Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-06-02

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IN annual session at San Francisco
cd B. P. Brice, of Hudson, Wis, as
! president.
PRoHIBITIoNIsTs in convention at In,
| dianapolis nominated Rev. Aaron
Worth, of Jay county, for governor OF
Indiana; c. w. Culbertson. of Shelby,
! for lieutenant governor, and James Nc
Cormack, of Princeton, for secretary Of
state.
WHILE walking on the street F. A.
Bee, aged rs, for many years Chinese
vice consul at San Francisco, dropped
dead.
The twenty-ffth anniversary of the
admission of Nebraska into the union
, was celebrated at Lincoln.
The state treasurer estimates that
there are from $4,000 to $4,000 persons
in Illinois who have suffered from
floods and need help.
ONO prohibitionists in state conven.
ton at Columbus placed ticket in nom
nation. George T.. Case, of Cleveland,
was named for secretary of state.
THERE were 700,0 600 acres of land un-
der water between Cairo and Memphis,
and the crops that were covered were
estimated as follows: Wheat, 1875, 900
acres, $4,000, 900; corn, 100000 acres,
81, 500, 900; cotton, 100000 acres, $4,000,
0000; land washed away, 1900 acres,
S1S,000; homes destroyed, $4,000; cattle
drowned, $4,000. Total, S., 66s, ooo
THE execution of George Scott, con-
victed of assaulting his sister and the
numbering her, took place at Hender-
son, Tex. Edward Speers, who MUIR
dered S. c. Hunt near Camden July l.,
1891, was hanged at Magnolia, Ark.
The death of Gen. A. D. Streight,
who concocted the plan by which los
men escaped from Libby prison during
the civil war, occurred at his home near
India apolis, Ind, aged So years.
In state convention at indianapolis
the peoples party of Indiana nominal
ed the following ticket: Governor, Le-
roy Templeton; lieutenant governor,
DR.. J. A. Houser; secretary of state,
Jesse L. Hobson; auditor of state, Lew
is Kaston; treasurer, Townsend Coke;
attorney general, E. H. hernandez; su-
perintendent of public instruction, j.
H. Allen; state statistician, c. Fl. Bliss;
reporter of supreme court, w. II.
Dewey; supreme court judges, Adam
Stockman, Silas NJ. Sheppard and N. j.
BOart
The peoples party in the Twelfth H.
linois district nominated William Hess
for congress-, and in the Second Indiana
district the republicans nominated i.
NJ. Willoughby.
NEAR Lone Tree, KY, widow named
Scott and her four daughters, Fanny,
Alice, Kate and Emma, aged 16. IS, %
and 26 respectively, were found muir
dered in their home. A negro, who
probably committed the crime, was
found in the cellar with his throat cut.
IN St. Joseph hospital at Joliet, ILL.,,
Mrs. Johanna Mertens died, aged lis
years.
THE courthouse and Jail at Hender-
son, KY, were burned by an incendiary.
The White and Arkansas rivers floods
in Arkansas entirely swept away the
towns of Hollendel, Chicot City, Red
Fork and Pendleton. All the big plan
tations for 40 miles in the Arkansas
valley were utterly ruined and many
persons were drowned.
News from regions affected more seri-
ously by floods point to an aggregate
loss of property in five states of $50, ooo,-
900. Illinois and Missouri suffered the
most.
FIFTY or more persons were killed
by a cyclone at Wellington, Kan, and
scores of others were injured. The
storm passed directly through the cen
ter of the town, wrecking everything in
its path. Hundreds of dwellings were
either totally destroyed or more or less
damaged. The devastation in the
country was frightful.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
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