Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-10-08
The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.
FROM WASHINGTON.

FROM WASHINGTON.
In the United States the visible sup
ply of grain on the goth was: Wheat,
26, S61,537 bushels; corn, 1857, O09 bush
els; oats, 5,470,224 bushels.
DURING August last the total number
of immigrants arriving in the United
States from foreign countries was A..
172, against 1898. in August of last
year.
DURING the twelve months ended
August 81. 1891, the total value of ex-
ports of merchandise from the United
States was 5000, 264, 49, The value OF
the imports was $3.50, O3O, 241.
The business failures in the nine
months IF the year 1891 numbered g.
S2s, witt, liabilities of $136, 900, 900, as
compared with 1851 failures and $780,
600, 600 Of liabilities for the same period
of 500.
The government receipts since Sep
TENDER amount to $27,3S5, 900, being
an excess of S4,3S7. 900 over ordinary
expenses during the same time. The
net cash BALANCE in the treasury on the
30th ult. was 100000
The statement of the public debt is
sued on the LIST showed the total ebt
to be 81, 5S4, 142, s51; cash in the treasury,
$741, 66S, 200; debt less cash in the treas
uey, S7O2, 474,O42. Decrease during
July, SIS, ESQ, 1926.
CAPT. GEORGE Fl. PERKINS has been
placed on the retired list of the navy
after forty years service at his own re-
quest.
A GREAT shortage in the tobacco
crop this year was reported, the prin-
cipal deficiency being in that grade
used for cigar wrappers.
IN September the coinage at the
United States minis. was 11,437, 246
pieces of the value of IS, 702,671.
THE business failures in the United
States during the seven days ended on
the I'd numbered $50. against 80
the preceding week and 297 for the COR
responding week last year.
THE EAST.
FIRE destroyed Motifs cider refinery
and storage houses at Rockville, N. Y,
the largest in the country. Loss, $780,
900.
By a gasoline explosion Mrs. Henry
Kessler, wife of leading business
man at Erie, Pa, was burned to death,
and Mr.. Kessler in trying to save his
wifes life was disfgured and crippled
for life and his aged mother was badly
burned.
FLAMES among warehouses in Phila-
delphia caused loss to Jessup &
Moore and Phillips & Cunningham of
$500, 900.
NEAR Pittsburgh the biggest oil we'll
ever struck in the United States was
opened, the product estimated at 49,
900 barrels day.
AT Buckhorn, Pa, John Appleman
was swindled out of So, 500 by two
strangers with "gold bricks
THE firm of +. b. Wallace & Co.,
New York brokers, failed for 5000, 600;
assets, 1928, 535.
The White Star line steamer Teu-
tonic reduced the eastward record by
making the trip from New York to
Queenstown in days 81 hours and %
minutes.
THE Massachusetts, democrats held
their convention at Worcester and re-
nominated William E, Russell for gov
ernor. A resolution was adopted OPP
posing the free coinage of silver.
The National Civil Service Reform
League at the convention at Buffalo,
n. v, reelected George William Curtis
as president.
Two MASKED men robbed an Ameri-
can express car between Little Falls
and Utica, N. Y, of $4,000. A pack
age containing $1,000 was overlooked
The Houtzdale (Pa.) First national
bank suspended payment on account of
the embezzlement of $4,000 by the
teller.
THE death of Maj. William Mckee
Dunn. who was Gen. Grants personal
aid de camp during the war, occurred
at Cushings Island, Me.
In the Pittsburgh district 10000 rail
road coal miners struck for increased
wages
NEAE Avon, N. j., Andrew Quinlin,
aged so, and the oldest railway con-
duct or in the United States, was killed
by train.
The wooden mills of the Harper Man
ufacturing Company at Oxford, Me-,
were burned, causing a loss of 500, 900.
PRICES in the Connecticut tobacco
market have advanced from three to
eight cents per pound.
The firm of Turner & Bro, Boston
bankers, failed for $500, 900.