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telegram. Notes,

The tow boat Rob Roy sank at her
dock at Cincinnati the 18th. The cap
tain and his family had a narrow es-
cape from death.
On May 9Th the Great Northern put
into effect new time card, which gives
it the shortest run by four hours to and
from the coast. The dining car service
was also changed to the la carte sys-
tenn, passengers paying for. what they
order.
JOSEPH BuRNIEs, alias sDusty Joe, -
negro, was hanged at ST. Joseph, Mo-,
the 1lth for the crime. of assaulting a
7-year-old daughter of Flynn Potter.
JAMES MURRAY. was hanged at St.
Louis. and Edward Murray at Herman,
Mo-, the 18th. They were two negro
lads under 81 years of age, and were
convicted of the murder of street car
conductor at ST. Louis in 1893
r. C. WILLIAMSON, a policeman, while
off duty was murdered the night of tho
18th on Allin street, New York, in sight
of at least 800 witnesses and the body
robbed. 1t was done so quickly that
the ruffians escaped.
A wREcKING train on the Wheeling &
Lake Erie road went through bridge
near Massillon, o., the 18th. Geo. R.
Gibson, train master, was killed. Henry
Mcdonald was held in the water neck
deep for FIVE hours and lost one leg. a..
j. Stout, superintendent. was seriously
injured.
BY trying to start a fire with powder
two children of Wesley Rowe, of Say
lorsvllle, KY, were fatally burned the
1lth.
THE little village of Oakfield, Genessee
county, was entirely destroyed by fire
the 18th. Not a house is left standing.
The fields about the burned village are
occupied by the refugees, who have
saved nothing from the flames. Loss
SIS, 900
The American Tract Society celebrat-
ed its roth anniversary the 12th by COM
memorative services in the Fifth Ave-
nue. Presbyterian church, New York
Rev. John Hall, vice president of the
association presiding.
AT barn raising at Beaver Fails,
Pa, the 18th, 80 people were poisoned
by eating ice cream, several of whom
will die.
WHILE tearing down a brick building
in Chicago the 18th, one wall collapsed
and buried five men. The firemen who
responded to the call dug them out aud
sent them to the hospital. Although
badly injured mono will die.
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WEST AND SOUTH.

THE constitutional convention of
Utah adopted the constitution as a
whole.
CITY TREASURER SIMON JACOBS COM
mitted suicide at Butte, Mont, on the
day that his term of Office expired. He
was said to be short $4,000.
By cloudburst at Harrington, Kan,
houses were swept away and many
horses. cattle and hogs were drowned.
The republican members Of the Ten
nessee legislature decided to visit Evans
at Chattanooga, instead of attending
the Inauguration of Turney as gov
ernor. .
AT New Orleans William p. Park
house was indicted for importing lot
terry tickets. 1t is test case, the first
one under the Hoar law passed by the
last congress.
AT Baltimore the forty-sixth annual
convention of the American Medical
association opened with delegates pres
ent from every state in the union.
THE "boy pedestrian" Harry Chester,
left Chicago on a tramp around the
world. He will take the eastward
route, and expects to accomplish the
walk in thirty months.
THE historic little church built by
Gen. Andrew jackson and his wife
near the hermitage, Nashville, Tenn,
was badly damaged by storm.
SOME 400 striking employees of the
Illinois Steel company at South Chicago
created riot in which many of the
rioters were injured by the police and
tweuty-six were arrested.
A CENSUS of Des Moines, Ia, shows a
population of 10000, an increase of 20,
600 since 1890.
On the Fort Wayne road a train ran
from Crestline, o., to Chicago, dis
lance Of 149 miles, in hours and 46
minutes.
The Ohio food commissions annual
report showed that out of 1929 sam
pies of food analysed s46 were adul-
terated.
EDNA and Mary Smelling were
drowned at Dardanelle, Ark, by the
capsizing Of a boat.
In northern Illinois Ave of the
largest coal mining companies COM
bined in fight for business against
their competitors in other sections.
ADv1cEs from Newton, Kan, say that
twenty-five families rendered homeless
by recent cyclone were badly in need
of help.
The leading manufacturers Of Geor-
gia met at Atlanta and organized a
state manufacturers association.
In Cincinnati thirteen of the largest
manufacturers Of shoes decided to adj
vance .he price of shoes from ten to
twenty-five cents pair.
In Baltimore six persons were fatally
burned by the explosion of gasoline
stove and the fire which followed in a
sweat-shop.
augurated as governor.
In northern Illinois five Of the larg-
est coal mining companies formed q
com bination.
NEAR English, Ind, Nathaniel
Strougher celebrated his 1o4th birth
day.
CAPT. j. K. p. THOMPSON, of Rock
Rapids, was chosen department COM
mander at the annual meeting in Gin
ton, Ia, of the q. A. r.
FIRE wiped out the business portion
of the town of Elmo, Mo.
JUDGES SIMoNToN and Golf decided
at Columbia, S. G., that the provision
Of the state dispensary law preventing
importations of liquor for private use
in the state was unconstitutional.
BECAUSE Of family troubles DR.. =. @.
Hooker, mayor OF Stanford, KY, COM
mitted suicide by hanging.
In one township in Athens county,
q. fifty families were said to be ii q
starving condition.
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News IN Brief.

