Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-09-11

Southern Illinois ana Western Missouri,
Tuesday night, Sept. 1 but did not injure
Vegetation.
The President has returned to Washing
/ ton from his short vacation spent in the
| Adirondacks. S5/ fss i - e.
Parker Pepper Of Philippi, Barbour coun-
/ ty, has made an assignment. Liabilities,
/ SIS, 900 to 800, 900.
| Postmaster General Villas loaned Secre-
| taay Lamar his stylish turnout during his
absence from Washington. -.u pr
A postoffice inspector succeeds in run
| ming down two very successful young mall
| robbers in North Carolina. ~. -.
Gen. Stone reports that there will have
to be paid, to complete the pedestl OF the
| Bartholdi statue, $69,27O.23. -
The caving in OF a mass OF rock in a min
| ing shaft at Wilkesbarre, Pa, kills three
| men and wounds seven others.
A big gold strike has been made twenty
! five miles south of Lander. Wyo., where
| the vein has been searched for since 1869.
George II. Cooper, son OF Rear Admiral
Cooper OF the Brooklyn navy yard, was ar
rested in New York ON a charge ofburglary.
At Carthage, N. c., Benjamin Cole, (white)
aged seventy, was sentenced to be hanged
on Sept. 80. His crime was poisoning his
wife.
At Louisville. Ark, mob broke into
the Jail and hanged George Crenshaw, a.
negro who murdered Harry Paup, a white
man.
Gen. Logan will deliver the address at the
Grant memorial services held IN Washing
ton under the auspices OF the G. A. r. on
Oct. l.
| No evidence con be obtained at Galena to
! convict Banta, who recently confessed that
he murdered NJ. S. Prichard of Cherry VAL
ley, ILL.,, in 1879.
Sheriff Thumm, who shot and fatally
wounded Deputy United States Marshal
| Fred Wiggle, while resisting arrest at Cas-
troville, Tex, has fled.
Emory Storrs admits that he will act as
counsel for the Mormon polygamists in their
! fight against the government. His retaining
! fee is said to be enormous.
| A few days ago a train on the Chicago &
| Alton in Missouri was boarded by robbers,
who took small sums from the passengers
| OF one car and disappeared in alarm.
T. A. Flannelly, editor OF the Evening
News, received 81 severe beating from w. T..
Jones on account OF a. scan(talOus article
| published about Mr. Jones' father in the
| News.
Miss Augusta de Vernev, a young actress
who lost all her diamonds while drunk at
| Coney Island, went to New York and got
married saying she meant to settle
| down.
A general advertisement will be issued on
the fifteenth by the postmaster general,
| calling for proposals for rendering steam
boat mail service in all points of the United
! States.
| General Freight Agent Hannaford, OF the
! Northern Pacific, says that the wheat yield
OF Washington Territory will not only be
! larger than ever before, but the quality will
! be better.
POSTS London cable: Mr.. Parnell' s
| speech at the Mansion house dinner at
Dublin was simply an answer to the mar
quis OF Hartington's words Impossible"
| and "never.'
Experiments are in progress at the Rid
eau range near Ottawa, by the Canadian
| militia, to settle the question as to the
amount OF execution that can be done with
q Gtttiing gun.
The Northern P;lcific's gross earnings for
the month Of August were: Freight earn
ings, $619, 427; passenger, $2S9, 152; mail,
express, etc, $66,740 Total gross earn
ings, $975,319
| Gen Newton, chief of engineers estimates
that an appropriation Of SIS, 600, 900 ~
$40, 900, 900 will be required to contin le
| the work OF river and harbor improvement ts
during the next fiscal year.
The fifteenth anniversary OF the German
victory over the French at Sedan was cele-
DRAFTED in Berlin by q military display
The emperor and empress drove ahead OF
the troops in the procession.
| At a fire in Albany all the buildings on
! III Lon, .j,,<1h
and Alexander streets, and Fourth avenue
were burned except three brick ones on
Pearl street; loss $4,000.
| Proposals were recently invited foe the
construction OF a lfe-saving station at
| Sturgeon Bay canal, Wis, and only one bid
| was received-that OF Angus McGillis OF
Norway, Mich, at $G5. 900.
The trial OF Henry Stair and wife, Maret-
| la, Tor the murder of old man Sewall and
his young son 1T Nevada, No, has resulted
in IL verdict OF guilty. The jury recom-
mended the woman to mercy.
| Darwin c. Pierce, a transfer mail agent in
the t'e.)ot at Rutland, VT, for eighteen
| years, was arrested, charged with robbing
thenail and putt n Ter 81, OOo bonds. VAL
| liable letters have been missed.
| Fire destroyed the Kimball Carriage
company s factory in San Francisco, and
" uuulDEI Ol UuIiCliuSS. nc lttC.
tory was owned by T.. Soule. Total loss,
| $50, 900: insurance is unknown.
". b. Smell, formerly a business man of
! C4arksville, Tenn, was found IN the house
| of Malvina Hiser, Il courtesan Of Metcalf
lcounty, KY, with his throat cut and hor-
| rihly, gashed about his head and body.
! Gen. Logan and wife arrived from the
| Thousand Islands and report that the
highly entertaining story about their mar
| row escape from drowning while their pho
| tograph was being taken is /. pure romance.
In Baltimore, Walter WEIGH drove fifty
italians out of his saloon, where they were
creating disorder. They returned ana at
| tackled him with daggers, when he shot the
leader, Frank Antoni dead, and the rest
fed.
At Brighton Beach thirty.on horses
started in q race, and jockey Lee had his
neck broken, and two others were badly
hurt. In the next race two more Jockeys
were thrown, and one probably fatally IN
iured.
Inspector Henderson, OF the postoffice
department, has just returned from North
Carolina, where he caused the arrest of two
mail robbers, who, though mere lads, had
bafled the skill OF the inspectors for long
time.
Tie secretary OF state has received
telegram from Consul General Woods at
Rome, reporting that there have been four
deaths from cholera at a place nine miles
from Naples and five at Trevis, about fifty
miles north OF Naples.
Mr.. Parnell, in his recent speech, ridi-