Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1890-11-27
The News Of the Week
FROM WASHINGTON.
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL

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IN his annual report Surgeon General
| Hamilton takes decided ground against
the existing immigration law and
makes strong argument for the re-
striction of immigration. Fifteen in
sane persons and eleven idiots were re-
ported by the medical officer among the
| Immigrants arriving at New York dur
ing the year.
In the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended on
the 2lst numbered 274, against 266
the preceding week and 277 the CORE
spending week last year.
The Census Bureau has paid $4,000 Of
the $4,000 enumerators. They hava re-
ceived $3.50, 900, at which rate the pay
of the enumerators alone will amount
to $1,000, 000
Ir.was reported by Commodore Folger
of the ordnance bureau of the Navy
Department, that tests of nickel-steel
have proved successful. and that it may
be confidently anticipated that nickel.
steel will enter into the composition Of
projectiles.
IT has been decided by the Treasury
Department that grain taken to Can
ada to be ground can not be returned to
the United States without payment of
duty.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the ed aggregated
81, 345, 100. 566, against 81, 500, 1884, 479, the
corresponding week of 1889 the Increase
amounted to 93.
AN unofficial list Of members of the
Fifty-second Congress compiled by the
clerk shows 222 Democrats, 81 Repub-
licans and II Alliance men.
THE EAST.
On the 10th Captain Francis L. Nor
toms ffty-eight foot steam yacht with
ten persons on board left New York for
Toulon, France.
THE failure of Barker Brothers & Co.,
bankers and brokers of Philadelphia,
for $4,000, 600 was announced.
AT the sale in New York of horses
owned by cx-Congressman Scott, Bolero,
2-year-old, was sold to Philip Dryer
for $35, COO.
THE former note teller in the Flour
City Bank at Rochester, n. Y, Moses
Marks, secured $50, 900 in money sent
10 the bank by express and made his
escape.
FLAMES destroyed Harney's Hotel and
eight dwellings at Nanticoke, Pa.
TIE fact was disclosed by the death
of Maria L. Perry at Whitman, Mass,
that for twenty years she and Lucy A.
Lobdell had been living together as
man and wife.
A COMMERCIAL agency of New York
reported that Notwithstanding the
financial troubles in the East the gen.
eral business of the country continued
large.
On the Meriden railroad near Meri-
den, Coun., eight freight cars were
hurled over a trestle, three men being
fatally hurt
In Brooklyn the Twenty-sixth Ward
Bank was robbed of SIS, 900 in broad day
light by the old trick of calling the
cashier outside on the plea that Gus
toner had a nervous horse which he
could not leave.
JAY GOULD had, it was said, secured
control of all the great railways west of
the Mississippi river.
FLAMES ruined Bamford Bros. silk
mill at Paterson, n. j. Loss, $500, 600;
insurance, $500, OOO
THE shrinkage in values of stocks and
bonds upon the New York Stock Elk
change since June amounted to $500,
900, 900, and Jay Gould was said to be
richer to the extent of $50, 600, 600.
AT Wilkesbarre, Pa, John c. Terrell,
a wealthy citizen, had not on the 22d
eaten morsel of food for two weeks.
| He persistently refused to eat, insist.
ing that he was dead and did not re-
quire food. His case was a puzzle to
physicians.
IN Western New York snow fell to
the depth Of eight inches on the 22d.
THE death of r. T. Tobin, National
Vice-Commander of the Grand Army OF
! the Republic, occurred in Boston at the
! age of Sc years.