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Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-08-18

DR.. NJ. Webster, Of loses, member state
board of education.
| Ar Oak Grove, Del, Mrs. Rustin, her
T6-year-old daughter and her brother
were fatally poisoned BY arsenic placed
in the well. 1t was thought the di.
vorced husband of Mrs. Rustin put the
poison in the well.
AT the conclave in Denver, Hugh Nc
Curdy. of Corunna, Mich, was elected
grand master of the knights templar
and Boston was chosen as the place for
the next meeting
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were
made as follows: Texas, Tenth district,
Walter Gresham (dem.); Thirteenth, j.
V. Cockerill (dem.); Nebraska, Fourth
district, w. NJ. Doch (ind-) J; Sixth, James
Whitehead (rep. J; Wisconsin, Third
district, John w. Babcock (rep. j. WASH
ington, John Z. Wilson and W. H. Doo-
little, (reps. J; Indiana, Twelfth district,
A. J. Yew (rep).
REPUBLICANS of Washington in state
convention at Olympia nominated a
full state ticket with John III. McGraw,
of Seattle, for governor. The resolu-
tions oppose the free coinage of silver.
The peoples party of Iowa in con-
vention at Des Moines nominated f. H.
Gillette for secretary of state, Charles
Mckenzie for attorney general, Justice
Wells for treasurer, j. II. Barnett for
railroad commissioner and j. A.
Blakesly for auditor Presidential
electors were also chosen.
BIZ the fall of a stone wall in Hart
ford City, Ind. five men were killed and
two others injured. s
FIRE destroyed the planning mill and
lumber yards of Bender Brothers at
Hamilton, O., causing loss of 500, 900,
and 700 men were thrown out of en-
ployment.
AT Grand Rapids, Mich, Flying Jib
paced mile in 2:Os1s, the fastest time
ever made on Michigan track.
HENRY McGHEE (cobred) was hanged
at Houston, Tex, for the murder of Of
ticer George Fem. and James Dobson
(colored), who killed his mistress in St.
Francis county, in 1890, was hanged at
Devall's Bluffs, Ark. -
ARTHUR KURTz and Earl Price, each
aged about 8 years, were smothered to
death in an ice chest while playing at
the formers home in North Lansing,
Mich. fEE &5f
A DAUGHTER of Sitting Bull, the great
Indian war chief, was married at Ron
dout, N. Y, to Peter Markle, who
formerly served under Gen. Custer.
The bride once saved Markle's life
when he was attacked by Indians.
MISSISSIPPI democrats have renom-
mate for congress J. NJ. Allen in the
First district, J. c. Kyle in the Second
and 7. c. Catchings in the Third. In the
Ninth Michigan district the repu blicans
nom mated John w. Moon, and in the
Second district OF kentucky j. r. Kim
berly is the prohibition nominee.
AT St. Charles, ILL.,, Mrs. Asenath
Miller cele brated her 1O5th birthday
The Sons of Veterans in national en-
campment at Helena, Mont. elected
Marvin E. Hill, Of Michigan, COM
mander in chief.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-08-18
WEST AND SOUTH.

