Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1898-12-30
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ecretasy ,f State Hay Is laid up ~
a attatk IS grippe. ssz5
A powder Ell atosion at Hang Chow
! lledi8, QUO 81 i:nese soldiers.
Colomtna will grant Is 6-year extern:
T sion to the Panama Canal company
Dayton, O.. physic clans estimate. there
are s, 600 cases Of Influenza il that city.
Fire at Maiden, Mo, destroyed .25
business. houses and 2 residences. Total
loss about $8O, Goo II 81 IT &: 5 5t= s.
a$ + ! The Thirteenth Minnesota regiment
has been ordered home from Manila and
and will arrive about March Is. i.
ri, Alex. Nimick, one of the Oldest and
best known steel and iron manufac-
turers in Pttsburg, is dead, aged 70.
Miss Belle Hite attempted suicide on
a crowded street car at St. Louis by
drinking the contents Of q bottle Of car
bolic acid. She will die. ,,
The Winona, MIMI. normal school
investigation has begun. Much bad
blood is shown to exist between Presi-
dent Shepard and Professor Freeman.
Thursday, Dec. 22. :.
Senator Allen has introduced a bill
for the establishment Of the postal tele-
graph system.
A company, of which Alderman
Charles F. Gunther is president, will
erect mammoth new coliseum at Chi
cago.
Seventeen of the brewing companies
of Baltimore have consolidated under
the name Of the Maryland Brewing
company.
The Merritt & Chapman company has
made a contract with the government
for the raising of the Spanish warship
Reina Mercedes.
Arthur A. Hall, a well known bicycle
trick rider, was instantly killed at SYRIA
cuse,. N. Y, by being struck on the
head by a timber which fell six stories,
crushing his skull.
Congressman Stevens of Minnesota
has introduced the bill to amend the
election laws to provide that voting ma
chimes shall hereafter be used at all
elections for members of congress.
Friday, Dec. 20.
Prince George of Greece has formally
taken charge of affairs in Crete
NJ. Jules Cambon, French ambassador
to the United States, will probably be
transferred to Berlin.
The United States cruiser New York,
from Havana, has arrived at New York
Admiral Sampson is on board.
Andrew Wanless, a well known lit
erary character of Detroit and poet and
prose writer of no mean ability. is dead.
The senate committee on foreign re-
lations has concluded its revision Of bills
providing for a territorial government
for Hawaii. l. j.. !. .Sss}%ss. ..s5s.e>+. 81
Ethan A. Hitchcock of St. Louis, the
present ambassador for Russia has been
nominated to succeed Mr.. Bliss as secre-
tary of the interior.
Through fast mail service will be es.
tablished between New York and S. =
tie by way of st. Paul over the Great
Northern, leaving St. Paul for the west
at 8 a. m.
Saturday, Dec. "a.
Countess Thun-Hohenstein, wife of
the Austrian premier, is dead.
Tommy Ryan of Syracuse defeated
Dick O'Brien of Boston at Hartford,
Conn.
It is said that Whitelaw Reid will be
nominated as ambassador to Russia and
Secretary Bliss to England.
The British admiralty, it is reported,
has just placed orders for four warships
with shipbuilders on the Clyde.
A new combination of some of the
leading rubber firms in the United
States is in course Of organization.
The French chamber of deputies has
unanimously voted a credit Of &C, OOO, 600
francs to complete the new artillery.
Percy M. Jaffray, center rush of the
Harvard university football team, died
at Cambridge, Mass, Of spinal menin-
gifts. t Il '''i'S -*5 T<t
Monday, Dec. 26.
. The military force in. the Sioux Indi an
country in South Dakota is to be in
creased. ..,..esJ. -:
The United States will take posses
sion of Wake Island, in, the Pacific
ocean for a cable station. II II, H<.:.y
!: The Rock Isl and and the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy roads are likely
to be extended to the Pacific coast.
The United States troops have begun
a regular patrol Of the city Of Havana in
order to, guard against, possible disor-
ders. ~' . a.. S~f}s*s5
r.. st. Patrick's Cathedral, the church Of
the Bishop Of Harrisburg Roman Cath
olic diocese, was ruined by fire Sunday
afternoon. a3 IN '5-s$S. "f I'LL. It'll.
+ According to the Rome correspondent
+ Of the London Daily News, King Hum
bert has signed, a decree granting am
nesty to minor offenders in the recent,
Milan riots: : >'s$S ~ FIRTH. +%s@H+ !.
Tuesday, Dec. ~. = I.
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