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Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-06-05
A Queer Crank.

The range of phenomena Of diseased
minds seems almost imitlsss. An un-
fortunate young man named John
Shields, brought to jail Sunday, furn-
ishes good example Of that observa-
ton. He is by occupation a tallynlan
in rolling-mill, and lives at No. $50
Lorain street. One week ago he
seemed to be in the healthy possession
of all his mental faculties. Now his
mind is incapable of pursuing any one
line of thought for more than few
seconds. Three words. consecutive III
sense, was the limit of each Of his en-
deavors to speak. On the way to the
asylum he said, in what was afterward
learned to be an attempt to tell his
guard that he hoped he would not be
Kept long in confinement: ''Don't
want to-creek, cold water--sugar and
molasses.' His relatives say that he
was not in the habit of using profane
language, but yesterday his talk at
times savored of low saloons. Deputy
Sheriff Farrand took him to the asy-
lum. Shields at one time sprang at
him and c!asped him about the waist,
but in a second his mind had veered
off on some other train of thought, and
he returned to his seat in the conne
and began his sense]ess jabber. He
read aloud every store sign shat he
saw and eagerly asked Mr. Farrand ii
he knew every woman that they
passed. John Sullivan occupies 6
prominent place in his thoughts, and
! he thinks sometimes that he is
''tough.'' Several times, on first
catching glimpse of some strange
person, he exclaimed exctedly:
s'There's John Sullivan's pants
, again. A good-naturcd luna tic sat
for about an hour in the turnkey's
room in the cell. pleasantly smiling on
all about him. He was Charles
Eroil, a mill laborer, living in Armi-
tage street He had fierce, bristliug
beard of rusty color, wild, unkempt
hair. pair Of crooked. glarins eyes,
and Il cararnons mouth filed with
blackened stu,ups IF teeth He could
not talk English very yell but was
very conyerSat ional- A bottle nf Dseui-
cine, used by one Ct the deputy sherilli3
for the headache, stood near him on Il
nIantol. His rowing eyes fell upon It,
/ and he made a dive in that direction.
1ut V'tLic was CIV ptlC't WV LAD
! throat in al instant, and he returned
to his seat ,nuttering with delight:
! Beer, wisky.' 1t is claimed that
! Froil went into a saloon near his house
Monday night, and was struck on the
head during q light. It is said that
his insanity resulted from the blow.
! He has scheme for buying up cattle,
and thinks that he can transport the
entire population Of lis native Ger
many to this country. lie was sent to
! the ii Urinary. Mr., Mary Carlson, of
No. 1853 Broadway. w;ss sent to the
same institution yesterday. She was
not considered dangerous, but nearly
overpowered one Of the intirmary at
tendants She has been subject to
spells of insanity on the subject Of re-
ligion, and was insane about ten years
ago, when she was a yoIng woman Of
27 years. She now has a family of five
Children Clca'el11ad Leader.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-06-05

The belief that means of prevent
ing the spread of cholera by incubation
has been discovered by DR.. Ferran, ~
young Spanish physician, Is attaining
such currency that it is proposed to
make the matter a subject of investiga-
zion by the Spanish Government. Dr.
Ferran has inoculated many persons,
himself among the number, with the
cultivated bacillus or cholera microbe
to which attention was first called by
DR.. Koch. No ease of death has 'oe-
Cured in the district affected by 'chol-
era among inoculated persons. Ami
mails inoculated with the virus die from
tho effect with choleratic symptoms.
In the case of human beings the suffer
ing is less intense ana not fatal, whilst
successive inoculations are harmless.
OF course, it is impossible to say how
long the security obtained from inocu-
lation may last. That can only be de-
termined by experience; but it lis pos
sible that at last q certain means Of
staying the ravages Of cholera has been
found.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-06-05
The good citizens of New York City

