Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1894-10-11
The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL
FROM WASHINGTON.

FROM WASH!NGTON.
THE money circulation of the coun-
try was placed at $1,655, OBS, 9s2--a per
capita of $24.07. against 81, 500, 049, 9S3
October 1, 1898.
The post Office department officials
in Washingt ton stopped q contemplated
Sunday parade of letter carriers in
Chicago.
SECRETARY CARLISLE appointed Will
liam Pugh, of Ohio, superintendent OF
income tax collections.
FIRE losses for the week ended Sep.
TENDER 20 entailed q loss of 5000, 900,
of which fires doing damage of $4,000
or more contributed $4,67O. 900.
In his annual report the commits
sioner of Indian affairs says special
advancement has been made in Indian
education. The aggregate enrolment
for the year was 2l,451, with an aver
age attendance of II, 900, against 81, III
enrolment and 16,SOs attendance for
the previous year.
EXCHANGES at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 9Th aggre-
gated 5000, 655, 1877, against 1926, 401, 49,
the previous week. The decrease, com
pared with the corresponding week in
1898, was Ill.
In the United States there were 219
business failures in the seven days
ended on the 9Th, against 235 the week
previous and 800 in the correspond.
ing time in 1893.
The general land Office commissioners
in his annual report recommends
measures of relief for the forest fire
sufferers in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
During the year the total cash receipts
of the Office were $2,777, 1874, decrease
of $1,711,9O over the previous year
total agricultural patents issued, &c..
255, decrease of s.429.
The customs receipts under the new
tariff were not as large as expected
and the condition of the treasury was
again serious
THE EAST.
AwoMAN testified before tho Lexow
committee that the New York police
had forced her to buy diamonds TO,
them and furnish their houses to Sc
cure their protection.
Coz. FRED GRANT and Gen. F. M
Clark are about to sell the secret Of q
torpedo explosive to the Chinese gov
ernh,ent for 81, 100000.
IN New Bedford, Mass, mill opera
tives numbering 20, 900 were advised by
their leader> to accept a reduction and
end the strike.
w. L. STRONG, president of the Cen
trail national bank, was selected fol-
mayor of New York by the republicans
and the committee OF seventy.
The nominee for Judge of the court
of appeals of New York by the demo,
Gratis, Judge Gaynor, has declined to
make the race.
The Non-partisan WomHn's Chris.
tian Temperance union national con.
vention will begin at Washington, Pa,
November IS.
The brokerage firm of Coffin / Stan.
ton in New York failed with liabilities
of $500, 900.
NEW YORK won the second Of the
seven baseball games of the Temple
cup series with Baltimore by score OF
9 to 6.
NEW YORK democrats made the fol
lowing congressional nominations:
Twenty first district, w. T. Henderson;
Twenty-ninth, A. j. Roberts; Thirtieth,
Francis Murphy.
JAMES NEEDHAM, of Philadelphia,
was elected grand master at the ma
tional convention in Boston of the
Grand United Order of Odd Fellows.
The repu blicans Of Massachusetts in
state convention at Boston renom-
mated J. r. Greenhalge for governor.
AT the age of 70 years Andrew G..
Curtin died at his home in Bellefonte,
Pa. He was governor of Pennsylvania
from 1850 to 1856, and in 1869 Gen.
Grant appointed him minister to Rus.
STA. The death of Mr.. Curtin leaves
but one war governor living, Sprague,
of Rhode Island.
In the third of the seven baseball
games of the Temple cup series be.
tween the New York and Baltimore
clubs New York won by score Of
to /.
BEATRICE VANDEcEssDEN, aged II,
fell from parachute, 1900 feet, at Buff
falo, N. Y, and was instantly killed.
The famous poet, essayist, philoso
pher and scientist, Oliver Wendell
Holmes, died at his residence In Bos'
ton of heart failure. DR.. Holmes was
born in Cam bridge, Mass, August 49,
1909.
SENATOR HILL formally accepted the
democratic nomination for governor
of New York. Charles F. Brown was
nominated by the state committee fol
judge in place of w. J. Gaynor, who
declined to accept.
A LETTER written by Senator Nc
Phsrson, of New Jersey, states that he
will not again be candidate for the
office.
WEST AND SOUTH.
REPUBLICANS of South Carolina will