Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1890-12-04
THE EAST,

SAMUEl and Edward Weller (brotherS)
were drowned near Troy, N. Y, by
breaking through the ice while skat.
ing.
TIE firm of Thomas Fawcett & Co.,
extensive coal dealers at Pittsburgh,
Pa, failed for 500. 900.
The failure of Edward Brandon, a
member of the New York Stock Ex-
change since 1852, for 81, 500, 600 was re-
ported.
The death of August Belmont, the
famous banker, occurred at his home in
New York on the gath from the effects
of cold contracted at the horse show.
He was in his 74th year.
The death of benjamin P. Shillaber,
the veteran humorist and author, known
the world over as Mrs. Partington, :"
occurred at 8 o'clock on the evening Of
the 25th at his home in Chelsea. Mass,
at the age o. IS years. He had been
troubled with intlammatory rheumatism
for some years. He leaves four chill
dren. his wife having died in 1883.
On the 25th Captain Norton, his wife
-hd niece sailed from New London,
Conn.,, in their eighteen-foot steamer.
They were bound for Liverpool via the
Azores.
CHARLIE Ross. son of Christian K.
Ross, OF Philadelphia, who was kid
mapped sixteen years ago, was on the
25th declared to have been found in
New. York City. He had been reared
among the lower classes of the metrop-
oils and had been taught to regard his
family with contempt, being told that
they were too parsimonious to redee M
him.
BIG stand of free seats erected at
Eastern Park in Brooklyn, N. Y,
for the Yale-Princeton football game
collapsed and hurled to the ground over
1000 persons, fifty of whom were in
jured, none fatally.
Tie youth in Jail in Boston who
claimed to be Charlie Ross was visited
by Mr.. Ross, father of the lost boy, who
said the Boston youth was not his long
lost son.
JUDGE e. LOCKWOOD HoAR and wife
celebrated their golden wedding at Con.
cord, Mass.
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS resigned
the presidency Of the Union Pacific
road and Sidney Dillon was chosen as
his successor.
THE New York World was sold for
81, 100000 to a Philadelphia syndicate
headed by George w. Childs. editor OF
the Public Ledger, and A. j. Drexel,
the banker.
The firm of B. X. Jamison & Co.,
bankers and brokers at Philadelphia,
failed for ST. 600, ooc.
AT CLosTER, N. j., John Gerhard, his
wife and their two children were in.
stantly killed by train on the Northern
railroad.
The death of Benjamin Wright, aged
So years, occurred at Trenton, N. j. He
had eaten nothing for five months on
account OF stomach trouble.
P. LoRILLARD REYNOLDS residence al
Newton, Conn, was burned, causing a
loss of 100000.
Four men, William Blythe. Harlow
Bennett, James Furgeson and Calvin F.
Campbell, were drowned near Oswego
N. Y, Iy the capsizing OF boat.
WEST AND SOUTH.
By the caving in of q warehouse al
Louisville, KY, $4,000 barrels of whisky
were crushed. Loss, 500, 200.
DIR. A. NJ. TURNER, of Falkville, Ala,
an ex-member of the Legislature
choked his wife and little daughter t.
! death. The doctor had twice been in
an insane as lum.
IN three hours after James Shumaker
of Wabash, Ind, was divorced from Lis
| wife he married Miss Lucy Richey.
AT Heborn. Ind, burglars robbed the
safe OF Bryant, Dowd & Co. of $4,000
!, then set the building on fire, and Una
| and seven other buildings were de
stroyed.
/ In the streets of Milwaukee William
! Clarke, president Of the Sheboygau
Electric Light s. Power Company, wa.
robbed OF $40, 500 in cash.
FIRE destroyed the Cheboygan Lum
Der Company's docks at Chaboygan,
| Mich, causing q loss of $500, 900.
ARTHUR HARoLD's home at Seattle
Wash, was burned. and his wife anc
two little children persisted in thu
flames