Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-07-17

advance the interests OF the silver
mine uw le"s. His last paper says:
"A rO,lsing meeting OF bimetallists'
was held in Motley last Monday
evening. The meeting was held in
the roller rink, and the spacious
building was completely filed with
people, some III whom had come
from twelve to seventeen mites to
hear the silver question discussed.
The meeting was addressed bv A. l..
Cole, of Motley, and II. &. Stivers, of
Bruincrd, and lasted until 1l:30
O'Clock. At the close IF the meeting
a call was made for names Tor the
organization Of Il gold and silver
club. Owing to the lntrnr>s Di the
hour and the crowd around thr table
where the names were being signed,
many went away promising to sign
the roll later. but over forty legal
vO 'CrS signed !hr roll at once, and
Mr.. Cole was OF the opinion that the
membership Oi the Motley gul,! and
silver CLUB would easily 80 up to
more than uur hunU.VS! names.
Those who were IN attendance from
ncinhboring townships reported the
free silver coinage sentiment as
sweeping every thing in their lnunll-
ties. \ gold and silver club will tie
organized, ut Rail Prairie, Morrison
county, next Saturday eXcninG, July
II. The meeting will be addressed
by MrSSrs. Cole and Stivrrs. 1t il
expected, from reports received from
that locality, that nearly the entire
voting population will Join the cluh.'
ROyaltun Banner: The ease ON
trial before Judge Dragoo yesterday
attracted Il large crowd. }. ID.
Logan was on the rack for assault
ing G. W. Bouck with Il hoe. At
turnry Rhodes conducted the
prosecution and II. :. Clark the
defense. In opening the case At
tOrney Clark stntcu that Mr.. Logan,
in "trnnsnc,ng the usual nvocntion
OF his business, that of street com
missioner, was intcrfc"ed with 10y
Mr.. Buuck, and If there was an as
sault committed by the defendant it
was unavoidable under the cirrun-
stances. The prosecution cOntnh'i
| that only in self '!ricnsc WAS an
assault cxcusablr ana as self defense
| was not claimed nor could brprOvcu
the defendant must suffer. The
iusticr took the ease under advise
mcnt TIL today, and discharged The
prisoner.
!
ROyultOn Banner: steve Jackson
will smoke a. muci, as he ever did,
but it is safe to say when he again
lights his pipe on Il load Of nnE he
ill exercise more care than he did
last Monday. II" and his son,
| Robert, had been up in the nlcodOWs
hnyiny, ana were returning hom" on
n load ri hay. Mr.. Jackson struck
u match to light his pipe. and in
doing so Il piece OF burning match
fell into the hay and set the load ON
fire. They tried to put tue fire o'rt,
!! but 1t soon got beyond co,.troi an"'
they were Obliged to get off the 'of'a'
in Il hurry and turn their attention
to saving the horses, which hey sue
crrdcd in doing. The hay rack was
entirely consumed. When the fire
reached the wagon they succeeded
with long poles in tipping the
rack and burning hay off, thus saving
the wagon, which, however. was
somewhat charred.
A strange man, showing strong
signs of insanity. was taken into
custody at KOynltOn Sunday, and
was brought to this city and placed
in the county Jail 10y Constable ROl-
Ter. The unfortunate man is
apparently quite young, and at
intervals talks quite nationally. He
said his name was Stephen Olson.
and claimed to have recently came
from Hayward, Wis. He claims to
have u brother at Hayward and
another at East Grand Forks. He
grew violent while being handled
yesterday and Constable Roller put
the handouts on him. Owing to
the absence of Sheriff Rider, who is
in the southern part OF the state.
on business connected with the
arrest Of O. D. Ellis, the horse
thief, OIson's examination was
postponed until tomorrow. He
is now in the county jail and it IS
prObuble that he will be adjudged
insane and sent to the Fergus Falls
asylum.
The O'Malleys gave an extra
entertainment at the Gross opera
house Sunday evening and left on
the midnight train for Aitkin, where
they will play all this week. They