Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1900-03-30

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Thursday, March 20. =.
CONGRESS Senate: Almost the entire
session Of the senate was spent in the dis.
cussion Of the conference report upon the
Porto Rico appropriation bill. House:
After threq days debate Loud postal bill
was recommitted by vote of 148 to S.
Cecil Rhodes has sailed from Cape
town for England.
Chicago and St. Paul lines are con-
sidering proposition to divide passen-
ger business between the two cities.
John Maggie, editor of the Manitowoc
Pilot and one of the most prominent Of
the independent Democrats Of Wiscon-
sin, is dead
The McKensie BILL providing that
street car franchises shall be, submitted
to vote Of the people, has been defeated
in the Ohio house of representatives.
Seven Indians have been arrested at
Klukwan, Alaska, charged with the
murder Of Mr.. and Mrs. Burt Horton,
who We're recently found dead i'll their
cabin.
Lieutenant Commander Seaton
Schroeder, at present secretary Of the
naval inspection board, is to succeed
Captain Leary as governor Of Guam.
Captain Leary is relieved at his own re-
quest, it is stated.
Friday, March 20.
CoNGREss-Senate: Porto Rican relief
bill conference report agreed to. House:
Private pension day.
The house committee Oh foreign at
fairs has decided to investigate the
statements of Macrum regarding the
opening of his mail.
Boer women in Pretoria, according to
| dispatches from there, have organized
an Amazon corps 1000 strong to aid i'll
| the defense OF the Transvaal.
Senator Penrose Of Pennsylvania has
introduced a bill empowering the conn
mittee on Pacific railroads to investigate
the recent reorganization Of the North
ern Pacific
The Belgian government has ap-
proved Of the projected electric road be-
| tween Antwerp and Brussels. A Ger
| man company, with capital Of 30, 00c,-
O09 francs ($5, 100, 0o0) has undertaken
! to build the road and give Commute
! service between the two cities.
| Saturday, March "a.
! oNeKEss-Senate: Porto Rican tariff
| bill discussed. House: Army appropri-
ton bill considered. Conference report
! on Porto Rican relief bill agreed to.
| John Bole, the German composer, is
dead.
| Russian officers in Belgium have been
ordered to rejoin their garrisons.
1t is stated that determined effort is
to be made to pass the shipping subsidy
bill at this session.
George n Wiswell Of Wisconsin has
! been chosen sergeant-at-arms OF the no
tional Republican convention.
Fifteen hundred Cleveland machinist
have Joined those at Chicago and Col
umbus in the strike for 9-hour day.
A dispatch from Bloenfontein says
the government Of the Orange Free
State has been reorganized. with j. \.
Collins, under secretary of the interior,
as landrost.
| Monday, March rs.
! REss-Senatc: Alaskan civil code
! under consideration. House: Army ap-
| preparation bill.
The president has signed the Porto
Rican appropriation bill.
! Germany's fuel famine is throwing
many people out Of employment.
American chess players won their i'll
ternationa1 match with the British
| team.
| Mayor Van Wyck has vetoed the bill
empowering the governor to appoint
| commission to revise the Greater New
York charter
Texas Populists have abandoned Bar
ker and Donnelly and will advocate the
nomination of Eugene V. Debs at the
| Sioux Falls convention.
! The Austrian premier, DR.. E. Won
Koerber, has sent the presidents of both
houses Of the reichsrath notice pro.
roguing parliament March %.
| Tuesday, March -.
Mccoy and Sharkey have signed for
fight at Coney. Island, June rs.
The business portion of the village OF
Kingston, Wis, has been destroyed by
fire.
Complaints of the trading check sys.
TEN have become exceedingly numerous
in the past few months. They come
from all sections of the country:
Sir Robert Peel has definitely decided
to go on the stage. He will join the
"Dootles Baby company as Bottles,
and play in London and the provinces.
! At Lawrence, Kan, fire destroyed the
plant of the Pierson Flour Milling COM
pany, valued at $4,000. IN addition
| to the mill, several thousand bushels OF
wheat and several hundred barrels OF
flour werf bnrned. Insurance, $S0,OoO