Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1898-12-16
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Con DEN SATION
rs rs "Wednesday, Dec.
The Farmers attiional COM ress is IA
session at Fort w orth, Tex.
Four men were killed by the explosion
Of d mine in Boston harbor. .s.s
. The emperor Of Germany ind orses the
cars disarmament suggestion.
y Princess Frederick Of Wurtelnbu
mother Of William II, king of Wurtunl,,,-.
burg, is dead N II. .z.f II s>s@s
Thereis said now to beIa good pros.
pect Of the Thirteenth Minnesota regi-:
ment being ordered home from Manila.
p Superint Andrews Of the Chi
cago public schools has withdrawn his
resignation, the board ceasing to oppose
him. All u. ..s TX i lz.s4 y. I.
. The Rev. DR.. John Henry Barrows,
former pastor Of the First Presbyterian
church, Chicago, has accepted the presi-
dency Of Oberlin university - +.
General Parade, president Of the.
Spanish evacuation commission, and
General Valderama, with 1900 Spanish
troops, sailed during the afternoon for
Spain on the Vera. >
-, Thursday, Dec. 8.
The amount realized from the sale of
captured vessels and cargoes condemned
as prizes is $701, 814. ~
General Lord Kitchener of Khartoum,
sirdar Of the Egyptian forces, has started
on his return to the Soudan.
The president and members of his
family will attend the peace jubilee ex-
ercises at Atlanta, Ca, leaving WASH
ington Tuesday, Dec. 10. -
The hat factory of John w. Green &
Co. at Danbury, Conn.,, has been de-
stroyed by fire. Four hundred men are
thrown out Of employment.
The first cargo to reach Philadelphia
from Spanish port since the outbreak
of the war with Spain came in Wednes-
day on the Norwegian steamer Kings
wood from Barcelona. r =
The official visit Of General Wade, as
VI Vic SuDCA cFdCudt1Ou COl1.
mission, to Captain General Castellanos
was marked by g. great display Of official
and military courtesy and honors.
Friday, Dec. 8.
General GARCIA is seriously i'll of
pneum onia in Washington. >'.
The peace treaty has been completed.
It contains little outside the protocol.
The First North. Carolina and the Sec
ond Illinois regiments have left for
Cuba. -. ?" 2
A gratifying improvement is shown
in the health reports received from, the
army in Cuba and Porto Rico. 81. L:
Judge Seaman, in the United States
district court at Milwaukee,, upholds
the federal bankrupt law and declares
in an opinion just filed that it divests
abe state courts entirely Of jurisdiction
in insolvency cases. -
The French court of cessation has or
dered stay of proceedings in thesPic-
quart courtmartial. The anti-Dreyfus
papers are very angry over the decision
of the court, which they describe as an
other insult to the army. :. 49, ~. !.
Saturday, Dec. 10. ~; ss4S 4, i: q 81 4s
F. The Nicaragua canal bill is nowsun-
finished business in the senate. Z IS < S..
Bedford, Pa, with a population Of
1850, has 200 cases Of smallpox. -
M. Henri Laveden, the author, has
been elected a member Of the French
academy:
The urgent deficiency bill passed the
house without opposition. It was feared
it would be made the occasion of a war
debate. -.
The Rev. DR.. Stuart Dodge has been
appointed president of the home mis-
sions board of the Presbyterian church
to succeed the late DR.. John Hall.
The archbishop Of Santiago preached
a remarkable sermon at the fete of the
Purisima Conception. He called upon
all Cubans to rejoice upon the termina
ton Of 400 years Of cruelty, extortion
and misery, and to show their gratitude
to the United States for the happy con
0UlA1ACClO11 1AC C1AoO " dl1Aly OulOSAACu
General Wood. ,..z
.:F Monday, Dec. IL.
g.. William Black, the novelist, is dead.
valuable copper deposit has been
found in the Black Hills. S''5: ~ &@
49, There is some tsslk of postponing the
Paris worlds fair for a year. w.. r. -
A movement for the purchase of street
railway lines by the city has been started
in Chicago. ss gg# H.. I
Sir Thomas Upington, premier Of Cape
Colony from 1884 to 1888, is dead Z ct
Cape Town |s S@8 ~s3.,
The pope has decided that the Span
ish policy of the vatican shall be anti
Carlist and not neutral. <#S
Samuel Mckee, * member of con-
gress and one Of Kentucky s most prom
inent Republicans, is dead at Louisville
of paralysis. i H. rs
: The Turney & Jones company and
Pennsyl vania and Ohio Fuel company
will be organized and taken out of the
hands Of the receivers. S -s@.
Tuesday, Dec. IS. Is.
SMALLPOX is epidemic at Nebraska