d. f-
Abner Gorst was killed in we'll at
Oak Ridge. He was buried under six
feet of earth and was dead when ta..en
out five hours later.
Charles Amory and George Borshaw,
while working in the boom in the bay
at Duluth. were struck by lightning
and killed
In response to the offer of So, 900 in
gold made by a Chicago publisher, to
be given to authors of four best manu-
scripts, GAL contestants forwarded one
sto y each. Miss Winnie Stevens, for
merly of Anoka, won the second prize,
$500, for a novel, Loves Legacy"
Lyden B. Stevens, aged 70, while fish
ing from boat in the lake at South
Haven, fell into the water, from heart
failure, and was drowned.
Adam Fisher was married to Miss
Mary Helmsath at the Church of the
Immaculate Conception in st. Cloud.
The contracting parties were both born.
and raised in st. Cloud. The wedding
was out of the ordinary, inasmuch as
the bride is totally deaf and dumb, and
the groom is nearly deaf.
Ben Whetson, Of Clinton Falls met
with a tragic death. The little fellow
was in the mill of Henry & Lennon,
and while there he went into the base
ment. where he somehow became en-
tangled in the shaft of the water wheel.
When found his body was horrible
sight. His limbs were broken in many
places, and his brains were spattered
over the adjoining woodwork.
4 Fire totally destroyed the main part
of the Faribault rattan works. The
loss is estimated from $25, 900 to $50, 600,
with $4,000 insurance. The cause of
the FIRE is unknown.
Mary Benson was commissioned post
mistress at Centerville.
The Fergus Falls council has passed
an ordinance keeping the Salvation
army off the streets.
Andrew Wagner had q hearing at
Anoka, and was bound over in $500
bonds. He is charged with attempting
to wreck passenger train on the Great
Northern.
Z Supreme Court Reporter Charles c.
Wilson, of Rochester, has resigned, be-
cause the legislature cut his salary
down to SO, 600.
The new -four mill at Brooten is
burned down. It had just been rum
ming week. Loss, $40, 900; partly in
snred.
High wind blew out the front of P.
Stromp's restaurant at Moorhead No
one was hurt.
g. O. Gulkinson has sued the town Of
Ada forS5, 600 damages. Hewas placed
under arrest on the charge of being
drunk and disorderly, and complains
that his health was impaired By the
condition Of the lookup.
Miss Kittie Webster is the first Min
neapolis lady to ride q diamond frame
bicycle. 81, I ..3f
seventy-eight female patients have
been ordered transferred from st. Peter
to the Fergus Falls asylum and SO from
the Rochester asyl um.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-05-16

The fearful draft made upon the pop
ulation Of France by its wars during
the last hundred years has been shown
by publication just issued by DR..
LagIieau, member OF the Academy of
Medicine of Paris. From his figures it
appears that the wars Of the first re-
public cost France 2.192, 402 men. From
1901 to Waterloo cost 3,157,39s more.
In the Crimea 95,6l5 succumbed; in
Italy 4s,67s, in China $50, and in Cochin
China 4s per 900. The second empire
cost France 1900, 900 soldiers. Accord
ing to DIR. Lagneau's tables the CEN
fury from 1895 to 1895 witnessed the
death Of 5000, 900 French soldiers.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-05-16

INTERESTING mineral discoveries are
often made during the process of ar
tesian well boring on the plateaus of
the Rocky mountain slopes. Coal,
gypsuma and soda beds, and traces Of
the economic and the precious metals
are revealed in the clippings of the
drill, usually at depth so great below
the surface as to render them imprac
ticable to mine. A remarkable discov-
cry of this nature was recently made
in sinking an artesian we'll at a place
called Big Springs, in southern New
Mexico where at q depth of l,40O feet
the drill struck bed of solid rock salt
40 feet in depth.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-05-16
Bogus Checks.

