Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-01-09

| to proceed with the work Of construction upol
the building as soon As the funds appropriated
! for that purpose are available Prof Edward
MacLean, a graduate of Yale and the unyersit,
of Berlin, was duly elected to the chair O
English laugaguc and literature, IN place O.
Prof. Moses Marston, deceased.
| St Paul jobbers have sold SGT, Isl, $50 worth
of goods this year.
! The new 10000 hotel at Appleton was open.
| cd Christmas day.
! The jobbing trade of Minneapolis amounted
to nearly $40, Goa: 900 last year
The Academy of Music fire at Minneapolis
was caused by lighted clgar.
The receipts Of the Ramsey county treasury
! for 1854 aggregate s ,1S, !A1.N
! The st. Paul court house commission decides
| to build an cllt;:c costing SU(U,UJG
Nelson Cox, carpenter, fell from the Waba-
| slIa street bridge, st. Paul, and was killed
Miss Lille Rlucker of Mando,., Oak, and
! John Rossiter of Duluth we're married at Brain
ord.
J. Y. Nell a prominent citizen Of Winnebago
City died suddenly while talking with neigh
Dor.
During the first eleven months Of 1854 Min
neapolis had 2ljo fire alarms. causing loss of
$lG9,3D6.
According to Bradstrect, there are 1,227
postoffices and l. ,GUJ business firms in Min
nes>ta
FrAnch1nan named Steven Desnlores was
killed by falling tree while chopp;ng noar
Aitkin.
At Carleton college observatory the thcmom-
eter registered IS deg. below zero Thursday
| morning.
At REYNOLDS the saloons Of Gilbert Nelson
and Megin & Pritzo! were burned recently with
their contents.
The young bank ROBBERS, Parker and Mason
were sentenced at St. Paul to one years i'm
prisonment at hard labor
At Elkhart> Ind, James L. Cornwall Of Du-
luth, was united in marriage to Miss Clara
Barnes Of the forn1or city.
Erick Nordquist of Morris, charged with ar
pon, was committed to the county jail to await
the action of the grand jury.
Inc price of -four has been advanced 50
ents per barrel in Minneapolis and ten cents
per barrel in the Eastern markets.
c. c. Whitney, OF the Lyon County News, has
purchased the Marshall Messenger, and will
consolidate that paper anl the News.
At the St. Paul custom house S,f;SS pack
ages of goods were received last year, upon
which sh5 I'll was collected in duties.
A lamp exploded in the luus: OF W. W. Pin
ney, at Granite Falls. Tho hired girls clothes
got fire. and alle Wae severely burned
I 4,,l ;,,C
water and voted that J. ". McKusick ought to
be appointed to the surveyor generalship.
On Christmas day Frank Olson Of St Paul
said he should be dead in three days. His
corpse was found Saturday in bocr shop
Mrs. Charles Buck, Of the town Of Austin,
was FRUSTRATED recently by partial asphyxia
produced by coal gas from the parlor stove.
Gov. Hubbard is o. work on his biennial mes
sage. II will be delivered to the legislature as
usual on the second day after the organization
OF that body.
The president of the Minnesota Editorial as
sociatiou etrs up the brethren upon the sub
icct of a national association, to be organized
at New Orleans.
A suit for slGGoS, brought by the North
Yves tern Grain Dealers association against the
Northwestern Elevator company, is on trial at
Minneapolis.
During thc.past summer the railroad company
has erected thirteen and three quarters miles
Of snow fences along the track from Sleepy Eye
to WATERFOWL.
Agent l,lsc, with his secretary and Indian
police, has gone from White Earth to Mile
Lars. whore no paid the annuities Of tho re d.
skis Of that band.
While j. W. Wilson was digging well on
his farm, on Lake Traverse, about seven miles
northeast Of tho Browns Valley he struck a
vein of coal about eight feet below tho surface
Faribault Special. christmas morning. at
5 o'clock, the mercury in the thermomc ter
concealed, and spirit thermometers registered
"A deg. below zero in various localitie. IN this
city.
John Howard, an old woodsman of the firm
of Seeley s. Howard, loggers near Aitkin, left a
camp Dec. Is, anu his body has just been
found he having become lost and persisted
from cold
The name of Hon H. G. StordocE Of Wilkin
is mentioned in connection with the speaker
ship of the house of representatives. He has
been especially active in the farnllrs' move
ment.
r. J. Mitchell Of Northern Pacific Junction
had valuable gold watch stolen, and John
Corners was arrested on suspicion. The
watch was afterwards found behind saloon
secreted in the snow.
In the township of Butternut Valley, Blue
Earth countv,a couple of dogs attacked a flock
of eighty sheep belonging to Thomas E. Evans,
and bit and manSled titty-six of them. 1t cost
the owner of the dogs $1l2.
Hon. Fl. H. Wells of Stevens county intends
to introduce bill in the Legislature providing
for the cancellation of all the old accounts held
by the state for seed wheat furnished during
the grass-hopper visitation.
James c. Thompson, a saloon keeper near
the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern and
Minneapolis & st Louis depot at Albert Lea,
while lying upon q sofa deliberately shot him
self, causing almost instant death.
About month ago two men, named Timothy
Donahue and James Ryan, were burned to
death in shanty belonging to Donahue in the
town of Hyde Park, Wabaaha county. James
Mccarthy, about thirty Ave years old, who was
with them, escaped, although he alleges that
he came very near losing his own life. A few
days ago it began to be rumored that Mccarthy
caused the death of the two men, and Frank
Ryan of Lake City, father OF James Ryan,
sWore out warrant before Justice Stearns,
charging Mccarthy with numbering the men
and setting fire to the shanty.