Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1899-10-13


stances.
All kinds of sensational reports are
being received from South Africa, but
Boer officials state definitely that they
will not fight except in repulsing an
invasion.
Mrs. Maxim Martin of Two Creeks
Wis, aged 104, is dead. She came from
Canada with her husband, who was in
the employ Of the Hudson Bay COM
pany, many years ago.
Friday, Oct. 6.
The Thirteenth Minnesota volunteers
started for home Thursday.
Edward R. Sewett, aged 50 years, a
prominent Chicago lawyer, is dead.
South Dakota volunteers were mus:
tered out at San Francisco Thursday.
The Bank of England has raised the
banks discount from ~ to 5 per cent.
Harriet Heilbuth of Chicago, years
old and for two years blind and para
lytic, had her sight and the use Of her
limbs restored through the agency of
the X-rays.
Corporal Wayne s. Larrabee, First
South Dakota volunteers, is dead at
San Francisco Of smallpox. While in
the Philippines he acted as stenog-
rapher to General Macarthur.
The second meeting between Column
bia and Shamrock, like the first, re-
suited in no race, leaving those inter-
ested in doubt as to the respective
merits Of the boats in a good sailing
! breeze.
Saturday, Oct !.
Indiana has returned the battle flag
of Terry's Texas Rangers.
Ex-Secretary and ex-United States
| Senator James Harlan died at his home
in Mount Pleasant, Ia.
w. J. Bryan is suffering from a
throat affection which may cause him
to abandon campaign speaking for the
present.
There is not the slightest foundation
for the published report of the retire.
ment of President Nick Young of the
National baseball league.
Through the efforts. Of Chicagoan,
Herbert E. Gehr, company has been
| formed which proposes to build the first
railroad on the island of Hawaii.
1t is announced at Madrid that the
Filipino government has given full
powers to Agoncillo to treat for the re-
lease of the Spanish prisoners now held
by the insurgents.
Monday, Oct. 8.
Walter Wellman, arctic explorer, has
arrived at New York.
Ex-Postmaster General William L.
Wilson is seriously ill.,
The South Dakota regiment left San
Francisco for home Sunday night.
George Trich, the millionaire hard
ware dealer of Denver, is dead,aged 70.
1t is stated in London that the Alaska
boundary dispute will be settled within
four days.
A hot wave struck California Sunday
and the thermometer rose to high
point. In the city of San Francisco the
maximum temperature was 90. At So
noma it registered between 1O8 and us
in the shade.
Bjari Bey, son of Hall Rifat Pasha,
the grand vizier, was assassinated on
the Galata bridge, Constantinople, Sun
day, by an Albanian who fred four
shots from revolver. The murderer
was arrested.
Tuesday,, Oct. 10.
J. Boyd, we'll known steeplechase
rider, was killed at the Hawthorne
Qlls.) racetrack Monday.
Thomas Lord Kimball, one of the
prominent railroad men of the West.
died suddenly at his home in Omaha
Monday, aged 80.
Three races were started last week
but none were finished inside time limit.
The race scheduled for Tuesday was
declared off for the same reason
According to Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson the present corn crop will be
the largest in the history of the coun-
try. The total yield will be between
1890, 00o,00 and 1850, 600, 900 bushels.
The remains of George Smith, the
pioneer banker of Chicago and the
Northwest who died Saturday at the
Reform club, London, will be inferred
at Elgin, Eng, where he once resided.
James Monroe Heiskel, great grand.
son of President James Monroe, died at
New York Monday, aged 55 years. In
! 1883 he ran for mayor of Baltimore
against Willis Pinckney White, but was
defeated. q: =:-...., =. : 4 S..