Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-03-09
CURRENT EVENTS.

Gen Grant suggests that the worlds fair
should be held in Chicago unless New Yorl,
subscribes the stock at once
Gov. Washburne, sick at La Crosse, contem-
plates leaving for the Hot Springs within q
week If he gains sufficiently in health to endure
the journey.
Another fine game Of billiards was played in
New York between Sexton and Schaeffer which
was won by the former. The score stood 400
to Schaeffer's 3O3.
The Mercury announces the marriage il
March next of Whitelaw Reid editor of the
Tribune, and Jennie Mills daughter of G. O.
Mills of the Bank of California.
The extensive dry goods establishment OF
DeForest Weld, at Meadville, Pa, with branches
in Iitusville, Bradford, Warren and James
town has failed. The liabilities are $3.50, 900.
claim for $541, 666. The court Of claims
awarded the company $41 ,661. The company
| appealed and the supreme court reversed the
judgment of the court of claims.
A Portland dispatch says: Archbishop c. n
Blanchet, R. G. c., who has had charge of this
diocese, comprising Oregon, Washington, Ida
no and part Of Montana, for forty three years,
| of resignation, which has been accepted by the
pope. His retirement is due to his advanced
age-eighty- six years. Archbishop Charles J.
Seghers, formerly of Victoria, is his successor.
There has been fierce rowin the Ohio legis-
lature, and the women at the bottom of it az
| Usual. The legislature had arranged to attend
| the Garfield inauguration in body, and 8
| special train of palace cars had been secured
! 1t came out two days ago that minority of the
members did not intend to take their wives on
| the junkit, and this raised o rumpus among the
ladies who have for weeks been preparing fine
clothes to attend the Inauguration, and they
stormed and made their husbands kick vigor.
ously against the proposed stag party, anc
finally it had to be gwen up.
One of the charges against Judge Billings
and the one which has perhaps done more tt
prejudice his case than any other cause, is his
connecting with the exciting proceedings Of
1929, during the struggle between Kellogg
and McEnery for the possession of the Louisi
ana government Judge Billings, it is said, wat
responsible for the so-called midnight order o.
Judge Durrell. The charge is that with the as
sistance of a noted female lobbyist of New
Orleans, Judge Billings persuaded Durrell tt
that the whole scene took place in New Orleani
restaurant, and Durrell hardly knew what HI
was doing.
The case of Chas. ]. Folger, chief justice O.
New York court of appeals, and PROMINENT.
mentioned for secretary of the treasury, to col
lect from the government $1S5, 296 as com
missions for the sale of revenue stamps, wa
preme court Folger was in 1869 and 1871
assistant treasurer at New York He claimed
that the sale of revenue stamps was not one o
the duties imposed on him by the act creating
his office, that the commissioners put this extr
duty on him, and he asked for 8 per cent. com
mission on the sales he made of revenue stamps
and 10 per cent. of the sales of over 5000,
600 of proprietary stamps The court afirme
the former decision of the court of appeals ad
verse to Folger.