Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1900-11-13
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4 Rear Admired ] IA mes y. Smith. 10. 81
M. retired, s,rHer chief sof the burea Y III
stpplies ane accoEnts of the M W.T. de-
partnient. has arrived iaS Berlin and will
spend the winter In that city, ~
4s Though Leonnfd Food holds n voiun.
teera commission as major COT eral $andsi Isl
civil md military 50 ye!a,or sof Cuba. III
the regular rrmy he sim ctains his old
rank. that 0f mere assist ant surgeon. NUT
Charles 2. tStuevcr of 81. g Louis sis the
latest millionaire to distribnt HE for-
tune during his lifetime. n IIe has d horror
of family gu s'rels oycrs,vilfs and has di-
vided HE money chiefly Among his chii-
dren. .s:s
VI Lieutenant Horace r. Mcintosh 81 the
United States navy. liz on his va g
Chile. where. by consent ot the United
States government. he is to stlperintend
the construc tion Sof 4 M w for the Chilean
government. ri @ II, al
John itchell. who sis head ding the
strike iii the anthrncite Goa regions. is a
native of Braid wood, Ills., and His II g
English ancestry. I He ID 81 years old
and has worked in the coal mines since
q he was IS years old. VI NJ SSsssl
N Daniel A. Lamont. secretary. OF war in
President Clcvelandss last Gu binet. has
been Oh Il visit to- the 4 Pacific coast on
railroad business. He IL vice president Of
the Northern Pacific road and declares
himself out Of politics. N i35
III. Captain Maurice "a. Bourke. RI, N ].
who was Admiral n lyons flag captain
when the Victoria was run down by the
Camperdown, died recently aged
years. He was brother and heir pre-
sunlptive to the Earl of NJ ayo. n. &, 4.
I. Sir Andrew Lusk, London's Oldest eyi
lord ma yoy. has compl his ninetietE
year. He served as alderman for the
ward Of Bridge Without Il fss Il We years
ago. He was lord mayor in 1873 and
1874 and is still in active business. N
s.. Francis Aunizaza has arrived in San
tiago de Chile to lay ont the ground for
Charles CoIson OF Paris who has been
granted $4,000 acres OF ldnd by /, the
Chilean government on the condition that
he brings 600 families q year. to the
country for Eve years. l4s VI 5 at&.,: s,s.+
Sir Francis Plunkett, the new British
ambassador to the Austrian conrt, is the
first English diplomat of the Roman
Catholic faith for many years accredited
to that post. He. Is the youngest son Of
the ninth earl Of Kingall, He has been
in the service since 1855. -;.a, So
John Flood, one OF the Irish rev0lu-
tionists In the Fenian movement of 1860,
died in Boston the. other day 50 poor that
his body would haVe been buried in pot
ter's field but for the interposition of q
local Irish society. He was one of those
who refused to testify at the trial Of
John Boyle O'Reilly. Sgd. 80. '3sl
4 Colonel Frank Rhodes, who has just
returned. to England from South Africa,
suffers from the fact of being his broth
er's brother. He has not come much
within the public eye. except at the time
in that he was tried and sentenced to
death. subsequently being let off with
1 fine az 92a 600. = . ll5$ -. VI;
aa4 At a recent convention OF the Ameri-
can Therapeutic association DR.. Knapp
of New York said: II am optimistic
enough to firmly believe in the abso-
lutte durability of consumption. 1T IS q
parasitic disease par excellence. When
our statesmen and city fathers will
realize that BY providing comfortable
Fairgrounds for the children they will
not only diminish the frequency Of the
disease, but improve the sanitary and
moral conditions Of the working class
in general long step toward the pre-
vention Of tuberculosis will have been
accomplished" While, there are other
good reasons why there should be play
grounds for school children, this one Of
DR.. Knapp's.is sufficient. u H.