Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1898-03-11
NEWS con DEN STATIONS:

NEWS CONDENS Stations. .
Z Wednesday. March ..
De LONE was hung il efigy at Troy.
N, B. Y.
The public debt decreased 81, 597, 122
in February. Pc.
A successful test Of the Holland ST.,
marine boat has been made.
A man claiming to represent the
Spanish government is buying horses
in Minnesota.
The property Of the Portland Cor sol
idated Mining company, Black HIS,
has been sold on foreclosure.
Marine insurance men at Sound ports
have decided to advance the rates en-
all vessels bound for Alaska. ... =.sz.
Karditza and Georgii, charged with
the attempted assassination of King
George of Greece, have confessed.
Committees of the American Maize
association, national organization to
boom corn, are at work in Philadel.
phia.
The boilers in Clark & Ackers'
single mill at Wetmore, Mich, ex.
ploded, killing two men and seriously
injuring several others.
Thursday, March ,. :
John Wilde, the actor, is doad.
Kid Mccoy has accepted Joe Choyn.
skis challenge.
The steamship Paris, from Kew York
for Europe, took out 425, 100 ounces of
silver.
Retired Chief Engineer William H.
Rutherford, U. S. n, is dead at Harris.
burg, Pa.
The Russian steamer St. Petersburg
has passed through the Bosphorus with
1850 recruits bound for Vladivostock.
Fifty head of pure bred Hereford cat
tie, sold at Sunny Slope farm, Emporia,
Kan, brought prices averaging over
$500 per head.
George D. Cragin, ex-president of
the New York Produce Exchange and
one of the founders of the packing
business of that city and Chicago, is
dead.
Augustus St. Gaudens has deserted
America for Europe. His studio in
New York, which he has occupied for
IL years, is for rent, and in the future
the famous sculptor will make his home
in Paris or Florence.
Friday, March 4.
The new torpedo boat Talbot, on her
trial trip, developed speed of 70 knots
an hour.
General Weyler declares upon. his
honor as a soldier that he never placed
mines in the harbor at Havana.
The China Gazette says Great Brit
ain will occupy Wei. Hal. Wei in the
event of Japan withdrawing from that
port.
The executive committee of the Re-
publican congressional committee has
been appointed. Mr.. McCleary Of Min
nesota will have charge of the literary
department.
Beginning next Monday the Carpen.
ter steel works at Reading, Pa, will go
on double turn working on projectiles
for the government and employing $50
instead of 225 hands.
Saturday, March 5.
The Missouri penitentiary is now
earning $1,000 per annum above OK.
penses.
The Nicaragua canal commission
feckons the probable cost of the canal
at 800, 900, ooo.-
Argentine Republic will send spe.
cial military commission to Europe to
purchase ornaments in the near future
A concert at New York for the bene-
fit of the widows and orphans Of the
men killed in the Maine Melted about
$4,000.
Ali Ferouck Bey, the newly ap.
pointed Turkish minister to the United
States, has started for his post at
Washington.
Judge John Newton Henren, the last
treasurer of the Southern Confederacy,
is critically ill at his residence near
Stanton, va.
It is announced that the czarina,
who is said to have been suffering from
slight Inflammation of the lungs, fol-
lowing an attack Of measles, is improv-
ing.
Monday, March !.
DIR. Klebs of Chicago is said to have
discovered the cause of yellow fever.
Three members of the Chicago civil
service commission have been indicted.
James H. Carpenter, inventor Of the
Carpenter projectile, is dead at Read
ing, Pa.
The governments February crop re-
port indicates that winter wheat is
progressing very well: -
!. The floating debt of Spain was aug
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