The good citizens of New York City,
and they comprise vast majority of it's
inhabitants-are greatly annoyed at the
tone of the letters sent from that city to
western papers. Twenty years ago the
practice among leading journals in
other cities WAS to employ somebody of
intelligence and character in New York
to write a weekly letter, svpplementing
the scanty reports about NANNY impor-
tant occurrences which were tele-
graphed in those days, and treating
current matters in an honest and sensi
BILE way. The immense increase in the
use of the wires by the press within re-
INT years has greatly restricted the old
field of the correspondent, and the
business has for the most part fallen
into the hands of Inscriptions Bohe-
mans, who deliberately, concoct the
most sensational stories about the state
of society in New York, and newspapers
at The west which should be above such
business, place this worse than worthless
stuff before their readers with their en-
dorsement. These letters, about the
universal immortality Of men and the
wholesale drunkenness among the WON.
en-, are swallowed without gulp BY
nnultitudes Of honest people. Indeed,
they seem to deceive editors who might
be presumed to know better.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-06-05
A Strange Murder.

A paper called. Nature. published in
Paris, has picked up story almost
eclipsing that of the cock aud bull, Tor
which it cites As al authority the
director Of q, glass factory in che dis
trct Of Aniche. This gentleman had
a dog, and this dog was turned out to
play with other dogs in The open field
behind the factory. 1t was the time OF
hard weather, shortly after the recent
snow-storm, aud the dog, which was
a ugh-haired terrier, had net finish
ed his gambol when he was attacked
by a whole flock OF birds, described by
the paper as crows. BY this, probably.
rocks are meant, for the crow, as Var
rel informs us, is a solitary bird found
only alone Or in pairs, whereas the
glass manufacturer writes that there
were one hundred uf the black birds
in question in the field where the dog
was. out of which only about thirty
joined in the onslaught. However,
the battle, once began, proved a very
one sided affair, half the attacking
squadron keeping in front of the
wretched quadruped and the other
half behind him or on the flank. The
former. lowering at height OF about
six feet, made dashes from time to
time at the head OF their victim. aim
ing their beaks at his eyes and at a
particular spot in his neck, where they
soon esta b]ished an open wound.
The unfortunate beast, who in vain
attempted to flee. would have actually
been picked to pieces on the spot had
he not been carried off by a boy who
came to the rescue and brought him
home in his arms, while the detach~
mept Of prosecutors lowered with
angry movements overhead. The
dogs life was saved for the time, but
the narrator adds that day or two
afterward bis wounds became so dam
gerous that ne was obliged to have the
poor wretch executed. After this we
may expect soon to hear of a fox as
sauited and done to death by con-
fraternity of geese. London Glode.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-06-05
The Towers Of Science.

When Lord Randolph Churchill was
in Bombay little time since, he visit
ed. among other places of interest in
the surrounding neighborhood, the
towers of science. AS q resulc of this
visit the following comments are to be
found inscribed in the visitors book,
with the noble lords signature at the
foot:
SAT the request of the secretary of
the Parsee Punchayet, allow myself
to express the opinion that funeral
obsequies conducted in accordance
with the teachings and precepts of
Zoroaster, as they have been explained
to me, though peculiar to a compare
lively limited number of the inhabit-
ants of this earth, and undoubtedly
novel to the stranger from the west,
are entirely agreeable to the principles
of a pure religion, and may be and are
ingeniously and powerfully supported
by physiological science and ex-
perience.' =
The Parsees, who are a very active
and rich class in Bombay, will no
doubt feel tlartered that their practice
of exposing their dead on the towers,
to be eaten bv vultures according to
the Zoroastrain hehest. should be thus
favorab7y regarded by one SO well
known in the political world Of $the
western island with which their great
empire is associated. The practlce has
certainly much to recommend it in a
tropical country; it is cheap, clearly,
and exceedingly expeditions. Men,
I women, and children are put into
separate divisions, on the top of the
towers; but their bones, Of the rich and
poor alike, mingle in the well below
/ into which they disappear in the
course of time ~ Lord Randolph Chur-
|. chill, like many another European
visitor, may have felt the towers a
rather gloomy and repugnant sight
but the trouble of a journey to them is5
more than repaid by the magnificent
view to be had from the terrace in
front of them of Bombay and the In
dian ocean. 49, London World. sS' &
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-06-05

