Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1898-09-02

Hon. George N. Curzon, viceroy des-
ignate OF India, will start for Calcutta
in December with Mrs. Curzon to re-.
lieve Lord Elgin.
The brickmakers' strike at Haver.
straw, N. Y, has ended, the laborers
yielding to the manufacturers. who
would make no concessions.
The programme for the National Ir.
rigation congress, which meets at
Cheyenne, Wy. Sept. 1.3, has been
prepared. 1t contains wide range Of
topics for discussion.
Friday, Aug. 20.
A Liberal has been elected to succeed
Mr.. Curzon in parliament.
Thomas Bayard, former ambassador
to England, is seriously ill at the home
Of his daughter at Karlstein, Mass.
Congressman Bailey has been unani.
mously renominated on platform de.
claring squarely against territorial ex.
pansion.
Twelve persons have been more or
less seriously injured in collision on
the Flint and Pere Marquette railway
at Port Huron, Mich. None are ex-
pected to prove fatal.
Mrs. Annie Knowlton Colby, widow
of President Charles L. Colby of the
Wisconsin Central, who died in 1886,
died in New York hospital on 40
count of surgical operation.
A triennial convention of weather
bureau meteorologists will be held at
Omaha in the middle of October: The
convention will be opened by Professor
Willis L. Moore, chief of the bureau.
Saturday, Aug. ~.
President Faure and Emperor Mich.
olas exchanged kilograms in honor Of
the first anniversary of NJ. Faure's visit
to Russia.
Miss Winnie Davis, daughter Of JET.
ferson Davis, is seriously i'll at Narra-
gansett Pier, r. I. Mrs. Davis is at
the bedside of her daughter.
The pension Office has granted pen.
sion to All Cum, Chinese subject and
widow of Pascal Martin. sailor of the
United States navy. This is tho first
citizen of China on the pension list.
On the recommendation of Washing.
ton, bank of exchange will be estab.
lshed at Santiago The scarcity Of
small coin is great Inconvenience,
and a cause of much trouble among
the soldiers and local merchants.
Monday, Aug. 20.
Ex-Governor Matthews of Indiana il
dead.
Senator Mitchell of Wisconsin says
he is not candidate for reelection.
The next congress will be asked to
make the peace footing Of the army
100, 900 men.
The Zionist conference is in session
at Balse. Switzerland, DR.. Theodore
Haral, the originator Of the project to
purchase Palestine and resettle the
Jews there, presiding.
1t 10 stated that the Chinese minister
at St. Petersburg has Informed his gov.
eminent that he believes war between
Russia and Great Britain over tho Chi
nese question is inevitable.
Two enlisted men of the Sixty.ninth
New York volunteers, were killed in.
stantly, one fatally and six seriously
injured in wreck which occurred on
the Louisville and Nashville railway
near Birmingham, Ala.
Idaho Silver Republicans and Demo.
Gratis have concluded to fuse, leaving
the Populists out because of tho lat.
ter's failure to harmonic the two fac
tions. The Democrats named the
governor and the Silver Republicans
the congressman.
Tuesday. Aug. 80.
Malietoa Lacupepa, king of Samoa,
died on Monday, Aug. 20, of typhoid
fever.
Failure Of the harvest is causing
great suffering in some districts OF
Russia.
h.. It is officially announced that there
were 1880 deaths from the plague last
week in the Bombay presidency. The
epidemic is spreading.
The United States hospital ship So.
!, lace, having on board "a sick soldiers
and marines, has arrived at Boston
from Santiago de Cuba. -.
Kid Mcfarland Of New York, got a
vol earned decision over Jack DAILY OF
Wilmington, Del, after fighting ~
clean rounds before the Greater New
York Athletic club. j
Captain Charles E. Clarke, formerly
commander Of the battleship Oregon,
when discharged from further treat.
ment at the hospital at New York, will
. be granted three months leave Of >ab.
sence1