Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-09-04
News Items Of General Interes1

| safely removed. The total losses were
SIS, 900 with $1,000 insurance, -.
News Items Of General Interest.
! Bishop knickerbacker is resting at Sara
| toga Springs. ~ -,
! Ex-Gov. Reuben T.. Fenton of New York
dies suddenly at his desk
/ The Tennessee saluted Mr. Blaine with
! twelve guns at Bar Harbor
| Thirty-two buildings were burned by light
ming in Stafford county, n. Fl.
! The late Lyman Clark of Brockton,
Mass, left fortune Of 100000.
Lieut. James D. Mann, Seventh cavalry,
is granted leave during September.
| Mr.. Blaine is living quietly at Bar Har-
| then.
Cardinal Manning intirnated that some
| ecclesiastic in Boston would ere long be
made a. cardinal.
, The president will deliver an address be-
fore the Virginia Agricultural society at
Richmond, Oct. 81.
To much rain at Sidney Ohio, carries
away the water works reservoir and leaves
the city without water.
Attorney General Garland has not been
| out Of Washington this summer, and will
not take a vacation until the president re-
turns.
Senator John Sherman addressed large
| mass meeting in the grove a. Mount Gilead,
| making the opening speech OF the Ohio cam
paign.
Architect Bells latest trouble is in con-
nection with the Kansas City postoffice.
He is charged with spending 100000 i'm
properly.
Under the recent navy department or
ders over four hundred men are employed
in the construction department. at the
Brooklyn navy yard.
Extensive forest fires are raging oil along
The Northern Pacific, between Horse Plains
and Huron Montana, destroying Immense
quantities OF valuable timber.
Postal cards are reported to he generally
! scarce at the postottices throughout the
country, the government being very tardy
| in meeting acquisitions for the arcicle.
! President McConnico, OF the American
| exposition, at New Orleans, received Il dis
patch from Geo. M. Pullman increasing his
subscription from SIS, 900 to $50, 900.
! Mr.. Cannon, controller Of the currency,
| has been recalled from Monmouth Beach,
n. J., where he has been spending his vaca-
ton, because OF the illness of his deputy.
Capt. John S. Wharton, OF Gen. Kan
cocks staff, who has been ordered 80 duty
at Fort Ringgold has never seen his reGi-
ment. He has been un staff duty for seven
| teen years.
| At the Western Rife association tourna-
| ment a Western Union Junction, the sh ort
range match is won by Milwaukee, by a
score of $50, to 23O for Minneapolis and
214 for Racine.
Prof. Wyle, territorial superintendent
OF instruction, and Peter Koch, assistant
cashier of the Galiatin Nation;l bank,
were fined $50 each ior leaving their camp
lire burning in the National Park.
Lord Carnarvon will visit all the la":<
| towns OF Ulster and the poorer districts 81
Donegal. He has issued a scathiny rebuko
to Clifford Lloyd, with reference to the lat
ter's recent article on Ireland in the London
! Times.
Mrs. Mary A. Stuart, wife OF the million
! aire banker Joseph Stuart OF New York,
was accidentally shot and killed at her
Summer home in Rye Beach. She was re-
moving a revolver from one place to an
other, when it exploded.
! AtCooke City, Montana two miners play.
cd 100 games of cribl,tgc, the stakes being
100 feet OF the Snowslide lode against 100
! feet OF the Elevator lotle--bOth rich proper
ties. The Elevator man won, and received
his deeds immediately, for which he refused.
81, 500.
| The Conservatives are expressing great
satisfaction on the ZultilSar pass question.
! Word has already gone out to make this &
campaign point, but the announcement
that 81 Joint commission will settle The de
! tails on the spot. seems to leave everything
| where it WAS before.
| The publicity given TO the fact that the
| ifr2S fnfp fpn, boc ,n-Jt 1p
| transfer Of gold coin from San Fra rcisco
| to New York by registered mai. has again
! caused a suspension OF that mOCe Of trans.
| portation. 1t is not expected that any
more gold will be sent Through the mails
Tor some time.
| strange tale comes to light in the sus-
pension OF j. S. Garfield, a clerk in the post.
Office department., from Illinois, Five or
six years ago he was regarded as one OF the
, best clerks in that department. For nearly
q year past he has been absent from the
| department and, it is claimed, has drawn
! his pay regularly, his salary being 81 400
| q year 1t now appears that he has been
! in an insane asylum near Providence. r. l.,
| during that time, and he is regarded as In
| curabiy insane.
| The register OF treasury has Issued the
| following order: 70 avoid the troubles and
! delays in the transfer of United States bonds
| by the Successors or legal representatives
OF holders in norninally really iidutiary
capacity, this office will hereafter refuse as
a condition precedent to issue TO any trus-
tee executor. administrator, GUARDIAN etc,
that the beneficiary or particular trust thus
| represented shall be named on the apphca-
! ton and in the assignment OF the bonds fer
the purposes proposed.
| Carter II. Harrison's attorney, Allen G.
tpI to- bp hill Iaj
! by citizens two months ago disputi>g Mr..
! Harrison's title to the may oralty OF hicago
! by reason OF numerous MiScountS stated to
| have been made in the vote and innuIuer-
! able frauds alleged to have been committed
at the polls in the interest OF Harrison.
| The answer is in the nature OF q demurrer
generally denying the allegations of the bill
and giving fifteen reasons why, i'll the opinion
Of the defendant, the case is not entitled to
a regular trial in court.
DR. Loring has replied to the charge OF
| Contro ller Durham that he lnislaid the dis
! allowed accountin his letter ofJuly 27. He
says that he never intended to convey the
| idea that purchases OF machinery were i'll
cludcd in the disa!lowance, and that the con-
! troller has n{isapprehended the meaning OF
| his letter or this point. In reply to the
statement OF the controller that the pur-
| chase Of seeds formed no part OF the sugar
experiments, he claims that the purchase OF
beet and sorghum seeds and the employ
| ment OF labor for their distribution Was as
! much a part OF the experimental ex-
penditure as the purchase OF machinery,
| and expresses q confidence that the cou-
! troller will not for a moment suspect him
F.! Of attempting t., misstate the case eltherto
! HIM or the public.
| The Star says: "a rurnor to the effect
! that John Dickerson, former superintend-
ent of the new pension building, had com.
united irregularities in the management OF
! his position having reached the Star, a re-