Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1899-02-17
NEWS CON )EN SATI(JNs
4 Wednesday,, Feb.s8.

Wednesday, Feb.ss. 1
CoNGREss Senate Indian aIppropri-
ltion bill passed 81 Executi legislative
SID Judi bill IA ken Ut. 81 House Com
dderat ionof poston1i1c appropriation bills
II commi ttee ofs whole con tinued. sixty
I'VE altogether favorably recommended,
carrying Z totalof l1a, %, 600 .5
william Laird 1of the famous ship
bull ding firm Of Laird Bros. at Birken-
head, Eng, is dead. 81 .S..23 IL
Mrs. Mary Williams, her son and two
small children were drowned while
fording Clinch river, near Middles-
boro, Ky II s...s s r.
The United States cruiser Raleigh,
which sailed from New York On Dec.
IS for Manila via Suez, has arrived at
Port Said. f. i IS :,
J, Captain G. E. CLARK; formerly of the
Oregon, has been assigned to duty as
captain Of the navy yard at League
Island, Pa.
The 18th annual convention of the
National Association of Builders is in
session at Milwaukee, with about $50
delegates present.
The lower house of the Kansas legis-
1ature has passed a joint resolution
commencing Senators Harris and Baker
for their votes for the ratification of the
peace treaty.
Thursday, Feb. ..
CONGRESS-: Senate-Executive leeisla-
tive and judicial bill taken up. House.
Sundry civil bill under consideration. .
Governor McLaurin of Mississippi is
critically ill of pneumonia.
The United States cruiser Marble
head has. left Boston for Havana.
Brigadier General John II. Patterson
has been placed on the retired list. =
The 68th ballot for United States SEN
ator in California shows no change in
the senatorial deadlock.
Mrs. Pamphilia Wolcott, sister of Ed
win M. Stanton, secretary of war in
Lincoln's cabinet, is dead at Akron, O.
The controller of the currency has is
sued call for reports of condition of all
national banks at the close of business
Feb. 4.
The credentials Of Brigham H. Rob-
erts of Utah as member of the Fifty
sixth congress have been received by
Chief Clerk Mcdowell of the house of
representatives and placed on file
! Friday, Feb. 10.
CONGRESS: Senate-Legislative and iu-
dicial appropriation considered. House
Debate and sundry civil bill continued
The French cabinet is likely to be de-
feated on the Drey fus question.
It is now claimed that Aguinaldo is
not the real head of the Filipinos, being
a mere tool of others.
All the South Dakota national guard
will be mustered out except one battery
because the state senate refuses to vote
an appropriation.
President Mckinley has appointed a
court Of inquiry to investigate General
Miles, charges. It consists of Generals
Wade and Davis and Colonel Gillespie.
The supreme military court of Spain,
which has had under consid eration the
loss of the Spanish squadron at San
tiago, has decided to prosecute Admiral
Cervera and Commander Moreau. for
mer captain of the destroyed cruise,
Cristobal Colon.
! Saturday, Feb. IL.
CONGRESS-; Senate--Legislative, e1ecu-
tive and judicial bill passed. Agreement
to vote on McEnery resolution Tuesday.
House -Dingley eulogies pronounced.
President Mckinley, it is said, will
call an extra session if the present con-
gress fails to pass the army bill.
Canadians arrested two American
customs officers in Alaska. The trouble
arose over disputed boundary line.
George NJ. Curtis of Iowa has been ap:
pointed third member of the colonial
cabinet" in place of Colonel Guild, who
declined to serve.
The French chamber of deputies
passed the trial revision bill by 100 ma.
jority, Notwithstanding the adverse re.
port Of the committee.
Chairman Cannon Of the house com.
mittee on appropriations, says it would
be useless for congress to consider the
Nicaragua canal and shipping subsidy
propositions, as the revenues would not
permit either.
! Monday, Feb. IS.
CONGRESS: Senate-Bill making Dewey
an admiral passed. House-Sundry civil
bill considered
The naval appropriation bill as re
ported carries 81, 156, sos.
Horace A. Taylor Of Wisconsin is t.
be assistant secretary of the treasury y.
The department of agriculture: viii
have=a beef investigation on its own &C
count. X If. S,*=,' ~:
Spain has decided not to sell the Car
oline' islands, according toa dispatch
from Madrid. 81 s &c e.. :.
la 4. G. cClurg e. Co., the Chicago
I publishers, have been burned ..out, tn.
loss being $3.50, 600. .z :ys>H . IT,.
Al avalanche in Colorado isz though
to have killed a people. Eleven bodies
have been recovered. 80 S. .s$
The stockholde the American
Cereal company have accepted u til,
nronnaifinn 4nf the n:,yV cereal ri f,f7 Efr,.ns