Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-05-09
FRIDAY, Nav 2.


Fire at Norfolk, Va, caused a loss Of
$125,C00.
President-elect Palma has arrived at
Santiago, Cuba.
The Northern Securities company
has announced dividend Of l per
cent.
Lieutenant James Joseph Barry, U.
S. A., retired, is dead at his home in
Brooklyn. ~>,>.-..
Bjornstjerne Bjornsen. the Norwe-
gian poet, dramatist and novelist, is
seriously i'll.
Xavier Aymon de Montepin, the
French novelist and playwright, is
dead. He was born in 1924.
Cardinal Martinelli, apostolic dele
gate to he United States, states that
he has been recalled to Rome by Pope
Leo XIII. The reason therefor he
would not state.
During the last three months more
than 100000 tons of steel rails have
gone into Mexico, via Galveston, Tex,
caused by the railroad building now
under way in the southern republic.
Saturday, May 3.
The st. Louis exposition is to be
formally postponed from 1908 to 1904
Bjornstjerne Bjornsen, the Norwe
gian poet, dramatist and novelist, is
seriously ill.,
!; Congressman Frank M. Eddy of Min
nesota announces that he is not can
didate for reelection.
ho o# ~f Cfo+
cruiser Chicago, in prison at Venice
have been pardoned by the king Of
Italy.
The coming Austria-Hungarian budg
ct will provide for supplying new guns
to the artillery at a cost of 38,00000(
| crowns.
United States Consul McWade, al
Canton, China. has informed the state
department that the plague epidemic
east Of Honan, Canton province, is
increasing.
The plant OF the Hagers steel com
pany at Madison, Ills, employing 40(
| men, has been destroyed by fire which
! resulted from an explosion. The dam
age is estimated at $2500C0.
Monday, May 5.
Robert J. ("Doc~" Slater, for man.
! years prominent in Democratic politics
! in Baltimore, is dead.
William P. Cannon, brother 0
Congressman J. G.. Cannon, died a
Danville, Ills, from injuries received
| from fall.
| John Beckethuseen, a Chicago sd
! lOOnkeeper, was shot and fatal,
wounded in a fight between himsel
and two policemen.
| Advices received at Madrid from tn,
Portuguese frontier indicate that tn
political situation in Portugal is be
coming extremely grave.
) President J. W. Springer of the Ma
tional Live Stock association has sen
! telegram to President Roosevelt ask
] ing him to veto the oleomargarine bill
A furious storm of wind, rain an,
lightning, which at some places attain
ed almost to the dimensions of cy
clone, ragged over the greater portion
of Iowa Saturday, causing hundreds o
/ thousands of dolla.3 damage.
Tuesday, May 6.
Three brokerage firms connecte
with the New York Stock Exchang
have suspended.
J. Gratz Hanley, one of the oldes
turfmen in the world, died suddenl
OF apoplexy at Louisville, KY.
The nomination of Frau: P. Sargen
to be commissioner general of imm
grafton has been sent to the senate.
AS a result Of the peasant disorder
martial law has been proclaimed i
five districts of the province of Pc
tava, Russia.
Three hundred houses at Bartfel
Hungary. the famous health rescr
have bern >:tIoyed by fire. Severs
persons ~ 9 injured.
The ~: San government is Gsi1in
for ter g: :; for the work OF lying q
ocean cable to the Straits Of q, al
starting from Talcahuno, Chile.
Former Judge George w. Ambros
of Omaha and afterward OF Chicago
close friend Of William J. Bryan
died at Wesley hospital, Chicago, {