Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-10-15

Myron Reid for congress. :;sss 5.t
The Union Furni ture Company' 8 works
at Grand Rapids, Mich, were burned re-
Gently. Loss, $50, 600; insurance, $22,.
Nathan Mosely, colored, seventeen years
old, was hanged at Union Springs, Ala, for
raping an old white pauper woman over
seventy years OF age Nathan confessed
his crime on the gallows. 5@.i + Il. =
. The Northern Pine company's mill at
Washburn, Wis.,, was burned. Tho ma
chfnery and lumber were saved. Loss,
50, 600. a 3*,>.. =. - I. +.
At Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Policeman Joe
Bonner was shot in the face and probably
fatally wounded by q burly tramp he was
trying to arrest. The tramp was arrested.
A Grand Forks, Oak, dispatch says:
Such drought as exists in this part OF che
country was never known before. Cattle
are reported in many places almost dying
for want of water. A great many wells
are entirely dried up, likewise sloughs,
which other seasons held water the year
round. Farmers in some instances are
Obliged to haul water for their stock dis.
tance of eight or nine miles, from Red
river, and what is still more alarming the
Red river is now so low here that it can be
forded at many points with ease.
Contracts for building forty-five miles Of
track from Iron mountain, Wis, to the
Republic mine will be let by the Milwaukee
q Northern road Oct Is.
The internal revenue officers of the NIL.
waukes district have made inquiries about
the extent of trade in oleomargarine,
and it has been found that about 900 re.
tail grocers, twenty wholesale grocers and
twenty-five commission merchants have
been dealing in the article.
The Nebraska Dem ocratic state conven
ton has placed the following ticket in the
field: Governor, James e. North; ieuten.
ant governor. c. B. Bobby; secretary OF
state, Richard Thompson; state treas urer,
j. E. Hale; auditor, Thomas E. Binger; at
torney general, w. l.. Green; land commits.
sioner, Thomas w. Smith; superintendent
OF public instruction, L. A. Cooley.
The following were recently nominated
Tor congress: D. Wiman Labor, 9Th. Mo-;
A. \. Ranney, Republican, Sd Mass; George
W. Davidson, Labor, 9th Mo-; David Will
Der, Republican, oath N. Y; Michael Ratch-
ford. Labor, 10th NO.; Lewis Van Blar-
com, Republican, 4th N. j.; H. A. Wood,
Independent, 5th Ala.
A committee OF the chamber OF deputies
has appointed Vice President De La Forge
and NJ. Spujler to represent the chamber
at the dedication of the Bartho]di Statue
OF Liberty.
Postotice name changed: Dakota: Key
stone, Dickens county, 10 Monango. Post
master commissioned-Minne Fond
du Lac, A. P. Anderson.
A letter was received at the navy depart
ment from Secretary Whitney. in response
to the appeals OF the knights OF Labor and
OF yer labor organizations. and from indi-
vidua]s, asking his interference to secure
the reinstatement of discharged employees
OF the Washington navy yard. He author.
ICES the reply to all such appeals that he
will not himself interfere and will not per.
nit either officials OF the navy depa rtment
to interfere or exercise any influence in the
matter. The responsibility Tor the remov.
ais, retentions and appointments at the
navy yard must be LETT entirely to the otti.
GERS in charge, who are directly responsible
for the work.
Fire at Eagle River, Lincoln county, Wis,
destroyed skating rink, a blacksmith
shop and Wingate's and Dickinson &
Cooks general stores. Total loss, S1O,-
600; insurance, light.
Special kilograms to Bradstreet's, while
recording {. moderate check ON sales OF
some staples, make plain new evidence
OF the exceptionally heavy volume Of bus
mess: The bank clearings now begin to re-
veal the full proportions OF commercial
transactions, with Il very heavy total OF
thirty cities. During the current week the
aggregate clearings are $1,000, 255, 1877
against 5000, SAB, 1913 last week and 1886,
73l, 1875 in the like week OF 1885, showing
gain OF 20.4 per cent. this week and s. ]
per cent. against last year.
The London News says: 4 committee o.
the cabinet is preparing a bill to esta blisf
four national councils to represent the prov.
inces OF Ireland. The bill differs from Mr.
Gladstone bill chiefly in the omission 81
provisions for a legislative body at Dub
lin With this exception the bill fully meets
the asEirati ons of the home rulers in resa I'd
to transferring to local bodies the direction
OF Irish affairs now dealt with at West
minister. The government has secured 10,
this bill the hearty support Of Lord Hart
ington and Mr.. Cham berlain. Mr.. Glad
stone was not consulted in the matter.
Thomas B. Scott. one of the wealthiest
and most widely known lumbermen o
Northern Wisconsin, All ex-state senate,
and "a prominent Republican, died at Mer
rill after d long illness.
Senator Sawyer has made known his de
termination to present Oshkosh q publ.
library and building. The structure will
be entirely fire-proof, and will cost about
100000.
At Butte, Montana. Arthur Bessette, 6
young Canadian, accidentally shot himself
through the body, the ball passing clea,
through. The vic tim is a nephew OF +. x
Girard, prominent citizen of Butte.
Secretary Lamar has sept to the attor
ney general q letter recommending that thu
application OF Matthew 4. Evans that 8
brought in to set aside u patent for the 81
OF sw and s Y of Sc Asection 33, township
13l north, range 3S west, 9Th meridian
Fergus Falls land district, Mimi, alleged
to have been wrongfully issued to tn.
State OF Minnesota, for the benefit Of tn,
st. Paul, Minneapolis IL Manitoba Rail
road company, be denied.
1t ia reported that the Russian govern
ment is preparing note to the powers
which will be the forerunner OF decisive
measures in Bulgaria.
A plot has been discovered to create re
volts throughout the two Bulgarias b,
means OF armed bands engaged by the Rus
sian consula ties at Sofia, Phillippopoli
and Rustchuk. Several of the rinpleader7
have been arrested.
L. F. Bayard, Jr., has entered the JUNO
class at Yale.
The Vienna police have furnished tn
press with an account OF the recently dis
covered anarchist plot to burn Vienna
Although many details are obviously sup
pressed, the plot is shown to have sur
passed in extent and diabolical insenuit
any dynamite plot hitherto concocted
Seventeen of the conspirators have bee
arrested. ~.
The following congressional nomination
have been made: Oliver B. Dickinson
Democrat, 9th Pa; jeremiah Bard, Prohi
b1tlon,st, 9th Pa; 5: Il. McDevit, Demo
GRAFT, 18th Pa; William McAdoo, Demo
crat, 7th n. J.; Nicholas Kane, Democra.
18th n Y.;F. G. Currier, Democrat, lit
Macs; John G. Belden, Republican, At
i KY. as e IT,
John Scott, q prominent ranchman O
the Lower Yellowstone, was shot on til
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