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Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-01-07
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THE public debt statement issued on
the I'd showed the total debt to be ST.
553, 2O5, coo; cash in the treasury, 1884,
574, 1928; debt less cash in the treasury,
81, 41S, $50, 872. Decrease during Decem-
Der, 81. 552, 7S9.
DURING fire in the Waver;y hotel in
Chicago Paul Wood and John Meredith
were suffocated.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has issued a
proclamation pro,nulgating a reciproci-
ty treaty with Salvador, TO go into eff
feet February I next.
A FIRE in a lodging house at Han
ford, Cal, caused the death of Elmer
E. Spofford, +. B. Tucker. e. w. Eos
ter and T. c. Hammond
THE United States troops on the Rio
Grande in Texas routed a band of
Mexican revolutionists and captured
Col Pablo NJ unez, one of CARA S
leaders
The steamer Noordland ran down
the British bark Childwell off Antwerp
and cut her to pieces. The bark sank
and fifteen of her crew were drowned.
Mrs. ADAM WUCHTER, of " hitehall,
Pa, has not taken solid food for $40
days.
FLAMES among business houses in
Nashville, Tenn, caused loss $780,
900, and Stokes, Allen, Harvey Ewing
and c. c. Goudy, colored fremen, were
killed by falling wall.
HIGHwAYMEN held up stage near
the Idaho line in Montana and secured
$4,000 worth Of jewelry and 500 in
cash.
Ten Chinese and two women who
Started in smuggling sloop to cross
the straits at Port Townsend, Wash,
drowned by the wrecking of their boat
CONVERSE college, the leading insti-
tute for women in South Carolina, was
burned at Spartanburg, the loss being
500. 900.
GEN Mo NTGoNERY C. MEIGs, of the
United States Engineer corps (retired),
| died of the grip in Washington, aged rs
years.
EDWIN FAIRCHILD, of She boygan,
Wis, shot his stepdaughter, Arlisle
Johnson, and then killed himself
Family trouble was the cause
A CAR containing ten non union
operators to take the place of strikers
was broken into near Texarkana, Ark,
and three of the men were killed.
In street fight in Perry. Fla, Rob-
srt Parker and John j. Carlo, ex-
county judge of Taylor county, were
killed and Thomas Walters fatally in
iured.
AT Westport, Ind, Rev. =. M. West.
hafer was stricken dumb in the midst
Of a revival SERMON.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-01-07
The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND NAIL.
FROM WASHINGTON.

The director OF the mint has com
pleted arrangements for issuing the
new silver subsidiary coins, dimes,
quarters and half dollars early in 1892.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 2Sth was: Wheat,
44,62O,317 bushels; corn, 5, s64, $50 BUSH
els; oats, 3,72O, 647 bushels
IT was said that it had been de-
cided that Chilli must express her re-
grets for the assault upon the sailors
of the Baltimore and pay to the fam
lilies of the murdered seamen snug
indemnity, and that she must do this
within two weeks. Her refusal would
mean war with the United States.
The president has refused to pardon
Harper, the wrecker of the Fidelity
savings bank at Cincinnati, who has
been in the Ohio penitentiary since
1887 on tea years sentence.
AN arrangement for reciprocity has
been entered into between Secretary
Blaine and the British minister to en-
brace the British West Indian colonies
of Jamaica, Barbados, the Leeward
and the Windward islands, Trinidad
and the colony of British Guiana.
SECRETARY BLAINE signed reciproc-
ity arrangements with the ministers of
Guatemala and Salvador for their re-
spective countries.
STOCKS of wool unsold in the princi-
pal markets of the United States ag-
gregate a total supply of 100, Ala, 233
pounds, against 92,s61,6S2 pounds a
year ago.
IN 1891 the mum Der of persons who
committed suicide in the United States
was 1881, as compared with 2,G4o in
1890 and 1924 in 1889.
IN this country the loss of life by
railroad disasters during 1891 was 3, 26l,
as compared with S,42O in 1899. The
number of seriously injured was 3,707,
against 2, 746 in 1899.
The number of murders committed
in this country during 1891 was 5000,
as compared with 4, 300 in 1899 and 3, 567
in 1889. The number of legal execu-
tions in 1891 was 1913, against l02 in
1890. During the last year 1s9 men and
women were lynched, against total
of 1917 in $780,.
The total amount of embezzlements
in the United States in 1891 was $19,-
720, 294, against IS, 49,, 1856 in 1890.
Total fire losses in the United States
in 1891 amounted to S165, o47, 900,
against Sos, 412, 694 in 1899, Sl43, 9)2, $40
in 1889, s1CO,OCO 900 in 1888, $3.50, 900, 900
in 1887 and Sis, 900, 600 in 1886.
In 1891 the deaths of IA centenarians
were reported.
inventor of the cotton picker, occurred
in Washington, aged "a years
In the United States the total num-
Der of business failures during 1891
was 12,27S, against 1O,9o7 in 1890. The
total amount of liabilities was $3.50,
sos, 63s, against $3.50. $50, 9G4 in 1890.
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WEST AND SOUTH.

