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Terrible Disaster at Elgin, Illinois.

On Thursday last, disaster occurred at Ell
gin, Ill, by which several persons lost their
lives. Owing to the carrying away Of bridge
there had been no means Of crossing the river
except by the watch factory bridge, half mile
south Of the business part Of the city, until
Wednesday afternoon, when scow l6xl5 feet,
was launched, to answer for . ferryboat It
was built by direction Of the city authorities,
and manned by Pat Sullivan and Thos. Muir
ply. It was weak affair, and was condemned
by many before it made its first trip It was
run by cable in the ordinary way that small
ferry boats are. Thursday morning it left the
west bank of the river with twenty-five or
more persons on board, and when about halt
way over the boat dipped water. The passen-
gers became frightened and rushed to the OPP
posite side, when it Immediately filed with
water and sunk. When the ferry sank the
crowd Of thirty men, boys and girls were seen
struggling in the mad torrent, their cries rend-
ing the air for blocks away, dozens of small row
boats were sent cut, mainly in this manner
some of the passengers were saved
The following, however, are known to be
lost:
Guy Carlisle, aged sixteen, sonof Supervisor
Jas A. Carlisle.
Geo. Taylor, aged sixteen, son Of James Tay-
lor, shoe merchant
Francis Creighton, eleven years old.
Thos. Murphy, aged thirty six, married.
John Corbin, aged thirty-fve, lately from
IAke county leaves . wife and two children.
Elmer Foster aged fourteen.
John Throop.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-05-04

EIGHT writer's on the Chicago Times are
now using type-writing machines, which
are said to e1celin speed the greatest rapidity
the most expert hand can acquire with pen
or pencil; the work being uniform and per-
fectly legible, thereby saving the time of
compositors and proof readers. This is not
a new invention, though the machines have
not yet come into general use among
lawyers, preachers and others, whose hand
writing is, in some cases, as difficult to read
as are the Egyptian heiroglyphics.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-05-04
Frances Lost Provinces.
Paris American Register.

Paris American Register.
The Communication of Alsace-L Lorraine
does not appear to have succeeded to the
satisfaction of the German Provincial au-
thorites Recent DEGREES aim at suppress
ing the French connection. OF these, two
have been commented upon. The first has
for object to close fifty four French in
estimated at nearly 100000 francs, for the
ben fit of German insurance company
under Government patronage. The Sec
ond decree insists that the discussions in
the Provincial Assemblies shall take place
in German only, the effect Of this measure
being to render two thirds OF the members
incapable of sitting in these Assemblies.
The recent CONSUMPTION returns also showed
that two thirds of the young Alsace- Lor-
rainers, from whom military service was
due, had left the country.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-05-04

Some friends Of Brady and others accused Of
connection with the star route scandal, declar-
ed to- day that the accused are going to fight;
that Brady will show he sent money to carry
Indiana for Garfield last year at the latter's re-
quest, and chat money was raised from mail
contractors, and the president knew it.
short time before the Indiana election
Brady the Star route rascal, wrote a long letter
to Garfield to the general effect that if Garfield
would give Brady written authority he would
secure subscriptions Of $2O,OOO from mail
contractors with whom he was thrown in con-
tact Gen. Garfield showed this letter to few
confidential friends They wanted the money
Garfield wrote to Brady to this effect, or at
least declining to write the letter suggested.
The German barque Tiger, spoken some
time ago, 124 out from Liverpool, with crew
ina starving condition, and supplied with stores
by the steamer Nebo, has arrived within the
capes, but has not came up to Baltimore. Col
lector Thomas has asked Secretary Window to
Stewart and bark Hottenbarn, both from Rio
Janeiro, and long over-d due. The vessels were
spoken off the coast month ago and have not
been heard of since.
The pestoffice star-route scandal is all the
talk of the town. The result promises to be as
astonishing in it's details as the exposure of the
whisky ring by Secretary Bristow: One of
somewhat in liquor, boosted not long ago that
he had received 500, 900 for persuading Gen.
Brady to sign certain contract The depart
ment will make public it's list of ninety three
routes on which the pay was increased by Brady
from 1927, 119 to $2,sO2, PA. This in
formation will be followed by the result Of the
investigation which has been made in the de-
partment since Mr. James became postmaster
general.
The secretary Of the interior and the COM
missioner of tho general land Office have de-
clded that the circular of the Freedman's Assoc
ciatien of St. Louis offering 100 acres of land
in the Okolona Indian Territory, cannot be car
ried out. The commissioner says: ssThe pres
ent attempt to make use of colored people of
the country, by deluding them with fictitious as
surances that new and congenial homes can be
provided for them within this territory, de-
serves especial Reproduction, since tho only eff
feet must be to involve innocent people in
criminal conspiracy, and to subject them to
disappointment, hardship and suffering. y
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-05-04

