Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-12-10


lillian =. Newton, Of the District al
Columbia, 5 clerk il the dead letter once
q the posto ffice department, as rem owed.
/ Mr. New ton has been in the service az the
departm ant since July 4, 1866, and has
become incapaeitated from old age to per-
form clerical duty, @5..
The directors Of the Canal National
bank OF Portland, Me-, authorize thestate.
ment that Howard Blackstone, discount
clerk, has embezzled funds Of the bank to
amount OF $25, 900 and absconded.
An ordinance has been introduced in the
Chicago common council increasing saloon
licenses from $500 to $1,000, and compel.
hing merchants, ETC., to lake out licenses. E
General Master Workman Powderly has
ISSUED q circular levying an assessment oil
twenty-five cents on each knight of Labor
Tor the aid Of members made needy by lock.
outs 1~5 Il s*". '"2;&. ,f-.I.:, :. :,
A collision occurred on the Milwaukee
road one mile east OF Parker Oak, be-
tween a mixed passenger tEain from the
east and a freight from the vest. A snow
storm was in progress, and when the en-.
glneer OF the freight saw the light of the
passenger train he thought it was at a
farmers house until the engines were almost
together. He and his fireman jumped in
time to save their lives, but the passenger
engineer and fireman, David Blackwood
and Charles Gust, were caught in the
wreck and horribly crushed. Blackwood
died instantly, but Gust fingered Il few
hours. Blackwood was: q member Of Hen.
nepin commandry, Minneapolis.
A new dam which had just been finished
at Langley cotton mills, OIL the Charlo tie,
Columbia & Augusta railroad, S. c., gave
way, and is almost a complete wreck. The
water rushed through in food from the
pond, swept away half mile OF the track
OF the Columbia & Augusta railway and
badly damaged the tracks of the South
Carolina railway. All the new and expen.
sive work recently completed by the form
er road is totally ruined. The accident is
ascribed to violent shock ,of earthquake.
The waters flooded all the adjacent coun-
try and did much damage.
President Fitzgerald, of the Irish Nation.
al League OF America, makes an appeal for
funds to aid in the fig ht against coercion.
George PAR, lumber manufacturer and
merchant OF Barron, Wis, makes an as
Segment.
Gen. Roger A. Pryor has just realized
500, 900 by: an advance in some railroad
securities.
According to the Railroad Gazette there
was a total OF 118 train accidents during
October, in which 4S persons werekilled
and LOG hurt. As compared with October
1885, there was a decrease OF 5 accidents
an increase OF II killed and a decrease OF
% injured. The ten months of the cur
rent year to the end of October show a. to-
tai OF 966 accidents, 334 killed and 1, 1913
hurt; q monthly average OF 81 accidents,
33 killed and 100 injured.
The president has made the following
appointments: Edward Gushing, to be
collector OF customs for the district OF Bel
OF customs for the district of Waldorf
ough, Me-. Philip w. Downes, to be gener-
al appraiser OF merchandise for the port OF
Baltimore, Md; William N. Neal, oil Frank
lin, Md, to be agent for the Indians OF the
Lemhi agency i'll Idaho.
The London Standard says it is serious
~ proposed at Sofia to nominate an Amer.
lean as candidate for the Bulgarian
throne.
The Berlin police have prescribed the
first number Of the anarchist periodical
Autonomie.
The total vote for congressman, in Col
orado, as given by the state canvassing
board is: Symes, Republican, 27,732;
Reed, Democrat, 26, 929; Murray, Prohibit
ZIONIST, 1897. Symes' plurality SOB, as
against 6,726 two years ago. The vote of
the state was 1898 less than in "a
The secretary Of the interior has decided
that Frank A. Bidwell, OF Mitchell, Dak.
OAK, will be no longer recognized as at.
torneys or agents before the interior de.
partment or at any bureau or Office con-
nected Herewith.
A bill filed in the probate court in Chica.
oe oS1ro for fn1p for fho tofo ~
Miss Petrinella johnson in order to pre-.
vent her from giving her property to tho
Salvation army and lea wing herself penni-
less.
Stephen w. Rawson, a Chicago banker,
is suing his wife for divorce on the ground
Of adultry.
At Providence, r. l., "Doc" Wilson de.
clares that he is the son OF Millionaire
Moen.
The following Dakota post,nasters were
recently appointed: John Boom, Mercer
county; James G. Webb, Pembina, Penn
bina county, vice Edmund K. Cavier, re-
moved; Charles H. Morse, Winfield, Lake
county, vice Charles A. Dewell, removed.
The friends of Senator Jones OF Nevada
are the most jubilant men in Washington.
"He hasgot all his old fortune back" said
Congressman Page Of California. "He tel
egraphed that he had made "a clean 81, OOO,-
900, and has made most OF it in one day.
They have found immense new deposits of
ore in the Virginia consolidated, and the
stock went kiting from IS to 80 Jones
has got all his old pile back again."
Commissioner SPARKS asked for the dis
barment of James Vennum OF Jamestown,
Dak., and Frank Bidwell OF Mitchell, Oak.
Both parties were given sixty days to de-
e., n +1oo H.
against them.
Chief Justice Wait was seventy years old
on the 29th, having been on the supreme
court bench continuously since 1874. He
becomes eligible now for retirement upon
q pension OF $4,000 a year. The chief
justice has no thought as yet OF throwing
of lis silken gown and retiring to q life Of
ease and comfort. Three other justices OF
the supreme court-Miller, Field and Brad
ley-are now eligible for retirement with
full pay, as they are past seventy years Of
age and had seats upon the supreme bench
or more than ten years. Each of these
enjoys excellent healt, though Justice Brad
ley looks rather delicate, and is often
mentioned as the frst Justice likely to
resign.
The president appointed Rudolph Guy
ehardt OF Washington Territory to be re-
ceiver OF public moneys. at Walla Walla,
Wash.
The president issued proclamation
promulgating the extradition treaty with
Japan, which was ratified after being
amended by the senate last June.
In the circuit court in Milwaukee the
jury in the. case OF S. J: Woodward
against the West Side Roilroad company
returned q verdict for the defendant. The
suit was brought to recover $40, 900 dam.
ages for injuries received while attempting
to board q street car on Grand avenue.
The wife OF Lieut.. Frank B. Andrews and
daughter Of Maj. William H. Powell, U. s.
A., died ct Boise City, Idaho. -.
At the First Congregational church,
Kansas City, there was married to Charles
e. Nixon, OF the Chicago Inter Ocean, and
Miss Edna Mann, daughter OF James A.
Mann, business manager Of the Kansas
CITY journal. &EH a@'S - y r.