Little Falls herald., 1900-11-16

NEWS CONVERSATIONS. +
"Wednesday. Nov. Z. =.
u The American Rice Growers Distri-
button company has been incorporated.
with q capital Of $l5, ,ooo, 900.
A company has been formed to con.
troll the horse and trolley lines and the
sugar plantations Of Cuba.
Alderman Frank Green. who was
elected lord mayor Of London Sept. ~,
has been formally installed in that Of
fee.
According to private dispatches re-
ceived at St. Petersburg, typhus and
other fevers are beginning to abate i'll
the Russian army in Manchuria.
The British steamships Baron .Eldon
and Baron Innerdale have arrived at
Philadelphia from Java, finishing
race of $1,000 miles within four hours
of each other.
The Italian anarchists of New York
city have announced that they will
give a benefit enter tainment on Nov.
10 in aid of the wife and family of
Bresci, who assassinated King Hum.
bert
Thursday, Nov. 8.
It is estimated that the bubonic
plague cost the city of Glasgow e1 ,O00,-
900.
Colonel Benjamin West Blanchard,
once one of the most widely known
railroad men in the country, is dead at
Washington.
The Italian government has decided
to adopt serious measures for the pro-
lection of King Victor Emanuel. A
special section of police is being organ.
ized
The gymnasium at the University Of
Notre Dame, South Bend, Ind, has
been completely destroyed by fire. The
building was one of the largest college
gymnasiums in the world.
The Chinese government, through
it's minister at Washington, is endeav-
oring to secure the influence Of the
United States toward causing the other
powers to modify their demands for
the punishment of Chinese officials
concerned III the Boxer outbreak.
Friday, Nov. 8.
A fat increase of cent a pound has
been put upon beef, pork and mutton
by Chicago packers.
The japanese battleship Mikasa, said
to be the most formidable vessel Of
its kind in the world, was launched at
Barrow, Eng, Thursday.
A semi.official statement from Nome
bankers gives the gold output of that
district as $1,000, 900 for the past sea.
son, as compared with $2,000,000 for
1899.
Major General Elwell S. Otis has ar
rived at Chicago and assumed COM
mand Of the department OF the Lakes,
! to which position he was recently ap-
pointed.
The state Of Indiana has entered suit
against the Big Four Railroad com.
| pany for alleged violations of the state
law requiring railway companies to
post bulletins announcing the arrival
and departure of trains.
Saturday, Nov. 10.
;, Secretary Root has sailed for Cuba.
He will be gone two weeks.
Admiral Schley's flagship, the Chi.
cago, has arrived at Monrevideo.
The Meeler sugar refinery at Meeker,
! La, has been destroyed by fire. Loss,
| 100000.
! Dr. Lieber, the German Centris;
leader, has been received in audience
! by the pope.
! The American colonies at Berlin and
| Dresden are making extensive prepara
| ton, 10 celebrate Thanksgiving
The street car strike in Pensacola
Fla, has been settled the company al.
! lowing the motormen to he seated while
! the cars are i'll motion.
! Severe gales are prevalent on the
! North Atlantic coast, the wind reach
! ing a velocity Of over 70 miles an hour.
! A number Of wrecks have occurred.
Monday, Nov. IL.
! Chicago has officially rendered the
; drainage channel to the United States
government.
Minneapolis is to have new library
building to cost 100000. Ex-Governor
Pillsbury is the donor.
Secretary Long has returned to
Washington from his trip to Colorado,
| where he has been on visit to his
daughter,
Eight persons were killed and fifteen
wounded in collision between a su-
burban train and an express at Choisey
Leroi, France.
At Muskogee, l. r., Thomas Owens,
city attorney, shot and mortally
wounded Noah Watts. Both are young
men. Owens cluims self.defense.
Charles H. Pinkha,n, proprietor and
, manager of the business department of
one OF the largest proprietary medicine
enterprises in the United States, is