Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-10-08
Kansas. 70 begin With q capita. q $50,

Kansas. 70 beeln y ith g capital OF $50, -s
8OOO. SIS 1s$ #. s
The president has appointed, Quincy A..
Rso oks collector Of customs for the district
5ofP Puget Sound.
+ The court martial 81 Capt W. 81. John
son, charged with duplicat ting pay accounts,
began at Washington. s 555 Z s 5 s5ss,
Postmasters commissioned: Dakota:
Fort Yates, w. p. Gilbert. Iowa: Cali
siorliia. ]. n. Ward. Minnesota: Frank
Laucamp. VI. ss5 Y. 4 fSs$ u.
Iowa, by taking poison. He lett property
valued at STA, 900. 81. .4.&.= :.
Frank Johnson OF the town of Chetek..
Wis.,, charged with incestuous relation with
his fifteen. year.cl Id daughter, pleaded gull
ty in the circuit court and was sentenced
by Judge Cough to eight years in the PEN
itentiary at Waupun. -. So ,... ~
E. p. Henry, Appointment druggist Of Om-
70, Wis. took q drink OF carbolic acid in
mistake for beef extract and died n terri
BILE agony ten minutes aiterward. He was
thirty five years Of age, aud leaves q vile
and two children. 4s.& 49, En-.
Diplomats at Vienna believe that since
the return OF Count Kalnoky, Austrian
minister for foreign affairs, from Pesth,
Austria's attitude against Russia occupar
ton of Bulgaria is more pronounced. This
is partly accounted for by the belief that
Austria fears that. If Bulgaria is occupied
by Russia King Milan will be deposetl IN
Servia and Servia and Bulgaria will be both
Russianized. This. it il argued. would
cause disorder in Bosnia and probably q
conflict with Montenegro. The state OF
siege in Bulgaria has been raised.
The Massachusettsd democratic state con-
vention was called to order by Hon. P. A.
Collins. John F. Andrew was nc minated
by reclamation for governor. The ticket
was completed as follows: Lieutenant
governor, Frank K. Foster; secretary of
state, John r. Thayer; treasurer, Lewis
Warner; attorney general, John w. Corcor,
an.
The board OF engineers-Gs C. B. Com
stock, Col. O. w. Poe and Capt. J. E. Post
appointed by the government as a COM
mission to examine the Illinois & Michi-
gan canal and the proposed Hennepin ca
of the country met in Rock Island. They
drove to the Rock river and made an ex-
animation as to the course of tho river
from Milan to- it's mouth, for there the
proposed canal is to debouch into the
Mississippi.
The secret of Geronimos surrender
comes out in Gen. Miles report. He prom
Used the barbarian exemption from trial
| in Arizona by the civil authorities. o.
course, such q trial would end Geronimo's
| career OF violence and blood. Miles is
Threatened with trial for assuming too
much authority.
The statement in Gen. Miles official re.
| port OF the Apache campaign. made public
at Washington, that Geronimo was not
| captured, but surrendered c0nditionally,
I 10 fro n nf nH NV % nt >wbn oc
in command of the troops at the time OF
| the capture. In a private telegram to
Lieut.. Albee, OF the Winchester armory,
dated Albuquerque. Capt. Lawton explic-
I lilly denies that the surrender of Geronimo
was coupled with any conditions whatever.
| Higgins, the appointment clerk, is medi-
| tating more discharges from the treasury
roll. In an interview few days ago he
said: Here is q most fragrant case that
came under my notice, showing how pat
ronage is abused. An 81, 800 clerk in the
treasury turns out to be a retired naval
! officer drawing $40 q month in addition to
a pension OF $72. Another case is that of
a chief of a bureau who draws SO, 600 and
his sons and relatives in office who bring
| the total receipts from the government Of
fees they hold up to 50, 1870. Then, too, I
! have discovered cases where husbands and
| wives are borne on the rolls, the woman
under her maiden name, both living togeth-
er under the same roof. All these matters
will be brought to the attention OF the sec.
rotary.
The public debt statement issued shows
| the reduction, Of the public debt during
cash in the treasury $465, 375, 6l3.93.
| r. NJ. johnson, assistant superintendent
| of the railway mail servi-e, has been dis
missed.
Sproule the American convicted OF muir.
der in British Columbia, is respited until
Oct. go.
The defeat of the crack English cutter
! Miranda, off Newport, by the American
sloop Sachem, is disheartening to Britons.
They haven't yet produced a craft which
can beat an American yacht.
A dispatch to the N Y. World tells the
alleged story OF the assassination of EN-.
DRY A. Storrs at Ottawa, ILL.,, a year ago
The story is that Storrs was poisoned by
the gang whose secrets he had gained.
There were 255 failures in the United
States reported to Bradstreet's during the
week ending Sept. 80, against 156 in Che
preceding week.. :,
The store OF A. s. Gage & Co.. of Chicago
was reopened Oct. 1, by the assignees, who,
under the orler of Judge Prendergast, will
conduct the business for, tho benefit Of the
creditors pending settlement OF the at
fairs of the firm. The liabilities are esti
4 mated at $500, 900, and the assets at over
81 100000. 3 .# II *
A defalcation of nearly $50, 900 in the
Union Dime Savings bank OF New ork
city has just come to light. The defaulte,
is Otto Baumann, receiving teller, who has
been in the employ Of the institution FOL
two years and who was implicitly trusted
The official census OF the Sioux Indian.
at Standing Rock agency Oak, taken Sept
80, shows there are ], 236 men, ], 597 WON
en-, 927 boys and 8 48 girls, a total of, Cos
There is . net gain ofeight since July l.,
Rev. VIC. Godfrey, formerly professo,
in MOrrisville college, was expelled from
the Southwestern Missouri district confer
ence Of the Methodist Episcopal church. il
session at Kansas City, for immortality.
w. B. Custer Of Hunter, Oak, slopes with
i 90, 1000 Of the money Of his employer. d
i Follett Of Hastings, whose farm he had
charge Of. Jill ., !. .ts|s>G 4 .5
Gov. Pattison Of Pennsylvania recon-
mends that the companies composing th,
i coalpoolf be prosecuted for violating law BY
restricting the output anti raising the prices
of coal. ,Es = ) s. t..cs " =.
/ For The year ended Oct. l, 1885, Z, SUI
new buildings were constructed in Detroit
Mich, at a. total estimated value OF g.,
IA, 632. This year the totals are /, 20:
and s., Oh, 312, a decrease Of 1903 build
Il ings and $40, $40 in value. 81. s..s.
] Secretary Burwell, OF the Minneapoli.
clearing house, reports the total clearing,
Of the local banks for che first nine month
i Of 1856 at $1O9, 6O3 ,50O.O7. ss
The Central Pacific passenger train went
through trestle bridge 70 miles east .
i Winnipeg Five cars. including mail cal
and four passenger coaches, were badly
wrecked, and afterward completely burnet
by fire, caused By upsetting 81 stoves. III,