Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1899-01-06

In favor of free paper and pulp. -
William F. Moore, convicted of rob-
bling Martin Mahon, hotelkeeper of
New York city, by the badger game
has been sentenced to 10 years in states
prison.
| Thursday, Dec 20.
Spreading rails caused bad wreck
on the Atchison in Colorado.
Frenchmen want America to take the
Panama canal off their hands.
An anti-anarchist international bu-
reau will be established in Berlin.
| Senior Sagasta, who has been suffering
! from pneumonia, is much better and is
now considered out Of danger.
Congressman-elect Robert of Utah de-
tends pclygamy and declares that he
will make fight for his seat in con-
gress.
The headquarters Of the present West
Indian storm warning service have been
ordered moved from Kingston to Ha-
vana.
The war departments published sum-
mary Of army stations for the first time
includes Havana as regular post,
showing about 10000 troops there.
Lieutenant Colonel Charles Porter,
! Twenty second United States infantry,
has been found incapacitated for fur
| TIER service Ivy d retiring board and
placed on the retired list.
! Friday, Dec. 80.
Baron Curzon of Keddleston. the new
; viceroy of India. has arrived at Bonn
bay.
/ The Iowa State Association of Teach
ers has asked the Legislature to adopt
a law for compulsory education.
The Chicago grand jury, which has
been investigating charges against alder
men, failed TO find any indictments.
Mrs. Lilly Lord Tiff, secretary of the
American Association for the Advance
ment of Women, is dead at Buffalo,
/ N. Y.
: General Lawton has been ordered to
Manila and will probably be in com.
mand there, General Otis being slated,
1t is believed, for military governor.
President Snow Of the Mormon church
asserts that polygamous marriages
ceased in Utah in 1890 and that the
church is not interested in the Roberts
case
! Saturday, Dec. 81.
! The Brazilian congress has approved
the new extradition treaty with the
United States.
] The bodies Of American soldiers who
fell in the late war will be brought
home within month:
Julia Arthur, the actress, is in trouble,
being accused of violating a contract.
Her property has been attached.
Serious trouble in the Transvaal is be-
lieved to be brewing again. on account
OF legislation unfriendly to Uitlanders
The standing committee of the do
cese Of Nebraska, has decided to refuse
it's canonical consent to the conservation
Of DR.. Morrison rs bishop Of Iowa.
The biggest price paid for many years
for a seat in the New York Stock Ex-
change, $50, 900, was paid by Frank j.
Gould, youngest son of the late Jay
Gould.
Americans in Havana think General
Brooke made.a great mistake in forbid
ding General Gomez and his Cuban sol
diers taking part in the evacuation day
ceremonies in Havana.
=. Monday, Jan. a..
Theodore Roosevelt took tho oath of
Office as governor Of New York satur-
day. -"
The total receipts! OF gold at the DEN
yer branch mint in 1898 were $40, 195, 995,
q gain of ST. SS2,544 over the receipts in
1897. - -,
The coinage Of San Francisco mint for
Decem Der is the largest: ever recorded
for a single month, amounting to 31o,-
O62. 900.
The Northern Pacific Railroad COM
pany has placed orders for 10 postal cars
and 500 fat cars. The company is also
asking for bids for 20 frst-class coaches.
A. Small & Co.. Montreal, doing the
largest clothing business in Canada, has
failed. No statement has been prepared
yet, but the liabilities will be very
heavy,
| Tuesday, San. 8.
The Duke Of Northumberland is dead
ut London. -:
Wayne McVeagh, attorney general in
9arfeld's cabinet. is seriously i'll.
| Daniel LaForte, known by his Indian
name as Te-hes-1a. president of the Sir
Nations, is dead. aged 50. ~
The destl, is announced OF the Mar.
Cpuis de Cubas, the Spanish capitalist
1nd former mayor of Madrid. ~ 4.
| Rev. James Bowen Funston of Nor.
folk, Va, who was elected Episcopal
bishop of Boise. has declined the honor.
y Or. Charles F. ,Guillou. formerly q
surgeon in the United States navy, ID
dead at Philadelphia from pneumonia.
i I The latest advices from La Paz, cap.
|ital Of Bolivia, say that . scombat IS I'M.
Iminent between the revolutionists and
the government troops ssss
i Ext Governor James E. Campbell of