The car Of Russia has presented
Gen. Komaroff with diamond hilted
sword, accompanied by an autograph
letter thanking the general for the skill,
promptness aud thoroughness with
which he whipped the Afghans and &C.
cupied Penjdeh. This is a feature Of
"the Penjdeh incident" which will make
the lingo party in England grind their
teeth. It is the answer of Russia to
the early demand Of the British press
that Gen. Komaroff should be recalled
and disgraced, by the way Of reparation
to England. 1t not only means that
the car approves of Gen. Komarof's
action, but it is also a significant hint
that he and all other Russian generals
are expected to do SO again on a similar
excuse.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-06-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK SUMMARIZED.
Concerning tho Shrinkage Of Wheat
Crops,

Concerning tho shrinkags Of Wheat
The growing wheat crop having reached a
critical stage, and winter wheat having ap-
preached condition sufficiently near maturi-
ty to approximate the acreage and probable
Weld, the Farmers Review OF Chicago gives
complete survey of ali the western and south
ern wheat growing states, reports having been
received from over three thousand CORES
pondents In summing up It's detailed reports
the Review says:
The sloomiest views which have been ad-
yanced concerning the winter wheat outlook
for 1855 must now be accepted as the most &C
curate. The promising conditions OF 1854 have
this season been completely reversed. The alb
solute uniformity of the returns indicate that
the outlook for the winter sown wheat this
year, is the worst in ten years, and it may now
be set down rs positive that under the most
favorable conditions the total winter
and spng wheat II, ye aaor is to fall II
when the total product was $50, OOO, 600
bushels With the ex, .ption Of Michigan and
Oregon and Washington Territories, on the
western slope, the Causes leading to a de-
creased output of winter wheat are almost
identical. In Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas
and Missouri the ground was bare OF snow
during the severe cold weather at the close of
the winter which was followed by cold dry
winds later on. There was 4 decreased acre
age, owing TO the low prices which prevailed
for the crop OF 1884 In California the do
creased acreage was accompanied by a severe
drowth, which has tended to almost ruin the
growing crop. Oregon and Washington Terri
tory were saved by bountiful showers which
came in time to save the grain.
Turning to the spring wheat belt the out
look is altogether more promising Full re-
tI,rps fry, "a SLIGHTLY enlarged
acreage as compared to last year. while in
Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota the decrease
in acreage evil be about 10 per cent, while the
condition is about IS per cent The acreage of
Dakota is about s per cent less than last year.
md the condition fully equal, although the
season is from ten to twelve days later. The
probable spring wheat yield, based upon cor
tin,1ing favorable weather will be $50, 600, 600
bushels. The total wheat crop of the country
therefore, from the present outlook will be
from 32o, O0O Q0o to 10000, 600 bushels, against
an average yield for the past five years Of
"a, 00O bushels
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-06-05
Personal MENTION.

A. P. Swineford, the now governor Of Alaska,
was reporter en- the Chicago Times in 1860
and 1861.
Judge Foraker apparently has the inside
track among the candidates for the Repubi.
can gubernatorial nomination in Ohio.
Archbishop Elder OF Cincinnati, has ap-
pointed Rev. r. c. Albrinck, vicar general OF
the German churches, vice Rev. Otto Jair, de-
ceased.
Ex-President R. B. Hayes, who went to Rip
ley, Ohio, to speak at the Decoration day cere-
monies, made an address in favor OF govern
mental aid to edu cation IN the south.
Hon. Charles f. Male Ramsey, the second
son of the late earl of Dalho,,sie, was married
to Miss Estelle Garrison, the second daughter
of the late William R. Garrison, at the sum-
lner residence of the BRIDES mother at Elberon,
N. j. Special trains from New York city con-
veyed about 500 Of the leading society people
OF that city to the ceremony.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-06-05
Governor Rusk's Appointm ants !.

Gov: Rusk appointed H. H. Giles of Mad
ison, member Of the state board Of charities
and reform for five years, commencing April
1, 1885 Giles has been a member Of the
board fer fourteen years. Acting under a re-
Gently enacted law the governor also appointed
Col George ". Burchard Of Fort Atkinson,
who is at present president of the state
tie the claims of the state against the general
government for many thousand acres of land
due the state under the swamp land grant,
Col Burchard WAS selected because he pos
involved in the case, which was gained while
acting as private secretary to Gov. Smith. The
appointment takes effect June l, at which time
Col Burchard's term as member of the state
board of supervision will expire. Col: Nick
Smith, editor of the GAINESVILLE Gazette, has
been appointed member Of the state board OF
supervision for five years, from the LIST OF
June, 1885, to succeed Col. Burchard
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-06-05
Gabriel Dumont Let Free.

