Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-03-12

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| A good deal is being said in diplomatic
circles about the purposes OF Perry Bel
| mont, chairman of the house committee On
foreign affairs in pushing his bill limiting
the exaction OF fees or the levy OF taxes for
the consular verifcation OF invoices. The
consul generals fees at Paris during last
year aggregated SOL JIG, while he is al.
lowed a salary OF IS, 600 a year and clerks
and other expenses, The consul general at
London collected over $50, 900 in fees last
year and he is allowed Sc, 900 and clerks,
! etc.
The appointment by the president of a
colored man rom Albany to be recorder Of
deeds in the District of Columbia in place
OF Fred Douglass has caused the Dem &C rats
OF that district to howl with indignation.
| The house committee on the judiciary
resolved to report the Lowell bankruptcy
bill to the house on the 18th inst with
amendments.
| There will be some delay before Mr.. Ed.
munds takes up Marshal Campbells case
in the senate judiciary committee The
Tact is that everything is going slowly now.
adays in the matter Of combinations, and
Minnesota, as the president once said is a
long way OF. The status OF the Campbell
case is that the charges have been fled and
nothing more. Mr.. Edmunds has notified
the plaintiffs to send on their proofs az soon
as possible. What will be proved is wholly
a matter OF conf ecture.
During the trial Of John s. Dyde, Junior
partner OF the firm of Eckersdorff e. Co., 10,
forgery, in Montreal, Col. Dyde, the fathe,
OF the accused, fell dead in the witness box
! John B. Coughs will has been filed. The
widow is made executrix, with power to
revoke any requests which are to relatives
and missionary societies.
Col. Il. II. Mcpherson, ssgraduate of West
Point and well-known Indian fighter,
committed suicide at Evansville, Ind.
Salem, the second Oldest city in Massa
chusetts, will celebrate the 25Oth anniver
sary OF her Incorporation on July S.
The following fourth class postmasters
county, S. w. Hall; Lodi, Clay county, S
j. Douthet. Minnesota-Victoria Carver
county, w. R. Hoag. Postmasters Com
Observation-Disclosures: Alden, A. j. Williams
Caledonia, e. N. Falk. Minnesota: Lam
bertville, William Opdyke; Belcher, T. W.
Brown; Fairhaven, j. III. Biller; Fertile, O.
Kankel; Freeport, J. Poschen Lexington
William Berrisford; New Munich, j. But:
weller. Wisconsin: East Dclavan, G. W.
Fryer. Postodices ablished-Dakota:
Moline, Faux county, Sarah Hillman;
| A'AoAA 10, AAAy COui1oy, l.. :. MOTIFS.
The river and harbor committee voted
! appropria tions for the Red River OF the
| North Grand Marais and Duluth.
The senate calls for the rccords OF the adj
| lninistration OF Morton, surveyor of the
Port of San Francisco, who damned civil
| service reform.
c. R. McKenney, OF the Lake City Senti-
mel, on his late visit to Washington bore a
petition signed by the mayor, councilmen
| and a majority OF the business men Of Lake
City, addressed to the Minnesota delega-
ton in cong: ess, setting forth the urgent
! necessity OF 81 harbor OF refuge in Lake
Pepin at this point, and t he insutticiency
OF the appropriation already made for
that purpose, and requesting them to la
Dor for an increase Of such appropriation.
Last year Chicago insurance agents re-
ceived about So. 900, 900 in premiums, and
paid out $2,5G4, 900 in losses.
Ex.Speaker Galusha A. Grow is a self
announced candidate to succeed Sena tor
| Mitchell.
Parson Downs has sued the Boston Post
| Tor $50, 900 for alleged criminal libel
Thomas Christie and H. King. clerks in
the First National Bank at Bradford, Pa,
are arrested for embezzling $50, 900 OF the
| institutions cash.
! The committee on public buildings take
| NO action on the proposition to limit the
cost OF the Minneapolis building to $3.50
900.
The following postmasters were appoint
| ed in Minnesota: Buras-C. e. Casper,
vice Hare, resigned; Pottsdam-F. Peter
! lex, vice Engleby, resigned; Thiel-Manton
H. Hampe vice Hall, resigned.
W. Helena Randall OF St. Peter asks that
patent be issued to her for IL half section,
OF land subject to entry, at Redwood Falls,
| without the payment OF fees.
H. s. Allen, one OF the oldest settlers in
the Northwest, died at his home in Chip.
| pewa Falls OF inflammation of the bladder,
after brief illness, at the age OF eighty
years.
The bodies Of NJ. Colman and Wilson
Patten, two well known citizens of Seattle,
Wash, were recovered from Lake Washing
ton. They were assassinated on the night
| OF Feb. by some unknown persons. Col
man was foreman OF the grand Jury that
indicted number of men for participation
in the recent Seattle riot, and also those
! who shot and killed several Cinnamon at
the Newcastle coal mines.
! The passenger rate from San Francisco
! to Chicago is cut to $40.
The organization OF the Northwestern
! Base Ball league is completed at Eau
Claire.
Schumacher's oatmeal mills in Akron,
Ohio, are damaged about $1,0OO,OOO by
! fire; insurance light.
Gov Knott OF Kentucky orders state
! troops to Pulaski county to cxtinguish an
| armed uprising OF miners against convict
! LABOR in the mines.
E. Fl. Graham Dewey, principal witness
| in the Maxwell-Preller murder case in St.
| Louis. turns up in Dubuque with shady
record.
The evangelist, Sam J ones receives severe
criticism from Chicago clericals and club
men for his reckless utterances.
The American hotel in Boston loses g
| wing by fire. Loss, $65, 900; insured.
Judge Mcconnell, at Wahpeton, Oak
sentences the remaining parties to the Dill
murder to the penitentiary.
Arthur Mackaye gets divorce from
Maud Miller, Joaquin's daughter.
| J. H. w. Cadby, an extensive dealer in
musical Instruments at Kingston, CatskiI
and Schenectady, N. Y, with headquarters
at Hudson, N. Y, was arrested at Hami1
ton, Canada, charged with a IS, 900 forgery
The charge is made by the Farmers Ma
tional Bank OF Hudson. He will be return
ed on extradition papers.
Sam Johnson, negro, aged sixty five, out
ragged the nineteen-year- old daugter o
Henry Herbert, white, at Eatontown. N
Fred Kenzle, for twenty five years host
lerin Pennsylvania, has fallen heir to $1OO,
900 left by a relative in Germany.
A sensation was created in Burlington
Neb., by the announcement that Mrs Alice
Bell had shot herself with suicidal intent
ttao LODI Ill L
drew Bell, the son OF a prominent business
man of that city. Two weeks ago her hus
band left her and his parents refused to as
sist her, and she returned to her parents
The desertion OF her husband and Other
troubles so affected her mind that she shot
herself in the head with revolver, but for
tunately the ball glanced of, and tn,