IL st. Louis Judge James G. Normile,
OF the criminal court, committed sui
eide by taking poison because of a
newspaper attack upon him. DR.. Wal
ter Cole and DR.. NJ. Tolheie, we'll
known physicians, also took their own
lives in the same city. No cause known.
DEMOCRATS Of Tennessee in conven.
ton at Nashville nominated Peter G..
Turney for governor. The platform
enbodies the national platform adopt
ed at Chicago.
IN Memphis Henry Clay King, the
murderer of David 81. Poston, will not
hang on the 18th, Gov. Buchanan hav-
ing committed his sentence to life i'm
prisonment in the Tennessee peniten-
tiary.
BERTHA and Lizzie Shultz were
driving in Fairmont, Neb., when their
horse ran away. The girls We're not in
jured, but shortly afterward both
dropped dead.
MINNEAPoLIs and st. Paul were del
uged with counterfeit one and two-dol-
lar silver certificates and silver quar-
tiers.
GREAT excitement prevailed at Noun
tain Home, Idaho, over the discovery
Of fabulous rich gold-bearing quartz
lodges in the Dixie district.
MEXICAN prospectors about 80 miles
from the new camp of the Harqua
Hala, A. T., found the famous French
mems mine, which has been lost for
thirty years.
NOMINATIONS for congress were made
as follows: Indiana, Ninth district, L.
N. Mering (rep.), James Brown dem. j;
Ohio, Twentieth district, W. j. White
(rep.); Minnesota, Sixth district, W..
r. Baldwin (dem.); Iowa, Eighth dis
trict, w. S. Scott (people's).
NOMINATIONS for congress were made
as follows: Ohio, Fourteenth district,
Q. H. Wakeley (rep); Kentucky, Sec
ond district, w. II. Ellis (dem); We4
Virginia, Second district, j. n Wisner
(rep.); Iowa, Third district, J. H
Shields (dem.); Rhode Island, First
district, IsaacsS. Turner (pro) J, Second,
E. A. Lewis (pro.).
| FLAMES at Lorain, Cal, destroyed six
buildings, and Mrs. L. d. Howe and
! three men were burned to death.
At Eagle Lake, Mimi, Mrs Martha
Kesler, a Milwaukee woman, poisoned
| her month-old babe and threw her
3-year-old boy in the well and drowned
him.
In convention at Atlanta the Georgia
democrats renominated w. j. Northen
for governor.
The Communication of the death SEN
tence of Col. II. Clay King by Gov.
Buchanan SO aroused the indignation
of the people of Memphis that they
hanged the chief magistrate of Tennes-
see in effigy and then burned the dunn
my.
tempting an assault on white woman,
was seized by masked mob and shot
to death while being taken to jail at
Camden, Ark.
AT Green Bay, Wis, i. B. Sale and
two sons were drowned in Fox river.
The boys got beyond their depth and,
the father going to their rescue, all
were drowned.
| The Michigan proh;bitionists in
session at Owosso nominated the fol
lowing ticket: Rev. John Russell, al
New Haven, governor; e. L. Brewer,
of Owosso, lieutenant governor; g. r.
Malone, OF Lansing. secretary of state
David B. Tay.o treasurer; T. f. w.
Adams, auditor general; Myron II.
Walker, of Grand Rapids, attorney
general; A. M. Benedict, commissioners
state land office; Robert D. Avann,
! SUPERINTENDENT of public instruction;
4 ~
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-08-18

THERE is prize of 100000 francs in
the treasury of the French Academy of
Sciences for the man who will discover
some means OF communicating with the
people of Mars The great trouble
about getting the money is that the
man who does the signaling must get
ar anSWer
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-08-18
A Sad Case.

G. A. B. Weide, of ST. Paul, who wan
dered away from home while tempo
rarily deranged last winter, and was
found nearly frozen to death in a barn
in West Minneapolis week later, has
been committed to the insane asylum
at Rochester It was found necessary
to amputate both of his feet at the
time and he has remained partially in
sane since. Weide has made considera-
BILE money in real estate transactions
in St. Paul.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-08-18
THE EAST.

