Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-07-03
sentenced BY Reeo order Smith to ten year or
I'M nriannrneYlt and to psY q fine oil 5000. III

Imprisonment and to pay q hneS OF $5OOl
rs Ano ther pngilistie contest occurred last
Sunday the 21st inst. at st Paul, the puglIS
lists being +. J. Dormer, the wrestler and "a
general athlete OF East Minneap polls, and
William Weily, q young but am bilious ex p,
ponent Of Shes'manly ART, recently arrived
from Winnipeg. Weily was licked in short
order. 7 t #. n @
Emil steger, aged sixty, 3 Hungarian
tain OF the Second Illinois artillery, and
lately an engineer on the United States Mis-.
sissippi river commission, committed sui,
eide at Memphis with poison. Despon
dency, resulting from lack OF employment,
was the cause. ~
Alphonso Warren, q grey headed man Of
sevent y-two, whose home is IN Iona. Mimi,
was swindled at Burlington, Iowa, by two
sharpers out OF $25, all the money he had.
While waiting for q steamer, he was &C
costed by a young man, who asked t0r
temporary loan, since which he has not
been seen. .-.
G. Olsen, a young man, committed suicide
at Ashby, Minnesota, with q pen
knife blade less than two inches long He
first stabbed himself in the region OF the
heart, but failed to reach vital organ.
Next he attempted to cut arteries in his
wrists. Finally he severed his iugular vein
and died from loss OF blood in few hours.
His affianced rejected him for another man.
4 Antonio Occitta, an italian, arrested at
Cleveland, o., is wanted at Catskill, N. Y,
for attempting to defraud all insurance
company. Occitta states that, having in.
sured his life for 81 900, he jumped in the
Hudson river, dived under the water, es-
capped to the shore unseen and departed.
1t was believed he had been drowned, and
&c ,rr t1a,. ri f(,oip
Foreign News.
Big Bear kindly gives Gen. Middleton
four days to get out OF the country.
Gen. Middleton is said to be calling in his
troops, preparatory to an early start for
home.
The city Of Vera Cruz, Mex, has enacted
law requiring that all vessels coming from
Spain be subject to three days quarantine.
The Liberal Canadian journals are great
ly exercised over the demand OF the Cana
dian Pacific for another loan from the gov
eminent Of S., 900, 900, besides the land sub
sidy.
The total debt OF Cuba is 5000, 900.
The budget for 1SS4-5 estimated the revenue
at $40, 800, 900, and the expenditure at
$32,Q70,O0 There is a gloomy prospect
AOi CubiIu dA-f1itJtIS.
Private advices from an authentic source,
says g. Paris dispatch, represent that EN-
peror William is in a precarious condition,
and fatal termination OF his present NAL
ady is regarded possible.
In the French chamber OF deputies, dur
ing debate on the loan Doynard stated that
the government really wanted loan OF
800, 900, 900 instead OF IS, 100000 francs,
but was afraid to ask that amount before
the election.
There are unmistakable signs Of an in
creasing GOODNESS between Germany and
Austria, resulting mainly from Prince Bis
marck' s protective tariff. This has aroused
vigorous opposition, and the Vienna and
Pesth cabinets are preparing retaliatory
measures against it.
Another batch OF letters by the late Adj
niral Courbet, the commander OF the
French expedition at Tonquin, is published.
These letters severely reproach NJ. Ferry,
late prime minister, for his management OF
the Tonquin expedition. It is expected
that the publication will initiate very seri-
Ously against the success OF the partisans
OF NJ. Ferry in the approaching general
The earl OF Granville announced in the
house Of lords and Mr.. Gladstone made a
similar announcement in the house Of COM
mons, that the marquis OF Salisbury had
accepted Office and that he had gone to
Windsor Castle to so inform the queen. A
motion was made in each house to adj ourn.
! Mr.. Gladstone said he hoped to be able to
! inform the house Of the nature OF the COM
! munications which passed between himself
| and the marquis OF Salisbury upon the sub.
! ject OF the recent cabinet deadlock. The
! house adjourned.
! Rome Cable: Information through Ital-
! ian military channels at the Red sea has
| just reached the Italian government that
! Messedaglia Bey, former governor Of Upper
! Egypt, has written to the italian command
| Ell there that he had recently seen IL Syrian
! who had passed three months at the resi-
| dence OF the Mahdi after the fall OF Khar-
! toum. He says the Mahdi has Gordon in
secret keeping, having discovered him Sc
verely wounded, but not dead, and that
Gordon recovered. The story is credited
at Massowah, and forms the subject OF an
official dispatch.