Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-07-09
The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.
FROM WASHINGTON.

FROM WASHINGTON.
In United States the visible supply
Of grain on the goth ult. was: Wheat,
Is, 800, 3S6 bushels: corn, 1851; O51 BUSH
els oats. 1866, 24S
THE state department has received
official notice of the death on June of
Alexander Clark, United States minister
to Liberia.
News was received that the congress
Of Venezuela had responded favorably
to the reciprocity provision of the
United States tariff act of 1890.
a census bureau bulletin shows that
the number of schools for the blind in
the United States in 1890 was 1881,
while in 1880 the number was 2,O41.
THE appointment of Mark w. Har-
rington, Il professor in the university
of Michigan, as chief of the govern
ment weather bureau, was announced.
IN the United States the business
failures for the last six months show
an increase Of ST. as compared with
the total of the first half of 1890, the
totals being 6,O36 for 1891 and 5,466 for
1890. The liabilities for 1891 were SOL
270,2 52, against So, S6l,9 61 for 1890; as
sets for 1891, SIS 200, 400, against $780,
OPS. 11G for 1890.
From 1921 to 1890 the arrivals of i'm
migrants in this country reached 49,
GAL, 5SS The arrivals from 1871 to 1890
were s, 12O, 90T. OF 5l.92 per cent. of the
total arrivals from 1921 to 1890. The
only leading countries from which az
rivals have fallen off during the past
ten years are France and China. OF
the arrivals during the ten years from
1881 to 1891. 3.205,9l1 were males and
2.040, 0T3 We're females. The greater
portion of females came from Ireland
THE statement of the public debt is
sued on the list showed the total debt
to be Sl,0OS, O25, 226: cash in the trea-
sury, S153, S93, sos; debt less cash in the
treasury, Sl,549, 99G, sol. Decrease dur
ing June, $2,21S, sos. Decrease since
June 80, 1890, $50, 4d5,s19
CENSUS report shows that the total
value of the mineral products of the
United States at the eleventh census
amounted to $3.50, 9SS, 400, the greatest
total ever reported for any country.
The number of industrial mining es-
Establishments was given at 80, 900. The
number OF persons employed in mining
industries 5l2,114. The annual wages
paid them aggregate S2l2, 400, 500. The
capital employed in mining operations
was Sl,175, 900, 900.
The sugar industry statistics of Cuba
for the last ten years show an average
production and export Of $50, 900 tons,
~ per cent of which came to the United
States.
THE president has issued a proclama-
ton granting the privilege of copyright
in this country tot the citizens of Great
Britain, France, Belgium and Switzer-
land.
TIE monthly cotton report shows
that the movement into sight during
June was 103, 43S bales, exceeding all
records for that month The total
amount of the cotton crop market for
the ten months from September to
June inclusive was s, 493,313 bales.
IT was decided at a cabinet meeting
to extend the AZ per cent. bonds at 2
per cent.
The president has appointed William
E. Simmons, Of Connecticut, commits
sioner of patents.
TIE exchanges at the leading clear
lighthouses in the United States during
the week ended on the 4th aggregated
$1,000, 3d., 472, against 500, 662, 020 the
previous week. AS compared with the
corresponding week of 1890 the decrease
amounted to 11.3.
TIE business failures in the United
States during the seven days ended on
the 3rd number 2*7, against 234 the
preceding week and 100 for the corre-
spending week last year.
THE EAST.
AT a Christian church sociable at
Brushton, n. Y, forty three persons
We're poisoned by ice cream and Rev.
Mr.. Braun, rector of the Episcopal
church, and, two ladies died and all the
others were in a critical condition.
JEALOUSY caused John Rausch to
kill his sweetheart, Maria Burcl1ett,
and then himself at Lawrence, Mass.
THE boiler Of an engine near White
Haven, Pa. exploded, killing Engineer
Thomas Trip, Fireman j. Pope and
Brakemen Gallagher and Smith.
TIE firm of Mcbride Bros, tea mer-
chants in New York city, made an as
signment with liabilities of $311, 531
and assets of S1SS, $40.
ALEXANDER WIssE shot and mortally
wounded Maria Hodig and then COM
mitted suicide in New York.
JUDGE WILSON sentenced John
Bardsley, the defaulting treasurer of
Philadelphia, to fifteen years solitary
confinement in the pcnitentiary and to
pay fine equal to the amount Of his
EN- beZzlement, which may reach $3.50,
900.
LETTER carriers unveiled in New
York a statue>of the late '!Sunset" Cox.
THE death of Hannibal IIamlin, who
was vice president of the United States
from 1860 to 1865, occurred suddenly at
G:15 p. III. on the 18th at Bangor, Me-, OF
heart disease, aged 50 years. He was
a United States senator from 1917 tC
1856. In January, 1851 he was elected
governor OF Maine, and week after
his inauguration he was again chosen
senator; in 1860 he became vice presi.
dent, and in 1860 he again took his seat
n the senate and remained until 1881
when he retired from public life.
WEST AND SOUTH.
THE national bank at Newton, Kan,
which failed November 80, 1899, has re.
opened it's doors with 500, 900 new cap
ital.
IT was claimed bv the MinneanOlis