Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1893-05-11
WEST AND SOUTH.

On the list the Worlds Colum bian ex-
position at Chicago was opened in the
presence of nearly 10000 persons At
noon the president of the U nited States,
after a brief address, pressed the cleo
trio button, and the vast machinery of
the exposition was set in motion. The
nature of the opening ceremony was
characterized by dignity and simplicity.
In Arkansas great damage 10 proper
ty by floods and the loss of several
lives were reported. Near Van Buren,
MIR. Meredith and his wife and six chill
0ren and Marion Denny and his wife
and three children were drowned
THOUSANDS of acres of planted ground
along the Little Miami river in Ohio
were submerged by floods and along
fairs existed.
FLAMES destroyed the power house of
the Louisville (Ky.) Power company
and ter other buildings, the loss being
$500, 900.
In the vicinity of Carmi, ILL.,, the two
Wabash rivers We're on boom and
thousands of acres of wheat and other
crops in the river bottoms were under
water.
JOE SCOTT, Allen Brown, Robinson
Caruth, Sandy Coosky and Allen Booth,
employed at the government rock quar-
ry near Searcy, Ark, were drowned by
the upsetting Of boat.
AT Brazil. Ind, Ollie Radie, who had
been an invalid for seven months, was
restored to health by a shock of light
ming.
THE wife of Jefferson Harper, a
wealthy farmer living near Mulberry
Grove, ILL.,, while insane cut the throat
Of her daughter Alice, aged Is, with a
razor, and then killed herself with the
same weapon.
A CYCLONE demolished fifteen bu lid
ings at Oxford, N. c., and killed one
man and injured several other per-
sons.
A FLAG will be sent to the worlds
fair from Olathe, Kan, that was made
in 1776, which was carried at the battle
of Plattsburg, n Y, in 1879 and in the
battle of Hubbarton, VT, in 1914.
A PORTION of the Lewiston reservoir
near Huntsville, O., covering $1,000
acres and known as the second largest
artificial body of water in the world.
broke with thunderous roar, inundat-
ing $4,000 acres and washing away the
village of Lakeview and many other
houses in its course. The property loss
was estimated at 81, ZOO, O0O Many farm
ers lose everything but their land and
they will be financially ruined.
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Sherman farm at Nelson Lodges, O.,
struck at a depth of 200 feet vein of
lubricating oil.
THROUGH a portion Of Lexington and
Newbury counties, N. c., tornado I'M
rooted houses and mills and destroyed
barns, stables and outhouses. WON
an was killed and number of persons
were injured.
THE Ohio commandery of the mill
tary order of the Loyal Legion of the
United States elected ex-President Har-
rison as it's commander for the ensuing
year.
The State Medical association of
Texas has admitted women as members,
but negro doctors were barred.
AT the age of nearly 10 years Rich
ard Bennett died at Bentonville, Mo.
He was born near Richmond, Va, June
%, 1888.
The death of Mrs. Samuel Bacon, the
first woman to teach the blind the use
of the sewing machine, occurred in
Nebraska City, Neb., aged 66 years.
FoRTY-FIvE moonshiners were cap.
tured by United States officers in Nc
Dernott and Wyoming COMMITTEES, West
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