THE sale of liquor at the worlds fair
will, it is said, be allowed, the expo.
sition company to receive for the priv.
ilege of the sale a percentage of the
gross receipts.
EDWARD J. TRACY has been ap-
pointed state treasurer of Florida, vice
Francis j. Pond, deceased.
AT Olive Springs, Tenn, Lem Jones
was hanged for the murder of his wife
and child on June 20, 1890.
AT Little Rock, Ark, Charles Kim
ball disrobed his refractory S-year-old
child, placed it in tub of ice-cold
water. and afterwards whipped it ia
tally.
Ina storm near Gary, S. D., George
Wightman and three other men were
frozen to death.
The death of Rev. William Potter,
known as the oldest Congregational
minister in the world, occurred at
Hampden, O., aged IS years.
A MOB took John Sims, the last of
the outlaw gang, from the jail at But
Ter, Ala, and hanged him.
Dr. s. RAwsoN, aged 96 years, died
at Des Moines, Ia, and his brother died
on the same day in Ohio, aged 81 years.
near Gadsden, Ala, Moonshiners Kirk
and Sprouse were killed and United
States Marshal jackson mortally
wounded.
VARIOUS labor organization delegates
met at Lansing and organized the peo-
pies party of Michigan. The platform
favors free coinage of silver, abolition
OF trusts. universal suffrage and the
| suppression of the liquor traffic for
beverage purposes.
FRANK PHILLIPS and Joseph Smith
killed each other in quarrel at
Ensley City, Ala.
COAL gas caused the death of John
Brunette and his wife in their home at
Wild Rice, N. d., and nine children
were made orphans.
The bond given by jeff Davis to the
United sSltes government to answer
to the charge of treason has been
! stolcn from the court records at Rich
mond, Va.
AN incendiary fire destroyed the
business portion of Plainfeld, Ill.
ALFRED Cole, aged lis years, died at
his home at Springdale, Ky, from the
effects of la grippe.
In Fentress county, Tenn, Marion
and Dave Beatty and Gwyn Bowden
were shot and killed by young man
named Ed Harris. The shooting was
caused by the Beatty brothers striking
their sister. II
NEAR Chillicothe, No. freight trains
collided and an engineer, two firemen
and brakeman were killed and
eleven cars containing cattle were
burned.
EIGHTEEN cars were destroyed and
three men fatally hurt in wreck on
the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago
road near Salem, O.
FLAMES in Hepler Kan, destroyed
eleven Of the principsl business bt,nae,sA
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SCATTERED BY RANGERS.
Texas Troops Attack Garza's Followers
FOrc;n. Them to Flee.

