Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1900-08-10
NEWS CONVERSATIONS.
"Wednesday, Aug. I.

Wednesday, Aug. 1.
The government is finding great dif-
tlculty in securing good cavalry horses
for service in the Orient.
At meeting of anarchists in Pater-
son, N. j., Monday night the killing of
King Humbert was endorsed.
The first cargo of American coal i'm
ported into Russia has arrived at Reval
for the use of the Warsaw railroad.
The census Office has made public the
population of the city Of Cincinnati. It
is S25, 300, an increase over the last CEN
sus of 28,994.
H. H. Bate, aged 60, an insurance
solicitor, who was shot by the negro
desperate Charles, at New Orleans on
Friday, is dead, making seven white
men killed by Charles.
Princess Cantacuzune, granddaugh-
ter of the late General Grant and
daughter of Brigadier General Fred
erick Dent Grant, U. S. A., gave birth
to son weighing II pounds July 81 at
St. Petersburg.
Thursday, Aug. 2.
President Mckinley, accompanied by
Secretary Cortelyou, has left Canton
for Washington.
An attempt was made to hold up the
Pioneer Limited on the Milwaukee
road near Sparta, Wis.
The Nicaraguan government has
seized the property of the Maritime
Canal company for failure to complete
the canal in the specified time.
Mr.. Bryan announces that he will
not discuss the income tax in his noti-
tication speech, but will deal with the
subject in his letter Of acceptance.
The amount of gross gold in the
treasury Aug. l reached $431, 40, 764,
which is the highest amount in the
treasury in the history of the govern
ment.
Alexander Jester, the octogenarian
| who has been on trial at New London,
Mo-, for the past four weeks for MUIR
der committed ~ years ago, has been
! acquitted.
Friday, Aug 8.
The new wheat arriving in Minneap-
oils is said to be excellent in quality,
being heavy, bright and clean.
Colonel John Mason LOOMS, one of
the best known lumber merchants in
the West, is dead at Chicago, aged rs.
The census Office has announced the
population Of Louisville, KY, as 204, 731
an increase of IS, 602 over the census of
| 1890.
of J. A. Norris, near Harvey, Ills, as
result of eating toadstools which they
mistook for mushrooms. ..,~T
The Prince Of Wales, the Duke OF
York and thesDuke of Connaught have
gone to Ceburg to attend the funeral OF
the late Duke of Saxe-Coburg and
Gotha.
A telegram has been received at the
treasury department. from Lieutenant
Jarvis at Cape Nome, Alaska, which
indicates that the situation there il
improving.
! Saturday. Aug. 4.
-Four hundred British defeated q large
force of Ashantis but lost severely in
the engagement.
The Solace, with the sick and wound.
ed from China, has reached Nagasaki
on her homeward trip.
The steamer Mariposa, which left
Sydney, N. S. W., Thursday for San
Francisco, carries e350, 900 gold.
The postoffioe department has estab.
ished rural free delivery service to be.
gin Aug. Is at Winnebago City, MINI.
The Louisiana board of health has
established quarantine against Tampa,
Fla, on account Of the yellow fever at
that point.
Red Coat won the first race in the in.
ternational contest for the Seawanhaka
cup. The Minnesota, owned at st. Paul,
was second.
The municipality of Mona has pur.
chased the ground on which King
Humbert was assassinated in order to
erect q monument or a charitable in.
stitution.
| Monday, Aug. 6.
Rt. Rev. Augustin Healy, Catholic
bishop of Maine, died suddenly Sunday
afternoon.
The yellow fever situation at Tampa,
Fla, is unchanged. Many persons are
leaving the city.
Two men were killed and two others
mortally wounded in an election row in
Hancock county, Tenn.
A special from Sunap, N. H., says
that Secretary of State Hay is i'll, sui
fering from nervous exhaustion, due tc
his arduous labors at Washington.
Rev. J. L. Miligan, secretary of the
National Prison association, has an.
nounced that the annual meeting will
be held in Cleveland from Sept. % tc
26 inclusive.
La Bretagne, the French liner, SEIZED,
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