Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-03-12
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claims recommended that FL. X. Bedding
be paid $1,566 for carrying mails from
| 1858 to 1862 on the route from Browns.
vile to Carimona. The committee have
also been asked to act promptly on the
claims of Thomas George of Lake Benton
outbreak of 1862. Isaac Slocum OF Blue
Earth county asks for So, AGO for losses in
CURED during the Sioux outbreak in 1857
and for property unlawfully taken from
him by the United States marshal. The
committee on pensions recommends that
9 pension he granted to Mrs. Bridget
Smith, mother OF Patrick j. Smith, Tenth
Minnesota, and John L. Hunter, First
Minnesota mounted rangers. The follow
| ing have made applications for pensions by
special act OF congress: George Chambers,
First Minnesota; Beteey Bartholomew,
widow OF Lament Bartholomew Second
Light artillery, Minnesota volunteers;
Jacob Nix, who wants AN increase of pen
sion. Mr.. Strait has with the military
committee bill providing that in recogni-
ton of the valua BILE services of John Jones,
late captain OF the First Minnesota bat
terry especially in the defense OF Fort
Ridgely when attacked by the Sioux In.
dams in 1862. the president be authorized
to place him on the retired list of the army,
with the rank and pay of a captain.
Congressman Wakefield of Minnesota
has submitted to the committee on post
offices plan to simplify and economic the
| collection and management Of the postal
revenues. He proposes that: The post
master general be directed to select from
| the first and second-class postotfices such
a number as he may deem adequate for the
| purpose, to be designated as Repositories
and depots," for the depositing OF postal
funds and supplying postage stamps to
| other postoftices. He will then arrange the
! postoffces into districts convenient to
said repositories, and they shall there
after deposit all postal funds with and OBJ
tain all supplies from said depots. Post
office supplies are to be furnished by the
department to these repositories only. All
postmasters shall thereafter be paid a fix
ca yearly compensation, and the salaries
OF postmasters Of the fourth class shall
range from $12 to 81 900.
| A German colony has purchased $1,000
acres OF land in Kansas, which will be de-
voted exclusively to grape culture.
remarkable temperance revival is in
progress in Clay county, Indiana. In one
town OF 500 inhabitants 800 have signed
the pledge, including many saloonkeepers.
Four Ursuline nuns left Cleveland recent
~ for work in Montana.
| '. A. Witcher, a we'll known orator and
politician in West Virginia, was lynched for
| wife murder.
The bodies ofColman and Patten, prom
lnent Seattle citizens, assassinated by anti
! chinese agltatOrs, are recovered from Lake
| Washington. W. T.
| The committee on military affairs refuse
TO recommend that branch OF the nation
| al home for disabled volunteers be- located
in Minnesota.
Zach Montgomery of the interior de-
| partment, charges Senator Ingalls, with
grossly Illustrating his sentiments in the
sena tors recent speech.
The senate committee on public lands
will report favorably upon the bill to al
low homestead settlers within railroad
limits who acquired only eighty acres to
take an additional eighty acres adjoining
mains vacant.
sentenced O. G. Schoeneman. to three wears
each, and Julius Ebel, the hired man, for
Tour years. Mrs. Dill the principal offend
! er In this case, is now serving life SEN
| tence in the penitentiary.
| ~. 3. f. Graham, aged thirty five, a
| book-keeper employed by Kirkendale &
Brown at Butte and Helena, Mont, for the
! past two or three years, committed suicide.
| Graham stated to a friend that while in
Helena he was engaged to the young lady
who recently became the wife of Thomas
! Cruse the Helena mining millionaire, and
| That she cast him of on account of Cruses
wealth. It is supposed that disappoint-
ment was the cause OF suicide.
Prince Pascal de Bourboun, brother of
the ex-king of Naples, has just figured in a
| police court, being charged with fraud in
| giving a mortgage for $3.50, 900 upon his
| villa, which he had already mortgaged to
it's full value-$3o 900.
Prince krapotkine, the learned and
famous anarchist recently released from
French prison has decided to make his
home i'll Hampstead England, and ex-
poets to spend there in peace and quietude
the closing years Of his adventurous and
troubled lfe He intends, however, before
resuming his studies to make tour Of
England and America delivering lectures
A strong effort is being made at Ottawa
to repeal that portion OF the Canadian Pa
citic railway charter which refers to the
construction Of branch lines south to the
central boundary line.
In Vienna Capt. Gerstel of the Austrian
army, was tried by court martial for a
slight ofense and convicted. A light sen.
tence was imposed upon him. He heard
the sentence with composure, and bowed
respectfully to the court, then drawing
revolver and placing it to his head fired
| two shots, and fell dead.
| Ex-Collectors Arthur and Robertson, Of
| the port OF New York are to be sued for
| technical shortages.
| An earthquake shakes up Cosenza, Italy,
| with fatal results.
| The German government unearths q con-
spiracy to sell the plans OF German fortif-
cations to France
| Mr.. Gladstone is steadily effacing the
factional Liberal opposition to his Irish
remedial programme, in which land pnr-
chase bill stands first.
The name Of the man who fired off his
pistol in the Paris boursei is not Petrovich,
but Gallot. Formerly he was q chemists
assistant, and a frequent speaker at pub
lie meetings. In 1879 GalIOt was convict
ed OF coming and circulating counterfeit
money. The police examined Gallot's
apartments and found materials for the
manufacture OF explosives, and a number
OF bombs. The authorities are convinced
that Cabot belongs to an organization of
conspirators and are endeavoring to find
his accomplices.
An earthquake has occurred at the city
OF Cosenza, Southern Italy. A number OF
houses were thrown down. one person kill
I ed a nd several wounded
In new text book which has been order
ed by France to be used in all the French
schools, there is a paragraph which teaches
that if every French y youth does his duty the
republic-will some day be strong enough
to regain Alsace-Lorraine.
Frank Humphreys OF Mill Grove, Ca, is
arrested, charged with numbering Miss
Rains and Miss Humphreys. his sister-in-
law, and outraging Miss Humphreys
Alexander Stewart, the Vermont farmer
who claims to be an heir OF the dead mill.
ionaire of the same name, has filed a COM
plant in equity in the United States court
against Judge Hilton to recover 5000, 900.
Stewart had been adiudged a lunatic in his