Little Falls herald., 1900-09-28

AAe American SleeG oCeel company
and the Republic Iron and Steel COM
pany have entered an arrangement
! whereby the former withdraws from
the American bar trade and the latter
from sheet productions
Thursday, Sept. 20.
Fire at Roubaix, France. destroyed
stores valued at 4,000, 900 francs.
seventy.two new coal mines have
been opened in Prussia this year, in
creasing the output for 1900 by $780,
600 tons.
The transport Thomas has sailed from
San Francisco for Manila with 1,648
men, II cabin passengers and s., 800, 900
in treasure.
The Egyptian mail steamer Chark;eh
is ashore on the island of Andres with
broken shaft Some of her passengers
have been drowned.
The presbytery of Buffalo, at its fall
meeting held in East Aurora, N. Y,
voted 80 to ~ in favor Of a change in
the Westminster confession of faith
Senator Hanna, encouraged by the
reception given his speech at the Chi
cago Commercial club meeting, has de-
cided to go upon the stump during the
last two weeks Of the campaign.
Friday, Sept. FL.
Two additional cases of bubonic
plague have been reported at Glasgow.
Former Governor Roger Wolcott of
Massachusetts, has declined the post Of
ambassador to Italy:
Justin Mccarthy, the novelist and
historian, announces his retirement
from parliamentary life on account of
failing health.
At London, Olga Nethersole, the
actress, was fined f2 for allowing two
dogs to be imported from the United
States without muzzles.
Polonius, sire of many noted track
and road horses and son Of Risdicks
ambletonian, is dead at Walden, N.
7. He was foaled in 1872.
The census announces that the popu-
lation-of San Antonio, Tex, is 53,211,
It's against 37,675 in 1890. This is an
increase Of $3.50 or 41.54 per cent.
Saturday, Sept. 22.
The sovereign grand lodge, I. o. 0.
F., has decided to hold its next session
in indianapolis.
In freight wreck on the Queen and
Crescent road at Sadieville, KY, five
tramps were killed and four badly hurt.
A dispatch to the London Daily Mail
from Calcutta says that 25 inches of
rain was registered there in two days
David Lewis Shepard and his wife,
an aged wealthy couple, were found
murdered in their beds at Foxboro,
Mass.
James J. Corbett, the pugilist, will
return to New York by the first avail
able steamer to effect reconciliation
with his wife.
The census bureau announces that
the population Of Dubuque, Ia., is
36,297, as against 30,311 in 1890. This
is an increase of 5, 1876, or rs per cent.
William Watson Penning of Madi-
son, Wis, has been appointed secretary
of the grand lodge of Masonic bodies
of Wisconsin to succeed j. w. Latin,
deceased.
Monday, Sept. "a.
President Mckinley has returned to
Canton.
Aguinaldo declines to consider peace
proposals and declares that he is un.
willing to agree to a compromise.
The census bureau announces that
the population of Saginaw, Mich, is
42,S45, as against 46,322 in 1890. This
is a decrease Of 3,977, or $50 per cent.
Colonel Joseph H. Wood, grand mar
shall Of the Grand Army parade during
the recent national encampment in
Chicago, died Of angina pectoris Friday.
The vote on the proposition Of tho
glass chimney manufacturers conced.
ing an advance Of 6 per cent is favora.
BILE to making the increase and all fac
tories in the country will resume opera
Gons at once.
The steamer War Eagle Of the Eagle
Packet company and the steamer Car
rier of the Calhoun Packet company
were burned to the waters edge at St.
Louis and Joseph Schultz, bill clerk Of
the former, was burned to death.