Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1907-04-05
Thursday, March 29.


The Wisconsin senate has adopted
resolution to begin balloting for
United States senator April 16.
Colonel Daniel NJ. Taylor, chief
ordnance officer of the Department Of
the Lakes, is dead at Atlanta, Ga.
A fire of unknown origin at Eliza.
beth City, N. c., resulted in estimated
loss of between $4OO,00O and $460, 900
in property.
Louis Glau, section hand,w was in.
stantly killed in the Milwaukee rail.
road yards in Minneapolis by being
run down by switch engine.
The rumors in circulation Of an i'm
pending meeting between Emperor
William of Germany and Emperor
Francis Joseph of Austria have been
officially denied.
Three centers, New York, Kansas
City and Cincinnati, have been select
ed for the educational work of the
Methodist Episcopal church, recently
merged under the control of one board
Of education.
Friday, March 20.
The bill for recount of the votes
cast at the election for mayor Of New
York city in November, 1905, has
passed the state assembly-118 to 81.
William A. Proctor, aged seventy
three years, president and son of one
Of the founders of the firm of Proctor
& Gamble, died suddenly at Cincin-
natl.
Hamlin F. Lee, a veteran Of the
Mexican and Civil wars and a nephew
of General Robert E. Lee, is dead at
Colorado Springs, Colo, of heart fail
ure, aged eighty-seven years.
A cablegram from Manila reports
that Stevenson & Co.'s warehouse
there, containing $4,000 bales of Ma
Mia hemp, was burned Thursday. The
loss is estimated at 100000. - ,
Estimates for relief work In San
Francisco during March aggregate
$6S8,000. One-half of this amount is
apportioned to the Red Cross and the
other half to the local relief fund.
SATURDAY, Marcn 81.
Costa RIGA has recognized the pro-
visional government of Honduras.
Maxim Gorky, the Russian writer,
Is seriously i'll at Rome with consump-
ton.
Madame Casimir- Perier, mother of
the late ex-President Casimir:Perier
is dead at Paris.
Three distinct shocks of earthquake
were felt at Tacoma, WASH, Friday.
No damage was reported.
w. w. Atterbury, the general man.
ager Of the Pennsylvania railroad, will
become vice president of the com.
pany before the end Of the present
year.
Dispatches to Dun's Trade Review
indicate that there has been loss in
confidence, while the advancing season
brings out much business that waited
for favorable weather.
Monday, April I.
Fire has almost entirely destroyed
the business district Of Wolcottville,
Ind.
The general strike at Geneva, Swift
zerland, is about over and the troops
will probably shortly DO disbanded.
The strike of the brewery en-
ployes, which affects every brewery in
st. Louis and East St. Louis, remains
practically unchanged. -"
Brigadler General Richard Combs,
q. S. A., who retired in 1901, is dead
at San Francisco, aged seventy years.
He was born in Ireland.
Pittsburg experienced the coolest
Easter day in many years, the Their
mometer lowering around twenty-five
degrees above zero all day. =.
Telegraph operators in West vir-
ginia threaten to strike II their. wages
are reduced when the new eight-hour
law enacted by the recent legislature
goes into effect. .=@9
Tuesday, April z.
All carpenters and painters In Van
couver, B. c., are on strike and build
Ing operations are standstill.
Rear Admiral James H. Dayton.
heretofore in command of the Philip
pine squadron, has assumed command
Of the Asiatic feet.
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