Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1890-10-30
The News Of the Week,
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL
FROM WASHINGTON.

FROM WASHINGTON.
In the United States the visible sun
ply of grain in store on the goth was:
Wheat, 1S,6O7, 246 bushels; corn, $780,
400 bushels
PRESIDENT HARRISON has been petit
toned by the local Wage Workers
Political Alliance in Washington to
present the name of Mrs. Elizabeth
Cady Stanton to the Senate of the
United States as an Associate Justice,
in the place of.Justice Miller, deceased.
AT his home in Washington A. r.
Mullett, aged So years, long the Super
vising Architect of the United States
Treasury, committed suicide on account
of poor health.
INsPECToR-GENERAL DuMoNT, of the
Steamboat Inspection service. shows in
his annual report that during the past
year there were "a accidents, resulting
in the loss of 234 lives. decrease of Sc
as compared with the preceding year.
General Dumont says that no mode of
travel at the present day shows so low
percentage of accidents as the travel
by steam vessels.
In session at Washington the Su-
preme Council of the Scottish Rite
Masons initiated thirty-four mem bers in
the thirty third. the CHEST Masonic
degree.
THE Sixth Auditor of the Treasury in
his report shows that the total postal
revenues of the Government for the last
fiscal year wore $50, sS2. O97, an increase
over the preceding year OF 4,7O5, 4S6.
The excess of expenditures over rev.
enne was $5,Ois,619, against SIS, 2O1, 1886
for the year before. The total value of
stamps sold was 1851, 724, an in
crease over the previous fiscal year of
81, 69S, 622.
CLAIMS to the number of Al, 03s. aggre-
eating S16S, 135, 40, were settled by the
Treasury Department during the fiscal
year ended June 80, 1890.
FIRST AUDITOR FISHER, in his annual
report to the Secretary of the Treasury,
shows that during the last fiscal year
that Office passed on 2,761 receipt ac-
counts, representing Sl,019, 6s4 43O, and
on 81 SGT disbursement accounts, repre-
senting 81. 1875, S79, $50.
IN the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended on
the gath numbered 225, against 227 the
preceding week and 225 the corresponds
ing week last year.
SIN MILLION packages of free seeds
will be distributed this season by mem
bers Of Congress.
THE EAST.
The Labor party OF Connecticut met in
convention and nominated full State
ticket with Henry G. Baldwin for Gov
ernor.
THE death was reported of DR.. John
F. Boynton, of Syracuse, N. Y, who was
the friend and adviser of Agassiz, and
the inventor of many successful de-
vices.
ORDERS have been issued by the
United States Express Company to it's
agents not to receive money. tickets or
lists of drawings from the Louisiana
Lottery Company or in any way to as
sist in the transaction of lottery bust
ness.
AT Forest City, Pa, John Marched
sold his young and pretty wife to
Stephen Muskar for $ll5.
The mayor of Philadelphia thinks the
census count Of that city is rs, 900 too
small, and proposes to take a police
census in November.
For assaulting a newspaper reporter
Mayor Gleason, OF Long Island Citv,
was sentenced to five days in Jail and to
pay fine of $3.50.
HENRY w. SAGE at Getting Of the
C0rno1 ITriCorSitr frrct Of
n. Y, added 5000, 900 to his previous
gift of 100000 for the establishment of
a department of philosophy. MIR. Sage's
gifts now aggregate more than ST. 900, :
000 The presidents report showed
1914 students in actual attendance, an
increase over any previous year.
IN a storm off Fall River, Mass, a
yacht was lost and six persons on board
were drowned.
AT Concord, n. H., the tronze statue
of Major-General John Stark, the hero
of the battle of Bennington, was I'M
vailed in the State house yard.
ALONG the Atlantic coast terrific
storms ragged on the 23d, doing great
damage to shipping, and incoming
vessels were roughly handled.
On the oath Mrs. Adam Wuchter, of
Whitehall, Pa, had tasted for 225 days.
In blacksmith-shop in New York
Joseph Wood and Carl Harg fought
duel with crow-bars and fractured each
others skulls.
FIRE destroyed Leighton's shoe fac
tory and several other buildings at East
Pepperell, Mass, causing loss Of $780,
OO0.