Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1894-10-18
The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.
FROM WASHINGTON.

BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.
FROM WASHINGTON.
THE Gillian government through it's
minister has paid into the state de-
partment at Washington $245, 564. IS, in
of war claims.
The government returns for October
show slight gain in the percentage
of all crops excepting cotton.
In his annual report to the secretary
of war Maj. Gen. Schofield asks for an
increase in the national forces, says
state troops are not enough and that
the government should be all-powerfnl
against uprisings.
DURING the week ended on the 18th
the exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States aggre-
gated 1927. 42s, SIT, against 5000, 555, 127
the previous week. The increase, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1898, was 80.
!, The report of the commissioner of
pensions for the fiscal year ended June
80, 1894, shows that the number of pen
sioners on the rolls at that time was
a59,544 The amount paid for pensions
during the year was $139, sO4, 461, leav-
ing a balance in the treasury of $685.
SO5,715 of the appropriation.
In the seven days ended on the 18th
there were 2S1 business failures in the
United States, against 219 the week
previous and 1913 in the corresponding
time in 1903
THE EAST.
FRANK BEzIcK killed Mary Kersee at
Scrant ton, Pa, because she would not
marry him. The girl arrived from
Germany only day or two before.
In New York the anti-Hill democrats
agreed on Everett P. Wheeler, of New
York city, for governor and he will
make the race.
The firm of Hilton, Hughes & Co..
the old wholesale house of A. T..
Stewart & Co., will close up the bust
ness.
CLoAKMAKERs in New York, some
$4,000 in number, went on strike for
a ten-hour day and abrogation of piece
work.
FUNERAL services of Oliver Wendell
Holmes were held in Boston. They
were simple and largely attended.
WIND blew down an unfinished
building in New York, killing six per-
sons and injuring thirteen others.
CANDIDATES for congress were named
as follows: New Jersey, Sixth district,
7. D. English (dem.); Eighth, c. n.
Fowler (rep.). Rhode Island. First
district, Melville Bull (rep.); Second,
w. o. Arnold (rep.). New York, Sew
enth district, Franklin T. Bartlett;
Eighth, James ]. Walsh; Ninth, Henry
c. Miner; Tenth, Daniel E. Sickles;
Eleventh, William Sulzer; Twelfth,
George B. Mcclellan; Thirteenth, Amos
j. Cummings; Fourteenth, John Con-
molly; Fifteenth, Jacob A. Cantor, all
democrats.
Two MEN leaped to death and two
others were fatally hurt at an incen-
diary tenement house fire in Boston.
BY boiler explosion at Shamokin,
Pa, five men were killed, two fatally
hurt and several more seriously
burned
NEAR Woodville, N. Y, the steamer
Hartford went upon the rocks and
Capt. O'Toole and his crew of six men
were lost.
STRIKING spinners at Fall River,
Mass, voted to accept a reduction of
10 per cent. and return to work.
By the capsizing of the schooner Sea
Foam at Shears, in the Delaware bay,
the captain and crew of five men per-
ished.
. IN New York December wheat sold
down to 56B cents, the lowest price in
the history of the market there.
RUMoRs were to the effect that Nell
lie Grant Sartoris was to marry Gen.
II. K. Douglas, of Baltimore.
The two young daughters Of John n.
Scatcherd and Miss Emily Wood, Mrs.
Scatcherd's sister, were killed by an
engine at crossing in Buffalo. N. Y.
The democrats in the Fourth New
York district nominated w. J. Coombs
for congress and in the Sixth James
R. Howell.
In a riot among drunken Slavs at
Maltby, Pa, boy was shot dead, two
girls fatally wounded and two persons
badly hurt.
In many counties of Pennsylvania
snow fell to the depth of inches.
JAMES FORD, Frank Mcintyre and
Frank Britton, of New Brighton, N.
Y, were drowned by the capsizing OF
boat.