Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-12-03

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Il. 900 hushsls 81 grain and Is, 600 pounds
So E hops. Loss, 81 900; insura nce, 2, 600
At Havensyille, Ky. ", q Young iarn,er
named Rhodes Clements while going
bone from prayer meeting with another
fiarmer named Samuel Gordon, suddenly
bscame insane and killed the litter witt, .
CLUB. Not returning home, a search was
commenced for Clements, and he was found
some distance from the road, situing hes
side the body Of the man he had murdered,
eating his heart. a5 4: PEN z5 ss.s
IS Sir. George Otto Trevelyan has declined
to contest the Brighton district for the
seat in thu house OF commons, vacated
recently by Mr.. Marriott. Il IN
he election for the reetorship OF st. An
drew g university resulted in the choice Of
1T. Hon: y 81. ,Balfonr, secretary OF state
Tor Scotland, who received lO0; votes
against 50 for Sir John Lubbock. n 5,..
The house and barns otStephen Calvary,
I Jr., near Portage, Wis, were burned,
Nothing was saved. Loss. So, 900; partial
~ insured. 9%S5l 81 III N 95 s33
Eben Bacon, a farmer near Janesville.
Wis, killed himself with an overdose 81
morphine. g.: 81. & & 5.'55. as.''.
Washington colored society is agitated
OvoI Gno cAOPeIueHb OF MISS Eranc;d kts0
Cassins Harrison. Miss Francis is the
daughter of the richest negro in the CITY.
add was about to marry George NJ. Sneed.
e. H. Allison, scout and INTERPRETER. de.
clares that Raln-in- the Face il not the In:
dian who killed Custer. Tt.t = @.:%iE3
Thoebe has decided to contest the seat
OF Speaker Carlisle. T. #,.,3<s :.'ll;. 49,. oesr
Senator Sabin has withdrawn his oppo.
sition to the appointment OF DR.. Guernon
a. collector ut the post OF st. Vincent.
Members OF the Grand Army of the Re.
public are making move to induce con-
gross to buy the house In which President
Lincoln died. %yts sssss r.. ~ ~
Two freight trains on the Detroit, Grand
Haven q Milwaukee railway collided at
Lowell, Mich, recently. The loco
motives were telescoped, and Engineer
Price, OF the east,bound train, was killed.
Rev. Miss Anna Shaw is p!ucky woman.
She drew q revolver on q stage driver who
insulted her in the woods in Michigan and
silenced him. EsEaSEa =. r.
A Missouri Pacific passenger train col
lided with O freight train near Greenwood,
Mo. The engines were wrecked, and the
freight engine was hurled upon the forward
ing Elijah .Magofin, postal clerk. F. Il.
Beebe, q clerk, is in dying condition.
At Cleveland, O., Coroner West returned
q verdict in the WHEELER murder case. Mrs.
WHEELER, the murdered woman, was eighty
six years old, and was worth 100000.
Her husband, Benjamin WHEELER, is eighty
one, ana he claims that his estate is still
larger than his wife's. The coroner reach
ed his conclusions alter holding a post
mortem examination on the dead body OF
the murdered woman, and after examining
fourteen witnesses: In summing up he
says: II therefore find that Jane WHEELER
came to her death by being choked to
death by her husband, Benjamin WHEELER"
The Chicago, Milwaukee 4 St. Paul Rail
road company has settled about half Of the
damage claims growing out OF tho disaster
at East Rio. The husband OF Mrs Scherer,
and Mrs. Johns of Winona, MINI. have re-
ceived their money. The amounts given can
not be- ascertained. but the first settlement
was made at the rate OF So, 900 each.
The law provides that the damages in each
case ehall not exceed $4,000. 49, -:
The last ray OF hope for the recovery OF
Hon. William T. Priceaof Black River
Falls, has vanished Tits only now a mat
ter Of how long the rayages Of the disease
can be hold back by medicine. NJ
At the trial OF one OF the Milwaukee gar
den rioters Judge Sloan discharged Henry
Gastel, one Of the prisoners, after hearing
his testimony. Gastel vas one Of the
workmen whom a mob forced to- quit
work. He had worked steadily at his
trade for twelve years without losing
day, but when forced out became grossly
intoxicated, and in this condition was in
duced to Join in the riotous demonstration
at Milwaukee garden. He explained that
his condition was such that he. imagined
himself back in the old fatherland with
the army, and when he saw the police Inn
agined he was fighting the French. Judge
Sloan commented on the evil conse Quences
Of workingmen com polling Others to 20 iu-
to idleness, and allowed the prisoner to-
go. g..
Judge Shiras. of the United States district
court at Dubuque rendered decision
| in the case Of Sheer W. Grass BROTHERS,
| ton with their brewery in Chickasaw
county, the question at issue being thatno
federal question was involved,s The judge
decided that a federal question was in
volved, and that the case would have to
renal in the United States court. ,S
At Appleton, Wis, 4 frame building
owned by G. e. Adkin and occupied Jointly
by Mr.. Baker and Miss Wheeler as a jewel
~ and millinery store, was burned The
loss on the building is covered by 5000 in
surance, and on the jewelry stock by about
YI,ooo. OH 1uo uHltnery tue LOSS ID $1,"
500; insurance, 81 ,275. II .$'%
A committee OF citizens of Helena, Mon.
tana, are getting up q strong memorial to
congress for statehood, and will 60 to
Washington to press the claim. ~
In hia forthcoming annual report Secre-
tary Lamar will, to a great extent, en-.
dorss the recommendations of Commits
sioner Atkins as to the future treatment OF
the Indians. - ~ Ee{f*&sG -. -G2'' ~ i.
It is estimated that this m onth' 3 revenue
from the oleomargarine tax will amount to
$500, 900. III !, r[@s .z.sf 55.44sf
| Miss Mollie Smoot, over whose dismissal
Mr.. Doran had a set-to with Comnais-
sioner OF Patents Montgomery. has been
given q place in the pension office at 81, 900
year. Her. salary in the patent office
was 1900. ~ t.E5 .. 's', &$ g. <
Fourth-class postmasters appointed,
Oak ota: Goodwin, j. II. Clowell; Green
wood, Sarah A. Williams; Leok, z. D.
Kribe. iowa: sperry, j.. M, Sperry .z#as,
I The postoffice at Edgeworth Blue Earth
county, Mimi, will be :consoli ated with
Vernon Center. Postofices established
| Wisconsin: Beatrice, Adama5 county. 4 Or
fees discontinued - inneso to: Edgeworth,
Blue Earth county. s 1859 gss
Col g. N. Liebar, active Judge advocate
general OF the army, in his annual report,
recommends that to commissioned officers,
with certain marrow and we'll defined limits,
be entrusted the power al summary pun
Eishment, such as conferred BY the English
code. s I, 5,s 81. R We S., SS
The lack Of power in 4 court martial to
punish civilian witnesses who refuse to
tsstify ID likely to lead TO IN entire fail
urs 81 iiuatice III some cases. The English
code and the articles OF our navy confer
this power, and its ex tension to army