A column in the San Francisco Bulletin
II occupied by an answer to the question
asked by q citizen: "What are the best
country newspapers. The answer covers a
multitude of requisites, which may be con-
densed into general statements; that tho
best are those which gives the most local
information; that its legitimate field is
the country in which it is published; that is
ought to be so edited that from it an &C.
curate history of the country where it is
published could be made up without look
ing to other sources. The country paper
has other important functions but the chief
are enumerated.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-05-04

The reunion of the Army of the Ten
nessee at Cincinnati, wss pleasant in some
respects, but somewhat marred by Gen:
Sherman's attempt to fight the battle of
Shiloh over again. 4. great deal of bad
feeling was shown on all sides. "Old
Teoumseh," always co nbative, is growing
more irrascible then ever, and pronounces
ell men liars who venture to differ from him
in regard to that famous engagement. But
still. he is grand old soldier, and it will
take something more than contemporary
criticism to impeair the effulgent glory of
his military exploits.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-05-04

CO-oPERATIvE insurance, outside Of
secret societies., has become craze in some
portions Of Pennsylvania, and it is said the
lnsuring Of infants and aged people has led
to suspicious Of murder in some cases, and
that the death rate is increasing to an alarm
Ing extent throughout the entire specula-
tive insurance section. At Pottsville
prominent lawyer expressed the belief that
the prevailing craze would cause the muir
der Of more persons than the Iollie Ma
CURES. Ds IF ~ ~ s-%
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CONGRESSIONAL.
TUESDAY, APRIL %.

TUESDAY, APRIL ~.
The Senate assembled after an adjournment
munds the committee on judiciary had leave to
sit during the recess of the senate, if that ever
should occur, topursue some investigations up
on the subject of bankruptcy.
A motion TO- recess and kindred motions
were voted down. Lamar, who was paired
with a republican voted by mistake to go into
executive session, and the motion was carried
There was something of a sensation, but La-
mar corrected himself, the deadlock continued
as before, and the Senate adjourned
WEDNESDAY, April. ~.
Mr.. Morgan introduced resolution setting
forth the importance of q ship canal across the
isthnlus.
After two or three Intellectual roll calls, Mr.
Harris moved that the senate go into executive
session, stating that there were 800 nomina-
tons on the table awaiting action. Lost-23
to %.
At 2 O'clock, after voting down several dila-
tory motions, adjourned
The republican senators held caucus but no
decision was reached in regard to the condition
of things Probably q meeting will be held
within the next few days, but there is little or
no doubt it will result in some arrangement for
holding several executive sessions soon after
wards. The New York nominations and similar
subjects Of controversy did not enter into dis
cussion.
THURSDAY, APRIL %.
Senator Butler, Of South Carolina, made u
long speech in answer to Senator Burnside, in
which he recapitulated, under seventeen heads,
evidences of bargain between the republicans
and Senator Malone
The speech ended, Burnside and Hale en-
gagged Butler. Mr.. Burnside reasserted that
all charges that there was any corruption on his
side Of the chamber was false.
The senate adjourned until Monday, at which
time it is supposed some measures will be
adopted towards partial break of the dead
lock, so as to admit of confirmation Of appoint
ments.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-05-04
Miscellaneous Matter.