The Northwestern Bank of Mime
apolis was swindled out Of Sl,O1O by
smooth individual, who got away with
the money. A man called at the bank
with check for $645, supporting to be
executed by. Durham & Eastman, and
when told he would have TO be identi-
fed said he would go and get the. check
O. KID. He soon returned with what
seemed to be a proper Endorsement and
the check was paid. Later in the day
he presented another check by the same
firm for 1868, which was paid without
question. In few hours after both
checks were found to be forgeries.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-05-16

A New YORK court has virtually de-
cided that bronze paint is more de-
cent covering for limbs of living stat
uary" than tights. 1t is stated that in
some of the Asiatic countries the ma
tives wear tattoo-marks in place of
clothing, and it is regarded as sufficient.
A garment tattooed on the skin is
waterproof and will last lifetime.
If it were not for the severity of our
climate This, under the New York de-
cision, would be an economical solu-
ton of the nothing to wear" problem.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-05-16

SOME Misunderstanding exists as to
the meaning of the word ''tael," in
which the Chinese indemnity was or
dered paid The 'tael' is not coin,
but a weight. 1t varies in value ac-
cording to the price of silver. In Pc
king at the present time one tael is
equal to $3.50 in Mexican silver dol
lars or rs cents in American gold.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-05-16

DURING the civil war in this country,
from 1851 to 1865, the union ordnance
department served out to the army
1892 cannons, 1929, 900 rifles, 2,36O,O00
equipments for foot and horse, $4,000
tons of powder, $4,000 tons of shot and
]. O22. 900, 900 cartridges.
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CALL FOR TROOPS.
Militia Wanted to Put Down Strike at
the Franklin Mine.

the Franklin Mine.
DULUTH, Mimi, May 12.-Adjutant
General Muelberg and Col. Shanirew,
of the Third regiment Minnesota state
guards, arrived in Duluth tonight at z
o'clock in response to Sheriff Butchart's
call for troops to put down a strike at
the Franklin mine in Virginia. Gen.
Muelberg stated that Sheriff Butchart
had not reached the limit of his
authority in his attempt to quell the
trouble and that so far as he could
learn, the men had committed no depre-
dations. He refused to go to Virginia
or dispatch a militia company. Com
pany A, of the Third regiment, was
called to the armory tonight to await
Gen Muelberg's arrival, and orders.
Sheriff Butchart will swear in 40
deputies and go tomorrow or Tuesday
to Virginia. when an attempt will be
made to resume Shipment from the
mine
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-05-16

ACCORDING to publication Of the
patriotic hereditary societies of the
United States, Binney & Ronaldson,
type founders, of Philadelphia, first
began to manufacture the dollar mark
in 1907; and it was in the same year
that the mark first appeared in the
ledger of the firm.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-05-16

SUPPOSE Burmese husband and
wife quarrel and determine to sepa-
rate. The wife-who always does all
the marketing goes out and buys two
little candles of equal length, which
are made especially for this use. She
and her husband sit down on the floor
and light them simultaneously. One
candle stands for him, the other for
her. The one whose candle burns out
first rises and goes out Of the house
forever, with nothing but what he or
she may have on. The one whose cam
die has survived the longest takes
everything. So the divorce and di-
vision Of the property are settled.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-05-16

SHEPHERDS on Mount Massico, in the
north of Mondragone, have met ter
rible fate There is large cavern in
the mountain which they were in the
habit of using as refuge for them
selves and their focks in time of bad
weather. Eleven shepherds from the
town of Sora had gathered together in
the cave when a large, quantity of
earth, which had been loosened by the
recent heavy rains, and in which huge
stones and pieces of rock were imbed-
died. fell upon them. Eight of the men
were terribly injured and either died
on the spot or succumbed to their in
juries before help arrived.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-05-16

AMONG the Turks bath money forms
an item in every marriage contract, the
husband engaging to allow his wife a
certain sum for bathing purposes. If
1T be withheld she has only to go before
the cadi and turn her slipper upside
down. If the complaint be not then
redressed it is ground for divorce.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-05-16

The Spanish government shows it's
desire to be on friendly terms with the
United States by acknowledging that
the naval commander who fired on the
Alliance was in the wrong, promising
honOI aL1c 90 tiofac tion, esr1cs 80 DO
careful in the future.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-05-16

