wolse-
ley's expedition impossible tie government has
deemed it expedient to change the whole plan
OF the campaign in souilan- Gen Braeken-
bury, who succeeded the late Gen. Earle, has
been ordered to abandon his advance On Ber-
Der and to &coucentrate his troops 1t sKorti.
Col Sir Redvers Butler, who evacuated Gubat
on the 18th and Withdrew his forces to Abu-
Klea, has also been ordered to fall back on
command will be concentrated st that place
and 1T Debbeh and Kerosk Tie main body be-
ing 1T Korh II i probable that Gen Wolse-
ley may eyAcuate Korti and retire to
iDebbeh, where the desert routes from
5Ombarman "a obeid snd Darfod1