Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1891-08-14

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Letter carriers Of the. Urited States
are in session at Detroit. S /,
4Ted Pritchard has agreed to fight Bob
Ntzsimmons in America. /.
: In Kentucky tho Farmers Alliance
have majority In the legislature. The
Democrats have the state offices.
. Dillon is to be the leader of the Irish
party when the British parliament reas.
eemblee.
The three harnesses Horvath, sisters,
were drowned while bathing In the river
at Madaras, Hungary.
At Pawnee Ford, In Kansas, two men
who had stolen ffty.five head Of horses,
were recaptured and the animals recoy-
cred.
The famous Tokay vineyards In the
Hegyal1a district, Hungary, have been
ravaged by phylloxera and almost en-
tirely destroyed. :
Seven leading Pittsburg daily papers,
The Dispatch, Commercial:G Gaze,te'
Times. Chronicle, Telegrah, and Leader.
and The Press, have all pronounced for
Blaine
Mrs LEILA Robinson sawtelle, an au-
thoress and member of the Massachu-
setts bar, died at Amherst, N. H., from
an overdose Of medicine taken inadver-
tsntly.
A passenger train on the Grand Rap
ids and Indiana railway was derailed by
train wreckers near Kalamazoo, Mich.
One man was killed and fifteen badly
injured.
William Green, aged l1s years and 0
months, is dead at Joliet, Ills. De-
ceased was born in Ireland, and up to
the last retained his mind. He had been
blind several years.
A party Of government scientists
have arrived in Texas to make experi-
ments as to the practicability of pro-
duciDg rain by firing explosives in the
upper strata Of the air.
A New Orleans dispatch says the
Olympic club has decided to give
$4,000 purse for 9 fight between Bob
Fitzsimmons and Ted Pritchard and to
allow the latter $500 for expenses.
Judge Ogden Hoffman, died at San
Francisco Of paralysis of the heart He
had been i'll for long time. Judge
Hoffman had been United States
judge for over forty years, longer than
any. other United States judge in tho
country.
Commissioner Carter, of the general
land Office decided the case of the town.
site settlers Of West Guthrie, O. r..
against Mark S. Cohn and fourteen
other agricultural claimants. Tho COM
missioner decides in favor Of the town
site settlers.
>" Edward Langworthy, one of the very
first settlers of DubuSue, has lust cele-
brated his SD birthday. Among the
presents received by him was a Check
for es5. 90, the amount Of bill sold q
was In business.
The large immigration to America is
causing a dearth Of labor and conse-
Queat Hse Of wages tp some parts of
Southern Italy. The crime statistics Of
Calabraa was never more satisfactory,
the large majority Of dangerous char
acters having emigrated.
Proctor Knott, the we'll known race
horse, diod in his stall at Horse Haven,
Saratoga. His name and fame were
knoWn to turfmen all over the country.
he cost his owner $425 as a yearling and
won for him pore than 500, 900 In the
three seasons that he raced.
While Samuel G. Williams, manager
Of the Union News company, in St.
Louis, was unpack1ng q box Of pears
which he had received from Southern
Texas, a tarantula leaped from the boz
and fastened it's fangs In the end of tho
middle finger Of tie right hand. His
life is despaired of.
The Diario de Centro America. printed
in Guatamala. claims that the family of
tho unfortunate Geperal Barrun1ia,
who was killed aboard Of a Pacific Mail
Guatemala by soldiers, has won their
their claim against the United States
and will be paid $4,000 indemnifca-
tiOn.