Texas Troops Attack Garza's Followers.
Forcing Them to Flee.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Jan. There is
much excitement in military depart
ment headquarters and among the peo-
pie of this city over the serious
situation on the border. H. j. Mac
Neil. of this city, Saturday evening
received a telegram from his father,
Capt. j. s. MacNeil, of the
Texas rangers, which states that he
had just had desperate encounter
with the Cara men. His command
numbered only a few men. They were
scouting through chaparral in Starr
county when they met detachment
of about thirty Cara revolutionists.
The rangers at once opened fire on
the revo utionists and number of the
latter were severely wounded. Nearly
1000 shots were exchanged, but none OF
the rangers were wounded. The tele-'
gram states that the revolu-
tionists were all well armed
and we'll mounted. They We're closely
pursed by the rangers for a consider
able distance, but finally scattered and
all escaped capture except d few of
those severely wounded
1t is reported from Laredo that five
Texas rangers were killed Friday in a
fight with the revolutionists.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Jan. "A dis
patch to government headquarters re-
ports that on Saturday Second Lieut..
Langhorne of the Third cavalry, with
thirty regulars and a posse of deputy
marshals. struck one of the Cara bands
and an engagement followed. The ban
dts were found miles above Rio
Grande City and many shots were in
terchanged and some Mexicans wound
ed and some of the United States
soldiers Were hurt. Col. Pablo
Munoz was captured Two gross
of cartridges and many revolu-
tionary badges were taken.
The Mexican government has offered
a reward of S,0O,Oo for Garza's head,
but they will hardly get him. So far
the Mexicans have killed over a hun
dred men on suspicion of being revolu-
tionists, and this has tended to drive
other poor ranchers to join the revolt.
At Pue bio the populace revolted and
every priest he's been placed in Jail :
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-01-07

THE railroad building of the year in
the United States is smaller than the
recent average, but does not exhibit
such bad falling off as was generally
feared in the winter and spring months.
The total of track laid is 4, 1863 miles,
which is little more than 1915 per
cent Of the 5,75S miles laid in 1890, but
it is less than.a third part of the -, SIS
miles laid in 1887, aud in only two OF
the last ten years has the mileage add
ed been less than in 1891 1t is also re-
markable that the aggregate averages
only 1917 miles for each of the 249 lines
and branches added to. The total is
now about III. 200 miles,
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-01-07

The question as to whether anything
can be depended apon in this uncertain
and fuctuaut world is becoming one of
Importance Here is Boston professor
who swears that the parallels of lati-
tude are not immutably parallel but
wriggle like fishworn. If people can
not pin their faith in the parallelism of
parallel lines, if the parallel is not only
deadly but out of plumb, what can they
stick to, and On what can they stand
and be not moved? Are the poles POLAR
and will the equator continue to equate?
star-eyed science is grubbing too much,
and these unsettling discoveries make
old beliefs to shake and sag
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-01-07

The veteran traveller, Paul du Chail-
lI has explained why he abandoned
African exploration. Upon one of his
journeys in the dark continent the chief
of the territory through which he was
passing greeted him with distinguished
consideration. He even brought ont a
row Of s53 comedy negro maidens, in
viting Chaillu to take his pick for a
wife. II told him. said the traveller,
afterward, that the proof of his good
will overpowered me, but that was
afraid to choose one lest the others
might be jealous. The chief pondered
a moment, then exclaimed. Well,
frie,ll take 'em all Then fed 2
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-01-07

The Grant memorial committee of
the Grand Army of the Republic has
decided to employ F. S. Simmons, of
Maine, the sculptor, to complete the
statue of Gen. Grant to be placed in
the United States capitol building.
The work is to be finished and the
statue placed in position by June l,
1894. 1t is to be of fine Italian marble
and will cost $4,000. The statue is
the gift of the grand army.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-01-07

JOHN w. MAcKAY made his usual
Christmas gift of one-half months
salary to every employee of the Com
mercial Cable Company, of which he is
president. There are 900 names on the
pay roll, and the distribution amounted
to 5000 which Mr.. Mackay pays out
of his own rocket
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-01-07

FooD inspection ought to be followed
by the arrest and punishment of the
men found engaged in selling impure
food. The destruction of the worth
less material is not enough. The dealer
is likely to repeat the otfense and take
the chances of the destruction of the
impure food But if he were personal
ly punished he would be more likely to
be careful thereaf ter
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-01-07

The historic Treaty Elm" under
which William Penn made his alliances
with the Indians, was blown down in
1910, and in 1927 monument was
erected to mark the spot. This memo
rial, long since forgotten, was recently
hunted up by Philadelphia reporter.
who found it, dilapidated and defaced,
in an abandoned lumber yard at Ken
SinrtOn
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-01-07

THE result of the recent attempt to
raise tea in North Carolina indicates
that the soil and climate are favorable
TO such industry. but that, owing to
the expense of picking and curing,
none but the highest grades could be
produced prOfitably.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-01-07