The secretary OF war has dire ctod that an
order be issued to Lieut. Col Coppinger, in com,
mand at Fort Ass<naboine, that Gabriel Dunont,
Riels lieutenant, should be released from ar
rest No demand was made to our govern
ment that Dumont should be extradited by the
Canadian authorities. Mr.. Bayard SAID that
Dnmont's case had come before the state de-
partment in no form, but that he should say
thas he ought to be given his liberty SO long as
the United States had no claim against him.
Gen. H. c. Drum sent the following telegram
to Gen. Schotield Replying to your telegram
of this date, reporting the arrest on American
territory of Gabriel Dumont and Michael Du-
mails, Canadian insurgents who belonged to
war instructs me to say that the military forces
have no authority to arrest or detain them.
They must therefore be released from military
arrest.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-06-05


In reference to the trouble with the Apaches,
Gen. Sheridan thinks the hostles will soon be
overtaken and punished He said: The band
of Apaches now Oh the warpath are bad lot,
and nothing short Of humiliation would in
sure the section of country over which they
are roaming against further murderous ex-
petitions. The country is so exposed and so
sparsely settled that no defense can be made
against the Indians, and their hostility is only
learned after they have slipped away and muir
dered isolated settlers. The mountainous
character of the country makes it easy FOX
them to steal upon the settlements with
out notice of discovery, and the passes and can
yons with which they are familiar assists their
escape and makes it difficult for the troops to
pursue them In addition to the depredations
committed by the Apaches, the effect of their
presence in Arizona and New Mexico is to ter
rorize the country and prevent its develop
ment by hindering immigration. do not be-
lieve these hostile Apaches will surrender, and
the probable result will be, if overtaken by the
troops, humiliation 1t will be difficult to
corral them, as they know the country so we'll
that each buck can take q separate path an
meet his comrades at any one Of a dozen points
There is a suffi cieat number OF troops to han
die the hostiles, bnt the trouble is to find any
considerable body of them together
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-06-05

Prot. Riley says the seventeen year
locusts, whose visit ne has predicted,
are harmless to the growing crops.
Wherever young orchards have been
planted on land which has been cultivat-
ed during the last seventeen years, the
trees are liable to suffer somewhat, but
it is probable that kerosene spray upon
the trees will protect them.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-06-05

Although the charters Of 721 national
banks, with an aggregate capital Of
more than $3.50, 100000, expire during
1855, the year is likely to end, as did
1884, with more national banks in exist
ence than there ever WAS before. The
increase Of national bank capital was
about SIS, 100000 during 1884, and the
renewal Of charters and the issue OF
rewones will prosably increase not only
the number Of banks, but also the ag-
gregate Of their capital, during 1885.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-06-05

The report Of the commissioner OF
Agriculture of Tennessee shows an
average of II per cent. of wheat area as
compared Nth {. full average crop, and
Sc per cr,At damages by freezing out.
In consequence of the loss in the area
of wheat that of corn and oats is in
creased and the condition OF these crops
is quite favorable, all things considered.
This is also the case with clover and
DTaSSaS
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-06-05
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.