MARIETTA HOLLY, who is known as
"Josiah Aliens Wife," resides in the
ancestral house where five generation
of Hollys have lived. The house is in
Jefferson county, N. Y, close to Lake
Ontario. 1t is here that Josiah AL
lens Wife, does all the writing that
has made her so famous ,.,
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-05-16

EUPHRATEs -EsCULAPIUs. ENDYMIoN
McJIMsEY is the name of clerk in the
recorders Office at Marysville, Mo. He
signs his rather euphonious name with
big rubber stamp. His mother was a
student of oriental history and myth
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-05-16

1t will not be the fault of the ma.
tional fish commission if the supply of
food fish runs short. Last year it dis
tributed 4oO,oOo,ooo fish, and this year
the total will be one half to three-quar-
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-05-16
The News Of the Week
FROM WAsHlN1rnM
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.

The senatorial elections having all
been held and the vacancies flied the
political complexion of the next United
States senate will be as follows: Re
publicans, 43: democrats, 80; popu-
lists, 6.
AT the leading clearing houses in
the United States the exchanges dur
ing the week ended on the 10th agg1e-
gated 127,123,9s1, against $1,000, 3a2.
S25 the previous week. The increase,
compared with the corresponding
week in 1894, was $3.50.
In the United States there were 227
business failures in the seven days
ended on the 10th, against 23l the week
previous and 2O6 in the corresponding
time in 1894.
MAY returns Of the department Of
agriculture showed an increase in
wheat Of LIS points from the April
average, being s2.9, against sl.4 last
month and s1.4 in May, 1894.
HAVING reached the age limit, 81
years, Brig. Gen. Thomas Lincoln
Casey, chief of engineers of the army,
was retired, and Col. w. P. Craighill
succeeds him.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-05-16

CHAUNcEY DEPEw says that at Al he
had the rheumatism; at 81 he hasn't
trace Of the malady. How did he get
rid Of it? He says he talked it out Of
his system. This is hint that ought
to fill the world with talking.
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THE EAST.

WEARY of life Arthur Loomis, aged
80, and Miss Alzora Brockway, aged
20, took their own lives with poison in
hotel at Rome, N. Y.
In New York James Herbert, clerk,
killed his wife by cutting her throat
with razor and then drowned him.
self. Jealousy was the cause.
- HE fftieth4 anniversary of the mar
riage Of Rev. D. p. and Mrs. Mary A.
Livermore was observed at their home
in Boston.
AT the age of IS years Robert S.
Green, ex-g overnor of New Jersey, died
at his home in Elizabeth.
AT Lebanon, Pa, Charles Garrett
was hanged for numbering his wife.
In New York the first national cat
show ever held in this country opened
in Madison Square garden.
The American Tract society held it's
SEVENTEEN annual meeting in New
York.
A FIRE in the Imperial Varnish COM
pany's factory in Jersey City, N. j.,
caused a loss Of 100000.
AT the age of 50 years James A. Yves
ton, governor of New Hampshire in
1871 and again in 1873, died at his home
in Manchester.
AN international convention of the
Young Mems Christian association be-
gan at Springfield, Mass, 500 delegates,
representing nearly forty states and
territories, being present.
The bill for a Greater New York
was lost in the senate on the final
passage by vote of yeas, IA; nays, 10.
CLAUDE and Fred Hammer, aged IA
and II years, sons Of T. w. Hammer,
were killed by lightning while plow-
ing in field near Hickory, Mass.
On the 211th ballot in the Delaware
legislature Col. Henry A. Dupont (rep.)
was declared elected United States SEN
ator. The matter would probably be
taken to the United States senate for
decision.
The oldest living graduate Of West
Point, Maj. Gen. George s. Greene,
celebrated his oath birthday in Brook
Ign.
FIRE damaged the Langdell gingham
mills at Philadelphia. operated by
William II. Troth & Co., to the extent
of $1,000
In Philadelphia August Teffer (nar-
rird) shot and killed Clara Herbold,
aged 26, and then killed himself. She
would not elope with him.
The police magistrates bill which
legislates the New York police JUS
tees out of office was signed by Gov.
Morton.
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The Judge holding that his act was
nSfiHa hlo E,alfn,a .Gnrdnn

