Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1904-11-11
Thursday, Nov. 8.

Thursday, Nov. 8.
An arbitration treaty between the
United States and Italy is being nego-
tiated.
Regulations of the civil service
commission are to be applied, so far
as may be practicable, to employees of
the Panama canal commission.
The condition of Kogoro Takahira,
the Japanese minister, who was oper-
ated on for appendicitis last Sunday,
is considered very favorable by his
physicians.
Lumber receipts at Bay City, Mich,
from Canada during October totalled
15,20O,000 feet, the aggregate for the
season being S7,600,000 feet, somewhat
less than last year.
Prices of all grades of coal have
been advanced IS cents ton at Pitts
burg as result of the increased de-
nland for coal and the strike of engi-
neers in Illinois, which has practically
closed all the mines in that state.
1t is reported in Portland (Ore.)
railroad circles that E. H. Hartman
has purchased the Columbia Southern
railroad, running from The Dalles to
Shaniko, a distance of seventy miles.
The price paid is said to be $1,400,000.
Friday, Nov. 4.
The Bond government continues to
gain seats by the Newfoundland gen
eral election.
The condition of the pope not hav-
ing improved DR.. Lapponi insists that
his holiness shall give no audiences
for the present.
The cope stolen from the cathedral
at Ascoli, Italy, has been presented to
the Italian government by J. Pierpont
Morgan, who purchased it.
Secretary Hay is confined to his
home by a cold which, while not seri-
Gus, makes it prudent for him to re-
main indoors for day or two.
The German foreign Office authorizes
the Associated Press to say that Ger
many has no agreement with Spain
whatever respecting joint protection
of their interests in SantQ Domingo.
The German government is in full
sympathy with the proposal of the
United States for treaty Of arbitra'
ton between the, United States and
Germany and there seems no doubt
that treaty will be arranged at an
early date.
Saturday, Nov. S.
The pope considers that he has been
restored to his usual health and has
resumed his audiences.
Martin w. Burke, for seventeen
years manager of the Brevoort hotel,
Chicago, was found dead in bed Fri.
day.
M orri0 So nd f1o no
Of his physician because of recur'
renee of the throat trouble from which
he has suffered during the past year.
Right Rev. Henry Gabriels, bishop
of the Catholic diocese of Ogdensburg.
N. Y, has received from King Leopold
! of Belgium the decoration Of the Or.
| der of Leopold.
G. A. Pearson, proprietor of the LoH'
don Daily Express and other news.
papers, has authorized the announce
ment that he has purchased the Morn
ing and Evening Standard.
Fernando Benenadel, mayor of the
City of Mexico. with his wife and two
children, has arrived in Chicago
Mayor Benenadel is in the United
States making a study of the munic
| ipal governments.
Monday, Nov. z.
The crown princess of Korea died at
Seoul Saturday night.
There was heavy fall of snow
through the Catskill mountain region
| Saturday night.
| Mason Long, well known temper
| ance lecturer and author, is dead al
| Fort Wayne, Ind.
The Japanese reservists resident in
the Philippine islands have been
called to the colors. Their number is
estimated at 600.
The basing price of whisky has
again dropped from $1.24 to $1.23, g
drop by successive stages of S cents in
about two months.
| General Jesse K. Finley, one of the
few surviving brigadier generals q
the Confederate army, died at Lake
City, Fla, Sunday, aged ninety-two.
A man born in a European country
of a Chinese father a1( English
mother may not be depo7tea nom the
United States under the Chinese ex
clusion act, according to an opinion
handed down by Judge Holt in the
United States district court of New
York.
| Tuesday, Nov. 8.
The Russian volunteer fleet steamer
Voronei. loaded with coal and prcvi
| siOns has naSSed through the Pos