The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-05-16
| and oper threats Of lynching are made by eia-
Hz..e.,,.-ecus News Metes.

Palmer & BatchiJdar's liabilities, Boston, are
S1S3,O0O; nominal assets, slfu,0o1
Boston's bank presidents gave John Jay
Knox a grand dinner Monday night
Doane & Co. Chicago grocers, have 100000
chests Of condemned tea dust at San Francisco,
John Forbes must leave the Asbury Metho-
dist church of New York for saying amen" TOO
loud in services. That way OF worship lsho"
Questionable. .,l.
Daniel B. Fisher of Leesport, Pa, has made
an assignment Liabilities Sl5O,O00 Fisher
was reported to be in financial straits for some
time. Assets $4,000.
Homer NJ. and L K. Hill, recently of Ohio,
have purchased a controlling interest IN the
Helena Mon. } Independent and VIII have the
business management Of the paper COL WOOL
folk ~retires.
Gov. Cleveland has signed the bull TO pro
hibit the board Of educatian IN New York CITY
from closing the schools to colored children
The board had voted to close them next Sep
TENDER, but this stops them.
The decentralization at Chicago continues,
and prevailing provision rates are about l'13
cents per 100 pounds. The West Shore was
held responsible for making contracts Tor
200 barrels Of pork at a l753 cent rate.
The American Congregational union held its
annual meeting in New York Thursday, the
nth. The total receipts of the year were Sos
377, and expenditures s1lJ,5l4, money granted
to l02 churches, and s24,o@ for building par
sonages.
The Maryland republican convention re-
solved: That Hon. James g.. Blaine is the
choice of the Republicans of Maryland, and,
while thus expressing our preference, we
yJalna +ha papuh1ioon Marty nf MARYLAND To
the nominee of the Republican convention.
The sixty-eighth annual meeting of the direct
ors of the American Bible society took place
in New York Thursday, the 9TH. The annual
report showed that during the past year 1851
O51 copies of the Bible were distributed in this
country, and 45l, 164 abroad. The report ap-
peals for more generous contributions to the
fund.
John F. Harriet, the property clerk at the New
York police headquarters, testified the other
day that he had in July last, by order of the
police commissioners, destroyed 100000
worth Of gambling implements, including six
barrels of ivory chips, six barrels of celluloid
and bone chips, three barrels of cards, twelve
barrels of keno cards, one peck of dice, 500
deal boxes, $50 card boxes, 10 roulette tables,
125 sweat cloths, % hazard boxes, 2O0lay-outs,
and % keno boxes. .
The tfty-ninth annual meeting of the Amer
lean Tract society was held in New York
Sixty-three missionaries the past year visited
1885, 25 families, 24,619 of whom were Protes-.
tants who did not attend evangelical preaching;
1929 were destitute of religious reading and
7,433 were without the word of God. Mission
aries also addressed 4,6l4 religious meetings
and circulated 49,, 463 volumes. The donations
and legaeies of the year were sos, S69, which
with sum from other sources makes the total
receipts, including the balance from last year,
s557,47 The expenditures, including the re-
duction of mortgages to the extent Of $4,000,
were s354,0S2.