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Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-09-24
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS.
TRIED 70 BOIL KEROSENE.

4 Dreadful Accident Caused by Q Mime
sofa WOman's Mistake.
A terrible accident occurred at the
home of John Baumchen in Rush City,
whose wife had just died. The body
had been prepared for burial and placed
in the parlor. Mrs. Potter, sister Of
Mrs. Baumchen, put a boiler on the
stove containing what she supposed to
be water, but which proved to be ten gall
Ions of kerosene which had been emp
tied into the boiler from leaking can.
The oil soon began to boil and in ten
minutes exploded, setting the house on
fire in dozen places. The flames soon
enveloped the parlor and set on fire the
corpse and the coffin, the lid Of which
had not been fastened. Frank and Philip
Baumchen, sons of the dead woman,
rushed through the flames and tried to
secure the body but were driven back.
John Baumchen, another son, rushed
in, and grasping the remains ran
through a sheet of fire, his clothes be-
ing burned from his. body and his
hands and face burned to a blister. He
would die. Mr.. Baumchen, ST., and
Miss Lizzie Stenger jumped from a
second story window, the latter being
rendered unconscious by her bruises.
The house was burned to the ground in
twenty minutes.
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LATER.

The banking world of London, Eng,
has just been startled by the announce
ment that an important bank robbery
has taken place in the city. The insti-
tuition that has suffered is the London
and Westminster bank Qimited), No.
81 Lathbury, E. c., an important es.
tablishment, having over fifteen branch
houses in this city. The thief or
thieves must have cleverly watched for
the proper opportunity to accomplish
the robbery and to have gained access
to an apartment near the main en-
trance to the bank. This apartment
the parcel of bills is supposed to have
been stolen while the bank officials
were busily engaged in another apart
ment, in going over the accounts Of
last weeks settlement. The amount
secured was about 81, O0O, 900.
The Great Northern hallway has
opened up new branch from Eagle
Bend through Wadena to Park Rapids,
200 miles from st. Paul. Park Rapids
is the nearest railway to Lake Itasca,
the source of the Mississippi. The
Great Northern has also opened new
branch from Great Falls to Barker ir
the Belt mountains mining district Of
| Montana.
! AT Middleburg, VT, on the 21st, Mrs.
| Wimmette and her twelve-year-old son
were carried into the river by rum
away horse and drowned.
| A HURRICANE swept over the river
Mersey, England, the 21st, doing con-
siderable damage to shipping. At
/! Blackpool, Lancashire, the houses have
been inundated and great amount of
damage has been done to crops. Re-
ports from several sections of North
! Wales show that the storm has flooded
the valleys in that section of the coun-
try and that the farmers have suffered
severely.
AT Darlington, Wis, the 21st, a mob
took Anton Sieboldt, and hanged him
to a tree. Sieboldt was a desperate
character, who on Wednesday previous
brutally murdered James Meighan, a
Ineighbor. I.
DuR1NG the early morning hours Of
the 21st, three masked men entered the
! Pacific house, st. Joseph, Mo-, and Gov
ering the clerk with revolvers, robbed
the safe Of over $500 in cash and valua-
bles.
ENGLAND, Italy, Germany and tile
United States, have decided to make !
mbined NASAL demonstration IN Chi.
nese waters.
Wheat sold the a1st II Chicago, for
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WEST AND SOUTH.