A new Haven firm sends thousands of
the red American fox SKINS to Russia every
year. These skins, which are used in the
Muscovite country to line costly garments,
are contributed, to q considerable extent,
by Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire
That we should send furs to Russia is as
odd az that we should send wines to France;
and yet both these things are done.
Boston Globe: Jay Gould writes checks
for 50, 400, 900 on old scraps of letter paper,
and the banks pay them; but if we should
write check for 1924 en- sheet of vellum
and plaster it all over with revenue stamps
and gilt seals, the man who presented it
would be handed over to the police. There
is something wrong in our civilization.
Where are our bombs?
The number of cigars smoked in Ger
many in a year is estimated at about G,5O4-,
600, QUO, representing constant and daily
consumption of two cigars per head for
III, OOO, 900 smokers Besides cigars, the
Germans smoke during the same period
more than 60, 900 tons Of tobacco which has
undergone more or less preparation, besides
using 5000 tons of snuff and 700 tons Of
tobacco for chewing.
lady graduate of medicine in Washing
ton has been rendered the position of resi-
dent physician on one Of the largest Indian
reservations in the west. We hope she will
accept and proceed there at once. We
know Of no cheaper or more certain method
than by placing all the reservations under
the medical charge of lady graduates. In
about 10 years live Indian would be
genuine curiosity.
London Truth; There are many highly
h1o Ill: A.
so long as man avoids games of chance
and sticks firmly to whist, he cannot loose
money in the long run, aad their is an anal
ogous delusion that if an owner of race.
horses does not bet he can not, with aver
age luck, be largely out of pocket by his
stud
Henry Ward Beecher's regiment, the
Thirteenth, Of Brooklyn, expected to go to
the Yorktown Centennial as the escort of
Governor Cornell; but, finding that the
regiment expected the state to pay their
transportation, Cornell informed them that
he would veto bill to that effect and he
finally declined their services altogether.
In Nevada there is a wonderful wood
known as mountain mahogany" The trees
do not grow large. A tree with trunk a
foot In diameter is much above the average.
When dry the wood is about as hard as box
wood, and being a very fine grain might, no
doubt, be used for the same purpose. It
is of rich red color and very heavy.
There is now in the vaults of the treasury
department larger amount of gold than
was ever known to be in one place in the
history of modern times, and probably
more than could be authenticated as exist
ing in single treasury at any time before
in the world. There is now about $173,-
OOO, 900, of gold coin and bullion, exclusive
of some $55,000,O0O, in silver, while the
bank Of England has only about s75,O0O,-
600, in gold. What is more singular is,
the demand recently, for as fast as it is
paid out it returns, showing that as long as
confidence is maintained it is not favorite
currency.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-05-04
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.

Secretary Lincoln has telegraphed Lieut.
Gen. Sheridan, of Chicago, requesting his
presence in Washington on department bust
ness.
A dispatch announces the death of Gen
McAuliffe, of Washington, at Newark, Ohio.
He died in the railroad depot while waiting for
q train.
I President Garfield has appointed John K.
Philadelphia members of the board of Indian
commissioners
The commissioner of internal revenue de-
cides that the money in custody of the govern
ment, and belonging to citizen, is not subject
to levy and attachment under the proceedings
instituted in State court by creditors
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-05-04

The reports of cattle losses during the
last winter are now said to be great exay-
gerations, especially those which referred to
the Yellowstone and other sections of Mon
tana, which will not aggregate over ten per
cent. Further south the percentage of
losses is much larger, but not so great as
eypeetn1
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-05-04
MINNESOTA NEWS.

