Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1898-02-04
NEWS CONVERSATIONS.
Wednesday, Jan. 20.


Matchmaking opium joint proprietors.
Judge Joseph MoKenna has taken
his seat upon the supreme bench Of the
United States.
Ex.Congressman McComas, Republic
can, has been elected senator in Mary.
land, to succeed German.
Secretary Gage, in financial speech
in Philadelphia, said the president and
his cabinet are in entire harmony.
A formei divinity student, for many
years a tramp, married a. well-to-do.
Sioux City widow who had helped in
his reforma ton.
Rev. Charles O. Brown, the San
Francisco minister long under a cloud,
has confessed that some of the charges
against him were true.
Premier Greenway of Manitoba has
abandoned his contemp plated Winnipeg
Duluth railway and will build to some
Lake Superior port in Cadadian terri
tory.
Thursday, Jan. 27.
M. Jules Emile Rich borg, the French
novelist, is dead.
General Middleton, who commanded
the Canadian troops during the late
Riel rebellion, is dead.
President Dole OF Hawaii has reached
Washington and exchanged courtesies
with President Mckinley.
Coils P. Huntington will build at
,f
holding the largest vessels ahoat.
Jimmy Michael, the Welsh bicyclist,
through his attorney, has filed suit
for divorce from his wife, Fanny
Michael, nee Lewis.
The interstate commerce commission
has decided the grain rate case of the
Milwaukee chamber of commerce
against the Milwaukee and other roads.
Andrew NJ Moore, senior member of
the firm of Moore & Sinnott, wholesale
whisky dealers, is dead at Philadelphia.
He leaves fortune estimated at
&, 900, 900.
Friday, Jan. az.
Omaha will succeed Grand Rapids in
the Western Baseball league.
King Leopold. of Belgium has bought
the American racing yacht Mayfower.
Kurds are laying Armenian villages
waste and the Armenians are hitting
back.
The steamer City of Duluth, wrecked
off Benton Harbor, Mich, has gone to
pieces.
1t is stated that Charles A. Towne of
Minnesota will be the Silver Republi-
can candidate for president.
Aranguren, the Cuban general who
executed Ruiz, has been assassinated by
the Spaniards.
It is announced that the Cuban war
will soon be ended through treaties to
which the United States, Spain and
Cuba are parties.
President Mckinley spoke at the
Manufacturers banquet at New York.
He said the financial plank of the St.
Louis platform is still as binding upon
the Republicans as when it was formed.
Saturday, Jan. 20.
According to the official report there
were 834 deaths at Bombay from the
plague during the past week.
The board of directors of the National
Federation of Musical Clubs has decid-
ed to hold the next general meeting in
St. Louis in the spring Of 1899.
Major Edward Whaley of the Sixth
| Wisconsin (the famous Iron Brigade)
is dead. He had served ~ years as
postmaster at Prairie du CHEN, Wis.
The senate committee on interstate
commerce has agreed to vote on the
anti.scalping bill at it's meeting next
Thursday.
The charred and mangled remains
! of five of the victims of the Great East
ern block fire at Spokane have been
taken from the ruins.
The Fairview tunnel through the
mountains at Johnson's canon near
Williams, A. T., is again on fire, and
the officials of the Santa Fe Pacific fear
that they may be compelled to aban-
don the tunnel.
: Monday, Jan. 81.
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| the Transvaal raiders, has arrived in
| London.
! Chief Justice Barclay of Missouri
will resign. Judge w. N. Williams of
Bonneville will be his successor. !:
Hon. Elwood Evans, tho oldest prac.
ticing lawyer in Washington state.
dropped dead from heart disease at
Tacoma.
The final estimates Of the tobacco
production in the United States in the
year 1896, made by the agricultural de.
partment, place the total year at 40S,.
004, 504 pounds valued at ga, 258, 070.
Mrs. Julia G. B. Dorr, the well known
author and poet, is reported to be crit.
oal1y i'll at her home in Rutland, Vt.
Members of her family have been sum-
moned from all sections of the country
and are now at her bedside.
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