THE court CT last resort in France has
finally settled a vexed question about
which there never ought to have been
shadow of doubt. Last August a
murder was committed by jealous
husband in the village of Pont Farcy.
The vicar of this hamlet was cited to
testify before the assize court as to
whether the wife Of a murderer had
not confessed her infdelity. He re-
fused to answer and was sentenced to
pay fine OF 100 francs The case was
appealed and now the court of cassa-
ton has reversed the sentence and de-
cided that priest cannot be compelled
to divulge confessions
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-01-07

IT costs about 500, 900 year to record
the burning thoughts and words of the
statesmen who struggle with the inter-
est Of the country in Congress, the esti-
mates Of appropriations calling for
that amount to pay the salaries of Ste
nographers of the house and Senate
and the various committees
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KILLED HIS BROTHER.
A Quarrel at Springfield, I'LL, Ends in
Il,

A Quarrel at Springfield, I'LL, Ends in a
Fratricide.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Ian. An ARRAY
occurred early Sunday morning be-
tween two brothers named LOOMS,
when William, aged % years,
.leveled double barreled shotgun
at Charles, aged Il years, and fired
both barrels at him. killing him in
stantly. William was found to be badly
cut in the neck and claims it was done
by his brother. He is in Jail. The
family bears bad name, several Of
them having served terms in the peni-
tentiary, Il
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-01-07

SENATOR WAsHBURN, Of Minnesota,
wrote to Secretary of the Navy Tracy
asking the use Of naval vessel to
transport to Europe the breadstuffs
contributed in this country for the re-
lief Of the famine sufferers in Russia.
Secretary Tracy replied: ''It gives me
pleasure to say that the navy depart
ment concurs heartily in this proposal,
and will willingly do all in it's power
project"
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Burned Herself Is Death.

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi. Jan. s. Mrs.
Martin Moore committed suicide Sat
urday by pouring kerosene oil over her
clothes and then setting it on fire She.
had been suffering from melancholia
caused by the death Of her husband
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-01-07

THREE THOUSAND acres of wild land
were recently fenced in to a height of
sixteen feet in Missouri "A large num-
Der of deer were inclosed without their
knowledge, and it is proposed to keep
them there the rest of their lives
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-01-07

ENGLISH newspaper methods are
peculiar. About d year ago the Lon
don Telegraph published an announce
ment of the death of the venerable
Lady de Ros, which was untrue. But
the paper made a spread OF its ''exclu-
sive' intelligence, and never corrected
the error. The old woman actually
died last Thursday, but the Telegraph
entirely omits to publish this fact 1t
was Lady de Ros who committed the
mistake year ago in not dying then;
the newspaper must be infallib,e
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-01-07
FIFTEEN PERSONS DROWNED.

Bark Run Down by an Ocean Steamer
The Captain Saved.
LONDON, Jan. "A steamer believed
to be the Red Star lines Noordland.
which sailed from Antwerp Saturday
for New York, ran down the British
bark Childwell off the Wieling light
ship and cut her to pieces. The
bark sank and fifteen of her crew were
drowned. The steamer continued on
her voyage without offering assistance
The Great Eastern Company's steamer
Ipswich rescued the captain and the re-
mainder of the crew, who were found
clinging to the only remaining mast.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-01-07
The death of Jonas Hinkley, in
ventor of the Hinklev knitting machine,

