Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-03-20
MINOR ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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An inmate of the Cleveland poor.
house has fallen heir to $3.50, 900.
The Minnesota grand lodge. A. o. U
W., meets in St. Paul March "a.
" The new Salvation Army takes the
name of Goods American Volunteers. I"
" Standard oil company drillers struck
q good flow Of oil near Brownson, Kan.
Nicaraguan rebels were defeated by
the government troops in hard battle.
Prairie fires in Beaver county, o. T.,
have done great damage to the range.
The Chinese government has pur.
chased $4,000 Bayarian rifles for 81
apiece.
Nearly all the Republican delegates
in Wisconsin are instructed for Nc
Kinley.
Every one of the Chicago.St. Paul
roads has come to time on the G. A. r..
business. ="
Fast mail service from St. Louis to
the the East has been established by
the Wabash. :- 70. -.' :. .
The Northwestern road will build
nearly 100 miles of branch lines in Wis
oonsln this season.
Linton, tho A. p. A. congressman
from Michigan, refuses to fight . duel
with Patrick Phelan.
Sound money delegates have been
chosen at Republican conventions in
eight South Dakota counties.
Thomas O'Brien, the American
"bunco king" has been given life
sentence in France for murder.
The secretary Of the interior holds
that the present boundary lines Of the
Red Lake reservation are correct.
Austria agrees to help Germany
with an army should the latter coun-
try be attacked by France or Russia
The strike Of 1850 joiners at Berlin
has ended. The workmen have oh.
tanned higher pay and shorter hours.
Prince Bismarck has consented to
receive on his birthday, April l, big
torchllght procession from Hamburg.
The 10th birthday Of Herr Lieb-
knecht will be celebrated on March %
by the Socialists throughout Germany.
It is announced that Professor Koch
will shortly publish his latest discov.
cries in the treatment Of consumption.
A formal indictment for breach of
the law of associ atoms has been found
against Herr Kurer and AZ other Social
ist leaders.
The Merritts Won in suit brought
against them at Duluth, and the plain
tiff was Immediately arrested on the
charge of fraud.
Employees of the Great Northern at
Butte are said to be dissatisfied with the
revision of the schedule which has just
gone into effect.
At Seneca Falls, N. Y, Miss Mary
Mansen was shot by Thomas Pelkiton,
a farm hand. Pelkiton Immediately
took his own life.
Court at Cincinnati adjudged Father
Dominick O'Grady insane, and he was
committed to Longview asylum. He is
not expected to live long.
The French minister Of agriculture,
M. Viger, has issued a decree that i'm.
ported cattle need not be killed on
landing. They will, however, be spe.
cially tested for tuberculosis.
Robert Conover and James Reef of
Pasadena, CAL, were killed by man
named Nicholson, % miles south of
Twenty. Nine Palms. The killing was
caused by dispute over mining prop.
erty.
1t is stated by one of the attorneys
for the attaching creditors of the Butte
and Boston Mining company that the
property would undoubtedly be sold tt
satisfy the bonds and attachments, and
that there would not be cent for the
stockholders.
It is stated Roentgen's rays expert
ment with Emperor Williams arm has
revealed the nature of the malforma'
ton. Eminent surgeons are reported
to have expressed the belief that sim
pie operation will restore the partial, il
not complete. use of the arm and hand
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