The loss of the package containing
$50, 900 by the Adams Express Company
several weeks ago occurred in the New
York Office. While the packages were
spread on the floor some person picked
up one of them and escaped.
THE striking laborers at Duquesne,
Pa, returned to work, acceding to all
the terms of the Carnegie company.
The New Jersey prohibitionists in
convention at Trenton nominated
Thomas J. Kennedy for governor. The
platform declares against the sale and
manufacture of all liquors; denounces
the license system, and protests against
horse racing and pool selling.
In Schenectady, n. Y, the Knitting
Company, of which w. C. Schermer-
horn is president, failed for $125, 900.
The prohibitionists of Rhode Island
held their state convention at Silver
Springs and nominated presidential
electors. The national prohibitory
platform was Endorsed and resolu-
ton was adopted sanctioning the cleo
ton of lady delegates to future conve n
tons.
IN session at Paterson, N. j., the SUI
preme grove of the Order of Druids
elected Lewis c. Schord, of California,
supreme arch.
DURING a fire in New Bedford
(Mass.) tenement two infant children
of Louis Duperis and their mother
were fatally burned.
JOHN EDWARDS daughter and grand
child and Harvey Edwards, relative,
were killed by lightning during a
storm at Beaver Dam, N. J.
AT Fall River, Mass, Miss Lizzie
Borden was placed under arrest,
charged with the murder of her father
and stepmother.
AT her home in Lawrence, N. Y,
Mrs. Lavina Fillmore, relict of Rev. e..
Fillmore and cousin of Willard Fill
more, the former president of the
Unitd States, who died in 1874, cele-
brated her 1O5th birthday.
IN Boston, James E. Gilman, of the firm
of Gilman, Cheney & Co., commission
merchants, was charged with embez-
cling S15O,OOO.
SIX workmen were fatally crushed
beneath a building that fell in Ogden,
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-08-18

FROM nuisance and cumberer of the
ground cotton seed has become of i'm
mense commercial value. The residu-
airy products of the manufacture of gas
used to go to poison the air: now every
particle is utilized. Before many years
the sewage of cities will be utilized for
the manufacture of fertilizers. And
for farmers who are burning their fax
straw, there are better things in pros
pect. Mans victory over nature is not
yet complete, but no other era of the
world ever saw such rapid strides.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-08-18
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS.
STATE INSCRIPTIONS

Expenses for July ana Population During
the Fiscal Year.
The following list of expenses Of diff
ferent institutions for July has been
fled with the state auditor:
State Prison-Permanent improvements, "a.
l654s; state accounts, $50, s4o67; current, ee,.
83OQ
( Fergus aAsylurn41g Current expensesa a.
-71825; building, $4,622
s12.l7; electric light system, $3.50; current.
$40, 705.72
State Reformatory - Permanent improve
ments, SSH library, $l805; farm and stock,
TO; garden Seed ss2 II; current expenses, e..
943 90.
Secretary Hart, Of the state board Of
corrections and charities also fled the
followingreport Of the population 81
all the state institutions for the fiscal
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-08-18

The managers of the state fair,
which Isl to be held next month, in
making up their list of premiums, have
left considerable space for feminine
exhibitors. Nearly 81, QUO has been Of
Tered in premiums, with the stipulation
that all handiwork sent to the fair
must be the work of and owned by the
exhibitor. The department. is in
charge of the president of the associ-
alton, assisted by Mrs. Crossley, of 3ls
Aurora avenue, St Paul, to whom all
requests for information should ha
sent
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-08-18
A storm Causes Ruin.

In Lincoln, Yellow Medicine and Igor
counties during wind and rainstorm,
trees were blown down, houses
wrecked, grain aattened to the ground
or washed out, and altogether some
hundreds of thousands of dollars worth
of damage done. Near Cummings the
Icelandic Lutheran church, built last
year, was picked up, turned bottom up,
and. striking on its roof, was demol-
ished. Two Polanders were reported
killed in Marshall
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-08-18

AT the general conference of Amer
lean rabbis in New York it was de-
clared as the voice of the conference
that the women shall have an equal
share with the men in all the affairs of
the synagogue, and at the next meeting
of the rabbis, in the fall of 1898, plans
will be presented for an organization
of the congregations which will give
woman her full rights in that church.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-08-18

THE American school te acher is draw
ing SSO,OOO,00o annually. The fact that
many of them go off and get married
in the very teeth of the boards of edu-
cation shows how high value is placed
on the genus Homo Americans by
bright women who are right up to snuff.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-08-18

The custodian of the Washington
monument at Washington says that the
foundation of the shaft has risen in
stead OF lowered, and consequently the
shaft is growing higher. He should re-
fleet that Washington carefully alb
stained from telling any himself.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-08-18

AT the rural points in Maine. where
they know how, flying kites to which
lighted Chinese lanterns are attached
is a very popular amusement. A good
sized kite will carry number of lans
terms, and the effect when it is some
distance in the air is very striking.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-08-18