The death of Jonas Hinkley, in
ventor of the Hinlxley knitting machine,
sewing machine and carpet sweeper,
occurred at Norwalk, O., aged "a years.
FIRE destroyed the village of Aurora,
Iowa.
In Indian territory the messiah craze
has broken out afresh among the Chey-
ennes and Arapahoes, and no little
anxiety was felt.
The 1O1st birthday of ''Urtle Bald.
win" Harl was celebrated at his home
near Marshal. Mo.
In wreck on the Union Pacific road
at La Grande, Ore, an engineer, fire.
man and two tramps were killed.
THE Kentucky house of representa-.
tives elected W. NJ. Moore, farmer,
as speaker.
ALBERT WALTER and his brother Will.
liam were killed and John Rogalsky IA
tally injured by an explosion of dyna.
mite near Milwaukee, Wis.
WISCONSIN prohibitionists will hold
their state convention at Madison May
80 next.
AT Ovid, Mich, Martin Briggs, an
ex-slave, died at the age of 100 years.
BISHOP W. PERKINS was named by
Governor Humphrey, of Kansas, as
United States senator to succeed the
late Senator Plumb.
AT Hardin, Mo-, fire destroyed twenty
two business houses and dwellings,
IN Doniphan county, Kan, John De-
laney, wealthy farmer, and his wife
and two sons all died within short
time of each other from disease
caused by sleeping in the rooms of a
new house.
WILSON WILLIAMS, an aged man, was
burned to death in his own house in
Kanawha county, w. Va, and the
shock caused the death of his aged
wife.
AT South Bend, Ind, Edward Spohn
and Miss Louise Seig, a betrothed
couple, were killed by a brick wall
falling upon them.
IN Cincinnati John Dietel, on exhibit
ton at a museum as a fat giant, died
from an attack of the grip. He weighed
763 pounds.
A CYCLONE wrecked many farm build
ings and did much other damage near
Texarkana, Ark.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-01-07

SENATOR SHERMAN, Senator Hoar
and ex-senator Evarts are all cousins
and they trace their lineage back to
Roger Sherman, the grim Puritan of
Revolutionary times.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-01-07

EIGHTEEN HUNDRED pounds of gold
are used every year for filing teeth in
this country. 1t is worth over half
million dollars and is lost as effectu-
ally as if it We're dropped into the
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-01-07

OVER "A, 900 Russian He brew refugees
landed in New York in the six months
ending Novem Der so. They must be
disposed Of DISPERSED that is, and that
is the task to which the benevolent
Hebrews of New York are addressing
themselves. To accomplish this they
have fund of $685. 900 of their own
raising which they will use for trans
portation, and for the purposes of agri-
cultural settlement they have the use Of
the s., 400, 900 fund sent over by Baron
HirSch
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-01-07

Mrs. FRANCES HoDGsoN BURNETT has
founded an asylum for newsboys in
London in memory of her dead son, the
original Lord Fauntleroy. The place is
named Lionels home.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-01-07
In Behalf of Anarchists.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.-The brief of
counsel for Samuel Fielden and Michael
Schwab, the Chicago anarchists who
are confined in the penitentiary at
Joliet. Ill, under life sentence for.
completely in the Haymarket riot, was
fled in the United States supreme court
Saturday. The cases are to come up
within two weeks for argument
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-01-07
Gen. George w. Patterson Deaa.

DECATUR, I'll. Jan. 4.Gen. George
". Patterson, on the staff Of Gen. So
e. Underwood, commander Of Patri-
archs Militant, and one Of the best
known odd fellows in Illinois, died Il
paralysis Sunday morning, aged g
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-01-07
Fiorea street Fight in Florida

GREESvILLE, Fla, Jan. 4--Messen-
gers coming in here bring the news 81
q bloody street fight III Perry, 40 miles
south OF here. in which Robert Parker
and John >. Garnto, ex-county Judge
OF Taylor county, were killed and
Thomas Walters SO badly injured that
he will probably die.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-01-07
Frozen in q RayIue.

CHEYENNE, Wyo., Jan. 1.-Two Of
the three prisoners who overpowered
the deputy and escaped from the iail
here New Years eve have been recap
tured One is dead the other dying.
They are Kirgen, the wealthy and noto-
rious cattle thief, and Charles Miller. the
boy double murderer. Kirgen is dead.
succumb bling to cold and hunger The
dead and dying were found in ravine
by a volunteer posse Miller was
dragging himself across the body Of
Kirgen in an effort to keep warm, and
hailed his captors as rescuers. No trace
has been found of the third man.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-01-07
FORGING AHEAD

Our salesr for the past week Of
CHARTER OAK STovEs AND RANGES
have been unprecedented. The Char
ter Oak has been forging ahead every
day Of the forty years that it has
been on the market. IS 1,
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EXCELSIOR MANUFACTURING co.
4sT.sLouIs, MO.
DONALD KENNEDY
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Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-01-07

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