1t was reported that the shipments
Of wheat in Kansas had become so
heavy as to blockade the railroads
INDIANA tax commissioners fixed the
assessment of railway property in In
diana at $3.50, 800. SIS, against $50, 1852, 676
last year.
The Michigan Methodist Episcopal
conference voted-146 to 81 in favor
of admitting women as delegates to
general conferences.
EXPRESS trains on the Union Pacific
railroad, near Beatrice, Neb, collided,
and two men were fatally and one was
seriously injured.
b. S. WooDwORTH, a prominent ply
sician of Indiana, died suddenly at his
home in Fort Wayne, aged II wears.
THERE WIS shipped from Ottawa, ILL.,,
to Mexico the first train load of fire
proof material ever sent from one
country to another.
Two MARBLE slabs, one Of them bear
ing the inscription, ''June /, 1885, and
the other the date ZIG, were found
near La Harpe. Ill They were sup.
posed to mark the resting places Of LA
Sales explorers.
GEORGE HARRIS killed his wife and
S. +. Parker, a sewing machine agent,
! at Little Rock, Ark.
NEAR Warren, o., Jacob II. Shaffer,
aged 70, and. his daughter Ida. aged 80
were killed and his daughter Ella was
seriously burt at a railroad crossing
IN San Francisco NJ. B. Curtis, the
| well-knowll actor, killed Alexander
Grant, policeman. Curtis had been
drinking AMI was in the custody of the
! officer.
| In Indiana the total assessed valua
ton of corporate, real estate and per
sonal property aggregates S1,244,o0O,-
OOo, which is an increase of $40, 900, OOG
over last year.
Mrs. J. STEWART and her 2-year-o old
BABY were burned to death at Denver
Col. as Il result of the woman trying
to start a fire with kerosene.
WEST ERN railroads having terminal.
i in Chicago all report that they are un
able to supply shippers with a sufficien
! number of grain cars.
Thy death of John A. Latrobe, {
most distinguished and the Oldest mem
! Der Of the Baltimore bar, occurred a
his home in that city, aged 80 years.
The percentages OF the base ball club
in the National league for the weel
ended on the 18th were: Chicago. 1927
/ Boston, .5S3; New York SOS: Phila
! delphia, Sir; Cleveland, Al: Brooklyn
] .439; Pittsburgh, .4s2; Cincinnati, 1889
The percentages in clubs Of the Ameri
can association were: Boston, .69S; ST
/ Louis, .6sl; Baltimore. $40; Athletic
.537; Colum bus. .459; Milwaukee, .432
Washington, .342; Louisville. 1886.
FIVE men, two Of them brother
named Jackson, were drowned Will,
crossing the St Louis river hear Go
quet, MINI.
! In Barton county, Kan, William
Klein and wife shut their four it'll
children in the house while they wer
at work abou their farm. In som
way the house took fire and the Chill
agen persisted ii the damea.
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THE EAST.

MASSACHUSETTS prohibitionists in
session at Worcester nominated state
ticket headed by Charles II. Kimball, Of
Lynn, for governor. William Oscar
Armstrong. colored man, was nomi-
mated for auditor.
The death of Maj. ]. NJ Bundy, ed
itor of the New York Mail and Express,
occurred in Paris from stroke of APP
oplexy.
REPUBLICANS in state convention at
Rochester, n. Y, nominated a full state
ticket, headed by J. s. Fassett for gov
ernor.
Col. J. G. LEE, formerly of the
United States army. was found dead in
| bed at New York hotel
0. C. WILSON, JR., paying teller of
the Produce national bank of Phila-
delphia, was arrested, charged with
the embczzlement of a large sum of
! money.
The explosion of the boiler of loco
motive at Jamaica, l.. l., caused the
death of the engineer, fireman and a
brakeman.
GEORGE WHITE, parachute jumper,
made an ascension from the Eldora
gardens in New York city, and in his
| descent landed in the East river and
was drowned. .
Two PERsONs-an unknown young
man and a young woman. committed
suicide by jumping into Niagara river
! just above the falls
The death of ex-Congressman C, B.
Clark, of Neenah, Wis, occurred at
Theresa, n. Y.
CORNELIUS REAGAN, an iron molder
! at bethlehem, Pa, hiccoughed himself
to death He began six weeks ago and
had tasted ever since for relief.
| AT the National Association of Rail-
way Postal Clerks in session at Alex
andria Bay, N. Y, H. NJ Robinson, of
Atlanta, Ga, was elected president.
FIRE destroyed the Delaware iron
works at Newcastle and 800 hands
were thrown out of employment. Loss,
$500, O0o
NINE workmen dropped so feet by
the fall of scaffold at Salisbury, Pa,
| and four were killed and the others
badly injured.
| On the New York Central railroad a
special train of three coaches went
from New York to Buffalo, distance
of 1863 miles, in $40 minutes, includ
ing three stops of IA minutes. This
eclipses all records of fast time for long
runs.
AT Salem, Mass, George Bailey Lor-
/ ing, ex-minister of Portugal and for
merly commissioner of agriculture, died
suddenly from heart trouble, aged "a
years.
WHILE cruising in Staten Island
sound a yacht was run into by a tug
boat and capsizea and Henry Fairchild
and Walter Dodd, young men, residents
of Orange, n. j., Were drowned.
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New Railway Facilities.