Minnesota News by Telegraph and Mail.
w. E. Hawkins. republican, was reelected
Mayor of Red Wing without opposition.
The State Teachers Institute began at Wi
mona on Tuesday last. From 175 to 200 we're
in attendance.
Plans have been perfected and funds guar
anteed for the erection of a new hotel at White
Bear Lake, near St Paul
Thomas Brooks, formerly register of deeds
OF Olmsted county, has been appointed to q
clerkship in the treasury department. under Mr..
Window.
Fairbault Democrat: Hon. R. A Mott has
been In very poor health since the adjournment
of the legislature, being entirely unable to at
tend to business. A short time since he was
taken with vertigo, in his Office, and those pres
emit were greatly alarmed at his condition.
Hon. s. P. Stewart, the member from North
field, has also been quite sick
by Messrs Brown & Chew, the attorneys of Mr.,
81. D. Wheeler, against the St Paul, Minneapo-
lis & Manitoba railroad company for $4,000
damages. It will aforementioned that young
son of Mr.. Wheeler's was killed last fall in an
accident on the Morris. & Browns Valley
branch, caused by the engine and several
cars leaving the track,
stranger, apparently German, about 80
years old, died very suddenly at the Lake house
in Sleepy Eve, Brown county, Saturday evening,
from the effects of prolonged spree. From a
letter found on his person his name is supposed
to be F. seager, of New Lisbon, Wis, and that
he has a wife at that place. He represented
himself to belong to the I. 0. o. F., to be a
butcher by trade, and that he was on his way to
Dakota to take up land.
The second hospital for the insane, in Roch-
ester, is constantly undergoing enlargement
and improvement Mr.. H. E. Horton has just
completed the plans and drawings for a new
engine house, the contract of which will be let
soon, so that work on it may be commenced
within a couple of months and completed this
season. This new structure is to be located
100 feet in the rear of the present engine
house, which it is to supersede 1t is for the
accommodation of the engine and set Of Fer
merrick boilers of 800 horse power,
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-05-04

TAXPAYERS associations are popular in
eastern cities and towns. In many cases
local expenses have been cut down ten,
twenty and thirty per cent. without i'm
pairing in the least the efficiency Of NUM-
cipal organizations
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-05-04

Supreme Court Decision on Mechanics LIENS
The Supreme court Of Minnesota, by Justice
CLARK, has rendered decision, the syllabus of
which follows: A mechanics lien for labor per
the repairing of building is not terminated by
the destruction Of the building by fire after the
perfor nance and furnishing of such labor and
materials, but before the account provided for
by section z, chapter 80, general statutes of
1873, is filed for record: but may, notwith-
standing the destruction Of the building, be
enforced against the land on which it was
situated.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-05-04

The reports Of cattle losses during the
last winter are now said to be great exag-
gerations, especially those which referred to
the Yellowstone and other sections of Mon
tana, which will not aggregate over ten per
cent. Further south the percentage Of
losses is much larger, but not 20 great as
expected. "
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-05-04

The barge rate for wheat from st. Louis
to New Orleans is three cents per bushel,
and to Liverpool it is said to be less than
by rail from Chicago to New York.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-05-04
CURRENT EVENTS.

John G.. Palfrey, at one time editor OF the
North American Review, died in Boston aged
eighty-fve.
Harwood the Minneapolis swindler, is living
with his family at Daytona, on the Halifax liv-
er, Florida, and has bought land aud gone to
raising oranges.
The Indiana coffin works at Indianapolis
were burned on Sunday last. The total loss is
estimated at $25, 5000; insurance, $4,000
The fire was of incendiary origin.
The Milwaukee chamber of commerce COM
mittee that was appointed to investigate the
charges of bribery against Patrick Mailer, a
grain inspector, reported that he had been
found guilty, and expelled him from the asso-
citation.
Whitelaw Ried, editor of the New York Tri-
bune and Miss Elizabeth Mills, daughter Of Mr.
married at the residence of the brides father
on Fifth avenue, opposite the academy of mu-
sic, New York.
Glasgow papers state that Catherine Marshall,
aged seventy four, the wife of a railway labor
er, has not taken food since the beginning of
the present year. She takes little water daily,
but scarcely ever sleeps. She is greatly enact
ated, but her pulse is perfectly natural.
The record of failures for last week through
out the United States and Canada, as reported
to Bradstreet's, again shows a decrease, the
number being only 81 as against LOG for the
previous week. This is the lowest number re-
ported for many months, and affords striking
contrast to the number recorded for the week
ending March Is, when they reached the high
figure of $50. majority Of failures were of
small concerns, many of which had been an
! ticipated for some tune, and of course do not
affect the general trade Of the country, which
is in sound condition.
| Gov. Long, Of Massachusetts, has replied to
the protest Of Wendell Phillips against the exc
cution of Storms X. Abbott. The governor
claims for himselft the same humanity as Phil
lips on the subject Of capital punishment and
had recommended the council to commute the
sentence He says: with the council opposed
have no more power in the case than you lave
either to pardon or commute cannot with
hold 0, refuse to sign death warrant because
the warrant under the present law is issued by
the court at the time of sentence" Regarding
Phillips insinuations as to the motive on the
governors part, the latter asks for statement
of it and says he Phillips) does not really be-
ieve there is one. It was cowardly to make an
insinuahon without deliberation.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-05-04

