Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1899-06-02
NEWS CONVERSATIONS

r NEWS CONVERSATIONS
| :Wsdeestay, May "a.
Letter carriers of the country are or
ganizing to secure higher pay.
A very short winter wheat crop is in
dicated, due to bad weather and the
Hessian fly. .
| Havana papers have a controversy
over the probability of war between the
Americans and Cubans.
The antitrust conference to be called
by the governor of Texas will be held in
St. Louis in November.
Fourteen persons were drowned by
the capsizing OF a ferryboat on the Dan
ube, near Straubing, Bavaria.
! Three men, the last of those sentenced
in Ireland to life imprisonment for the
murder of Cavendish and Burke, have
been released.
| President Kruger of the Transvaal
says he will never agree to the general
extension of franchises demanded by
the Uitlanders.
Colonel Ames has given up the COM
mand OF, the Thirteenth Minnesota regi-
ment, being succeeded, it is understood,
by Major E. S. Bean of St. Paul.
Thursday, May rs.
Two cases Of the plague have been
reported at Alexandria, Egypt, making
four in ALL
An international congress of physi-
clans is in conference at Berlin on the
treatment and prevention of tubercu.
losis
The bubonic plague is increasing at
Hong Kong. The official reports thus
far for the month of May show 4l3
cases and 254 deaths.
The London Daily Telegraph an
nounces the discontinuance of it's Sun
day edition. No comment accompa-
| MES the announcement.
Robert l.. Cutting has begun suit for
absolute divorce from his wife, Minnie
Seligman Cutting, better known as
Minnie Seligman, the actress.
Admiral Schley was given an ovation
at Boyd's Opera House, Omaha, during
the evening performance. In response
to repeated demonstrations he made a
brief speech.
Friday, May 28.
The New York legislature passed the
franchise taxation bill and adjourned,
The biennial convention of the Inter-
national Y. NJ. G. A. ia in session at
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Professor Arthur T. Hadley has been
elected president of Yale college to sue
coed Timothy Dwight.
The League of American Wheelmen
and the Intercollegiate Bicycle Racing
association have formed an alliance.
Winnipeg carpenters, bricklayers,
masons and plumbers, have returned to
work, pending settlement of the strike
difficulties by arbitration.
A demand has been made upon DIR.
Palma, delegate in this country of the
so-called Cuban republic, for an &C.
counting for the amount subscribed to
the cause, said to be some seven million
dollars.
Saturday, May ~.
The Nathorst expedition has started
in search of Andree.
The five principal breweries of La
Crosse will probably be consolidated.
General Bermudez Reina, formerly
minister Of war and military governor
of Madrid, is dead.
The threatened general strike of coal
miners in the Missouri and Kansas dis
trict has been averted.
The continuance of the lghtermen's
strike at Havana is causing serious in.
convenience to shipping.
Bartlett Trip, the American repre-.
sentative, has been chosen chairman OF
the Samoan commission.
Il The old Cuban assembly leaders who
are fighting Gomez are striving to have
the Cuban soldiers refuse the American
money, disband and keep their arms.
Should the Michigan supreme court
decide against the city of Detroit in the
proposed purchase of the street rail.
ways, the commissioners will purchase
them under the terms already agreed
upon, and operate them in the interest
Of the city.
Monday, May 20.
At Pardeeville, S. c., a dwelling.
house was burned and the entire family
of nine cremated.
The Wisconsin congressional delega-
ton has decided to support Henderson
of Iowa for speaker.
Fire at St. Johns N. F., made 1000
people homeless, caused two deaths and
entailed a property loss Of 100000.
Fifteen blocks were burned and 100
buildings destroyed.
Angus Mcleod and Anton Pendera
working in the Diamond mine at Butte,
; Mon, while drilling in hole where the
blast had not been fired, were blown to
pieces by the explosion of powder.
Agent Clifford of tho Tongue river In
dian agency in Montana unsupported tc
the interior department that the reports
of uneasiness among those Indians are
baSelessS and that the on1v from TS1o