The committe appointed at the re
cent mass meeting of citizens in Du-
luth to draft scheme for terminal
railway facilities for the benefit of all
roads entering Duluth has reported.
The report provides for the construc-
ton of road from Fond du Lac to the
Lester river and down to Minnesota
point. Each railroad lessee must pay
an annual rental of per cent. CT the
net cost of the portion used, pro-
vided the annual income shall not ex-
coed 10 per cent. of the cost of construc-
ton and equipment. Charges are to be
no higher than in Douglas county,
Wis, (West Superior) for the same
service. It is proposed to expend ST.
100000 in the construction of the line.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-09-24

THIS is season of dreadful tragedies
There are disasters o. various sorts
buildings crumble, and death is in. their
ruins; ships sink, and railroad trains
carry their passengers to destruction.
OF course, these are but condolences,
yet sometimes these unfortunate occur
rcnces come in groups as if there were
some unknown law which regulates
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-09-24
The New, l,r,e,lv Uaronicled.

The News Isrleuy Carontcled.
Adelbert Goheen, the Fergus Falls
murderer, must hang October %.
Washburn & Finches' threshing ma
chine engine set fire to six stacks of
barley on the farm of Otis Marshall,
near Plainview, which were consumed.
Loss, $500.
The residence of Lyman Alexander,
west of Faribault, has been destroyed
by fire with all its contents
Bishop Whipple has received the sum
of $4,000 to be used in endowing pro-
fessorship in the Seabury divinity
school at Faribault The name of the
donor was withheld.
Charles Lumley, aged 60 years, Pic,
neer resident of Minneapolis, commit
ted suicide.
The boom scale record at Mime.
apolis for August smashes all the
records and indicates lumber cut OF
45O,OOO,O0O feet for the season.
A. G. Hawley, a brakeman formerly
Of Dover, was killed by the cars be.
tween Joliet and Chicago.
f. w. Hatch, of Lake City, and L. r.
Holbrook, of Northfeld, have been APP
pointed cadets in the West Point On.
W military academy.
George o. Nett.eton, of st. Paul, has
brought suit to recover SIG, 800 lost
playing poker.
John Harvey, of Bird Island, lost
1900 bushels of wheat, 500 bushels OF
onts, 80 tons of hay and his granary by
prairie fire.
]. ]. Lusk, bookkeeper in the Enter.
prise Lumber Company's office at Wi.
mona, had his right leg broken near the
ankle when making sudden dismount
from his horse.
Ignatius Donnelly says .stHe Farm.
mer's Alliance of Minnesota has moth.
ing whatever to do with the various
circulars that have been issued from
st. Paul advising farmers to hold their
wheat for higher prices. .
The thirty third annual state fail
proves to have been the only financially
successful one ever held. The officers
figured up the situation and report that
the attendance was 81 1000, and the net
surplus of receipts nearly $4,000.
Fire was discovered in W. Koenirh's
elevator at Plainview and was soon
consumed The loss was $40, 900, nc
insurance.
J. B. Beecher, railroad engineer on
the Milwaukee road, died on his engine
at Faribaul
p. L. Emery, prominent capitalist
of Duluth, died in that city aged s;
/ years. He carried life insurance s.
5000, 600 So
Ore shipments from the Vermilipr
range are now only 20,7OO ton. behind
those Of last year at this tinle. and the
ore is coming in from the mines at 1
!, faster rate than it was in 1890.
81 DR.. G. N. Hewitt, secretary 81 the
state board Of health, il home from
England, where he has been attending
the international medical congress s.
representative Of Minnesota.
A tail-end collision between two
I Northern Pacific cattle trains occurxed
8 near Elk River and the condncto 81
one train had his wrist broken and
brakeman was slightly injured.
The new odd fellows hall at Ell
River was publicly dedicated by Grand
Master w. B. Johnson, Of st Paul as
!. sisted BY Grand Secretary Bolton and
many visiting odd fellows from st,
Papl Minneapolis Rnd lsewhers,
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-09-24

THE amount of coloring matter
stored in coal is such that one pound
ofthe mineral yields magenta sufficient
to color 800 yards of flannel aurine for
l2o yards, vermilion for 1850 yards,
and alizarine for 255 yards OF turkey
rod cloth
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-09-24