county, in the year 1907, when the state was
q Wilderness held chiefly by Indians, and
tn old pioneer, Boone, was recognized as
the sole authority in matters of dispute and
doubt by the few settlers who lived beyond
the influence of the feeble post authorities
at st. Louis. Mrs Bryan remembered the
old pioneer distinctly, having often met
him at his own house and at her fathers,
and she could relate many incidents Of
himself and the times in which he lived.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-05-04
NEWS SUMMARY.
RATIROAI

RAILROADS.
he Winona and St Peter is free of snow at
last
The contract for grading twenty-five miles
of the Wisconsin & Michigan road, from Fort
Howard north, has been let to L. Rossiter, La
Crosse.
By recent changes. in the Northern Pacific,
Mr. M. p Martin becomes auditor, Mr.. g. G..
San ,orn local treasurer at st. Paul, and Col
Newport land commissioner.
President Stephen, of the Canadian Pacific
railway, who has just returned from England,
is confident that another year will see the tide
of immigration to the northwest largely in.
creased
The directors of the Northern Pacific have
decided to place the price of all the agricultur
al lands of the company from Duluth to Bis.
marck at the uniform rate of $4 per acre, pay
able in preferred stock, with q rebate Of IS
per cent. per acre upon the total acreage brok
en- within two years of purchase. This discount
applies to all land broken; thus if party turns
over his entire farm, he is entitled to receive
back one quarter of the amount he paid the
company for. The directors decided at the
same meeting to continue selling agricultural
lands west of the Missouri river at the standard
price of So. 50 per acre, the same az govern
ment rates.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-05-04

The tone of the radical journals begins to be
outspoken against monument to Beaconsfeld
in Westminster
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-05-04

FIRES AND OTHER CASUALTIES.
Thordo mill and lumber yard at Fife Lake,
Mich, was burned Sunday. Loss $lO,OOO;
no insurance
John Kirchen, a sweep, was caught in the
machinery at Kern's Touring works: Milwaukee,
and was horribly mudlated. He died in a few
minutes He was thirty-three years old, and
leaves family. a
Thomas Radford, aged twetn-two, of Milton
Junction, Wisconsin, was instantly killed on
the st. Paul road near this city. He was stand
ing on car of construction train, and was
crushed to death by being da shed against the
timbers Of a bridge.
Jerry Hartnett of Waterloo, Iowa, conduct
or in charge of an accommodation tram going
east on the Illinois Central railway, was run
over and killed between Manchester and Ma
sonville He was seen few minutes before
the accident, fixing the bell cord on some Hat
cars and shortly after his body was seen lying
on the track.
Five men were drowned at Beloit Wisconsin,
while attempting to save the dam of Arnold t.
Kimball's strawband mill. AL Griffin leaves
wife and one child, VIM Comstock leaves
wife and one child, Dan Anderkirk leaves
wife and two children, and AL Bucklen leaves q
wife. James Anderkirk, another of the drowned
men. was single and the twin brother OF
Dan.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-05-04

RETURNED Floridians are sorry they did
not stay longer in the land Of sunshine,
flowers, strawberries, green peas, bananas
and alligators.