Little Falls transcript., 1886-04-09
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the navy.
Mr.. George Hearst, the new senator from
California, is said to have an income pf
S2,OOOa q day. #.ss
Lieut.. Col. Bartlett, and Lieutenants Z.
w. Jones and A. l.. Smith have been re-
ieved from their present duties and ORDER
ed to join their regiments IN Arizona.
Capt E. e. Wood, Eighth cavalry. re-
Gently promoted, is relieved from duty at
West Point and ordered to Join his new
troop in Southern New Mexico. Ss55S & l1s
A.daughter OF Senator Walthall was con-
firmed aU st. Joseph's church, Washing
ton, a few days ago. ;$-s:~ .,. ss
In connection with the Chinese question,
Pacific coast people are very much dis
| satisfied with The construction ST the com
mittees OF the two houses having charge 81
foreign affairs. The death 81 Senator Mil.
ler OF California left tho slope without, q
representative on the committee, and the
members from that section are not pleased
with the selection of Senator Harrison to
i'll the vacancy instead Of Dolph, STANFORD
orMitchell. - ~. { =
Four years ago John n. Hislop, book
keeper OF Milwaukee, disappeared suddenly
| and mysteriously. His accounts were
found to be all straight, and it was thought
that he had been murdered A few days
| ago his former employers received q letter
| from Hislop, dated Philadelphia, in which
he explained that, after working several
years to perfect a roller mill invention and
borrowing nearly $1,000 from Mayor
Stowell, his invention proved fat failure.
Discouraged by failure and debt, he ran
| away. .,
A German family named seiphle, living
at Guttenburg. Iowa, on the Mississippi,
twenty-five miles above Dubuque, are all
sick with trichinosis, caused by eating ham
and sausage made from pork Of their own
raising. They have been sick several
weeks. One daughter died, and other mem-
bers OF the family are dangerously sick, al
| though it is thought they will recover. A
piece of sausage about as large as a pin
head had seven trinchina parasites. Great
excitement exists among the inhabitants
OF Guttenburg, who are nearly all Germans.
Fire destroys Terre Hautes $40, 900
hominy mill.
gress, says regarding the killing of Capt.
Crawford by Mexican soldiers: The Mexi-
can force was composed of volunteers from
Chihuahua, WHO naturally would not be-
ieve that the Indians with Capt. Crawford
! were friends: for, according to the treaty
which permitted the soldiers OF either re-
public to cross the frontier in pursuit of
hostile Indians, only regular troops were
allowed to cross. The president expresses
regret at the occurrence.
Sir Horace Rumbold, the British minister
to Greece, has been ordered to join with the
other foreign diplomatic representatives
| at Athens in sending to the Greek govern
ment final strong remonstrance against
Greece's warlike attitude.
q. S. Seyton, formerly a stock broker in
New York, was killed in London recently.
He was examining an electric gun OF Ameri-
| can invention which he was about to in
| troduce to the British trade, when it was
fired accidentally. putting bullet through
| his heart and killing him instantly.
William c. Alderman, q guest at the
| Grand Union hotel, New York, attempted
| suicide in his room by swallowinga a dose OF
iaudanum and turning the gas. The
smell of the gas betrayed him to the watch
man, and his room was entered by force.
Alderman was found unconscious in his
! bed: He was taken to Bellevue hospital
still senseless. He halls from Hardin coun-
ty, Iowa. A letter which he had written
to his father indicates that he was in love
| with Luela George, OF Iowa Falls, Iowa,
and that disappointment in this affair led
to the attempt on his life. The letters
were addressed to B. F. Alderman, Ackley
Hardin county, Iowa. The doctors think
Ackerman will recover.
Winnipeg Special: Further develop.
| ments in the Manitobn rebellion fiasco
show that Purvis, secretary OF the Farm
ers' union, had been notified before the
publication OF the insurrectionary letters
| and left the country. Heis now in Oak ota,
and not likely to return. It is quite plain
that the Farmers union and Manitoba
Wrights league were plotting rebellion a
year and hall ago and failed only because
the ringleaders detected that they were
privately exposed to the government.
People denounce the plot but it is plain
that il the railway monopoly continues
other disloyal acts are not far distant, as
the more radical section OF the reform
party is ready to cooperate in any move
ment against the federal party in order to
release Manitoba from the tyranny OF the
eastern provinces.
The St. Clair county Qll:) grand jury re-
turned a second Indictment against I. A.
Canty, city clerk of East St. Louis, and D.
). Canty, county recorder, who were in
dicted for conspiracy. This indictment
charges them with being accessory before
the fact to burglary and larceny in induc-
ing Pat Egan and Lieutenant OF Police
Duffy to rob the safe I'M the city clerks Of
tice, in East St. Louis, over q year ago, and
Tor which Egan and Duffy are now in tho
penitentiary.
T. S.Moore, hardware, at Oakland, Cal.,
failed. Liabilities estimated at $4,000.
New Iowa postmasters: T.. w. Arm
strong, Jameson, Clark county; Isaac 3.
Carson. Kirkviile, Wapello county.
jeff Wilson (colored) was hanged at Lex
ington, Mo-, for the murder of Jennie San
lord, his mistress, in July, 1884.
A Miss Moore at Port Huron, Mich, con-
tn s,o~
father.
Acting Attorney General Goode has re.
turned the bills OF jeff Chandler, Eppa
Hunton and Charles H. Whitman, of spe.
cial counsel to assist in theprosecution of
the suit against the Bell Telephone. COMMA
ry, to the first controller OF tie currency,
with a statement that the amount called
for $1,000 for each is in accordance with
contract regularly executed, and is for
services already rendered. The first con-
troller has already PASSED the bills, and
the compensation agreed on under the
contract is IS, 900 for the firm OF Hunton
& Chandler and So, 900 for Mr.. Whitman,
The bills OF Judge Thurman and Judge
Lowrey, the principal government counsel
In the case, have not been rendered.
H. H. West and Jesse Collins, Liberal
members OF parliament for IPSWICH, Suffolk
county, have been unseated on sustained
charges OF illegal electioneering practices
AS a result Mr.. Collins has resigned his Sec
retaryship OF the local government board
John A. MacMahon a young barrster of
Kingston, Ont, has abscondtd. He is said
to be a ,defaulter in the sum OF $4,000,
having appropriated finds of his clients.
The wife OF Nathan Griffith of Westmin.
ster, Ont, cut her husbands throat. Her
mind was unbalanced by religious excite
ment. -. - -. e.. 4. ,..ss
Secretary Manning had dread of dying
suddenly, and was in the habit of carrying
about his clothes a supply OF cure-alls. =