Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1891-05-22
THE WEEKS EVENTS.
News Of Importance Given Brief Mon
tim.

The queen is among those who have
daily enquired regarding the condition
Of Mr. Gladstone.
The New Orleans the grand jury has
again indicted John Coon for attempt
ing to bribe jurors.
The czarewitch has so far recovered
from his wound that he has left Japan
from Vladivostock.
The Catholic societies of the State Of
Wisconsin are holding their annual con.
vention at La Crosse.
A. P. Spitz, who suod The Boston
Globe for $100, 900 for libel, was awarded
5000 by Chief Justice Mason.
The resolution appropriating SIS, 900
for the worlds fair was passed by the
Massachusetts, house Of representatives.
Mr.. Gladstone is almost entirely re.
covered, and he will, in all probability,
depart for Hawardin within the next
day or two.
The gross earnings in March of the
Union Pacific railway whole system
were g, 282, 1856, decrease of 1886, ,314;
net earnings, $1,o15,814; decrease Of
$11O, 1894.
By an almost unanimous vote the
convention of the Order of Railway
Conductors, in session at St. Louis, de
cided to join the federation of railway
employees.
The Morgan ship, Ell Sol, Capt. Haw-
thorne, broke the record from New York
to New Orleans, having made the run
from wharf to wharf in days, % hours
and Is minutes.
The freight rate by lake and canal
from Chicago to New York dropped
Wednesday to cents on corn and 4 IL
cents on wheat, full cent below the
record in all previous marine stagnation.
Mrs. Nellie Goodwin has been al
lowed $75 week ali1nony pending the
trial Of her suit for separation from Ac-
tor Nat Goodwin on the ground of de-
sertion. She is allowed $3.50 for counsel
fees.
Mr.. A. G.. Porter, the minister of the
United States, is still in Rome, but is
preparing to spend the summer in the
highlands near Roca di Papa. The
minister has no idea of leaving the
country.
A Constantinople dispatch says that
Russia has addressed communication
to the porte substantially threatening
force unless the Dardenelles shall be
opened to the commerce and to the VOL
unteer feet of Russia.
It is reliably stated that Michigan
lumber firm, owning large tract Of
standing pine in Minnesota and Wiscon-
sin tributary to the Northern Pacific,
will build large saw mill in St. Louis
bay, two miles from Superior.
The commission recently appointed to
settle the dispute arising out Of the un-
defined boundary line between Rosebud
and Pine Ridge agencies in South
Dakota will probably leave Washington
Tuesday for the scene of the investiga-
ton.
Lord Edward Cavendish, youngest
son of the seventh duke of Devonshire,
and member of the house of commons
in the Liberal Union interest, for the
Western division of Derbyshire, has
died, as tho result of an attack of in
f1uenza.
A Paris dispatch says that several
supporters OF the former Haytian, pres
1utut, AcS1t1uos WHO u1S Dee0 oXll0Q In
France since the triumph of Hippolyte.
have left Paris suddenly and mystic
riously, and that their departure is con-
nected in certain circles with the prob
ability of coming change in Hayti.
Turkey refuses absolutely to permit
vessels Of the Russian volunteer feet to
pass the Dardenelles straits, on the
ground that it would be violation of
the regulations governing the passage of
the straits, and agreed to by ali the
leading powers of Europe. The Rus
slams are very much excited over the
matter.
A Madrid dispatch says that large
body of Spanish troops is being massed
at Bakajos, near the Portuguese 'front.'
ier, and that o Spanish squadron is
cruising near Lisbon. The Spanish
government makes no secret of its in
tention to intervene should republic
be declared in Portugal.
A Berlin dispatch says that the re-
ported engagement of marriage between
the Czarewitch and the Princess Helene
of Montenegro created no surprise as
the two families are closely connected.
Such an engagement will greatly
strengthen the claims of the Montene-
grin prince to the sovereignty Of Ssrvik