4HE JuQge nOldlng that MS ACT was
justifiable homicide, Fulton Gordon,
who killed his wife and Archie Brown,
the son of the governor, whom he
found in room together at Louis
vile, KY, was discharged from Gus
tody.
ONE of the best known men in Gin
cinnati, John Cameron, died from the
excessive use of cigarettes.
AT La Porte, Ind, Abraham Rimes
was granted divorce from his tenth
wife. Rimes' last wife was his first
bride
DAN HENSON and John Hall, farmers
and rivals for the hand of a woman at
Jasper, Ala, fought near her house
and each killed the other.
A RECEIVER was named for the Ohio
Southern railroad.
AT Cleveland the Ohio Colorado Min
ing and Milling company, with a cap
ital of 81, 500, 900, passed into the hands
of a receiver.
The death of A. NJ. Hamilton, mem-
Der OF the Forty-fourth and Forty
fifth congresses, occurred at his nome
IN Fort Wayne, Ind, aged 81 years.
In session at Jackson, Miss, the State
Bankers association adopted by an al.
most unanimous vote resolutions OPP
posing the free coinage Of silver.
A TORNADO swept over the northern
part Of California, doing much damage
in the fruit section
In the harbor at Duluth, Mimi,
lightning struck small boat, and two
of the occupants, Charles Emory, of
Bay City, Mich, and George Barshaw,
of Duluth, were instantly killed.
In mine at Sopris, Col, an explo-
sion of coal dust resulted in the death of
four men.
ATTEMPTS were made to wreck Bur
lington trains near West Burlington,
Ia. Ties were used, and were SO placed
that both trains were stopped.
The post Office, bank, hotel and
every business house were entirely
wiped out by fire at Ceresco, Neb.
OFFICERS raided the race track at
Hawthorne, near Chicago, and num-
Der of bookmakers were arrested.
In the south Confederate Memorial
day was generally observed
AT South Chicago the Illinois Steel
company threw down the gauntlet to
its striking employees by discharging
every one of them and announcing that
it would fill their places and start the
mills full handed.
In jealous rage Matt Baisy shot
and mortally wounded his wife near
Wellborn, Tex, and then went across
the. country, 10 miles, and shot Gus
Rowe.
In session at Cleveland the National
League of Musicians elected Alexander
Bremner, of New York, as president.
Snow fell on the 10th in portions of
Kansas and Nebraska.
In San Francisco John Flood, ex-
cashier of the defunct Kelly bank, who
$4,000, was sentenced to
seven years imprisonment.
AT the age of IS years DR.. ]. D. Rob-
ison, who performed the first amputa-
ton in the war Of the rebellion, died at
Wooster, O.
A NATURAL gas explosion wrecked a
building in Chicago and injured twelve
persons.
a PLAN to make the American Protec-
tive association an international or
ganization was adopted by the supreme
council in session in Milwaukee.
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Changed The Name.

The Ozark fats, made famous, or
rather notorious, by the fact that the
principals in the Cling tragedy lived
there, have been christened anew.
Henceforth the building at Thirteenth
street and Hennepin avenue, Mime
apolis will be known as the Hennepin
flats, the name having been decided up
on by the Eastern owners of the prop
erty. The former name from its un-
pleasant notoriety had become ''hoo-
doc" to the building as residence
property, and it is said that out of fif-
teen flats which the building contains
but two are at present occupied. The
property is considered one of the finest
in the Twin Cities, and the change of
name is expected to restore its pop
ularitv, - sE.,5
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INVENTION is one.of the steady hab-
its Of Connecticut. Last year one
patent was taken out for every eO3 In
habitants of the state.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE,

JAPAN, by the advice of France, Rus
STA and Germany, renounces its claim
to the permanent possession of the
Lao Tung peninsula, including Port
Arthur
FORESTS in Frontenac county, On
tario, were ablaze and great guam
titles of fine timber were being de-
stroyed.
AN international exposition will be
held at Montreal, To run from May to
October, 1896.
IN railway wreck near Rome, Italy,
King Humbert and Queen Margherita
had a narrow escape from death.
FLAMES in the town of Galshezeez,
Hungary, destroyed $50 houses and
three churches.
In Cuba insurgent chiefs were said to
have given up in despair, and the war
was considered ended.
IN the open sea the sealing schooner
Walter A. Earle, Capt Louis Mag
hesen, of Victoria, B. c., was capsized
and her crew, consisting of thirty men,
were lost.
QUEEN VICTORIA, it was said, would
retire on May "a, her 10th birthday,
and after that the prince of Wales
would reign as King Edward VII.
CHINA withdrew her request to have
the armistice prolonged and ratifca-
tions of the treaty were exchanged.
HAwAI1's annual blue book shows
that Americans have $25,OOO,OOO in
vested on the island.
FRANCE, Russia and Germany, twas
announced, were about to increase
their naval forces in the China seas.
AFTER having been in exile four
years ex-Queen Natalie arrived at Bel
1rra6a