Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-06-25


throughout Burmah, owing TO the aprres.
isiyeness Of the Dacoits. SIS sEs5s !. 90
AT the church OF ST. Martin-in-the. Fields
1London, Miss Coffin, daughter of Com
nlander Coffin, Of the United States steam
5er Quinnebang, who commanded the Alert
in the Greedy relief expedition, was married
to DIR. Frank Anderson, of the United
States navy. ...
line Farls Temps rensserts that the gov
| ernments has given no orders likely to
! cause a belief that France has annexed the
New Hebrides. 1t says that merely tenn.
! porary measures have been taken to pro.
| tect French subjects.
An asylum is being built in France for
| aged opera singers. Nine. Rossini left over
81, 500, 900 for this purpose.
The French senate committee has re.
lected BY a vote OF 6 to 3 all proposal Is for
the expulsion OF the princes.
Honorary degrees were conferred upon
DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes at Cambridge,
England, in the presence OF brilliant as
semblage. There was great cheering when
the public orator, in a laudttory Latin
speech presented the degrees to Dr. Holmes.
Payne, Perrin 4 Menz,e's mattress fac.
tory at Twenty-fourth and Butter streets,
Chicago, was totally destroyed Ly fire. A
| ner OF the building, and finding ape shut
OIL. they had to jump to save themselves
Two were very seriously hurt-Mrs. Vina
Gibson and Jennie O'Hara, fourteen years
old. The girls who were shut off from the
stairway by the flames mum bcred nineteen.
They rushed panic stricken to the windows
and before ladders could be obtained five
OF the girls jumped or were pushed to the
pavement below. In addition to Mrs.
+, 1f
only one other victim Of the Ave is known,
but each was dangerously and one proba-
bly, fatally injured.
A terrible affray has occurred at Bocota,
the capital Of the republic, between the
guard OF the prisons and members OF one
OF the national battalions. One general,
! several officers and thirty soldiers were
killed. The ARRAY was the outcome OF an
old grudge without political Significance,
James Bryce, under foreign secretary, in
the house OF commons, stated that NJ. de
Freycint, the French premier, has tele-
graphed to the governor OF New Caledonia,
asking if the French flag has been hoisted
over the New Hebrides, and ordering that
ii it had, it be pulled down forthwith.
Joseph Hart, the seventeen year-old son
! OF Frank Hart, manager OF the Theatre
Comiqne, New York, accidentally shot and
killed himself while cleaning revolver.
The overseers at Harvard college have at
last amended the rules by striking out the
clause making attendance on religious ex-
ercises compulsory.
Joint resolution was passed by the sem
ate providing that every one in the gov.
eminent employ should have holiday on
May 80 each year.
London Letter: The princess OF Wales
roo Jy fEar oCf h.,, 80 f,,1 r
seen OF late years. There used to be as
handsome women formerly, but have not
seen one so handsome for twenty years.
She has not a wrinkle or sign OF age; her
complexion brilliant. her eyes dazzling, her
lips red, her teeth perfect, her features com.
! manding, her expression that mysterious
thing we call beauty, her smile enchanting.
She was dressed in lilsc, and it became her
! magnificent loneliness. That such wom-
an can be the mo her of a grown-up son is
| preposterous. Her daughters are very
plain. How the prince OF Wales can see
beauty in any one but his wife seems inn
possible. The Princess Christian, whom l
| have met at the house OF a friend, and who
| is the most unaffected, agreeable, cordial
woman. with much bonhomie, stood next
| to the princess OF Wales. She encouraged
| me in my progress past royalty with cor.
dial smile and look Of recognition. She
was in black and scarlet, and looked we'll.
Mr.. Gladstone spoke in Music hall at
Edingburg. The hall which is capable OF
! holding 1000 persons, was filled to it's ut
most capacity. The audience cheered for
| Gladstone and Lord Rosebery and groan-
ed for Mr.. Chamberlain and Lord Hartine.
ton, and other Unionists, but ohm Cowe1l,
chairmen OF Mr.. Gladstone's election con,
| mlttee, who presided over the meeting,
| called ior silence. When he began his
speech Mr.. G'adstone's voice seemed less
powerful than before.
The senate has passed bill directing the
accounting officer OF the treasury to credit
| James NJ Bacon, late lieutenant First Da-
kota cavalry, for the disbursements Of pub.
| lie funds by him as assistant quarterrlas-
| ter for expenses incurred during the North
west Indian expedition in 1854.
Mr.. Ingalls, introduced in the senate a
| bill granting q pension to Elizabeth NJ
Wilson, widow OF w. Wilson, late OF the
! Thirty-tirst Iowa cavalry.
New York World: It ia being whispered
| about by the personal friends OF the lady
| in this city that Mrs. Arthur Bronson, who
to fill the place left vacant by Elizabeth
Barrett in Robert Browning's home and
heart.
| Col. J. w. Strong, of the St. Joseph, Mo-,
Herald, was shot dead by DR.. S. T. Rich.
| mond, an insane dealer in patent medicines,
who afterwards shot himself with effect
| probably fatal.s
| The storage shed of the Standard Oil
company at DEVILS Lake, OAK, with cou.
tents, 100 barrels OF kerosene oil, was
burned. Origin not known. Loss $1,000.
The Himrod Furnace company Of Youngs-
| town, Ohio, is in financial straits, and a
| receiver has been applied for.
New York Times: "How fragrant it all
| is" said George, as they entered the park
| The air is fairly heavy with the scent oil
blossoms dropping from the trees and the
perfumed odors exhaling from flowers and
bush: Nature on every hand is yielding
her choicest aromas. Can you imagine
| anything more delicious, Clara went on
George enthusiastically, than the pines
can equal It'll WHAT Vanilla" inter-
rupted Clara with equal enthusiasm.
CA. King & Co., Toledo, O., have lust
received sixteen hundred reports from grain
d8tlers and millers covering almost every
! important wheat county in the six princi
pal wheat states. Prospects are very
favorable except in Kansas and Michigan
Traitor, Mittif and Devine, three motto
| rious confidence men well known in St
Paul and Minneapolis are captured r
| Milwaukee with an outfit OF professional
tools.
! At San Francisco, fire in the piano
| mandatory and salesrooms OF Antisde
| Co., caused loss to that and adjoining
property Of $3.50, 600; insurance, $3.50,
900.
Michael Kelly, q tramp, has been arrest
! ed at Beams Falls, Pa, on suspicion o.
having murdered James Kincaid OF Ma
honingtown, Pa, last December, and q
young girl near Mansfield, o., in Septem
Der. A colored man named Jasper says
Kelly confessed both murders to him.
l. James r. Chandler, tho president OF the
Farmers National bank at Bushnell IT..
| xhn uas Indicted a vaar a % for cons nirint