Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1898-03-18
NEWS CONVERSATIONS,
Wednesday. March 8.

Wednesday. March 8.
! Mrs. Robert >Mantell, known on the
eage as Charlotte Behrens, is dead.
| DR.. Daniel w. King, who fought in
| the Blackhawk war of 1882, is dead at
Racine, Wis, aged 81.
General Rosecrans is somewhat i'm
proved, but his physicians hold out lit
tie hope for his recovery.
The president has nominated William
J. Calhoun of Illinois to be an inter-
state commerce commissioner.
Sixteen-year-old Sadie Storer is in
jail at Huntsville, Ark, charged with
the murder Of her father. prominent
farmer.
The budget committee of the German
reichstag unanimously passed the en-.
tire shipbuilding programme included
in the estimates for 1898.
Andrew S. Draper, president Of the
University of Illinois, recently elected
superintendent of the schools of
Greater New York, has declined the
offer.
| Thursday, March 10.
Senior Polo y Bernabc, the new Span.
ish minister to the United States, has
arrived.
The senate committee on interstate
commerce recommends changes IN rules,
but none in the law.
John Wanamaker has decided, to be-
come the candidate Of the Business
Mems Republican league LOT governor
of Pennsylvania.
Senator Chandler has introduced a
resolution giving the senate committee
ample authority and funds in order to
investigate the Maine disaster.
Austria is said to have loaned Spain
$40, 00O, 900 because of the close relation
ship Of the EN- peror and queen. No
more money will be forthcoming.
Passengers on the steamer Humboldt
from Dyea and Skaguay, bring the
news that on the night of March fire
occurred in Dyea in which it is thought
five persons persisted.
It is officially announced that the Do.
minion government will at once sup
plant the mounted police now in the
Yukon territory by portion of the per-
manent military force of the Dominion.
Friday, March IL.
The dowager countess of Elgin,
mother of the viceroy of India, is dead.
The report Of an uprising at Bolinio,
near Manila, Philippine islands, has
been confirmed officially.
| Colonel Vanderbilt Allen, grandson
of Commodore Vanderbilt, died March
6 at Capri, Italy, aged SO years.
The nomination of T. G Mccoy to be
Indian agent at the Cheyenne river
agency, 8. D., has been confirmed.
The monitor Miantonomah and the
ram Kata hdin, have been placed in
commission at the League Island navy
yard.
The senate has confirmed the nom-
ination Of William J. Calhoun of Hi.
nois, to be interstate commerce commi-
sioner.
Prince Albert of Belgium has arrived
at Washington. He was entertained
at dinner by President and Mrs. Nc.
Kinley.
Saturday, March IT,
Further reinforcements of troops
have sailed from Santander for Cuba.
A counterfeiting plant has been dis
covered within the walls of the state
prison at Folsom, Cal.
Arthur Sherburne Hardy, United
states minister to Persia, was married
at Athens, Greece, to Miss Grace AS.
pinwall Bowen Of Brooklyn, N. Y.
| Despondent because she thought her
husband had been taken from her, Mrs.
John S. Boyd, daughter-in-law Of Mil
lionaire Francis Boyd of Milwaukee, at.
tempted suicide at Chicago.
It is reported that James G. Blaine,
son of the late James G. Blaine, is On.
gagged to be married to Miss Kuhne
Beveridge, who has achieved reputa.
ton as sculptor and is now in Paris.
It is stated that the governors of
Wyoming, Montana and Utah have
agreed to work together for the exter.
mination of the Hole-in-the. Wall gang
Of outlaws led by the Jones brothers,
Of Belle Fourche bank robbery fame.
Monday, March IA.
Edna Wallace Hopper has sued De
Wolf Hopper for divorce.
Floods have done considerable dam.
age in the lower section of London, Ont.
In fire in the Bowery Mission lodg-
! ing house in New York II persons per.
ished.
The lower Mississippi river steamer
Grand Republic burned near st. Louis
Loss, CSC. 900.
Japan's premier says his country
cannot sell cruisers to the United
States, because she needs them herself.
Charles O. Skeer, the millionaire coal
operator and an ex-director of the
Lehigh Valley railroad, is dead at
Iauch Chunk, Pa.
The domestic troubles of the Duke
and Duchess Of Hesse have eliminated
in the separation Of the couple. The
duchess is a daughter of tho Duke of
Edinburgh.
Tuesday, March IS.
France, it is said, intends to occupy