At st. Cloud, Mimi, Charles Dost, Of
Dayton, O., found his only daughter
from whom he had been separated
since 1864, when he was drafted into
the army.
The sawmill Of HOLSTER & Jewell
at Garden River, Mich, was burned,
causing loss of $500. 1000.
On the Union Pacific railway pas
senger train was wrecked near Beaver
Brook, Col, and twenty-six passengers
were injured, five of whom would
probably die.
DOMESTIC trouble caused John Sor-
rick, living near Lyle, Kan, to fatally
shoot his 7-year-old daughter and then
take his own life.
A MOB lynched John Bennett, who
criminally assaulted two 13-year-old
girls Nola Smith and Jennie Stock
dale-at Sellersburg, Ind.
AT independence, Ia, Allerton went
the two fastest consecutive heats ever
made by q stallion, making them both
in exactly the same time-2:l14.
RoBBERs tried to wreck a fast express
on the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chi
cago railroad 20 miles from Chicago,
but the train was stopped before strik-
ing the Instructions placed on the
track.
NINE icehouses owned by Armstrong
& Co. were burned at Indianapolis, the
loss being $4,000.
The board of equalization of Mich.
gan has fixed the valuation of property
in the state at 81 40 600 OOO AGAINST
$945, $50, 600 five years ago.
The yield of wheat in Michigan for
the present season was estimated at
over $4,000, 900 bushels
In the vicinity of Ashland, Wis,
rain and hailstorm did great damage to
crops.
MILES ScorT and William Smith were
fatally shot by Officer Cox in a saloon
row at Franklin, Ind.
THE supply this year of marke table
oysters will be about 80 or 40 per cent
greater than last year.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-09-24

RACERS such as the Teutonic charge
from $50 to $40 more for a first-class
passage to New York than other swift
ships of the same line, but good deal
of the additional profit is absorbed by
coal alone. The so-called tive-day
ships consume per day from. sixty to
eighty tons u coal more than other
great steamships, and this item alone
means an extra cost Of from $3.50 to
E240 per day.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-09-24

The catacombs Of Rome contain the
remains of about 100000 human be-
ings, and those of Paris about 3.0O0,-
coo. The latter We're formerly stone
quarries. Many of the victims of the
revolution of l792-'94 are buried there
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-09-24

EXPERIMENTS at the McGill univer.
sity in Montreal show that a signal
may be flashed through the round cir.
cult of eight thousand miles of ocean
cable in the average time of only /. o.
seconds
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-09-24

THE great seal of the United States
is affixed to nothing but treaties, proc
lamations, commissions, pardons and
passports The government has had
but two seals in the one hundred years
since its foundation.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-09-24

LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL is not
suffering any of the privations OF
Stanley in his travels through Africa.
He carries with him two French cooks,
COWS and goats for fresh milk, and Il
supply of champaone
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-09-24

ACCORDING to the most recent census
returns London has population of
$4,000 Paris of 2,450, 900, Berlin of
1874, 4S5 and St. Petersburg of 1000, 600.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-09-24

AN automatic machine has been
made which forms, fills, weighs and
seals packages in those esta blishments
where large quantities of goods are
constantly put up
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-09-24

THE chair occupied by Garibaldi in
the Italian Legislative chamber in Rome
is hung with a laurel wreath. Since
the patriots death no one has been al
lowed to use il
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-09-24

CHIEF JUSTICE LUCAS, of the Virginia
supreme court, is but four feet high,
but he is so dignificd that no facctious
lawyer has ever dared to dub him a
hrinf
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-09-24

HENRY Cook, Norwich Conn
tailor, has a beard seven feet two
inches long, though he is only five feet
six inches tall. What does he do with
1t when the wind blows?
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-09-24
A CURIOUS bit of local history

A CURIOUS bit of local history is en-
tained in the name OF one of the
townships ia New Castle county, Del.
The name as now spelled is PEN
cader," and It is that of the township
in which lies She welsh Mort settled
about two hundred years ago by a
Welsh colony, some of whose de-
scendants still hold parts of the tract.
In the midst OF the Welsh Mort stands
Iron hill, the only considerable en-
inence III Delaware, and Pencader is
only slight corruption If the Welsh
Pen Cn,ir. which means tie great hill
or the hill fort. The e;.ly Welshmen
named their township in its honor.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-09-24
| Child Burned to Death.

A 6-year-old daughter of Jesse Ear
mer, living west of Faribault, while
playing near an old burning building
was burned to death. Her clothing
caught fire and her mother attempted
to rescue her child by tearing off as
much clothing as she could, but of no
avail, for thee died half an hour
afterward. While Mrs. Harmer was
trying to reach her child she herself
was terribly burned. Should she live
both her hands would have to be ampu-
tatet
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-09-24
Steamboat owners Angry.

