Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-01-08
General News Notes.

Frank Kwapn OF Ahuapee, Wis, failed
for $1S,0 900.
Smallpox exists at Aurora, Ill.,, having
been imported from the West.
The Edgar Thompson blast furnaces
have closed down, throwing 700 men out
OF work. j. on@f
The public debt decreased about Sc, OOO,.
900 during December.
What is supposed to be a dynamite
bomb was found. in the Burlington depot
in Chicago.
There have been 8. lib miles OF new rail
road track laid in the United States dur.
ing the year.
iVanderbilt's heirs will keep up the fight
and oppose the entrance Of the Baltimore
& Ohio into New York.
A Platteville, Wis, man was resuscitated
days from aconite poisoning.
Murray & Wheeler have erected saw
mill in Elmo, and intend to begin saving ga
soon as there is snow for hauling logs.
There were 3, 3O2 failures in the Western
047, o97, a decrease OF nearly 80 per cent.
( James d. Whitmore & Co., stationers
OF New York, assigned giving preference to
the Whiting Paper company Of Holyoke,
Mass for 1888. e.,# ~ II
The Iron Trade Review says that among
manufacturers througho the country the
prediction is made without exception that
1886 will be q year Of widespread pros
perity. ;s4@. ..s. st@. .ss$ +; r.
The State Teachers association at Des
Moines resolved in favor Of free text books
in schools, to be provided by the school
fund, and against q state school book
printing house. Ill., ] E. III. s5s5s}I }s%.s5
Mrs. Bette Cheek wife of s. Il. Cheek, the
real estate agent who absconded from Gin.
ton, Mo-, q few weeks ago, having forged
deeds OF trust amounting to near $40, 900,
died at Clinton recently. 81 \,
a meeting Of the survivors OF the dread.
full explosion Of the steamer 6nltana in
1865, near Memphis, was held in Fostoria,
Ohio, recently The survivors organized
Tor the purpose OF holding annual reunions.
Army officers direct from the Indian Ter.
ritory report that the boomers and cattle.
| men have been driven from the territory.
IA few cattle still re,nslin on the Gilnmaron
river, but these are not large in liz nlber,
and could not be driven out at this season,
Without great disaster to the cattle. q. .gl
The Chicago journal Of Commerce y &c
levied on, to satisfy q Judgment against
William Baker. manager md publisher,
entered III favor Of & the Metropo li tan
National bank, Tor 81 |, 6O7. 80. air. Bake.
has made al assig to his son. George
b. baker. . neIaber Of the firm Of Abbott
q Johnson. s.|# Z.
Duncan G. Ross and Mn j. Ferguson, had
10 sword ayOnet contest at Sam lranciseo.
Ross was on horse back and had ii sword,
while Ferguson WAS on II nt *ith d bny.
onet. On the ionrt h round the Acore MAS
even. In the fifth round Ross cut Ferg,,.
SOM finger I'd the bone spIi ttins it. Tic
contest was decided I'M Isoes1 favor. NJ
Judge Sidney Smnith 81 Chicaeo Has sent
i latter to shis Id wiser ii the contest
Against Carter Harrison fbf the MAJ oral.
"a, rtualIy abandoning tho contest 81,
the ground that there Swns d reasonable
abilitv u its Get lenentt before al. %
ntion of the term Of Office. rhia III don
will pro bahly hiring the COR test to q close.
J pAtt ieulerly As ma jjority Looks
Elar9s enou8h 10 3 mo- han coyer any
furth tent g. Olsen yered. Isl