Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-06-19
The Criminal Calendar.

! The Criminal Calendar.
The trouble over the enforcement Of the
| prohibition law illuminated in a riot at
Spring Vale, Me.
! Sergeant Mason, who tried to shoot
Guiteau has been sent to Jail, charged with
| robbing a fellow soldier.
Near Lennox, Oak, Herman Greenfield,
| Respondent over bad luck, departs from the
world by the strychnine route.
Patsy Cardiff and Billy Wilson have had
| their slugging match at Red Rock near St..
! Paul, and the former comes off victor after
| nine rounds.
| During an altercati ton between Henry Nei-
! retz and Peter Guidinger, farmers, twelve
| miles north of Milwaukee, the former was
| shot and killed.
L. L. Thomas, the swell sexton OF Wash.
| ington, has been caught embezzling the funds
! OF ST. Johns church. Thomas was a big
] ger man than old Brown OF Grace church,
| New York, and managed all the fashionable
weddings and kettledrums, and was in high
| favor.
J. A. Dose, operator OF brickyard at
Bismarck for a year, and lately figuring as
| a newspaper publisher, has fed to parts I'm.
known with 81 200 OR more obtained by
| borrowing under false pretenses and on
| fraudulent mortgages, and in one instance
by forgery.
Anthony Funk, alias Talbot, charged
| with systematically stealing more than g..
900 volumes from the Chicago public library
| while in the employ OF the library, and sus
pected of a design to blow up the Chicago
! university with an Internal machine was
| found to be insane and sent to the Elgin
asylum.
A Chicago detective, James Wiley, who
| permitted J. J. Calvert, the alleged forge,
| to escape from him on the railway train neal
Sandusky, while en- route for Chicago, has
resigned. He said: II have made Il fool Of
| myself; it was all my fault.' Wiley admit
| ted the charge OF drunkenness on the train.
He could not stand liquor, it is said.
Foreign Gossip.
Empress Charlotte, widow of Maximillian
is regaining her health in Brussels.
The Novosti OF St. Petersburg reaffrlns
the statement that the ameer OF Afghan.
istan is dead.
Sir John Macdonald notifies the domin-
| ion commons that they will be asked for
| further aid for railways.
An explosion OF 800 cases Of giant powder,
| in mine near Zacatecas, Mexico, killed ten
men and wounded as many more.
Princess Beatrice and Prince Henry OF
| Battenhurg viii spend the first week oitheir
! honeymoon at Quar- Abbey, the residence OF
Lady Cochranc, near Ryde.
Adispatch from St. Petersburg announces
| that Russia has concluded treaty Of com
| nlerce with King John of Abyssina, very
| favorableto Russian interests.
An earthquake occurred in Eastern Cau-
| casus. The town OF Sikuch was completely
| swallowed and the township suffered dam
! age to the extent OF several million roubles.
| Mai. Gen. Steele in the command Of the
forces in Ireland are due, it is asserted. to
the urgent commands of the queen. and are
| the cause of much discomfort in both the
| army and navy circles.
Sir Peter Lur,sden has asked the pro-
| motors Of the fund now being raised in Lon
don to secure for him 'sword OF HONOR
to suspend further action in the matter I'M
till his relations with the war office are in
a. more settled state.
Charles Fitzpatrick and F. X. Le,niux
have been definitely retained to defend Riel
in Regina The plea will doubtless be ia
sanity, and it is presumed IL number OF wit
nesses will be summoned from Quebec tp
prove that Riel was insane while he was at
! the Beaufort asylum.
Prof Monlmsen, walking the streets Of
Berlin recently, was accosted by little
! boy; and, pleased with the polite attention,
| lie pa tied him on the head and inquired his
| name. "Why, papa. don't you know me?'
| cried the amazed little fellow, who was m
deed the professor S son.
Admiral Horribly who left Portland har,
Dor few days ago with 4 squadron OF
fifteen vessels, including some ironclads a nd
| torpedo boats, has arrived off Bantry nay
| on the west coast oil Ireland. The erol,l-
| tons OF the squadron will include a sham
battle in Bantry bay. After theevolutions
the cruise the squadron will be continued.
Riel told Mr.. Walters, a store!zeepcr at
Batoche, that his intention was, if success
ful, to establish u government, and divide
| the land as follows: To the white pioneers
one-seventh, to the half breeds one-seve!th,
| to the Indians one-seventh, for church and
school purposes one-seventh, and the bal
nnce would be crown lands. Mr. Walters
does not think the half breeds would have
fought had it not been for their being melted
by Riel.
Mr.. Gladstone, it is said, rarely consult.
ed the queen or informed her OF the plans OF
the government. It is thought the queen
will strongly favor q renewal of the Soutlan
campaign, the retention OF Egypt the set.
Element OF the AngIo-Russian dispute on the
basis OF the Granville Giers agreement, re.
newal OF the alliance with. Germany, an
entente with Turkey, and no special cult.
walton in an entente with France. Such q
policy has all along been approved by the
British foreign office.
! General News.
Ex-Gov. Hale of New Hampshire thinks
that with an extension he can pay all his
| debts. ,-,