The first regular rainy season that
New Mexico has had in four years is
now in progress and copious showers
are falling in every portion of that ter
ritory. The cattle interests have been
completely ruined and all other bust
ness has been severely injured by the
long years of drought.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-08-18

The Salvation Army is to have a
cavalry troop for each state to ride
over the country districts and small
towns which cannot support a regular
force of soldiers or barracks. This
idea of cavalry in the Salvation Amy
originated in California, where it is
said to be very successful in the coun-
try districts. Commander Ballington
Booth has decided to adopt it in other
states and make it permanent feature
of the Salvation work.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-08-18

For century ending with the break
ing out of the civil war about half the
vessels constructed in the United States
were built in Maine. During the past
few years there has been a rivalry of
ship building in Maine, and the ship
yards at Bath present the lively appear
ance they did years ago. The vessels
built there have been constructed Of
wood. of which Maine furnishes the,
best varieties. Last year two iron yes
sells for our navy were built there that
gave admirable satisfaction. This year
the builders of these cruisers are con-
STRUGGLING several iron steamers and sail
ing vessels for commercial purposes,
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-08-18

WOMAN has made an invention at
last that will be appreciated by "the
lords of creation" 1t is an instrument
attached to a platter which holds
fowl in place while it is being carved
and dished out. With the aid of this
device the most awkward carver can
dissect an old goose as easily as he can
cut piece of pumpkin pie, and never
have occasion to remark that the knife
is dull
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-08-18
Withdrew Its Ticket

The state executive committee of the
farmers alliance met in st. Paul and
decided to withdraw its state electoral
ticket from the political contest. They
will therefore have no ticket in the
field at the fall election. The commit
tee decided to retain the organization
of its state central committee.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-08-18
Cholera sim Spreading.

ST. PETERsBuRe, SAng. i s. The chol-
era returns from the whole of Russia
for the 18th inst. show a large increase
in the number of new cases as we'll as
in the mortality. There were reported
o. III new cases and 5. 0O9 deaths. s.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-08-18
Tried to Burn a GROCERY,

A desperate attempt was made to
burn the grocery store of ]. B. Wheel
er at Faribault. Three barrels sat
urated with oil were rolled along the
side of the store and fred. The flames
had made great Roadway before they
were discovered and were not extin-
guished till damage to the amount of
SIS, 600 had been done.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-08-18

NoTHINa ever has more clearly demon
strated the superstitious ignorance of
the lower classes in India and Russia
than the mobs which have killed the
doctors and nurses and destroyed hos
pitfalls in the cholera infected districts,
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-08-18

A MAINE woman with lazy husband
tried to rasp the beard from the lawn
with the machine upside down. She
was SO mad when her husband laughed
at her that he has had to split all of the
family wood since.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-08-18
chill Pays over the Money.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.-The SIS, 900
awarded by the CHILEAN government in
the settlement of the Valparaiso affairs
is now. in the hands of the state de-
partment, and the officials are endeav-
oring to determine the proportion in
which it should be distributed. MANY
relatives have put in claims
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-08-18

CITIES in Australia, like those in
America, are fast absorbing the great
mass Of the population. OF the lao.
900 inha bitants of Victoria 491, 900 re-
side in Melbourne and it's suburbs,
while more than one-third Of the re-
mainder live in other large towns.
New South Wales has a population of
1,134, 900. of which $50, 900 live in Sydney
and its suburbs. OF the $4,000 people
in South Australia, 100000 reside in
Adelaide. Queenstown, the colony last
organized has wonderful agricultural
resources, and we should expect most of
the people to live on farms. But 90, 600
of the 1913, 900 live at Brisb ane.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-08-18

The king of Uganda, which is called
the garden OF central Africa, changes
his religious views every few months
and expects all his subjects to change
theirs at the same time. Not long ago
he roasted everyone who embraced
Christianity. But some French mis-
sionaries converted him, and he insists
that his subjects shall become Catho-
lies. AT last accounts he was a Protest
ant, and he has asked the commander
of the British East African Company to
aid him to expel the French soldiers
and priests. The prospect now is that
the English will possess the country un-
less the king turns Mohammedan.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-08-18

