Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1899-06-23
NEWS CONDENS ATOMS.

NEWS CONVERSATIONS.
H., -. Wednesday, juno II.
-Four people we're drowned in floods
near La Crosse.
The French courts completely exoner-
ated Lieutenant Colonel Picquart.
Cuban army officers are stated to have
collected weapons of their men and Sc
GREETED them.
The battleship Iowa has been placed
in dry dock at Seattle to undergo
needed repairs.
It is announced that the gum trust is
now an actuality. The concern has a
capital stock Of $9,000,000.
Baron Christian was sentenced in
Paris to four years imprisonment for
assaulting President Loubet.
The application of the Geneva con-
vention to naval warfare is favored by
the Red Cross subcommittee at The
Hague.
Thursday, June IL.
A preliminary agreement regarding
the Alaskan boundary has been reached.
Hungary secured a victory in the
Ausgleich arrangement and in 1907 will
become practically free.
Frederick S. Perkins, the we'll known
archaeologist, artist and collector, is
dead at Burlington, Wis.
Congressman Richard P. Bland of
Missouri, for many years famous as an
advocate Of free coinage, is dead.
A subcommittee of the industrial
commission will visit the Northwest
and investigate agricultural matters.
Colorado smeltermen are on strike.
Three thousand are out and almost
every Colorado industry is more or less
affected.
President Havemeyer of the sugar
trust testified before the industrial COM
mission that in his opinion the protec-
tive tariff was the mother Of all trusts.
Friday. June 16.
A clothing combine with 800, 900, 600
capital is forming.
The skeletons of five cave jewellers
have been found in Montana.
The Great Northern, it is said, will
control the Pacific Short Line.
The Venezuelan arbitration commits
sion has begun it's work in Paris.
Three regiments of regulars are being
organized in the Philippines from VOL
unteers.
The output of the Minnesota iron
mines this year is estimated at three
millions, the greatest yet
Several people were killed and injured
near Clear Lake, Wis, by the cyclone
that ravaged New Richmond.
A third of the Filipino force in the
vicinity of Bacor was killed, wounded
or captured by Lawton's men last week.
The Northern Pacific Railway com.
pany has announced a reduction of pas.
senger rates to cents a mile on all
lines in Manitoba.
Saturday, juno ~.
Two men were killed by landslide
in a mine at Florence, Wis.
President Mckinley has left Wash.
ington for his New England trip.
At Port Clinton, O., Fred Shelf was
killed by his wife during a family
quarrel.
Lake and rail coal business is almost
stagnant on account Of high rates de.
manded by lake carriers.
The Whitefriars club Of London
dined Mark Twain Friday evening.
Several hundred representatives of lit
erary London were present.
Options have been secured on $50
large clothing manufacturing establish
ments throughout the country by Mr..
Samuel Rosenthal of Baltimore. A gi-
gantic clothing combine is proposed.
A disastrous explosion occurred at the
Caledonia mines Of the Dominion Coal
company, about 80 miles east of North
Sydney, G. B. It is reported that 10
men were killed and number injured.
Monday, June 10.
Imp won the Suburban handicap at
Sheepshead Bay.
The transport Sherman, with General
Fred Grant and l ,0O0 men, has arrived
at Manila.
1t is believed the Northern Pacific
will sell all its branches in Manitoba to
the Canadian Pacific.
The steel barge John Smeaton, the
largest cargo carrier on the great lakes,
has been launched at West Superior.
A returned officer from the Philip.
pines declares General Otis is incompe-
tent and is prolonging the war for his
own ends.
Ira J. Holmes, nephew of Burton G.
Holmes, the lecturer, was drowned in
Lake Michigan, at Chicago, by the cap
sizing of skiff.
Cash contributions to the New Rich.
mond cyclone fnnd amonnte1 tn ovor