Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1891-04-10
THE WEEKS EVENTS.
Ssws Of Importance Given Brief Mem

NoWS OF Importance Given Hrle1 men.
ton.
May is Arbor day in Minnesota.
The cruiser San Francisco has sailed
for Chilli.
! Small pox has broken out at the Chi
cago home for aged people.
Russian emissaries are charged with
folnentinG trouble in Norway.
| There is poorly concealed opinion in
, Berlin that the halser Is little OF his
mental balance.
In the Minnesota lumber districts
there is prophecy Of higher prices for
logs than last season.
! It is believed that the Marquis Of
Lon ne will be the f.st governor gene" al
: of Australia under the new consultation.
The outlook for a crop all through
the Northwest has not been as good in a
, long time, as the land is in excellent
condition.
Navigation may now be said to be
fairly open at Toronto, the schooner
/ Queen Of the Lakes having arrived from
Charlotte.
Zanzibar advices state that Emin
! Pasha is about to locate himself in =
! new province away to the south Of the
Albert Nyanza.
Whitman & Keith's big shoe factory
! at Brockton, Mass, was burned. The
! loss is heavy but the exact amount is
, not yet known.
! Official reports from seventeen towns
IN the grain district of Eastern Wash
ington indicate largely increased
acreage over that of last year.
The Wisconsin senate has sustained
the veto of the governor Of the bill APP
propriating $50, 500 to the Waupaca vet
Grams home by vote of II to II.
1t has just leaked out that fourteen Of
twenty soldiers imprisoned in the guard
house at Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis,
Mo-, escaped Sunday night and de-
serted.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry NJ. Stanley and
Mrs. Stanley's mother, Mrs. Remnant,
, have returned to New York from their
! southern trip. They will sail for Eng
land on the 18th.
The registration books indicate that
there are 100 moro voters in Superior
than last fall. The total registration is
1900 and is double the total registra-
ton Of one year ago.
The British government is urged to
declare Zanzibar free port. The Ger
mans on the coast are getting away all
the trade from Zanzibar, and the place
has already begun to show signs Of
decay.
! Among other requests in the will of
the late Rev. Frederick rockingham,
is $4,000 to the Harvard university.
Cambridge, to found an ecclesiastical
history professorship in the theological
, school.
! The reported threatened catastrophe
to tunnel on the Kansas City's line
| near Galena, Ill.,, on account of the
heavy rains is denied. Local officials Of
the road there say their tunnel Is IL no
way threatened.
! Last fall the Red River Valley Luth-
eran association located its college at
Crookston, Mimi, condition. ID on the
city raising certain amount of bonus
by April /. This bonus has not been
guaranteed. The committee is in
CrooEston. Fargo will probably get the
; institution.
At the Cork assizes John Foley was
sentenced to seven years penal servi-
, tude for his having dynamite in his pos
session during the the troubles at
Tipperary. Moynighan and REDEEM
! were sentenced to ten years imp'ison-
ment each and Flynn and Kelliker to
seven years each for moonlghting.
Secretary Foster has received so many
complaints about the inferior quality Of
the distinctive paper upon which gov.
eminent money bonds and securities
are printed, that he has decided to sec ii
/ it cannot be improved, and has ap.
pointed committee Of experts to in
| quire into the matter.