Mississippi steamboat men at st.
Paul are very wroth because, as they
allege, the river is being manipulated
in the interests of lumbermen. No
boats were running north of Daven-
port Ia, and the trouble lies in the
closing of the dams and the upper
reaches of the river. When the log
owners want to drive down lot of
logs the dams are opened and the logs
foated. Then the dams are closed un-
til another drive is ready. In this way
the water is kept at so low stage most
of the time that boats axe unable to run.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-09-24

PAPIER-MACHE trunk is one of the
latest ideas. The baggage smasher
hnds it practically indestructible.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-09-24

OVER eight hundred patents have
been granted by the United States
patent office on electric storage bat
teries and their details.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-09-24
Tremendous Yield of Oats.

j. S. Niles, a farmer residing miles
north of Hector, Renville county,
,threshed his oats and was considerably
surprised at the result He had eight
acres, and threshed an average of 991s
bushels to the acre, total of 796
bushels by measure. The oats weighed
43 pounds to the bushel, making total
yield by weight off the eight acres
sown, S6s bushels, or 1Os bushels to the
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-09-24

WHAT an immense sum Queen Vic
toria might realize by the sale of her
watches. The Oldest watches in the
world are in her possession. She has
two beautiful little gold ones by
Breguet that are supposed to be hun
dred years old. They have silver dials
and are Of about the size of a two-shil-
ling piece. One is a blind man's watch;
the other is repeater. Both go per-
fectly and are in constant use. Her
majesty's favorite watch is large
plain gold one by Nudge.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-09-24

The recent rains in various parts of
the country have caused many farmers
to fear that the potato crop will be
seriously injured According to an
exchange farmer in Maine tried an
experiment last year which proved sue
cessful in preventing part of his crop
from rotting. When he saw that the
potatoes showed signs of rot he cut and
removed the tops from about one-half
of the patch. Upon digging up the
vegetables few weeks later he found
all those sound which had been cut; the
others, however, were unfit for use.
The experiment is at least an easy one
n m l.a
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Lost o., 900 worth Of pia mond..

Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Mitchell, of
Lexington, KY, were guests of the
Spalding hotel in Duluth, and when on
her way to the Omaha depot. two
blocks from the hotel, Mrs. Mitchell
dropped from her dress pocket a purse
containing $4,000 worth of diamonds,
besides 800 in money. All efforts to
find the diamonds had proved unavail-
mo
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-09-24

MORE people born in Vermont reside
out of the state than in it,
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-09-24

The apparent universal law that
things never happen singly but in
''waVes" finds new support "A few
days ago this old earth seemed to be
submerged by ''crime wave' The
sickening odor of blood could almost be
smelled in the newspapers. Now we
have a wave Of railroad accidents,
nearly all preventable and due to gross
carelessness. What will be nexta Per-
haps the millennium, when people stop
shooting each other and trains run no
more into collision. but it's doubtful.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-09-24
Town Clerks and Trsasurers.

Names and addresses of Town
Clerks and Village Recorders, also of
Town and Village Treasurers elected
March 10, 1891.
lThe first name after each village or town is
that Of the Recorder or Clerk, the second is the
name of the Treasurer
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-09-16
Jefferson.

r. D. Whitehead, Superintendent of
the Humane Society, Milwaukee. reg.
istered at the jefferson House this
week
Moritz BIumenfeld, Of Watertown
was in town long enough Monday to
be excused from serving as Juror.
Thomas Little has disposed of his in.
terest in the Rome Touring mills to the
Foliahn Bros.
Mrs. A. NJ Garity was very agree
ably surprised by about thirty of her
friends last Saturday The occasion
being her birthday anniversary.
The public schools in this citv began
last Monday with the following corps
of instructors: High School-Prof j
&. Adams, principal; Lillian Stair,
Asst; Nellie Arnold, Emma Friedel,
Gussie Hubbard and Agnes Fleming.
East side school-Emma Steil, princi-
pal; Marian Shimick and Alice Red
ford. The enrolment of scholars is
larger this term than the preceding
one.
Observation-Disclosures Heth-At the
Lutheran parsonage in this city, Satur-
day, Sept. 9th, VIM. Heilmann and
Ella Heth, Rev. Henry Vogel oficiat-
ing.-BGnner.