Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1891-06-19
THE WEEKS EVENTS.
News Of Importance Given Brief Men

News Of importance Given Brief Men
Sir William Gordon Cumming and
his bride will come to the United States
in the fall.
A syndicate of New Workers arc nego-
tiating for the purchase Of The Boston
Journal.
II. C. Cross was elected president and
J. Waldo vice president Of the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas railway:
It was decided at French cabinet
council to ask parliament for grant tc
enable France to take part in the Chi
cago worlds fair.
The steamer Kite, with Lieut.. Perry
Grant and expedition from New York,
is coaling at North Sydney, c. B. All
on board are well.
LIE National announces that NJ. De
Lesseps will be legally prosecuted fol
having mis1ed the French Investors in
the Panama canal project.
Governor Peck, of Wisconsin, has al
least score of invitations to attend
Fourth of July celebrations, but he will
go to Lacrosse on that day.
It has leaked out that the proprietor
of well known wax works and curic
exhibition is trying to get hold Of the
famous baccarat counters. They are
said, however, to be inaccessible.
The French representative at Hayti
has been instructed to inquire and re-
port upon the nationality of the mer-
chant Rigaud, said tss have been muir
dered by order of the Haytien president.
The Rothschilds have received tele-
gram from Arnold White, Baron
| Hirsch's agent at Kief which says that
the reports Of the wholesale emigration
to England of Russian Jews are un-
founded.
Ex-senator ingalls, denies the report
telegraphed from st. Louis that he has
been rendered the chancellorship Of the
Washington university Of st. Louis.
The report was as great surprise to
him as anybody else.
A detailed statement Of the facts in
connection with the smuggled goods
seized on board the United States
steamer Omaha, according to instruc-
tions has been Forwarded to the secre-
tary of the treasury.
Dispatches from Shanghai announce
that fresh attacks are continually being
made upon the Christian missions in the
Interior. In one case troops sent by the
Chinese government to quell the dis
turbances Joined the rioters.
It is reported in Paris that the pro-
posed prosecution of NJ. de Lesseps and
others IS connected with the scheme of
Credit Fonsier syndicate to place the
Panama canal enterprise on such a
basis as will insure the completion of
the work.
The Princess of Wales has started a
subscription among the wives of army
officers for the relief Of Mrs Grimwood,
widow of MIR. F. st. G. 'Grimwood, late
British political agent at Manipur, who
was killed during the recent massacre
at that place.
The kaiser has caused it to be made
known informally in the German army
that any discussion of the Prince of
Wales affairs willAbe treated as grave
indiscretion, if by officers, and as a
cause for severe punishment among
those Of lower rank.
A Constantinop2e dispatch says that
the Sultan has been celebrating with
great eclat the circumcision of his
three youngest sons, 5000 poor children
undergoing the ceremony at the same
time, at the Sultanss expense. The city
has been Illuminated, and rejoicing
generally over the sacred occasion.