Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1899-03-31
NEWS CONVERSATIONS,
Wednesday, March e.

possession of Wake island.
Northwestern soft coal dealers have
combined and will advance prices.
Cuba's army is found to have shrunk
from AZ, 900 to 3,l29 men.
A Chicago boy who was abducted
nearly year ago has been found in
Ohio.
A convention delimiting the frontiers
of England and France in Africa has
been signed.
Rumor transfers General Horace
Porter from Paris to the cabinet as sec.
rotary of war.
The Saltwater city council has grant
ed Thomas Lowry and G. G. Goodrich a
street railway franchise to build a local
line and an interurban line to St. Paul
Thursday. March 16.
Rev. James A. Sturgeon, brother of
the late Rev. Charles Haddon Spurgeon,
is dead in London.
Denver capitalists and an Eastern syn
dictate are incubating scheme to con-
meet Denver and Deadwood by rail.
Secretary Alger and party OF
friends have left Washington for Sa
vannah, Ga, on their way to Cuba.
The Chicago, Burlington and North
ern is to be purchased outright by the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy com
pany.
|. The death is announced of Countess
Dzialynski. nee Princess Czarteriska,
who once refused the hand of Napo.
leon III.
A Rome dispatch says it is understood
there that the Chinese minister has in
formed the Italian government that
China absolutely refuses the demand of
Italy for u concession at San Nun bay.
Friday March "a.
The influenza is raging at Berlin and
the death list is heavy
The Tenth Ohio regiment was mus
tered out at Augusta, ia.
John L. Sullivan has been chosen ref.
cree the Mccoy Choynski fight at the
Mechanics Pavilion. The advance sale
of seats already amounts to ST., ZOO.
John Gilbert, charged with the muir
der of his wife and four children, when
arraigned in court at Clay Center, Kan,
pleaded not guilty, but later weakened
and entered plea of guilty.
Articles of incorporation have been
fled with the secretary or state at Tre1l-
ton, N. j., for the New England Flee
trical Vehicle and Transportation com
pany, with capital Of $25, 000,O
Saturday, March Is.
The betting on the annual Oxford and
Cambridge boat race is II to on Cam
bridge.
The wages of the Twin City railway
conductors and motormen will be raised
June l.
Trolley cars are expected to connect
st. Paul and Saltwater in so minutes
by July l.
Professor Gustav Weidermann, pro-
fessor Of physics and chemistry at Leip-
sig, is dead.
Hon. Francis Harrison Pierpont, the
first governor of West Virginia, is dead
at PittsDurg, PA,
Rates from Dawson City have been
cut i'll two by the formation of trans
lurtatioI combination.
Mrs. Rachel Esterbrook, widow of
the celebrated pen maker, is dead at her
home i'll Plaintield. n. j., aged 81 years.
Albert Griffith the Australian pugil-
list known as ~ Dung Gritfo," has been
declared insane by Il jury of Chicago
physicians. He was sent to Jefferson asy-
lum. Little hope for his recovery is en-
tertained.
Monday, March Fl.
The condition Of Rudya,d Kipling is
again improving.
AT McKeesport Pa, Frederick Clark
shot and wounded his wife and then
killed himself.
The Hamburg line steamer
Pretoria. just arrived ut New York
from Hamburg, brought ! .2O4 steerage
passengers.
George Bidwel. one Of tho Bank of
England forgers, died at Butte, Mon.
where his brother Austin died three
weeks ago.
The secretary Of the navy has invited
Miss Marion Cockrell, daughter Of SER
ator Cockrell Of Missouri, to christen
the battleship Missouri now in course
Of construction at Newport News.
Prof. Charles Augustus Briggs. D. D.,
of the faculty OF the Union Theological
Seminary in New York city, will soon
be ordained to the priesthood in the
Protestant Episcopal church by Bishop
Potter, having been accepted by that
body.
Tuesday, March 20.
The house of commons has adjourned
until April 10
The Missouri Legislature has voted to
reduce passenger fares from 5 to 21&
cents per mile.
Mrs. Clara R. Slocum, widow of Gen.
eral Henry A. Slocu,n, is dead. at her
home in Brooklyn.
Joseph H. Choate, the United States
ambassador to England. is confined tc
his room with Il severe cold.