The Michigan legislature has passed law
making ten hours days labor.
John J. Van Leuven, q Grand Rapids (Mich.,
milliner, has assigned, with 5000 liabilities.
The site OF the proposed monument to Gen.
Meade, in Paramount Park, Philadelphia, has
been selected on hill over looking the East
Park.
Depositors Of the Mitchell, Oak, bank are
getting anxious, and are discussing the ap-
plication of personal violence to President
Buttertield.
figures as defendant in divorce suit, brought
by her husband, R. G. Haskell of Boston. She
makes no defense
The imposing monument to Gen. Clusters
memory, at West Point, has been removed a,
the request of Mrs. Custer, who did not like it,
and thought the figure looked like caricature
of the general
The Shackamaxon bank of Philadelphia sus-
pended recently. John Rose is president and
L Fl. Huggard cashier. The capital is $780,
600 and the surplus $4,000 It is said that
the accounts have been overdrawn $500, 900.
There wers 161 failures in the United States
to Bradstreet's during last week, against. 4s4
jhe preceding week. and 14S 100 and 104 in the
corresponding weeks of 1854, 1883 and 1882 re-
specti1ely. About 81 per cent were those Of
small traders whose capital was under S., 900.
At the Presbyterian general assembly at Gin
cinnati, aotion was taken on the subject of di-
voree, reaffirming with increased emphasis, that
the only proper ground of divorce is adultery
or willful deserhon, and cautioning the ministry
to exercise the greatest care in marrying di-
yorced people. ... 81: >.-. =.
The aetionof GOV. Pattison Of Pennsylvania
in signing the bill prohibiting the manufacture
and sale in the state of oleomargarine has cre-
ated indignation among Philadelphia whole
sale provision men dealing extensively in the
article The bill makes it punishable sffens<
for any one TO have in his possession oleomar.
garine in any shape after July l.
The three leading cadets Of the graduating
class at West Point are ]. E. Kohn Of Kansas,
MI. OBrien OF. Massachusetts, and W. E.
Craighill Of Washington, D. G. The class
numbers forty-three Among the graduates is
Herbert s. Whippie Of Wisconsin, son Of
Assistant Adjutant General Wh1pple, on Gen
Hancock's staff. .5
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-06-05
THE CASUALTY RECORD.

Jack Williams of Glendale Mon, was killed
by being run over by wagon. -..... ..
Fire in John Elliott & Sons foundry, Lon
don Ont, cost soc, 900; insurance $4,000
Medford, Wis, was almost completely de-
stroyed by fire. Thirty-one buildings and
much lumber were burned,
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-06-05

payments for the month of May, 1885, All
customs officers are therefore notified that no
payments for services rendered Or expendi-
lures incurred in collecting the revenue from
customs for the month of June, 1885, can bs
made until an appropriation therefor has beer
granted by congress.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-06-05
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Riel is said to be in perfect health, both as
regards body and mind.
The naming by the pope of DR.. William
Walsh, president of Maynooth college, to be
archbishop Of Dublin is triumph for the
Irish Natonalists and singing defeat for MI.
Errington, the special British envoy to the
Vatican.
The grand lodge of Coda Templars at To-
ronto commended in high terms the courage
and efficiency Of the Canadian troops in the
Northwest, claiming that their work was
achieved without the use of s5imulants, un-
der Middleton's orders.
A Battleford dispatch says that Fort Pitt has
been burned, and at Frog Lake the bodies OF
Father Marchand and Father Farfard we're
found in the cellar Of a burned house The
remains of Delaney, Quinn and Gilchrist We're
discovered in the woods near by.
The London News says: Mr.. Gladstone has
crowned his illustrious career by again render
ing the country signal service We must not
forget, now that peace is secured, how near we
came to war such as this generation has not
seen. Neither mere ohstinacy nor skill in dip
lonacy could have avolted it. The task re-
qured q combination of the higher qualities
which go to make up & complete statesman.
Yokohama was the scene of an extraordinary
occurrence on the 9th inst AS the British
man Of war Ogamemnon steamed into port the
Russian ship Vlademir Monarch piped to
quarters, manned guns and made every prepa-
ration for inlm ediate action. 1t is stated that
had so much of rifle been fred from the
Russian vessel the Ogamemnon would have
rammed her. No explanation Of the affair was
| made by the Russian commander.
The}I4ondon Standards St. Petersburg cor
respondent says: The following is the exact
state Of the Afghan frontier negotiations at the
present time: The ameer surrenders Penjdeh
for Zulfkar. The question is still unsettled
as to whether the Zultikar pass shall form a
part of the boundary OF remain wholly in At
ghanistan. Russia insists that Meruschak be-
longs to Penjdeh. England objects and makes
the retention of Meruschak a sine qua non
This difference Of opinion is now the main
difficulty.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-06-05

It is said that the rural population Of
some parts of Illinois is at standstll,
and In some counties has refrigerated
since 1870 Farmers children abandon
their homes for the cities of the far
West. Yet the price of land has risen,
and the big stock raisers continue to
enlarge their already immense estates.
Cattle raising pays where wheat doesn't.