Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1891-05-08
1891. NAY. 1891,
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THE WEEKS EVENTS.

News q Importance Given Briof Mon.
tlon.
The news Of the burning Of the ship
yards at Bilbao is confirmed.
The new tariff law relating to the abo.
ltion OF special taxes on tobacco went
into effect Friday.
The United States supreme court has
decided to hear no more oral arguments
during the present term.
The members Of the Confederate Vet
Grams association wear o silver lapel
button, similar in size to the bronze but.
ton Of the g. A. R.
The steamer Japan, Of the Lake Supe-
rior Transit company, the first boat
from the lower lakes, arrived at Wash.
burn, Wis.,, Sunday, with merchandise.
A new amendment to the Maine pro-
hibitory law went into effect Monday
providing for heavy fine and sixty
days imprisonment for single sale Of
liquor.
:, An organization has been perfected
Tor the purpose Of tunneling under the
Detroit river from Detroit to Windsor,
Ont. Tho Michigan Central is backing
the project.
Judgments amounting to $289, 635
were fled in New York against Lehn.
maer q Co., importers, at No. 20 Green
street, In favor of Andrew Neplige &
Co and others.
In the session of the Massachusetts
diocesan convention of the Protestant
Episcopal church, the Rev. Philip
Brooks, D. d., was elected bishop by
vote Of % to 50.
Berlin advices give the significant in.
formation that the kaiser has abandoned
his intended visit to Italy and King
Humbert, and that tho reason is that
Italy is too friendly with France.
The signing of the Austro- German
treaty Of commerce was fastened by the
election Of Prince Bismarck to the
reichstag. The prince, it is well known,
intended to antagonize the measure.
The employees of The Boston Globe
were given dinner by Col. Charles H.
Taylor, the proprietor Of the paper at
the American house. Speeches, songs
and stories made the affair most jolly
one.
A rise in the price Of bread caused
riot in Parma, Italy. Women marched
In procession to the town hall and de-
manded reduction in the price. Many
were arrested before the crowd was
dispersed.
Edward Gedenny and Frank Ingersoll,
who were president and cashier of the
defunct North River bank, New York,
have been arrested, charged with per.
jury in swearing on June IA that there
was $50, 1888 in the treasury of the bank.
Agrsrian outrages are being resumed
tn Ireland, with tho practical disappear.
ance OF the plan Of campaign. The burn.
Ing Of dwelling houses and mutllation
Of cattle are reported with increased
frequency.
Austria proposes to reduce her garri-
sons in Bosnia and HerzoRovina, the
troops in those provinces having sue.
ceeded in destroying the bands CT rob
bern that had their haunts in the noun.
tains and forests Of the Montenegin
frontier.
Mrs. Almira Locke, mother Of David
r. Locke petroleum V. Nasby) who
has been living in poverty and misery
In a small house in Wheeling, W. Va,
has been granted pension on account
Of her first husband having served in
the war of 1912.
The lady managers of the worlds fair
have decided to send Miss Mary r.
Schiller, of Pittsburg, to Colombia.
Venezeula, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and
Brazil to work up interest in a woman's
exhibit at the exposition from each of
those countries.
New York customs officers have seized
for undervaluation 100000 worth Of
dresses made in Paris consigned to the
agent Of = Partisan exporter. It is
learned that this agent has built up a
large business in supplying dressmakers
In the various cities Of America direct.
The committee counting the cash in
the treasury has completed the cash
bond room, redemption division, inter-
est division. sinking fund of the District
Of Columbia. and 81, OOO, 900 of the
$16O, 00O, 900 in the reserve vaults. The
count 20 far shows that everything is
correct.
Switzerland proposes to come into the
commercial arrangement between Rus
sis. II. Hammer and N. Cramer Freyo.
Swiss deputies, are charged by the fed
oral council to represent the confedera-
ton at the conference to take place in
June at Vienna, between Austria, Ger
many and Switzerland:
James McRoberts, aged IS, and Miss
Mary ]. McRoberts, aged Is, brother
and sister, who lived together on their
farm near the village of Kingston, Wis.
died within few hours of each
other. They were Scotch-Irish peo-
pie and have no relatives in this coun-
try, It Is understood. A good farm, i'm
plements, stock, some grain and consid-
cradle ready money are left.