The highest price ever paid for a
horse was Sl5o,ooo, the amount paid by
Senator Stanford to Malcolm Forbes for
Aytell
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-08-18

RAIN has only fallen twice in twenty
nine years in Alden, Arabia. Previous
to the last rain, which occurred in
aSSS, none had fallen in twenty-six
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-08-18
Swallowed q Dollar and Died

CEDAR RAPIDS, Ia, Aug. Is. About
three months ago Ernst Mason, of
Mdhticello, while scuf1ling had the
misfortune to swallow a silver dollar.
He thought little of it and worked all.
the time until Saturday he was seized
with hemorrage and died in great
AGONY &3t&
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-08-18

1T is just one hundred years since the
Cornishman, William Murdoch, discov-
cred that coal gas might be used as an
illumiuant
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-08-18

MASSACHUSETTS has four surviving
ex-governors-Boutwell, Claflin, Rice
and Butler-all of whom were born in
1878
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-08-18
LATER NEWS.
Militia Called Out,

BUFFALO, N. Y. Aug. 15.- only
event that relieved the daylight monot-
ony of events on the Buffalo & South
western yesterday was little episode
which occurred next to the lumber yard
just east of the Elk street crossing.
About 4:30 p. M. an engine was pulling
freight train into the city when twenty
or thirty of the striking switchmen
came up from behind the lumber yard,
boarded the cars, set the brakes, stalled
the train, pulled the coupling pins,
threw pins and links into stagnant
pool at the side of the track and disap.
peared. The engineer ran down to a
crossing, got a new supply of pins and
links, and hauled the train in with po-
licemen on every car.
One of the strikers said he would to.
morrow morning prefer charges against
three policemen who had boarded
train and set the brakes to Illustrate the
work of the switchmen. The two Buff
falo switchmen stationed in Buffalo
Creek Junction were ordered out by
the union to-day. Others stationed at
Seneca street adopted like course of
action.
: q . . i I - E =
The Sixty-fifth regiment has been
sent to Cheeklowaga to guard the Lee
high Valley and the Erie yards the rest
of the night.
The Fortieth regiment has been
called out to protect the Central and
West Shore property, it being feared
that the switchmen on these roads may
go out tonight. No disturbance is re-
ported tonight at the Cheeklowaga
yards. except the burning of one empty
Lehigh freight car at $50 P: m.
Mr. GLADSTONE, accompanied by Sir
Algernon Edward West, left Carlton
gardens the 18th enroute for Osborne
house, his object being to lay before
her majesty the names OF those who
comprise his cabinet and to- carry ont
the old custom of kissing the hand 81
the queen. S.
The issue Of standard silver dollars
from the minis and trcaaur.y offIcesI
during the week ended The 18th inst.
was $526,O45 The issue during the
corresponding period IS last year was;
Ss455, 2S2. The shipments Of fractional
silver coin from the LIST to.the 18th inst.
aggregated 1858, 347.
The British steamer Empress 81
Japan. from Hong Kong and 81 johanna
for Vancouver and Victoria, a. c., be-
fore reported returned to Hakodadi
with her cargo on fire, has sailed for
I her port of destination
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-08-18
Two Lads Drown ID Dorchester nav,

BosToN. Aug. 15.-An unknown lad
while swimming in Dorchester bay
suddenly sank. Charles Blake, aged 10
years, jumped to rescue him and was
also drowned. Blake's body was re-
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-08-18
LockJaw from Stepping on a Nail.

L0ckJaW from stepping Oh q Nail.
DUBUQUE, Ia, Aug. Is. Matthias
Flick, prominent contractor of this
city, stepped on a rusty naileight days
ago, and now lies at the point Of death
from lockiaw. 49, egga
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-08-18

The estimated loss by the recent hail
storm west and north of Echo is 700
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-08-18
Some Rich Premiums.

Totals S. ......-..........:... 1854 3