Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-06-04

| iers stationed at Aldorshot attended . :
Conservative meeting. Some Of the ora
tors savagely den unced home rule and de-
scribed the Irish people 40 unfit for self
government. The fusiliera attacked the
speakers and their supporters. The police
were called in to protect tI6 speakers nnd
q fight ensued between them and tho Irish
soldiers. The comrades Of the fusiliers
went to their assist86ce and the police
were badly whipped and driven away,
They secured reint orcements, however, and
returning. Suppressed the rioting and ar
rested Ave soldiers.
The Burns monument at Albany, for
which Miss Mary MCPHERSON donated 800.
600, will have base Of American granite,
a PEDESTAL OF Scotch granite. and will be
surmounted by bronze statue Of the poet
Gen. Toombs' estate, just settled, was
proven to be worth $3.50, 900.
The annual convention OF chiefs of fire
departments will be held at Providence, r.
L, on Aug. 24.27. '
The iveliest sort OF 4 storm 10 said TO be
OF the department of New York.
Formal charges have been filed with Nation
al Commander Burdett, that Department.
Commander Sales OF the state. was elected
at the recent encampment by system OF
repeating that smacked OF ward politics.
Gen. Frederick N. Ogden, famous as tho
White League leader died at New Orleans,
aged forty nine years.
Halyer Knutson, who went to Mayville,
OAK, from Wisconsin short time ago.
committed suicide. For some days he had
acted strange. He went into a grove OF
small trees a little way from the house and
cut his throat with a pocket knife. Life
was extinct when he was found.
The meeting in Chicago OF the friends Of
home rule in Ireland was one OF the largest
representative gatherings ever held in that
city. Fully 10000 persons compressed
themsel Ives into the Battery armory on
the Lake front, while great crowds remain
ed outside unable to gain admittance.
Mrs. Riel, widow OF tho dead rebel, died
at her home in St. Vital. Manitoba, after
an illness Of two months.
The general opinion in London is that at
the recent meeting the cabinet resolved on
q dissolution Of parliament and an appeal
to the country il the government be defeat
ed on the second reading of tho home rule
bill. Mr.. Gladstone visited Windsor Cas-
tic. it is believed, for the purpose OF secur-
ing tho queens consent to dissolution be.
fore the departure Of the court for Balmo-
raj Castle. The upshot of tho meeting is
virtually q move in the direction of g. con-
cession to the disaffected Liberals.
The trustees of the Archbishop Purcell
estate at Cincinnati brought suit against
tho bondsmen Of ex-Assignee Mannix for
$500, 900, the amount alleged to have been
embezzled by Mannix. Ex-Gov. Hoadley
is one OF the bondsmen.
Judge Marcus Lyon, as surrogate of
Tompkins county, New York, fled a de-
cision in the famous McGraw.Fiske will
case, decreeing the legacies OF Jennie Nc
Graw Fiske to Cornell university of ST.
500, 900 for library purpose, in all respects
valid ratifying the payments heretofore
made and directing Executor Boardman to
pay the balance of Mrs. Fiske's estate to
Cornell university as residuary legatee.
Brooks, alias Maxwell, Celebrates on the
witness stand his former statement
that he killed Preller by mistake while per-
forming surgical operation. Mr.. Foun-
telroy, Maxwell's counsel, opened the de-
Tense in an address, saying He proposed
to prove that Preller's death was accident
al, and occurred while prisoner was at.
tempting to perform an operation, to les
sen the pain OF which he administered chic
roform, but unfortunately gave too much.
Preller had structure, and Maxwell de.
sired to have another physician assist him
in the operation, but Preller objected, as
he did not wish his disorder to become
known.
c. Montgomery falls from fume at
Olympia, WASH, and is drowned.
The gross earnings OF the Northern Pacif-
ic for the third week in May were $3.50, 1872.
Conductor H. A. Flint, of the Omaha, is
severely injured by fall from the cars at
Ashland.
The Presbyterian general assembly at
Minneapolis invites the Southern Presby-
terrain assembly to join in the celebration OF
the centenary OF the church in 1883; con-
siders the work of the church among freed
men and discusses the question of consoli-
dation OF the church magazines.
Warrants were sworn out at Reading, Pa,
against six hatfinishers, members OF the
hatters' union now ON strike, on the
charge OF having burned down E. H. Col
dren's hat factory at Adamstown, involv-
ing a loss OF $4,000.
Frank Coleman, a farmer near Thomas
vile, Ca, became enraged at his wife,
knocked her down with hoe, cut her
throat with a razor and escaped.
The real estate transfers recorded at
Kansas City recently aggregated 81, 70O,-
Ex-Judge Samuel Hand, of the New York
court OF appeals died at Albany.
The iron molders OF St. Louis have de.
CIuetl 20 suspend Ill 1urCucr aS1UaUOQ OIL
the labor question, to return to work and
to withdraw their demands.
Very warm weather prevails all over
southern, western and eastern Oregon.
At Papillion, Neb., Frank Devere, a rail-
road laborer, while drunk and disorderly
resisted arrest and assaulted Cons table
Salafeld, who shot and killed him. The
coroner's verdict sustained Salafelds
action.
The congregation OF the First Congrega-
tional church, Evanston, ILL.,, has asked
the pastor, Rev. Scott to resign because
he smokes cigars in public, rides a bicycle
and neglects his church.
The friends of the late Lieut.. Gorringe,
whose engineeing skin brought the Egyp-
tian obelisk from Egypt to the New York
Central Park, have chosen @ design for his
monument in the shape OF reduced copy
OF the Egyptian obelisk.
It transpires that Swain Anderson, tho
wealthy farmer Of Mountain Grove, NO.,
who was murdered recently, was killed by
son. and g. companion named Eurings San
ders. All have confessed the crime. San
ders says that Edward fired the fatal shot.
The prisoners agree in the confession except
upon this point.
The Southern Presby terrain assembly &C.
cepts the invitation of tho Northern body
to join in the centennial celebration OF
1883. -. ~vr-
Miss Rose Hopkins, OF an influential
family in Audenried, Pa, has eloped with
horny-handed day laborer OF the mines.
The assessment OF Tacoma, Wash, for
1886, foots up So, 790, 7o5, an increase
over 1885 of $245, 2l3. .
Rev. Erastus Wentworth. D. D., died re-
Gently at his home in Sandy Hill, N. Y.
He was born at stonington, Conn, ID
1913. and graduated from Wesley univer-
sity in 1887. In 1854 he was appointed
Methodist missionary to Foo Choo, China,
and in 1872 was elected editor of the
Ladies' Repository and Of the books of the