Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1900-07-06


total receipts during May, 1900, were
$24,024, ia, an increase as compared
with May, 1899, Of 1923, 962.
Thursday, June 20.
Three deaths and several prostrations
from the heat occurred at Pittsburg
Wednesday.
Governor Roosevelt of New York will
address the Republican National league
in St. Paul on July II.
William and Ross Busby, aged % and
10, were killed by lightning while in
barn near Oskaloosa, la.
King Albert of Saxony has fallen into
| such serious state Of health as to cause
the greatest anxiety to the court.
The emperor of Japan has sanctioned
an outlay Of Is, 000,0 900 yen towards the
cost of military operations in China
Ex-senator Edward Murphy, Jr, de-
MES that he is candidate for the Dem
ocratic nomination for vice president.
Daniel L. Darling, a clerk in the Hen
nepin county (Minn.) abstract office,
has been arrested on the charge of en-
bezzling S., 400.
The New York board of health has
decided to thoroughly disinfect the
Chinese quarters in Manhattan, Brook
Ign and Coney Island as a measure of
precaution against the plague.
Friday, June 20.
Eiro NJ To1 NIirn ooucoH
loss of $4,000.
The steamer Alki has arrived from
Skagway, bringing 60 passengers and
$3.50, ZOO in dust from Dawson.
The queen will present to the munich
pality of Dublin, in memory of her
recent visit, gold loving cup weighing
100 ounces.
James H. Merrill, 81 years old, mayor
of Oshkosh, Wis, died suddenly at the
Kimberley apartment house, New
York city.
Four prisoners serving courtmartial
sentences at Fort Smelling escaped by
overpowering the guard. They were
overtaken by squad from the fort and
captured after an exchange Of shots.
BENJAMIN Hill Smell, a years, for
merly clerk in the pension Office, was
hanged at Washington Friday for the
murder Of 13-year-old Lizzie Wiesen-
berger, with whom he was infatuated.
Saturday, June 80.
James Doran & Co., St. Paul brokers,
have failed for between 100000 and
100000.
The Prohibition national convention
nominated John G. Woolley for presi-
dent and Henry B. Metcalf for vice
president.
At the commencement exercises at
Harvard the honorary degree of ILL., D.
was conferred upon Sir Julian Paunce-
fote, British ambassador to the United
States.
The Chinese captured by Admiral
Seymour's column say that the foreign
legations in Pekin were burned. The
foreign diplomatic corps was not with
Admiral 'Seymour's column.
Ex-senator Washburn, who has just
made a trip through the wheat-produc-
ing states of the Northwest, says the
total yield of Minnesota and the Dako-
tas will not exceed so. 0OO, 600 bushels.
Monday, July 2.
President and Mrs. Mckinley reached
Canton Saturday.
The tug Marion Teller sank in Lake
St. Clair and three of her crew went
down with the boat.
David Bell, formerly one Of the best
known lumbermen of Canada, is dead
at New York, aged 10 years. !:
A fishing party of four were drowned
in Boston harbor Sunday by the over
turning of their craft, 24-foot cat
boat.
The League of American Mothers
has sent out a call for national con-
ference to be held in Chicago Aug. /, 2,
and T.
Brigadier General Adna r. Chaffee,
who is to command the United States
troops in China, has sailed from San
Francisco on the transport Grant.
Tuesday, July 8. 49,.
Five deaths and eleven serious pros
trations resulted from the intense heat
in Chicago Monday.
All the union steamftters in Wash
ington, about 800, have struck for an
increase Of 90 cents a day in wages.
All the union miners in Alabama
have suspended work pending settle
ment of wage dispute between them
and operators >
The National Wall Paper company
(the wall paper trust) has decided to
dissolve. Its profits have not been
commensurate with, its~expenses. E
The Northern Pacific has counter
manded orders recently issued for $780,.