Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1899-03-24
NEWS CONVERSATIONS
wo<inssday, March n.

wsdnssdsy, March n.
Richard n. Leech, chief onai1eer
United States navy, retired, is dead ct
his home in Brooklyn.
! The Spanish cabinet has advised the
queen regent to ratify the peace treaty
without waiting for the cor6es.
Sausagemaker Becker of Chicago has
confessed he boiled the body Of his wife
in large kettle aud then burned the
remnants.
General Otis will not allow Spain to
ransom the prisoners held by Aguinaldo,
rs the rebel position would be greatly
strengthened by so much money.
Alfred Daniels, weight 4eo pounds, is
dead at Lehigh, La At one time he
weighed 6A pounds and amassed for
| tune travelling with cirousses and other
like shows.
| According to the Berlin Tageblatt an
agreement for tho building by Cecil
Rhodes of railroad across German
territory in Africa has practically been
completed. The road as contemplated
will cross Africa north and south.
Thursday, March 10.
Rapid progress is being made in
forming the nut and bolt combination.
Carter H. Harrison has been renomi-
mated by the Democrats for mayor of
Chicago.
Joseph Medill, for years editor of the
Chicago Tribune, died at San Antonio,
Tex, at the age of 76.
Ohio operators have signed the Pitts
burg agreement under protest and the
threatened strike Of miners has been
averted.
The Milwaukee Daily News is author
ity for the statement that the Milwau-
kee Railroad company will build line
from St. Paul to Duluth.
The principal English railway COM
! panies have resolved to dispatch agents
to the United States to institute a pri-
vate inquiry into the working of auto.
matte couplings.
Friday, March ~.
Four negroes were shot to death and
five badly wounded by a mob at Pal
metto, Ga. They were under arrest
charged with burning the town.
The cruiser Chicago has been ordered
to Kingston, Jamaica, there to meet
the steamer Paris and take on board ex-
Secretary John Sherman. who is suffer
ing from pneumonia.
Benjamin P. Hutchinson, the former
board of trade operator. died of heart
failure at the Lakeside Sanitarium,
Lake Geneva. Wis. He was 70 years
old. The remains were taken to Chicago
for interment.
An order has been issued by the
United States military authorities to
the effect that all rations distributed to
the Cuban poor after the supply now on
hand is exhausted shall be charged
against the customs receipt Of the pro-
vince in which they are distributed
Saturday, March IS.
The German reichstag adopted the
army bill, ending the crisis.
Mrs. Harold Frederic, widow of the
| we'll known American correspondent
| who died in London in October last, is
dead.
Rev. DIR. NJ. Streiby, for "a years Geo.
rotary of the American Home Mission
| AIRY association, died in sanitarium at
Clifton Springs, N. Y.
Edward c. Becker st. Louis CAPT.
talist, has purchased the st. Louis
Browns. The price paid is not stated,
but is in excess of $4,000.
John Healey, who 10 years ago was
known as great baseball pitcher and
familar1y designated as Long John"
Healy, is dead in Cincinnati of ccnsump-
ton.
The United States transport Sherman,
from New York. on Feb. 3, for Manila,
with the Third infantry and four COM
panies of the Seventeenth infantry on
board, was at Singapore Friday.
Monday, March 20.
The California legislature adjourned
without electing a senator.
Herbert Putnam has accepted the
post Of congressional librarian.
The British cruiser Talbot, with the
body of Baron Herschell on board, has
arrived at Portsmouth, Eng.
A discovery of old Russian boundaries
may result in showing the Klondike to
be wholly within the United States.
Ten persons we're killed and more
! than that number injured. some of them
fatally, in cyclone near Edwardsville,
Ala.
Patrick Walsh, former United States
senator and mayor of Augusta, Ca, is
dead. after three months illness of nerv-