Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-12-11
Miscellaneous News Notes..

Insurance rates in Galveston are SO per
cent greater there now than before the
great fire. -
4 small subscription to the Grant monu-
ment fund was received in New York from
St. Peter, MINI.
The Southern Illinois penitentiary con-
tains o97 convicts, OF whom Ill are Unit.
ed States prisoners.
The sheriff OF Allegheny county, Pa, gets
anominal salary OF ST., 500, but he manages
to rake in $25, 900 q year.
Nicols & La Gaze, produce commission
merchants, New Orleans, have suspended.
Their liabilities are $50, 600; assets $685.
600.
Robert Garrett's new house in Baltimore
will cost 81 100000. 1t is a. mass Of fine
marble, exquisite stained glass and fresco.
ing, Roman baths, rare woods and wood
carving.
The firm Of Sly & G. c.. Ward, New York,
the American agents OF Barring Brothers
& Co., the London bankers, will he dis
solved in January. The firm has had the
agency for half 81 century and will be sue
ceeded by Kiddar, Peabody & Co.
r. NJ. Hough and NJ. II. Dustin, of Lincoln
ILL.,, will probably erect a large slaughter
house at Miles City, Mont, with a capacity
contemplated improvements will necessi.
tate the expenditure OF about S25O,OOO.
The supreme court OF Ohio rendered
decision in the Daggett habeas corpus case
brought up from Cincinnati, dischargins
the defendant, aud holding the Cincinnati
and Cleveland registry law to be unconsti-
tutional. The decision OF the court was
unanimous.
Bartlett Green shipped 40, 900 stand O,
arms valued at 50, 900, 900 to Turkey from
his Brooklyn, Ny. warehouse, where they
have been stored fora year. The arms were
brought from Providence by the Drexels as
security for SITS, 900 loaned the manufact.
urers. The settlement OF the suit released
the arms.
One of the most determined prize fights.
ever Fought on the Pacific coast took.
place at Advise, Santa Clara. county, Cal.
between Billy Hamilton, Of San Jose, and.
Young Mitchell, Of San ] Francisco, both.
light Weights After twenty three hard
fought rounds in which both sustained Sc
were punishment, the fight WAS awarded
|xtp Mitchell on a. foul
An uncle OF New York's erratic juvenile
fnAneier, F'red&W ard, resides at Clear Lake,
in Iowa, and is the owner and occupant OF
g pretentious dwelling known as "Sbaw's
InV1lla, which Is an aristocratic hOstelry
uuIllS CdLuP-uleeLiHS season. lie mas a.
son whofatten1ed the trial of his illustri-
GUS consin IN. New York, and Immediately
after Ward 81 ,convi etion is said To have
suddenly departed for England. "@
John Il. Sullivan; the pugilist, was inter
viewed 81 tie 81 MS alleged mar,
riage. He said: How can get married
when already have one wife7. am well
acquainted with Miss Livingston, and
when heard she was in Washington visit
ed her. We left the city together on the
evening tEain with other companions Of
both She.Was on her way to New York,
and went atraight through
A hofrible and sickening sight was Wit
messed at the hanging OF Robert Goodall, a
market gardener, at Norwich, Eng. ior
the murder Of his wife at Wisheach on Sent.
! Is last A ffteen-stone weight was used,
and the drop was Six feet. When the trap
was sprung the rope rehounded violently,
body, the trunk and head falling Is the
ground, the head lying at the ieet. The
| spectators we're horror.stricken q 81